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The Florists^ Review 



AVGDST 6, 1914. 



combine; team work is what is needed. 

 Horticulture does not produce multi- 

 millionaires; our means are all moder- 

 ate; so as individuals we do not amount 

 to much, but we are strong in numbers. 

 If we could only forget for once our 

 special interests and feel more as a hor- 

 ticulturist in the broadest sense of the 

 word, we would then soon get together 

 on a basis of mutual benefit. Of course, 

 in numbers is where our power will be. 

 Horticulture united will put everybody 

 on a higher plane of life, from the hum- 

 ble private gardener to the most exalted 

 position in horticulture. 



All who go to Boston will have a 

 chance to vote * affiliation either one 

 way or the other. Other members who 

 cannot be there and think favorably of 

 affiliation, please send me a letter with 

 just these words: "I am in favor of 

 affiliation" — and your name. I will 

 make the most of it. This holds good 

 of any man in business, in any branch 

 of horticulture, whether nurseryman, 

 seedsman or private gardener — send me 

 just those few words. The stronger the 

 eflTort, the quicker the results. You 

 don't need to be a member of the 

 S. A. P. to show your sentiments toward 

 affiliation. It may turn out to be the 

 straw to show how the wind blows. Do 

 it now. 



SECEETARY'S ANNOUNCEMENTS. 



Meeting of Chrysanthemum Society. 



The Chrysanthemum Society of Amer- 

 ica will hold a meeting in the Paul Re- 

 vere hall,. Mechanics building, Boston, 

 9:30 a. m., Wednesday, August 19, 1914, 

 the second day of the convention. This 

 announcement should have been includ- 

 ed in the program mailed to all members 

 some time ago. 



Department of Begistxation. 



Public notice is hereby given that 

 Vaughan's Seed Store, 31 West Ran- 

 dolph street, Chicago, 111., oflfers for reg- 

 istration the new sweet pea, Christmtis 

 orchid-flowered Selma Swenson. Any 

 person objecting to the registration, or 

 to the use of the proposed name, is re- 

 quested to communicate with the secre- 

 tary at once. Failing to receive objec- 

 tion to the registration, the same will 

 be made three weeks from this date. 

 Raiser's description: Variety originated 

 by G. Swenson, Elmhurst, 111.; color, a 

 light, soft, clear pink, for greenhouse 

 forcing; name, Selma Swenson. 



John Young, Sec'y. 



July 31, 1914. 



CHICAGO TO BOSTON. 



Members of the trade west, north or 

 southwest of Chicago will use the Lake 

 Shore-New York Central route to the 

 Boston convention of the S. A. F. 

 Following the action of the Chicago 

 Florists' Club, at its March meeting, 

 instructing its transportation commit- 

 tee to select this route, it has been 

 arranged that President Wirth, of the 

 S. A. F., will leave Chicago, Sunday 

 evening, August 16, on a special train 

 over the Lake Shore & Michigan 

 Southern railroad. La Salle street sta- 

 tion, at 8 p. m., with the Chicago Flo- 

 rists' Club and others desirous of join- 

 ing the convention party on the Presi- 

 dent's Special. This train is due at 

 Niagara Falls Monday noon at 12:04 

 o'clock and several hours will be spent 

 there, the party leaving again at 3:50 

 p. m. the same day and due in Boston 



Tuesday, August 18, at 7:05 a. m. The 

 fare from Cnicago to Boston and re- 

 turn is $30, good for thirty days; 

 berths Chicago to Boston, one way, 

 lower, $5.50; upper, $4.40. The fore- 

 going rates apply only to Boston and 

 return. Many extended tours and side 

 trips may be arranged returning on 

 application to local transportation 

 agents at equally low rates, including 

 New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Thou- 

 sand Islands, Hudson river, etc. 



All members of the S. A. F. and their 

 friends from points north, west and 

 south of Chicago, who wish to join the 

 president's party at Chicago, should 

 secure tickets reading over the Lake 

 Shore & Michigan Southern railroad 

 and New York Central, Chicago to Bos- 

 ton and return. 



Reservations will be made on appli- 

 cation to G. K. Thompson, 100 South 

 Clark street, Chicago, 111., who will 

 cheerfully supply all other information 

 regarding this trip. 



NEW YORK TO BOSTON. 



The New York Florists' Club, on its 

 annual trip to the convention, will 

 travel to Boston by the magnificent 

 steamers of the Metropolitan Steamship 

 Co., the all-water route, leaving New 

 York from Pier 18, North river, foot 

 of Murray street, at 5 p. m. Monday, 

 August 17. The steamers Massachu- 

 setts and Bunker Hill are noted for 

 their superb service and accommoda- 

 tions. Traffic in August is heavy, and 

 your committee, in order to properly 

 take care of members and friends of the 

 club, has reserved lOd staterooms on the 



steamship Massachusetts, sailing on this 

 date. These rooms will be held up to 

 ten days of the date of sailing, after 

 which time the committee cannot guar- 

 antee accommodations. Single fares, $4. 

