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Title: Florists' review (microform)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
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782 The Weekly Florists' Review

January 31, 1907.

sale houses in Canada, has a cinch
and looks it. He is a young man of great
ambition and energy and speaks enthusi-
astically of the future of the cut flower
business there.
William P. Craig and his new fern
were both impressive and have both
come to stay for many a year, we hope.
Richard Witterstaetter grows more
Aristocratic every year. His exhibits
were centers of interest.
Harry Bunyard felt the influence of
the "sozodont" in the air and kept his
companions merry.
Some of the Chicago ladies put the
surplus wealth their worser halves into
Canadian furs, a wise and unregrettable
decision. The new secretary of the S. A. F.
said his year's salary was large-
ly provided for in this practical way
and George Asmus thinks furs are better
and safer any day than diamonds.
Late trains were the fashion last week.
Strange to say the train from Philadel-
phia was on time and Boston five hours
behind.
The consensus of opinion is that this
was the best convention in the history of
the Carnation Society. So say all of us
nd "God save the King."
J. Austin Shaw.

MR. WARD'S ADDRESS.
[The reply to the Lientenant-Governor's ad-
dress of welcome to the American Coronation
Society, at Toronto, January 23, 1907, by Chas.
Willis Ward, of Queens, N. Y.]

That which impresses Americans most
when they consider their Canadian neigh-
bors is the vastness of the still undevel-
oped resources of Canada.

Some of Canada's Resources.
From the Atlantic to Lake Winnipeg,
and from the northern boundary of Lake
Superior to near the southern shore of
Hudson bay, are still standing countless
thousands of millions of valuable tim-
bered forests, and the same is true along
the western borders of the Rocky moun-
tains, among the Selkirks and bordering
the Pacific ocean from Vancouver north-
ward to Alaska. While I have no figures
to support the assertion, I will risk the
opinion that Canada has today ten times
the area standing in original forests
than now remains in the United States
and the day is not far distant when the
largest proportion of the timber con-
sumed in the United States must of
necessity be drawn from Canadian for-
ests.
Again, Canada has almost exhaustless
deposits of both anthracite, bituminous
and splint- coals, the extent of which
have not yet been determined, but which
may be fairly said to reach along the
base of the Rocky mountains from the
northern border of the United States
well up into the Saskatchewan region
and possibly to the shores of the Arctic
ocean.
Your grazing lands extend from the
western line of your midcontinental tim-
ber belt to the Rocky mountains, and
from the northern line of Minnesota
northward almost to the region of per-
petual snow. And a large proportion of
these grazing lands are especially
adapted to grain raising and give as
rich crops as were ever garnered from
the richest grain raising districts of In-
diana, Illinois, Minnesota and the Da-
Text Appearing After Image:
Charles Willis Ward.

kotas in their palmiest days, and Canada
is rapidly becoming the granary of the
American continent. Then, too, a large
proportion of the agricultural lands lying
between the Muskoka lake district and
the Atlantic ocean are particularly
adapted to the raising of wheat, barley
and oats and serve to lend additional
importance to Canada's immense grain
productiveness; and the same can be
said of a large proportion of the for-
ested area lying between the Selkirk
range and the Pacific ocean.
A considerable portion of your lands
lying along the borders of the United
States are well adapted to the raising
of apples, pears, plums and cherries, so
that the Canadian people need not suffer
for the want of wholesome, home-
grown fruits.

Floriculture.

Canadian florists have already made
their mark as expert growers of green
house products and on no part of the
American continent are better and more
perfect roses, carnations, chrysanthe-
mums and violets produced than are
grown by the leading florists of Toronto
and its contiguous territory; and it has
always been a pleasure for the members
of the American Carnation Society and
other kindred bodies to have with them
their brother Canadian florists, as they
have found them to be gentlemen well
schooled in their profession and well
fitted to give practical and valuable ad-
vice.

American Breeders' Association.

It has just been my pleasure to at-
tend the sessions of the American Breed
ers' Association held last week at Co-
lumbus, Ohio, where during a period of
five days I was called upon to preside at
numerous sessions of its plant breeding
section, and I can assure you Canadians,
that we consider among our most val-
uable members the representatives of
your different experiment stations, who
have proven themselves to be among the
most enthusiastic of our members and
who have demonstrated their fitness to
hold their positions by showing us
the immensely practical results that have
been secured in their experimental work.
And they are now working hand and
glove with the experimenters of the
United States for the purpose of im-
proving all horticultural products, as
well as all branches of the animal rais-
ing industry; and I can assure you that
the joint efforts of the practical experi-
menters of the two nations will certainly
produce better results far more rapidly
than if either nation attempted to go it
alone.

The Canadian People.

When we come to compare the people
of Canada with those of the United
States, we find them to be practically
of the same type and practically of the
same origin. They are essentially Amer-
ican, each as much as the other. They
are a vigorous, virile and energetic race,
the result of the development of the
human family upon this vast American
continent. And I believe them to be
practically the same people throughout,
actuated by the same high ideals of
brotherhood, honesty and fair dealing
and both nations bent upon the develop-
ment of our continental resources to the utmos.
Our continent is a vast and
fertile one. Its natural resources are
not yet fully understood, and perhaps are
not to be fully measured for centuries to come.

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