. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. RiuBTica IS "the Prnw of the UbssbI; tbsrB maij bB more camfart JJmidsbips, but wbaPB tbB Srst to tnucb Unknown BBas," Vol. III. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 15, 1887. No. 55. fOiiig /Aiin!!©/4iM L^iL@iei!@f Copyright, 18S7, by American Florist Company, Entered as Second-class Mail matter. Published on the ist and 15th of each month by THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. General Offices, 54 La Salle Street, Chicago. Eastern Office, Room 81, Vanderbilt Building, New York. All communications should be addresse
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. RiuBTica IS "the Prnw of the UbssbI; tbsrB maij bB more camfart JJmidsbips, but wbaPB tbB Srst to tnucb Unknown BBas," Vol. III. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 15, 1887. No. 55. fOiiig /Aiin!!©/4iM L^iL@iei!@f Copyright, 18S7, by American Florist Company, Entered as Second-class Mail matter. Published on the ist and 15th of each month by THE AMERICAN FLORIST 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 Florists.—E. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind,, president; John N. May, Sum- mit, N. J., vice-president; M. A. Hunt, Terre Haute, Ind., treasurer; Wm. J. Stewart,67 Brom- field street, Boston, Mass., secretary. The fourth annual meeting at New York, Aug. 17, 18, 19, What the National Society is Doing. We have been requested by several correspondents to specify any advantage to be gained by becoming a member of the Society of American Florists. With no disrespect to these gentlemen, we can- not but express surprise that any mem- ber of the craft who is possessed of ordi- nary intelligence can fail to see what a noble work the society is doing. It is collecting together the scattered and varied interests of the craft in such a way that they are enabled to make their in- fluence felt, as a whole, in a way they could never do individually. It is en- nobling the whole trade. It is obtaining for the craft a recognition from society in general as to the importance of the trade. It is thoroughly advertising every florist in the land, and thus making money value for all—members or other- wise. It is thoroughly difliusing knowl- edge of the most advanced methods of culture ; knowledge which is worth hard cash to every one who properly applies it. More can be said, but this paper is not large enough to hold it all. Can you or any other fl
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