 Price of berths extra, as follows: Two- 

 berth stateroom, outside, $2; inside, with 

 electric fan, $1. The transportation 

 committee earnestly requests that reser- 

 vation be made as soon as possible, in 

 order that proper provision may be made 

 for the comfort and entertainment of 

 the members and guests of the club. All 

 applications for reservations must be 

 accompanied by check or money order 

 in payment of the same, and made pay- 

 able to Frank H. Traendly, chairman 

 transportation committee, 131 West 

 Twenty-eighth street. New York. 



CALL TO DAHLIA GROWERS. 



Maurice Fuld, who is known in con- 

 nection with previous attempts to or- 

 ganize dahlia growers, requests the pub- 

 lication of the following notice over his 

 signature: 



An inTitation is extended to every lover of 

 dahlias to meet at a formal gathering of all 

 American dahlia enthusiasts at Newport, R. I., 

 on August 13, 1914, for the purpose of organizing 

 the American Dahlia Society. 



This society will be founded for the purpose 

 of promoting the Interest of the dahlia. It will 

 endeavor to further its progress, establish a 

 clear classification, encourage more public ex- 

 hibitions and, last but not least. It will dis- 

 seminate useful and helpful information at 

 regular Intervals to Its members. 



The meeting will take place at 8 p. m., 

 August 13, In the Weaver building, Broadway, 

 Newport, K. I. August 13 is the first day of 

 the combined flower shows given at Belcourt, 

 Newport, R. I., and the exhibits of dahlias here 

 will certainly be an attraction worth while for 

 all dahlia lovers to undertake the trip to New- 

 port. 



Come and help in a worthy cause. 



Maurice Fuld. 



Convention City Hotels 



|HE hotel committee for the Boston convention has sent out a circular 

 letter containing the list of hotels which is here appended, with prices 

 and other particulars. The committee has made comprehensive arrange- 

 |-ments and in most cases can hold reservations until August 15. It 

 will be best to write direct to the hotel for reservations, but the 

 committee suggests that intending visitors send duplicate announce- 

 ments to the office of the general secretary, 120 Boylston street, Boston, 

 Boom 702, as a record, as it is the desire to help members in every way. Besides 

 the hotels below, there are a number of other excellent family hotels in the 

 vicinity of the garden and hall and innumerable first-class furnished rooming 

 houses and reasonably priced restaurants. 



People intending to stay at Back Bay hotels, the Somerset, Nottingham, 

 Thorndike, Westminster, Lenox, Victoria, Canterbury, Hemingway, Vendome or 

 Carleton, or to look for furnished rooms, should leave trains via N. Y., N. H. & H. 

 R. B. and Boston & Albany B. B. at the Back Bay stations of the roads, all 

 others at the South Station terminal. Patrick Welch, 226 Devonshire street, 

 Boston, is chairman of the hotel committee. 



The Copley Plaza hotel, in Copley Square, has been chosen as official head- 

 quarters of the convention. It is one block from the Back Bay and Huntington 

 avenue railroad stations. To reach this hotel, leave the train at the Back Bay 

 station. Check your baggage to the Back Bay and Huntington avenue stations, 

 as it will be transferred to and from the hotel without charge. 



Hotel Location without bath with bi 



Copley Plau Copley Square $8.00 to 



Copley Square 40 Huntington Ave 1.50 to 



Lenox Boylston and Exeter. . ..fl.SO to |3.00 2.50 to 



Nottlntcham 25 Huntington Ave 2.00 to 3.60 3.60 to 



Yoong's Court Square 1.60 to 4.60 2.50 to 



Bellevne 21 Beacon St 2.00 to 3.60 8.60 to 



New American Hanover St 1.00 to 2.60 2.00 to 



Somerset Commonwealth Ave 2.60 to 8.60 3.00 to 



Tborndike Boylston St 1.50 to 4.00 2.00 to 



Teoralne Tremont and Boylston. .. 2.60 to 6.60 8.00 to 



Adams 5,^3 Washington 1.60 to 4.00 2.60 to 



Parker School and Tremont 1.50 to 4.60 2.60 to 



Essex Near South Sta 1.50 to 8.00 2.50 to 



Brnnswick 1.60 to 2.60 2.60 to 



Hnrlhnrt'* Washington St 1.00 to 2.60 2.00 to 



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Distance 

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10 minutes 

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Near by 

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10 mtoutea 10 mlnntet 

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Weatminster Copley Square 



In order that there be no confusion, Mr. Welch wishes to call special attention to 

 the similarity of the names Copley Plaza, Copley Square, and Plaza. In making res- 

 ervations, be careful to address thie hotel you have in mind. 



