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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



9 



MEMORIAL DAT. 



The demand for flowers never has 

 been so strong on Memorial day as it 

 was in the present year. In the cen- 

 tral west a portion of the increased de- 

 mand may be credited to the shortage 

 of outdoor flowers as a result of the 

 April frosts, but in the east the in- 

 crease was almost equally great and 

 there had been no frosts to destroy out- 

 door flowers. The fact is tftat Memorial 

 day has become the greatest flower 

 day of the year. So far as quantity of 

 stock goes, it eclipses Easter or Christ- 

 mas, though naturally prices are lower 

 than at other special flower dates. 



John K. M. L. Farquhar, Chairman Orchid Show G)mmittee. 



ROBERT CAMERON. 



Robert Cameron, as his name would in- 

 dicate, is a Scotchman by birth, being 

 a native of Invernesshire, that county 

 where the most perfect English is sup- 

 posed to be spoken. He early mani- 

 fested a desire for gardening and after 

 some training in Scotland went to Kew 

 Gardens, London, where he remained 

 several years, getting an excellent bo- 

 tanical and practical insight into flori- 

 culture, under the best teachers in that 

 world-famous training school. He came 

 to the United States twenty-four years 

 ago, finding employment on the once 

 famous Payson estate, in Watertown, 

 later going to the Waban Rose Conserv- 

 atories, Natick, and working under 

 Alexander Montgomery for two years. 

 In 1889, on the retirement of W. A. 

 Manda to join the firm of Pitcher & 

 Manda, he was called to take charge of 

 the Harvard Botanic Gardens, and it is 

 safe to say that these gardens were 

 never more satisfactorily cared for than 

 during the twenty-one years of Mr. Cam- 

 [Coiitiniipd on page 46.] 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 



The National Flower Show Commit- 

 tee of the Society of American Florists 

 li'ld a meeting at Horticultural hall, 

 liiisston, May 25. at which F. R. Pierson, 

 I'lisident of the society and chairman 

 <it the committee, presided. There was 

 :i fair attendance of members of the 

 j-'iiioral committee and a full attend- 

 •iiiie of the local committeemen. 



After full discussion it was decided 

 t" hold the Second National Flower 

 ^iii>\v in Mechanics' building, Boston, 

 -M nch 18 to 25, 1911. It was consid- 

 'I'i that this building offers much the 

 '"^t opportunity which will then be 

 'I I liable in Boston. The rental for 

 •I eight days is $4,900, and the space 

 •>\ lilable will permit of a much larger 

 ^! 'W than the first one, held at Chi- 

 "■:!-;o. 



I'he committee authorized the em- 

 1'' vnient of C. I. Campbell as secre- 

 '• y of the committee and manager of 

 "' .exhibition. 



East Moriches, N. Y.— E. Stanley 

 'J I own, proprietor of the Dahlia Farm, 

 si'ils large quantities of choice stock, 

 ooth wholesale and retail, and yet he 

 'i!'idly knows, he says, whether he should 

 classify himself as a commercial florist 

 ^^' an amateur, since he is engaged in 

 *''e work largely for the sake of testing 

 "le different varieties and experimenting 

 ^^'th them. During the present year, he 

 ^■'.^'s, he expects to test a large number 

 ^\ dahlia seedlings which have been 

 '"'ither proved nor named. 





Robert Cameron, Manager of the Orchid Show. 



