September 7, 191S 



HORTICULTUEE 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Horace J. Head will spend his vaca- 

 tion in Toronto. 



Miss Florence Inglesby has returned 

 from a two weelis vacation. 



Miss Marie Jacobs of Rochester 

 Floral Co. is having a vacation. 



Steve Green spent his vacation in 

 getting the family supply of coal for 

 winter. 



The various stores on Main street 

 had floral decorations for the Horse 

 Show in blue, yellow, red and green. 



Arthur Beyers, designer with ,1. B. 

 Keller Sons, will leave for Erie. Pa. 

 about Sept. 1. Later he has planned 

 to take an extended western trip. 



H. P. Neun had a very artistic win- 

 dow display of old fashioned flowers 

 such as zinnias, marigolds, scabiosa 

 and various others artistically ar- 

 ranged. 



Because of the shortage of help in 

 the Park Department, George Bou- 

 cher's force was called upon to stage 

 the plant exhibit at the exposition in 

 Floral hall. 



The auto delivery of H. E. Wilson's 

 was badly damaged by the rear end 

 of a street ear crashing into it when 

 turning the loop. Fortunately the 

 driver escaped without serious injury. 



Wm. Pitkin, ,Jr. has been promoted 

 to general secretary of Y. M. C. A. at 

 Camp Mills, Garden City, Long Is- 

 land. Mr. Pitkin wlio is a landscape 

 artist, left Rochester on June 1st. to 

 engage in Y. M. C. A. work. 



Sympathy is extended to Arthur M. 

 Newborn, florist of 701 Monroe street, 

 in the death of his mother-, Mrs. 

 Stephen R. Newborn, at the age of 75. 

 Besides her son she is survived by a 

 daughter. Miss Florence Newborn. 



Miss Tessie Whitman of H. E. Wil- 

 son's has volunteered to become a war 

 nurse. She will start training in the 

 Baltimore Hospital, Sept. 1st. She has 

 one brother on the firing line and an- 

 other brother was killed recently in 

 France. 



Obituary 



CLEVELAND. 



Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Wilkinson, of 

 the Penn Square Flower Shop, are 

 camping in the country. 



With already seriously depleted 

 forces, florists are wondering to what 

 extent the new extended draft will ef- 

 fect their profession. 



The new four story home of A. C. 

 Kendel's Seed Store, at 216 Prospect 

 avenue, is rapidly nearing completion, 

 and will be occupied by Oct. 1st. 



F. R. Williams, of the Cleveland Cut 

 Flower Co., is enjoying a fishing trip 

 in Canada, preparatory to taking up 

 the increased activities of the fall. 



Knoble Brothers staged a fine ex- 

 hibit of ferns, palms and crotons at 

 the Industrial Exposition held by the 

 west side business men in Edgewater 

 Park. 



George Ford. 

 George Ford, of Glen Cove, N. Y.. 

 who enlisted in the Canadian Army 

 last December, has been killed in 

 action, according to word received 

 here by his wife. Ford is the first 

 Glen Cove man to be killed in the 

 present war. He came to this country 

 from Moulsford, England, in 1914, and 

 occupied the position of foreman 

 gardener at the J. P. Pratt estate. He 

 leaves a widow. 



Lyman S. Briggs. 

 Lyman S. Briggs, aged 71. a well 

 known nurseryman, died at his home 

 at Smith's Ferry, Mass., after a short 

 illness. Mr. Briggs was born in Mil- 

 ton, Vt., in 1847. He located in 

 Smith's Ferry in 1871 and entered into 

 the nursery business in company with 

 Charles Smith. The partnership was 

 continued until Mr. Smith's death in 

 1891. Mr. Briggs retired from the 

 business two years ago, having con- 

 ducted it successfully for 4.5 years. 

 Mr. Briggs is survived by one daugh- 

 ter. 



John White. 



