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HORTICULTURE 



August 30, 1919 



Right Now more depends upon the Soil than ever before! You would not expect your 

 Horse to work without food? Neither will your soil produce crops without fertilizer. 

 Growers are using more fertilizers than ever before and to meet this demand we have 

 organized 



THE PROTO-FEED AND GUANO CO. 



One of the best known 

 men in the middle west 

 and with a wide experi- 

 ence in all branches or 



Horticultural work. He 

 and his associates are pre- 

 pared to supply all your 

 needs and solicit your 

 trade. 



H. K. HIMISTON, President 



Our products are for the Greenhouses, Commercial Growers, Landscape Gardeners, 



Private Gardeners. 



THE PROTO-FEED AND GUANO CO. 



4121 S. LA SALLE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Secretary's Report, Wesley Greene, 

 Des Moines. 



The Value of a Florists' Club as a 

 Business Asset to the Profession, Wil- 

 liam Goos, Davenport. 



The Value of an Exposition to the 

 Trade, Arthur H. Smith, Boone. 



Commercial Fertilizers That Are of 

 the Most Value to the Florist. George 

 F. Kurtzweil, Des Moines. 



The Effect that Quarantine No. 37 

 of the Federal Horticultural Board Will 

 Have on the Florists' Trade, Blaine 

 Wilcox, Council Bluffs. 



The Park as an Educational Factor 

 in Promoting Civic Improvement, and 

 Its Value to the Florist, G. A. Heyne, 

 Dubuque. 



What It Costs to Produce Florists' 

 Stock, J. S. Wilson, Des Moines 



The second annual Mid-west Horti- 

 cultural Exposition will be held at Des 

 Moines, Nov. 11 to 14. Over $1,000 has 

 been offered in prizes for flowers and 

 plants. 



flowers grown by children under 18 

 years of age in their home and school 

 gardens. 



The total amount of prizes offered is 

 $250, of which $100 is given by the 

 State Department of Agriculture for 

 the encouragement of gardening 

 among the children of the Common- 

 wealth. In addition the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society offers silver and 

 bronze medals to be awarded to the 

 children for the best gardens in 30 

 cities and towns within ten miles of the 

 State House. 



Indications point to a large exhibit 

 by the children, as the interest in 

 home and school gardening is steadily 

 increasing. The exhibition, which is 

 free to the public, will be open Satur- 

 day from 12 to 6 and Sunday from 1 

 to 6 o'clock. 



" BOSTON. 



The annual exhibition of the prod- 

 ucts of children's gardens will be held 

 at Horticultural Hall next Saturday 

 and Sunday. There are 183 prizes 

 offered for displays of vegetables and 



CHICAGO. 



The newest house in the wholesale 



market is that of Frank S. Ayres and 

 the word retail also appears in the 

 sign. For many years Mr. Ayres was 

 best known through his association 

 with his brother-in-law, Charles Mc- 

 Kellar, where his amiable disposition 

 won for him many friends. In making 

 the start for himself in Room 201 at 

 30 E. Randolph street, he has the best 



wishes of all in the trade for success. 

 O. A. & L. A. Tonner at 30 E. Ran- 

 dolph street, have all the enlarge- 

 ments in their place of business now 

 complete. They are one of the best 

 known houses in the wholesale mar- 

 ket and this is the third time they 

 have been obliged to enlarge their 

 quarters. The father of the present 

 members of the firm was one of 

 Chicago's pioneer florists, making a 

 specialty of growing violets and was 

 one of the founders of the wholesale 

 market in Chicago as it exists today. 

 H. E. Humiston, president of the 

 new Proto Feed & Guano Co., at 4121 

 S. LaSalle street, reports the conven- 

 tion as one of unusual importance 

 from the commercial standpoint. He 

 says in general that all salesmen ap- 

 peared busy and that there were more 

 orders to be placed than the repre- 

 sentatives of the allied trades could 

 take care of. 



Philip Schupp. president of the J. 

 A. Budlong Co.. went East following 

 the Detroit convention, where he ex- 

 pects to spend two or three weeks. 



Miss Nettie Parker spent a delight- 

 ful two weeks visiting the Yellowstone 

 Park, which she considers the most 

 wonderful of all the places she has 

 visited. 



