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HORTICULTURE 



June 26, 1920 



George Watson's 

 Corner 



"You In your snmll corner and nie 

 in mine." 



Charles H. Grakelow is aot only a 

 leading retail florist ot" Philadelphia, 

 he is also a wit and an orator. Even 

 when he comes to the market on the 

 solemn business of buying to best ad- 

 vantage he has time to pass the time 

 of day with a dilletante like yours 

 truly. Say George, I see you've been 

 writing sermons on the evils of pro- 

 fanity sez he. We modestly acknowl- 

 edged the corn and asked wasn't It 

 all right. Sure sez he, I call it a hell 

 of a good story. Which goes to show 

 that even in profanity New York may 

 not be so much worse than the 

 •Quaker City. That's bad grammar of 

 course, but at least it isn't profane. 

 And there are times when a strong 

 one is excusable. In front of the post 

 office of a nearby suburb a poor lad 

 •dropt a quart of good likker and it 

 busted and ran in the gutter. I could 

 not repeat what the man said, but all 

 the bystanders laughed and guffawed. 

 I called it a tragedy; but Edward 

 Dooner said it was worse than that — It 

 was a cataclysm! 



Everybody you meet and talk with 

 can always be interested if you hit on 

 subjects based on the True and Beau- 

 tiful. No matter what nationality or 

 creed you will find everybody responds 

 to that and will enthuse. Methods of 

 expressing themselves in these twin 

 fundamentals have kept the human 

 race busy since the world began. Re- 

 ligions, nationalities, cults, are all 

 subordinate when It comts to the True 

 and the Beautiful. That is why it is 

 such a safe proposition when you meet 

 a stranger. The stranger may be from 

 Asia, Africa, EJurope or America — and 

 he may have all kinds of queer make 

 up inside his birth and breeding but if 

 you start out on your conversation on 

 the lines fundamental you will find a 

 human being responsive. The Idea 

 suggested here beats the drummers no- 

 tion of finding out first what the pros- 

 pective purchasers ideas are on poli- 

 tics or religion and then flattering 

 them into an order. That's all right 

 but it is a bigger thing to work from 

 the bottom instead of starting at the 

 surface and working down. 



Quarantine 37 according to Samuel S. 

 Pennock was that it was general in 

 character and that the commercial 

 element was not over represented 

 which gave added strength to its in- 

 fluence with the authorities at Wash- 

 ington. It was shown that the quar- 

 antine was affecting horticulture un- 

 t'avoi-ably entirely apart from the dol- 

 lar viewpoint. If the quarantine had 

 been in effect during the past hundred 

 years we would have had none or 

 very few of the rare plants and trees 

 that now grace our parks and private 

 estates and the many wonderful prod- 

 ucts of nature that now adorn our 

 gardens and greenhouses. 



John Westcott had a visit from 

 Herbert Pennock of Jupiter, Fla., on 

 the 16th iust. These two were side 

 partners in Pennock Bros, for about 

 thirty years and it is not hard to 

 imagine what a pleasant afternoon 

 was spent talking over old times. It is 

 a 'fine custom and we all enjoy it, es- 

 pecially as we grow older and find the 

 years that pass are always taking a 

 few more of them away from us. 



John G. Whilldin, of the Whilldin 

 Pottery Co., is on a vacation in the 

 Pocono Mountains. 



The greenhouses of August Doem- 

 ling. of Lansdowne, were struck by 

 lightning on the 16th inst. The chim- 

 ney of the principal boiler house was 

 destroyed and there were minor 

 damages. 



Theodore Meskers, located at McKin- 

 ley. a suburb near Jenldntown, is the 

 new occupant of the Oscar Young place 

 which has been in litigation for some 

 time. The final adjudication will come 

 before the courts next October. Mean- 

 while Mr. Meskers is not worrying as 

 he has carried out all his obligations 

 under the contract and is running an 

 active business in a general line of 

 stock such as bedding plants, carna- 

 tions, sweet peas, chrysanthemums, 

 daffodils and other bulbous stock. He 

 came from Holland and had three 

 years at Dreers. Also conducted a 

 place of his own at Olney before taking 

 up the McKinley proposition. He is 

 well thought of by his compeers in the 

 business and will doubtless do well in 

 his new venture. 



The outstanding fact about the meet- 

 ing in New York on the loth inst on 



Messrs. Dungan. Edwards, Burpee, 

 McKubbin. and Stokes, were among 

 the Philar'.e'.phia delegation which left 

 on the 19:h inst. for the Seedsmen's 

 Convention in Milwaukee. which 

 opened on the 22nd inst. 



HORTICULTURAL CONFERENCE 

 DISCUSSES QUARANTINE 37. 

 Permanent General Committee Ap- 

 pointed to Frame and Carry Out 



Constructive Program. 

 The first fruits of the recent deter- 

 mination of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society to "start something" 

 aiming towards a modification of 

 Quarantine 37 ripened on June loth 

 when some 75 horticulturists met in 

 the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory in New York. For the most part 

 these were delegates from horticul- 

 tural societies, garden clubs and 

 other organizations that had been 

 specifically invited to participate; but 

 there were also a number of repre- 

 sentatives of the horticultural trade 

 and others who had simply accepted 

 the invitation extended to "all inter- 

 ested to attend." 



To summarize the results of the 

 conference first, disregarding the se- 

 quence of events, it may be said that 

 there was evolved from the conference 

 a permanent, general committee of 

 about thirty delegates from different 

 horticultural interests or bodies, which 

 promptly proceeded to elect J. Horace 

 McFarland of Pennsylvania permanent 

 chairman, and W. Rich, secretary of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety, permanent secretary and tern- 



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