May 30, 1908 



HORTICULTURE. 



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sold stock of a wholesale house at 

 almost any price they may be pleased 

 to offer. A retailer cannot obtain a 

 fractional part of the same stock at 

 these rates. Surely, no grower will 

 willingly accept compensation for his 

 product based upon returns from the 

 sale of surplus material to street ped- 

 lers. Would it not be well then for 

 him to suggest to his consignee the 

 wisdom of disposing of his (the 

 grower's) surplus stock at a price 

 commensurate with the cost of pro- 

 duction and without favor to any par- 

 ticular class? 



To sum up the matter the grower 

 is in truth the one to whom the retail 

 shopkeeper looks for a remedy from 

 this growing evil. Let him remember 

 that the prices paid by the retail 

 shopkeeper represent the profits with 

 which he. the grower, appears to be 

 satisfied, and not from the proceeds 

 of the overplus sold at much less than 

 the cost of production. 



W. H. LONG. 



New York City. 



NEW RETAIL FLOWER STORES. 



J. J. Soper, Rockford, 111. 



A. W. Darling, Rochester, N. Y. 



.1. M. Holland, Mt. View Cemetery, 

 Oakland, Cal. 



W. I. Davis, Homewood avenue. 

 Pittsburg, Pa. 



•J. W. Breakey, 3909 Cottage Grove 

 avenue, Chicago. 



W. B. Ague, Penn and Negley ave- 

 nues, Pittsburg, Pa. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



J. A. Jegen, formerly 74 Washing- 

 ton street Chicago, is now located at 

 113 Dearborn street. 



George Smith will withdraw from 

 the firm of Remick & Smith, S. 

 Framingham, Mass., on June 1. 



D. H. Green, successor to Green & 

 Baylis, is located at the greenhouses 

 formerly run by Benjamin Connell. 

 West Grove. Pa. 



W. R. Wheeler has purchased the 

 business of the Manitou Greenhouses, 

 Manitou. Colo., and will conduct it 

 in his own name. 



Alexander Parks has purchased the 

 greenhouse of the Home Culture 

 Clubs at Northampton. Mass., and 

 will continue the business. 



The Lyric Flower Shop is the name 

 C. J. Breckmau has given to his new 

 place of business, corner of Seventh 

 and A streets. Fort Smith. Ark. 



Carl. Potocki. of Milwaukee ave- 

 nue. Chicago, has purchased the 

 Anthes Greenhouses on Lowell ave- 

 nue, and his son Frank will assume 

 the management of them. 



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io,ooo $1.75 ; 50,000 $7.50. Sample free. 



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Public J^ccountant and J^uditor 



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PERSONAL. 



C. E. Newton has taken a position 

 with J. W. Beal at Hanover, Mass. 



G. L. Tal)er. Glen St. Mary, Fla., is 

 making- a tour of the northern shore 

 resorts. 



Visitors in Boston: Theodore Outer- 

 bridge. Sunnylands. Bermuda; Julius 

 Uoehrs, .Ir., Rutherford, N. J. 



George Smith, So. Franiinghani, 

 Alass., will assume the duties of fore- 

 man for \. Mackay, Saxon ville, Mass., 

 about July 1. 



.Jackson Dawson, who has been quite 

 side for two weeks, is now sufficiently 

 recovered so that his daughter Laura 

 and son Walter think it safe to sail 

 for England in a few days. 



The friends of Charles L. Allen, the 

 dean of Long Island horticulturists, 

 are to celebrate his eightieth birthday 

 at his residence at Queens, on .June 13. 

 Mr. ,A.'llen will read a -paper on this 

 occasion. 



Announcement is made of the en- 

 gagement of Miss Minnie M. Dawson, 

 eldest daughter of Jackson Dawson, 

 -Arnold Art)oretum, to Harold Hill 

 Blossom of Newton Centre, Mass. The 

 wedding will take place next fall. 



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NEWS NOTES. 



The artist who sotnetime ago de- 

 frauded several Detroit florists by or- 

 dering floral designs and paying for 

 them with bogus checks has been sen- 

 tenced to imprisonment for a term of 

 four years. He tried on the judge the 

 scheme of arousing sympathy by shed- 

 ding tears but the (Jourt was un- 

 sympathetic. 



H. R. Hughes, the clever advertis- 

 ing florist of Chicago, is sending out 

 a neat little folder entitled, "A Flower 

 for Memory's Sake." It is a plea for 

 a still greater floral observance of 

 Memorial Day. A brief history of the 

 beginning of the custom is given and 

 the advertising end is cared for by 

 the reproduction- in picture of Mem- 

 orial Day window displays by Mr. 

 Hughes. 



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