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HORTICULTURE 



April 26, 1913 



FLOOD RELIEF IN OHIO. 



The Cleveland Florists' Club Com- 

 mittee, appointed by President Gra- 

 ham to investigate the conditions in 

 this state, and to give relief to those 

 in need, have made very good prog- 

 ress but there is still much to be done. 



John Evans, who with E. G. Hill 

 and August Poehlmann were appointed 

 by President Farquhar of the S. A. F. 

 as an investigating committee, passed 

 through Cleveland this week and held 

 a meeting with the local committee 

 consisting of A. Graham, H. A. Hart, 

 Geo. W. Smith and Frank Frledley. 

 The field was gone over thoroughly 

 and methods discussed. 



The list of donations to date is as 

 follows: 



ArtUur Doeble, Norwalk. Obio, 1000 ger- 

 aniums, 1000 Siilvias, etc; MacNnir, Florist. 

 Providence, E. I., cash .|10.00; Louis Epple, 

 ,Tr., Pelliam, N. Y., cash $2.00; Geo. L. Ely, 

 Clyde, Ohio, 1000 seranlums; Stubbs Nur- 

 sery, Augusta, Ga., five boxes plants, as- 

 paragus. Salvia, coleus, etc.; L. G. Barbier, 

 Dunkirk, Ind., Boston ferns. 500 geraniums. 

 400 chrysanthemums; Woodbury & Wood- 

 bury, St. .Johns. Mich.. 1000 carnation cut- 

 tings, callas. asparagus, daisies, etc. ; R. 

 "Vincent, Jr. & Sons Co., White Marsh, Md.. 

 10,000 geraniums; Wauseon Floral Co., 

 Wauseon. Ohio, 500 salvia: J. F. Sked, 

 Westerville. Ohio, 500 salvias, geraniums, 

 pelargoniums, etc.: A. Graham & Sons, 

 Cleveland. Ohio, geraniums, etc.; .J. M. Gas- 

 ser Co., Godfrey callas. chrysanthemums, 

 carnations, etc.; Adam Graham, cash $10.00. 



The names of those helped are not 

 to be mentioned in these columns. 

 Never was there a more opportune 

 " time to help a man who has lost all of 

 his stock, for with Decoration Day 

 only a few weeks away he can quickly 

 turn plants into cash. 



If you know of any florist in this 

 «tate who is in need of help — a man to 

 whom a few hundred or a few thou- 

 sand plants would be of benefit, to put 

 him on his feet — let us know. 



If you have surplus stock of plants 

 and want to know whei-e to send them 

 to do the most good — let us know. 



If you are a retailer or a supply 

 man or if you have no plants to offer, 

 a small amount of cash will help pay 

 expressage on a box of plants to some 

 brother florist who has met with mis- 

 fortune in the flood. 



What is to be done must be done at 

 once. Reports have been very hard 

 to get from down state or this should 

 have been cleaned up sooner. 



Address all communication to Cleve- 

 land Florist Club, Frank A. Friedly, 

 Secretpry. Rcckv River, Ohio. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The New Gardening, by Walter P. 

 Wright. Published by Doubleday, 

 Page & Co., New York. A guide to 

 the most recent developments in the 

 culture of fiowei-s. fruits and vege- 

 tables, with six illustrations in natural 

 colors and 4S half-tone reproductions 

 from photographs of plants, views and 

 garden operations. The 400 pages are 

 a gold mine of practical information 

 in all the fundamentals and modern 

 details of garden science and art. Part 

 1, devoted to the New Flower Garden- 

 ing, contains 22 distinct chanters cov- 

 ering borders, rock-gardening, bed- 

 ding, roses, tulips, sweet peas, Japan- 

 2 comprises The New Fruit-Growing, 

 ese gardening, city gardens, water 

 gardens, trees, shrubs, etc.. etc. Part 

 six chapters. Part 3. The Vew Vege- 

 table-Growing, four chapters. This 

 useful manual should be in the posses- 



sion of everyone, professional gar- 

 deners as well as amateurs. The au- 

 thor speaks out boldly on the subject 

 of garden fads, fallacies and fashions, 

 and convincingly, too. After an hour's 

 perusal one is comfortably flushed 

 with the impression that he has 

 learned something of use to him and 

 that his vision is wisely broadened 

 and his judgment matured. The selec- 

 tions of varieties of rhododendrons, 

 conifers and some other things, being 

 made from the standpoint of English 

 climate would require revision to 

 make them reliable north of Philadel- 

 phia. 



