. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1038 The American Florist. May 31, "There is one person that is always more right than anybody, and that is everybody"—so says Tallyrand. Very good. But how about this: "The minor- ity is always right," says Ibsen. Two chunks of wisdom which may serve the occasion—one for Boston, one for Canada, and yet if the minority is right how soon it will become a majority! And there you are again. Touch the right button and presto your minority is now a majority. Let me tell a little story. This little s
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1038 The American Florist. May 31, "There is one person that is always more right than anybody, and that is everybody"—so says Tallyrand. Very good. But how about this: "The minor- ity is always right," says Ibsen. Two chunks of wisdom which may serve the occasion—one for Boston, one for Canada, and yet if the minority is right how soon it will become a majority! And there you are again. Touch the right button and presto your minority is now a majority. Let me tell a little story. This little story was imparted to me one summer evening 4- or 5 years ago by no less a per- son than Mr. David Beam, the gentle- man who has been at the head of the committee of arrangements of the Penn- sylvania Horticultural society for the past ten years, and who knows more about the ins and outs and intricacies of judging than he always cares to tell. We were walking up to see the boys bowling at the Mannerchor and Davy being in a reminiscent mood got to talking of the first big show held in Philadelohia in the past decade. It was a great show, noth- ing like it had been attempted before either in Philadelphia, Boston or New York. Well, at such an aggregation the judges must be equal to the occasion of course. For the plants and other im- portant exhibits they seemed the greatest experts then known in horticulture. They happened to be Peter Henderson, John N. May and John Thorpe. They got along in their work swimmingly until they came upon some entries for 6 foliage plants. How many entries is immaterial. They finally got down to two. Hender- son and May said this one. Thorpe said no, the other, and then they trotted back totheother. and looked over them again. This was repeated so often that Davy be- gan to think, "goodness, this Thorpe must be a wonder when hecan make these two great lights defer in this ; Thorpe had not been much heard of in these parts at that time
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