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The Florists^ Review 



JuMB 22. 1922 



ern railroad, in Chicago, was decorated 

 with 6,000 peony blooms. So great was 

 the impression made by the event that 

 the following description occupied 

 nearly a newspaper column: 



The Northwestern railway between Chicago 

 and Milwaukee was being converted into a 

 "peony way" today and Kenosha was furnish- 

 ing the peonies. When Kenosha people went 

 Into the terminal of the Northwestern In Chicago 

 this morning, they had a "breath of home," 

 the distinctlTe odor of the spring peony which 

 lingers about the Cooper road Just about this 

 time of the year and gets away from the Cooper 

 road into hundreds of homes of Kenosha. A mil- 

 lion people are going to have a chance to see the 

 peonies of Henry Cooper, peony fan, this year. 



With the cooperation of the Chicago Flower 

 Growers' Association, of Chicago, Mr. Cooper 

 today converted the great terminal of the North- 

 western, one of the greatest railway terminals 

 in the world. Into a great flower garden. Thou- 

 sands upon thousands of peonies were shipped 

 from Kenosha last night and today they gr%ce 

 the nooks and comers and the main corridors 

 of the big terminal. It took 6,000 of the fra- 

 grant, multicolored peonies from the Cooper 

 gardens to convert this great terminal into a 

 great flower show room. It took the labor of a 

 score of expert lovers of peonies to arrange the 

 blooms in the most attractive manner. 



More than 100,000 people pass through the big 

 terminal every day and they are going to carry 

 to work with them and back home with them 

 in the evening the odor of Kenosha-grown peonies. 



The terminal was not the only Chicago build- 

 ing which offered a breath of Cooper road today. 

 State street came under the spell and thou- 

 sands of the flowers from the Cooper farm were 

 placed in the stores of Capper & Capper and 

 the Hub. It was the first time that so many 

 peonies had ever been used as a decoration 

 for big Chicago business buildings. 



Mr. Cooper is not stopping with decorating 

 the Chicago terminal of the Northwestern, but 

 at the invitation and with the full cooperation 

 of the officials of the company, he is placing 

 the blooms from Kenosha in every station along 

 the road from Milwaukee to Chicago. Two 

 thousand of the blooms are to be placed in the 

 station at Milwaukee and a smaller number in 

 stations at Evanston, Highland Park, Glencoe, 

 Waukegan, Lake Forest, and, of course, Kenosha. 

 More than 10,000 of the earliest of the blooms of 

 the Cooper farm are being used in developing the 

 eighty miles of peonies along a great railway 

 system between the two great cities. 



Kenosha is not to lose out on account of 

 the lavish decorations which Mr. Cooper arranged 

 today, as the thirteen acres of peonies out on the 

 Cooper road are Jiist coming into bloom and there 

 win be a wonderful sight for Mr. Cooper's 

 neighbors In Kenosha within the next few days. 

 The scores of varieties will soon be in full bloom 

 and it is expected that thousands of people 

 will be attracted to Kenosha to view the unusual 

 sight. 



It might be said in passing that peonies 

 retailed at $1.50 a dozen today and that Mr. 

 Cooper's contribution to put the breath of the 

 peonies into the rather monotonous life of 

 travelers represented an expenditure of some- 

 thing like $10,000. 



SEED ANALYSTS AND SEEDSMEN. 



(Continued from page 111.) 



associations accept the courteous invita- 

 tion of the analysts' association to at- 

 tend its meetings would be exceedingly 

 valuable to the members of the seed 

 trade. Consequently this association 

 was represented at the meeting of the 

 seed analysts at Toronto in December 

 last by its counsel, Curtis Nye Smith, 

 and several members of our association. 

 It is, of course, impractical to review 

 the many novel and valuable sugges- 

 tions in seed testing and kindred sub- 

 jects brought forth by the numerous 

 papers read at the convention. The 

 chairman, therefore, can only suggest 

 to the members that they would find it 

 of great profit to themselves to obtain 

 copies of the reports of the addresses 

 given on these technical subjects, which, 

 it is understood, can be obtained from 

 the secretary of the analysts' associa- 

 tion by the payment of a small cost fee. 



Prospective Legislation. 



The subject of the most vital interest 

 to our associations, as it apparently is 

 to the analysts' association itself, ap- 

 pears to be prospective seed legislation. 

 The report of the chairman of the leg- 

 islative committee of the analysts gave 

 at great length the past year's work 

 and included recommendations for 

 further legislation, which should be 



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