. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. RmBrica is "the Prow of tbs Uessel; thEve may be more comfort Rmidships, but we are the Erst to touch Unknoura Seas," Vol. XXXII. CHICAQO AND NEW YORK. JANUARY 30, 1909 No. 1078 1i!3ii ^^^mi§Mi iFiL@Lei!@7 Twenty-fourth Vear. Copyright, 1909. by American Florist Company Entered as Second-Class Matter Not. , at the Post Office at Chicago. Illinois. under Act of March 3. 1879. Published Every Saturday by AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY, 324 Dearborn St., Chicago. Eastern Office: 1133 Broadway, New York, PU


. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. RmBrica is "the Prow of tbs Uessel; thEve may be more comfort Rmidships, but we are the Erst to touch Unknoura Seas," Vol. XXXII. CHICAQO AND NEW YORK. JANUARY 30, 1909 No. 1078 1i!3ii ^^^mi§Mi iFiL@Lei!@7 Twenty-fourth Vear. Copyright, 1909. by American Florist Company Entered as Second-Class Matter Not. , at the Post Office at Chicago. Illinois. under Act of March 3. 1879. Published Every Saturday by AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY, 324 Dearborn St., Chicago. Eastern Office: 1133 Broadway, New York, PUladelphia, Pa.: Robt. Kift 1725 Chestnat St. Registered Cable Address: Ameflo, Cblcago Subscription. United States and Mexico. $ a year: Canada. $; Europe and Countries in Postal Union. $ Subscriptions accepted only from the trade. Vol umes half yearly from August, 1901. Address all correspondence, subscriptions, etc., American Florist 324 Dearborn Chicago. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS AND ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURISTS. OlTicERS —J. A. Valentine, Denver. Colo., Pres.; E. G. Gillett, Cincinnati, O., VioePres.: W. N. ECBD, Morgan Park, 111., Seo'y; H. B. BiATTT, Pittsburg, Pa., Treas. Nest meeting at Cincinnati, O., August, 1909 AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. Annual meeting and exhibition at Buffalo, , March 17,1909. Aug. Poehlmann, Chicago, president; Benjamin Hammond, FishkiU-on- Hudson, , secretary. Grass and Roses. 1 looked where the roses were blowing,— Tbey stood among grasses and reeds; I Bald, "Where such beauties are growing. Why Eoffer these paltry weeds?" Weeping, the poor things faltered. "We have neither beauty nor bloom, We are grass In the roses' garden— Bat our Master gives us this room. "We have fed His humblest creatures, We have served Him truly and long; He gave no grace to our features— We have neither color nor song. "Yet He who has made the rosea Placed us on the self-same sod; He knows our reason for be


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