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January 31, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



783 



Our people being practically a homo- 

 jTcneous one, there can be no such race 

 differences as exist upon the European 

 continent, where several radically differ- 

 tMit types of mankind are cooped up 

 within narrow boundaries which are so 

 licnsely populated that annual migrations 

 ,,, other sections of the world are abso- 

 lutely necessary in order to even up the 

 Struggle for existence. There can be no 

 ^;uch difference in nationality as should 

 ( ause material differences between the 

 |, copies and we should live in peace and 

 harmony, free for all time from the dis- 

 cords that have perennially arisen among 

 llic densely populated nations of the Eu- 

 i,)pean continent, where the struggle for 

 existence has become so tense. 



Personal Experiences With Canadians. 



I must confess that I have a high re- 

 gard for the people of Canada, for a 

 considerable number of my own rela- 

 tives are Canadians. Then, too, I have 

 had a wide experience in the employ- 

 ment of Canadians in a practical busi- 

 ness way. In my younger days I con- 

 ducted large timber cutting operations 

 in the lower peninsula of Michigan and 

 ii large percentage of my best woodsmen 

 were Canadians. We invariably found 

 that we secured the best choppers and 

 sawyers, and the most careful and effi- 

 cient teamsters from the ranks of the 

 (Canadians who annually came to Mich- 

 igan to work in the lumber camps 

 through the winter and returned to Can- 

 ada, to care for their farms, during the 

 summer season. 



For the past twenty-five years I have 

 employed young ladies in the capacity 

 of stenographers, bookkeepers and pri- 

 vate secretaries in my office, and three 

 of the most efficient of them all were 

 Canadian girls. Each one of them won 

 my respect and esteem by the conscien- 

 tious, faithful and efficient manner in 

 which she discharged her duties, as well 

 as by the ability which she displayed in 

 her work, and I can truly say that they 

 proved particularly efficient and con- 

 genial helpers. 



A short time since I was taken ill in 

 the city of Saginaw, Michigan, and when 

 I requested my doctor to send me the 

 most efficient trained nurse he could find 

 in that city, he sent me a Canadian; and 

 he afterwards told me that the best 

 nurses that had come under his observa- 

 tion were Canadians. And a number of 

 years ago, when Mrs. Ward went through 

 a severe surgical operation and we asked 

 one of the hospitals to furnish us with 

 the most competent, conscientious and 

 careful nurse that they could find, they 

 sent us a Canadian; and that same 

 nurse went down to her death in the flood 

 at Galveston, her arms filled with little 

 children whom she was vainly trying to 

 save. 



I count among my dearest friends 

 many Canadians, and I can assure you 

 all that the people of the United States 

 hold the people of Canada in high re- 

 spect and esteem. They are glad to see 

 Canada develop and the Canadian people 

 prosper. No jealousy or envy of Cana- 

 dian prosperity exists among them and 

 they will always stand ready to greet 

 their Canadian brethren and applaud 

 their accomplishments and exploits, and 

 will always wish Canada Godspeed and 

 the maximum measure of development, 

 that she may fulfil to the fullest extent 

 her manifest destiny. I can truly say 

 that every citizen of the United States 

 will join me in an. All Iiail to Canada! 

 All hail to the Canadian people! 



R. O. King. 



And now a word to my brotlier (a :i 

 dian florists. You all of you know tha; 

 we of the United States have for manj 

 years held you in the highest e^^toe.i 

 and the members of the American Carna- 

 tion Society and the Society of Amer- 

 ican Florists, have many times welcome I 

 you heartily to their annual gatherings, 

 and we have sought to make those wel- 

 comes pleasant and instructive ones, and 

 we know that you have appreciated them, 

 for have you not in turn invited us to 

 meet with you and have you not here 

 today shown that you are capable of 

 welcoming your brethren from the 

 United States even more heartily than 

 they have hitherto welcomed you? Gen- 

 tlemen, the visiting carnationists from 

 the United States thoroughly appreciate 

 the heartiness of your greetings and they 

 will long remember this most auspicious 

 occasion. And we all of us have come 

 to the conclusion that when we decided 

 to honor our American Carnation So- 

 ciety by electing a Canadian as its pres- 

 ident, we made no mistake when we 

 named your honored and worthy towns- 

 man, John H. Dunlop. 



GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION. 



[A synopsis of a paper by R. O. King, North 

 Touuwanda. N. Y., read before the American 

 Carnation Society at the Toronto Convention.] 



During the last few years many papers 

 have been read on greenhouse construc- 

 tion. The general methods of con- 

 struction have been thoroughly described 

 and most of the growers are agreed, for 

 instance, that cypress is about the best 

 thing to use for the woodwork, that iron 

 posts, are better than wood posts, that 

 an iron gutter is better than a wood 



gutter, etc. All of these things are so 

 familiar that it is hardly worth while 

 going into further discussion about them. 

 It will, perhaps, be more interesting to 

 take up some points of greenhouse con- 

 struction which are just as important, 

 but which have not received as much at- 

 tention. For instance, the use of glass 

 up to twenty-four inches in width makes 

 a lighter and less expensive house than 

 narrow glass. The choice of locality for 

 a greenhouse plant should depend, among 

 other things, on the amount of light 

 available. The application of the scien- 

 tific principles used in the design of 

 large buildings and bridges to green- 

 house construction is something which 

 should interest the grower as well as the 

 designer. The application of these prin- 

 ciples has not been necessary in the ordi- 

 nary construction of small houses, where 

 the accumulated experience of many 

 years has been a sufficient guide. When, 

 however, it is necessary to design a house 

 unlike anything previously constructed 

 there is, of course, no experience to fall 

 back on, so a safe design can only be 

 worked out by the application of the 

 fcientific methods referred to. 



Wide Glass. 



Some years ago 16-inch glass was con- 

 sidered about the limit for greenhouse 

 construction. More recently 18-inch 

 glass has been used. In Canada a num- 

 ber of plants are built with 20-inch 

 double diamond English glass. Twenty- 

 inch glass is probably selected because 

 twenty inches square is a good size for 

 butting and it doas not exceed forty 

 united inches. In the United States, 

 where lapped glass is most generally 

 used, the size most in use is 16x24, with 



