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AUGUST 10, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



609 



deliberations is now before you and I 

 hope will be dealt with as it deserves. 



I must also congratulate the members 

 of this association on the interest they 

 have always manifested in our meet- 

 ings. The sessions have at all times 

 been well attended, papers given an at- 

 tentive hearing, followed by animated 

 discussions, which invariably bring out 

 the best points on any subject. I would 

 ask each and every member to keep up 

 the reputation of our association, take 

 part in all debates, and if you have a 

 question you would like answered don't 

 be afraid to ask it, either verbally or 

 through the question box. It will be 

 cheerfully answered by practical men. 

 Give strict attention to business during 

 the session and the local committee will 

 see that you give strict attention to 

 pleasure during the entertaining part of 

 the program. A program has been ar- 

 ranged that I hope will prove interesting 

 and valuable to each and every one and 

 may you leave this city feeling that this 

 convention has been interesting, instruc- 

 tive and another link in the chain of 

 good-fellowship among all members of 

 the craft in our Dominion. 



JENSEN GETS PLACE. 



The West Park commissioners at Chi- 

 cago liave appointed Jens Jensen super- 

 intendent of their entire system. Mr. 

 Jensen first became connected with the 

 west parks in Chicago about twenty 

 years ago, handling the shovel and pick 

 in construction work. He stayed with 

 the parks until he became superintendent 

 of Humboldt park, where he remained 

 for a number of years, being removed 

 for political reasons. Since his retire- 

 ment he has been practicing landscape 

 architecture and has done much work in 

 the ^^cinity of Lake Geneva, which lo- 

 cality bears largely the impress of his 

 skill in the profession in which he is 

 self-educated. 



Mr. Jensen goes back to the west parks 

 free from political influence. He is prom- 

 ised a free hand in rejuvenating the sys- 

 tem, which shows the result of a number 

 of years of party domination. He may 

 be expeicted to work a great improvement 

 in horticultural as well as administrative 

 matters. 



Mr. Jensen is a native of Denmark. 

 He came of farming parents buf had a 

 horticultural education in the schools of 

 Germany and Denmark. On coming to 

 this country he was located first in the 

 south and later in the west but his resi- 

 dence has been in Chicago so many years 

 and his principal work has been here, 

 so that he may be claimed as a strictly 

 Chicago product. 



Brantford, Ont. — T. A. Ivey reports 

 trade quiet at present but that there is 

 every prospect for another good season 

 throughout Canada. 



Washington, D. C. — Kobert Bowlder 

 is very busy just now, with building 

 operations and planting. He hopes tn 

 i^et everything finished up in good shapi.' 

 hefore the convention. 



Grandville, Mich. — The Stover Floral 

 Co. reports that wet weather for almost 

 two months has seriously interfered with 

 outdoor work. The ground has seldom 

 been dry enough to cultivate and weeds 

 are flourishing. Geraniums and salvias 

 show the effect of the wet more than 

 'ither sto.-k. 



Jens Jensen. 



(Siiperliitendcnt of the West Park System. Chicago.) 



STEAMER SAILINGS. 



Those who wish to post steamer sail- 

 ings in the show window as a means of 

 securing orders for telegraphic transfer 

 to a New York correspondent, or one 

 of the firms represented on the Re- 

 view's page of Leading Retail Florists, 

 will find here the principal sailings for 

 the next two weeks: 



Aug. 12 — New York S<ititliiitniU<>ii. 



Aug. 12 — VaderlanU Antwerp. 



Aug. 12 — Lncanla Llverixxil. 



-Vug. 15— Prlnz Oscar Naples. 



Aug. 15 — K. Wilhelm II Hrenieii. 



.Vug. 16 — Noordam Kotterdnm. 



.\ug. 16 — Majestic Liverpool. 



.Vug. 17 — Moltke Iliimburg. 



.Vug. 17 — Barbarossa Krenien. 



Aug. 17 — La Bretagne Havre. 



.Vug. 18 — Cedrlc Liverpool. 



.Vug. 19 — St. Louis .Southaniptiiii. 



.Vug. 19 — Graf Waldersee . . II«tnbtirg. 



-Vug. 19 — Etrurla -Liverpool. 



.Vug. 19 — Kroonland .Antwerp. 



.Vug. 19 — Bordeaux Hiivre. 



-Vug. 22 — Fred'k der Orosse.. Bremen. 



-Vug. 2.3 — Staatendaui Kottenliini. 



Aug. 2.3— Baltic Llverp<x)l. 



.Vug. 24 — -La Savolc Havre. 



Aug. 24 — Deutschland Ilauiburp. 



We have been much pleased with the 

 Review in the past year and found it 

 very helpful in many ways. — Enoe & 

 Barney, Pierre, S. D. 



Little Rock. Ark. — J. W. Vestal & 

 Son, who had for twenty years shared 

 a store with the Hollenberg Music Co., 

 have removed to 409 ^lain street, where 

 they will have needed room. P. M. 

 Palez is in charge of the store. Three 

 additional greenhouses are being built 

 at the firm 's plant in Argentea. 



THE BERMUDA LILY CULTURE. 



The chief industry in Bermuda is lily 

 farming (Lilium longiflorum and the va- 

 riety Harrisii), although the lily dis- 

 ease has been so prevalent of late years 

 that many farmers have been compelled 

 to give up growing these plants. This 

 disease has given the British govern- 

 ment endless trouble, and nothing has 

 been discovered up to the present that 

 will effectually exterminate the disease, 

 although its ravages have been stopped 

 to a great extent by spraying with Bor- 

 deaux mixture. 



The ground is cultivated for planting 

 the bulbs in August, after having been 

 allowed to lie fallow during the summer 

 months, although in some cases 't is 

 utilized for growing melons in order to 

 keep the ground free from grass. A 

 tew years ago the experiment of grow- 

 ing tobacco for a summer crop was tried, 

 but was soon abandoned, as the grow- 

 ers asserted that the crop took more 

 nourishment from the soil than the to- 

 bacco was worth, and that they had to 

 spend all the money derived from the 

 sale of the tobacco to purchase manure 

 for the lilies. In the experimental sta- 

 tion nothing but farmyard manure was 

 used when the ground was prepared for 

 lily culture, and this consisted of as large 

 a proportion of cow manure as possible, 

 as the soil in Bermuda is sandy and por- 

 ous. 



The lilies are propagated by separating 

 the scales from the bulb, and placing 

 tliese in drills at a depth of three inches. 



