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THE RIBBON HOUSE 



SCHLOSS BROS. RIBBONS, Inc. 



IJirOKTERS ANU MAJiUFACTUREKS OF 



RIBBONS 



31 and 33 East 28th Street 



ANNOUNCEMENT 



New York 



EMIL SCHLOSS has purchased the firm of Schloss Bros. Ribbons., Inc., 

 and will continue business at the same address. 



The same careful attention to your wants will be at all times assured, 

 as for the past 23 years. 



Thanking you for past favors and hoping to receive your valued orders, 

 I remain 



Yours very truly, 



SCHLOSS BROS. RIBBONS, INC. 



EMIL SCHLOSS. 



HEADQUARTERS 

 For Florists' Ribbons, Chiffons and Novelties 



Clubs and Societies 



GARDENERS' CONFERENCE IN 

 NEW YORK. 



A gardeners' conference, under the 

 auspices of the National Association 

 of Gardeners will be held at the Mur- 

 ray Hill Hotel, Park Ave. and 41st St., 

 New York City, on Friday afternoon, 

 March 15th. The session will be called 

 to order promptly at two o'clock. A 

 number of speakers, prominent in the 

 •liorticultural activities throughout the 

 country will address the meeting on 

 subjects pertaining to the gardening 

 profession, and there will be a gen- 

 eral discussion of the national asso- 

 ciation's policy in relation to its co- 

 operative endeavor with the gardeners' 

 local societies and clubs; also of its 

 proposed campaign to estalilish the 

 profession of gardening in the public 

 eye on the same high plane as other 

 sciences. AH interested in the prog- 

 ress of professional gardening are in- 

 vited to attend the conference. 



President Robert Weeks of the na- 

 tional association has called a meeting 

 of the trustees and board of directors 

 for Friday morning, March l.^th, at 

 eleven o'clock at the Murray Hill 

 Hotel, New York. 



M. C. Ebf.i,, Secy. 



R. 1. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The first of a series of lectures on 



"War Gardens" was given on Feb. If) 



at the monthly meeting of the Rhode 



Island Horticultural Society in the 



Providence Public Library, when Dr. 



Burt L. Hartwell, director of the 

 Rhode Island Experiment Station, 

 talked on "Fertilizers." The society 

 has decided that its lecture work for 

 the season will be entirely dtvoted to 

 the subject of the necessity of gardens 

 in war time. A series of lectures will 

 be given monthly, some of the sub- 

 jects being as follows: March. "Plan- 

 ning the Garden;" April. "Insect Pests 

 and Blights;" May, "Tillage;" June. 

 "Canning." During July and August 

 experts will be sent to different neigh- 

 borhoods where there are many small 

 gardens to offer advice to those who 

 plant. The September meeting will 

 probably be devoted to a lecture on 

 "Storage," and the late fall m;etings 

 will probably be given over to studies 

 of late fall fruits. The chairman of 

 the lecture committee is Willard Hall. 



HOLYOKE-NORTHAMPTON FLOR- 

 • ISTS' AND GARDENERS' CLUB. 



The regular meeting of the Holyiike 

 and Northampton Florists' and Gar- 

 deners' Club was held at French Hall, 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College. 

 February 19. This was Carnation 

 Night. . S. .1. Goddard, of Framingham, 

 read a paper on Carnations, and was 

 listened to with great interest. His 

 vase of Laddie was certainly the finest 

 thing the club has ever had the pleas- 

 ure of seeing. Butler & Ullman, of 

 Northampton, won 1st for the best 25 

 carnations. 



The next meeting will be with Presi- 

 dent H. K. Downer at Smith College 

 greenhouses, when Wra. Sim is ex- 

 pectefl to be present. 



R. S. C.vHY, Cor. Secy. 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 ASSOCIATION 



On our visiting trip, on Feb. 21, in 

 frigid weather, we learned some 

 things, and here they are. First, at 

 Amos Rohrer's the conservation of 

 space was strongly evidenced by the 

 flats of young carnation and other 

 plants put up on shelving where they 

 did little damage to the crop under- 

 neath, and from the looks of the young 

 carnations they certainly liked their 

 roo.st up near the glass better than if 

 they had been down on the regular 

 benches. Mr. Rohrer has spt;cially 

 good results from White Wonder, 

 Belle Washburn and Miss Then. 



At Chas. B. Hcrr's Merry Christ- 

 mas has been something of a disap- 

 pointment, the result of about 20 per 

 cent of diseased cuttings and its ten- 

 dency to have a crooked neck. The 

 flowers bunched, however, made a fine 

 showing and with a little selection 

 will no doubt come up to expectations. 

 .Mr. Herr is up against a coal proposi- 

 tion that is anything but pleasant, al- 

 though he has never been as close to 

 freezing up as some ot the rest 

 of us. 



J. Wade Galey is a comparatively 

 new man in the business but has been 

 observant and today it can be said 

 without exaggeration that he has the 

 best two house of carnations in Lan- 

 caster County. His plants are going 

 to exceed the fourteen flowers per 

 plant that was considered by the Car- 

 nation Society a very liberal estimate, 

 and I fully believe he is going to 

 double the fourteen per plant, with 

 ■ the exception of Albert Roper, which 



