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HORTICULTURE 



November 16, 1918 



BOSTON. 



Joseph L. Beasley, proprietor of the 

 W. W. Rawson flower store in Arling- 

 ton, has fully recovered from his al- 

 most fatal attack of influenza and 

 pneumonia. 



A recent letter from E. H. Wilson 

 locates that indefatlguable explorer in 

 Formosa for a two-months fall collect- 

 ing tour after practically completing 

 his work in Korea. It is not expected 

 that introductions from Formosa will 

 be hardy in New England but Cali- 

 fornia and other warm states should 

 benefit. He is booked for return trip 

 in February and with his wife and 

 daughter will reach Boston about mid- 

 dle of March. 



Twenty airplanes piloted by 20 

 army lieutenants carrying wreaths of 

 flowers, soaring a thousand feet in 

 the air and making an occasional 

 death-defying nose dive to within less 

 than a hundred feet of a speeding 

 train to toss their wreaths on a fune- 

 ral car, were features in the homage 

 paid to their comrade-oflicer, Lieuten- 

 ant E. J. Eagan, a Boston boy, who 

 was killed last Saturday at Langley 

 Field, Virginia, in an airplane acci- 

 dent. Funeral services were held Nov. 

 14 at 10 o'clock from the Sacred 

 Heart Church, Roslindale. 



The Boston Floral Supply Co., to- 

 gether with their 75 employes and of- 

 fice force, celebrated Peace Day by 

 enoying a performance at the B. F. 

 Keith's Theatre. The president of the 

 concern, Samuel Robinson, accom- 

 panied the employes. The factory and 

 office was closed during the greater 

 part of Monday and all day Tuesday. 

 The day at Keith's was spent very 

 pleasantly and happily for everybody. 

 This concern has been making a great 

 record this season and has quickly 

 taken its place in the front rank of 

 hustlers in new floral enterprise for 

 Boston and New England. 



Boston was much pleased to receive 

 a few days' visit from Alex. Mont- 

 gomery, now located permanently at 

 Hadley. He will be heard from next 

 year by the whole horticultural 

 world in some rose novelties that will 

 reach the apex to date in forcing 

 rose progress. Messrs. Montgomery 

 have a modern splendid outfit to take 

 advantage of the latest fuel ruling, 

 whereby they have the privilege of 

 100 per cent, of their requirements. 

 The boilers are equipped with eflS- 

 cient turbine blowers which supply 

 the necessary draught to burn suc- 



cessfully the small sizes of anthra- 

 cite buckwheat coal in combination 

 with soft coal. It is an ideal arrange- 

 ment and worthy of installation by 

 any up-to-date place. 



The L. J. Renter Company has been 

 inaugurated with Louis J. Renter, for- 

 merly of Westerly, R. J., at the helm. 

 The office of the company will be 

 located temporarily at 329 Waverley 

 Oaks Road, Waltham, Mass., but some 

 time early in the spring a Boston 

 office will be opened. It is planned to 

 start a sales agency for florists' stock 

 and supplies, nursery products, per- 

 ennial garden material, etc. .Mr. 

 Renter is fortunate in the large num- 

 ber of friends he has in the trade and 

 already has been assured of the co- 

 operation of some prominent growers 

 and some advance orders for stock 

 are already in hand. Mr. Reuter's 

 knowledge in this line of business and 

 general experience will be a valuable 

 asset in establishing a lucrative in- 

 dustry in Boston. 



The B. A, Snyder Co. one of our 

 youngest wholesale houses, are about 

 to remove from their old place on 

 Devonshire street to new and very 

 eligible headquarters at 21-23-25 Otis 

 street. They will have in street floor 

 and basement which runs through 

 with freight entrance on Arch street, 

 about 9,000 sq. feet of floor space 

 with the basement devoted to a com- 

 plete line of supplies and the street 

 floor exclusively for the cut flower de- 

 partment. The lighting of the place 

 is very modern and fine and there are 

 two ice boxes, one 14 x 18 ft., the 

 other 17 x 18 ft., with facilities un- 

 excelled. B. A. Snyder Co. have pro- 

 gressed from a modest beginning, at- 

 tending strictly to business but never 

 spectacular and have fairly won the 

 position of confidence and growing 

 prominence which they hold today in 

 the New England trade. 



CHICAGO. 



Last year's October sales were 

 known as totaling unusually high, but 

 owing to the recent epidemic, business 

 for last month is showing to have been 

 equally large. 



As the meeting took place on the 

 night of the premature report of the 

 ending of the war, it was too much to 

 expect to hold the members, and the 

 club adjourned. 



The French bulbs are now keeping 

 the American Bulb Co. busy, the stock 

 having arrived and all in the best of 



condition. A. Miller, president of the 

 company, says the Dutch bulbs have 

 all been sent out and orders are being 

 refused daily. 



Among the favorable comments 

 heard regarding the new Hill rose 

 Premier, is that it will open wide 

 after cutting — a quality that some of 

 the warmest admirers of the Mrs. Rus- 

 sell have wished for. There are 

 others who think the color a more 

 pleasing shade in the new rose. 



The city retail florists are holding 

 a meeting at the Congress Hall as we 

 go to press. More interest has been 

 shown this time in the forming of a 

 permanent organization than before, 

 and it is regarded as an assured fact. 

 A constitution and by laws are to be 

 adopted today, after which officers will 

 be considered. 



The growers of the Chicago Flower 

 Growers' Association report the chrys- 

 anthemum crop as coming on faster 

 than usual, and Manager Klingsporn 

 notes the appearance this week of 

 pompon Golden Wedding which has 

 never before appeared till Thanks- 

 giving. The yellow Bonnaffons now 

 are at their best and the white Bon- 

 naffons just coming, and Nagoya 

 makes a fine showing on the counters. 



The Chicago Florists' Club held a 

 brief meeting on Nov. 7 and nominat- 

 ed the following officers: For presi- 

 dent, AUie Zeck and Geo. C. Weiland. 

 Mr. Weiland was not present and the 

 following day declined to accept the 

 nomination. Vice-president, Walter 

 .\mling; secretary, A. T. Pyfer, and 

 treasurer Otto Amling to succeed 

 himself. H. N. Bruns' term as trustee 

 expires and Fred Lautenschlager was 

 nominated. 



The re election of Peter Reinberg by 

 a large majority shows the respect and 

 confidence in which he is held by the 

 people of Chicago, and florists are 

 gratified to count him as one of their 

 number. He was one of the pioneers 

 in the business and has the largest 

 plant within the city, though for some 

 years he has not been personally in- 

 terested in its care. Mr. Reinberg as 

 president of the County Board was 

 more than any one else, instrumental 

 in the purchase of the eleven tracts of 

 land, largely covered with native 

 timber and closely linked with Indian 

 legends and early Illinois history, 

 which will be the permanent posses- 

 sion of the people of Cork Co. When 

 the drive connecting them is com- 

 pleted there will be no other city in 

 the United States supplied with such 

 an opportunity for enjoying the great 

 outdoors in its nat\iral state. 



