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March 30. 1918 



BOSTON. 



Henry I'onn. ct'k'bratfil his forty- 

 flrsi blrlhday iinniversary on March 

 27. 



Clarence T. Kernalil. chairman of 

 the Melrose Park I'oniini.sslon since 

 Its organization, whose work has been 

 largely responsible for the growth of 

 the parks anil playgrounds and who 

 prepared plans for them without ex- 

 pense to the city, has resigned on ac- 

 count of poor health. Andrew F. 

 Evers has been appointed his succes- 

 sor. 



State Forester Rane Is inaugurating 

 a campaign of reforestration of the 

 waste lands of Massachusetts. For this 

 purpose the week of April 8 has been 

 set apart for a canvass of the entire 

 state in the interest of the scheme. 

 The governor and council have ap- 

 proved selling from the state nurseries 

 not over lO.ODO nor less than 1.000 to 

 any one person of four-year trans- 

 plants at $7 a thousand. The trees 

 are to be shipped express collect, but 

 no charge for packing will be made. 



The funeral of Andrew Robeson Sar- 

 gent ol Brookline. son of Prof. Charles 

 S. Sarpent of the Arnold Arboretum 

 took place on March 22 at the Kmmaii- 

 uel Church, on Newbury street. Mr. 

 Sargent was prominent socially and as 

 a landscape gardener, in which profes- 

 sion he had been associated with Guy 

 Lowell. Among the more than 200 

 former friends and associates who at- 

 tended the services were many promi- 

 nent in every field of activity. Men 

 from the office of Mr. Sargent attended 

 in a body. Two pews were occupied 

 by a delegation from New York. 



PITTSBURGH. 



Frank Stendl. a former bookkeeper 

 for G. P. Weaklen & Co.. is now in 

 Texas In government employ. 



Oliver J. Parker of the Scobie & 

 Parker Co.. and family have gone to 

 Los Angeles, Cal., to stay until Octo- 

 ber. 



Alfred Reineman. recently with B. 

 H. Farr. Wyomissing. is a recent addi- 

 tion to the landscape department of 

 the A. W. Smith Co. 



Harry Manke. who for some time 

 has been with the Liberty Florists. 

 East Liberty, has clianged to the es- 

 tablishment of Harry .1. Hamm. Home- 

 wood. 



After a several days' furlough Wil- 

 liam J. Ferguson returns to Camp 

 Hancock. Atlanta. Georgia, where he is 

 a commissioned mess sergeant. Prior 

 to entering government service. Mr. 

 Ferguson was engaged in landscape 

 work in Cleveland. Ohio. 



Spiro Kapps. who has l]>en a patient 

 at the Columbia Hospital. Wilkinsburg. 

 has sufficiently recovered to return 

 home. Mr. Kapps is manager of M. 

 Kronis' flower shop. East Liberty sta- 

 tion. Here Samuel Cononion has just 

 been transferred from Die same pro- 

 prietor's Alpha Flower Shop. 



CHICAGO. 



If the plantsmcn did not have a go nl 

 Faster business it was not because of 

 lack of customers. Everything was 

 sold out clean days before. 



Ed Hunt, of the Chicago Flower 

 Growers' Association, has been ac- 

 cepted and expects soon to be called 

 to train for the great war. 



"Billy" Wolf has in his new store 

 on Monroe street a very attractive 

 little place. He was several years 

 with A. Lange and has many friends 

 In the trade. 



Fred J. Walfram. a Chicago young 

 man but lor the past six months with 

 the .\l|iha Floral Co. of Kansas City. 

 Mo., is in the city on his way to De- 

 troit, where he expects to locate. 



The umbrella-shaped rose plants are 

 shown in some of the retailers' win- 

 dows with trunks twined with rib- 

 bon ai'.d festoons hanging from the 

 branches. They give the effect of a 

 shower bouquet. 



Aug. Koch, of the West Side Parks, 

 has been invited to si.eaU before the 

 Chicago Women's Club this week on 

 the subject of Harvesting and Stowing 

 the crops. This club is one of the 

 largost in the city. 



Fritz Bahr. well-known florist of 

 Hiirliland Park, was summoned to 

 appear before a federal investigator to 

 answer to the charge of rejoicing over 

 the capture of 12.000 British troops 

 during the German drive last week. 



The stock of rhododendrons and 

 oth-jr plants which reached New York 

 on the Nieuw Amsterdam a month ago 

 included many lor Chicago. Some ar- 

 rived ;. week ago and some are just 

 now coming, having been all this time 

 in transit between here and New York. 



The plant situation here differed 

 from that of previous Easters in the 

 two important items. Azalea indica 

 and lilies. The stock of Azalea indica 

 consisted of plants carried over from 

 last year and their size and perfect 

 flowering was noticeable. The small- 

 flowering Japanese varieties sold bet- 

 ter this year because of the scarcity 

 of the indica. They were well flow- 

 ered and attractive, but not to be 

 compared with the other. Lily grow- 

 ers have liad much to contend with 

 and the general result is lilies too 

 early and too late, lilies short and 

 lilies tall and prices distinctly corres- 

 ponding. All fancy lilies whether cut 

 or on plants are selling for 12y2 and 

 15 cents while the shorts sell at 6 

 cents. 



Rhododendrons were in the same 

 class as azaleas, the only stock being 

 a limited supply from Cottage Gar- 

 dens, but the quality was very fine in- 

 deed. In rose plants, the Tausend- 

 scoen. Lady Gay and Dorothy Per- 

 kins, in large sizes and trained in 

 fancy shapes, were in fairly good sup- 

 ply and there was also a good stock 



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of the Haby Rambler types. The hy- 

 drangeas made up in quality what 

 they lacked in quantity. Bulbous 

 plants were pretty well through. The 

 sensation- of the year is the yellow 

 calla. It is sold quickly. Genistas 

 and marguerites in small and speci- 

 men plants were prominent and there 

 were many Primula obconica and 

 malacoides. Plant growers sold out 

 early. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Otto Sander has opened up a seed 

 shrub and plant department in con- 

 nection with his cut flower store. 



Marion Uhlschmidt, manager at 

 (Irlmm & Gorley's store on the other 

 side of the river, departed prepared. 

 as he stated, to take a position with 

 Randall of Chicago. His books showed 

 irregularities in the stock handled be- 

 tween the two stores, according to re- 

 ports furnished by the firm, through 

 the newspapers. 



