April 24, 1920 



HOETICULTURE 



333- 



George Watson^s 

 Corner 



"T*B 1> yanr hdaU oorner and me 

 l> Bin*." 



E. Gurney Hill of Richmond, In- 

 diana, passed through our midst on 

 the 14th inst. on his way to Washing- 

 ton. He wants Uncle Sam to find out 

 who swiped his importation of new 

 roses at the docks in Manhattan. Lots 

 of other things go-a-misslng there he- 

 sides new roses. Even bags of fancy 

 grass seeds disappear in the most un- 

 accountable way. As for silks and 

 other high toned merchandise, that is 

 an old story. A bunch of sleuths of 

 the real Sherlock Holmes calibre seem 

 to be badly needed these days — espe- 

 cially around the wharves and railroad 

 terminals. 



Miss Elsie M. Thoirs, daughter of 

 James M. Tlioirs, the Camden florist, 

 was married to LeGrand Roberts on 

 the 14th inst. at the home of her par- 

 ents. Oaklyn, N. J. The groom has 

 been a business partner of Mr. Thoirs 

 tor some time past, and this closer 

 union meets with the acclaim and 

 good wishes of their hosts of friends. 



Miss Elise G. Luck was married on 

 the 15th inst to Charles F. Pennock 

 oldest son of Samuel S. Pennock, the 

 Philadelphia wholesale florist. The 

 ceremony took place at the Calvary 

 Episcopal church, Germantown. The 

 groom is in the wool business, but is 

 well known to many in the floral line. 

 His younger brother, Samuel came 

 down from Cornell to act as best man. 



How's this for an ingenious diagno- 

 sis of the little game of hybridizing 

 and raising new varieties as explained 

 by a Fleur de Lis expert in the March 

 27 issue of the London Weekly 

 '"Gardening Illustrated." 



"Iris Ciengalliti is small and dwarf, 

 real drawbacks and I have not found 

 its so-called neat and compact habit 

 was dominant though frequent in the 

 jirogeny. It is part of the fascination 

 of the game that an apparently stupid 

 parentage may upon occasion give 

 r&ailly fine things. The crux of the 

 matter lies in genetic selection based 

 on what may be called experience, plus 

 intuition and as the inheritance of 

 qaulitles in this seems to depend on 

 the quantitative effect of duplicating 

 and complex factors not subject to 

 simple interpretation the formation of 

 rules is as yet impractical " 



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Now you know all about it. Tlie 

 daddy Fleur de Lis may b? a stupid 

 idiot (apparently), but If the mammy 

 Fleur de Lis at the other end of the 

 pole be all right a real wonder may 

 result. Raising new varieties of Iris 

 must be a fascinating game and those 

 who are intent on it are little worried 

 by the lesser affairs of life. Maybe 

 our illustrious friend Boies Penrose is 

 taking a whirl at it just now, that he 

 is keeping so quiet in his bungalow in 

 South Broad street. At any rate he 

 says nothing as yet as to who shall be 

 our next president and we all want to 

 know that. As Boies lives in the good 

 old Quaker City where the "quantita- 

 tive effect of duplicating" — from yel- 

 low dogs to gravestones — has long 

 been a fine art, he has a big advan- 

 tage over all his fellow enthusiasts. 

 Mutualistic symbiosis is the great 

 principle to follow, but one must have 

 just the right quality of the intuitive 

 faculty in his composition if he is to 

 avoid the grave danger of antagonistic 

 symbiosis so easily developed among 

 extremists at both ends of the line. 



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DETROIT GROWERS' EFFORT FOR 



PUBLICITY. 

 Gentlemen: 



The writer, on invitation, attended 

 a "Better Business" meeting of the 

 Detroit Florists' Club in that city on 

 Tuesday evening at 8 p. m., at the 

 Statler Hotel. Co-Operative Publicity 

 and the new proposed National Grow- 

 ers' Association were the topics under 

 discussion. It was a very enthusiastic 

 meeting and every man signed up for 

 a Co-operative Publicity fund on the 

 percentage plan. Mr. S. V. Swenson 

 of Chicago was also present and spoke 

 on the Chicago plan and progress of 



publicity. The growers present de- 

 cided to call a meeting in the near 

 future for the purpose of organizing a . 

 Growers' Local Association. 



There will also be a gathering oil 

 growers at the St. Nicholas Hotel im 

 Springfield, 111., on Tuesday, April 20, 

 at 12.30 p. m. for the purpose of or- 

 ganizing a down-state Local Growers 

 Association, to which all flower grow- 

 ers in the state outside of Chicago are 

 invited. 



We are meeting with great success 

 everywhere, and the growers are anx- 

 ious to unite for Better Business 

 Methods. Yours truly, 



J. F. Ammann. 



