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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



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Febbdart 20, 1908. 



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HORTICULTURISTS. 



Their Tribulations and Rewards. 



At a dinner given by the Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society, of New 

 York state, January 29, 1908, the fol- 

 lowing address was delivered by Buell 

 G. Davis, editor of the Glen Cove Echo: 



"The horticulturist has my sympathy, 

 for he surely has a hard row to hoe. 

 The preparation of his ground is often 

 harrowing. The scattering of seed is a 

 sower job. He sets a plant and it leaves 

 the first oportunitj\ His cultivation of 

 flowers involves cutting experiences. 



"But tribulation worketh patience, 

 and patience experience, and experi- 

 ence hope and, in the end, realization. 

 The common weed is evolved into a 

 beautiful foliage plant, the wild flower 

 is transformed into the cultivated blossom, 

 and the outcome of his industry and gen- 

 ius is the marvel and admiration of a com- 

 munity, and often of a nation or even the 

 world. His vocation is in a way a dem- 

 onstration of successful life. The hon- 

 ors end emoluments of living are earned 

 by labor and sacrifice, just as the 

 choicest products of the garden and 

 greenhouse represent care and solicitude, 

 and thus you workers in this profes- 

 sion are preaching the way to success 

 in all forms of industrial and intellec- 



tual effort, the way to make the most 

 and get the most out of existence. 



"With my sympathy you have my 

 congratulations. You are doing a work 

 which, operatively, adds to the joy of 

 the world, and, speculatively, is an ex- 

 ample of promise to all who appreciate 

 and profit by it. It gives the local 

 press great pleasure to note your prog- 

 ress and wish you Godspeed." 



PRIMULA QUEEN OF NORTH. 



According to the British gardeners' 

 magazines, the new primula. Queen of 

 the North, which Dickson, Brown & Tait, 

 of Manchester, England, have introduced 

 this season, is so highly meritorious that 

 it can hardly fail to attain a high de- 

 gree of popularity. The form and tex- 

 ture of the flowers are notable, but im- 

 portant as are these attributes, the claims 

 of the variety for consideration do not 

 wholly rest upon them. Bather do they 

 rest upon the distinct combination of 

 coloring the variety affords, and the ef- 

 fectiveness of the plants when in bloom. 

 Queen of the North is described as hav- 

 ing been raised from a cross between 

 Avalanche, one of the finest of the pure 

 white varieties belonging to the florists' 

 type, and The Lady, a stellate form bear- 

 ing white flowers, and remarkable for the 

 deep red coloring of the leaf stems and 



flower stalks, and the deep bronzy hue of 

 the foliage. In this form the character- 

 istics of the two parents are happily 

 combined, the flowers being like those 

 of Avalanche in size, form and purity, 

 while the flowers are borne on long 

 stalks, and the leaves and stems are 

 dark in color, as in The Lady. The large 

 white flowers present an extremely pleas- 

 ing contrast to the dark hue of the 

 foliage. 



BULBS IN THE SQLLY ISLES. 



The Isles of Scilly are, as many of our 

 readers know from of old, about twenty- 

 five miles out in the Atlantic from 

 Lands End, the southwestern corner of 

 England, and the source of a large part 

 of the supply of bulbous flowers, es- 

 pecially daffodils, in the London market. 

 The climatic conditions are especially fa- 

 vorable, so that the great business of 

 the Scillonians is flower culture, and 

 practically everyone, from the lord pro- 

 prietor downward, has an interest in 

 the trade. The credit of discovering 

 the commercial possibilities of the 

 islands for flower production must be 

 accorded to the late Augustus Dorrien- 

 Smith, who developed an extensive bulb 

 farm at Tresco, and ere long the rest 

 of the islanders took up the culture, un- 

 til now the Isle of St. Mary's seems 



