. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 42 The American Florist. Feb. S, tion and to-day, crediting the society with being the main incentive for the progress made. Mr. Totty,ofthe Morris County Society, responded for sister societies and Henry Bird for florists past and present. Mr. Bird drew an impressive parallel between old and new conditions of culture, green- house construction and so forth and pre- dicted more and more systematizing and and specialization in the floriculture of the future. Mr. O'Mara spoke to the toast to the seedsmen in his cust
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 42 The American Florist. Feb. S, tion and to-day, crediting the society with being the main incentive for the progress made. Mr. Totty,ofthe Morris County Society, responded for sister societies and Henry Bird for florists past and present. Mr. Bird drew an impressive parallel between old and new conditions of culture, green- house construction and so forth and pre- dicted more and more systematizing and and specialization in the floriculture of the future. Mr. O'Mara spoke to the toast to the seedsmen in his customary witty manner, occasioning much laughter and applause. Touching the question ot a national flower he said the seedsmen would never favor the sunflower or any- thing else the seed of which ia worth 10 cents a quart; rather choose something which brings "a dollar a ; He said for himself he favored the potato blossom as something representing the economics and heroics of American life but was afraid the A. P. A. would object. Seriously, he recommended the aquilegia. He paid his compliments to the national government for its performances in the seed business and quoted approvingly George Watson's recent scintillations in the American Florist. "Our pastimes" was the toast responded to by J. A. Shaw, who also read original verses illustrating the beauties of the Oranges. Dr. Kitchen described some recent experiments in soil chemistry and J. B. Davis was as gallant as ever in his response for the ladies, telling of their increasing importance in floriculture and describing the provision made for their education at Cornell University. S. S. Butterfield, Henry Bird, George Smith and Peter Duff all con- tributed to the musical part of the exercises and Mr. May received a vocifer- ous vote of thanks as an ideal toast- master. American Rose Society. The secretary of the American Rose Society has prepared the preliminary premium list of special prizes for the
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