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The Florists' Review 



IktAttCH R, 1917. 



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FLORISTS' REFRIGERATORS will display your flowers in 

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accident February 18 that it was at first 

 believed was not serious. Mr. Baker, 

 who was formerly associated with his 

 father, had been living in Pittsburgh 

 for many years. 



This is a season of untoward happen- 

 ings: Even William K. Harris had pain- 

 ful moments this week, due to a leaky 

 boiler, which has now been repaired. 



Jack F. Neidinger was seen at home 

 this week, hard at work, with his hands 

 full of orders. 



Eugene Bernheimer says that many 

 orders for the lovely pink rose, Septem- 

 ber Morn, are coming in for young 

 plants. Phil. 



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More Reminiscences. 



As I prepare my copy for The Review 

 this week my memory goes back to the 

 days of the old Maryland Horticultural 

 Society; and to what better use can we 

 devote a part of our column than to tell 

 some of the younger men in the trade 

 something of the past romance of the 

 business in which they are engaged! 

 The personnel of this society was com- 

 posed of laymen and those in the trade, 

 for commercial reasons. The society 

 usually gave four exhibitions a year, 

 two in the spring and two in the fall, 

 but these were more on the order of 

 social functions than flower shows. The 

 laymen members were men of wealth, 

 who had their own greenhouses and who 

 employed gardeners. Time and ex- 

 pense were not considered by them; the 

 main object was to get the prizes. These 

 shows were opportunities for the gar- 

 dener and his patrons to meet and talk 

 flowers, and in this way more was done 

 to advance the art than one would im- 

 agine. 



It would be a treat to some of the 

 boys today to hear W. D. Brakenbridge, 

 R. J. Halliday, the elder William Fowler, 

 John Edward Feast, R. J. Halliday II, 

 W. B. Sands or James Pentland, at the 

 head of a party of ladies explaining the 

 exhibition, or telling of the advantages 

 of some particular plant, or perhaps giv- 

 ing some advice as to how a country 

 place should be laid out and what, in his 

 estimation, would be the best shrubbery 



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to use. They were men well qualified 

 to talk on any subject pertaining to 

 flowers, as they had all served an ap- 

 prenticeship of five and, in many cases, 

 seven years in Scotland, England or 

 Germany, where, after a day's work in 

 the graperies, the stove or vegetable 

 houses, they wrestled with Asa Gray in 

 the bothies at night. 



Now, while the florist of that day 

 was in the business for the money just 

 as he is today, the production of fine 

 specimens came first, and every man 

 had his hobby — some special thing that 

 he liked better than others. I well re- 

 member a house 16x60 used for growing 

 roses in 5 and 6-inch pots for the spring 

 market. This house had a solid border 

 along one side, and on this border the 

 roses were grown. Along the roof of 

 the house I have seen bunches of Black 

 Hamburg grapes eighteen inches long. 

 At certain times of the year the vines 

 had to come down and, besides being 



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trimmed, the canes had to be stripped of 

 their bark and then painted with a solu- 

 tion, which I have forgotten, but it con- 

 tained sulphur. 



John Cook today is still hale and 

 hearty. His hobby was roses, and 

 everyone knows what this hobby of his 

 has meant to the trade, not only at 

 home but all over the country, in new 

 roses put upon the market. I have just 



