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Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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dull hours, helps to pre-pare for winter in our business, andaids in keeping us all more cheerfuland contented. In closing, let me tell you an old, oldstory. There were once some wonder-ful mills and whenever one felt oldand tired and discouraged, he went tothe mills, and they ground out beauty,joy, pleasure, youth and contentment.These mills were lost, and for manyyears men searched for them in vain.They have been found again. Mothernature has given them back to us, forour flowers and plants are the old mills,come back to us again. The childrenof nature will inherit the beauty thatothers have lost; they inherit the giftof giving pleasure to humanity; andever since the days of the lost mills itis the flowers which keep us young andhappy, which bring us joy, pleasureand contentment. ROCK Island, III.—Plans for a newgreenhouse at Long View park are be-ing prepared under direction of Super-intendent C. F. Gaetjer, and work onthe structure will be started as soon asthe weather settles.
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GUSTAVE POEHLMANNS PRIZE PARTY AT MORTON GROVE MASQUERADE BALL. Who Mro the ILippy Chilrtron ? I9I5- The American Florist. 323 Massachusett Agricultural College. Under the guidance of Prof. A. H.Nehrling, 14 of the floricultural stu-dents at the Massachusetts Agricul-tural College, including nine of the 10■weeks men. took a three days instruc-tion trip to Boston and vicinity lastweek. The first day included visitsto three prominent growers at Fram-ingham, Mass., and to the Waban RoseConservatories at Natick. Mass. J. T.Butterworth, the renowned orchid spe-cialist, was the first visited. He hasbeen in business 50 years, and it waswith justifiable pride that he exhibitedhis valuable collection. He is using theoldest commercial greenhouse in Mas-sachusetts, a lean-to which was builtin 1848, and he finds it admirablysuited to cypi-ipediums. When askedwith what he fed these plants, he re-plied in his characteristic way, Withbrains, man, brains; nothing butbrains. He emphasized the fact t

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