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The Florists' Review 



Mat 27. 1916, 



turist who wishes to obtain either 

 wealth or wisdom, or both — and that 

 includes about every horticulturist, does 

 it not? — will find plenty of help in 

 Bailey's cyclopedia. 



For sale by The Review on the same 

 terms as are offered by the publishers. 



Float of R. D. Baker in San Jacinto Day Parade, at Bay City, Tex. 



BAILEY'S CYCLOPEDIA, VOL. IIL 



["The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture," 

 by L. H. Bailey. Published by the Macmillan 

 Co., New York. Volume III, containing pages 

 1,201 to 1,760, fully illustrated with engravinRS 

 in the text and with full-page plates, several 

 of them colored. To be completed in sir volumes. 

 Price per volume, bound In cloth, |6.] 



The publication of the first volume of 

 Professor Bailey's new cyclopedia was 

 announced in The Review of April 9, 

 1914. About four months later, August 

 13, 1914, the completion of the second 

 volume was recorded in these columns. 

 In each case The Review's reviewer 

 made a good many complimentary re- 

 marks about the cyclopedia — not flat- 

 tering remarks, since the strongest com- 

 mendations can scarcely be said to be 

 flattering if they are carefully kept 

 well within the bounds of the truth. 

 Now the third volume, finishing the 

 first half of this big job of book-mak- 

 ing, is ready to be introduced to the 

 public. 



It would be an easy matter now, in 

 this third little speech of introduction, 

 to make a further enumeration of the 

 cyclopedia's merits, without repeating 

 any word of praise that was uttered 

 with reference to the first two volumes. 

 It would be easy to present a third and 

 brand-new list of the cyclopedia's good 

 qualities, ending with the words, "To 

 be continued when the next volume ar- 

 rives. ' ' 



But many readers might be ready 

 to say impatiently, as if trying to si- 

 lence a pertinacious book agent: "Oh, 

 yes, yes; we know something about 

 Bailey's cyclopedia. We are not so 

 ignorant as not to know how high a 

 rank it holds in the horticultural world. 

 We know that it is the oracle, the um- 

 pire, the referee in horticultural ques- 

 tions. We believe it fully justifies its 

 name, 'The Standard.* We are willing 

 to admit, if you will just cease talking, 

 that all you have said or may wish to 

 say in favor of the cyclopedia is as 

 true as gospel and as indisputable as 

 the multiplication table. But might it 

 not still be true that such books as 

 Bailey's cyclopedia are better adapted 

 for the leisurely student than for the 

 hurrying, scurrying florist, seedsman or 

 nurseryman! You cannot prove that 

 the cyclopedia would be worth its cost 

 to the practical craftsman." 



Well, it would indeed be impossible 

 to prove mathematically how much the 

 cyclopedia will be worth to each indi- 

 vidual who may purchase it, since its 

 practical value will depend largely on 

 the use that is made of it. It may be 

 worth nothing to its owner or it may 

 be worth its weight in gold. The ex- 

 tent of the aid it will render will vary 

 all the way from zero to infinity, ac- 

 cording to the degree of faithfulness 

 with which its pages are searched and 

 explored. 



But it does seem to be capable of 

 proof that the cyclopedia contains a 

 vast and conveniently arranged store 

 of the most useful sort of information 

 for anyone who will help himself to it; 

 that the books are eminently practical 

 as well as scientific and accurate. The 

 motto of the editor of the books might 

 truthfully be expressed as "Practi- 

 cality first." Therefore the horticul- 



BEVISED TEXAS PROGRAM. 



Those in charge of the program of the 

 coming convention at Fort Worth, Tex., 

 of the Texas State Florists ' Association 

 in particular and of all southern flo- 

 rists, in general, have made several 

 changes. These changes, and also the 

 important change of date from July 13 

 and 14 to July 6 and 7, are called to 

 the attention of those who have plans 

 for attending. 



President Kerr is sending out letters 

 to the presidents of all the local flo- 

 rists ' clubs in the south and to as many 

 of the members of these societies as he 

 can get in touch with, in the hope of 

 making the convention at Fort Worth 

 a meeting of florists from all over the 

 south. While it is the annual meeting 

 of the Texas florists, the emphasis is on 

 the sectional rather than state char- 

 acter of the convention, and Mr. Kerr 

 is hoping for a large attendance from 

 outside Texas. 



The revised program of the meeting 

 is as follows: 



TUESDAY, JULY 6, fl A. M. 



Meeting called to order by Vice-president 

 Baker, of Fort Worth. 



Opening invocation. 



L. J. Tackett, president of Ft. Worth Florists' 

 Club, welcomes the convention to Ft. Worth. 



Address of welcome in behalf of the city of 

 Ft. Worth, by the mayor. 



Response, by H. B. Beck. Austin, Tex. 



President Robert C. Kerr takes the chair. 



"Cooperation of the S. A. F. and the Southern 

 Florists," by Patrick Welch, president of the 

 S. A. F. 



"What We May Expect at the Frisco Cenven- 

 tion," by Dan MacRorle, vice-president of the 

 S. A. F. 



"What the Big Growers Think of the South 

 as a Market," by August Poehlmann, memljer of 

 the S. A. F. board of directors. 



"The Florists' Part In the Texas Arboretum," 

 by J. S. Kerr, Sherman, Tex. 



"The Possibilities of an Experimental Range 



New Store of A. Steffeter, on the Southwest Side of Chicago. 



