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HOKTICULTUEE 



September 13. 1913 



Personal 



Theodore Wheeler goes as manager 

 of the greenhouses of Mrs. A. D. 

 Trumbull at Carbondale. Pa. 



S. W. Carlquist of Ethelwynd Gar- 

 dens, Lenox, Mass.. is taking a trip to 

 Niagara Falls for a few days. 



Wm. Livesey has sold out his florist 

 business in New Bedford, Mass., and 

 has gone to San Diego, California. 



Arthur S. Parker, of Stoneham, 

 Mass., a well-known florist in the Bos- 

 ton market, is to be a candidate for 

 the legislature on the Progressive 

 state ticket this fall. 



George Cartwright, manager of the 

 Boston Flower Exchange, was pre- 

 sented with an oil portrait of himself, 

 life size, by his friends in the market 

 recently. P. W. Firth was the artist. 



Thos. G. Williams, for some time 

 past with H. H. Battles. Philadelphia, 

 and formerly foreman at the John H. 

 Taylor rose houses, Bayside, N. Y., has 

 accepted a position with Peirce Bros.. 

 Waltham. Mass. 



The engagement has been announced 

 of Miss Alberta R. Billingham. of Ja- 

 maica Plain, Mass., to Mr. Hubert M. 

 Canning, of Brookline. Mr. Canning 

 is in the employ of Olmstead Bros., 

 the well-known landscape gardeners. 



Pleasant tidings come from .Minne- 

 apolis that Theodore Wirth is getting 

 along nicely after his accident. Per- 

 sonal letters received from him are in 

 a very cheerful and optimistic vein 

 and that goes a long way towards re- 

 covering from any physical ill. 



The announcement, in this issue, 

 that John Young, the popular secre- 

 tary of the S. A. F. and New York 

 Florists' Club, is about to re-enter the 

 wholesale cut flower business in New 

 York will be received with general 

 approval by the trade. Mr. Young has 

 had a thorough experience in the 

 commission field, knows the market, 

 knows the goods and knows the men 

 who produce the goods and those who 

 use them. With all this equipment 

 and the good will of the floral trade 

 everywhere, Mr. Young should build 

 up a winning business and we hope to 

 see him make a success equal to that 

 which he has achieved in society work. 

 Of wholesale florists in New York 

 City, it may be said. "Their name is 

 legion." but there will alwavs be room 

 at the top. 



Boston visitors: Dan MacFie, super- 

 intendent of gardening at Sage Foun- 

 dation Homes Co.. Forest Hill, N. Y.; 

 Harry A. Barnard, representing Stuart 

 Low & Co., Enfield. Eng.; M. H. 

 Walsh. Woods Hole, Mass.; J. Berg, 

 representing Lion & Co., New York. 



St. Louis visitors.— Martin Reu- 

 kauf. of H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Phila- 

 delphia: J. J. Karins. of Dreers 

 Philadelphia; H. Wenderoth. of Nick 

 Wapler; S. Seligman. of Wertheimer 



FLORIST 

 WASHINGTON D.C. 



Bros.; J. Buback, of Schloss Bros.; 

 M. LeVine, of Lion & Co., and W. 

 Dykes, of Ed. Jansen, New York. 



JOH-V YOUN'C 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 



The property at 14th and H streets, 

 occupied by Z. D. Blackistone as a 

 florist store, has been sold and the 

 building will be demolished to make 

 room for a modern office building. 



William Marche reports having 

 spent a very pleasant three weeks' 

 vacation, accompanied by his wife and 

 child, at Asbury Park, N. J., and a 

 visit to New York and Philadelphia 

 where he picked up a number of good 

 ideas. 



Mrs. Coffman, formerly at F. H. 

 Kramer's F street store, has gone to 

 Parkersburg, W. Va., where she will 

 take up duties in the store there in 

 which she has an interest. Her son 

 Harold, who was with Gude Bros., is 

 with her. 



The Senate, as a Committee of the 

 Whole, has agreed to amending para- 

 graph 599 by the insertion after the 

 word "seedlings" on page 149, line 22, 

 of the words "four years old or less." 



This paragraph now reads; Bulbs and 

 bulbous roots, not edible and not oth- 

 erwise provided for in this section; all 

 flower and grass seeds; coniferous 

 evergreen seedlings four years old or 

 less; all the foregoing not specially 

 provided for in this section. This 

 paragraph is within the Free List. 



The Department of Agriculture has 

 decided to maintain the quarantine 

 which it some time ago placed on im- 

 ported plants, fruit and seed which 

 have been found to carry destructive 

 insects and plant diseases. The Medi- 

 terranean fruit fly has resulted in the 

 placing of a ban on Hawaiian fruit 

 shipments, because the small headway 

 made by this insect in the United 

 States led the Department to believe 

 that its spread would be a menace to 

 tlie fruit and vegetable growers of the 

 country and to the horticulturists. The 

 latest quarantine established, which 

 the Department shows no inclination 

 to remove, prohibits the shipment of 

 fruit from Mexico The discovery of 

 the "Mexican fruit fly." a dangerous 

 pest, was responsible for this quaran- 

 tine. 



The eighty-second annua! exhibition 

 of the American Institute will be held 

 in the Engineering Building. 25 to 33 

 West Thirtv-ninth street. New York 

 City, on Tuesday. Wednesday and 

 Thursday. September 23. 24 and 25. 

 Liberal prizes are offered for dahlias, 

 orchids, gladioli, annual and hardy 

 herbaceous flowers, ferns, palms, flor- 

 al novelties, fruits and garden vegeta- 

 bles, etc. Prize schedules may be ob- 

 tained from the secretary, 322-324 

 West 23rd street. New York. 



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