. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo2. The American Florist. 135. JOHN BURTON, OF PHILADELPHIA. (I'lKiiiiniously Re-elected President of the Scwi^u of American Florists at the Asheville Conveution.) the vast advance in the laying out and planting of grounds in recentyears. The quantities of hardy stock required have been immense and there is every indica- tion that the demand will be on the increase for a long time to come. Every commercial florist who does what is termed "a general trade" and who has as a rule considerable land, or can
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo2. The American Florist. 135. JOHN BURTON, OF PHILADELPHIA. (I'lKiiiiniously Re-elected President of the Scwi^u of American Florists at the Asheville Conveution.) the vast advance in the laying out and planting of grounds in recentyears. The quantities of hardy stock required have been immense and there is every indica- tion that the demand will be on the increase for a long time to come. Every commercial florist who does what is termed "a general trade" and who has as a rule considerable land, or can readily get same, should study this phase of the business and secure his share of the trade in hardy platits. The recent additions to our original tital of the words "Ornamental Horti- culturists" has published the broadness of our work. The laj-ing out of grounds, or landscape gardening, is a most impor- tant section and we cannot do too much for tliis branch of gardening. We should deprecate the custom, which is common among many of our florists and jobbing gardeners, of calling themselves "land- scape ; To be able to look after agreenhouse and plant a flower bed may warrant the title of florist but certainly not that of "landscape ; We should also set our faces sternly against the abuse of tlie word gardener. .\ person who milks the cows and mows the lawn is a laborer, or man of all work, and the looseness of expression in common use of calling him a gardener is tnainl}- responsible for bringing an ancient and honorable calling into such disrepute that horticulturists, floricult- urists, landscape architects and a host of other titles have been resorted to, which are not nearly as accurate nor appropri- ate as the old word. Gardening has been in all ages the inclination of kings ' and the choice of philosophers and, as the Prince de Ligne has it, "is the onlj' passion that augments with ; Our best efforts should
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