HORTICULTUKE 



July 6, 1918 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



CHICAGO. 



Mrs. Clias. McKellar has not been 

 well for some time, being a sufferer 

 from neuritis. 



Mrs. Frank Ayers is now home from 

 Hanneman Hospital, where slje has 

 been critically ill for a number of 

 weeks. 



A. L. Koehler, of the firm of the 

 American Bulb Co., reports trade as 

 very good for the season. B. J. Weis 

 is one of their newer salesmen. 



Chas. McCauley, member of the board 

 of the Chicago Flower Growers' Asso- 

 ciation, had a narrow escape last week. 

 While it might have been worse he 

 thinks it is bad enough to have two 

 toes crushed. In opening up a car of 

 tile one of them narrowly missed 

 Ftriking his head and tell upon his 

 foot. 



Miss Florence Hill, one of the young- 

 est members of the Ladies' Auxiliary 

 Nursery Association, is a member of 

 the well known firm of the D. Hill 

 Nursery Co. at Dundee, 111. Miss Hill 

 is equally adept, whether in service at 

 the ofBce desk, handling stock or act- 

 ing as chaffeur carrying visitors to 

 and from the famous evergreen nur- 

 series. 



The trade was very sorry to learn of 

 the sudden death of Mrs. John Zech on 

 Saturday, June 29th. She was very 

 highly respected by all who knew her 

 and her death will be a great loss to 

 her family and friends. Her husband 

 was the late John Zech, one of the 

 pioneer florists of Chicago and head 

 of the firm of Zech & Mann. Further 

 notice is lo be found in the obituary 

 columns 



Mr. and Mrs. F. \V. Watson and two 

 children motored from Topeka, Kas., 

 to their summer home in Topmabee, 

 Mich., and took in two days of the 

 nurserymen's convention. The Wat- 

 sons are the third generation of apple 

 and pear seedling specialists and have 

 three plants in Kansas, at St. Mary's, 

 Silver Lake and Perry, respectively. 

 The great grandfather Watson had the 

 distinction of being head gardener to 

 King James of England. 



Probably the honor of being the old- 

 est woman connected with the nursery 

 business belongs to Mrs. Z. K. Jewett 

 of Sparta, Wis. Mr. Jewett was a 

 charter member of the Nurserymen's 

 Association. 43 years ago, and con- 

 tinued active in it for 30 years, or till 

 his death. Since then the business has 



been carried on by their son, but Mrs. 

 Jewett still retains her interest in it 

 and finds it difficult to understand 

 how the ladies can attend the conven- 

 tions and have no part in the meetings. 

 At the one session to which* the ladies 

 were invited it is worthy of mention 

 that this veteran of the trade was the 

 first member of the auxiliary to take 

 her place in the convention rooms. 



W. A. Diummond, landscape archi- 

 tect of St. Louis, Mo., and formerly of 

 Boston, has a most able assistant in 



J \-\ii:s B. Shi:.\ 



Newly .Vi'iMiintv<I riialniiaii rnstuii I'ark 

 *'<uuinission 



Mrs. Drummond. who though her artis- 

 tic talents lay in musical lines, making 

 her a singer of note in her younger 

 days, has been able to adapt them to 

 the requirements of her husband's line 

 of work. Mrs. Drummond assists him 

 in the actual laying out of the beds 

 and takes charge of the directing of 

 the men while he is away. It is these 

 practical women in the trade who give 

 the encouragment so much needed just 

 now. Mr. Drummond has had the 

 government work at Pana, III., and 

 both were at the nurserymen's conven- 

 tion. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Henry Dnrenberg. head designer at 

 Grimm & Gorly's, was married June 

 27th. 



The annual picnic of the St. Louis 

 Florists' Club will be held July Ifith 

 at Ramona Park. 



J. J. Beneke and W. C. Smith con- 

 tributed several thousand Shasta 

 daisies to the ladles in charge of 

 Thrift Stamp booths on June 28. 



BOSTON 



James B. Shea, who has been acting 

 as chairman of the park commission,' 

 has been named for the position by- 

 Mayor Peters. The job carries a 

 yearly salary of $5,000. The appoint- 

 ment was sent to the civil service 

 commission for confirmation. 



Upon a recent inspection of forest 

 plantation in Massachusetts by State 

 Forester Rane, he reports that the 

 effect of winter killing of the tips 

 and branches of evergreens due to ice 

 storms and the severe conditions of 

 the past winter is generally very 

 much in evidence. Upon first exami- 

 nation, the report is, one would think 

 the trouble due to the work of the 

 pine weevil which has been prevalent 

 during the past two seasons, but 

 closer diagnosis indicates that a great 

 amount of damage is caused by- 

 winter killing. 



PITTSBURGH. 



William Reismann formerly with 

 the Empire Flower Shop has left to 

 engage in other business. 



Mr. Leach of the H. J. Heinz estate 

 has his usual fine showing of early 

 plants for the chrysanthemum show 

 of the estate, which opens each year 

 in November. 



Experts in agriculture from all over 

 the country were in attendance at 

 ('( uvention of the National Educa- 

 tional Society, here June 29 — July 5. 

 The agricultural meetings were pre- 

 sided over by Prof. G. A. Works, 

 Ithica, N. Y. 



In the arrest and internment this 

 week of Robert Ludleicke. head 

 eardener at Penna. College for women. 

 Federal authorities here are of the 

 opinion that they have made one of 

 the most important captures of enemy- 

 agents in this district. 



A meeting of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety of Western Penn., was held last 

 week. The coal situation was dis- 

 cussed and an attitude of cheerful 

 compliance with the government's 

 ruling v/as expressed. Preliminary 

 arrangements were made for the an- 

 nual picnic of the society to be an 

 event of the early part of August. 

 Aloysius A. Leach of the Heinz estate 

 is secretary of the society. 



Edward J. McCallum, who has just 

 returned from a tour among the grow- 

 ers of Western Penna. reports condi- 

 tions favorable to the outgrowth of 

 business for the coming autumn and 

 winter. George C. McCallum of the 



