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HORTICULTURE 



October 12. 1918 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



CHICAGO 



Phil Weinberg of Poehlmann Bros, in 

 at Camp Funston and will, soon be 

 sent to Siberia. 



T. Watters of Poehlmann Bros, sup- 

 ply department is in Cleveland, attend- 

 ing the convention ot the F. T. D. this 

 week. 



Scarcely a wholesale house but has 

 former employes in the battles now in 

 progress, and the latest news is 

 eagerly watched for. 



Mrs. J. A. Budlong has closed up 

 her summer home at William's Bay 

 and is back in Chicago for the winter, 

 making her home as usual with her 

 daughter, Mrs. Philip Schupp. 



The Illinois prairies are proving a 

 valuable asset with their wealth of 

 wild asters and other flowers. Very 

 beautiful they are too when used as 

 fillers in sprays and baskets. 



The floral piece calling for a gold 

 star is much in demand and will be 

 ever more so. No flower, so tar ex- 

 actly fills the requirement, and, so 

 the opportunity presents itself to some 

 one to furnish a satisfactory substi- 

 tute. 



The florists in the bowling leagues 

 have been a little lacking in enthu- 

 siasm this week, owing to the miles 

 they walked hurrying from one whole- 

 sale house to another trying to locate 

 stock. They played a good game 

 nevertheless. 



The opening of the Riveria, Chica- 

 go's newest and most beautiful play 

 house, was the occasion tor the use 

 of many flowers. Friends ot the owners 

 sent a hundred or more designs, bas- 

 kets, etc., and the offerings were 

 large and expensive in many cases, 

 adding considerably to the week's 

 sales of the florists. To see the empty 

 tables in the wholesale houses one 

 would wonder where the flowers came 

 from. A large part, no doubt, were 

 secured directly from the greenhouses 

 and did not pass through the market. 

 All the florists were represented in 

 the work. 



ST. LOUIS. 



A meeting ot the Florists' Club will 

 be held at Kirkwood at the green- 

 houses of'W. R. Rowe. Thursday, Oct. 

 10 at 2 p. m. 



A meeting of the Growers' Associa- 

 tion was held Wednesday evening, 

 Oct. 2d. The puolicity committee made 

 a lengthy report. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Samuel H. Lilley late of S. Mole St. 

 started on the 7th inst. with the S. S. 

 Pennock Co. 



As a cheerful glint in the gloom of 

 the 'flu talk, we have pleasure in not- 

 ing this item: . 



Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Meehan. ot 

 East Gorgas St., Germantown, an- 

 nounce the engagement ot their 

 daughter Miss Rose Meehan to Edwin 

 Evans of Philadelphia. 



We heard the John Walker laugh in 

 all its pristine effulgence recently. 

 It is inborn, unpremeditated, and in- 

 curable. He told of the old Carncross 

 and Dixie days. He had that laugh on 

 he said even before he had succeeded 

 in buying his ticket. And John Wal- 

 ker is laughing yet — after the lapse 

 of thirty years! 



The second death from influenza so 

 far as we have heard in the florists 

 community of Philadelphia occurred 

 on the 5th inst. The first was that 

 of the oldest son of Charles E. Meehan, 

 the second that of Amelia C. wife of 

 William W. Crawford the 11th St. flor- 

 ist. Many cases of serious illness 

 from the prevaling complaint are re- 

 ported — among them that ot C. H. 

 Grakelow. Board and Cumberland St. 

 He has been seriously ill for over a 

 week. 



I'riviite I'Miil T. Hurle.v, of Ardmore, one 

 of the famous "seveut.v-six" who helped 

 til till lip the I'Mtth .Marines, has been 

 awarileil the Distinmiislieil Service Cross 

 for "e.xtraorilinarv heroism in action near 

 Vierzv. France. .I'nly 1!), llll.s. 



The I'itatiou of Private Diuiey's gal- 

 lantry recites that "he displayed excep- 

 tional bravery in cbar;:in^ three machine 

 fions with the aid of a small detachment 

 of bis cninrades. killing the crews and 

 capturing' the ^nns whii-li were immediately- 

 turned on the (Jermans. thereby upenin;; 

 the line for the advance of his compan.v. 

 which had been held up by the enemy's 

 tire." 



Private Hurley is a son of .Joseph D. 

 Hurley. Jl Cricket street, Ardinore. and is 

 one of sixteen "devil dops" to whom the 

 n. S. ('. was awarded. He is only 11) years 

 old. He enlisted in the Marine Corps on 

 the day after the declaration of war against 

 Cerinany and received his recruit training 

 at the .Marine barracks at the Philadelphia 

 Navy Yard. He is a j;radnate of the school 

 of (')iir Mother of (iood Counsel and the 

 I'hiladelphia Business Collej^e. He has 

 been twice wounded, but insisted on re- 

 turning to the lirinir line upon recovery. 

 Eveniii!.- Bulletin, Sept. :i()th. WIS. 



Joseph Hurley is a gardener and is 

 well known around Philadelphia hav- 

 ing had charge of the Hunter estate 

 and several other private places and a 

 regular exhibitor at the local flower 

 shows. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Miss Boyce and Miss Morris has 

 taken a position with H. E. wilson. 



Frank Bohnke grower of Irondequoit 

 has given up his business and is now 

 at Camp training for the Army. 



The death is announced of Mrs. C. 

 Fhalotos wife of C. Fhalotos of the 

 New York Florist Co., which took 

 place recently in Athens, Greece, at 

 the age of 30 years. Mrs. Fhalotos was 

 visiting relatives previous to the war 

 and was unable to return to this coun- 

 try. Besides her husband she leaves 

 a son 5 years of age. 



CINCINNATI NOTES 



C. E. Critchell is attending the F. T. 

 D. meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, this 

 week. 



Miss Alma Murphy, sister ot Charles, 

 Louis and Fred Murphy passed away 

 on Sunday. 



William Stein who is now at Camp 

 Sherman is ill at the hospital there 

 with the influenza. Fortunately, how- 

 ever, his case is a mild one. 



NEW YORK 



Andrew Scott, for many years a 

 faithful member of Alexander McCon- 

 nell's staff is now in the employ of 

 Wadley & Smyth. 



SEEDS PLACED ON PREFERENCE 



LIST BY WAR INDUSTRIES 



BOARD. 



On September 3. 1918, the Priorities 

 Division ot the War Industries Board 

 issued Preference IJst No. 2 (Circular 

 No. 20), which supersedes Preference 

 Last No. 1, issued April 6, 1918, and 

 all amendments and supplements 

 thereto. Preference List No. 1 in- 

 cluded seeds but they were omitted 

 from the later list. 



Since Preference List No. 2 was 

 issued, the Priorities Division has 

 given careful consideration to the im- 

 portance of the seed industry and has 

 concluded to place seeds in Class III 

 of the Preference List under the fol- 

 lowing rating: 



"Seeds (Class III). — Plants engaged 

 principally in assembling, cleaning, 

 treating, preparing, storing and ship- 

 ping seeds for growing food and feed, 

 and for growing medicinal and chemi- 

 cal plants (excluding flower seeds as 

 such)." 



