THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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The two essentials are wages and a recognized position or 
standing. 
The first solves itself with all commercial houses as a man 
should be paid according to the value he produces. This 
should be promptly recognized by the employer and every 
encouragement given. 
The second is largely one of sentiment but never the less 
real. A soldier sacrifices his life for it, and a man with 
ambition works for something else besides the dollar. Give 
the skilled nursery worker a recognized standing in the trade 
that is not actually bounded by the limits of the nursery 
where he is employed. 
The Philadelphia Chrysanthemum Show 
THE held at the Horticultural Hall, Broad and 
PHILADELPHIA Locust, under the auspices of the Penn- 
CHRYSANTHE- sylvania Horticultural Society was in 
MUM SHOW many ways superior to any previous 
exhibition in this city. 
On the whole it showed marked improvement over pre¬ 
ceding years. 
Most attractive and splendidly done were the general 
decorations and general arrangements, executed under the 
direct supervision of William Graham of the Habennehl 
establishment. 
The great improvement in this alone show that better 
results are obtained by placing the work in the hands of a 
specialist instead of leaving it with a committee however well 
fonned it may be. 
The private gardeners were in strong force with their 
exhibits and deserved much praise for the floricultural 
triumphs they displayed in large specimen plants and cut 
blooms of Chrysanthemums. 
The display of orchids from a number of sources was 
unusually good. An Orchid picture from Joseph Heacock, 
Wyncote, Penna., composed of Cattleya and Oncidium grace¬ 
fully and artistically arranged with ferns in a massive gilt 
frame caused a sensation and was a feature to be remembered. 
The seedsmen were represented by the houses of Dreer, 
Michell, Waterer and Burpee. 
Nurserymen were not so much in evidence. The William 
H. Moon Co., displayed groups of evergreens distinctly 
classified in their several genera. 
Thomas Meehan & Sons arranged an attractive exhibit of 
Hardy Chrysanthemums backed by a number of rare ever¬ 
greens among which stood out very conspicuously well 
berried specimens of English Holly. In addition to the 
above group they had an exhibition of Twenty competitive 
paintings of their Mallow Marvels. 
K The winner of the first prize, $100.00 was a picture sent 
from Ohio and was very cleverly done, being botanically 
K correct as well as very artistic. 
Edwin Matthews. 
Most nurseries are away from the passing crowds. Advei - 
tise or buyers will not know you are in the business. 
Buyers need not be afraid to deal with advertisers in the 
National Nurseryman. All are of good business standing. 
THE PANAMA-CALIFORNIAN EXPOSITION 
Already visitors to the Exposition grounds are confronted 
with part of this splendid exhibit, which is being put in place 
by the southern counties of the State of California. Around 
the site of the building for the southern counties, work on 
which is now progressing, can be seen the main exhibit which 
will consist of an orchard of 800 trees embracing seventeen 
varieties of citrus fruits—oranges, lemons, grapefruit, and 
other varieties which form one of the principle products of 
California. 
Strangers to the region beyond the Rockies where eternal 
'spring holds sway find in the orange groves one of the most 
fascinating features of the country. The glossy green of the 
foliage, the wax-like blossoms dedicated by immemorial 
tradition to bridal festivals, golden fruit the like of which 
never was seen in the gardens of the Hesperides, all charm 
the eye and entrance the beholder. To produce on the 
Exposition grounds a model grove of this kind was a happy 
thought and that it will be an attraction of prime importance 
cannot be doubted. 
California will endeavor to convince the most skeptical 
visitor that its oranges and lemons and even its grapefruit, are 
superior to any that can be grown elsewhere. Some have 
thought that because few grapefruit have been seen in the 
markets from California, that State could not cope vdth the 
fine fruit grown in Florida, but Mr. A. D. Shamel, the Govern¬ 
ment expert engaged in standardization tests in California, 
declares that he has never seen finer grapefruit'than grows in 
the southern counties, where he has been laboring. With the 
other citrus fruits, including the celebrated navel orange, 
California is now sending to market spmething like 50,000 
carloads a year, which yields a big revenue to be divided 
between the growers, the pickers and packers, the railroads, 
the men who sell boxes, wrappers, tools and implements, 
fertilizers, and the food and clothing needed by those who 
live on the industry. The money goes into circulation and 
benefits thousands of people who never saw a growing orange 
tree, instead of going to foreign countries as it would do if the 
Californians had not by many years of experimenting and 
hard work bujlt up this splendid industry. 
This is but a sample of what other states wall do at San 
Diego. Take Louisiana, for instance. If that State sur¬ 
rounds her building with a field of sugar cane—and how many 
persons ever saw cane in the field?—by a miniature rice field, 
a bit of the virgin forests which contribute to her wealth, an 
acre of cotton—in short, by a typical scene such as is familiar 
to the people of the great state at the delta of the Mississippi, 
she will have the framework for an exhibit which will attract 
as much attention, it may be predicted, as the exhibit itself. 
And there is Texas, greatest State territorially of all in the 
Union. With her orange groves away down on the Gulf 
Coast, her fruit orchards, her rice and cotton fields, her oil— 
her hundred industries bringing in millions of treasure an¬ 
nually, Texas is in a position to make an exhibit—and she 
will make it—which will rival any, if indeed it does not carry 
off the honors for its novelty and interest. 
To call the roll of the States of the great West would take 
time but it may be taken for granted that they will rally to 
the opportunity and unite in such a showing as will surprise 
