HORTICULTUEE 



August 3, 1918 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



BOSTON. 



Robert Montgomery was in town for 

 a few days last week but will spend 

 the rest of the summer at his cottage 

 at Bustens Island, Me. 



Patrick Welch and family are again 

 enjoying the ocean breezes at Old 

 Orchard, Me. Mr. Welch is planning, 

 however, to go to the St. Louis con- 

 vention. 



B. A. Snyder, of B. A. Snyder & Co., 

 has returned from an enjoyable trip 

 through the White Mountains, and his 

 brother, Julius, of the same firm is 

 also back from a short stay at 

 Martha's Vineyard. They have com- 

 pletely renovated their Devonshire 

 street store, making several needed 

 improvements in anticipation of an in- 

 creased fall business. 



Boston Common will be treeless in 

 five or six years unless immediate 

 action is taken in the matter of tree 

 planting, Chairman James B. Shea of 

 the Park and Recreation Board 

 warned the city council. .According 

 to Mr. Shea, the entire replanting of 

 the Common is favored by Professor 

 Charles S. Sargent of the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum. Chairman Shea appeared 

 before the council and urged the 

 transfer of funds from the Fenway 

 appropriation to an appropriation for 

 the Common for removing dead trees 

 and planting young trees for refor- 

 estation in the Public Garden. The 

 transfer of funds was promptly 

 passed by the council. 



As an experiment the community 

 market, planned by the Suffolk Coun- 

 ty Food Administration, which opened 

 in Horticultural Hall, Wednesday, was 

 a very one-sided success. More than 

 31,1100 circulars were sent out by W. L. 

 Tehune, Suffolk County Home, Garden 

 director, announcing the community 

 market and inviting home growers to 

 send their surplus fruits and veget- 

 ables. Very few answers were received 

 to these circulars, and those who re- 

 plied stated what later investigation 

 showed to be the case generally, that 

 the home growers are either selling 

 their surplus products to their less 

 fortunate neighbors, or are canning, 

 drying and preserving them for future 

 use. The failure of the market to ma- 

 terialize was an intense disappoint- 

 ment to nearly 1,500 would-be pur- 

 chasers. 



CHICAGO. 

 A telegram from E. C. Amling an- 

 nounces his safe arrival in Los An- 

 geles. He will spend a few weeks on 

 the coast. 



Some of Jas. G. Hancock's friends 

 have discovered him sitting within the 

 glass enclosure at J. Mangel's, the 

 Palmer House Florist. 



Wm. J. Smyth, of 31st and Michi- 

 gan avenue, has an attractive rock 

 garden in his store window and the 

 effect of the falling water amidst the 

 ferns and palms makes a delightful 

 picture these mid-summer days. 



The sale of the Anton Then place 

 on Winnemac avenue, marks a change 

 in the career of a large family, 

 all the members of which are con- 

 nected in some way with the trade. 

 The ground covers 32 lots and has 

 really become too valuable longer to 

 be used tor greenhouse purposes. 



The entire force of the wholesale 

 house of Zech & Mann, as well as 

 friends from other houses, turned out 

 to give Prank Jarel a farewell supper 

 before he left for the Great Lakes 

 Naval Training Station Saturday. 

 Speeche.'. followed the supper and 

 Frank was made to realize that the 

 best wishes of all go with him. A 

 suitable token is to follow soon. 



Phil Schupp. of J. A. Budlong's, 

 knows a lot about roses and gets his 

 information first hand, for he sees 

 them from the time the plants are 

 bought till the flowers are sold at the 

 store. He has 2,500 plants of Colum- 

 bia and hopes that it has a big future 

 for his sake, but he says he cannot 

 see that it is the equal of Russell so 

 far. In size, form, coloring and foliage 

 Mrs. Russell excels as a summer rose 

 under present conditions. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Clarke H. Vick, of the George B. 

 Hart staff, is away on a two weeks' 

 vacation at Canandaigua Lake. 



Mrs. Marie Jacobs, of the Rochester 

 Floral Co.. is on a two weeks' vacation, 

 which she is spending at the lake. 



Private Dewey Lester passed through 

 Elmira, N. Y., on his way to Camp 

 -Merritt. N. J., on Thursday p. m. He 

 has been stationed at Corpus Christ! 

 for nearly 12 months. They expect to 

 be sent "over there" very shortly 



PHILADELPHIA. 



We had a pleasant call from Wil- 

 liam H. Engler, the efficient repre- 

 sentative of the Florists' Exchange in 

 Philadelphia on the 27th inst. Glad to 

 see him, and to put on record that he 

 is a real boy. 



Up in Bucks County they are all 

 howling for rain. We have had lots 

 of good showers around Philadelphia 

 recently but north of us not a drop 

 for forty days. Mr. Hellberg, who 

 runs the Sam Lilly place up at Chal- 

 font, when we called the other day, 

 said carnation plants were at a stand- 

 still and they were afraid to move 

 them inside until they got a good rain. 

 This is a new place with some thirty- 

 five thousand square feet of glass and 

 is devoted exclusively to growing car- 

 nations. It is a thrifty, well managed 

 outfit and well worthy of a visit when 

 you are up Doylestown way. Mr. 

 Hellberg is genial to strangers, an in- 

 teresting talker and a man of parts. 



OBITUARY. 



Hazel M. Keiber. 

 We are sorry to record the death of 

 Hazel M. Keiber, of Rochester, N. Y., 

 who was formerly bookkeeper for H. 

 E. Wilson. Her death was not ex- 

 pected and came as a big blow to her 

 many friends. Her husband, Sergeant 

 Edward J. Keiber, is with the Ameri- 

 can Expeditionary Forces in France. 



Emma L. Palmer. 

 P. E. Palmer, the Brookline, Mass., 

 florist, has the deep sympathy of his 

 many friends in the trade in the death 

 of his wife Emma L., who passed 

 away Wednesday, of this week. Mrs. 

 Palmer was a native of Natick, Mass., 

 and had been ill since last May. She 

 is survived by her husband and five 

 children, three daughters and two sons, 

 one of whom, Lieut. George B., is an 

 instructor in the army at Camp Lee, 

 Va. The funeral took place Saturday, 

 at 2 p. m., from Masonic Hall, Brook- 

 line, Mass. 



PATENTS GRANTED. 



1,269.877. Hand Seed-Planter. George 

 A. Sturrock, Port Townsend. Wash. 



1,270,087. Land-Roller. George Wright, 

 Chatham, Ontario. Canada. 



1.270,070. Fertilizer-Distributer, Star- 

 ley S. Swanson. Bellevue, Ohio. 



