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Mny II. 1918 



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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



BOSTON. 



It liiiK bt'eii (iruposi'd by the Masga- 

 rliusi'tls Mortlcullural Six Icty lliut 

 they will Rive the ii8o of Ilnrtlciiltural 

 Hall ns a publir market for the sale of 

 garden produce. 



The Massachusetts liorticulturHl 

 Society, in conjunction with thv For- 

 estry Society, .Massachusolls .\udo- 

 bon Society. Bussey Institute, SutTolk 

 County Home tJurdon Club and the 

 State Hoard of .\Kricultiire has opened 

 un Information center at Horticul- 

 tural Hall. 



James B. Shea, acting chairman of 

 the Park and Kecreation Commission, 

 will spend for the upkeep of 150 

 parks, playgrounds and open squares 

 $928,245 for the cominR year. Frank- 

 lin Park Zoo. the City Point .Vquarlum. 

 Public Garden, the Fenway, Olmstead 

 Park and Boston Common are includ- 

 ed. This department employs 771 men 

 and women. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety is to continue Its meetin^ra in the 

 Interest of increased food production 

 throughout the summer months. On 

 Tuesday and Saturday of this week, 

 afternoon and evening, there were 

 given, in Horticultural Hall, practical 

 demonstrations of seed-planting and 

 the transplanting of small iilants. 

 Robert Cameron, superintendent of the 

 Botanic Garden, and .lames Warr, the 

 society's gardener, dispensed instruc- 

 tion on these subjects with a plot of 

 earth for practical Illustration. 



A meeting of local carnation grow- 

 ers including the president and two 

 of the directors of the American Car- 

 nation Society was held at the Flower 

 Exchange on Wednesday afternoon. 

 May 8, to discuss the bearing of the 

 recent fuel order upon the carnation 

 business and talk over the interests 

 of the society and its meml)ers with 

 reference to the immediate future. 

 There were present C. S. Strout, S. J. 

 Goddard. Peter Fisher. M. A. Patten. 

 A. A. Pembroke and \V. D. Howard. 

 Increased activity on behalf of the di- 

 vine flower and its welfare commer- 

 cially is indicated for the time from 

 now on until the annual meeting of 

 the A. C. S. in Cleveland next Jan- 

 uary. 



W. N. Craig was one of the principal 

 speakers at a public meeting in Hor- 

 ticultural Hall last Thursday night, 

 held for the puri)ose of emphasizing 

 the importance of making war gar- 

 dens. He stated that .50,000 freight 

 cars and lOO ships will be released for 

 war transportation if the American 

 people will enlarge and increase their 

 garden this year. There is nothing in 

 the theory that the land of .\ew Eng- 

 land is worn out and not worth culti- 

 vating. He declared there is no such 

 thing as womout land. Suffolk County 

 Food Administrator O'Connell warned 

 food hoarders that the Government has 

 its eye upon them and will soon call 

 for an explanation of their acts. He 

 discounted tlie report that there will 

 be a scarcity of sugar for canning pur- 

 poses this fall. W. I^ French of Wash- 

 ington, representative of the National 



War Garden CommlBslon, promised 

 the full co-operation of his organl/ation 

 with liidividuiil and community i-rTortK 

 at raising food supiilies. The large 

 hall was filled with men and women, 

 and many boys and girls witi- Minong 

 the audience. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 

 Proposal.'* are l)ein>; invited by the 

 Gen-!ral Supply Committee, for open- 

 ing in this lity at 2 o'clock, Saturday, 

 .May 2r>. for specilled varieties of 

 forage seed, also thistle and sunflower, 

 for use by the various Government de- 

 partments and field services to be des- 

 ignated. Bidders are re<niire<l Lo sub- 

 mit proposals on the supply of these 

 seeds in varying quantities. List and 

 speclflcations may be had on applica- 

 tion. 



One of the brightest spots in war- 

 busy Washington promises to be the 

 Brookland rose show for which the 

 tentative date of May 22 has been set. 

 The rules governing the exhibit are 

 based on the regulations laid down by 

 the American Rose Society for such 

 events. The Brookland Rose Society 

 Is affiliated with the .\merlcan Rose 

 Society and Washington members of 

 the latter, as well as those members In 

 the nearby States, have been invited 

 to attend. 



This year an admission fee of ten 

 cents is to be charged. Froin the fund 

 thus acquired running expenses will 

 be paid and the balance donated to 

 the American Red Cross and the Cath- 

 olic War Relief unit. 



