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HORTICULTUrtE 



August 9, 1913 



CATTLEYA MOSSIAE IN CALIFORNIA, 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 one of two exceptionally fine speci- 

 mens of Cattleya Mossiae flowered by 

 the Western Orchid Company and ex- 

 hibited as a prime attraction in the 

 show window of the handsome store 



of the California Florist on Geary 

 street, San Francisco. The plant here 

 depicted bore 90 flowers in a 22-inch 

 pan. the blooms measuring eight 

 inches across and of unusually fine 

 color. The other plant was in a 24- 

 inch pan and bore 150 flowers. 



Btructive and negative attitude, I be- 

 lieve we can accomplish more good 

 tor the future of the seed trade in the 

 next two years than we can ever hope 

 for under our present program. It is 

 only necessary to enumerate the highly 

 unsatisfactory seed laws, which have 

 been passed during the past year in 

 many states, to realize that the fight 

 has been going against us. 



It is now almost Impossible to deter- 

 mine, without very careful laboratory 

 and legal investigation, whether any 

 special parcel of seed may be offered 

 and sold within certain populous and 

 important states. 



Good Bills and Bad. 



Time is so important an element In 

 the conduct of our business that we 

 are very seriously hampered by 

 the fact that these investigations 

 take so much time that the oppor- 

 tunity for the sale of the goods 

 is frequently lost before the neces- 

 sary tests are completed. These 

 conditions should be changed and 

 if we want them changed for the 

 better, and not for the worse, I believe 

 we should start a genuine and whole- 

 souled campaign in favor of pioper 

 and reasonable seed legislation. We 

 should prove our faith by our deeds 

 and put fair and honest seed laws into 

 the hands of legislators who will 

 agree to Introduce the bills. We 

 should explain the merits of these bills 

 to seed officials and to agricultural 

 committees, write letters to our corres- 

 pondents asking their help, and really 

 get behind and push the good work. 



The people naturally distrust the 

 men who oppose all reform measures 

 affecting their business and yet offer 

 nothing to correct the alleged abuses 

 at which these measures are aimed. 

 This attitude gives an untold and un- 

 fortunate advantage to the dreaming 

 theorist who tries to bring down 

 Heaven upon Earth by lassoing angels 

 and cherubs, not realizing that every 



little street gamin has much of the 

 angel in him if you will only give it 

 room to grow. 



The man who makes an unreason- 

 able seed law isn't always a bad fel- 

 low, but he may not know much about 

 the seed business. Let's hunt him up 

 and tell him where he Is wrong and 

 what we can offer toward making a 

 start at correcting those things in our 

 business, which he believes to be 

 wrong. 



A Success. 



When I offered the first draft of the 

 Import Seed Bill for the consideration 

 of the trade, five or six years ago, I 

 received but little encouragement. 

 Many of you feared that if we offered 

 this Bill It would be amended until 

 we would not know it. Your appre- 

 hension seemed justified by Senator 

 Gronna's proposed amendments, but 

 perseverance and team work finally 

 brought success, and I think if those 

 of us who have, at various times, 

 helped toward the enactment of that 

 law, had never done anything else for 

 the good of our country, we might rest 

 content in the knowledge that be- 

 cause of this law our country will, in 

 the years to come, have fewer weeds 

 and more clover blossoms. 



Let us now take up In the same 

 spirit the question of state laws and 

 make an earnest and continous en- 

 deavor to do something worth while 

 for the permanent good of American 

 agriculture, by cheeking the sale of, 

 and discouraging the use of inferior 

 or harmful qualities of field weeds. 



Even if. for a time, it may seem that 

 such effort is, in some respects, con- 

 trary to our interest it will event- 

 ually benefit us and bring to us the 

 personal satisfaction of having acted 

 for the genera' good. Let us, in seed 

 legislation matters, adopt the hack- 

 neyed but worthy motto: "Look up, 

 and not down: forward and not back- 

 ward, and lend a hand." 



ROSES 



GRAFTED and OWN ROOTS 



Killamey Queen, Double White 

 KJIIarney, Lady Hillingdon, Double 

 Pink Killamey, Maryland, White 

 Killamey, Killamey, Richmond, 

 Kaiserin, Perle, Sunset, Sunrise, 

 Bride, Bridesmaid, Wootton, 

 Clothilde Soupert, etc. 



Fine Stock from 3 inch pots. Write 

 for Catalogue and Prices, 



Wood Brothers 



FISHKILL, N. Y. 



The ANNUAL MEETING of th* 



FLORISTS' HAIL ASSOCIATION 



Will be held at 9 a. m., Irlday, August 

 ilio 22nd, In Commute*' Uoom C, of the 

 Convention Hall of the S. A. F. and O. H., 

 at Minneapolis, Minn. 



JOHN O. ESLER, Secretary, 



NEWS NOTES. 

 Boston, Mass, — The Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society will hold an ex- 

 hibition of gladioli and phlox, Satur- 

 day and Sunday, .\ugust 9th and 10th. 

 Other flowers, besides fruits and vege- 

 tables, will also be shown. 



Rugby, N. D. — The "Rugby Green- 

 house," N. P. Lindberg, proprietor, 

 has now completed office building, 

 boiler room and palm and fern and 

 plant display houses and are now 

 breaking ground for three more green- 

 houses. 83V4 feet long. 



Boston, Mass. — \\m. C. Bowditch 

 has been awarded the sum of $3,600 

 for damages to the contents of his 

 greenhouses on Warren street, Rox- 

 bury, caused by gas from a broken 

 service pipe. Both the city of Boston 

 and the prookline Gas Light Co. are 

 held liable in the sum of $1,800 each. 



Millvllle, N. J. — The lease on the 

 florist establishment of Mrs. Rae Hen- 

 derson, on Seventh street, which was 

 held by Ralph Parent was sold July 

 24th and was bought by Mrs. Hender- 

 son, which will thereby terminate the 

 lease which would have expired next 

 October. Mrs. Henderson is now in 

 ?ole possession of the property. 



Detroit — A very heavy rainstorm ac- 

 companied by a cyclonic gale last 

 week destroyed the greenhouse plant 

 of Geo. Browne. We alT sympathize 

 with him and his family most sincere- 

 ly. His brother. Thos. Browne, with a 

 much larger establishment next to 

 him. only lost the lights out of the 

 ventilators from five houses. Wood- 

 mere sent out a report that much 

 damage has been done by hail coming 

 from the same storm, yet this cannot 

 be verified because all telephone serv- 

 ice is cut off. Let us hope that dam- 

 age is small. 



