February S, 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



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SUCCESSFUL FLORISTS 



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 saving in ice will more than pay for the cost. 



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will lend attractiveness to your shop. Beautifully made 

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PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Charles, son of S. S. Pennock, still 

 at hospital and liable to be for some 

 time, but is progressing favorably. 



E. J. Fancourt of the Pennock-Mee- 

 han Co., has returned from a week's 

 busine.^s trip down East, chipper and 

 cheerful. Must have done some good 

 business. 



Arnold Ringier of the W. W. Bar- 

 nard Co. of Chicago honored our fair 

 city with a call on tlie 4th inst. We 

 tried to take him to the club meeting 

 but he had an engagement in New 

 York. 



M. Rice Co. have a very attractive 

 Easter folder appropriately titled 

 "Parcel Post Helps." It contains many 

 good suggestions for the Easter trade. 

 Mr. Eschner says they will be glad to 

 mail a copy upon request to any florist. 



Flowers of the new rose Mrs. 

 Charles Russell were exhibited in 

 London recently and received an 

 award of merit. This, too, after hav- 

 ing made tlie long journey across the 

 Atlantic and being staged two weeks 

 after cutting, which speaks a lot for 

 its keeping qualities. The Pennock- 

 Meehan Co. inform us that the orders 

 already booked for this rose to date 

 are very heavy and it loo'.s as if 

 theie would be a scramble to get some 

 of it pretty soon. 



Patrick Welch of Boston has sent 

 in as an entry for the gi-eat prize, 

 Dooley's definition: "A diplomat is 

 a man who can put a crimp in the 

 cards that a clothes wringer can't take 

 out." Edward Dooner defines a diplo- 

 mat as a man who is "a pusillanimous 

 liar." Commodore Westcott: A diplo- 

 mat is a man who knows when to keep 

 his mouth shut." 



Jack Mackillip's idea of a diplomat: 

 — "Don't bother a man when he's 

 busy." John H. Dodd's contiibution: 

 "Ha Ha! That's a twister." 



"Sandy McGoon, soldier of tortuns," 

 enters the lists with this: "A diplo- 

 mat is a fine old liar who has spent the 

 best part of his life in telling lies; but 

 has convinced his hearers that he is 

 telling the truth." We get you, Sandy. 

 It's a good thrust. 



HART MAKES HANDLES FOR POTS 



With Paper or Porto Rican IMats They IMake Baskets. These 

 are the Well-Known HART'S HANDY HANDLES. 



Shipments are being made daily eastward to Boston, 

 westward to San Francisco — and everywhere else. 

 Once used always used, because they are SO HANDY. 



Prices per dozen— No. I, &2.S0 ; No. 2. »3.S0 ; No. 3. &4.00 ; 

 No. 4, S5.00; No. 5, &6.00. 



GEORGE B. HART, 24 Stone St., Rochester, N.Y. 



Visitors — H. Warendorf, Hotel An- 

 sonia, N. Y. City; H. E. Smith. Ha- 

 zelton. Pa.; Thos. Roland. Nahant. 

 Mass.; Louis Dupuy, Whitestone. N. 

 Y.; John C. Bodger, Los Angeles, 

 Calif.; Wallace R. Pierson, Cromwell 

 Conn.; Chas. H. Totty, Madison, N. J.; 

 C. Bourque, buyer for Dards, New 

 York; Philip L. Carbone, Boston. 

 Mass., accompanied by one of his right 

 bowers — S. Gerald Smith; Martin C. 

 Ebel, Madison, N. J.; W. F. Fancourt. 

 Doylestown. Pa.; John Young. New- 

 York City; R. J. Irwin, New York City. 



himself a graduate of such nursery is 

 well known to me, and, knowing his 

 love of a joke I take it that he means 

 it in the sense of the royal nursery (of 

 mankind) of England. 



1 don't propose to enter the compe- 

 tition for your prize for the best defi- 

 nition of a diplomat as I agree with 

 you that Tommy has won it, but why 

 did you not rope in the classic defini- 

 tion? which is "A diplomat is a man 

 who is sent abroad to lie for his coun- 

 try." EDWIN JENKINS. 



THAT GINGER JAR MAN. 

 "The Jenkins lad" reciprocates the 

 kindly wishes for a better acquain- 

 tance with the author of the "Gineer 

 Jar" notes, who seems to have the 

 license of the old court fool or jester, 

 to lay about him where he wills, spar- 

 ing none, not even the gray hairs of 

 our distinguished editor. He seems to 

 have flashes of intelligence and during 

 one of these, asks me whether I know 

 anything about "Tree 'Vaccination" and 

 whether it is an axiom or a fallacy. 

 This is something of a poser, but as it 

 is a part of my religion to "never get 

 stuck," I answer with all due respect 

 to the upholders of tree vaccination 

 as a cure for chestnut blight or other 

 diseases that so far as present scien- 

 tific knowledge goes the idea must be 

 relegated to the order of Fallacies. As 

 to the whereabouts of the Royal Nur- 

 sery of England, the man who signs 



Since 1835 the trustees of Mount Au- 

 burn Cemetery have paid the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society $302,- 

 297.27, and have yet to pay about 

 $125,000 more. 



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