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The Weekly Florists* Review^ 



653 



sum of $10,000 together to perpetuate 

 the care of the ground surrounding the 

 monument of Wm. McKinley. It's a 

 chance that many a trade or profession 

 would be glad of. It was eloquently set 

 forth by Mr, Altick, of Dayton. It takes 

 but a trifle from each and we shall ever 

 be remembered. 



In conclusion, Mr. Editor, I have tried 

 to be serious in these rambling notes, 

 although there were plenty of jokes, anec- 

 dotes and laughable incidents in the 

 course of this enjoyable convention. There 

 is only one I remember at this moment, 

 and it illustrates the necessity of a 

 knowledge of church etiquette. It ap- 

 pears that Mr. Eingier, of Chicago, with 

 a friend, having no other place to go 

 Sunday before the convention, entered 

 an Episcopal church. A vestryman 

 handed him a beautifully bound prayer 

 book. Mr. E. thanked him and put it in 

 his pocket, and the same afternoon dis- 

 patched it to Chicago as a souvenir of 

 St. Louis to his wife. Later he was no- 

 tified that the good book was only for 

 his use during service. The book was re- 

 turned from Chicago and all is well. 



St. Louis boys one and all without dis- 

 tinction, you worked hard. You did well 

 and succeeded in making the convention 

 one long to be remembered with pleas- 

 ure. We thank you all. 



William Scott. 



CONVENTION NOTES. 



In his address President Breitmeyer 

 deplored the fact that discussion had 

 been more and more limited at recent 

 conventions. It must have been a pleas- 

 ure to him that the debates on the af- 

 fairs of the society and the discussions 

 on the essays were never more animated 

 than at St. Louis. Little was left to 

 be desired in this direction. 



The heavy rains were too much for the 

 roof of the exhibition hall. The leaks 

 did considerable damage to S. S. Pen- 

 nock's ribbon display. 



Souvenirs were plentiful. Pennock dis- 

 tributed pencils, Mjoninger had match 

 safes. Herenden paper weights, Eeed & 

 Keller a card with a girl dressed in a 

 skirt like a folding Christmas bell, and 

 there were many more. 



G. M. Kellogg said that tobacco stems 

 are hard to get since the trust bought up 

 all the cigar shops and he put a question 

 in the box as to the best substitute for use 

 in fumigating. Several members related 

 varying experiences in the use of nico- 

 tine extracts and J. T. D. Fulmer said 

 that the tops of cannas cut off in the fall 

 and dried had proved a satisfactory fu- 

 migant. 



Albert M. Herr noted the absence of 

 those recognized as carnation growers 

 and put this question in the box: 

 "Would it be advisable to change the 

 date of meeting to suit the convenience 

 of carnation growers, August being one 

 of their busiest months!" Opinion was 

 unanimous that it wouldn't. 



The inscription under the group photo- 

 graph in last week's issue, "The Men 

 Who Made the Convention," was a typo- 

 graphical error. It should have been 

 "The Men Who Made the Exhibition," 

 but it wasn't so far wrong, after all, 

 considering the important factor the 

 trade display has been in recent years. 



Among the cannas at the World's 

 Fair, Jean Tissot, exhibited by Henry A. 

 Dreer, Philadelphia, attracts instant at- 

 tention. It is a dark foliaged sort, of 

 rather less than medium height, the flow- 

 er of a brilliant scarlet crimson, and 



Exhibit of Reed & Keller, New York, at the Convention. 



habit excellent. It seems to be a real 

 advance in this important class. 



In the Horticulture building at the 

 Fair the only important cut flower dis- 

 play during convention week was that of 

 Arthur Cowee, Berlin, N. Y., whose col- 

 lection of gladioli was a revelation to the 

 visitors. 



The St. Louis florists are entitled to 

 much credit for the admirable arrange- 

 mants made for the meeting and the com- 

 fort of the visitors. The only St. Louis- 

 an who failed to do his duty was the 

 weather man. 