The Making of a Country Estate. 

 With this elegant volume of landscape 

 pictures and pertinent comment, the 

 author, Henry Wild, makes his formal 

 bow to the American estate owner, 

 present or prospective, as a landscape 

 architect. As is generally known, Mr. 

 Wild has been engaged for the past 

 18 years in laying out and developing 

 the 2000-acre estate of Mr. E. C. Con- 

 verse, Conyers Manor in Greenwich, 

 Conn. The publication before us is 

 practically an album of views on that 

 now-famous estate, showing gardens, 

 lakes, woods and vistas, as produced 

 under the skillful direction of the 

 trained gardener. It is handsomely 

 bound and an appropriate souvenir of 

 an undertaking well dona as well as a 

 credential of Mr. Wild's abilities for 

 future triumphs. 



Polly Anna; the Glad Book— By 

 Eleanor H. Porter. The What Shall I 

 Do Girl— By Isabel Woodman Waitt.^ 

 Alma's Sophomore Year — By Louise 

 M. Breifenbach. The Career of Doctor 

 Weaver — By Mrs. Henry Backus. The 

 Harbor Master— By Theodore Good- 

 ridge Roberts. This is a galaxy of 

 five books recently published by L. C. 

 Page & Co., Boston. As the titles in- 

 dicate the three first-named are de- 

 signed to interest girls from 14 to 18 

 years of age, but readers of more ma- 

 ture age will find them all very pleas- 

 ant reading. The characters are true 

 to life, the anecdotes sprightly and the 

 tone clean and healthy throughout. 

 For the young woman forced to de- 

 pend on her own resources the "What 

 Shall I Do Girl" is full of helpful sug- 

 gestions and encouragement; the 

 "Glad Book" fully justifies its name 

 and Alma's Sophomore Year will de- 

 light all with its realistic stories of 

 seminary life. liike all of the fiction 

 issuing from this publishing house, 

 every line of romance is clean, salu- 

 brious and untainted by the puerile 

 sentimentalism, which permeates so 

 much of modern novel literature. The 

 Career of Doctor Weaver is unique 

 and captivating. It portrays the re- 

 sponsibilities and problems assailing 

 the young man in the medical profes- 

 sion "of today, in the course of a vigor- 

 ous and engrossing story which is 

 skillfully written and quite out of the 

 usual order. The Harbor Master is a 

 strong portrayal of life on the bleak, 

 treacherous coast of Newfoundland. It 

 is full of tragic mystery, strength and 

 vigorous action, a romance of warm- 

 hearted devotion to friends and duty 

 and one that leaves a lasting impres- 

 sion on the reader. It is one of the 

 best of this young author's efforts. 

 The price of Alma's Sophomore Year 



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HELP WANTED 



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FOR SALE — Four acres of desirable 

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is $1.50. All the others above men- 

 tioned $1.25 net, $1.40 postpaid. 



OBITUARY. 



B. F. Rubel. 



The sudden death of Ben. F. Rubel 

 on April 18 was learned with regret 

 by his many friends in the trade. 

 Ben F. Rubel was born in Chicago 46 

 years ago and has spent practically 

 all his life there and is well known 

 as the president of the Fleischman 

 Floral Co., whose store in the Railway 

 Exchange Building is one of the finest 

 in the city. He also had a large con- 

 fectionery store on State street. Mr. 

 Rubel leaves a mother, Mrs. Frances 

 Rubel, three brothers and two sisters. 

 The funeral was at Sinai Temple, Sun- 

 day, Baron Hirsch officiating, and in- 

 terment was at Rose Hill. 



