This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
G.T. Field, of Monmouth county, New Jersey, speaks in glowing terms of the prospects for success of cocoanut culture along the coast of Florida. All reports favor Mr. Field's enthusiasm. There can be no doubt, we think, that cocoanut culture is to be one of the profitable investments in this remarkable State. They bear in ten years, and yield from 100 to 200 nuts annually.
Among the implements of gardening exhibited, the Excelsior fumi-gator of Hermann Perlich for fumigating greenhouses attracted some attention. So far as we can see it still continues ahead of any similar con- trivance, and it renders easy what has hitherto been one of the most disagreeable duties of the gardener.
It was noted at the Florists' Convention that some of the very best effects produced were those in which no other flowers than yellow roses, Maiden Hair ferns, and Lily of the Valley were produced. Those versed in the art of beauty pronounce this combination perfect.
Sturtevant's flowers of the noble Victoria still reminded the observer of Mr. Caleb Cope's prediction, when flowering the plant first in this country thirty-five years ago, that there could not be any handsomer present to a bride than one of these gorgeous blossoms.
President, Robert Craig; Vice President, J. C. Vaughan; Secretary, Edwin Lonsdale; Treasurer, Myron A. Hunt. Place of next meeting, Chicago.
Mr. John Henderson told how the old June rose, or Hybrid China, was crossed with the Bourbon, and this gave them their semi-perpetual blooming character.
Thomas Meehan, detected by President Thorpe in the audience, was invited to the platform. He referred to the sea of young faces before him, which indicated that though varieties might wear out, and individual florists wear out and pass away, the love of flowers abideth forever. It was a love that never died.
Among the ready-witted intelligent speakers who gave life to the Conven-vention, was James Hendricks, of Albany, New York. As he evidently had grown gray in the service, there were many inquiries as to where he had been keeping himself these many years.
President Thorpe thought that the few common and yet high-priced things introduced by the itinerant pedlars, do good in the long run. They take floral light into dark corners; and though it be but a rush light, it awakens a desire for brighter things.
 
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