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AnousT 24, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



16 



George Talbot 



(Flnsoclal Bcoretair B. W. and O. O. ) 



not in evidence at that time, and I urge 

 the gardeners to give this more con- 

 sideration and do their part toward the 

 advancement of horticulture. 



One has not to look far to see what 

 can be done." For example, the roses 

 raised by W. H. Walsh in the last few 

 years have startled the world. I am 

 unable to say how much time and 

 thought Mr. Walsh devoted to this 

 work, but if he spent his whole life in 

 it he would feel well repaid in gfiving 

 to the world varieties of roses that 

 otherwise might never have been born. 

 All honor to the man who raised Ex- 

 eelsa. Delight, Lady Gay, Hiawatha, 

 etc., and who at this time, I believe, 

 is in the ranks of the private garden- 

 ers. Then let us take courage and set 

 our minds to doing something that will 

 be a joy and pleasure to others as well 

 as to ourselves. 



Grasping Opportunities. 



Novelties always attract the gardener 

 and you will find him among the first 

 to try or test these. No matter whether 



Wm. Johason. 

 (Finance and Rec«ption Oommlttee.) 



flowers, vegetables or plants, he is ever 

 eager to secure them. Hence the lack 

 of interest or utter indifference which 

 I have mentioned seems inexplicable 

 and almost criminal. Then let us 

 create ov at least try to improve some 

 flower or plant. 



Since the gardener has become better 

 known and more generally appreciated 

 by his employer, a mutual good-feeling 

 has sprung up between the two. This is 

 true in a great many ways and is as 

 it should be, and comes as the first aid 

 to our social and moral status. In our 

 profession let the man who has the op- 

 portunity endeavor, by precept and ex- 

 ample, to exert over the less informed, 

 and particularly over the young men 

 under his charge, that moral influence 

 that is so n£cessary for the upbuilding 

 of our honored calling. For they are 

 the men who will be called upon to 

 carry on the work when we are com- 

 pelled to lay it down. Whether we be 

 florists or gardeners, let us beware that 



J. L. Towner. 



( Ohai rman Decorating Committee.) 



we grasp more of our opportunities and 

 take our stand where we rightfully be- 

 long. 



The need of the times seems to be a 

 scheme or scope of operations in which 

 all interests should unite for horticul- 

 tural advancement. For instance, a na- 

 tional society such as we have might 

 !be enlarged to the extent of founding 

 and maintaining a garden after the 

 manner of the Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety of England, at Wisley, and pre- 

 viously at Chiswick, gardens that for 

 over fifty years have done excellent 

 work, such as we need to have in this 

 country. Instead of pleading with state 

 legislatures for appropriations and 

 greenhouses at state experiment sta- 

 tions, could not more and better work 

 of this kind be done in a garden be- 

 longing to our society, with a stafif of 

 practical men? 



A Training School for Young Men. 



And consider what a training school 

 for young men such a garden would 

 be, and the beneficial results that would 

 follow as efficient, well trained men 

 would become available for positions in 

 private or commercial places. Our 



G* O. Brown. 



( Chairman Press Oommlttee.) 



ranks are being constantly recruited by 

 importations from Europe, because of 

 the degree of efficiency these recruits 

 possess. We lack the facilities to give 

 our young men practical training in a 

 manner that appeals to them, with the 

 assurance of an endorsement upon 

 proved competency; this would also be 

 a substantial aid to material advance- 

 ment. 



The working staff of the Eoyal Horti- 

 cultural Society's garden is largely 

 composed of students, who, for a small 

 remuneration, work and study with fa- 

 cilities not to be had in the ordinary 

 private and commercial place. Perhaps 

 the best testimony to the efficiency of 

 the Royal Horticultural Society's woYk 

 along these lines is that it has been 

 continuous for over fifty years, that the 

 trials of fruits, vegetables and flowers 

 conducted therein have been most bene- 

 ficial to horticulture and a large number 



CIus. L. Seybold. / 



(Obairman SouTenlr Committee.) ^ 



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