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June 1. 191!< 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



PHILADELPHIA. 



(.•lurenie U. MkkIm Is seriously 111 

 Di Ills home on N. Wiirnock street 

 Finoe Iho 20th of May. On the 27th 

 he was reported no bettor. 



The Society for the .Advancement of 

 Frivolous FlorU-iilture is suK^ested by 

 the reply of one who shall be nameless 

 when asked "What is a SclUa." he 

 said. "It's a cross from Charybdis!" 

 Get me? 



The subject or essay for the .lune 

 meeting of the Florists" Club of Phila- 

 delphia will be "Fuel Conservation 

 and Intensive Use of Greenhouse 

 Space." by Edward A. Harvey. Brandy- 

 wine Summit. 



H. B. Jones of the Jones r;us>-, 11 

 Co.. Cleveland. O.. was in Philadelphia 

 for a few days havinK been called 

 Fast on account of the death of his 

 father. The latter resided at liirining- 

 ham Meeting, near West Chester, and 

 the fimeral ceremonies took place on 

 Sunday. May 26. 



C. H. Grakelow. one of our leading 

 retail florists, was given a dinner by 

 his fraternal friends among the Ma- 

 sons and Elks on the 271 li inst. It was 

 held at the Hotel Adelphia and was 

 given a political tinge by some of the 

 speakers hailing Mr. Grakelow as "The 

 next mayor." and by the presence of 

 Mayor Smith and other local celebri- 

 ties among the speakers. 



If a man sows fifty feet of a row 

 with carrot seed and only six feet of 

 it comes up — what is the answer? The 

 seed was all out of the same pack- 

 age: the ground and conditions all 

 alike. There was no freeze, no rain- 

 storm, yet six feet grew, and the rest 

 was blank. The seed-warranty ex- 

 perts like Bolgians, Scarlett, and Earl 

 might be able to solve the i)roblem. 

 We will be glad to hear from them. 



The competition for a new emblem 

 for international use by the Florists' 

 Telegraph Delivery .Association was 

 decided May 27. when the committee 

 held its final meeting in the Bellevue- 

 Stratford. No less than 187 designs 

 were submitted by artists from every 

 section of the United States, Canada 

 and Mexico. The jud^ps were F. C. W. 

 iirown, of Cleveland: fildward Fetters, 

 of Detroit, and G. E. M. Stump, of New- 

 York. They voted to award the prize 

 to Herbert Read, of Detroit, and will 

 at once proceed to put the new em- 

 blem into service. 



According to the paper Mrs. Rose 

 Pastor Stokes is liable to twenty years 

 for saying things. What's this world 

 coming to? The good lady at the head 

 of the family where your scribe hiber- 

 nates was quite indignant at the 

 breakfast table thi.-; morning when 

 she read the item. "The idea"! she 

 ejaculated "A woman has a p^ivfect 

 right to say what she thinks under any 

 and all circumstam es. I've always 



done it and I'm going to keep on do- 

 ing it and all the governments In the 

 world can't slop me." Being a humbl'- 

 man person we kept a slralghl fine 

 and said nothing. But we thought of 

 the old story— the linale of which hud 

 to do with scissors. And we grinned 

 on our way to the station. 



BOSTON. 



The heavy receipts and light de- 

 mand lor cut Howers during the past 

 few days has furnished an excellent 

 opiiortunity for the llower growers to 

 make generous contributions to the 

 Red Cross work. From the Flower 

 Exchange great quantities of carna- 

 tions and roses were donated, some 

 estimates placing the number of car- 

 nations well up towards 100,000. 



Last week the growers and their 

 salesmen in the Boston Flower Ex- 

 change, made a generous presentation 

 of many thousands of carnations to the 

 Red Cros., and the contribution of the 

 Divine tiowei lor this Divine object 

 was nowhere appreciated more than 

 in the town of Wintbrop where over 

 ?;fiOO wa.-; raised through their sale by 

 the ludids of the local Red Cross 

 Chapter. 



