October 27, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



445 



CLEVELAND FLOWER SHOW. 



Meetings at Cleveland Flower Show. 

 There will be two important meet- 

 ings of national organizations hold in 

 Cleveland, November 8th and 9th. 



Another meeting of the Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society of America will be held 

 at 8 p. ni. on Thursday, November 8th, 

 in the club room of Gray's Armory, 

 the same building in which the Flower 

 Show is to be held. 



The semi-annual or fall meeting of 

 the American Rose Society will be 

 held on Friday, November the 9th, 

 late in the afternoon; the exact hour 

 to be announced next week. 

 Entertainment. 

 The Entertainment Committee in 

 charge of Chas. Graham, E. A. Bause, 

 and Ftanlf Ritzenthaler, chairman, re- 

 quests that all out-of-town florists reg- 

 ister at Gray's Armory on their ar- 

 rival at Cleveland. 



There will be no set program on the 

 first day except the Bowling .Match 

 between Detroit and Cleveland flor- 

 ists. This will be the first leg of the 

 inter-city match, the prize for which 

 will be a valuable trophy cup. There 

 will be individual prizes for the win- 

 ning team, also for highest individual 

 score and a number of others. 

 Banquet. 

 The annual banquet will be held in 

 The Hollenden, Friday evening, No- 

 vember 9th, at 7.30 p. m. sharp. Mr. 

 Ritzenthaler announces that a splen- 

 did program is being prepared which 

 will include a strong speaker and 

 the best musical talent in Cleveland. 

 Chas. Graham of this committee 

 states that the menu will be all that 

 a hungry man desires, because Man- 

 ager Jim Thompson has promised to 

 go thf limit. 



Florists desiring to inspect green- 

 houses either on private estates or 

 commercial establishments will be 

 provided with autos for this purpose, 

 these being in charge of S. N. Pente- 

 cost, chairman of the Reception and 

 Information Committee. 



Ladles' Entertainment. 

 A special committee of Cleveland 

 Women Florists' Club is being appoint- 

 ed to take good care of the large 

 number of out-of-town women flor- 

 ists and wives of florists that are ex- 

 pecting to attend the Cleveland Show. 

 Shipping Exhibits. 

 Exhibitors are asked to address 

 • their exhibits — Care Cleveland Flower 

 Show, Gray's Armory, Cleveland. 

 There will be a special show repre- 

 sentative at each of the depots, with 

 a special truck at hand for the pur- 

 pose of handling all the incoming ex- 

 press as soon as unloaded from the 

 cars, assuring the exhibitor of no de- 

 lay after the arrival of their exhibits. 

 The exhibitors are requested to se- 

 lect an express train that will arrive 

 in Cleveland before 8 a. ni. on the 

 morning of November 8th, for Chrys- 

 anthemums, and on November 9th for 

 Roses and Carnations. All exhibits 

 are requested to be staged completely 

 by 11 o'clock a. m. 



M. A. Vinson, show manager, has 

 been receiving many requests for 

 copies of the Official Premium Lists. 

 Over 2500 copies have been mailed. A 

 copy may be secured by addressing 

 him. 402 Leader Building, Cleveland. 



CHRISTMAS BERRIED PLANTS. 



Ardesia, Skimmia, Solanum and "Bird's Eye" Pepper. 



Photo By A. L. Miiu-r 



A large party of florists have prom- 

 ised to come from Toronto, through 

 the efforts of J. H. Dunlop, who is or- 

 ganizing the party. 



H. P. Knoble, 

 Gen'l Chairman of Show Committees. 



Invitation to Rotarian Florists 



All Rotary Florists are extended an 

 invitation by Rotarian H. P. Jones of 

 Jones-Russell Co., Cleveland, and Ro- 

 tarian H. P. Merrick, Mgr., Lord & 

 Burnham Cleveland office, to attend 

 the weekly Rotary lunch in Cleveland, 

 Nov. 8th. which is the opening day of 

 the Fifth Annual Cleveland Flower 

 Show. Messrs. Jones & Merrick will 

 appreciate hearing from all Rotary 

 Florists and others in the florist trade 

 of their intentions of being in Cleve- 

 land on dates mentioned. 



WHERE THE HADLEYS GROW. 



An unobstructed stretch of 35,000 

 sq. ft. of Hadley roses in luxuriant 

 health, under a range of five big 

 ridge-and-furrow houses makes a spec- 

 tacle which in some respects has no 

 equal either in this country or abroad, 

 and it is no wonder that so many visit- 

 ors from all sections make A. S. 

 Burns, Jr.'s establishment at Spring 

 Valley, N. Y., their mecca and its 

 product thejr inspiration. A corres- 

 ponding range houses nearly 150,000 

 rubrum lilies in all stages of growth 

 from benches in full flower down in a 

 regular gradation to bulbs that have 

 just begun to break through the soil. 

 There are two large sections of houses 

 and the foregoing are but two of the 

 items in one section of this noted 

 rose and lily growing place. Soil, 

 water and pure air are all contributory 

 to Mr. Burns' success and these are 

 supplemented by good judgment, fore- 

 sight and a rare quality of cultural 

 skill. Mr. Burns has recently pur- 

 chased a beautiful home about a mile 

 from the greenhouses with fifty-three 

 acres of farm and woodland, and a 

 full complement of live stock, includ- 

 ing an extensive poultry outfit. 



THE LATE J. A. VALENTINE. 



In the death of Mr. J. A. Valentine, 

 of Denver, we have sustained a loss of 

 one of the greatest men in our profes- 

 sion. Those who came in contact with 

 him personally, found him to be a 

 man of sterling qualities; he was a 

 true friend, and a man who was al- 

 ways glad and willing to give us the 

 benefit of his valuable experience and 

 good judgment. And those of us whom 

 he has assisted in the time of trouble, 

 realize that we have lost one of our 

 best friends in the profession, for he 

 was a man that was always ready and 

 willing to help others. Only a few 

 da>''s before his death, a number of us 

 received letters from him, in which 

 he was trying to help the helpless. He 

 was a great civic worker and a good 

 Rotarian. 



He is the man that gave us the Flor- 

 ists' Telegraph Delivery. This was a 

 great idea and advancement for the 

 Retail Florists. I feel that the Flor- 

 ists' Telegraph Delivery members 

 should establish a Memorial to his 

 memory. 



Just thirty days previous to the 

 fatal accident. Mrs. Kerr and I spent 

 the day in the mountains with him. 

 Mountain driving was his great de- 

 light and he was a most careful driver 

 and knew every foot of the road, and 

 I can hardly conceive of how an acci- 

 dent could happen. May long live the 

 memory of this great and good man. 

 R. C. Kerr. 

 Houston, Texas. 



Commencing with the first is- 

 sue in November, 1917, advertis- 

 ing rates in "Horticulture" will 

 be slightly advanced as shown on 

 the new rate cards now ready — 

 this as an unavoidable result of 

 the war revenue law providing 

 for higher postage and other spe- 

 cial taxation on publications. This 

 step was taken months ago by 

 other horticultural weeklies. 



