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HORTICULTUEE 



August 31, 1918 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



CLEVELAND. 



Next meeting of the Florists' Club 

 Sept. 9tli. at the Hollenden. 



Carl Hagenberger had a fine display 

 ot stock from his Mentor greenhouses 

 at the S. A. F. Convention, amongst 

 which his novel solanums attracted 

 much attention. 



Otto Walter expects to enter the 

 army about Sept. 1. Mr. Walter is in 

 a quandary as to whether it would be 

 best to close his business or hire some- 

 body to operate it for him during his 

 absence. 



C. A. Bauer, son of Mrs. P. J. Bauer, 

 the Superior avenue florist, left for 

 Muscel Shoals, .Alabama, Aug. 28, to 

 work as chemist for the Air Nitrates' 

 Corporation, one of the large concerns 

 engaged in extracting valuable war 

 materials from the air. 



The Florists' Club can look forward 

 to a particularly busy autumn. There 

 are no fall shows staged here but the 

 gardeners' convtintion of Sept. 24, 25. 

 26, is closely followed by the F. T. D. 

 Convention. Oct. 8, 9th, to say nothing 

 of the Liberty Loan Campaign, in 

 which work florists have taken an ac- 

 tive part in the past. H. P. Knoble is 

 chairman of the committee appointed 

 by Pres. Robt. Weeks to look after 

 local gardeners' convention matters 

 and F. C. W. Brown is in charge of 

 the committee on F. T. D. meeting ar- 

 rangements. Both meetings are pre- 

 dicted to be record breakers. 



PITTSBURGH. 



The Arcadia Flower Shop, estab- 

 lished about a year ago in the Jenkins 

 Arcade, has suspended business. 



Joseph King of the A. W. Smith Co. 

 has returned from vacation in Atlantic 

 City. Arthur Hall remains still at the 

 sea shore. 



Pennsylvania war gardens suffered 

 from the drought of the past couple of 

 months and the reports show an av- 

 erage below normal. 



McGrath & Langhans of the Empire 

 Flower Shop are one of the few firms 

 who have had a satisfaftory August 

 trade. The Empire Shop handles the 

 Blind stock exclusively and have been 

 well supplied with good home grown 

 stock. 



Herschel McCallum, one of the 

 brothers of the McCallum Co., went 

 out with the August draft and is in 

 training at Camp Lee. McCallums 

 report the receipts of good quality 

 Xew York state asters for which there 

 is a fair demand, but otherwise the 

 market is dull, with a surplus of 

 gladiolus, lilies and roses much of 

 which is going to waste. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Ostertag Bros, are building a new 

 garage and have leased the house ad- 

 joining for storage purposes. A sign 

 "Say it with Flowers" can be seen 

 from the Locust street drive. 



The call to service of boys from 18 

 to 21 will take quite a few from the 

 stores, both wholesale and retail and 

 from the growers. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The Committee of the Florists' Club 

 of Washington have been materially 

 assisted by George C. Shaffer, the 

 Washington Floral Co. and Theodore 

 Diedrich & Son, who have contributed 

 thus far more than 3,000 good sale- 

 able flowers for the soldiers at Walter 

 Reed Hospital. Through this commit- 

 tee candy and souvenir, cards and 

 games have also found their way to 

 the Georgia avenue institution. 



The Community Board of the United 

 States Employment Service of the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia has declared as non- 

 essential the unskilled labor employed 

 in the florist business in the District 

 of Columbia. This means that men 

 coming under this ruling will have to 

 seek other employment.. Under this 

 same classification comes auto trucks 

 engaged in work other than fuel or 

 government work, teaming other than 

 delivery of products for war work. etc. 

 The men to be released at this time 

 are the laborers, porters, janitors and 

 other unskilled workers. 



Information is being sought on be- 

 half of the War Industries Board as 

 to the extent to which greenhouses are 

 being devoted to the production of 

 vegetables. Blanks are soon to be 

 sent to commercial growers all over 

 the country with a view to ascertain- 

 ing the location and size of their 

 greenhouses and the value of their 

 products divided into two classes — veg- 

 etables and other greenhouse products. 



Other information requested by the 

 Bureau covers the kind and quantity of 

 fuel used, the kind of fertilizers used 

 and amount of each, the kind of in- 

 secticides and fungicides and quan- 

 tity of each, the number of males eigh- 

 teen years ot age and over continuous- 

 ly employed, etc. 



BOSTON. 



