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Adqust 17, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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bers. A great many are life members. 

 Let every florist speak to his repre- 

 sentative and senator and urge upon 

 them to work actively and promptly 

 for the parcels post measure. 



Strange Discrimination. 



Gentlemen, these facts are startling: 

 Within the United States the rate of 

 postage on fourth-class matter is 16 

 cents a pound, with a limit of four 

 pounds. The United States is party to a 

 treaty under which residents of twenty- 

 nine foreign countries may send fourth- 

 class matter through the United States 

 mails at 12 cents a pound, with a limit 

 of eleven pounds. In other words, a 

 man may send an eleven-pound package 

 from San Francisco, Cal., to Rome, 

 Italy, at 12 cents a pound, but if he 

 wishes to send the same articles to 

 New York he must divide them into 

 packages of not to exceed four pounds 

 each and pay 16 cents a pound. A 

 Japanese residing in New York can 

 send an eleven-pound package to his 

 friends in Tokio, Japan, over 5,000 

 miles, at 12 cents a pound, but an 

 American in New York can send only 

 a four-lpound package from New York 

 to Washington, less than 300 miles, and 

 must piay 16 cents a pound. 



This is all, gentlemen. I thank you 

 very much and I urge upon you the 

 adoption of the plan proposed of a 

 direct appeal to individual congress- 

 men, and I ask you to indorse the fol- 

 lowing bill, and that copies of it be sent 

 by our secretary to the House of Rep- 

 resentatives and the Senate of the 

 United- States: 



"Fixing the rate of postage to be 

 charged for transmission of mail within 

 the United States or its possessions. 

 Be it enacted, That from and after the 

 passage of this act no higher postage 

 rate shall be charged for transmission 

 of mail entirely within the United 

 States, or its possessions, than is 

 charged for transmission of mail partly 

 within and partly without the United 

 States or its possessions. The postmas- 

 ter-general is hereby authorized and re- 

 quired to establish and enforce rules 

 and regulations which will give the peo- 

 ple of the United States rights and 

 privileges in the use of the United 

 States mails as liberal as the rights and 

 privileges the United States accords to 

 the people of the most favored nation. ' ' 



RAII£OAD GARDENERS MEET. 



Enthusiasm was the keynote of the 

 fifth annual convention of the Railway 

 Gardening Association, held at the Kai- 

 serhof hotel, Chicago, August 15 to 18, 

 .1911. Out of a total active member- 

 ship of fifty-two, there responded to the 

 call forty-two workers for the good of 

 the cause. This was a remarkable show- 

 ing, considering that railroads from 

 coast to coast were represented. 



This association was organized Sep- 

 tember 21, 1907, with only seventeen 

 members, and was the result of much 

 untiring effort and correspondence on 

 the part of George B. Moulder, chief 

 gardener of the Illinois Central rail- 

 road, who conceived the idea. 



The following interesting program 

 was closely followed for the Chicago 

 meeting, and it was felt by all present 

 to have developed many ideas that will 

 prove valuable in the future work of 

 the association and its individual mem- 

 bers: 



TUESDAY, AUGUST X6, 



10 :00 a. m. — Address of welcome. 

 Officers' reports. 



"Uniformity in Railroad Oardenlng 

 and How to Bring It About." 

 E. A. Richardson, Boston & Al- 

 bany R. R. 

 "Interesting Railroads In Beautify- 

 ing Their Station Grounds," 

 N. S. Dunlop, Canadian Pacific 

 ' ,..• R. B. 



' "Fences, Including Hedges; Where 

 ^ to Use; Material, Maintenance," 



Joseph Carson, Pennsylvania R. R. 

 1 -.80 p. m. to 



B :00 p. m. — Inspection tour of Chicago parks. 

 8 :00 p. m. — "Sodding and Seeding llawns. Com- 

 parative Value, Best Time to Do 

 It, Material," R. J. Rice, Michi- 

 gan Central R. R. 

 "The Gardeners' Jurisdiction : How 

 ■•i Far Beyond the Parit Fence 



Should It Extend?" R. W. Hutch- 

 ison, Pennsylvania R. R. 

 "How Best to Prevent Stock from 

 . > Trespassing on Our Grounds," 

 O. W. Elcbling, Queen & Crescent 

 R. R. 



WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 18. 



10:00 a.m. — "Hardy Herbaceous Perennials In 

 Landscape Work," W. H. Waite, 

 i Vaughan's nurseries. 



"Plants for Permanent Effect: Ex- 

 tent of Their Use; Varieties," 

 Geo. E. Kessler, St. Louis & San 

 Francisco R. R. 

 "Should- Railroad Companies Pur- 

 chase or Grow Their Stock?" 

 F. W. Vail, Central of New Jer- 

 sey R. B. 

 "Treating Cuts and Banks to Pre- 

 vent Washing and Sliding," H. S. 

 * ' y Moulder, Illinois Central R. R. 



"Fertilizers." J. A. Byrne, Balti- 

 more & Ohio R. R. 

 "M a 1 n t a i n i n g Parks During 

 Drought," J. E. Smith, Pennsyl- 

 vania R. R. 

 Open discussion on all subjects. 

 1 :30 p. m. to 



5 .00 p. m. — Inspection Burlington R. R. station 

 grounds and Vaughan's nurseries, 

 Western Springs, 111. 