The convention souvenir, prepared un- 

 der the direction of J. J. Beneke, was a 

 remarkably handsome example of fine 

 printing as well as a compendium of use- 

 ful information. 



The glass mending device shown by 

 the C. C. PoUworth Co. promises to be 

 useful. They have patented it. 



Nearly all the exhibits were sold to 

 local florists. 



HAIL ASSOCIATION. 



At a meeting of the directors of the 

 Florists' Hail Association at St. Louis 

 last week, E. G. Hill, Bichmond, Ind., 

 was elected president, H. H. Bitter vice- 

 president. J. G. Esler secretary and A. 

 M. Hcrr treasurer. The directors elected 

 were J. T. Temple, J. F. Wilcox and 

 J. C. Vaughan. 



JOSEPH R. FREEMAN. 



Joseph B. Freeman, of Washington 

 D. C, arrived in America July 28, 1868 

 after nearly five years of apprentice 

 ship under the celebrated Michael Saul 

 fruit specialist and writer for Gar 

 deners' Chronicle, of London, England 

 He at once took charge as greenhouse 

 foreman at the establishment of the late 

 John Saul, where he stayed until Sep- 

 tember, 1872. He was then at the 

 U. S. Agricultural Department for about 

 two years, superintendent of the beauti- 

 ful Oak Hill cemetery for a term of 

 years, under the late W. H. Saunders, 

 and late of Bonnie Brae cemetery, in 

 Baltimore County. Maryland, leaving the 

 latter place in 1880 to start in business 

 in Washington, D. C, where he is now 

 located. He has quite extensive green- 

 houses, where both plants and cut flow- 



ers are grown, and conducts a retail cut 

 flower and plant business at 612 Thir- 

 teenth street N. W., where many florists 

 who attended the Washington conven- 

 tion of the S. A. F. had the pleasure of 

 seeing him, and no doubt carried with 

 them pleasant recollections of their 

 visits. Mr. Freeman is now 54 years of 

 age and is still able to put characteris- 

 tic energy into anything he undertakes, 

 is well known by the general public in 

 his adopted city and is particularly 

 proud of the good will of the members 

 of the Washington Florists' Club, whose 

 president he has been for two terms. He 

 is naturally averse to office-holding and 

 needed some persuasion to allow his 

 name to be used at St. Louis, where he 

 was elected vice-president of the S. A. F. 



MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT. 



BY JOHN A. PETTIGRKW, BOSTON, MASS. 



[Rend before the Society of Americaa Florists 

 at St. Louis, August 18, 1904.] 



Looking at Central park, New York, 

 as it is today, and taking into consider- 

 ation the fact that the first steps to con- 

 demn the land for park purposes were 

 taken in 1853, we cannot fail to be im- 

 pressed with the immense advantage 

 that has accrued to the city in the short 

 space of fifty-one years, and with the 

 truth that horticulture plays a very im- 

 portant part in the civic economy of the 

 United States. 



In 1882^ the New York Park Associa- 

 tion (formed because of the apathy of 

 New York in a work of such impor- 

 tance) appointed a committee to en- 

 deavor to secure an extension of New 

 York's park area. This committee pub- 

 lished a report showing the immense 

 pecuniary returns to the city in twenty- 

 five years by the construction of Central 

 park. To quote from the report: 



Parks Affect Values. 



The cost of the land taken for the Central 

 ?o''o'Vo"c']5 l«.e66.3Sl. to which mnst be added 

 J9.87.3.844 for construction. 16.500.000 for main- 

 tenance, and 120.75.1.925 for twenty-five years' 

 Interest on the Park Assessment and Improve- 

 inent Bonds, making a total cost of $4.'?.794,150. 

 I^arpe as this amount appears and undoubtedly 

 is. it Is comparatively inslgnlflcnnt In view of 

 the enormous benefit which resulted financially 

 to the city from the Improvement. The amount 

 collected in twenty-flve years on the property 

 of the three wards named (the wards con- 

 tiguous to Central park) over and above tbe 



