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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Januabt 31, 1907. 



sale houses in Canada, has a cinch and 

 looks it. He is a young man of great 

 ambition and energy and speaks enthusi- 

 astically of the future of the cut flower 

 business there. 



William P. Craig and his new fern 

 were both impressive and have both 

 come to stay for many a year, we hope. 



Richard Witterstaetter grows more 

 Aristocratic every year. His exhibits 

 were centers of interest. 



Harry Bunyard felt the influence of 

 the "sozodont" in the air and kept his 

 companions merry. 



Some of the Chicago ladies put the 

 surplus wealth of their worser halves into 

 Canadian furs, a wise and unregrettable 

 decision. The new secretary of the 

 S. A. F. said his year's salary was large- 

 ly provided for in this practical way and 

 George Asmus thinks furs are better and 

 safer any day than diamonds. 



Late trains were the fashion last week. 

 Strange to say the train from Philadel- 

 phia was on time and Boston five hovirs 

 behind. 



The consensus of opinion is that this 

 was the best convention in the history of 

 the Carnation Society. So say all of us 

 and "God save the King." 



J. Austin Shaw. 



MR. WARD'S ADDRESS. 



[The reply to the Lientenaut-Governor's ad- 

 dress of welcome to the American ('arnntioii 

 Society, at Toronto, January 23, 1907, by Chas. 

 Willis Ward, of Queens, N. Y.] 



That which impresses Americans most 

 when they consider their Canadian neigh- 

 bors is the vastness of the still undevel- 

 oped resources of Canada. 



Some of Canada's Resources. 



From the Atlantic to Lake Winnipeg, 

 and from the northern boundary of Lake 

 Superior to near the southern shore of 

 Hudson bay, are still standing countless 

 thousands of millions of valuable tim- 

 bered forests, and the same is true along 

 the western borders of the Rocky moun- 

 tains, among the Selkirks and bordering 

 the Pacific ocean from Vancouver north- 

 ward to Alaska. While I have no figures 

 to support the assertion, I will risk the 

 opinion that Canada has today ten times 

 the area standing in original forests 

 than now remains in the United States, 

 and the day is not far distant when the 

 largest proportion of the timber con- 

 sumed in the United States must of 

 necessity be drawn from Canadian for- 

 ests. 



Again, Canada has almost exhaustlesa 

 deposits of both anthracite, bituminous 

 and splint- coals, the extent of which 

 have not yet been determined, but which 

 may be fairly said to reach along the 

 base of the Rocky mountains from the 

 northern border of the United States 

 well up into the Saskatchewan region 

 and possibly to the shores of the Arctic 

 ocean. 



Your grazing lands extend from the 

 western line of your midcontinental tim- 

 ber belt to the Rocky mountains, and 

 from the northern line of Minnesota 

 northward almost to the region of per- 

 petual snow. And a large proportion of 

 these grazing lands are especially 

 adapted to grain raising and give as 

 rich crops as were ever garnered from 

 the richest grain raising districts of In- 

 diana, Illinois, Minnesota and the Da- 



Charlcs Willis Ward. 



kotas in- their palmiest days, and Canada 

 is rapidly becoming the granary of thu 

 American continent. Then, too, a large 

 proportion of the agricultural lands lyinjr 

 between the Muskoka lake district and 

 the Atlantic ocean are particularly 

 adapted to the raising of wheat, barley 

 and oats and serve to lend additional 

 importance to Canada's immense grain 

 productiveness; and the same can bf 

 said of a large proportion of the for- 

 ested area lying between the Selkirk 

 range and the Pacific ocean. 



A considerable portion of your land-; 

 lying along the borders of the United 

 States are well adapted to the raisint; 

 of apples, pears, plums and cherries, so 

 that the Canadian people need not suffer 

 for the want of wholesome, home-growii 

 fruits. 



Floriculture. 



Canadian florists have already made 

 their mark as expert growers of green 

 house products and on no part of the 

 American continent are better and more 

 perfect roses, carnations, chrysanthe- 

 mums and violets produced than are 

 grown by the leading florists of Toronto 

 and its contiguous territory; and it has 

 always been a pleasure for the members 

 of the American Carnation Society and 

 other kindred bodies to have with them 

 their brother Canadian florists, as they 

 have found them to be gentlemen well 

 schooled in their profession and well 

 fitted to give practical and valuable ad- 

 vice. 



American Breeders' Association. 



It has just been my pleasure to at- 

 tend the sessions of the American Breed- 

 ers ' Association held last week at Co- 

 lumbus, Ohio, where during a period of 

 five days I was called upon to preside at 

 numerous sessions of its plant breeding 

 section, and I can assure you Canadians, 

 that we consider among our most val- 

 uable members the representatives of 

 your different experiment stations, who 

 have proven themselves to be among the • 

 most enthusiastic of our members and 

 who have demonstrated their fitness to 

 hold their positions by showing us the 

 immensely practical results that have 

 been secured in their experimental work. 

 And they are now working hand and 

 glove with the experimenters of the 

 United States for the purpose of im- 

 proving all horticultural products, as 

 well as all branches of the animal rais- 

 ing industry; and I can assure you that 

 the joint efforts of the practical experi- 

 menters of the two nations will certainly 

 produce better results far more rapidly 

 than if either nation attempted to go it 

 alone. 



The Gtnadian People. 



When we come to compare the people 

 of Canada with those of the United 

 States, we find them to be practically 

 of the same type and practically of the 

 same origin. They are essentially Amer- 

 ican, each as much as the other. They 

 are a vigorous, virile and energetic race, 

 the result of the development of the 

 human family upon this vast American 

 continent. And I believe them to be 

 practically the same people throughout, 

 actuated by the same high ideals of 

 brotherhood, honesty and fair dealing 

 and both nations bent upon the develop- 

 ment of our continental resources to the 

 utmost. Our continent is a vast and 

 fertile one. Its natural resources are 

 not yet fully understood, and perhaps are 

 not to be fully measured for centuries 

 to come. 



