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H R T I C U L T U E E 



May 3, 1913 



Personal* 



Mrs. Mulford ot Lebanon, Ohio, was 

 in Cincinnati last Sunday. 



Frank McMahon of Seabright was 

 married on Wednesday, April 30. 



Henry Weston, of Hempstead, N. 

 Y., is still quite ill. following an opera- 

 tion for appendicitis. 



J. P. Cleary, formerly with the 

 Fruit Auction Co., has taken a posi- 

 tion with MacNiff Horticultural Co., 

 New York. 



Wm. Allen, a former salesman for 

 P. J. Smith, 49 West 28th street, New 

 York City, and Helen Weeks, were 

 married at Little Neck, L. I., on Wed- 

 nesday, April 16th. 



Fred Lautenschlager, Kroeschell 

 Brothers' hustling salesman, has re- 

 turned to Chicago after a very suc- 

 cessful eastern trip, having taken or- 

 ders for boilers to heat 199,600 square 

 feet of glass. 



J. A. Weber, for the last 12 years 

 in the employ of James J. Goodwin 

 and Senator Walter L. Goodwin, Hart- 

 ford, Conn., and for the last few years 

 having entire charge of Senator Good- 

 win's greenhouses and spacious 

 grounds, has accepted a lucrative po- 

 sition in Excelsior. Minn., a few miles 

 outside of Minneapolis, where he will 

 have charge of an estate of over 200 

 acres belonging to E. C. Goodrich, a 

 prominent railroad official. Mr. Weber 

 came to this country from Switzerland 

 23 years ago, and worked on the es- 

 tate of George S. Morgan of Lenox, 

 Mass., before coming to Hartford. 

 While in Lenox Mr. Weber married. 

 and has two daughters and one son. 

 aged 13. 11 and eight years. 



Mr. Weber has been much inter- 

 ested in the Connecticut Horticultural 

 Society, serving as its vice-president, 

 member of the schedule committee 

 and executive board, and has had 

 charge of many of the society's ex- 

 hibits. For the past two yea'S he 

 has had charge of the horticultural 

 department of the Connecticut State 

 Fair Association, and received high 

 praise for the able manner in which 

 the exhibits have been arranged. 



His right thigh fractured in a fall at 

 his home at 311 State street, Flushing, 

 N. Y., Jean R. Trumpy, 83 years old, 

 formerly a horticulturist of national 

 reputation, was removed to the Flush- 

 ing Hospital on April 27 in a serious 

 condition. Owing to his advanced age 

 Mr. Trumpy is extremely feeble. Thurs- 

 day. Anril 23. he was stepping into the 

 bathtub when he slipped and fell on 

 the floor his right leg doubling under 

 him. He called for help and members 

 of his family went to his assistance 

 They did not realize that his condi- 

 tion was serious and did not send tor 

 a physician until Saturday. 



When Dr. MacLeod was called he 

 saw at once that Mr. Trumpy's thigh 

 was fractured and he recommended 

 that he be removed to the hospital. 

 The family objected at first but finally 

 realized that such action was im- 



DECORATIVE FOLIAGE PLANTS IN BASKET ARRANGEMENTS. 



In Exhibit of Max Schling .it Internatioual Flower Sbow, New York City. 



The use of small plants, flowering 

 or decorative foliaged. for holiday or 

 other gifts has been very general in 

 New York City for many years — much 

 more so than in any other city in this 

 country. The custom has been well 

 supported by the plant growers who 

 make New York their centre of ac- 

 tivity, who have shown remarkable- 

 enterprise in striving for quality on 

 the old favorites and in experimenting 

 with promising new or novel subjects. 



Our cover illustration this week 

 shows how admirably such things as 



Begonia Rex, dieffenbachias, anthu- 

 riums, cissus and selaginella lend 

 themselves' to arrangement in the 

 rough brown willow baskets now of- 

 fered in so many different and artis- 

 tic shapes. The picture on this page 

 shows a basket of different model, 

 larger and with a greater variety of 

 plants included, such as small palm,. 

 yellow callas, Japan maple and trail- 

 ing tradescantia. 



As indicated, both of these basket& 

 were shown in Max Schling's group- 

 of designs at the International Flower 

 Show. 



perative and permitted his removal. 

 Owing to Mr. Trumpy's advanced age 

 it is feared that if he recovers he 

 will be permanently crippled. He is 

 a man of large frame and very heavy. 

 A native of Switzerland he has re- 

 sided in Flushing more than lialf a 

 century and he was employed for 

 many years in the old Parsons nur- 

 series. He has not been active in 

 business for 20 years. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Samuel Parsons & Company, land- 

 scape architects. New York City, an- 

 nounce their removal from the St. 

 James Building, Broadway and 26tb 

 street, to the Architects' Building, 101 

 Park avenue, corner ot 40th street. 



■Visitors in Boston: D. Lumsden 

 and John Muth, New Hampshire State 

 College, Durham, N. H. R. F. Smith 

 representing Joy Floral Co.. Nashville, 

 Tenn. 



A vase of Henry Weston's new car- 

 r.ation Majestic in the window of the 

 Growers' Cut Flower Co., in New 

 York, has attracted much attention 

 this week. The flower is glistening 

 white with very fine pencillings of 

 carmine pink; large and well built. 