 8 :00 p. m. — Selection of next meeting place. 

 Election of officers. 

 Miscellaneous. 



THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, AUGUST 17-18. 



Sightseeing at the discretion of visitors. 



The 1912 meeting will be held at 

 Roanoke, Va., on the line of the Nor- 

 folk & Western railroad, August 13 to 

 16. 



The election of officers for the en- 

 suing year resulted as follows, the vote 

 being unanimous in every instance: 

 President, Patrick Foy, Roanoke, Va., 

 reelected; 'vice-president, F. W. Vail, 

 Dunellen, N. J.; secretary -treasurer, J. 

 S. Butterfield, Lee's Summit, Mo., re- 

 elected; executive committee, Geo. B. 

 Moulder, Chicago, HI., R. J. Rice, Niles, 

 Mich., R. W. Hutchison, Sewickley, Pa. 

 The officers of the association are ex- 

 officio members of the executive com- 

 mittee. 



A handsome souvenir book, descrip- 

 tive of the organization from its in- 

 ception to date, was distributed by the 

 secretary. It includes many articles of 

 interest to anyone engaged in railroad 

 gardening. 



CANADIAN FLORISTS MEET. 



Officers Elected. 



At the fourteenth annual convention 

 of the Canadian Horticultural Associa- 

 tion, held at Ottawa, Ont., August 9 to 

 11, it was decided to hold the 191? 

 meeting at Montreal, and the following 

 officers were chosen for the ensuing 

 year: 



President — A. C. Wilshire, Montreal, 

 Que. 



First vice-president — Walter Muston, 

 Davisville, Ont, 



Second vice-president — H. B. Cowan, 

 Peterboro, Ont. 



Secretary — Julius Luck, , Cote des 

 Neiges, Montreal. 



Treasurer — C. H. Jazen, Berlin, Ont. 



Executive committee, three years — 

 J. Graham, Ottawa; A, H. Ewing, 

 Woodstock; H. G. MuUiss, Brampton; 



two years — A. Annandale, Toronto; F. 

 S. Cheesman, London; E. J/ Mepsted, 

 Ottawa; one year — F. McKenna, Ber- 

 lin; William Downing, Berlin; R. H. 

 Ellis, Leamington. 



President's Address. 



Mayor Hopewell, of Ottawa, started 

 the ball rolling with an address of wel- 

 come, to which T. W. Duggan, of 

 Brampton, fittingly replied. 



President J. Connon, of Hamilton, in 

 his address during the opening session, 

 urged the need of a parcels post and 

 suggested that the question of reci- 

 procity be discussed solely with refer- 

 ence to the benefits this trade would 

 derive therefrom. He advocated the in- 

 auguration of a department for com- 

 mercial floriculture at the government 

 experimental farm, and said that to 

 hold the interest of all factions at the 

 annual conventions the retailers, pri- 

 vate gardeners and growers should have 

 separate meetings for the discussion of 

 matters pertaining to their particular 

 branch of the trade. 



The secretary's report was adopted 

 as read and A. H. Ewing, of Wood- 

 stock, presented an able paper on 

 "What Inducement Does the Future 

 of Horticulture Hold Out for Young 

 Ment" 



There was a red-hot discussion and 

 many speeches on the reciprocity ques- 

 tion and it was finally decided that the 

 list of florists' stock and supplies as 

 drawn up by the tariff committee 

 about covered the requirements of the 

 trade in this country. 



Trade Ezbibit. 



Judges E. Hayward, Montreal; H. G. 

 Dillemuth, Toronto, and J. Milford, 

 Sherbrooke, reported the trade exhibits 

 as follows: 



Scrims', Ottawa; especially fine ex- 

 hibit of cyclamen in 6-inch pots. 



Taylor & Scott, Montreal; extras qual- 

 ity cut sweet peas. 



Slack Bros., Waterloo; sweet peas. 



Experimental farm, Ottawa; fine 

 show of cannas. 



Graham Bros., Ottawa; well grown 

 lot of ferns. 



Gammage & Sons, London, Ont.; espe- 

 cially fine exhibit of palms, ferns and 

 decorative plants; certificate of merit. 



W. A. Manda, South Orange, N. J.; 

 splendid exhibit of greenhouse and 

 store plants. 



R. H. Ellis, Leamington, Ont.; splen- 

 did lot of nephrolepis. 



S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., Philadel- 

 phia, Pa.; samples of ribbon and flor- 

 ists' supplies. 



Campbell Bros., Simcoe, Ont.; fine cut 

 gladioli. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia, 

 Pa.; baskets. 



Dale Estate, Brampton; excellent dis- 

 play of ribbons, wirework, wheat 

 sheaves and cycas leaves. 



Beverly, Mass. — George Gordon, the 

 prosperous gardener and florist of 

 North Beverly, has left his business in 

 charge of his son-in-law and is mak- 

 ing an extended tour of the western 

 states. In Wyoming he visited a 

 brother, Peter, whom he had not seen 

 for more than forty years. After a 

 brief stay with his brother, he went to 

 Salt Lake City, from which point he 

 expected to make a side trip to the 

 Yellowstone Park, thence to San Fran- 

 cisco, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver and 

 then homeward by way of Canada. 



