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be made to pay at the price it is 

 usually sold at. The answer would be, 

 in eight out of ten cases, that we could 

 not get returns enough to warrant the 

 growing of this stock, as callas usually 

 begin to crop in the usual greenhouse 

 temperature at a time when other 

 flowers are beginning to come In that 

 cost only one-half the amount in re- 

 gard to their value in design work." 



In the opinion of Chas. Craig, ot 

 Ottawa the calla is not looked upon as 

 one of the aristocrats of the green- 

 house of the present day. "Years ago" 

 he said "before carnations, roses, etc., 

 attained the perfection of to-day, the 

 calla had a premier place. There is 

 still a steady demand for the flowers, 

 and for design work it is still hard to 

 beat. From my experience in handling 

 the Easter lily," he continued, "I would 

 say that it was never more popular. 

 When Easter comes, it is hard to have 

 too many, and they are always useful 

 all the year round. 



At the recent orchid show in Boston 

 Mr. John E. Lager, of Lager & Hurrell, 

 was very frank in giving his opinion of 

 Quarantine No. 37. He said: 



"The action taken by the Federal 

 Horticultural Board during the past 

 year in excluding orchids from this 

 country is without a shadow of justifi- 

 cation. Among other things this 

 means that collecting orchids in the 

 wilds is a thing of the past as far as 

 this country is concerned. For my 

 own part I cannot express in words the 

 deep regret and sorrow I feel in being 

 deprived of the privilege to go into the 

 mysterial tropical forests searching for 

 these orchids which we all love so well. 

 Collecting orchids, to a man who loves 

 them, cannot be measured in dollars 

 and cents only. The romance and 

 charm connected with these plants is 

 the very soul of the entire family of 

 the orchids. Another important fact 

 in connection with orchid collecting is 

 that much geographical knowledge and 

 that of economics has been dissemi- 

 nated through these collectors, and 

 hence we feel as a class that our lives 

 have not been spent in vain, for in 

 most cases we have made two blades 

 of grass grow where only one grew 

 before." 



YOUNG BUT SUCCESSFUL. 



J. Harper Hetherlngton, Newly Elect- 

 ed President Washington 

 Florists' Club. 

 J. Harper Hetherlngton, one of the 

 youngest and most prominent mem- 

 bers of the Florists' Club of Washing- 

 ton, will assume the presidency of 



that organization at its next meeting. 

 At the annual meeting, held March 2, 

 he was unanimously elected. 



Mr. Hetherlngton wus bom in Phil- 

 adelphia thirty-one years ago. He is 

 the son of the late Joseph H. Hether- 

 lngton who served more than thirty 

 years in the employ of Robert Craig & 

 Company, In Philadelphia. Here was 

 where the new president obtained his 

 first knowledge of the fiorist business. 

 While going to school he worked in the 

 Craig place during his spare time. At 

 the age of fifteen he was regularly put 

 on the payroll of the concern. About 

 four years later he went to work In 

 the Century Flower Shop of H. H. 

 Battles, remaining there about four 

 years. 



From the Century Flower Shop he 

 came to Washington and secured em- 

 ployment with Fred H. Kramer, at 916 

 F Street, Northwest, and 18 months 

 later he Joined the Washington Floral 

 Company. For the past five years he 

 has been the manager of this concern 

 which enjoys a healthy and growing 

 wholesale and retail business. 



Mr. Hetherlngton has been quite 

 active in club affairs; especially dur- 

 ing the last year and aided materially 

 in putting across the "Say It With 

 Flowers" Week in Washington, 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 

 The American Carnation Society has 

 continued the committee which was to 

 look after the welfare of Belgium, 

 France and possibly England Insofar 

 as new varieties of carnations are con- 

 cerned. It is herewith requested that 

 our leading growers send the intro- 

 ductions of the past two years insofar 

 as it is possible to either Mr. W. E. 

 Wallace, Eaton Bing, Dunstable, Eng- 

 land, or Mr. C. Engleman, Saffron, 

 Waldon, Essex County, England. These 

 gentlemen will see that any plants 

 which arrive in their care will be 

 properly distributed and have made 

 arrangements for same. Also please 

 see that the information with regard 

 to the sending is mailed to the com- 

 mittee. Since the American Carnation 

 Society has undertaken this kindness, 

 every prominent grower of carnations 

 ought to do his part. 



Iewin Bertebman, 

 Theodore Dobneb, 

 J. H. EhjNiiOP. 



thought out, but Mr. T. Arnold writing 

 in Gardening Illustrated goes into the 

 matter very intelligently. To begin 

 with, he says that it is one of the best 

 of hardy shrubs for forcing, for the 

 forcing can be done in almost any 

 place where a temperature of fifty de- 

 grees can be maintained. Even a 

 cellar or dark mushroom house will 

 answer. He explained, though, that 

 under such conditions the flowers of all 

 varieties will be white, and that there 

 wUl be an absence of foliage. Mr. 

 Arnold goes on to say that the advice 

 often given to dig up large bushee 

 from the shrubbery and either place 

 them in large pots or wrap the roots 

 in damp mats and take them to the 

 heat at once is all wrong, as it will re- 

 sult in a great percentage of the most 

 promising buds coming blind. It is far 

 better, he says, to use smaller plants 

 in pots and to select only kinds which 

 are known to force well, refusing, of 

 course, all grafted plants. 



The most essential detail in prepar- 

 ing lilacs for forcing is to encourage 

 well matured growth in previous years 

 and to make stout well-ripened shoots 

 by carefully running the spade around 

 each plant and lifting slightly early 

 in September. This plan checks the 

 growth sufficiently to make the buds 

 mature thoroughly. If convenient the 

 plants may be potted up as soon as 

 the leaves change color, but kept in 

 the sun and air as long as possible to 

 mature the buds still further and 

 bring the plants into condition for 

 hard forcing. After the finest plants 

 are flowered they can be planted out 

 again and the second year after be 

 ready for house decoration again. 



NEWS NOTES. 



FORCING LILACS 



Garden makers often inquire about 

 the forcing of lilacs in the spring. Much 

 of the advice given is not very well 



Benjamin P. Brown, president of the 

 Brown Bag Filling Machine Co., Fitch- 

 burg, Mass., is suffering from a frac- 

 tured hip caused from a fall on the 

 ice recently. 



Looking about tor an opportunity 

 for broadening their field, Vogt & Son, 

 of Coldwater, Mich., have arranged for 

 opening a store in Flint. They have 

 bought a residence which happened to 

 be well located for their purpose and 

 are remodeling it for flower store pur- 

 poses. 



O. G. Rindom, formerly manager of 

 a real estate firm in Wichita, Kan., 

 has taken charge of Riverside Gar- 

 dens, EJmporla, Kan. 



Gove, the Florist, of Burlington, Vt 

 announces that he has secured Mr. 

 Chas. Wilson as manager of their 

 flower store. Mr. Wilson was formerly 

 assistant manager of one of the leading 

 Canadian flower stores. 



