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July 28, 1904. 



case you have to grow wbat is wanted. 

 With us the Marie Louise is the more 

 profitable but, as I say, it may not be 

 in your locality. Therefore, if I did not 

 know for which there is the greater de- 

 mand and which does the better in your 

 soil I would plant equally of both kinds, 

 keeping an accurate account and the end 

 of the season will tell you definitely and 

 without guesswork the kind that you want 

 to grow the following season. 



In answer to the second question, here 

 again there is no telling, as so much 

 depends on the care given them, exposure 

 of house and the thousand and one de- 

 tails that go to make a good crop. Fifty 

 flowers per plant is considered a good 

 average for any kind, but this can be 

 made more or less, as I have said, by 

 the care taken and the size of the plants. 



R. E. Shuphelt. 



CONVENTION EXHIBITORS. 



The following are the exhibitors who 

 had, up to July 25, -engaged space in 

 the trade display at the St. Louis con- 

 vention : 



Class A — Plants: Lemuel Ball, Phil- 

 adelphia; A. G. Greiner, St. Louis, Mo.; 

 Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago; Geo. A. 

 Kuhl, Pekin, 111.; Chas. D. Ball, Phila- 



delphia; Heniy A. Dreer, Phila- 

 delphia; J. A. Peterson, Cincinnati; Geo. 

 Wittbold Co., Chicago; Imager & Hurrell, 

 Summit, N. J. ; A. C. Oelschig, Savannah, 

 Ga.; Jos. Heacock, "Wyacote, Pa.; Sie- 

 bredit & Son, New Rochelle, N. Y. ; John 

 Scott, Brooklyn; A. Jablonsky, St. 

 Louis. 



Class B — Cut Flowers: H. A. Dreer, 

 Philadelphia. 



Class C — Boilers: Kroeschell Bros. Co., 

 Chicago; Herendeen Mfg. Co., Bloora- 

 ington. 111. 



Class D — Appliances: Ionia Pottery 

 Co., Ionia, Mich.; Quaker City Machine 

 Co., Richmond Ind.; J. G. & A. Esler, 

 Saddle River, N. J.; Jno. C. Moninger 

 Co., Chicago; The King Construc- 

 tion Co., North Tonawarida, N. Y. ; A. 

 Dietsch Co., Chicago; Niagara Cement & 

 Concrete Co., North Tonawanda, N. Y.; 

 Lord & Burnham Co., Irvington-on-Hud- 

 son, N. Y.; H. Thaden, Atlanta, Ga. 



Class E— Supplies: M. Rice & Co., 

 Philadelphia; H. Bayarsdorfer & Co., 

 Philadelphia; Lion & Wertheimer, New 

 York; Reed & Keller, Nevv York; Samuel 

 S. Pennock, Philadelphia ; Adolph Brix, 

 St. Louis; L. Baumann & Co., Chicago; 

 Thos. Collins, Hinsdale, Mass.; Schloss 

 Bros., New York; Sperry Mfg. Co., Owa- 



tonna, Minn.; J. W. Ij'efton Mfg. Co., 

 Chicago; Hummell & Downing Co., Mil- 

 waukee; Dayton Paper Novelty Co., Day- 

 ton, O.; C. S. Ford, Philadelphia; The 

 Roseville Pottery Co., Zanesville, O.; Ed. 

 Jansen, New York; L. B. Brague, Hins- 

 dale, Mass. 



Class F — Bulbs: Vaughan's Seed 

 Store, Chicago; J. A. McDowell, City of 

 Mexico. 



Class G— Wm. Simpson & Sons, Phil- 

 adelphia. 



Others have engaged space for signs. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Important to Exhibitors. 



Intending exhibitors at the St. Louis 

 convention are requested to read care- 

 fully the revised rules adopted by the 

 executive board last March, whereby all 

 exhibitors are required to make special 

 entry with the superintendent of such 

 novelties in plants, flowers, supplies or 

 other material, new devices and improve- 

 ments in apparatus, as they desire to 

 have passed upon by the judges. 



The judges will not report upon or 

 make awards to any exhibits where the 

 owner has neglected to make proper 

 entry. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



M. H. Walsh, Woods Hole, Mass., sub- 

 mits for registration rambler rose Felic- 

 ity, parentage Crimson Rambler x Gen. 

 Jacqueminot; flowers very double, bright 

 scarlet-crimson, one and one-half to two 

 inches in diameter, borne in clusters as 

 in Crimson Rambler; vigorous grower 

 and may properly be described as a 

 Jacqueminot Rambler; hardy at Woods 

 Hole. Wm. J. Stewart, Secretary. 



JOSEPH TAILBY. 



Hybrid Cafla Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. 



Among the New England florists, few 

 names are better known or more respect- 

 ed than that of Joseph Tailby, of Welles- 

 ley. Mr. Tailby is an Englishman by 

 birth, having first seen the light near 

 Market Harbor, Leicestershire. His first 

 start was made at the Hamberstone 

 Nurseries near Leicester, owned by 

 George Walker. From there he went as 

 foreman to Captain Boulther, Spring- 

 field House, Kuowle, Warwickshire, later 

 going as head gardener to Geo. W. Dewi- 

 er, also of Knowle. His next position 

 was with the still celebrated house of 

 James Carter & Co., London, with whom 

 he stayed until he essayed to try his luck 

 in the Jvew World. 



Lauding in New York in 1865, Mr. 

 Tailby drifted to the establishment of 

 the late C. J. Powers, of South Framing- 

 ham, Mass. Dahlias at this time, of the 

 show and fancy varieties, were becoming 

 popular in America. Dry roots import«i 

 at 3 and 6 cents each from England were 

 propagated for all they were worth, and 

 small plants were readily disposed of at 

 $1) per dozen. While at South Framing- 

 ham, Mr. Tailby received some tempting 

 offers to go to positions in New York 

 and farther south, but liked Massachu- 

 setts too well to leave it. 



In 1868 he started in business on his 

 own account at Wellesley, not far from 

 his present location. He started with 

 eighteen hotbed sashes. In those days 

 verbenas retailed at $1.50 per dozen and 

 tomatoes at $1. Potatoes, too, were on 

 the boom at this time. Some of Bree- 

 see's varieties were secured and cuttings 



