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HORTICULTURE 



March 20, 1920 



THE 

 BOILER OF 



Unequalled Fuel Economy 



Kracaohrll Bollsra, tbe belt by tarn 

 1878. Forty jtMT»' exicrlaoee. 



THE QUAUTT PL^CE OF BOSTON 



Regarding tbe Kroescbell, It la th« 

 b««t we have erer bad and satisfac- 

 tory beyond oar expectations. It beats 

 op especially qotck and bas saved DS 

 eoDslderably already In tbe price of 

 fnel. Wben we are in need of another 

 boiler we will irlre tbe Kroescbell tbe 

 first consideration. 



(Signed) WM. W. EDGAR CO.. 



WAVERLEY, MASS. 



Kroeschell Bros. Co., 



4«« W. Eri* St. 

 CHICAGO 



When You Buy -Get a Kroesdiell 



t,ei6.2M sq. ft. of glaas waa equipped vtlil 

 Kroescbell Boilers durlny tbe j«mr of 1916. 



OUIO'S CE1£BRATED CYCL.AMKN 

 8PECIAUST 



After asloe your No. 12 Kroeacbell 

 Boiler I came to tbe conclnslon that 

 bad I to lustall more boilers It wauld 

 be tbe Kroescbell and no otber. It 

 really Is a pleasure to beat, no trouble 

 to get tbe desired beat In a very sbort 

 time. 



(Signed) CHRIST. WINTERICH, 

 DEFIANCE, OHIO. 



DAYLIGHT SAVING. 

 Editor of Horticulture: 



The writer of The Talk of the Trade 

 In your issue for March 6 (which 

 under our splendid Boston mail de- 

 livery reached me as early as 4 P. M. 

 March 9) seems somewhat mixed on 

 daylight saving. He starts off by prac- 

 tically asserting that florists oppose 

 the plan. If your correspondent at- 

 tended meetings of florists' organiza- 

 tions he would have known that at 

 largely attended meetings of the Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Club of Boston 

 and the Boston Florists' Association 

 resolutions supporting daylight saving 

 were unanimously adopted. About all 

 the leading growers around Boston to 

 my personal knowledge belong to one 

 or the other of these bodies. Can this 

 opponent of the proposed change name 

 a single florist or agricultural body 

 which has placed itself on record as 

 against daylight saving? 



There are always exceptions to 

 every case, no matter how excellent, 

 and I don't for one moment doubt that 

 growers are to be found who oppose 

 the proposed reform, but I have 

 studied this matter very carefully and 

 talked it over with a great many of 

 our largest and best growers and 

 everyone agrees that they favored 

 daylight saving. 



The statement that rose growers op- 

 posed the plan as they had to cut buds 

 tighter in the afternoon is not very 

 convincing: the fact is lost sight of 

 that this is more than offset by the 

 earlier attention the flowers will get 

 In the morning under the new plan, at 

 least that is the way it appeals to 

 large growers like W. H. Elliott. 



What outdoor crops are there that 

 the florist grows which are in any way 

 harmed by daylight saving? The two 

 principal arguments advanced against 

 this measure are deceptive. As I hap- 

 pen to have occasion to handle 75 tons 

 of hay each year and 100 tons of 

 silage, besides growing some acres of 

 vegetables and fruit trees, not to men- 

 tion flowers at all, and use on an 

 average two tons of poison in fighting 

 insect pests, I can speak from practi- 

 cal experience and state that with 



Wishing to Retire From Business 



I ■will sell as a whole or incorporate 



Greenhouses, Real Estate and Store 



with long lease. 



Profits for 20 years have averaged better 

 than $10,000 yearly. 



H. F. LITTLEFIELD 



WORCESTER, MASS. 



greatly depleted help and other handi- 

 caps, daylight saving has not hindered 

 our work. When your correspondent 

 continues "that those who are in favor 

 of it are, generally speaking, in favor 

 of it purely through selfish motives," 

 he shows an effrontery and ignorance 

 truly pitiful. Might not anyone just 

 as accurately state that the small ma- 

 jority opposing daylight saving are 

 selfish for opposing what 90 out of 100 

 people demand? 



It would be better if we had a na- 

 tional law for daylight saving rather 

 than have various states and cities 

 adopt it. Our Washington politicians 

 are too busy trimming their fences for 

 next November's elections to give 

 much consideration to measures of 

 this kind, but a national daylight sav- 

 ing will yet call and I venture to say 

 none will appreciate it more than your 

 critical correspondent, and he can rest 

 assured that railroads will be very 

 glad to adapt their time tables to what 

 the overwhelming mass of the people 

 demand. 



More than double the population of 

 the United States lives under daylight 

 saving law in Europe. Great Britain 

 is making it a permanent reform by 

 Act of Parliament after using it twice 

 as long as we have. France now uses 

 it from February 1 to October 25, and 



other Kuropean countries are con- 

 tinuing it because it increases pro- 

 duction, decreases fuel consumption 

 and makes for the physical betterment 

 of their people. Out of 2171 physicians 

 polled in Massachusetts, 1917 favored 

 daylight saving and only 254 opposed 

 it, a good proportion of the latter 

 country physician, and giving as their 

 reason that "farmers are opposed." 

 Only thirty-five physicians are of the 

 opinion that it interferes with chil- 

 dren's sleep. Isn't such testimony 

 worthy of some consideration? 

 Would your correspondent so far 

 "talk through his hat" as to state that 

 they also favor the measure "purely 

 through selfish motives?" 



W. N. Craig. 

 Faulkner Farm, 

 Brookline, Mass. 



The following have been elected 

 members of the Indiana State Florists' 

 Association: Thomas Affleck, Indian- 

 apolis; Frank D. McConnell, Boone- 

 ville, and Fred and Norman Hukriede, 

 Indianapolis. 



OPFOBTUNITT 



Would like to get In communication 

 witb a party who has a vacant range o( 

 glass on a private estate and wishes to run 

 it as a paying proposition. Address D. G., 

 care of HOBTICULTURB. 



