HORTICULTUEE 



July 20. 1918 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Samuel S. Pennock and William F. 

 Gude made a flying visit to Dreer's 

 at Riverton on the 12th inst. 



George W. Hess was expected to go 

 to Waretown in the party hy auto on 

 the 12th inst. but on account of slight 

 illness on that date he went home to 

 Washington instead. 



John Westcott and Robert Craig 

 were among the Philadelphians who 

 went to Long Island on the 18th inst. 

 to pay their last respects to their dear 

 old life long friend, James Dean. 



Some twenty of the Niessen boys 

 went on a picnic on Sunday, July 14th, 

 to Buena, N. J., as the guests of Wm. 

 La Croix, the well-known lilac grower 

 at that point. There was a hand, and 

 a flag raising: a ball game and plenty 

 of refreshments. A very pleasant day 

 was spent. 



Capt. F. H. Clement of the Kelly 

 street Business Men's Association Is 

 spending the summer at his rural re- 

 treat in Castine, Maine. He says his 

 roses have come through the past se- 

 vere winter there better than he ex- 

 pected — in fact better than in his 

 home garden in Long Island. 



Paul Huebner, landscape superin- 

 tendent of the Reading railroad sys- 

 tem, celebrated his 67th birthday on 

 July 16th. There were old friends 

 around at the dinner party, a little 

 "Brut" and some Romeo and Juliet 

 cigars. But above all, were the many 

 hearty good wishes for many happy re- 

 turns of the day. A great horticul- 

 turist, a great specialist, a wit and a 

 humorist and a jolly good fellow tried 

 and true! That's Paul. A delight to all 

 who know him. 



John Westcott and family are spend- 

 ing the summer at Atlantic City. Wil- 

 liam Westcott comes up to Philadel- 

 phia every day to attend to business. 

 The elder Mr. Westcott puts in part 

 of his time on his farm on the shore of 

 Barnegat Bay. He had as his guests 

 recently Wm. F. Gude of Washington, 

 D. C, Dr. P. H. Lane of Philadelphia 

 and others of note and distinction. 

 Among his recent callers at Ridge and 

 Lehigh Avenues were Mr. and Mrs. 

 Herbert Pennock, from Jupiter, Flor- 

 ida, who are on a summer visit to 

 their old friends around Philadelphia. 



George T. Boucher and wife are 

 spending a few days at Canandalgua 

 Lake. Mrs. C. Duffy of same firm 

 has returned. 



On Wednesday evening, July 17th, 

 the Venetian Song and Light Festival 

 was held under the auspices of the 

 Park Department. 



Robert Bier of Cornell and J. L. 

 Wellington, Sec'y of Monroe Co. de- 

 fense committee, inspected war gar- 

 dens in this city on July 12th. 



The Tussock moth has again made 

 its appearance in apple orchards in 

 Monroe County and is causing con- 

 siderable damage. An application is 

 recommended of five to six pounds 

 of arsenate of lead paste to 100 gal- 

 lons of water. It is advisable when 

 spraying for this insect to use lime- 

 sulphur solution 1 to 40 to act as pre- 

 ventive of apple scab or fungus. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 

 Prospects at the trial grounds of 

 James Vick's Sons are good. The sea- 

 son so far has been ideal. 



CHICAGO. 



Robert Newcomb, well known in 

 Chicago, and in the trade, has joined 

 forces with Mr. Miller of Farmington, 

 Utah, and will open a fine store in the 

 fall under the name of the Miller 

 Floral Co., at Salt Lake City, Utah. 



Mr. and Mrs. Sam'l J. Pearce cele- 

 brated their 31st wedding anniversary 

 on July 10th with a family reunion. 



I. Goldstein, of the Am. Bulb Co., 

 has just returned from Japan. He re- 

 ports that since the embargo on lilies 

 the Japanese growers have made no 

 preparations for shipping them this 

 season. 



The high cost of living is receiving 

 attention from some of the busi- 

 ness men in north west side in 

 Chicago. The Irving Park Public 

 Market was opened last week and 

 Saturday it was visited by more than 

 12,000 patrons and friends and there 

 were twenty-nine farm truck loads of 

 vegetables and four truck loads of 

 fruit. 



The Chicago Flower Growers As- 

 sociation held their eighth annual 

 meeting July 15th. The members were 

 well pleased with the improvement in 

 business for the past year. They 

 elected five directors as follows: Geo. 

 C. Weiland, Chas. McCauley, Rudolph 

 Ellsworth, Joseph Schoos, Paul Kllng- 

 sporn. The directors elected these 

 officers: President, Geo. C. Weiland: 

 vice-president and treasurer, Chas. 

 McCauley;. secretary, Rudolph Ells- 

 worth: Manager, Paul Klingsporn. 



CLEVELAND 



The annual outing of the Florists' 

 Club will be held July 24 at Willough- 

 beach. The entertainment committee,' 

 of which C. E. Russell is chairman, 

 announces a fine program consisting 

 of sports and contests of interest to 

 all. Wllloughbeach is a fine picnic 

 ground, having all the necessary fa- 

 cilities besides being very convenient 

 of access. 



The chief midsummer attention of 

 the publicity committee is being given 

 to the Increasing practice of employ- 

 ing the phrase "Please omit flowers" 

 in the funeral notices. Convinced 

 that something constructive must he 

 accomplished, the publicity committee 

 of which H. P. Knoble is chairman, 

 has appropriated $200 to be used dur- 

 ing the months of July and August, 

 for this purpose. 



The wholesale market was closed 

 Sunday, July 14, the Sunday closing 

 agreement of the wholesalers taking 

 effect on that date. This change was 

 decided upon at a meeting of whole- 

 sale florists held at the Cleveland Cut 

 Flower Co., July 11, and was unani- 

 mously adopted. For the benefit of 

 the trade the market will be kept open 

 until 8 p. m., on Saturday evenings, 

 6.30 being the opening and 5 p. m. 

 the closing hour on week days except 

 Saturdays. Several of the downtown 

 retailers are also seriously debating 

 the question of Sunday closing. This 

 would work out well with the larger 

 avenue stores but perhaps would 

 prove detrimental to the interests of 

 the spialler florists located near the 

 cemeteries. 



PITTSBURGH 



Spiro Kepp, manager for the M. M. 

 Kronls Co. at the Penn. R. R. station, 

 East Liberty, has returned from a, 

 vacation spent at his former home In 

 Minneapolis. 



Ernest C. Ludwig entertained the 

 America club at his country place at 

 Mars, Pa., over the week end. Mrs. 

 J. C. Ludwig a sister o£ the host is 

 also his guest for a few weeks. 



A long period of dry weather has had 

 a bad effect on the war gardens of this 

 vicinity. All vegetation ane even the 

 lawns have taken on a withered ap- 

 pearance. The garden products how- 

 ever have been satisfactory up to the 

 present tinie with the exception of 

 potatoes which do not appear to thrive 

 in Pennsylvania soil. 



