. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. r- ?'VJ , . ->»^i4Mn||||i:'^^'".ii" ^U'_. j^,^ CHARLES WILLIS WARD'S WESTERN WORK Charles Willis Ward has less need for money than most of us, hut salabUity is Ward's measure of value; consequently the unique establish- ment he is creating on the shore of the Pacific is planned on modern commer- cial lines and its ability to make its oum way will be the demonstration of its success. ? ,. HERE is reason to question if any man who imported forcing stock^ last season did better than change his old dollar for a new one. Perhaps it is th
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. r- ?'VJ , . ->»^i4Mn||||i:'^^'".ii" ^U'_. j^,^ CHARLES WILLIS WARD'S WESTERN WORK Charles Willis Ward has less need for money than most of us, hut salabUity is Ward's measure of value; consequently the unique establish- ment he is creating on the shore of the Pacific is planned on modern commer- cial lines and its ability to make its oum way will be the demonstration of its success. ? ,. HERE is reason to question if any man who imported forcing stock^ last season did better than change his old dollar for a new one. Perhaps it is this that has created such marked interest in the western work of Charles Willis Ward, frequently the subject of fragmentary notes in The Review, although it may be that the man's virile character would create comment concerning a less unusual un- dertaking. But Ward is. starting to supply from the Pacific coast the stock for which we heretofore have relied on Belgium, Holland and Japan. Wliat a Sick Maa Does. Here is a man starting a large, exact- ing and, to a certain extent, untried business at the age most workers are ready to retire. Next year Mr. Ward will be 60, for he was born in a Mich- igan lumber camp in 1857. As a matter of fact he has retired twice, but he is a difficult person to keep on the shelf. The first time he stopped work his play developed the Cottage Gardens at Queens, N. Y., and made the place widely famous for the carnation seed- lings he raised there. The second time the doctors put him on the invalid list he was summoned to Eureka, Cal., to defend his rights to timber lands that were a part of his father's estate. The New Start. Today he is as well as at any time in his life and the Cottage Gardens Nur- series have evolved from his renewed energy. Adopting the characteristic Californian view, he says the wonder- ful climate cured him, but a scientist might aver he became so engrossed in winning his lawsuit and in developing the wonderful institution hi
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