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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



May 4, 1911. 



i-^ks is Hint ii nirivc jiU'iity of w.'itcr i iipiioiiiis as intro<1iictioii coimnittoe tlx' 



i.iin Aui^ust tliKiii^rh the liltHniuii;^ SOU- i following' ladies to sitvo at P.;iltiiiii)ro: 



...n. Tiio plants arc tlu'ii niakiii<; their i ( 'lininiian, Mrs. E. V. Booiic. Baltimore, 



Md.; ]\rrs. .lames Glass, iialtimorc, Mil.; 



i^icatcst (^fVorls, and any clierk at that 

 time S(MMoiisi\' hinders their de\-elop 

 meiif. W. .1. Vesev, .Ir. 



LADIES' S. A. F. 



Tlie prehideiit, Mrs. .1. V. Phiilijts. 



Mrs. Ri.hard Vincent. Jr.. White 

 Marsh, .Md.; Mrs. \V. F. (Iiide. Wash 

 inyton, D. ('.; Mrs. ,1. K'. Freeman. 

 Washinston, D. (!. 



Mrs. Chas. 11. Muyuurd, Sec 'y. 



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By a British Vi.sitor. 



In my three \veel;s" trip m the 

 United States many impressions were 

 recorded, some tr.ansient. some pernia 

 nent. 1 hesitate to |iut some in writ- 

 ing or even to i:i\e them a place in my 

 memory. a<s eridneous impressions are 

 easily lornied when all the circnni 

 stance? arc not apparent. Time di<l ncd. 

 permit nio to substantiate all: therefore 

 on some -ulijects 1 ha\e still an oju'ii 

 mind. 



On one subject, however. I have no 

 doubts; to me it was most wonderful; 

 namely, the unbounded, s;enial hospi 

 tality of the Anu^rican tlorists. Who 

 wc were .and what we had accom 

 plished to merit such cordiality l)af1'led 

 the wits of my fellow travelers and iny- 

 .>^elf. Of the magnificent welcome ac- 

 corded all around 1 have a perm.ment 

 imjiression recorded. 



Right Hand of Fellowship. 



ITpou our .airi\al in \e\\ "N'ork we 

 were ^rasjied by the riuht hand of 

 good fellowship, a!id that same right 

 haml Kejit its iiold all tlie way from 

 New ^"orlc to t'hicago. Chicago to Bos 

 ton. and lin^ion b.ack to New ^'orK. ll 

 ne\er tired-, tliere was no "'hd uo ' ' m 

 it. iMiilade]|ihia jiassed it on to I'.alti 

 more. It.altimore lo \V.i-;liington. and 

 sfi on all the way around. .\rid, thanks 

 to that right liand ot good fellowship 

 extended by .Ameiiean llorists. we had 

 a preat .and glnnon^, intere-.ting and in 

 structi\e time. 



K. Vin.eiif. .Ir.. White Mar-li. Md.. 

 min u~ at .\e\v Vorl\. Why (iocs he 

 wiite -'.Ti.'' aili) lii- name.' lie e.ar 

 lies the -eci'i'i "\ pel |irt ii.al \onth in hi- 

 persoii: no need to l,al>e| himselt' ".ii. '' 

 1 ha\e Imhmi lii~ pilot mole tli;in once in 

 Eurojiean Cdiintn.'-. and wliitliei- I went 

 he w;!> iHiimd to lollow or gei io^t in a 

 str.aTiui' -oantry. lie gax'e me 'Spiid 

 pr.' ,|'ei'' ill Maryland and Wa>liinL;toii. 



New York. 



.1. B. Nugent, .'v.. took us in h;ind 

 and •VNorked lil.e .a 'rrojan. taking us 

 here, there .and e\er\\vhere. in iiml out 

 the tlori-t-" -loie-. uilli .a rnnnin'j' eom 

 inent "i r' ady wit all the tune, ncat- 

 ing upon oni minds most favorable first 

 imjiressions "f New York. 



The Xew ^'ork ilorist'^' bancpiet was 

 .an inspiring .-ight. strengthening our 

 favoi.'ible impressions of New Yoi 1; 

 tlorist^. W'e had now seen them at 

 work ati'i :.t ]day. They know how to 

 do botli To iiie it w.as a grand tre.at 

 to see. in the ilesh. P. O'Mara. F. B. 

 Pier-on. II. .\. I'.uiiNard. ''. 11. Tnttv 



.and others whose pictures I had "many 

 a time and off' a<linired, as they 

 adorned the jiagi's of The Review. 



Philadelphia. 



In Bhil.adtdphia. W. Atlee Burpee 

 was geni.ality personified. Every word, 

 look and action was elocjueut of his 

 w(dcome to the Quaker Cdty, and his 

 right hand men, Howard M. l]ar] and 

 0. W. K(>rr, took their CMie from tludr 

 idiief. Tlajipy? Impossible to be other 

 wise when W. .\tlee Burpee has the 

 reins in hand. 



.F. Otto Thilow. of Dreer's, struck me 

 as a born organizer, a keen business 

 man and a genial soul withal. My eon 

 freres were heard to say, "Smart men 

 in the seed trade of Philadelphia,'" and 

 no one can dispute it. 



Baltimore. 



The Baltimore llorists- - serrv 1 can 

 not name them all — were a merry 

 bunch, 'i'liey gave us Mai-yland hos|ii 

 tality in right good style at White 

 Marsh and in the Monumental City, 

 •also. Toast master (i. II. ]\Torris was a 

 host in hims(df. It w.as a real pleasure 

 to listen to his int roiim t ions. He knew 

 his fellow tlorists and how to draw out 

 the be^t that "was in them, lie eveii 

 drew ,a m.aiden speeidi t'rom one of the 

 IJrit ishers. a flower jiot m.anufacturer, 

 who discourseil on clay. The toastmas 

 ter kept everything in tune and the 

 afterdinner s])eeches were not eclipsed 

 at any point on our trip. 



