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HORTICULTURE 



Murch 16. 1918 



CH RYSAN THEMUMS 



ELMER D. SMITH & CO. 



See Clasaified Advertisement 



BOSTON. 



Frank Connolly formerly head man 

 with D. & E. Welch, is now with 13. A. 

 Snyder Co. Frank's perpetual genial 

 smile is a big asset wherever he iii-.y 

 link up. 



Herman Hackel, one of the knights 

 of the road of Henry M. Robinson & 

 Co., is now a corporal in the 301st at 

 Camp Devens and has been assigned 

 to the officers' quarters. 



Members of the Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Club of Boston will have a field 

 day at Waverley on invitation of W. 

 W. Edgar Company. The party starts 

 from Boston at 1.30 p. m., Saturday, 

 March 16. 



There will be a meeting in the in- 

 terest of Increased Food Production in 

 Horticultural Hall on Tuesday, March 

 19. The first speaker will be Wilfrid 

 Wheeler, secretary of the State Board 

 of Agriculture. W. N. Craig will give 

 a talk on the best varieties to plant 

 and their culture. 



Corporal Frank E. Hurley, of the 

 101st Infantry, has been decorated 

 with the French Cross de Guerre for 

 bravery. Corp. Hurley was formerly 

 in the employ of R. & J. Farquhar & 

 Co. U. S. Naval Aviation Cadet Frank 

 P. Stead, for many years a bookkeeper 

 in the employ of the same firm, was 

 in Boston last Saturday on furlough 

 before leaving for further training In 

 Ireland, where he hopes to gain the 

 commission of lieutenant. Byron C. 

 Grant, also a former employe, has en- 

 listed in the U. S. Naval Radio School. 

 In all, eighteen members of this firm 

 have joined the army and two have 

 been drafted. 



On Monday evening. March 11, a 

 banquet was given to Samuel Trock- 

 man, recently employed by Henry JJ. 

 Robinson & Co., at the Elks' Chib by 

 his late employers, fellow employees 

 and other friends in the flower mar- 

 ket, on the eve of his departure for 



the Naval Magazine at Hinghaiii, Mass. 

 W.J.Kennedy was toastniaster and also 

 spokesman in the presentation of a 

 wrist watch, cigar case, and a kit con- 

 taining a purse of %2h. Among the 

 speakers were Lieutenant Applebauni, 

 Chief Yeoman Marnell, H. M. Robin- 

 son, Jr., Charles Robinson, and others. 

 The committee in charge comprised 

 Maurice Hambro, J. M. Cohen, Victor 

 Hartford, Jack Feldman and Max 

 Trockman. Artists from the various 

 theatres came in during the evening 

 and furnished a very entertaining 

 amusement program. The festivities 

 were closed with the singing of "Auld 

 Lang Syne." 



sides really benefited in the lon^; run. 

 Let's encourage that spirit among the 

 big dress-goods people. It will help 

 everybody. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 ciety has had printed and is distribut- 

 ing W. N. Craig's paper on "Vegeta- 

 bles for the Home Garden," delivered 

 before that body Jan. 17th, last. 



We had a pleasant visit recently 

 from our old townsman, Wm. Graham, 

 who is now representing the A. L. 

 Randall Co., Chicago. He sells every- 

 thing in florists' supplies from a 

 needle to an anchor. We all wish him 

 well and I would like to suggest the 

 motto — when you are in need or in 

 trouble — 



"Fear God 

 Follow Roosevelt 

 Consult Bill Graham." 



He is a past master and will show 

 you the straight path to wisdom and 

 prosperity. 



From little things spring great re- 

 sults sometimes. Just because a new 

 ladies' dress goods store opened on 

 Market street on Tuesday and as the 

 owners, as a draw, offered a rose free 

 to every customer the wholesale mar- 

 ket stiffened and every one of the 

 hundreds of flower shops in the city 

 had to pay more money for what they 

 happened to want. Anathemas from 

 the retailers. Hurrahs from the grow- 

 ers. But philosophically viewed both 



LANCASTER, MASS. 



One of the jirettiest things we have 

 seen this sea.son is a large spreading 

 plant of Cherokee rose at the con- 

 servatory of the Bayard Thayer estate 

 in Lancaster, Mass. It has been a 

 veritable sheet of bloom for several 

 weeks. The Cherokee is well entitled 

 to a place among the choicest com- 

 mercial florists' products. Another 

 lovely spectacle is some superb plants 

 in full bloom of that showy subject, 

 Nemesia strumosa Suttoni. This also 

 would create a sensation in the florist 

 trade if presented in such well-grown 

 specimens as Mr. Anderson has to 

 show. Pots of Lilium regale are well 

 started for early blooming. Half a 

 dozen large bulbs are set deep in the 

 pot and then three or four small sized 

 bulbs above them, the effect of this ar- 

 rangement when in bloom being very 

 graceful. Rhododendrons in Lancaster 

 present a very much battered and for- 

 lorn appearance this spring and it is 

 evident that the severe winter has 

 tested them very close to their limit 

 of survival. Plenty of snow has been 

 a considerable help to them. Not the 

 least interesting of the many attrac- 

 tions of this progressive place are the 

 propagating houses where myriads of 

 new lilies, pines, etc., from seed sent 

 last fall from Korea by E. H. Wilson 

 are now germinating. William Ander- 

 son in his ability to handle these 

 things seem to have inherited an 

 ample portion of Jackson Dawson's 

 mantle. While the greenhouses on 

 some of the Lancaster estates have 

 been partially closed up this season the 

 range on the Bayard "Thayer place has 

 been kept running but with all pos- 

 sible fuel economy and very lowest 

 temperature so that this valuable col- 

 lection of plants has been wisely pre- 

 served. 



