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HORTICULTURE 



February 22, 1913 



PERSONAL. 



Fred E. Palmer and daughter of 

 Brookline, Mass., have returned from 

 their visit to Panama. 



James Lowe has taken the position 

 of gardener at the estate of Mrs. 

 Fenno on Ox Pasture Hill, Rowley, 

 Mass. 



Frank L. Hotchkiss, New Haven. 

 Conn., has sold out his business and 

 gone to California for several months' 

 sojourn. 



W. Baker, formerly employed by F. 

 Macrae & Sons of Providence, R. I., 

 is now with Joseph Kopelman, Oak- 

 lawn, R. I. 



D. F. Roy of Marion, Mass.. is ac- 

 companying his employer. Col. Con- 

 verse, on a few weeks' fishing trip at 

 Miami, Fla. Happy pair! 



James P. M. Farquhar returned last 

 Sunday from his European trip much 

 refreshed in body and spirit and 

 bringing with him a number of plant 

 novelties. | 



President Farquhar and Thomas Ro- 

 land left Boston on Friday, the 21st 

 inst, for the Minneapolis meeting of 

 the S. A. F. executive board. They 

 will spend a day in Chicago. 



We learn with much solicitude and 

 sincere sorrow of the critical illness of 

 our old friend, J. Austin Shaw, who is | 

 dangerously sick with brain fever at | 

 the Methodist Episcopal Hospital in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. All our readers who 

 know Mr. Shaw — and who does not — 

 will join with us in earnest wishes 

 that his life may be spared and In 

 sympathy to his family in this time of 

 anxiety and dread. 



Boston visitors: James T. Scott, I 

 Elmsford, N. Y. ; Vernon T. Sherwood, 

 Charlestown, N. H.; S. J. Reuter, West- 

 erly, R. I.; A. Kakuda, New York; 

 Geo. E. Buxton, Nashua, N. H.; Chas. 

 Schwake, New York; D. J. Coughlin, 

 Newport, R. I. 



Cincinnati visitors. — H. G. Crowell, 

 representing S. S. Pennock-Meehan 

 Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; Martin Reu- 

 kauf, representing H. Bayersdorfer & 

 Co., Philadelphia, Pa., and Milton Alex- 

 ander, New York. 



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 would not care for old styles; therefore, your 

 customers demand new varieties of Carnations 

 of the "Better Kind" and it is up to you to fur- 

 nish them with up-to-date novelties such as our 

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 30 East Randolph Street, - CHICAGO, ILL 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Chicago Greenhouse Vegetable 

 Growers' Association held their annual 

 meeting at Rogers Park, Chicago, on 

 Sunday, February 16th. 



At the next meeting of the Elberon 

 (N. J.) Horticultural Society, March 

 3rd, a paper on "Orchids" will be read 

 by Wm. Turner of Oceanic. 



Secretary Young informs us that en- 

 thusiasm as regards International 

 Flower Show matters is speeding up 

 and exhibition space is going more 

 lively than of late. 



At the February meeting of the Los 

 Angeles County (Cal.) Horticultural 

 Society, George M. Garland of Des 

 Plaines, 111., addressed the members 

 on the History of Greenhouse Con- 

 struction. 



The Jersey Inspection tour of the 

 New York and New Jersey Association 

 of Plant Growers took place on Feb- 

 ruary 21st. The Long Island trip will 

 be held February 26th and party will 

 meet the autos at the subway station 

 at Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, at 9 

 A. M. 



OBITUARY. 

 Mrs. Jacob Ellcker. 



Mrs. Jacob Flicker, who has been 

 engaged in the florist business at 

 Homestead, Pa., for many years, died 

 on February 6th of Bright's Disease, 

 after a two weeks' illness. She was 

 aged 47 years. One son and one 

 daughter survive her. 



Mrs. E. V. P. RItter. 



Mrs. Ritter, wife of E. V. P. Ritter, 

 president of the International Exposi- 

 tion Company, of New York, died 

 last Saturday morning. The close re- 

 lationship between Mr. Ritter and our 

 readers in view of the approaching 

 International Show, In which he is 

 jointly interested, will, we know, in- 

 spire a fellow feeling of sympathy with 

 that gentleman in his great bereave- 

 ment. 



William D. Ellwanger. 



William D. Ellwanger, a son of the 

 late George Ellwanger, and himself an 

 active figure for many years in the 

 business and social life of Rochester, 

 died after a brief illness on Sunday, 

 Feb. 16th, at his home No. 510 East 

 avenue. He had not been in very 

 good health for some time but his con- 

 dition had not been considered critical. 



Mr. Ellwanger was president of the 

 Ellwanger & Barry Nursery Company 

 and also president of the Ellwanger & 

 Barry Realty Company. 



His club connections were numerous 

 and his name appeared in the director- 

 ate of several business institutions. 

 Besides his wife he leaves one daugh- 

 ter, Evelyn S. Ellwanger. 



HORACE J. HEAD. 



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