. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. RmBrica. is "tba Prnw of ths UbssbI; there may be mare comfort Rmidships, but we are the £rst ta touch Unknou/a Seas," Vol. XVI. CHICAQO AND NEW YORK. AUGUST ii. 1900. No. 636. fsm ^mi^mim lF(L@Lei!gir Copyrieht 1900, by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published eveet Saturday bt AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. 334 Dearborn St., Chicago. Eastern Office: 67 Bromfleld St., Boston. Subscription, a year. To Europe, $ Subscriptions accepted only from the trade. SOCIETY OP A


. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. RmBrica. is "tba Prnw of ths UbssbI; there may be mare comfort Rmidships, but we are the £rst ta touch Unknou/a Seas," Vol. XVI. CHICAQO AND NEW YORK. AUGUST ii. 1900. No. 636. fsm ^mi^mim lF(L@Lei!gir Copyrieht 1900, by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published eveet Saturday bt AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. 334 Dearborn St., Chicago. Eastern Office: 67 Bromfleld St., Boston. Subscription, a year. To Europe, $ Subscriptions accepted only from the trade. SOCIETY OP AMERICAN FLORISTS AND ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURISTS. OmcERS—E. M. Wood, Natick, Mass., presi- dent; P. K. P1BK8ON, Tarrytown, N. Y., vice- president: Wm. J. Stewabt, 67 Bromfleld St., Boston, Mass., secretary; H. B. Beattt, Oil City, Pa., treasurer. The sixteenth annual meeting will be held at New York, August 21 to 24, 1900. AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. Annual meeting at New York, 1901. Leonabd Babbon, 136 Liberty St., New York, secretary. THE AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. Annual convention at Baltimore, February, 1901. ALBEBT M. Hbbb, Lancaster, Pa., secretary. CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF AMERICA. Annual meeting at New York, August, 1900. Elueb D. Smith, Adrian, Mich, secretary. THIS ISSUE 32 PAGES WIIH COVER. CONTENTS. A ramble in the convention city 25 The mall in Central Park, New York (illus.).. ..27 The English sweet p^a conference (illus.) 28 Conventions at expositions 28 New York 30 Boston 30 Philadelphia 30 Chicago 31 Coal report of Chicago Florists' Club 31 Twenty-Ave cents on the dollar 32 Railroad fares fo"* Canadians 32 Mr. Scott of Buffalo 32 Soci^-ty of American Florists 32 Convention tips 3i Th" convention hall 32 Buffalo to New York 32 Chicago to New York 3'J The seed trade 38 ^Pepper's Prolific tomato 3H —An English selection of sweet peas 38 Cleveland 38 The nursery trade 10 —The cl mails disease 40 Washington 40 Our pastimes—At Chicago 42 —At Boston 4


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