The entire trade throughout the 

 wholesale district is more or less 

 worried over the effect the new 

 draft law will have upon the em- 

 ployees, and until its settlement and 

 the final classifications are made busi- 

 ness will certainly feel its influence 

 for the next few weeks. 



The spread of the European corn 

 borer in Massachusetts may compel 

 the \J. S. department of agriculture to 

 declare a quarantine on all corn pro- 

 ducts raised in the infested area. 

 The destructive corn pest appeared 

 here late in the summer of 1917 since 

 then the affected area has spread 

 alarmingly. 



THE COAL SITUATION. 



While in the production of lioth 

 anthracite and bituminous coal the 

 country Is considerably below the 

 program set by the Administration as 

 marking a minimum at whicli the 

 necessary war work could be carried 

 on at the rate of highest efficiency, the 

 fact remains that coal production has 

 reached a higher point than ever be- 

 fore in the history of the industry, in 

 a great many districts, both anthracite 



and bituminous, production records 

 have been broken, but still production 

 remains short of requirements, by 

 several million tons. Almost daily ap- 

 plications are coming to the Fuel Ad- 

 ministration from War Industries and 

 other plants already on the preferred 

 list of war industries, for increased al- 

 lowances because of enlargements and 

 extensions to original plants, made 

 since the Fuel Administration com- 

 piled its estimates of consumption. 



The increased demand for coal for 

 the navy reached almost one hundred 

 per cent in July. With the launching 

 of new ships, the requirements of the 

 Shipping Board have likewise grown 

 beyond all expectation: so also, coal 

 for bunkering purposes, and for new 

 industries, not in operation at the be- 

 ginning of the coal year. 



In response to appeals by Director 

 of Production James B. Neale the 

 mine workers are making every patri- 

 otic sacrifice possible to get out the 

 coal. The ranks of the mine workers 

 have been depleted by the draft and 

 by voluntary enlistment and, because 

 earlier in the year there was such a 

 marked shortage of cars so that the 

 mine workers could-Jiot work steadily, 

 numbers of them drifted into other 

 war work and are lost to the mines. 

 On the other hand the mine workers 

 who remain are doing their part nobly. 

 In a great many instances they have 

 given up their carnivals and picnics 

 so that work may not be interfered 

 with. They have changed a time- 

 honored custom of attending the 

 funeral of a comrade-worker, killed in 

 the line of duty, which funerals always 

 kept the mine idle for a day, and. in- 

 stead are represented by a commit- 

 tee. Old men, long retired from active 

 mine work have voluntarily gone back 

 to work to aid the government in this 

 crisis. 



A new step is the appointment of 

 Production Committees in every mine, 

 whose duties are to see that all the 

 mine workers who can work do tlieir 

 full hours of work coal day, six days 

 in the week. At the same time if 

 mine workers are unable to work be- 

 cause of the inefficiency of the oper- 

 ator, the committees are to report that 

 so that the United States Fuel Admin- 

 isration can place the blame, if there 

 is any, where it belongs. 



White Plains, N. Y.— This office has 

 been authorized by the state Fuel Ad- 

 ministration to issue the following 

 order: 



"All commercial iireeiihouscs whose aver- 

 ase consumption for tlie last tbree years 

 lias Iieen SO tons or less are permitted to 

 secure 40 tons this year, proviiled this is 

 not in excess of tlieir actual reqnirements.** 



Attention should be called to the follow- 

 ing: (1) This does net apply to private 

 greenhousos; (2) Deliver.v shall not be made 

 by a dealer until two-thinls of his de- 

 liveries to all domestic con.sumers have 

 been made, and then only on a two-thirds 

 basis as in all other deliveries: (.•!) No 

 greenhouse shall use hard coal (No. 1 

 Buckwheat or larger) \YithoHt first receiv- 

 ing a permit from the manager of Anthra- 

 cite Pistrihntion of the T'. .''. Fuel Ad- 

 ministration at Washington: (4i No dealer 

 shall deliver anthraiite coal except in sizes 

 smaller than No. 1 Buckwheat for use In 

 any greenhouse except pursuant to such 

 permit: (5) Greenhouses which have in the 

 past used liaril coal and are going to use 

 soft coal this year shall be allowed to re- 

 ceive an increased tonnage to enable them 

 to get the same number of heat units 

 (H. T. V.) as in the past. 



W.VLTER W. L.\W, Jk., 



11. S. Fuel .\ilminrstrator for Westchester 

 County. 



