HORTICULTURE 



July 13, 191& 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



CHICAGO. 



Anton Then, Jr., is now employed at 

 the Chicago Flower Growers' Associa- 

 tion store. 



According to their usual custom Wm. 

 J. Smyth and family are spending the 

 summer at their cottage at Antioch. 



Philip Foley, Jr., is now at the 

 Great Lakes Naval Training Station 

 where he has enlisted in the aviation 

 department. 



H. D. Schiller left July 8th for Bos- 

 ton, where he will enter a technical 

 school, the better to fit himself for 

 his duties in the Merchant Marine, a 

 little later. 



Thos. Wolfe of Waco, Texas, spent 

 Sunday here on his way to the Elks' 

 convention at Atlantic City. Mr. 

 Wolfe called on his friend, P. J. Foley, 

 who has a very wide acquaintance 

 with the southern florists. 



H. N. Bruns is not worried over the 

 lily of the valley situation, as he still 

 has some bulbs left and the demand 

 for that flower is light in the summer. 

 His store always closes at 6 p. m. and 

 Mr. Bruns believes that he loses noth- 

 ing by so doing. 



The Chicago Florists' Club will hold 

 the July meeting on the 18th in Kar- 

 thauser's grove, 6656 Ridge avenue 

 A good program has been arranged 

 by T. E. Waters and if the thermome- 

 ter should reach something like its 

 usual July altitude a good time may 

 be expected. 



The Chicago wholesale market was 

 closed all day Sunday tor the first 

 time within the recollection of the old- 

 est florist. The thing which could not 

 be, has been — and the world moves on 

 as before. It is safe to say there were 

 some who found it hard to believe 

 even when the day came. 



Business is reported at the west 

 side Schiller store as not yet having 

 reached the summer stage, and Mr. 

 Schiller says he is not anticipating 

 it this year until August.. At the 

 north side store, social events are 

 reported as causing a demand for flow- 

 ers exceptionally good for July. 



P. J. Foley, president of the Foley 

 Greenhouse Manut. Co., says the busi- 

 ness coming now is largely in the na- 

 ture of repair work, the florists hav- 

 ing an eye to the saving of coal for 

 the coming winter. Having antici- 

 pated little building during the war 

 Mr. Foley is not discouraged but 



hopes for the return of normal condi- 

 tions in the near future. 



The trip made to Milwaukee by 

 Geo. Asmus and John Young, in the 

 interest of the National Publicity 

 Campaign last week, was very suc- 

 cessful. There was a I'arge attend- 

 ance at the meetings, and the opror- 

 tunity to clear up some points re- 

 garding the methods of carrying on 

 the work, as well as impressing upon 

 many florists the great necessity for 

 the publicity work going on, were 

 taken advantage of. Financially, it 

 was equally a success, many of the 



cutting out of flowers on the tables 

 somehow savors of patriotism and 

 conservation. Here is where the 

 women of the trade must be alert. 

 They must be ready to stand for the 

 use of flowers at all social affairs and 

 not let some well-meaning but mis- 

 guided person down their use. 



Wilfrid Wheeler 



State Commissioner of Agriculture 

 for Massachusetts 



smaller florists signing up for four 

 and five years, while those doing a 

 more extensive business pledged 

 larger amounts and for a longer 

 time. 



The men are doing good work in 

 the cause of publicity and upon its 

 success depends much for the future 

 of the flower business, for public sen- 

 timent has been strongly influenced 

 against spending money for flowers 

 since the war began. But there is a 

 side to it that the men cannot reach 

 and it is a big side too. The major- 

 ity of the social affairs are planned 

 by women and in nearly every case 

 the proposal is made to put a ban on 

 flowers. If it is a luncheon, no one 

 proposes to curtail the menu or do 

 with less elaborate service, but the 



BOSTON 

 Frank Connolly, of the Welch Bros. 

 Co., is receiving congratulations on 

 the event of the arrival of the stork. 



"Jack" Cohen, the popular salesman 

 of the Co-operative Flower Market, 

 departed last Saturday for St. Albans, 

 Vt. 



"Bill" Glidden, representative of 

 the Budlong Rose Co., is receiving 

 large shipments of their new rose, 

 Columbia. 



Hitchings & Co., have severed their 

 connection with J. M. Keeler and Miss 

 Simmons of the Boston • office has 

 taken his place. 



Notwithstanding the extensive al- 

 terations Welch Bros. Co. are making 

 in their store, business, quoting Pat- 

 rick Welch, is "Great." 



Mrs. Lane, mother of J. J. Lane, 

 who is now in Camp Devens, passed 

 away on the night of July 4 at her 

 home in Cambridge. She had been 

 critically ill for a long time. 



Word has been received here from 

 Canada that Max Aronson of the 

 Flower Market who joined the English 

 forces bound for Jerusalem, last Feb- 

 ruary, has recently been promoted a 

 lieutenant. 



Robert H. Roland, son of Thomas 

 Roland, the Nahant florist, has re- 

 turned from "over there" where he 

 has had an eventful experience as an 

 ambulance driver and Red Cross 

 worker on the western front and in 

 Italy. 



"Joe" Margolis, of H. M. Robinson 

 & Co., and Mr. Ludwig, of N. F. Mc- 

 Carthy & Co., left Boston the first of 

 the week. They will devote the next 

 six weeks to draining the lakes and 

 ponds of Maine and New Brunswick 

 of the finny tribe. 



Wilfrid Wheeler of Concord, has 

 been elected state commissioner of 

 agriculture by the new board of agri- 

 culture established by this year's 

 legislature. Mr. Wheeler for five 

 years was secretary and executive of- 

 ficer of the old board of agriculture 



