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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



December 28, 1911. 



to do business handicapped by no more 

 space than is afforded by the average 

 downtown store. 



GAEDENERS' ASSOCIATION. 



President Thomas W, Logan has 

 made the following appointments on 

 the board of directors of the National 

 Association of Gardeners, to take ef- 

 fect January, 1912: 



To serve for three years — John 

 Shore, Harrison, N. Y.; Peter Duff, 

 Orange, N. J.; Thomas Proctor, Lenox, 

 Mass.; Alexander McKenzie, Glen Cove, 

 L. L; William Kleinheinz, Ogontz, Pa.; 

 W. N. Craig, North Easton, Mass.; 

 James Stuart, Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



To serve for two years — John Dodds, 

 Wyncote, Pa.; T. J. Kempton, Bay- 

 chester, N. Y.; Kobert Angus, Tarry- 

 town, N. Y.; Carl Schaffer, Tuxedo 

 Park, N. Y.; E. Wetterlow, West Man- 

 chester, Mass.; Kobert Bottomley, New 

 Canaan, Conn.; E. Trethewev, New 

 York, N. Y. 



To serve for one vear — A. Bauer, 

 Deal Beach. N. J.; J. F. Huss, Hartford, 

 Conn.; H. F. Witney, Fishkill, N. Y.; 

 Alexander Fraser, Newport, R. I.; 

 James Bell, New York, N. Y.; F. Kirk, 

 Bar Harbor, Me.; Wm. Pirie, Buffalo, 

 N. Y. 



Xavier Schmitt, of Philadelphia, Pa., 

 has been appointed assistant secretary, 

 and W. E. Maynard, of New York city, 

 organizer, for the coming year. 



The officers elected for 1912 are: 

 President, Thomas W. Logan, Jenkin- 

 town, Pa.; vice-president, Martin B. 

 Tillotson, Great Neck, N. Y.; secre- 

 tary, Martin C. Ebel, Madison, N. J.; 

 treasurer, Roy H. Caverly, Ijowell, Mass. 



Considerable outside interest has been 

 manifested toward the national associa- 

 tion since its last convention, which 

 was held in Madison, N. J., in October 

 last. The organization itself has be- 

 come much interested in the contem- 

 plated national show, to be held in 

 New York citj' in April, 1913, and some 

 of its members are preparing to make 

 large exhibits. A prominent gardener, 

 superintendent of one of the largest 

 private estates in the east, has already 

 declared himself to Chairman Charles 

 H. Totty. of the National Flower Show 

 committee, as expecting to bring more 

 than a carload of exhibits from the es- 

 tate over which he presides, which is 

 located in one of the states adjoining 

 New York, to the 191.3 exhibition. 

 Some keen competition may also be 

 looked for from the members of the 

 national association at ^;he next annual 

 show of the American Sweet Pea So- 



ciety, to be held in Boston, in July, 

 1912, this society having promised to 

 provide liberally for special classes for 

 gardeners. 



A great growth is looked for in the 

 National Association of Gardeners dur- 

 ing the year 1912. President Logan 

 will call a meeting of the new board of 

 directors early in January, to meet in 

 New York city, and some important 

 matters will be brought up looking to 

 the future development of this organi- 

 zation, which promises soon to become 

 an important factor in the field of hor- 

 ticulture in this country. 



M. C. Ebel, Sec'y. 



GREEN CENTER IN VIOLET BUDS. 



I am sending to you, by separate mail, 

 a package of violets and leaves. Please 

 tell me the name of this variety, for it 

 is not Gov. Herrick or Princess of Wales. 

 Gov. Herrick has darker and thicker 

 foliage with me. This variety, when 1 

 bought it, was suppose-d to be Princess 

 of Wales. Also tell me the best day and 

 night temperature for this variety that 

 I am sending. I am also enclosing a 

 bunch of double violet buds. What is 

 the cause of the double violets sending 

 out such large, worthless l)uds with a 

 green center, which never develop into 

 good blooms f Are soot and hardwood 

 ashes, mixed, good for the violets, if 

 put between the rows? J. G. 



The violets were so completely shriv- 

 eled up as to be quite unrecognizable. 

 Had they been in a tin or a light wooden 

 box, with damp moss around the stems, 

 they would have arrived in a fresh con- 

 dition. The causes of the green center 

 In double varieties are long spells of 

 sunless weather and too low a night tem- 

 perature. Hold them, as nearly as pos- 

 sible, at 40 to 42 degrees at night, with 

 5 or 6 degrees of a rise on dull days and 

 10 to 12 degrees of a rise on clear days. 



with abundant ventilation. Keep the 

 surface soil scratched over and free 

 from weeds and scum. Remove all dead 

 and diseased foliage. Do not throw any 

 rubbish below the benches; keep a pure, 

 sweet atmosphere and your plants should 

 imjirove. Wood ashes are not specially 

 good for violets, but soot is useful, as 

 well as top-dressings of sheep manure 

 or well decayed cow manure. Feed 

 sparinglv, however, at this season. 



' C. W. 



OPPORTUNITY KNOCKING HERE. 



One of the chief reasons why the 

 florists' business is among the best 

 any young man can take up for his 

 life work is that so large a propor- 

 tion of those engaged in it are work- 

 ing for themselves. There probably is 

 no other line in which so large a per- 

 centage of those in business for them- 

 selves have started as employees, or in 

 which so large a number of those now 

 emplo,yed will sooner or later be able 

 to make a start on their own account. 

 The importance of this recently was 

 pointed out, in an interview, by David 

 R. Forgan, president of one of the big 

 banks in Chicago. 



"If a young man starts out with the 

 purpose of gaining a competence," said 

 Mr. Forgan, "he should select a line of 

 business in which, after it has been 

 mastered, it is possible to start in a 

 small way on one's own account with 

 unlimited possibilities of growth. Suc- 

 cess in railroading or banking, for in- 

 stance, means only a good salary, while 

 the profits go to the shareholders. Suc- 

 cess in merchandising or manufacturing 

 of any kind means that the profits go 

 directly into your own pocket. ' ' 



A florist is, usually, both a manufac- 

 turer and a merchant; therefore he gets 

 l)oth the manufacturing and the mer- 

 chandising profit. This is true of all 

 those who grow the stock they retail, 

 and this includes the big part of the 

 trade outside the principal cities. The 

 florists' business is an individual af- 

 fair. There are no great corporations 

 to dominate the field. Such companies 

 MS there are in it are close corporations; 

 they use no capital from outside; the 

 stockholders are active workers and 

 practically partners; the profits do not 

 go to those who merely are investors; 

 the money stays in the business, to 

 make more money. The largest concerns 

 in this trade today have grown in a 

 few years from extremely small begin- 

 nings, and their success can be dupli- 

 cated hy any young man who has the 

 (qualities within himself. 



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