Fund for the Relief of French Fruit Growers 
Contributions Received Up to September 25, igiy 
From Members of the Horticultural Society of New York $2,475.00 
Garden Club of Short Hills 5 . 00 
Albemarle Garden Club 50. 00 
Bedford Garden Club 100. 00 
Garden Club of Lawrence 25 . 00 
Garden Club of Ridgefield 25 . 00 
Lenox Garden Club (erroneously credited in first statement 
to the Horticultural Society of Lenox) 200 . 00 
Nassau Horticultural Society 25 . 00 
Monmouth County Horticultural Society 10.00 
Total $2,915 . 00 
The foregoing is a statement sent by Mr. Britton for publication in 
The Bulletin. Since that date other Garden Clubs have contributed. 
In the next issue these will be reported and an account will also be 
given of the French Commission recently appointed to organize the 
work. 
Patriotism and "The Trade" 
Much space is given in this issue of The Bulletin to the war work 
of amateurs. It seems only fair to record the views of professional 
nurserymen and florists. The following statements are taken from the 
"Florists' Exchange," the first being the decision arrived at in a con- 
ference on the order of the Fuel Administration in regard to "non- 
essential industries." 
"All businesses and industries are being asked to conserve and cur- 
tail consumption of coal. Where an industry has a large quantity of 
goods produced in advance of actual need or where the demand has 
dropped off, it is expected to curtail its activities. Florists and others 
are admonished to look to their heating plants and get the maximum 
of efficiency from them; also, if it is possible to run a house this year 
at a temperature of, say, 55 degrees where last year it was 65 degrees, 
that should be done. 
There is this to be remembered : It is the life of the country first. 
Industry of a nature that can be dispensed with is merely an incident 
to commercial activity, to be maintained as nearly normal as possible, all 
other things being equal. If it is a choice between munitions and clothing 
for the Army and Navy on the one hand, and flowers and luxuries on the 
other, there will be no hesitancy as to which must give way.'^ 
The War and Women 
Four of the employees of a large floral establishment in the Middle 
West registered for the draft recently, which is just a suggestion of the 
