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A Hot Weather Cool Window That Has Been Attracting Much Attention for a Kansas City Florist. 



Wednesday afternoon, is one of the at- 

 tractions of AOnneapolis. The ladies' 

 trip to St. Paul, Friday, starting at 

 0:15 a. m. instead of 10 a. m., as men- 

 tioned in the program, will be made 

 by tPoMey instead of automobiles. On 

 arrival in St. Paul the visitors will be 

 taken in automobiles on a trip through 

 the city and its surroundings, returning 

 to Hotel Radisson, Minneapolis, at 5 p. 

 m. The St. Paul boys are making every 

 endeavor to ensure that this day shall 

 be a red letter one. 



"Tonka Bay, where the outing will 

 be held, is a lovely place, and nothing 

 will be left undone which will in any 

 way contribute to the pleasure and com- 

 fort of the guests. 



"The bowlers have been well pro- 

 vided for; fourteen of the best alleys in 

 the country, centrally located. 



"The local committees, headed by 

 Vice-president Wirth, have worked hard 

 on the preparations for the convention, 

 and deserve every success. It will not 

 be their fault if the 1913 convention 

 does not pass as one of the most en- 

 joyable and instructive in the history 

 of the society." 



LADIES' S. A. F. 



Members of the Ladies' Society of 

 American Florists will find the secre- 

 tary at Committee Boom D, Convention 

 hall, office open all the week of August 

 19 to 23. Annual meeting Wednesday, 

 August 20) at 10 a. m., in Committee 

 Room D. Eeception at Hotel Radisson, 

 Thursday evening, August 21, 8:30. A 

 meeting of officers and board of direct- 



ors is called for Tuesday evening, Hotel 

 Radisson. Menil.ers pleaj^o wear your 

 badge pins. 



Mrs. Chas. H. Maynard, Sec 'y. 



AMEBICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



The board of directors of the Ameri- 

 can Carnation Society will hold its sum- 

 mer meeting at Minneapolis, Minn., on 

 Thursday morning, August 21, in Com- 

 mittee Room B of the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion hall. All members of the society 

 who are in attendance at the conven- 

 tion are invited to this meeting. The 

 meeting will be called at 9 a. m. Mem- 

 bers are requested to assemble promptly 

 at that time, as there are a number of 

 meetings of different societies to be 

 held during the morning and each must 

 hold its meeting during the allotted 

 time. R. T. Brown, Pres. 



A. F. ,T. Baiir, Sec V. 



PARCEL POST FOUND WANTING. 



A deficiency in the present parcel 

 post system, which is quite a serious 

 one to florists in some places, has been 

 pointed out by John Tenbrook, of Glen- 

 wood Springs, Colo. The present regu- 

 lations do not allow the mailing of 

 packages at depots, or on trains. This 

 often proves a hardship to those who 

 arc a long distance from the postoffice 

 but near to a railway station. "It is 

 extremely inconvenient," says Mr. 

 Tenbrook, "for many pet^le to go to 

 the postoffice with perishable cut flow- 

 ers, and many times it can not be done 

 at all. They could, however, mail them 

 on trains and get them off on time. 



We can see no reason why we can not 

 mail packages at depot mail boxes or at 

 trains just as well as to go twenty 

 blocks to the postoffice. ' ' 



Such a provision would certainly be a 

 saver of time and labor to some florists, 

 not to 8|>eak of its great convenience. 

 By the time that the parcel post has 

 been well tried out, perhaps this fea- 

 ture will have been added. 



FUCHSIAS AND HIBISCUS. 



1 am sending you some leaves of 

 fuchsias and hibiscus and should like 

 to have you tell me what is the trou- 

 ble with them. They are in the palm 

 room and get no sun, but good light. 

 The soil, I believe, is all right, and 

 so is the watering. There is no heat 

 in the house, ami the thermometer 

 drops to 48 or 50 degrees nearly every 

 night. In the daytime the tempera- 

 ture is as high as 8.5 degrees. A. F. 



A palm house is hardly a suitable 

 place for the fuchsias and hibiscus. 

 An ordinary greenhouse, with stronger 

 light, would suit them much better. It 

 is an advantage to the fuchsias to give 

 them some shade, but they succeed 

 best in a house with plenty of ventila- 

 tion on all the time. They also need 

 a copious water supply and plenty of 

 feeding. In a ])alm house, constantly 

 shaded, both these and the hibiscus will 

 become drawn and weakly, C. W, 



Denver, Colo. — C. A. Benson has 

 moved from I^owell boulevard to 2650 

 Soath Grant street. 