The unfortunate conditions in the 

 market for white carnations, as al- 

 luded to in our wholesale flower notes, 

 are somewhat mitigated by the lively 

 call for bedding plants, florists grow- 

 ing this sort of material finding a de- 

 mand for it far beyond their ability to 

 supply. Much of the stock is late, evi- 

 dently as a result of the winter's dis- 

 turbance of the usual routine and the 

 popular preference is that geraniums 

 and such things shall be in flower 

 when delivered. 



ROCHESTER 



H. B. Stringer and .\mbrose Seeker 

 were appointed to solicit for the war 

 chest drive. May 20 to 27. from the 

 florist trade. Their reports were sat- 

 isfactory. 



Dr. Frank Johnson, of Chicago, 

 made a flying trip to Rochester to 

 visit Highland Park to study the 

 lilacs with a view to their more gen 

 eral planting in Chicago parks. 



No one was more welcome into the 

 wholesale market on May the 25th 

 than Private Thomas Sullivan, who 

 up to the time of being drafted was 

 employed b> Geo. B. Hart. He has 

 been in training in Spartanburg, S. C. 

 until being transferred to New Jersey. 

 George D"Muth. engineer for Mr. 

 Hart, left for cantonment, Sunday. 

 Mav 2fith 



NEW YORK. 



We regret to learn of the death of 

 Mrs. Magda Lowe, daughter of , the 

 late Julius Roehrs of Rutherford. N. .1., 

 which occurred on P>iday, May 24. 



CHICAGO. 



Geo. Welnboidx-r was among the ri- 

 lall florists to donate liberally to the 

 Red Cross auction sale Friday. Two 

 large stands of roses, four large bas- 

 kets, plants, etc., amounting to a lurgi. 

 sum, helped materially to swell the re 

 celpts. 



Geo. Manos, the Union Depot Flor- 

 ist, says the coining and going of the 

 soldiers and sailors keeps trade brisk 

 for him. On Friday and Saturday he 

 turned a large stock over to the Jack- 

 ies, who sold it. netting the Red Cross 

 one hundred dollars. Mrs. .\Ianos In 

 the dress of a Red Cross nurse assist- 

 ed the Jackies. 



A. Lange had a five-foot red cross 

 of flowers upon an easel for his win- 

 dow, during the Red Cross drive. He 

 donated it to the Majestic Theatre 

 where it was auctioned off and netted 

 a fine sum to the Red. Cross fund. 

 A feature at this store on Monday was 

 the giving of twelve tomato plants 

 with every flower order. 



One of the most touching window- 

 displays for Memorial Day was that 

 of the Central Floral Co., on State 

 street. A veteran of the G. A. R. stood 

 at the head of a myrtle-covered grave, 

 while at the foot stood a little boy car- 

 rying a wreath. The little son and the 

 grandfather alike were doing honor to 

 the fallen soldier of today . 



The Bohannon Floral Co., 75 E. Mon- 

 roe St.. gave over their store and en- 

 tire stock to the Red Cross for Friday 

 There was a large supply of flow-ers on 

 hand and in addition to his regular 

 force, the young ladies of the Red 

 Cross assisted in the selling. All ex- 

 penses were met by the Bohannon 

 Floral Co., and the proceeds of the 

 day $771.01 became the property of 

 the Red Cross. 



A Red Cross auction sale was held 

 in the rotunda of the Railway Ex- 

 change building on Friday and flowers 

 and plants, put up attractively, formed 

 an important part of the sale. E. Mai 

 linson. manager for the Fleischman 

 Floral Co., located in that building, do- 

 nated stock which sold for $200. They 

 also donated the flowers for the Jack- 

 ies' cotillion given at the Art Institute 

 by the Cliff Dwellers. 



The failure of much of the imported 

 stock of the Baby Rambler type of 

 roses, to arrive at the usual time last 

 winter, causing them to be refused by 

 the growers, resulted in these favor- 

 ite plants being scarce in Chicago for 

 Memorial Day. the supply being 

 scarcely sufficient for Mothers' Day. 

 The roses that were accepted arrived 

 only at Easter time, too late to be got- 

 ten into bloom for these tw-o occasions 

 of special demand. One of the plants 

 to be more prominent than usual this 

 season is the astilbe which has been 

 brought along in small lots from cold 

 storage and helped out nicely as a 

 showy blooming plant. 



