Ofctober 12, 1907 



horticulture: 



475 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT. 



John EVer^Oii 'of 2S Second place, Brook- 

 lyn, and H. Jadobson, of 616 East Seven- 

 teenth sti'eet, Manhattan, were arrested 

 Friday aW^irnoon on the complaint of E. 

 H. Moore, an inspector of the Park Depart- 

 ment, who says that the men were mutil- 

 ating trees at Radde and Jane streets, 

 where they were engaged in moving a 

 house. — Long Island Star. 



(Jlad to Know it. "There's a good 

 time a'coraing." 



A magazine called "What to Eaf 

 regales its readers with a miraculous 

 story told by an alleged "New York 

 florist" of how he can in the space of 

 an hour raise from seed lettuce fit 

 for salac'. The principal point in the 

 recipe seems to be that the seeds are 

 soaked over niuht in alcohol. Didn't 

 "What to Eat" make a mistake and 

 shouldn't it have sai'l that the florist 

 got the soaking instead of the seed? 

 Or ma>'be it was the reporter for 

 '■What to Eat" who took the treat- 

 ment. .A.t any rate, if the rest of the 

 contents of that journal are built on 

 the same basis of reliability we should 

 feel safe to take our cue as to "what 

 to eat" from the barker for a "pie 

 alley beanery." 



"A Florist" is the signature attached 

 to a protest which has appeared in an 

 issue of the Boston American, callin.g 

 attention to the control recently se- 

 cured by the American Express Com- 

 pany over the line of the Boston & 

 Albany R. R. between Boston and 

 South Franiingham, with the result of 

 increased rates and much poorer serv- 

 ice. It is unfortunate that "A Florist" 

 is so timid that he must hide his iden- 

 tity. He'll never accomplish anything 

 in the way of reform by such means. 

 Monopolies can never be controlled or 

 frightened by blank cartridges. "A 

 Florist" cites the movement of which 

 he complains as an argument against 

 the merger cf the N. Y., N. H. & H. 

 R. R. with the Boston & Maine. This 

 is sound reasoning. It is but one of 

 many reasons, however, why Mellen's 

 abominable schemes should be opposed 

 by all New England business men. 



The New York Sunday Herald has 

 been giving its readers some thor- 

 oughly good reading matter on horti- 

 cultural topics each week. On Septem- 

 ber 29 a full page was devoted to an 

 illustrated article on violets which tells 

 the truth about violet culture at Rhine- 

 beck and elsewhere with a free exact- 

 ness not otten found in newspaper ac- 

 counts of floral matters. A shaip re- 

 buke is administered to those deluded 

 persons, usually women, who write 

 extravagant and misleading articles on 

 the pleasures and profits amateurs may 

 find in violet growing. A picture of a 

 street fakir disposing of his wares 

 from a tray on the curbstone is in- 

 scribed "This is how your violets will 

 be sold if you don't succeed in grow- 

 ing first-class flowers." One para- 

 graph among many well worth quoting 

 is as follows: "In mid-September a 

 few bunches of small short-stemmed 

 violets creep into market. Some grow- 

 er is Impatient to begin the harvest. 

 The commission man may throw them 

 into the garbage can but he is likely 

 to send a check. The good will of 

 shippers is worth the price." The 

 whole article is well worth reading, 

 and wears no unnecessary frills. 



Los Angeles florists are after the 

 t^treet fakirs and have made 

 appeal to the Mayor for protec- 

 tion against this class, mainly 

 Italians, who are said to buy 

 their flowers mainly from the Japanese 

 who raise their products on cheap- 

 rented land, and then sell it in the 

 vicinity of the high rental stores at 

 prices which cut into the trade 

 of the regular florists. A similar 

 movement is on foot in Indianapolis 

 The suggestion that these vendors 

 be restricted to a limited area, 

 such as Central Park, and not be 

 permitted to sell flowers in the busi- 

 ness zone, bears the stamp of good 

 judgment and is much more likely to 

 find official sympathy than any demand 

 for complete eviction, and we hope 

 will bring just relief to the florists of 

 these cities and at the same time 

 work no hardship to those who are 

 struggling to eke out an existence as 

 pedlers. It has been found in the large 

 centres that these street hawkers fill 

 a place in the economy of the flower 

 trade and that once settled into their 

 place they could not well be spared. 

 But the legitimate florist trade has a 

 right 10 demand that they be re- 

 stricted to certain localities, and pos- 

 sibly certain hours of the day, where 

 they may be found by those who 

 wouldn't iiuy elsewhere and the inevit- 

 able surplus of inferior material, un- 

 saleable elsewhere, made to yield some 

 little return for the grower. 



AN OPEN AIR WEDDING. 



