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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



•PEBRUAnY 4, 1909. 



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A Few of the Members of the American Carnation Society, Photogr 



* ' Brer. ' ' Lemon could 

 folded, an unholy smil 

 gazing at 200 feet of 

 without a glance at the 

 to this day their only e« 

 "check!" But the e 

 through the treasurer's 



be fovind, arms 

 e upon his face, 

 Hill's hopes, but 



onion patch, and 

 omment has been, 

 heck never went 

 I hands. 



The Gay Aaclonis. 



Then there was AdonLs, and here words 



fail me for the present^:, but . Some 



day, when Richard W^itterstaetter and 

 Robert Craig and the secretary of the 

 E. 6. Hill Co. have all_ reached the age 

 limit, and have leisure to take up hter- 

 ature, we are going to c ollaborate a biog- 

 raphy and romance of tz;he young Adonis, 

 thp most ravishing scarHet carnation ever 

 shown to human ^gaze. Behold, a bench 

 of it in full Ui|bm, he^ids erect, a color 

 far beyond words to desscribe! You can 

 see the ecstasy in the faces of Messrs. 

 Craig, Hill and Witte^rstaetter as they 

 devoured its dazzling t)eauty. 



. This is not yet a mat-ter of ancient his- 

 tory, and still it was before the days 

 when the florist had ^e^rown sadly wise 

 and had learned to ba -lance a carnation 

 stem on his index fing- er as the juggler 

 does his pole, to test its stiffness ; before 

 he had learned to draw- the flower slowly 

 through his closed hamd and watch the 

 petals spring back tco the horizontal; 

 before he had learned to slap the bloom 

 upon the table and wsitch the resisting 

 power of the texture. Adonis helped to 

 teach the trade this last:; trick, and so was 

 not wholly lost in the economy of carna- 

 tion culture. 



The Price of iPropess, 



Since Adonis there bnave been others; 

 they are current history and still in mind. 

 Father Dorner and :^klr. Peter Fisher 

 have been the means of giving us the 

 most popular carnatio^ns and the best 

 wage earners in the family. "We can 

 gaze long and fondly upon "W'hite Per- 

 fection and Enchantres:^, as a father does 

 upon a good child, and say, ' ' They have 

 never given me an anxious moment." 

 Oh ! but the waste of it all, the squan- 

 dering of hard-earned dollars, you may 

 say; but progress alw^ays costs in any 



line of trade or life, and the expenditure 

 of money is the smallest item; the thing 

 that really counts is endeavor and pa- 

 tient perseverance, and absolute honesty, 

 and this is as true in commerce as in 

 manufacturing or in carnation culture. 



And flowers do have an elevating influ- 

 ence on their growers, if the soil is mixed 

 with good will for one's fellows and 

 faith in a kindly Providence that sends 

 the needed rain and sunshine and finally 

 gives the increase. 



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THE BANQUET. 



The Indiana State Florists' Associa- 

 tion set out to banquet the American Car- 

 nation Society January 28 in irreproach- 

 able style, and the only slip in the ar- 

 rangements was not their fault — two or 

 three to whom toasts had been assigned 

 failed to attend. But the substitutes 

 proved satisfactory. The handsome club 

 house secured for the occasion added no 

 little to the enjoyment of the evening. 

 E. G. Hill was toastmaster. 



Mayor C. A. Bookwalter struck the 

 keynote when he referred to the moral 

 uplift that comes from association with 

 flowers; nearly every speaker had a word 

 to say on this point, which played di- 

 rectly into the hands of Miss Hill, who 

 had prepared a toast dealing with the 

 perversity of the divine flower and the 

 provocation it affords any grower in- 

 clined to revert to the primeval state. 

 Mayor Bookwalter talked flowers to flo- 

 rists as few public men ever have talked 

 them, showed his intimate acquaintance 

 with the technical side, and said that as 

 a flower buyer he appreciates that while 

 the' price of flowers to the public is 

 steadily advancing, so is the quality. 



In the absence of J. S. Stuart, presi- 

 dent of the State Society, his business 

 partner, J. A. E. Haugh, proposed the 

 toast to the guests, which was responded 

 to by J. F. Ammann, of Edwardsville, 



HI. After this exchange of courtesies, 

 W. N. Rudd talked on ' ' The Exhibition ; 

 after all, that's the reason we're 

 here. ' ' He said that the exhibitions 

 have been the prime influence, not only 

 in the success of the society, but in the 

 development of the flower; that it was a 

 proud moment when he was elected a 

 judge for the society, as in the hands 

 of the judges lies the future of the 

 flower; in a very few years they can 

 change by the weight of their judgment 

 the direction of the flower's development 

 — and he warned the society that too 

 much weight has been and is attached 

 to size, too little to form. 



J. C. Vaughan referred to the late 

 L. E. Marquisee as possibly the best 

 example the society ever has had within 

 its membership of the refining influence 

 of the love of flowers; Mr. Marquisee 

 was a gentleman and a scholar, orator, 

 florist and friend. 



President M. A. Patten spoke for the 

 Carnation Society, and presented the 

 trophies awarded at the show. The 

 silver cups, the medals and the special 

 cash awards were handed over to the win- 

 ners, each of whom responded in a few 

 words. 



J. A. Valentine, president of the S. A. 

 F., spoke for the parent society, the 

 menu card expressing the sentiment in 

 "Whether you acknowledge the rela- 



