April 28, 1917 



HOETICULTURE 



549 



the young men of our society. After the 

 lecture we had a general good time at 

 the Mason's Club until a special trol- 

 ley conveyed us back to Akron, where 

 a banquet was given at the City Club 

 in our honor, a splendid dinner was 

 served and the president of the City 

 Club was called upon to speak. He 

 having been intimatel.v acquainted 

 with the Father ot Tree Surgery tor 

 many years, during his talk he spoke 

 very highy ot Mr. Davey, who being 

 a pioneer in his profession, had a lot 

 of uphill work to contend with, until 

 his son, Martin L. Davey, was through 

 collese and able to start the work 

 of organization. His personality, busi- 

 ness sagacity, and high ideals, has 

 developed a wonderful organization, a 

 credit to any man's genius. They hav-e 

 set high ideals of efliciency, and the 

 whole working force is imbued with 

 the same desire to do the best only. 

 It was a great revelation to me, to 

 see such unity ot purpose between 

 employer and employee, the magnetic 

 influence ot their president permeates 

 the whole organization and they are 

 endeavoring to work up into his ideals 

 of perfect work, thereby creating sat- 

 isfied customers, and increased busi- 

 ness. Many of those who had seen 

 the actual work of the company t-poke 

 very highly of the quality of the work 

 done, and all spoke of the courteous 

 and practical men who were sent to 

 do the work. On Friday morning the 

 special car which came to the hotel 

 for us each day. took us out to Kent, 

 where we spent the morning looking 

 over the work of the students who are 

 taking the course. They were study- 

 ing everything in connection with 

 plant growth, and causes of disease, 

 insects which do injury to trees, and 

 remedies for their extermination, and 

 a very interesting time was spent 

 among the students, and one could 

 only be convinced that they were on 

 the right track, in training their own 

 men to perform the work which is in 

 store for them later, and do credit to 

 the company. By a process ot elimi- 

 nation they only keep the men which 

 come up to their standard, and I feel 

 sure there are no drones in the Davey 

 hive. The:r working force consists of 

 a bright, active lot of young men in 

 fact one rarely meets with such a busi- 

 ness equipment. After looking over 

 the students' work we were conducted 

 to see the offices, and found every- 

 thing well up to their standard of per- 

 fection, even to the quality of the 

 many fair stenographers all busily at 

 work. After luncheon we again went to 

 the opera house, and listened to a 

 practical talk on Evergreens by H. 

 Wild, of Greenwich, Conn., followed by 

 a very interesting lecture by J. Horace 

 Macfarland. of Harrisburg. Pa., who 

 made a plea for the trees. This was 

 to have been a stereopticon lecture, 

 but the power having been shut off, 

 the pictures were shown at the ban- 

 quet in the evening. Following this 

 we all had an opportunity to witness 

 some of the tree surgery done by the 

 students on the Ohio State Normal 

 School grounds. The trees were very 

 large oaks, magnificent trees, but de- 

 cay has set in and only the scientific 

 treatment given them by the Davey 

 Co. can save them from absolute loss. 



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The Paiey Isle Lily Field. 



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riprmuda, March 24, 1917. 

 I'l-iotur. in the Picture. 



Theodore Outerbridgc, Pro- 



Many trees were cleaned and braced 

 ready for filling, others had been 

 treated, the cavities being well cut out, 

 and some were finished, and looked 

 perfe- 'ly convalescent. We also had 

 an opportunity to see ftlling which 

 had been done four years, still good, 

 but the earlier work only served to 

 show what great improvement had 

 followed the closer study of the trees' 

 requirements. 



At the banquet on Friday evening 

 we had an opportunity to meet Father 

 John, and listen to his stirring appeal 

 to his working force, which he ad- 

 dressed as My boys. His great love 

 for trees was the impulse which has 

 been the means of developing such an 

 organization, but he forcibly remarked 

 that success had not come through any 

 individual effort, but by unity of 

 thought and action applied to the 

 whole working force, forming ideals. 

 and working up to them. After his 

 speech his force presented him with 

 an enormous loving cup inscribed 

 "Father John from his boys" which so 

 deeply impressed him that he was un- 

 able to respond for some time. Many 

 excellent speeches were made during 

 the evening, which lasted until a late 

 hour when our private car took us 

 back once more to Akron. This was 

 our farewell to Kent, as on Saturday 

 morning we had an opportunity to 

 visit the Goodrich Tire Factory, which 

 proved a very enjoyable event. We 

 also had a group photograph taken of 

 the delegates, and after this we were 

 once more entertained at luncheon by 

 Mr. Martin L. Davey, and all spoke 

 highly of the generous treatment we 

 had received. A very pleasing duty 

 devolved upon A. J. Loveless, of pre- 

 senting to Mr. Davey a slight expres- 

 sion ot our appreciation of what had 

 been done for us, and for the very in- 

 teresting time we had all enjoyed. 

 This was expressed in the form or a 

 pale green cut glass double ink stand, 

 and :\Ir. Davey feelingly expressed his 



appreciation, and said that it should 

 always be on his desk as a reminder 

 of the sentiments which it conveyed. 

 After being reimbursed for all our 

 expenses we were conducted to the 

 station, and once more started for 

 home, all being of one accord in praise 

 of the efficient outfit which comprised 

 the Davey Tree Expert Co. 



Alfred J. Loveless, 

 Edwt.v Jenkins, 



Delegates. 



AMERICAN DAHLIA SOCIETY. 



We have received from Secretary J. 

 Harrison Dick. Bulletin No. 6 of the 

 American Dahlia Society. It contains 

 some good articles on dahlia topics, by 

 J. Ebb Weir, Jr., W. W. Wilmore, J. P. 

 Rooney. F. J. Aichle, Mrs. Chas. H. 

 Stout, George L. Stillman, W. O. 

 Wykoff and Pres. R. Vincent, Jr., as 

 well as editorial notes, etc., and a com- 

 plete list ot members, all of which 

 makes up a very useful and interest- 

 ing publication for the dahlia lovers. 

 The secretary has some ambitious 

 plans ahead, among them being the 

 publication of Prof. Hall's list of dah- 

 lia names which will fill the place of 

 a standard reference list and be an- 

 other accomplishment of permanent 

 value to the credit of the society. 



THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF 

 THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



The American Institute of the City 

 of New York and the American Dahlia 

 Society will hold an exhibition of 

 dahlias in the Engineering Society 

 Building. 25-33 West 39th street. New^ 

 York City, on Sept. 2.5 to 27, 1917. also 

 the Annual Chrysanthemum Exhibi- 

 tion will be held on Nov. 7 to 9. 1917, 

 at the same place. 



Wm. a. E.^glesox, 

 Secretary Board of Managers. 