The floral event of the Oranges oc- 

 curred on October fifth in the mar- 

 riage of Augusta, granddaughter of 

 the late Orson D. Munn to Israel Til- 

 ney, upon "The Terraces," the coun- 

 try seat of Charles Munn of the Scien- 

 tific American, in Llewellyn Park, N. J. 

 The ceremony took place upon the 

 lower of the seven terraces under an 

 arch of rambler roses and oak leaves. 

 C4reat as was this event to the prin- 

 cipal actors it was greater in its way 

 to the gardener, John Hayes, whose 

 life-work the continuous floral bloom 

 upon these celebrated terraces is, and 

 that it was fully appreciated by the 

 large gathering goes without saying. 

 The assemblage was a brilliant one 

 and required the entire livery equip- 

 ment of the Oranges to bring the 

 guests to the scene. The collation 

 was served upon the terraces and 

 upon the veranda and lawn in front 

 of the house. J. B. D. 



THE PHILADELPHIA WAY. 



While he was extolling marriage as 

 a great institution to a party of young 

 persons gathered in his home a few 

 evenings ago, J. William Colflesh, a 

 wholesale florist, who lives at Fifty- 

 third street and Woodland avenue, 

 was suddenly apprised by two of his 

 sons that he was a father-in-law twice 

 over, as they had been secretly mar- 

 ried, their weddings not being known 

 to each other. 



These revelations only increased 

 his good humor and strengthened his 

 Rooseveltian convictions, for besides 

 congratulating his two sons and salut- 

 ing his two new daughters-in-law, who 

 were in the party, he took the two 

 bridegroom? into partnership. — Phila. 

 North American. 



PERSONAL. 



Walter Morse of Morse & Beals, 

 Lowell, Mass., was recently married 

 to ^liss Helen Barnes of the same 

 city. 



The marriage of Robert F. Tesson 

 of St liOUis, Mo., and .Miss Hattie 

 Wilkerson is announced for this 

 month. 



James D. Rough, buyer for Thos. P. 

 Galvin's Back Bay store, Boston, and 

 Miss Emma McDonald of East Milton. 

 Mass., were married on October 1. 



John Pitchett, formerly with W. H. 

 Elliott, and Robert Dunn, lately with 

 Waban Rose Conservatories, have 

 taken positions with J. A. Budlong & 

 Sons Co., Auburn, R. I. 



Mr. John K. M. L. Parquhar deliv- 

 ered an interesting lecture illustrated 

 with lantern slides, on "Gardens An- 

 cient and Modern," before the Board 

 of Trade, Nashua, N. H., on Thursday 

 evening, October 10. 



J. H. Small, head of the firm of J. H. 

 Small & Sons, who has been critically 

 ill at his residence on Brentwood 

 Road, Washington, D. C. is, at the 

 present writing, somewhat more com- 

 fortable. However, there is little or 

 no hope entertained of his recovery, 

 owing to his advanced age and to a 

 paralytic stroke which he has had. 



PHILADELPHIA PERSONAL AND 

 BUSINESS ITEMS. 



J. Otto Thilow and J. D. Eisele of 

 Dreer's are expected home from their 

 European trip on the 17th inst. Sam- 

 uel S. Pennock and family are expect- 

 ed home about the 20th inst. The lat- 

 est heard of Mr. Pennock's party was 

 from the Giants Causeway in Ireland, 

 which they thought about the greatest 

 wonder they had seen in their long 

 journey. Another very enjoyable 

 teature of the trip was their visit to 

 the Dickson Rose Nurseries at New- 

 tonards. 



Among the Improvements conspicu- 

 ous among the local stores are a new 

 store front at Pennock Bros.' and fresh 

 interior decorations; a new cash car- 

 rying system installed at the Pennock- 

 Meehau Company's; a new store and 

 new ice system at the Philadelphia Cut 

 Flower Company's, and an entirely 

 new store and location for W. H. Mc- 

 Kissick. 



The delivery problem of the whole- 

 salers, its costs and benefits and dis- 

 advantages, so ably dilated on by Mr. 

 McKissick at the last meeting of the 

 Florists' Club seems to have been 

 tackled in earnest by the Pennock- 

 Meehan Co.. who have inaugurated a 

 discount system whereby the store- 

 man who buys in person and takes the 

 stock with him can save anywhere 

 from seven to fifteen per cent, and also 

 get the advantage of a much larger 

 varletj' to choose from than by the 

 wagon or 'phone methods. 



We neglected to mention that the 

 very interesting picture of John Cook 

 of Baltimore, with his new rose, which 

 appeared in issue of September 28, also 

 group of Philadelphia autoists, was 

 from a photograph taken by Fred Laxi- 

 tenschlager. 



