May 1, 1920 



HUKTI CULTURE 



347 



ture of the corset and its container 

 grouped with beautifully painted flow- 

 ers on the blue satin background is a 

 decided step forward artistically." All 

 such advertising of which this is only 

 one of many examples, helps to keep 

 flowers in the public mind; and, per- 

 haps not strange to say, the innova- 

 tion is synonymous with our Campaign 

 for publicity for flowers. 



Disappointment over the very lax 

 support given to our Publicity Fund 

 continues. A week of good response 

 is followed by one of absolute indiffer- 

 ence. It is truly either a feast or a 

 famine — instead of a steady stream of 

 contributions, as our Committee has 

 the moral right to expect. We have 

 never sought to criticise the amounts 

 of contributions as they come in. but 

 we have easily been able to distinguish 

 those which come from the heart as 

 well as the pocket. When a florist 

 writes "I am enclosing to you my 

 cheque for $5, all I feel I can contrib- 

 ute at present, but I am in hopes I 

 shall be able to send more later," we 

 feel highly gratified. We know that 

 man's contribution is started from two 

 points of his make-up. We believe in 

 him just as he believes in our Cam- 

 paign. There surely must be many 

 more such men, a little proud, per- 

 haps, to send so small a contribution. 

 They need not fear criticism. If our 

 Committee could only depend upon 

 sufficient help of this kind, its road 

 would be easy traveling. Who will 

 take this hint today? Let us have a 

 gowl bunch of such subscriptions to 

 report in our article next week. 



Take note of the Society's new ad- 

 dress "43 West 18th Street, New York." 

 John Young. Sec. 



A BAD WINTER FOR ROSES. 



According to the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden oflicials this has been the 

 hardest winter for roses in this sec- 

 tion of the country for many years. 

 While the season, as regards low tem- 

 perature, did not equal the record 

 cold of some recent winters, notably 

 that of 1917-18, the exact peculiar com- 

 bination of weather circumstances 

 proved most unfortunate. 



The loss is likely to be great in all 

 but the hardiest varieties, but even 

 the hardy perpetuals show signs of 

 having suffered, although these were 

 supposed to be as hard as nails as far 

 as local weather conditions were con- 

 cerned. Some of the trees in the park, 

 too, have not stood the winter well. 

 For instance, one of two Australian 

 digger-pines, which had come safely 

 through the very hard winter two 

 years ago, has since died. 



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