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HORTICULTURE 



October 9, 1920 



larly those near to a city, there are 

 no retail florists, but there may be a 

 wholesale florist. Out of town corres- 

 pondents address a telegram "LoadinK 

 Florist" and naturally the teleRraph 

 operator sends it to the only florist 

 who is known there. Instead of try- 

 ing to flu this order without having 

 the proper facilities and without be- 

 ing able to do it in an entirely satis- 

 factory manner, this w'holesaler would 

 do much better to telephone it to some- 

 one he knows nearby where it can be 

 done as it should be. Co-operation in 

 this way will certainly work to the ad- 

 vantage of all. 



I find that there is a growing feel- 

 ing that the coal situation is going 

 to he easier. While some growers 

 have filled right up and laid In their 

 entire supply, there are quite a num- 

 ber who refuse to believe that coal at 

 prices ranging all the way from $12 

 to $18 per ton as we have found It In 

 the East is necessary, and they are 

 holding off with only a moderate 

 amount of their supply laid in and 

 waiting tor a break later on. and there 

 seems to be some reason for this be- 

 lief. As time goes on, reports on the 

 coal situation seem to be more encour- 

 aging, and we hope now that all who 

 plan to operate their houses will get 

 all the coal that is needed and with- 

 out paying the extreme prices that 

 prevailed a while back. 



Jlr. A. Frank Hills, formerly of 

 Breck's Seed House in Boston, is 

 making many friends in Baltimore, 

 where he is now located with Bol- 

 giano's seed store. 



In speaking of Mr. Hill's connection 

 Mr. Bolgiano said, "It is with pleasure 

 and pride that we announce the asso- 

 ciation of Mr. Hills with our estab- 

 lishment. We know that Mr. Hills 

 will serve our Florists and Flower 

 Loving Friends in the very best way 

 possible and we stand sponsor for his 

 endeavors for their welfare." 



Mr. Hills spent his childhood on his 

 father's Flower Seed Farms at Ford 

 Mills. Northumberland, England, and 

 in addition to inheriting a natural 

 love for flowers and plants, he served 

 his apprenticesliip in a large seed 

 growing establishment in Europe, he 

 has also materially added to his ex- 

 perience and knowledge by attending 

 several of the large educational insti- 

 tutions in Europe, specializing in 

 Botany and Floriculture. 



On coming to America he first as- 

 sociated himself with a New York es- 

 tablishment, he later became con- 

 nected with several of the New Eng- 

 land Seed Houses. 



The revised edition of Mr. Hills' 



book (III il led "Success with House 

 Plants" is universally known and 

 widely read. No doubt Mr. Hills will 

 bo of great service to the trade in gen- 

 eral for he is always affable, always 

 courteous and always ready to answer 

 all questions either in person, by tele- 

 phone, or by letter, pertaining to the 

 Flowering Plants, Bulbs, their rearing 

 care anil marketing or anytliing of in- 

 terest and help to growers of flowers 

 whether Florists, Private Gardeners, 

 Amateurs or Suburbanites. 



NEW ENGLAND GROWERS. 



BOSTON FLORISTS' ASSOCIATION. 



The first meeting of the season of 

 the Boston Florists' Association was 

 held at the City Club, Henry, Penn 

 presiding. Mr. S. E. Blandford, of 

 the R. H. White Company, was the 

 speaker of the evening and gave a 

 good talk on Credits. It proved de- 

 cidedly interesting to all the members 

 and many valuable points were noted. 



The discussion afterwards turned 

 to the National Flower Growers' As- 

 sociation and what that Association in- 

 tends to do in the way of advertising 

 and pushing flowers before the eyes of 

 the public. The Boston Florists' As- 

 sociation feels that it should attempt 

 to work out in some way a plan where- 

 by the retailers and the wholesalers 

 and commission should do their part 

 in this great work, and a committee 

 was appointed to draw up a plan 

 whereby the necessary money may be 

 secured, working upon a percentage 

 jilan if possible. It was the consensus 

 of opinion that if a certain per cent 

 of all the goods bought by the retailer 

 from the wholesaler be set aside, each 

 branch would be doing its full share, 

 and there seems reasonable reason to 

 think that a satisfactory and equitable 

 arrangement may be brought about. 



They Have Established Headquarters 

 In Boston. 



Tlie New England district of the 

 National Flower Growers' Association 

 is now hard at work getting the Asso- 

 ciation into working order. Realizing 

 the difficulty of having to depend on 

 a few enthusiastic individuals to 

 carry along the work, they have es- ■ 

 tablished an office in the center of 

 the Wholesale Flower District, 32 

 Otis street, Boston, Mass., and have 

 placed a competent secretary in 

 charge. 



The work at present is field work 

 and a call will be made on each 

 grower that can be reached, explaining 

 to him the object of the association 

 and asking him to join. There are 

 over 50 charter members and over 

 1,500,000 feet of area have already 

 been signed up. 



The work of indexing all growers 

 in New England is progressing and 

 following that will be the obtaining of 

 reliable information about every deal- 

 er in flowers. This information will 

 only be open to members of the asso- 

 ciation. It is also intended to estab- 

 lish a full registration bureau (for 

 greenhouse help and in many other 

 ways make the association of value 

 to its members. 



President Philip Breitmeyer of the F. T. D. 



OCTOBER. 



October comes in like a noisy boy 

 with a rustle of leaves and dropping 

 nuts and apples. He goes out like an 

 Eastern Maharajah over a carpet of 

 many colors in royal robes of gold and 

 scarlet. No Quaker lady from the 

 woods of April can stop the Baccha- 

 nalian glee in the dance of the leaves 

 or the ripple of the blue water. Dear 

 Mother Nature overflows our cups 

 with her best brand of champagne. 

 Dance, my children, and make happy; 

 the harvest has come. The laborers 

 are in the vineyard, the boys are pick- 

 ing up the apples; Ceres, Pan and 

 Bacchus call us to their worship. It 

 is the very joy time of the year. 



Through the long evenings of No- 

 vember we will sit by the fire, take 

 account of the summer, and make our 

 plans for the coming year. But today 

 we cannot dream, or build our castles 

 in Spain; we must be out under Octo- 

 ber's bright blue skies, — 

 "So fathomless and pure, as it all love- 

 liest azure things have gone 

 To heaven that way — the flowers, the 

 sea — and left their color there 

 alone." 



M. R. Case, 

 Hillcrest Gardens, Weston. 

 October 3, 1920. 



