Apbil 5, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



1405 



They seemed to have some nasty idea 

 about carvin' us up into individual por- 

 tions, if they could ever lay their claws 

 on us, and we didn't like it. 



' ' The hotel accommodations was miser- 

 able, too; sometimes there was a rock 

 to crawl under, and sometimes there 

 wasn't, and I must say that after eatin' 

 dry flour and tea for a week or two we 

 both got pretty tired o' the bill o' fare. 



"I must say, too, that Johnson began 

 to complain of his chilblains most out- 

 rageous; he says if you give him his 

 choice between chilblains and bubonic 

 plague he'll take the plague every time. 

 I told him, soothin' like, that the plague 

 'd be fatal, and he says that's why he 

 prefers it to chilblains. He seemed 

 bloomin' vexed, too, along of a snow 

 leopard that kep' hangin' around tryin' 

 to rush us when we wasn't lookin'. He 

 says those chaps in London seemed to 

 expect two much for two pound ten a 

 week. ' ' 



"Well," remarked the propagator, 

 solemnly, "it seems to me he was en- 

 titled to make a kick. But wasn't there 

 nothing but rocks and savages?" 



' * There was, ' ' returned Jaggs, with 

 feeling, "there was mountains and rag- 

 in' torrents, and extinct volcanoes, and 

 a whole mess o' wolves that give us a 

 circus performance every night. When 

 the leopard wasn't on duty the wolves 

 was. I s'pose they thought a brace of 

 nice, juicy plant collectors was a real 

 treat. 



* ' Johnson said arter all he felt sorry 

 for them poor wolves; we wasn't neither 

 of us in prime condition, and two chaps 

 like us wouldn't go far in that bunch, 

 even if they made a fair divvy. I didn't 

 like his way of lookin' at it, but then 

 the poor fellow seemed low in his mind. 

 He kept talkin' about all the plant col- 

 lectors he'd known that was drowned 

 in shipwrecks, and eat by crockydiles, 

 and bit by cobras, and done up by 

 cholery and cannibals; you'd have 

 thought me and him was the only chaps 

 left in the business, and he didn't seem 

 to think we was extra salubrious. When 

 it came to shakin' hands with calamity, 

 Johnson was all to the mustard. 



"Well, as I was sayin', we kept cir- 

 clin' around over the rocks and snow, 

 never knowin' whether we'd bring out 

 at Omaha or the North Pole; we'd lost 

 count of dates and about all we thought 

 of was takin' plenty of exercise and 

 keepin' a few laps ahead of the native 

 population. Johnson reckoned that if it 

 kept up much longer he'd be ready to 

 sympathize with one o' them Standard 

 Oil chaps dodgin* a subpoena server. 



"One day we was restin' a bit on the 

 side of one o ' them mountains ; nothink 

 but snow and rocks and more mountains, 

 as far as we could see. There was a 

 precipice in front and how we was goin' 

 to climb down we didn't know. We 

 was standin' on the snow, just lookin' 

 around, when I hears a stone rattle 

 down, and there above us was six of 

 them savages with their carvin' knives 

 ready, tryin' to sneak up behind us! 

 And what struck me as bein' quite a 

 joke on them natives, there was a pack 

 o* wolves, thirty or forty, sneakin' up 

 behind, tryin ' to corner them ! ' ' 



Jaggs stopped to fill his pipe, after 

 demanding a broom straw to improve 

 its drawing qualities. 



"But you couldn't get away down 

 the precipice, ' ' said the fireman anxious- 



"That's precisely what Johnson says 



Egg-Shaped Receptacle for Lily of the Valley. 



to me," continued Jaggs. "We made 

 a rush forward, and the next thing we 

 know that there snow field was slidin' 

 down hill like shootin' the chutes. I 

 see a big ravine with a ragin' torrent at 

 the bottom, but we took it like a bird, 

 and after that I didn't know nothink 

 for a while. The next thing I know 

 I hear Johnson askin' if any gent 'ad 

 come across his collar button, and a big 

 red-headed Scotchman pulls me out of a 

 mess o' snow and tells me I was tres- 

 passin' on private property. Say, I 

 reckon me and Johnson busted all the 

 speed limits for sure on that trip. ' ' 



"And where were ye?" asked Davie, 

 sympathetically. 



"Oh, somewhere in the suburbs o' 

 China, ' ' responded Jaggs, carelessly. 

 "That wasn't nothink to what come 

 afterwards, gettin' down to the coast. 

 Why—" 



The door opened and the boss looked 

 in, remarking cheerfully: "It's about 

 time you chaps turned in," and the de- 

 serted potting shed was soon left to the 

 lonesome night man and the sympathetic 

 terrier. 



PHILADELPHIA SPRING SHOW. 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 ciety's spring show was held in its home. 

 Broad street, near Locust, on Tuesday, 

 Wednesday and Thursday of last week. 

 The array of blooming plants was a 

 feature. The specimen azaleas, bougain- 

 villeas and spiraeas showed admirable 

 culture. A handsome specimen genista 

 was declared the finest plant on exhibi- 

 tion. The beds of hyacinths in variety. 



grown in pots and set in moss, com- 

 peting for the special prize, were very 

 effective. There were some well grown 

 calla lilies with a profusion of bloom, 

 many well grown Easter lilies, evidently 

 from selected bulbs, and all varieties of 

 bulbous stock. Geraniums were shown 

 in quantity, and, from out of town, a 

 choice collection of orchids and a few 

 new carnations. 



The following were the principal 

 prize winners: John Hobson, gardener 

 to Edward A. Schmidt, Radnor; William 

 Robertson, gardener to John W. Pepper, 

 Jenkintown; Samuel Batchelor, gardener 

 to C. B. Newbold, Jenkintown; Joseph 

 Hurley, gardener to James W. Paul, Jr., 

 Radnor; John McCleary, gardener to 

 Mrs. R, J. C. Walker, Germantown, Phil- 

 adelphia; John Hedland, gardener to 

 Mrs. W. L.. Elkins, Elkins Park; Fred 

 Huggler, gardener to George Vaux, Bryn 

 Mawr; Thomas J. Holland, gardener to 

 H. B. Rosengarten, Malvern; William 

 Kleinheinz, gardener to P. A. B. Wid- 

 ener, Ogontz; Daniel Neely, gardener to 

 Craige Lippincott, Meadowbrook; A. Q. 

 Williams, gardener to Samuel T. Bodine, 

 Villa Nova; John H. Dodds, gardener to 

 H. S. Hopper, Narberth; Arthur Mal- 

 lon, Jr., gardener to Edgar T. Scott, 

 Lansdowne; F. W. Barclay, gardener to 

 C. A. Griscom, Haverford; James Cole- 

 man, gardener to W. Lippincott, Bryn 

 Mawr; Thomas Gaynor, gardener to 

 Mrs. John B. Stetson, Ashbourne. 



A certificate of merit was awarded 

 to H. R. Carlton, Willoughby, O., for 

 new violet, Governor Herrick. This is 

 a large single violet and has proved in 

 this exhibition to be a good keeper. A 



