December 13, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



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to carry to completion their plans for 

 general publicity. They find It no 

 cinch to arrange campaign plans with 

 simply an expectancy of funds being 

 available to allow of such plans being 

 put into effect. Support in their work 

 cannot be too strong — at present it 

 isn't even reasonable. The florists 

 have given liberal support to various 

 drives in the last two or three years, 

 but are sadly neglecting to support 

 their own drive, one which promises 

 so much benefit to them. It is true 

 that a goodly number of our craft are 

 co-operating to provide a working 

 fund, but in number they only repre- 

 sent little more than one tenth of 

 the trade. If the remaining nine- 

 tenths are not wholly indifferent to 

 the movement, they are mighty slow 

 to respond to the appeal constantly 

 made to them. Their attitude is al- 

 most unbelievable. It was never 

 thought that a florist usually, classed 

 with the best fellows on earth, would 

 withhold assistance to a project which 

 promised so much for him individu- 

 ally, and was calculated to extend his 

 opportunities for doing business. It 

 is still hard to believe that such is 

 the case — it is not, cannot be. It 

 must be sheer forgetfulness. The 

 matter of amount of subscription need 

 worry nobody — it can be raised at 

 any time. If $10.00 is all that can be 

 contributed, send it. If less, it will 

 be just as welcome. Send something, 

 if only to show appreciation of the 

 work accomplished. 



John Young, Secy. 

 1170 Broadway, New York. 

 December 6th, 1919. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 

 NEW YORK. 



A lecture on "Korea and Its Vege- 

 tation" will be delivered by Mr. E. H. 

 Wilson on Wednesday, December 17, 

 8 p. m., at the American Museum of 

 Natural History, 77th street and Cen- 

 tral Park West. Mr. Wilson is Assist- 

 ant Director of the Arnold Arboretum. 

 He has spent more than twenty years 

 in exploring and collecting the flora of 

 the Far East. Of this period eleven 

 years have been devoted to Western 

 and Central China, and three more to 

 Japan and the outlying parts of that 

 Empire, and to Korea. A part of the 

 results of this work has been the ad- 

 dition to the gardens of America and 

 Europe of nearly 2,000 species, a larger 

 number of introductions than any one 

 else can claim. All are invited to at- 

 tend. 



Rare, interesting, or unusual plants 

 or flowers may be brought to the meet- 

 ing, and facilities will be supplied for 

 their display. A fund has been placed 



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BOSTON. 



W. D. Howard attended the meeting 

 of the New York Florists Club Mon- 

 day night and exhibited his new 

 Kernice Carnation, which received 

 many compliments. 



Wollrath & Sons, of Waltham, re- 

 cently sold George L. Lane, of Hart- 

 ford, 500 cyclamens, which Mr. Lane 

 is using to make an exceptional win- 

 dow display. 



R. C. Bridgham, of Newton, has re- 

 turned from a trip to New York and to 

 A.. N. Pierson's establishment at 

 Cromwell, Conn. 



Stephen B. Green, representing H. 

 Bayersdorfer & Co., of Philadelphia, 

 was in town last week and did a 

 flourishing business. Mr. Green, 

 whose territory extends over a large 



part of the country, says that every 

 indication points to an unusually suc- 

 cessful Christmas business. In spite 

 of high prices dealers everywhere are 

 stocking up well and are confident 

 that sales will be heavy. Mr. Green 

 had expected to go on as far as Lewis- 

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A head-on collision between two au- 

 tomobiles at the corner of Avery and 

 Tremont streets, resulted in injuries to 

 a young girl and the wrecking of one 

 of the machines. Austin I. Smith, a 

 West Newton florist and his 12-year- 

 old daughter, Mildred Smith, were 

 driving South on Tremont street when 

 another car coming through Avery 

 street narrowly missed crashing into a 

 car owned and driven by John J. Cor- 

 liss of 47 Farragut road, South Bos- 

 ton, and, in turning across the street, 

 struck the c;ir driven by Mr. Smith 