One of the best and truest men of 

 the flower trade has gone to his re- 

 ward. John White, long a resident 

 and florist of Pittsfield, Mass., died on 

 August 26, aged 77 years. By assidu- 

 ous attention and hard work John 

 White built up a large and prosperous 

 business and for many years w-as the 

 leading florist in all western Massa- 

 chusetts. The last few years he has 

 passed in retirement and a well- 

 earned rest. He leaves a widow, who 

 is daughter of the late Benj. Grey of 

 Maiden, Mass., and granddaughter of 

 William Grey, late superintendent of 

 the Corning estate, Albany, N. Y. 



Scientific advertising is perhaps the 

 greatest force in the commercial 

 world today. By its means the senti- 

 ment, desires and actions of entire 

 countries are controlled. Not to rec- 

 ognize it in business, and use it to 

 the limit, shows a lack of ordinary 

 business sense. — National Xursfrmnan. 



Dudley Hartford. 

 Dudley Hartford of Bedford, Mass., 

 died on Wednesday, August 28, at the 

 Deaconess Hospital in Concord, aged 

 78 years. He was a native of Bil- 

 lerica. In the early days of the flower 

 stores in Boston "Dud" Hartford sup- 

 plied them with moss, ferns and 

 hardy greens of all kinds and was in- 

 deed an indispensable adjunct to the 

 business. He was the pioneer of the 

 present-day large industry of collect- 

 ing, storing and supplying the green 

 goods the year round. Dud was a 

 typical shrewd Yankee always ready 

 for a trade or a swap — anything from 

 a clock, a horse and sleigh, a Baptist 

 pulpit down to a jack-knife — and of 

 late years since giving up his old avo- 

 cation he has devoted his time to the 

 collection and disposing of antique 

 clocks and other curios. He was a 

 good fellow, full of unctuous good na- 

 ture, kindly and always reliable and 

 the florists of the bygone days will all 

 be sorry to learn of his passing away. 

 He is survived by three sisters. 



TIMBER CENSUS. 



The .Massachusetts Forestry Asso- 

 ciation is co-operating with the United 

 States Forest Sen'ice in making a 

 census of the merchantable timber re- 

 sources of Massachusetts. The local 

 assessors were asked for the names 

 of all owners of fifty (50) acres or 

 more of merchantable timber and cord 

 wood in their respective towns and 

 there has been a patriotic response. 

 These owners were then requested to 

 furnish the particular data desired by 

 the Government. More than half of 

 the owners have been heard from and 

 the data is being compiled by towns 

 by the association. 



When the Government, last winter, 

 was in need of certain kinds of wood, 

 their representatives were unable to 

 secure any satisfactory information 

 here regarding the amount of timber 

 of any particular species that grows 

 in this state. This was unfortunate, 

 because in times of war the nation 

 needs its resources quickly, and a 

 knowledge of the amount and location 

 of any material should be definitely 

 known. This is an excellent argument 

 in favor of a survey of natural re- 

 sources of Massachusetts, which has 

 been demanded from time to time. 



The Government is using large 

 quantities of particular kinds of wood 

 for airplane wings and propellers, gun 

 stocks, tanning, charcoal and many 

 other special purposes. While by this 

 census it is desired to locate all kinds 

 of merchantable timber, there is a 

 special request at this time for white 

 ash, white oak, black walnut, black 

 cherry, yellow birch, hemlock and 

 chestnut. Although these woods are 

 in demand now, no one can tell when 

 others may be needed, and for that 

 reason all the commercial species 

 that grow here are being tabulated. 

 Anyone who owns a lot of less than 

 fifty (50) acres of the kinds of tim- 

 ber mentioned, in saw log sizes, and 

 who has not already reported the 

 same, should communicate at once 

 with the Forestry Association. It is 

 desired to make this census as com- 

 plete as possible. This data will be 

 held strictly confidential and Jias 

 nothing to do with taxation. General 

 statements only as to amounts will be 

 made public. It is hoped that all 

 owners of merchantable timber , will 

 co-operate with the Government and 

 the association by sending this infor- 

 mation to the Massachusetts Forestry 

 Association, 4 Joy street, Boston. 



While this census cannot be ex- 

 pected to be complete, it will contain 

 the practical data concerning our tim- 

 ber resources that is desired by the 

 Government. 