Washington. 



In W.ashmgton it was eni |.|,ai] to 

 se(> the BotMuic (i.aialens, the e.apitcij. 

 the library .•nid other buildings, then 

 •'fold our tents- -.and sileiitlv .-te.al 

 aw.av.'' but the i ndfd'a t iL:alde 1,'. \'iii 

 eeiil . .Ir.. would li:i\e nimr oT it. He 

 L;i,t \N'. r. (lude on the 'phone. ,aii.|- 

 lle\ ' l're-!o' .\utoni(d.ile tri|i! ('haai 

 lief ot' < oinmeirr lini'li and Flii|js.i-' 

 < Inb i>aii(piet well' on oni pro^iiain be 

 tore we I ,ad t ime 1 rj w ini^. 



A Ilea* it w.a-. indieil. tn lie pev-oii 



allv eondll'ded 0\el the liotatllc CuT 



deiis bv the grand old l::i rilener. \V. i;. 

 .Smith: to m.arvid at his -tfoe ot' kiio\\l 

 edge ot pl.ants, old and new: to listen 

 to liis re.ady wit and caustic humor, 

 and to not(^ the fire sparkle in his eye 

 .a'- he drew himself nji to his full height 

 in ;in .attitude of '•ring out the f.alse, 

 ring in the true." when a jierson or 

 action came under his denunciation. 



Fortiin.ite. indeed, an' the Wa^hiii^ 

 ton florists to have such fine men a- 

 the brother^ ("I'ude in their ranks. \V 



F. (5ud(>, as president, would adorn 

 ;iiiy society. As toastmaster at tlu' 

 l)an(|uet in our honor, he was the soul 

 of wit. ]'''rom time to tiin(\ as lie rose 

 to spe:ik, I gazed admiringly at his 

 well poised head and manly form, and 

 as his nu^isured sentences, full of sub- 

 tle liumor. fell from his lips, 1 thought 

 o\er and o\er again, "What a fine ac 

 (piisition a few men like (>ude in our 

 llorists' trade at home would be! They 

 would raise the tone of tli(> business all 

 •around in many towns.'' 



Richmond, Ind. 



Many AiiHM'icans visit Europe an 

 nually. We do not always know what 

 they are at home. They tell such tall 

 stories of millions of dollars, hundreds 

 of acres of this and tliousands of feet 

 of that, th.at we discount all they say. 

 Some people call it "swank." E. G. 

 Hill comes oxer h(M'(\ but there is no 

 "swank": he goes in and out among 

 us modestly and unassumingly all the 

 time and ;it Richmond he is .iust the 

 same. We were in his home, surrounded 

 by members of his family, and right 

 away he made us "at home" also. In 

 his nurseries he had not raised in our 

 minds anticipations of great things, but 

 great things were there all the same. 



Chicago. 



We ,arii\a'd befor(> 7 a. m.. but even 

 at this hour Chicago tlorists rose to the 

 occasion and nud. us at the depot. 

 ^Messrs. Kidilbraud. X'aughan, Winter 

 son, Bruns. Henderson. West. Kanst and 

 others all did tludr p.arts well and gave 

 a grand rec'option. Ceorgt- .\snius and 

 others, absent in Boston, were missed, 

 but .lohn P. Degnan — few of us knew 

 his surname, he was known as .Tohn-- 

 ]noved an excellent deput.v. John and 

 his confreres left no stone unturned t" 

 interest and entertain us. and what we 

 ilidn 't S(>e ot' Cjiicago is no fault of 

 theirs. Sorry 1 could not ])ersonally 

 visit the I'oelilmann range, but it made 

 a great impression on the minds of m\' 

 confreres. 



Boston. 



George Asmus missed us in Chicago, 

 but he was one of the first to shake 

 hands in Boston, along with F. R. Pier 

 son and Chester Cam|)bell. who acted a« 

 our escort to the exhibition, and from 

 the ]iortals of the entrance hall we 

 noted the British flag flying in honor 

 of our visit. Regarding these gentle- 

 men and Messrs. Iceland. Sim. Farqii 

 h.ar. Peter Fisher. Robert Craig. S. .1. 

 I (ioddard :ind many otliers, I can onl\ 

 I say they were all iolly good fellows. 

 j From sundry paragraphs in The Re- 

 view 1 have seen l-Soston 's hospitalitv 

 associated with beans. 1 saw few beans. 

 , I'lit Boston knows right wadi Imw to en 

 ^ tert.ain the straiiger< within her g.atcs. 

 \ll too -oon 1 ^aid t'arewell to "the 

 I abodes ot' art. of luxury and t,'i'-ti\" 



New York Again. 



I .\rtiiur T. Boddiiii;liin. .iliii, c(dle|ed. 



and H. A. l^.uny.ard. demonstrative. 

 made things hum i'or us on our last day 

 in New York. Mr. Iloddington re 

 ceived the rudiments of horticulture in 

 I'ngland and took peculiar pleasure in 

 entertaining us. presiiling with tact and 

 graiaa 



II. A. Bunyard is eipially at honie 

 discoursing on cann;is or cocktails, pre 

 -iding at a banipiet or mixing ;i salad. 

 tixin_'^ a thousand tloll.ar ord(>r or .a 

 pen!i\- piacket of swet>t peas. Tlie 

 arLie-t ov/lei- lie e\ er took w.as on a 



