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HORTICULTURE 



August 9, 1919 



BOSTON FLORAL SUPPLY 

 COMPANY 



Wholesale Florists 



DEALERS IN 



Cut Flowers and Evergreens 



We manufacture our Baskets, Wax 

 flowers, Wax designs, Wire frames, 

 etc., and preserve our Cycas Leaves 

 right in our own factory. 



Office, Salesrooms, Shipping Dept. 



15 Otis St. 96 Arch St. 

 BOSTON, MASS. 



Telephones. Main 2574, 3525 



For All Flowers in Season Call on 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



1201 Race St. Philadelphia, Pa. 



EDWARD REID 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



1*19 - 21 RauteaJ St., PhiUii l s s ia, Pa. 



CWKE BEAUTIES, ORCWDS, VALLEY, ROSB 

 ai all SmmmMi V iriitiK if tat Fls-wi 



Wired Toothpicks 



*. J. COWEE, Berlin, N. Y. 



imm . as J* »,«••... SS.1S 



GEORGE B. HART 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



24 Stone St., Rochester, N. Y. 



J. A. BUDLONG 



184 North Wabash Avonvo, CHICAGO 



Wholesale Growers of Cut Flowers 



ROSES. CARNATIONS 



AND ALL OTHER SEASONABLE STOCK 



Shipping order* have moat careful attention always 



IF You Want Anything from Boston Get It 

 From Henry M. Robinson & Co. 



For Safmty Place Your Ordmr* With Urn 



HENRY LVI. ROBINSON A GO. 

 2 Wlnthrop Square and 32 Otis Strost, BOSTON, MASS. 



HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE HER? 



A Patriotic Appeal from Congressman 

 M. L. Davey. 



The following article from the pen 

 of Congressman M. L. Davey and ap- 

 pearing in the Davey Tree Bulletin 

 has attracted considerable comment 

 and Horticulture is glad to repro- 

 duce it with permission: 



There are a hundred million of us, 

 bound together by an invisible bond, 

 nurtured by a common spirit, fos- 

 tered by the same blessings, protected 

 by a mutual power, inspired by an 

 all-pervading ideal. 



There are physical limitations, of 

 course, and temporal qualities. There 

 are the great oceans to the east and 

 to the west of us. There are imagin- 

 ary lines separating us from other peo- 

 ple on the north and south. There 

 are the wide stretches of country, 

 beautiful hills and majestic moun- 

 tains, fertile valleys, stately rivers 

 and murmuring brooks, wonderful 

 trees and forests, rare and plentiful 

 flowers, fine homes and great cities, a 

 multitude of factories and places of 

 work, splendid edifices and institu- 

 tions of learning. 



But WE are America. We — a hun- 

 dred million of us — make this nation 

 great or small. We interpret and ap- 

 ply the spirit of the past. We make 

 the national voltage of today. We 

 shall leave to another generation the 

 qualities of life and purpose which 

 we develop as a people. We are the 

 soul of this republic. 



The American people have never 

 failed in a great crisis, from the first 

 throbbing moment when the nation 

 was born until today. But, sadly 

 enough, it seems to take a threaten- 

 ing emergency to develop and make 



manifest our real character. We rise 

 to heights of patriotic fervor in times 

 of real stress. We do great and won- 

 derful things. We show a unity of 

 purpose and a national consecration 

 that is wonderful to see and live 

 tli rough. 



But how far our zeal subsides and 

 our animation cools when the emer- 

 gency passes! How much we drift 

 apart and separate into selfish, care- 

 less groups! How little concern we 

 show for the vital affairs of country 

 as we travel our separate ways of 

 life! How thoughtless we become of 

 the great nation which is ours! How 

 gayly or sadly we plod along in blind 

 faith that somehow or other God in 

 Heaven will keep our nation safe and 

 make her great! 



This country — this republic — is 

 ours to make what we will. It will be 

 safe as we make it safe — and by high 

 Heaven, as we keep it safe. It will be 

 great as we live the life of national 

 greatness, young of limb, keen of eye, 

 big of thought and worthy of deed. 



A hundred million of us is Amer- 

 ica — you and me and all the rest. 

 God give us the inspired purpose to 

 see and live the great life of a noble 

 nation. May we maintain our patri- 

 otism and our devotion at a constant 

 high level. May our reverence for 

 the flag and the things that it symbol- 

 izes be and always steadily remain a 

 living thing, a vitalized fact. 



M L. Davey. 



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