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HORTICULTURE 



February 23. 191» 



Cat. 1768 



Pot Makers for ■ 

 ConturyandaHalf 



HEWS 



STRONG 



RED 

 POROUS 



POTS 



Inc. 1904 



World'* Larsast 

 Manufacturar* 



Standard, Azalea. Bulb, Orchid, Fern. HanglnK, Emboeaed, Rosa, Carnation, Palm, Cyclamen, Cut Fiowar. 

 Special Shapes to Order. Chicken Founts, Pigeon Nests, Bean Pots, Etc. 



Writm for Cataloga 

 mnd Digcoantt 



* A. H. HEWS & CO., Inc., Cambridge, Mass. ^.^Hit 



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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



BOSTON. 

 A pulo yellow calendula grown by 

 R. D. Kimball of Waban is a rather 

 attractive novelty in the flower mar- 

 ket. It makes a nice contrast with the 

 common orange variety. 



The wholesale flower establishment 

 of D. & E. J. Welch has been closed. 

 Since the death of his brother David, 

 Ed Welch has been in very poor health 

 and he has decided to discontinue the 

 business. 



A petition with thirty-one signatures 

 having been filed, a special meeting of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety will be held on March 9th to dis- 

 cuss prizes, exhibitions and appropria- 

 tions tor 1918. 



Messrs. R. & J. Farquhar & Co., 

 whose houses of cyclamen were badly 

 Infested with mite which came on tu- 

 berous begonias and gloxinias im- 

 ported from Holland, have completely 

 exterminated the pest by the applica- 

 tion of a heavy dose of soot. This is 

 worth keeping in mind. 



Members of the National Canners' 

 Association, seedsmen and others and 

 the ladies who were here for their con- 

 vention, to the number of 3,000 were 

 the guests of the American Can Com- 

 pany at one of the largest theatre par- 

 ties ever given in New England, on the 

 closing night of the convention. Every 

 seat in both the Colonial and Plymouth 

 theatres had been purchased for the 

 performance of "Hitchy-Koo" and 

 "Nothing but- the Truth" and everyone 

 had a fine time. At each theatre a 

 service flag representing the 1,580 em- 

 ployees of the American Can Company 

 who are in different branches of the 

 military service of the United States 

 was displayed. 



Richard W. Burnes, counsellor at 

 law, Boston, states that he has been 

 consulted with reference to the liqui- 

 dation of the Gaedeke Greenhouses, 

 Inc., a corporation duly established 

 under the laws of the State of Massa- 

 chusetts and formerly having an 

 usual place of business in Nashua, 

 New Hampshire, and that after an- 

 examination of its affairs he is unable 

 to find any assets which can be con- 

 verted for the benefit of its creditors. 

 This company should not be con- 

 founded with the Gaedekc-Nashua 

 Greenhouses (Incorporated), a New 

 Hampshire corporation organized De- 

 cember 3, 1917, which acquired by 

 purchase the realty and personality 



upon and by which the business of 

 the Gaedeke Greenhouses, Inc., was 

 formerly conducted on lease. He is 

 offering on behalf of the stockholders 

 or directors of the Gaedeke Green- 

 houses, Inc., the Massachusetts cor- 

 poration, to adjust the claims against 

 said corporation on the basis of 10 

 per cent, of the amount of claim. 



ST. LOUIS. 



H. Ci. Berning is suffering from 

 blood poison in his hand. 



Shaw's Garden advertises a spring 

 Flower Show now that the National 

 has been postponed. 



Grimm & Gorly have the decorations 

 for the Automobile Show at the Old 

 Southern Hotel, which has been re- 

 modelled to be used for show purposes. 



A gale swept over St. Louis and 

 county, Thursday, 14th, causing con- 

 siderable damage in glass. W. J. Pil- 

 cher's smoke stack was blown down. 

 O. H. May, W. R. Rowe, also of Klrk- 

 wood, suffered damage. 



The St. Louis Florist Club met 

 Thursday afternoon at the store room 

 of Wm. C. Smith Wholesale Floral Co. 

 A letter was sent to George Waldbart 

 congratulating him on his restoration 

 to health. There was discussion on 

 Publicity. It was suggested that spec- 

 ial days and special prices during the 

 glut be advertised and all florists be 

 supplied at the same price. 



PITTSBURGH. 



William A. Clarke of the Pittsburgh 

 Cut Flower Company has gone to Bat- 

 tle Creek, Mich., for a period of recu- 

 peration. 



Norbert Hut linger, who enlisted 

 some time ago in the U. S. N., left on 

 Thursday for the training station at 

 Newport, R. I. 



The marriage of James Murray Mc- 

 Grew to Miss Elsie Ensler took place 

 last Thursday morning. Immediately 

 after they left for a wedding trip to 

 Cleveland, Ohio. 



The Pittsburgh Florists and Garden- 

 ers' Club met on Tuesday evening of 

 last week with representatives pres- 

 ent from the Horticultural Society of 

 Western Pennsylvania and the Se- 

 wickley Horticultural Society. It was 

 decided to eliminate the elaborate fea- 

 tures planned for the big autumn 

 flower show. Instead of Motor Square 

 Garden, the headquarters will be in 

 one of the downtown hotels, probably 

 the William Penn. 



NEW YORK. 



Frank .\Illlang, Jr., is jubilant over 

 his appointment as a justice of the 

 peace at Yorktown Heights. 



B. S. Slinn, Jr., who went to Florida 

 suffering from a serious case of blood 

 poisoning has returned much Im- 

 proved. 



Doableday, Page & Co. have moved 

 their city headquarters from No. 11 to 

 120 West .'Jind street. Visitors are in- 

 vited to call. 



Geo. W. Crawbuck Co., Inc., former- 

 ly located at 47 West 28th street, ha» 

 opened a wholesale flower business at 

 151 Lawrence street, Brooklyn. 



S. Kahn, a young grower of Staten 

 Island, has the distinction of hav- 

 ing sent in the first Darwin tulips of 

 the season on February 15. They were 

 sold at the United Cut Flower Co., 

 bringing $1.25 and $1.50 per dozen. 



All the stock of bulbs, roots and 

 manettis received on the S. S. Nleuw 

 Amsterdam, when opened appears to 

 have been in excellent condition de- 

 spite its long confinement in the cases; 

 so reported by Hogewoning, Rolker, 

 Pierson and others. 



The Flower Show Committee had a 

 well-attended meeting at the Grand 

 Central Palace last Monday afternoon, 

 nearly twenty gentlemen being pres- 

 ent. All reports and views were 

 roseate and a very optimistic feeling 

 prevailed. The representation of large 

 private collections will be considerably 

 reduced but the commercial growers 

 are enthusiastic and ready to fill in 

 the gap. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



In Salter Bros.' window were dis- 

 played Dutch figure vases of spring 

 flowers and birchbark boxes of 

 cyclamen. In the back grounds was a 

 large red heart with cupids. 



The bankruptcy stock of Frank R. 

 Bohnke will be sold at public auc- 

 tion this week at their greenhouse at 

 84 Miller street. The stock Includes 

 tulips, hyacinths and carnation plants 

 and the entire fixtures, and auto etc. 



J. B. Keller Sons in their St. 

 Valentine's window made a radical 

 department using pink entirely In- 

 stead of red. Two cupids were sus- 

 pended from the ceiling holding a 

 string of pink hearts. Large pink 

 heart boxes were placed in the fore- 

 ground of the window with corsage 

 of pink spring flowers and pussya 

 and the background was of birch, 

 boxes of spring flowers. 



