. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Nic. Zweifel. Pri'sidi'iitElict .MilwaukcM. Morists' Club. ture of the Chrysanthemum,' and as I wished to include a chapter on the way they are grown, and the varie- ties they grow in America, I thought I could write with more confidence if I saw for myself. I was very sorry to miss every 'Mum.' show in Great Britain, the first time for at least 20 years. But if W. Wells was away, the Co. were busy, so I have just come home happy in the knowledge that things can be done as well by others as I could have done mysel
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Nic. Zweifel. Pri'sidi'iitElict .MilwaukcM. Morists' Club. ture of the Chrysanthemum,' and as I wished to include a chapter on the way they are grown, and the varie- ties they grow in America, I thought I could write with more confidence if I saw for myself. I was very sorry to miss every 'Mum.' show in Great Britain, the first time for at least 20 years. But if W. Wells was away, the Co. were busy, so I have just come home happy in the knowledge that things can be done as well by others as I could have done myself. My third object was to fix up an agency in America. Each year we send a set or two of our novelties to several firms over there. One or two of these firms endeavor to grow them as well as they can the first year, while others cut them to pieces and propagate them for all they are worth (Isn't that just the same as here?). The latter cut the prices so low (below the other fellow's feet) that not one appears to get much out of them. "Knowing that our (i. e., the Wells- Pockett) varieties do so well in America, I felt curious and anxious to know everything there was to know about them, and now I know that at all the exhibitions I visited the Australian varieties totalled about two-thirds of the whole of the varie- ties. It is a curious fact, and yet it is no puzzle to me now, for one has only to think that the heat in Australia is great, as is also the heat in America —the summer conditions are very similar—and considering that all the chrysanths. are grown indoors through the summer in America, the heat is even greater than it would be out- doors in Australia. "It is an old and true saying (as old Farmer Brown said) 'that one never saw a pig, but he would eat a bit ; That occurred to me when I thought there should be a bit more come to me from America. So off to America I goes and I have fixed it up with C. H. Totty, a well-known chrysanthemum grower an
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