April 11, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



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TRAENDLY & SCHENCK, 



WHOLESALE ; 

 FLORISTS I 



'P.iOME, 798-799 MAOISOM 



« 44 West 28th Street 



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AH the Novelties in high class ROSES. 

 All the Novelties in high class CARNATIONS. 

 We will have about 3000 CATTLEYAS FOR 

 EASTER. 



SWEET PEAS in quantities, also VIOLETS IN 



ANY QUANTITY . 

 And all other Seasonable Flowers. 



Orders by Mail, 



* Phono or Telegraph promptly attentleil to- 

 on applioationm 



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PERSONAL. 



E. R. Chappcll of Chicago has taken 

 a position with Clarke Bros , Portland, 

 Ore. 



Visitors in Boston: Paul Berkowit/,, 

 Philadelphia; Robert Kift, Philadel- 

 phia; Wm. Appleton, Pixjvidence. R. I. 



home in Haverstraw. 

 cause. 



Old age is the 



Thomas Foulds. who for the past 

 two years has been gardener for tha 

 Home Culture Clubs. Northampton, 

 Mass.. has resigned his position and 

 will take charge of the estate of E. F. 

 Leonard at Amherst, Mass. 



Visitors in Boston: Donald McLeod, 

 Concord, N. H.; E. J. Harmon, Port- 

 land, Ma; Conrad Schultz, Westerly, 

 R. I. 



NEWS NOTES. 



W. H. Witte has received the ap- 

 pointment of gardener at Wyman 

 park, Johns Hopkins University. Bal- 

 timore, Md. 



Austin "Wallace has left Kokomo, 

 Ind., for El Paso. 111., where he will 

 take charge of the El Paso Carnation 

 Company's houses. 



B'rank Good will manage the llower 

 department this summer at the Marl- 

 borough-Blenhi.im. Atlantic City, for 

 S. Hofmsier of New York City. 



Visitors in Chicago: Jno. and Mrs. 

 J. Soper of Rockford, 111., are in Chi- 

 cago looking for niaterial for building 

 new office and salesroom. George F. 

 Crabb, Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Hugo Richter formerly traveller for 

 Otto Beyrodt, Marienfeldt. will here- 

 after represent Messrs. Sander & 

 Sons, St. Albans and Bruges, in the 

 German Empire, Hungary and Russia. 



John Cleary, father of ,Tohn P and 

 Ambrose Cleary, both well known in 

 the plant auction trade of New York 

 city, lies at the point of death at his 



L. Whinery has opened a greenhouse 

 at Winona, 0. 



John Lamont has started in the 

 greenhouse business at So. H--idley 

 Falls, Mass. 



Frauklin cS- Crosby open their new 

 greenhouse on Academy street, Dan- 

 ielson. Conn., on April 11. 



It is stated that the Home Culture 

 clubs of Northampton, Mass., will 

 abandon the scheme of running a 

 greenhouse and flower store. 



Jacol) Dietrich of Los Angeles has 

 been appointed general agent fiir 

 Southern California of the Yokohama 

 Nursery Co., Yokohama and New York. 



Robert B. Graves, the well-known 

 florist of Northampton, Mass., celebrat- 

 ed his ei.shty-eighth birthday on April 

 2. Mr. Graves is vigorous and active- 

 ly interested in his work. 



Knieger Bros., florists, of Toledo. 

 O.. have recently purchased twenty-six 

 acres on Woodville road, which will 

 give them the opportunity to nearly 

 double their present capacity. 



Speaking of the use of grafted forc- 

 ing roses, W. H. Elliott says that he 

 grows his roses in thin soil, scarcely 



of his best roses have been grown in 

 deep enough to cover the union. Some 

 not over three inches depth of soil. 



Board of Park Commissioners, City 

 of Minneapolis, Minn., 2.5th Annual 

 Rejiort, 1907. A beautiful volume, 

 (inely illustrated and full of interest- 

 ing facts concerning this rapidly de- 

 veloping metropolitan park system 

 under the able management of Theo- 

 dore Wirth as superintendent. 



ITie citv of Nashua, N. H., has i-e- 

 ceived a "gift of .^5,000 from John E. 

 Cotton on condition that the city gov- 

 ernment expend a similar amount 

 within the space of two years for the 

 improvement of Greeley Farm Park. 

 The gift has been aecepled and the 

 city's appropriation uas been miide. 



Mr. Geo. A. Parker, superintendent 

 of Kene> Park, Hartford. Conn., says 

 of the Bostroui Improved I^evels, ad- 

 vertised in HORTICULTURE: 



"Having purchased your Level last 

 season, it gives me pleasure to say 

 that for an accurate, low-priced instru- 

 ment so simple in its construction 

 that a man without a technical train- 

 ing can use it successfully, I know of 

 no" better Level than yours." 



The Advance Co. of Richmond, Ind., 

 are placing on the market a new 

 coupling for shafting pipe in green- 

 houses and have made application for 

 a patent on same. This is a neat, 

 strong device for coupling up the 

 shafting pipe by the aid of a moDkey 

 wrench only and holding same firmly 

 in place, thus doing away with tlia 

 disagreeable and hard work of screw- 

 ing the line shaft together by the use 

 of pipe wrenches up under the glass. 



