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Gladiolus Show at Lansing. 
The second annual Gladiolus show 
held in the lobby of the Capital Na- 
tional Bank at Lansing, Mich., was a 
success. It was held during the week 
of August 18th, and the attendance 
was large, last year’s show having 
helped to popularize the Gladiolus in 
the city. 
More than one hundred different va- 
rieties were shown by local growers. 
These included the popular favorites 
like Mrs Frank Pendleton, Niagara, 
Giant White, Baron Joseph Hulot, Mrs. 
Francis King and America, and some of 
the newer varieties like Mrs. Dr. Nor- 
ton, Schwaben, etc., were also shown. 
The lobby of the bank makes a fine 
place for the display of flowers. We 
have hanging in the office of The 
Flower Grower a frame containing 
more than a dozen photographs made 
at the time of last year’s show, and as 
a setting for beautiful flowers it would 
be difficult to find a more attractive 
place than the bank lobby. 
Local Gladiolus growers and florists 
were well represented. Earl Edgerton 
showed the Kunderd varieties espe- 
cially. L. W. Hoisington had forty dif- 
ferent varieties on display. George 
Glassbrook had some of the newer va- 
rieties and standards neatly arranged. 
Fred Baumgras probably had more 
different varieties than any other 
grower and many of these were new 
and rare and showed for the first time 
in Lansing. Mrs. W. J. Whitely showed 
a number of the newer varieties includ- 
ing Mrs. Dr. Norton. The florists, The 
Alpha Floral Co., The Lansing Floral 
Co., Harry Saier and G. Fred Bauerle 
were all represented by good displays 
and several amateurs also helped to 
make the show a success with vases 
and baskets of bloom. 
August 24th, the last day of the show, 
was Red Cross Day and the local Gladi- 
olus growers donated flowers, the en- 
tire receipts going to the Red Cross. 
One hundred and sixty-six dollars and 
sixty-six cents was realized from the 
sale of flowers at the bank. 
Effect of War on Flori- 
culture in England. 
Nelson Coon, a florist of Rhinebeck, 
N. Y., with the colors in Europe writes 
in the Florists’ Exchange on the effect 
of the war on floriculture, and espe- 
cially in Great Britain, as follows: 
What has war done to floriculture here? I have 
often asked gardeners and florists here. Sometimes 
they have answered and sometimes the answer was 
evident. The florist profession has, I believe, not 
been hurt a bit, outside the first shock, and many 
men report better business than ever. Many new 
graves, of course, bring some business but my obser- 
vation has been that as a whole the people of Great 
Britain are a flower loving people. Many a time I 
have seen homely country people, with perhaps a 
garden full of many flowers, step into a shop and 
purchase perhaps a six penny bunch of some peren- 
nial. This is the kind of spirit that makes trade. 
In reporting the Buffalo flower show 
of the American Gladiolus Society last 
month we neglected to give the names 
of the judges. The flowers were well 
judged by J. J. Grullemans, Jr., Avon- 
on-Lake, Ohio ; Joe Coleman, Wayland, 
Ohio, and E. A. Slattery, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Slower (Brower 
Red Cross Gladiolus 
Sale at Winona, Minn. 
The Pfeiffer Nursery, of Winona, 
Minn., write us about a Red Cross 
Gladiolus sale which was recently held 
in their city. The exhibit and sale was 
staged on an open pavilion in the busi- 
ness district of the city and conducted 
by the local Red Cross Society. The 
exhibits were attractively arranged on 
tables, each table in charge of several 
attendants. The bloom was donated 
outright by the Pfeiffer Nursery and 
about 2,500 spikes were sold, the pro- 
ceeds, $169, all going into the general 
Red Cross fund. Mr. Pfeiffer reports 
that some of their choicest bloom sold 
as high as 25c. per spike. The affair 
was considered a great success in every 
way. 
The Glad Philosopher’s 
Musings. 
This bit of wisdom is copied from 
Jessie Peabody Frothingham’s interest- 
ing book, “Success in Gardening,” and 
stamps the author at once as a philos- 
opher: “Let no one think that be- 
cause he has a small plot he cannot 
have a garden. Nothing is prettier 
than to see a 25 foot yard a mass of 
bloom. He can plant something, even 
on ten feet of land, and have flowers, 
even in a soapbox.” 
