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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



August 29, 1907. 



The Boston Landscape Qass. 



It was with the view of bringing the 

 best young gardeners to the front, en- 

 couraging them to take their places as 

 leaders in horticulture, and showing them 

 and qualifying them for the opportuni- 

 ties open to them, that, about a year ago, 

 the Boston Landscape Class was organ- 

 ized. The class numbered about sixty 

 members, mostly working gardeners — 

 many of them head men, filling positions 

 of responsibility, others assistants. It 

 met twice a week, with an average at- 

 . tendance of about forty. 



The subjects taken up the first year 



included geometry, topographical draw- 

 ing, projection, perspective, grades, har- 

 mony of color, landscape composition 

 and the use of the level. The instruc- 

 tion was supplemented by field days for 

 outdoor demonstration. 



It is intended to extend the course over 

 three years, in which time the members 

 should become thoroughly acquainted 

 with the practice and tlieory of general 

 landscape gardening. 



The better class of landscape garden- 

 ers or architects will find the members 

 of the Boston Landscape Class in no 

 way opposed to them, but by their study 

 - better able to understand each other and 

 cooperate to the nuitual advantage of 

 both when their work brings them to- 

 gether. At the same time, the gardener 

 who has thus become familiar with both 

 the practice and the theory of landscape 

 work will never give place to the book- 

 made adventurer of the average super- 

 ficial and impractical, two or sometimes 

 three-year landscape college course of 

 the present time. 



SpringAeld, Mass. — In a recent hail 

 storm many panes of glass were broken 

 in Robert Day's greenhouses and many 

 plants were injured. 



CANADIAN HORTICULTURISTS. 



The tenth annual convention of the Ca- 

 nadian Horticultural Association is in 

 session Wednesday and Thursday of this 

 week, in the Board of Trade building, 

 London, Ont. The following is the pro- 

 gram of essays to be read : 



Wednesday Eveviaf^* 



"Up-to-Date Methods of Conducting a 

 Commercial Florist's Estabnshment, ' *^y 

 J. W. Duggan, managing executor, H. 

 Dale estate, Brampton, Ont. 



* * Plants versus Flowers for Holiday 

 Trade," by Thomas Manton, Eglidton, 

 Ont. m 



' * Experience with Lilies for Easter 

 Trade," by A. Gilchrist, Toronto Junc- 



' ' The Latest Carnation Introductions, ' ' 

 by J. H. Dunlop, Toronto. 



Thursday Forenoon. 



* ' How to Make a Flower Show Most 

 Attractive to the General Public and of 

 Most Benefit to the Trade," by Charles 

 Chambers, assistant park commissioner, 

 Toronto. 



' ' How to Grow Exhibition Flowers of 

 Chrysanthemums, ' ' by Thomas McHugh, 

 Forest and Stream Club, Dorval, Que. 



' ' Wholesalers Retailing, from a I^tail 

 Standpoint, "by M. E. Moore, Toronto. 



"What Is the Best Way to Appease 

 the Voracity of the Storeman for 

 Greens?" by D. J. Sinclair, Toronto. 



Thursday Evening. 



' * TTp-to-Date Retail Management, ' ' by 

 Mr. Brown, manager of The Rosery, To- 

 ronto. 



' ' What Is the Best Way to Get atJi*©*" ""^^er enduring. I 

 ist of Production of Greenhouse au(l\small, so will 



Cost 



Stock ? ' ' by William Gammage, London. 

 ' ' What Are the Advantages of Con- 

 nected Houses over Single Houses?" by 

 George Robinson, Outremont, Que., and 

 F. R. Pierson, Tarrytown, N. Y. 



THE COST OF PRODUCTION. 



By Wm. Qammacjk, ok London, Ont. 



[Head before the Cauadlan Horticultural Asbo- 

 clatlon. In couventlon at London, Ont., August 

 2», 1907.] 



The subject, "What Is the Best Way 

 to Get at the Cost of Production of 

 Greenhouse Stqck?" or the "cost 

 price," is one that, probably, ought 

 more properly to have been assigned to 

 an accountant. 



First we may ask, "What is cost 

 price?" It is an important business de- 

 tail. What is business? Business is u 

 warfare. It is a hard, constant fight to 

 the finish. The moment a contestant en- 

 ters the field of commerce, no matter 

 what the line, he is challenged by a 

 host of competitors. All his movements 

 are watched and opposed by those al- 

 ready in possession of the field. He must 

 fight to" live. He must conquer to suc- 

 ceed. Business is a game wl;iich men 

 play, revel in, live for, without rest or 

 feeling of monotony for decades. It is 

 a game' which develops men and builds 

 up industries and nations as a by-product 

 of the playing. It is the sj)irit of rivalry 

 which sharpens a man *s intellect and 

 spurs on his energy, and unless a man is 

 possessed of this energy, of this desire 

 to overcome, to surpass, to stand first 

 in his line, he can never hope to carry 

 the day. He will never succeed in the 

 fight. 



Know Your Business. 



Too many work without }>lans — they 

 never see the vision. Their business 

 structures arc poor and shapeless and 

 If the plans are crude 

 be the results. The 

 great thing, therefore, is to plan big 

 and broad and high and secure. Keep 

 the plans ever before your eyes, work 

 close to the specifications and keep build- 

 igg your business system steadily and 



Crotons in the Show House at H. A. Dreer's, Rtvcrton, During Convention Week. 