George C. Shaffer has been appoint- 

 ed chairman of the publicity commit- 

 tee of the Florists' Club and requested 

 to draw up plans for co-operative ad- 

 vertising, the cost of which is borne 

 by the members of the various branch- 

 es of the trade. 



During April, additional to the reg- 

 ular monthly meeting, two special 

 meetings were held, at the second of 

 which was discussed in detail the pro- 

 visions of the new Fuel .-Xdministra- 

 tlon order, and the following resolu- 

 tion was adopted: 



HKSOLVED. That It Is the sense of this 

 meeting that the fliirlsts of the District of 

 Columbia co-operate In ever.v way possible 

 with the Fuel Administration, concurring 

 In the proposed fifty per cent, regulation 

 for the conservation of the fuel supply of 

 the United States, moved by a patriotic 

 desire to do everj-thing possible to aid In 

 the winning of the war. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The St. Louis S. A. F. headquarters 

 are now on the second floor at Wm. C. 

 Smith's establishment. 



The St. Louis Florist Club met at 

 Wm. C. Smith's Wholesale Floral Co. 

 on Thursday. .May 9th. 



Otto Sander's new store on Seventli 

 street is very attractive. Another very 

 spacious and handsome refrigerator 

 has been added. 



C H 1 C A (, ij 



-Ml .Sihwurlz In charge ol the Hur- 

 iiiird Co.'h place at Tracy. III., for 

 many years was accldently killed In 

 Chicago. ,Mny 7th. at 8 a. m. 



Krnest Farley who. for so young a 

 n.an. has spent many years In the 

 wholesale market, has heard the call 

 of the west and leaves Chlcai;o In a 

 few days. 



.\l. Kochlln. niail fiorist of Sioux 

 City, Iowa, Is hi-re on buslnesB, a part 

 of vvhlch Is securing stock for Moth- 

 ers' Day. Mr. Rochlln says business 

 in general has been good in his city. 



The Chicago Florists' Bowling 

 Team will lake jiart in the Patriotic 

 Tournament, .May .list, at Kaad's Al- 

 leys. The affair is a benefit for the 

 Camp Grant Alleys and billiard ta- 

 bles for the soldiers. 



Mr. and .Mrs. ('has. Maler, 410fi 

 .\rniilage avenue, have the sympathy 

 of the trade In the loss of their only 

 child, a little daughter eight years 

 old. who died from appendicitis. The 

 funeral was last .Monday. 



The American Bulb Co. are finding 

 tlieir retail trade very good at this 

 lime. A. .Miller, president of the Com- 

 pany, is on a business trip in the east. 

 The shipping department has been 

 busy getting out orders for caladiums. 

 gladioli, etc., for some time and report 

 a very good season. 



.Miss Groth, the artistic designer of 

 many of the novelties offered by 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co., has a new flower 

 holder with two-Inch metal liberty 

 bell attractively mounted on a six by 

 nine card, designed like the front of a 

 Ijuilding, in the top of which Is sus- 

 pended the liberty bell. It appeals to 

 the patriotism of the people and tlie 

 trade is quick to appreciate it. The 

 flowers, whose stems are in the con- 

 tainer at the Itack, rise above and 

 form a background for the bell. 



Cincinnati. — Mrs. Thaden. who has 

 returned from a visit to her son 

 Herbert, who is in the aviation serv- 

 ice and was injured recently, states 

 that his condition is very much im- 

 proved. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Thomas H. .McGuire of the New 

 York Central greenhouses In Batavia, 

 N'- Y., is getting 71,000 plants ready to 

 distribute to station yards on the en- 

 tire sy-stem. 



George Boucher is making a prom- 

 inent feature of vegetable seeds on 

 the East Avenue side of his store. He 

 has been distributing some very at- 

 tractive folders for Mother's Day 

 among his patrons. 



County Fuel .\dministrator Mortimer 

 R. .Miller has notified all proprietors 

 of greenhouses in this district that 

 they must reduce their fuel consump- 

 tion 50 per cent. Many truck garden- 

 ers and flower growers are affected. 



A\ Highland Park the rhododendrons 

 were badly injured and much of the 

 California privet has been killed. An 

 entire row of Dorothy Perkins, Lady 

 Gay and Farquhar roses were so badly 

 damaged it was necessary to cut them 

 lo the ground. 



War conditions threaten the nursery 

 business, nurserymen finding it ex- 

 tremely difficult lo get seedlings to 



