April 9. 1914. 



The Florists' Rcvieiv 



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Three Well Known Gentlemen in a House of Well Grown Liliest at Detroit. 



shape just now and is always in condi- 

 tion for inspection by visitors, who are 

 heartily welcomed by Mr. Brigham. 



' ' CONSIDER THE LILIES. ' ' 



"How they grow. They toll not; neither do 

 they spin; yet Solomon in all his glory was not 

 arrayed like one of these." 



Although these are not the bright- 

 hued flowers that made Solomon's hab- 

 erdashery seem modest by comparison, 

 ' ' considering the lilies ' ' was a pleasing 

 occupation to the three gentlemen 

 whom the camera man caught in his 

 picture. Solomon was no more inter- 

 ested in his thousand wives than are 

 these three in their thousands of lilies. 

 First, on the left, there is Charles 

 Plumb, of Detroit, who owns the green- 

 house, and the lilies. Close to him 

 stands A. Miller, of Henderson & Co., 

 Chicago, who supplied the bulbs, who 

 has just handed Mr. Plumb a copy of 

 his order for bulbs to bloom in 1915, 

 Mr. Plumb evidently being engaged in 

 scanning the prices closely. And at 

 the right is Robert Rahaley, of the 

 Michigan Cut Flower Exchange, whose 

 task it is to complete the season's job 

 by turning Mr. Plumb 's crop into 

 cash. 



These are giganteum lilies. Mr. Plumb 

 makes a point of having some to cut 

 practically every day in the year and 

 as an indication of the magnitude of 

 the lily business it will interest some 

 people to know that he is using 100,- 

 000 bulbs this year. 



St. Joseph, Mo. — The hail storm of 



March 28 inflicted a heavy loss on 



Mueller Bros, through breakage of 

 glass. 



BAILEY'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA. 



["The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture," 

 by L. H. Bailey. Published by the Macmillan 

 Co., New York. Volume I, containing 602 pages, 

 with hundreds of illustrations In the text, and 

 twenty full-page plates, four of which are col- 

 ored. Price per volume, strongly and neatly 

 bound in cloth, 96.] 



This is the first volume of the new 

 edition of Professor Bailey's horticul- 

 tural cyclopedia; it is the first one-sixth 

 of a work which has for some time 

 been eagerly awaited -by hosts of the 

 users of the older cyclopedia, who have 

 sworn by Bailey — not profanely — for 

 many years. The term "new edition," 

 however, may be misleading, since it 

 often signifies simply a reprint of an 

 old edition, with little or no revision. 

 Such a notion of a new edition would 

 be as far as possible from giving jus- 

 tice to this new cyclopedia. The first 

 volume of the work bears sufficient evi- 

 dence of the truth of the publishers' 

 statement, that "this is not merely a 

 revised edition of Bailey's old cyclo- 

 pedia, but is really a new work from 

 start to finish, with much new matter 

 both in the way of text and illustra- 

 tions, while even the old matter that 

 has been retained has been rewritten." 

 The new cyclopedia, when completed, 

 will consist of six volumes, instead of 

 the former four, and "will come from 

 the press," the publishers say, "as 

 rapidly as manufacturing conditions 

 will permit." 



On being introduced, either to a per- 

 son or a book, it is well, of course, to 

 give due attention to the name of the 

 new acquaintance, since names are al- 

 ways important and sometimes specially 

 suggestive. Please take note, then. 



that this new work, though it is the 

 rightful successor to Bailey's "Cyclo- 

 pedia of American Horticulture," has 

 not inherited the old name, but has 

 received a new name to befit its new 

 character and its present position. And 

 the new name, "The Standard Cyclo- 

 pedia of Horticulture," appears to be 

 perfectly suitable. It seems proper 

 that the word "American" should be 

 dropped from the name, since the new 

 work, though still American, is also 

 much more than American; it may 

 truthfully be said to be universal or 

 world-wide in its scope. Two causes — 

 the increasing use in America of im- 

 ported species of plants, and the Amer- 

 ican acquisition of distant islands, with 

 their peculiar forms of vegetation — 

 have combined to induce Professor Bai- 

 ley to give larger space in his new cy- 

 clopedia to the discussion of foreign 

 species. And is it not right, too, that 

 the word "Standard" should become a 

 part of the new name! After Bailey's 

 cyclopedia, during a period of four- 

 teen years, has established its position 

 as a standard authority, there is surely 

 no immodesty in the appropriation of 

 the title "Standard," especially since 

 the new work is both bigger and bet- 

 ter than the old one. 



In the office of The Review, for in- 

 stance, whatever other works of refer- 

 ence may be available, Bailey's cyclo- 

 pedia has been the supreme authority, 

 the last and decisive word, in every 

 case of doubt or dispute. It has been 

 "the rule of faith and practice," from 

 which no member of the editorial staff 

 could diverge without danger of re- 



