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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



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BOSTON. 



John A. N'olson oi PYaiuiiigham has 

 gone to Clear Water. Fla.. for the 

 winter. 



"America's Horticultural Failure" Is 

 the title of W. A. Manda's lecture be- 

 fore the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society on Saturday. February 9. 



The next meeting of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club. Tuesday, February 

 19, will be Carnation N'ipht and a line 

 display of these flowers is promised. 



Bertrand H. Farr will give an Il- 

 lustrated lecture at Horticultural 

 Hall, February 16. on "The Peony." 

 On February 23 Prof. L. M. Massey of 

 Ithaca, N. Y.. will talk on the "Dis- 

 eases of Koses." 



As Asst. Dist. Atty. Frederick M. J. 

 Sheenan began his duties last Monday 

 forenoon, he found a huge floral piece, 

 standing six feet high and containing 

 1,200 carnations, in his office when he 

 arrived. A few more such twosts 

 would do the carnation a world of 

 good. 



The WTiolesale Flower Markets 

 were ordered to close on Mondays at 

 9 a. m. The wholesale flower stores 

 have permission however, to remain 

 open in order to care for their ship- 

 ping tr.ule. The latter is badly crip- 

 pled just now by express embargoes, 

 train cancellations and impediments 

 of like nature and shipments north or 

 east have been practically impossible 

 this week. 



Sixteen bills calling for boulevard 

 and parkway Improvements within the 

 metropoHian district have been re- 

 jected by (he committee en metropoli- 

 tan affairs on the ground that the ex- 

 pense co-mected with tliem can be dis- 

 pensed with until after the war. All 

 of these bills were before the Legis- 

 lature of 1917. Many of them received 

 favorable consideration in their Initial 

 stages, but all of them were referred 

 to the next General Court after the de- 

 claration of war. 



The Horticultural Club of Boston 

 had as guests at its meeting on Wed- 

 nesday evening, February 6, Jas. C. 

 Scorpie. superintendent of Mt. Auburn 

 Cemetery; E. W. Breed, of Clinton; 

 D. M. Rogers, of the .Massachusetts 

 Gypsy Moth Commission, and E. R. B. 

 Allardioe. superintendent of the Wa- 

 chusett Water Works. Clinton. Mr. 

 AUardice gave an interesting talk, 

 with lauiern slides, on the planting 

 and treatment of the land surround- 

 ing the treat reservoir. 



Plans approved for the new Massa- 



chusetts Kxhibit Uuilding to Ite erc<:ted 

 for the Commonwealth on the Kiustern 

 States Agricultural and Industrial Kx- 

 position grounds at West Springlleld. 

 indicate an attractive building costing 

 about $.iO,000. The main building con- 

 tains a large exhibition room with two 

 wings, wuile the central portion of the 

 building i.'! an adaptation of the old 

 State House in Boston. The commis- 

 sion appointed by the Governor to su- 

 pervise the erection of the building is 

 composed of J. K. M. L. Fartjuhar, 

 chairman. Wilfriil Wheeler, secretary 

 of the State Board of Agriculture, and 

 Kdward P. Butts of Springfield. The 

 architeil is James H. Ritchie of Bos- 

 ton. 



A training course in horticulture, 

 (!onsisting of 16 lectures and demon- 

 strations, began with a lecture on soils 

 and soil fertility by Professor Beau- 

 mont of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College, Wednesday afternoon. 

 Jan. 3(1, at the Boston Trade School. 

 The course is given by the Boston 

 public schools and the Agricultural 

 College, end is Intended especially for 

 teachers and others who-wish garden- 

 ing certificates for this season. It is 

 hoped to offer an equivalent course an- 

 nually, covering, during a four-year 

 cycle, all I'hases of horticultural prac- 

 tice. The lectures will be given weekly 

 on Wednesday from 2.30 to 3,30. and 

 frcmi 4. .5" to 5.30 p. m.. from Feb. C to 

 April 10. 



The National Publicity X-'ommlttee 

 for .Mas.sachusetts. Patrick Welch 

 chairman, has mailed this weelc to six 

 hundred florist establishments in the 

 state a circular letter calling for sub- 

 scriptions towards Massachusetts' 

 quota In the campaign for funds. E. 

 Allan Pelrce. W. R. Nicholson, B. 

 HammonJ Tracy and J. K. M. L. 

 I'arquhar are the other members of 

 the committee. It is stated that al- 

 ready contracts have been made with 

 the Saturday Evening r^ost. Metropol- 

 itan Magazine, Literary Digest. Good 

 Housekeeping Magazine, Woman's 

 Home Companion, Delineator. House 

 and Garden, Garden Magazine and 

 other leading publications to carry the 

 flower message to the general public 

 during the year 1918. 



Thomas H. Buttimer. town counsel 

 for Hull, argued Wednesday l)efore the 

 Legislative Committee on MetroiKjlitan 

 Affairs for a bill authorizing that town 

 to tax for local purposes property 

 within its borders owned by the 

 Metropolitan Park Commission and 

 used for them lor revenue-producing 

 purposes. He said that the town not 



only loses taxes on the property, but 

 that It also paid its share of the 

 .Metropolitan Park ex|)ense8. George 

 S. Rogers, secretary of the Metropoli- 

 tan Park Commission, who opposed 

 the proposition, pointed out that Hull 

 is relieved imder present conditions 

 of the expenditure for which taxes are 

 levied, as the commission maintains 

 both a Fire and Police Department in 

 ilie region about the reservation. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Hitchinga & Co.'s office in this city 

 has been closed until the end of the 

 war 



Conard & Jones Co. in their latest 

 catalogue claim among other things 

 that they have put the little town of 

 West Grove on the map. The claim, 

 we believe, is largely true. But the 

 mapping business was done before 

 their day by the original rose man. 

 .\lr. Dingee of blessed memory, and we 

 are glad to see the seed he planted 

 half a century ago has borne such 

 .-splendid fruit. West Grove Is on the 

 map all right. 



The prospects Tor St. Valentine's 

 Day bu.siness seem to be fairly good. 

 The only unfavorable feature seems to 

 be Ash Wednesday, which this year 

 comes on the 13th. It is many years 

 since the combination took place be- 

 fore and on that occasion it played 

 hob with the Valentine flower busi- 

 ness. But social customs have greatly 

 changed since then and the Lenten 

 season is not so much dreaded as it 

 was. Buyers from different spheres 

 of the community are now much more 

 in evidence. 



ST. LOUIS 



Geo. Waldbart is getting better. He 

 is able to sign cheques and is expected 

 out in ten days. 



Weekly meetings of the permanent 

 committeea on publicity will be held. 

 I,arge ad.s. are being given to the daily 

 papers, adsertising Valentine's Day. 



A fire on Thursday night. January 

 31 broke out and badly damaged the 

 3rd floor part of the supply depart- 

 ment of the Will. C. Smith Wholesale 

 Floral Co. A large supply of wooden 

 easels were a total loss. Total damage 

 over 12,000. 



A meeting of the Publicity Commit- 

 tee of the Florist Club, Retail Associa- 

 tion and County Growers' Association 

 took place Thursday afternoon. Jan. 

 31. A permanent joint committee 

 was apiiointed with Chairman Jules 

 Bourdet. Secretary and Trea.surer J. J. 



