. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. growing good crops over and over again, through sterilization, which destroys the harmful bacteria and, he assured his hearers, cannot destroy the good little bacteria. It was, perhaps, unfortunate that the club membership is devoid of college men. Composed as it is of practical men, self-made, many of them self- taught, their decision was just and right. They felt that with 150 stu- dents of horticulture at the state col- lege, nearly five-sixths of whom are there for the avowed purpose of study- ing fruit growing, it was hardly fair to expect muc
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. growing good crops over and over again, through sterilization, which destroys the harmful bacteria and, he assured his hearers, cannot destroy the good little bacteria. It was, perhaps, unfortunate that the club membership is devoid of college men. Composed as it is of practical men, self-made, many of them self- taught, their decision was just and right. They felt that with 150 stu- dents of horticulture at the state col- lege, nearly five-sixths of whom are there for the avowed purpose of study- ing fruit growing, it was hardly fair to expect much from the floriculturally in- clined body, for the present at least. They felt that the professors were an earnest, capable body of men, but that their work is in its infancy and that the tools now at their command are ample for the present. With all this, they felt a strong yearning for the knowledge which they in their youth had been denied. Was their decision wiset The Dinner at the League. The hastily arranged and entirely in- formal dinner given by the president of the Florists' Club, Alfred M. Campbell, to the speakers of the evening, Pi-o- fessor E. I. Wilde and Robert Craig, before the June meeting, was a delight- ful affair. It was held at the Union League Club and the score of guests in- vited to meet the speakers were the workers of the t-lul). Those present in- cluded John K. Andre, Eugene Bern- hcimer, Harry S. Betz, Alfred M. Camp- bell, George Craig, Robert Craig, Edwin J. Fancourt, Bruce Griflin, K. Harris, Edmund A. Harvey, Robert Kift, E. P. Klinger, F. J. Mitchell, Arthur A. Xiessen, Hugo N. Niessen. Leo Niessen. John W. Prince, Edward Reid and E. L Wilde. Contrary Minded—No. The question of the elub's endorse- ment of .nn exjienditure of approxi- mately $;)0,00(l for experimental pur- poses and for training horticultural students at the Pennsylvania State Col- lege is so broad as to merit careful thought. Then, too, the plan came un- l
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