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The Florists' Review 



JUNii 23, 1921 



FOR A PERFECT JOB USE 



GLAZETITE 



For Glazing: and Repair Work on Greenhouses and Garden Sash 



GLAZETITE is carried in stock by the following reliable firms in 55, 35, 20 and 10-gallon 

 drums, five-gallon cans and one-gallon cans, and they sell it to you on a money-back guarantee: 



Vaughan's Seed Store, ChicaKO, 111. 



Standard Seed Co., Kansas City, Mo. 



C. Kooyman Co., Saa Francisco, C»l. 



State Nursery & Seed Co., Helena, Mont. 



0. R. Eckhardt Co , St. Paul, Minn, 



St. Louis Wholesale Cut Flower Co.. St. Louis. Mo. 



Colorado Seed Co., Denver, Colo. 



J. J. Bonnell, Seattle. Wash. 



Wilson-Crout-Oehr Co., Portland, Ore. 



Rice Bros.. Minneapolis, Minn. 

 Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 J. Bolsiano A Son. Baltimore, Md. 

 James Vick's Sons. Rochester, N. Y. 

 F. W. Boliiiano. Washington. D. C. 

 Beckert's Seed Store. Pittsburgh. Pa, 

 Joseph Breck & Son, Boston, Mass. 

 Vaughan's Seed Store. New York, N. Y. 

 S. S. Pennock Co.. Baltimore. Md. 



NEBEL MFG. CO., Cleveland, Ohio 



underwrite the publication? Surely, 

 this burden should not be placed on the 

 subcommittee, who have freely given 

 months of their time to a most exacting 

 and laborious job, that American horti- 

 culture might profit thereby. 



What It Is, 



The new oflficial catalogue will be a 

 strictly alphabetical list of common 

 names and Latin names for practically 

 all trees, shrubs, fruits and perennials 

 in the American trade today, including 

 many new ones which it is expected 

 will soon be introduced into general 

 cultivation. 



Special groups supplied by organiza- 

 tions, societies and individuals specially 

 interested in such groups and best fitted 

 to give authentic name lists, appear in 

 alphabetical order, while certain large 

 groups, such as fruits, iris, rhododen- 

 drons, azaleas and peonies, which have 

 extremely large lists of named horticul- 

 tural varieties, will appear suitably ar- 

 ranged in an appendix. 



Labor diflSculties and high costs of 

 materials have combined to delay type- 

 setting; but with these conditions clear- 

 ing up, and financing arranged for, the 

 work should reach publication before 

 1922. 



It will be not only an absolutely 

 necessary work of reference in every 

 nurseryni.'in 's oflice, but a handbook and 

 guide for every live employee in the 

 field. It is a big beginning toward 

 standardizing horticultural trade prac- 

 tice in America. Even to those who are 

 entirely commercially minded it will be 

 a godsend, for if it is consistently and 

 intelligently used it means that the 

 nurseryman and florist really will know 

 what he is growing, advertising and 

 selling, and, still more important, his 

 customers and prospective customers 

 will also know, and that means tre- 

 mendously increased business. 



The American Joint Committee on 

 Horticultural Nomenclature should be a 

 jiermancnt committee, for many cor- 

 rections and improvements must be 

 made, and so long as horticulture pro- 

 gresses, so long will new plants appear 

 and new names be necessary, while 

 hundreds of plants of necessity still 

 must have suitable common names sup- 

 plied. Registration of new plants and 

 approved names will become a necessity. 

 If we believe in our business, l»b- us 

 waken to the fact that if we falter in 



the standardization of our business, 

 Congress and state legislatures will at- 

 tempt to do it for us — and disastrously 

 to American horticulture. 



The subcommitte believes that under- 

 writing this publication is a safe propo- 

 sition, and that sales that may be rea- 

 sonably expected should return cost. 



But if every nurseryman becomes 

 booster for the official catalogue o 

 standnrdized jjlant names, sales shoul 

 be such that the American Joint Com 

 mittec would have a substantial profi 

 to continue the work now so well be 

 gun. It's a business proposition am 

 it's up to you. 