It is not always the largest or most 
imposing garden that produces the 
most beautiful flowers, nor does the 
biggest bouquet always make the most 
striking impression ; and a single plant 
growing in a cracked and faded pot 
in the sunny window of a crippled 
child’s room in some rude garret, if 
lovingly tended, may produce blossoms 
surpassing those produced in some rich 
man’s pretentious conservatory. 
One day, many years ago, the writer 
— then a boy —accompanied his mother 
and a party of ladies when they visited 
a poor house, and were being shown 
through the institution by the matron. 
Passing from room to room we were 
impressed by the diversity of appear- 
ances, revealing the varied tempera- 
ments and conditions of the occupants. 
One of the inmates, a simple-minded 
girl, proudly exhibited great strings of 
buttons of various sizes and styles 
which she had collected through years 
of begging them from visitors. Some 
of the rooms were illy furnished and 
cheerless, and these usually revealed a 
sullen, morose nature in the occupant. 
In one large and sunny apartment, an 
old lady with a kindly face came to greet 
us as we entered her door. Shelves 
across the windows held numerous tin 
cans filled with growing plants and 
blooming flowers, all showing evidence 
of painstaking care. We lingered in 
this old lady’s room quite a while, for 
she was refined and talkative, and 
showed that she appreciated our visit 
greatly. To this day the recollection 
of the plants growing in her windows 
lingers in my memory, although I have 
October, 1918 
long since forgotten what I saw in 
most of the other rooms we visited 
that day. 
I have sometimes wondered whether 
this dear old lady, who was happy, 
though in the poorhouse, had learned 
to love flowers as a result of having 
been endowed by nature with a cheer- 
ful disposition, or whether an innate 
love of flowers and a lifetime’s associa- 
tion amongst them had implanted the 
sunny disposition in her soul that led 
her to a happy, peaceful enjoyment of 
her last days. Can you solve the 
riddle? I confess that I cannot. 
I’m glad to have a bit of land ; 
I love to stir it with a hoe ; 
To plant some seeds, and rake them in ; 
To water them, and watch them grow. 
Earth is not all, the flowers teach, 
Though in its soil we plant the seed — 
Sunshine and rain from heaven sent, 
For their development they need. 
So, when their glorious blooms unfold, 
Reflecting joys from heaven above, 
They turn my thoughts to God. I thank 
Him then because I live, — and love. 
The Glad Philosopher. 
It seems strange how persistent is 
the idea that the tops or leaves of a 
Gladiolus plant should be left on the 
bulb for a few hours or a few days at 
digging time. Those with experience 
invariably state that the tops should 
be cut off promptly when the bulb is 
pulled out of the ground. The quicker 
this is done the better not only on ac- 
count of its advantage to thecorm, but 
as a matter of convenience in handling 
them after digging. 
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Growers having surplus stock for sale will find 
this department effective in disposing of it. Five 
lines ( about forty words) $1.00 per insertion. Ad- 
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E. KIRCHHOFFCO., Pembroke, N.Y., growers 
• of the finest Gladioli, such as Pendleton, Pan- 
ama, Niagara, Pink Perfection, Europa, Mrs. Fryer, 
War, Peace, etc. Correspondence solicited. 
lY/TUNSELL & HARVEY. Ashtabula, Ohio, growers 
m of GLADIOLI and PEONIES. Would appreci- 
ate your order for Peony roots for fall delivery, at 
least the request for a price list. 
WE ARE GROWING GLADIOLUS BULBS for the 
retail dealers. We have room for your order 
whether one or one million. Ideal soil. Can we 
grow some for you ? Write for terms. 
C. I. Hunt & Son, Hunt, N.Y. 
LADIOLI— Clean, healthy, young stock absolutely 
free from disease. Forty leading commercial va- 
rieties. Prompt shipment after Nov. 1st. Reasonable 
prices. Send for wholesale list. T. H. Fuller, Gladi- 
olus Specialist, 649 Marshall St., Battle Creek, Mich. 
WANTED GLADIOLI— CONTRACT PRICE-DE- 
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delivery fall 1918, large quantities of Gladioli, leading 
varieties. State varieties, quantities and lowest pos- 
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sizes. Must depend on full delivery of stock offered. 
We are willing to advance part payment on contracts 
before delivery is made. We can only pay RIGHT 
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