February 22, 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



267 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



One bad feature of the approach of 

 spring Is that it gives nearly all the 

 boys — and some who are old enough to 

 know better — an idea that they can 

 whistle. We have noticed also that a 

 visit to the punch bowl has one bad 

 feature — it gives many people an idea 

 that they can sing. 



Harry S. Betz will open a retail 

 flower store at 11th street and Lehigh 

 avenue on the 26th inst. Mr. Betz is 

 well known in the trade having tor 

 many years occupied a responsible 

 position in the Dreer establishment at 

 Riverton. In addition to conducting a 

 general retail flower business Mr. Betz 

 will also do landscape work. 



Stephen Mortensen, one of our most 

 successful rose growers, says the mild 

 winter has been peculiarly unfavorable 

 to the rose crop, making the flowers 

 (what few have been harvested since 

 the new year) soft and unsatisfactory. 

 Conditions are much better now, es- 

 pecially with Richmonds, which have 

 greatly improved the past two weeks. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Meehan 

 left New York on the 15th inst on the 

 S. S. "Carillo" bound for the West In- 

 dies and Panama. This is strictly a 

 vacation trip and business will be for- 

 gotten. The itinerary includes stops 

 at Kingston. Port Royal, Costa Rica, 

 Colon and Panama. The return trip 

 will he made on the same steamer, due 

 in New York about March 11th. 



John Mclntyre, one of Philadel- 

 phia's distinguished commission flor- 

 ists, on being Interrogated held up his 

 right hand and asserted that he would 

 not fill a retail order even it offered to 

 him cash down. To the best of our 

 knowledge and belief ,Iohn is a truth- 

 ful man, yet shortly after this episode 

 he was seen walking up the stieet 

 with a wire design in his hand. Josh 

 Billings said: "They say the frog is a 

 virtuous animal but the incessant 

 humming he keeps up o' nights causes 

 me to suspicion the frog." 



A frequent question asked by the in- 

 quiring visitor: Is there much build- 

 ing going on or contemplated this sea- 

 son? This has of course to be 

 answered — Oh, yes: about as usual, you 

 can't stop the enterprise of our horti- 

 cultural engineers. Which provokes a 

 heavy sigh. We console tbem with: 

 Oh, well; it was just the same twenty- 

 five years ago; the little fellow with 



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the obsolete found it hard to compete 

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 greenhouses and it is just the same 

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Visitors — George Ebeile, Baltimore, 

 Md.; Charles W. Scott, Yokohama 

 Nursery Co., New York City; George 

 Leapley, of Leapley & Meyer, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; C. A. Dards, New York 

 City; H. L. Holmes, Harrisburg, Pa.; 

 Stephen Mortensen, Southampton, Pa.; 

 H. W. Doughten, Moorestown, N. J. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Marysville, Cal. — Andrews & Alex- 

 ander have gone out of business. 



Tyler, Tex. — The florist business of 

 the late James Whitten has been sold, 

 together with the greenhouse prop- 

 erty, to C. B. Yost, who will conduct 

 the business. 



A civil service examination will be 

 held in Alexandria, Va., on February 

 26, for the position of assistant forest 

 pathologist at a salary of $1400 to 

 jlSOO per annum. 



Charleston, S. C. — John Salmon has 

 bought out the greenhouses and nur- 

 series of C. M. Newman and the busi- 

 ness will be conducted by him here- 

 after, under the management of P. 

 Aichele. 



Sunbury, Pa. — C. R. Rossiter, a 

 prominent florist, was fatally shot on 

 February 12th by Morris, his son, late- 

 ly returned from an insane asylum, 

 thought cured. The maniac was flnal- 



1) captured after holding a posse at 

 bay for several hours. 



Amherst, Mass.— W. H. Elliott on 

 February lOth, W. H. Duckham and 

 C. H. Totty on February 11th, and 

 Eber Holmes on February 14th were 

 among the interesting speakers last 

 week in the floricultural department 

 of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



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