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HORTICULTURE 



September 17, 1910 



Seed Trade 



"Malefactors of Great Wealth." 

 Just what this phrase of the re- 

 doubtable Colonel means, has always 

 been a rather hazy problem to me; 

 but I have had a fine exposition of it 

 recently. A cat episode did it. A 

 certain seedsman in this town — no 

 need to mention names as the story 

 fits many, and the story's the main 

 thing — had a twelve-foot area way in 

 the rear of his store. Back of this 

 was a small dwelling house in which 

 dwelt an old lady who had a fine Mal- 

 tese cat. In the summer, windows be- 

 ing open, the Maltese strayed, and the 

 seedsman being a friend of all four- 

 footed creatures, struck up an acquain- 

 tance. The Maltese purred around and 

 often went to sleep on his desk. One 

 day in came a wealthy broker who 

 fancied kitty and offered ten for her. 

 "No indeed, couldn't think of selling 

 that cat!" Other things were talked 

 of — and bye-and-bye — just when the 

 aforesaid malefactor was leaving — 

 twenty-five was offered. "Charlie, 

 could we sell that cat for twenty-five?" 

 "No, indeed, couldn't sell that cat at 

 any price?" "H'm, H'm, Ha-ah, too 

 bad, sorry to disappoint you, old man, 

 but do you happen to have that 

 twenty-five in your clothes?" "Sure!" 

 —and it was counted out and handed 

 over to Charlie. About a week later 

 an old lady in great distress stumbled 

 up against the pivot of this tale. 

 Hadn't seen her kitty for a week. 

 "Remarkable coincidence, Madam, 

 haven't seen it either for a week. Of 

 course I know it used to stray into 

 our place and you know the villains 

 from Boston and Chicago and New 

 York who call on us! Capable of any- 

 thing! Take this five and say no more 

 about it." The old lady loved kitty, 

 but five dollars seemed a terrible price 

 for a cat, so she said a dollar ought 

 to be enough. The malefactor was not 

 to be balked in his generosity, how- 

 ever, so the five and the old lady lived 

 happily together ever after. 

 A fitting prize will be allowed and 

 awarded to the reader who 

 will best diagnose the moral 

 principle involved in the 

 aforesaid "busi- 

 ness transaction." 

 Pure logic only to 

 govern the award. 

 Was it right, 

 and why? 



GEORGE C. WATSON. 



Window Displays. 



We have seen various good things 

 in the way of window displays in seed 

 trade lines in the last twenty years- 

 including the wonderful lay-outs at 

 Henderson's in New York and at 

 Fiske's in Boston; but the peer of them 

 all has been shown in last week's ex- 

 hibit at Mlchell's in Philadelphia. This 

 was to exploit pot-grown strawberries. 

 Philip Freud is a past master, and did 

 it right. No more need be said. Thou- 

 sands more could have been sold if this 

 exhibit had been put up sooner. Why 

 do florists and seedsmen so neglect 

 their windows — their greatest assets? 

 — G. C. W. 



Peter Henderson & Co.'s new store 

 front is well-adapted for attractive dis- 

 plays and at present an admiring 

 throng is to be found almost continu- 



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ously inspecting and admiring the 

 cleverly arranged show of cannas, 

 dahlias and nymphsas. Such displays, 

 especially when the material is plain- 

 ly labeled as in this instance, do much 

 to advance the popular knowledge of 

 plants. 



PUBLICATION RECEIVED. 



"Bohemia and the Cechs" has just 

 been issued by L. C. Page & Company, 

 Boston publishers. The author is Will 

 S. Monroe, a writer who has already 

 won wide repute by his pen pictures of 

 the history, peoples, products and cus- 

 toms of other lands. The book now 

 before us is said to be the first gen- 

 eral work of travel and description of 

 Bohemia in English and as such will 

 undoubtedly command wide attention. 

 It is the story of a sturdy, cultured 

 and highly intellectual race, of whose 

 character and attainments most of us 

 have heretofore had a very fragmen- 

 tary knowledge, told in a terse and in- 

 teresting style which at once thrills 

 and absorbs the reader. 



A vast amount of information has 

 been crowded into its 500 pages and 

 the text is illumined by 57 full page 

 inserts showing natural scenery, por- 

 traits, and examples of ancient and 

 modern architecture. The various 

 chapters are severally devoted to the 

 geography of the country, the begin- 

 nings of the Bohemian nation, the 

 periods of Charles IV, John Hus, the 

 moral revolution, the end of Bohemian 

 independence, the Bohemian people, 

 their social and religious institutions, 

 their language and literature, paint- 

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 agriculture, industry and commerce; 

 Prague, Hradcany, Carlsbad and other 

 towns of historic interest. 



Bohemia is a highly productive 

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 of the kingdom being devoted to that 

 industry, but unfortunately more than 

 a third of the agricultural lands be- 

 long to the nobility. Horticulture is 

 receiving more attention than formerly 

 and apples, pears, plums and other 

 friuts are largely grown. The peasant 

 farmers are ambitious and failing to 

 find scope for their aspirations, come 

 to America where they secure hold- 

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MESSRS. VINCENT'S ANNUAL 

 FESTIVAL. 



On September 27, 2S, 29 and 30, the 

 Ladies' Aid Society of Ebenezer M. E. 

 Church, Chase, Md., will hold at Cow- 

 enton, B. & 0. R. R., their Fourth An- 

 nual Harvest Home Festival, which is 

 held in connection with the Vincent 

 Dahlia and Flower Show and the 

 Neighborhood Farm and Household 

 Product Exhibition. 



The Annual Harvest Home Festival 

 is a delightful occasion in this section 

 of Baltimore County, and has become 

 the gi-eat home-coming week. The 

 Vincent Dahlia Show is the larg- 

 est exhibition of the kind held in 

 the country, in which thousands of 

 dahlias are arranged in their spacious 

 warehouse, to the best advantage for 

 exhibition, hundreds of kinds being 

 arranged in their different classes, 

 while great banks are massed in color 

 effect. When in full bloom the fields 

 of forty acres of dahlias and ten acres 

 of cannas present a panorama of col- 

 oring that is at once striking and 

 beautiful— a sight never to be forgot- 

 ten. 



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