. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. line l^mmmn RmBrica is the Prow of the I/essel t ore may be mors comfort Rmidships but we a. e the first to tou ch Unknown Seas," Vol. II. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, JULY 1, 1887. No. 46. fLNiii /Ali»iiil!@M} fiL@ieLi@ir Copyright, 1887, by American Florist Company Entered as Second-class Mail matter. Published on the ist and 15th of each month by T/IE AMERICAN FLORTST COMPANY. General Offices, 54 La Salle Street, Chicago. Eastern Office, Room 81, Vanderbilt Building, New York. All communications should b
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. line l^mmmn RmBrica is the Prow of the I/essel t ore may be mors comfort Rmidships but we a. e the first to tou ch Unknown Seas," Vol. II. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, JULY 1, 1887. No. 46. fLNiii /Ali»iiil!@M} fiL@ieLi@ir Copyright, 1887, by American Florist Company Entered as Second-class Mail matter. Published on the ist and 15th of each month by T/IE AMERICAN FLORTST COMPANY. General Offices, 54 La Salle Street, Chicago. Eastern Office, Room 81, Vanderbilt Building, New York. All communications should be addressed to the general office at Chicago. Society of American Craig, Philadelphia, Pres.; Pres.; M. A. Hunt, Treas. Chestnut Hill, Philadelphi: annual meeting at Chicag( 18, 1S87. Lonsdale. :c'y. The third ugust 16, 17 and The Coming Meeting. I have to-day returned from a three days' trip to New York and vicinity. There is a very general disposition on the part of the florists of that section to go to the convention at Chicago in Au- gust. Nearly every one I met had made up his mind to so arrange his affairs as to be able to "get ; It is evident that the New Yorkers are awake and ap- preciate the benefits that may be derived from attendance at that meeting. I thought that 600 members present in Philadelphia last summer was a good showing, but feel sure that at least i,«» members of the society will assemble in Chicago. Many of the eastern men have never been there, and as, contrary to the general impression formed since the passage of the inter-state commerce act, the prospect for getting favorable rail- road rates is good, it would be a great mistake for any to neglect the opportu- nity. The Seedsmen's association, now in session in Philadelphia, with less than fifty members in attendance, as well as the nurserymen meeting at Chicago this week, have obtained a reduction to a rate and a third, which was very difiicult for the florists to get last year, alth
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