. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 356 The American Florist, Sept. II, The Way the Wind Blows. Mark Twain says the wind blows from the north, or the south, or the east, or the west, or some point approximating in those general directions. Twenty-five years ago the Society of American Florists started on its career and the A_meeican Florist was launched. There have been innumer- able changes in almost all lines of horticultural trade, and as we look back it seems hardly possible that there should be so much advance in that period. It has been an era
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 356 The American Florist, Sept. II, The Way the Wind Blows. Mark Twain says the wind blows from the north, or the south, or the east, or the west, or some point approximating in those general directions. Twenty-five years ago the Society of American Florists started on its career and the A_meeican Florist was launched. There have been innumer- able changes in almost all lines of horticultural trade, and as we look back it seems hardly possible that there should be so much advance in that period. It has been an era of per- petual hustle, and the hands that have guided the advance have guided It well. Most of us can remember when roses were shipped in quantity (for those days) from Boston to New Tork, Philadelphia, Chicago and the princi- pal cities in the west. I remember a shipment of mignonette that was sent to St. Louis one Christmas from Boston. Since then what has happened? The New Yorkers count their glass by the acre, Philadelphia has enough to ship to Boston, while the west—that is where the hustlers went. Take Chi- cago, for instance. No one ever dreamed of the proportion of glass that has been erected there in the past few years, and the quahty of roses can compare with any. The carnation has advanced from a modest little buttonhole flower to the magnificent specimens that we now see. The American Carnation Society was never dreamed of years ago. The chrysan- themum has advanced commercially from a field-grown plant taken up in August and put in boxes, when the flowers sold at 50 cents per bunch, to a plant grown on benches single stem, with heads resembling those of foot- ball players. It has indeed been a wonderful change. And the rose— There has been a change in the number of varieties; but about the quality of the roses, 'take Mermet, Cook, Safrano and those old ones. I doubt if they are grown as well as they were then, and the meth- ods of growing are not very much dif
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