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HORTICULTURE 



October 2, 1920 



BOSTON FLORAL SUPPLY & SNYDER CO. 



15 Otis- 96 Arch St. 



Wholesale Florists 



BOSTON, MASS. 



pFoTt Hill 1083 



_.,„„. J Fort Hill 1084 



Telephones j.^^ Hill 1085 



^ Uoin 3574 



Largest distributors of flowers in the East. 

 Manufacturers of artificial flowers, baskets, wire frames, etc. 



WiLUAM F. Kasting Co. 



568-570 WASHINGTON STREET - BUFFALO, N. Y. 



THIS SEASON'S NEW ROSES 



PILGRIM CRUSADER PREMIER RUSSELL HADLEY 



We are receiving dally Rhipments of these new Roses, In large qnantitles, aod 

 can furnish same on short notice. 



We have a large stock at all times of choice CARNATIONS, ORCHIDS, 

 TAU-EY and AMERICAN BEAUTIES. 



DEVONSHIRE STREET 

 BOSTON, IVIASS. 



Tel . Main «|« WELCH BROS. CO. 



and mind in vigor, and do his duty to 

 his home and country." 



That system of government is best 

 which is best administered. 



Boys get that into your system. 

 Don't let us go crazy about Democ- 

 racy. It may go rotten also just the 

 same as Aristocracy may. Loolc at the 

 Horticultural Board in Washington 

 today. It is supposed to be a democ- 

 racy but is more of an absolute mon- 

 archy than anything ever heard of 

 since Aristotle's day. 



Ain't we a bunch of pure and sim- 

 ple simps to stand for it. Good Lord! 

 we ain't men! we're monkeys. 



your reforms. These boys are doing 

 a lot of good and things are going 

 nicely if the kids would only behave. 

 So let's postpone it a little and give 

 them one more chance to pull in their 

 horns and try and find some better 

 way to exercise their glowing shafts of 

 energy than in stopping the orderly 

 affairs of us poor humans. So he said 

 all right we'll call it off for a little. 

 But tell those fellows what's coming 

 to them if there's any more of this 

 silly stuff. This is a democracy. The 

 people rule. We will stand for no 

 kings or cabals. 



I was talking with a man high up 

 in government affairs and told him 

 about the Oligarchy— alias the Horti- 

 cultural Board of Washington. He 

 was very much astonished. Found it 

 hard to believe that a bunch of under- 

 strappers could have worked up such 

 an underground school and secret so- 

 ciety of Bolshevists in an open and 

 above board democracy like ours. But 

 ■when he heard a few facts — whew! 

 What do you think he said? He said 

 this: "If you can spare the time to 

 take a run down with me to a certain 

 party in Washington that you and I 

 both know personally the whole thing 

 will be wiped out at one swoop and 

 don't you forget it. We felt very 

 much like throwing down our shoe 

 makers' last, throwing our spectacles 

 in the discard and going to it right 

 there and then. We could see their 

 finish and a good riddance. But of 

 course there's always a but, and the 

 but was this: always go easy with 



A retail flower shop will be opened 

 in the borough of Lansdowne, Pa., on 

 Oct. 8 by Chris Barke. He will con- 

 duct it under the name of the Lans- 

 downe Flower Shop. 



The periwinkle is about the last 

 flower one would expect to see in the 

 cut flower market and yet we have 

 noticed it here and there the past ten 

 days. Twenty-five cents a bunch. We 

 carried a spray 'round to the 'poets' 

 corner" at Kelly street and presented 

 it to Tom Daly, remarking here laddie 

 here's one that was named by your old 

 Grecian friend Pliny. Is that so, very 

 interesting, but we don't pronounce it 

 Plyney like you do — we pronounce it 

 Fleeny. Is that so indeed. Well 

 please understand that yours truly 

 uses the Boston accent and old Paul 

 Revere and Chris Attucks were as 

 good Sinn Feiners in their day as any 

 emotional and superior Philadelphia 

 Celt of the present day and we prefer 

 to stick fast to good precedent. 



Besides, according to .Josh Billings, 

 another good authority, a man has as 

 good a right to pronounce a word the 

 way it ain't spelled as to spell a word 

 the way it ain't pronounced. All right 

 old top, says Tom, 111 put it in my but- 

 tonhole anyhow — and thank you. The 

 reader no doubt thinks this is a long 

 story about a little, thing like Vinca 

 minor, but what we really wanted to 

 remind people of, now that fall seed- 

 ing of lawns and grounds is in order, 

 was that this is an excellent hardy 

 trailer for growing under trees where 

 it has been found impossible to make 

 grass grow. So you see there is a little 

 saving grace in this tale of the trail- 

 ing myrtle, after all. 



NEW NURSERY FIRM 

 Alexander Cummings is to leave the 

 employ of A. N. Pierson, Inc., at Crom- 

 well, Conn., where he has been for 

 seven years in charge of the land- 

 scape and nursery department as well 

 as the perennials. Before coming to 

 Cromwell he was for eight years in 

 charge of Elizabeth park in Hartford. 

 Mr. Cummings is to form a partner- 

 ship with Paul M. Hubbard, a Bristol 

 florist, which will be known as the 

 Bristol Nurseries, Inc. The new firm 

 will go into the nursery and land- 

 scape gardening business on a large 

 scale. — Hartford Times. 



ENLARGING PEONY GARDEN 

 On Monday of this week Mr. E. L. 

 Parker received at Fayetteville rail- 

 road station, 27 barrels weighing 2.908 

 pounds of peony roots, being an ad- 

 vance shipment of 10,000 peonies for 

 his enlarged peony garden. Mr. 

 Parker had in fiower this summer 

 nine of the ten varieties that took 

 the highest honors at the American 

 Peony Association Show in Reading, 

 Pa., in June. 



He says he has sent a check for 

 one root of the other one and ex- 

 pects that will blossom with the oth- 

 ers next summer. — Fayetteville, N. Y., 

 Bulletin. 



The Steamer Edward Lockenbach 

 recently arrived in New York City 

 with fifteen million Dutch flowering 

 bulbs including tulips, hyacinths and 

 narcissi. 



