September 3, 1910 



horticulture: 



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PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Our Philadelphia office is in receipt 

 of a fine bouquet of Gaillardia grand! 

 flora from W. F. Bassett. Hammonton. 

 This is a fine thing for summer cutting 

 and is Incoming more popular every 

 year. 



A big shipment of the new stock 

 immortelles arrived last week on the 

 S. S. "Manitou" for M. Rice &- Co. 

 Also the largest shipment of baskets, 

 etc., in the history of the firm, ex: 

 the S. S. "Pollanza." 



Samuel S. Pennock (Permock-Mee- 

 han Co.) started for New England and 

 Nova Scotia points, August 25, the 

 hay fever epidemic having struck 

 Philadelphia on that date. He was 

 accompanied by his two boys and will 

 be gone about three weeks. 



We understand that about six of the 

 prominent dahlia growers of Hammon- 

 ton have formed an association for the 

 promotion of the interest of this 

 flower and those devoted to its 

 culture. The elimination of conflict- 

 ing ideas and items, is a great step 

 towards profitable operation. When 

 you get that you get real co-operation; 

 and good-bye cut-throat! 



- H. W. Geller is the superintendent 

 at the Baron de Hirsch School at 

 Woodbury, N. J. They are doing good 

 work there in horticulture and flori- 

 culture and have large plans for the 

 future in course of incubation. Mr. 

 Geller is a welcome addition to the 

 world-wide family of HORTICULTURE 

 readers and would be welcomed as a 

 member of the Philadelphia Florists' 

 GJub. 



Our good friend Charles E. Meetan, 

 accompanied by Mrs. Meehan, took a 

 three weeks' pleasure trip Via Buffalo, 

 through the Great Lakes to Minne- 

 apolis, recently. The trip was all 

 water — Buffalo to Duluth, then rail to 

 Minneapolis and St. Paul. One of the 

 most astonishing sights on the way 

 was the wonderful system of loading 

 cargo boats at Cleveland. The boats 

 were enormous for inland waters — 

 many of them over six hundred feet in 

 length, and the giant cranes could pick 

 up a forty-ton car and drop the con- 

 tents into these boats as if same were 

 a cup of water. This was supplement- 

 ed by a switchback which quickly re- 

 moved the empty cars, and made ev- 

 erything go like clock-work. Mr. Mee- 

 han is going to commend this scheme 

 to Mr. Fuerstenberg for his giant 

 greenhouses at Ambler. 



The ore docks at Marquette, Mich., 

 looked also like one of the wonders of 

 the world! The copper-colored water 

 at Portage Lake, suggested an un- 

 worked filtering scheme to make a lot 

 of money now going to waste! Duluth 

 impressed Mr. Meehan as a fine city 

 and a great iron ore and wheat centre. 

 The locks at Saulte Ste. Marie were 

 eye-openers — very interesting indeed; 

 boats three hundred to six hundred ft. 

 long could be raised and sent on their 

 way rejoicing in 5 or 10 minutes. 



Minnesota and further west seems to 

 be suffering from drought and forest 

 fires. Mirneapolis struck the senses 

 as one of the most magnificent cities 

 on the continent — its Nicollett avenue 



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being so wide and brilliantly lighted 

 from end to end, as to rival the cele- 

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 One of the great things in these north 

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 we enjoy in the East. 



Visitors: Harry Papworth, Metairie 

 Ridge Co. and U. J. Virgin, New 

 Orleans, La.; Jos. Fleisohraan. N. Y. 

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INCORPORATED. 

 Tropico, Los Angeles, Cal. — Sunset 

 Nurseries, capital stock $20,000. Di- 

 rectors, H. D. Robinson, Charles 

 Moset, Wm. B. Thomson, George C. 

 Melrose and J. B. Tredwell. 



Ontonagon, Mich. — Daniel Nehmer 

 & Sons, to conduct a nursery busi- 

 ness; capital stock $15,000. Charles 

 F. Nehmer, president and manager; 

 Daniel Nehmer, vice-president, and 

 Harry D. Nehmer, secretary and 

 treasurer. 



Martinsburg, W. Va. — Potomac- 

 Shenp.ndoah Co.; agricultural, horti- 

 cultural and produce business, capi- 

 tal stock $50,000. Incorporators. 

 Charles Burdett Hart, Wheeling; 

 Gray Silver, Alex. Clehan, Clarence 

 E. Martin and N. T. Frame, all of 

 Martinsburg. 



Coriscana, Tex. — To rescue a man 

 who was overcome by fire damp, 

 W. T. Callens. a florist and old resi- 

 dent here, went into a well and was 

 himself overcome and died before he 

 could be rescued. He leaves a wife 

 and several children. 



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