June 22, 191S 



HORTICULTURE 



617 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



CHICAGO. 



Ernest Farley is back from Duluth, 

 Minn. 



Miss Marie Groth, the artistic de- 

 signer and decorator of tlie many 

 novelties to be always found at Poehl- 

 mann Bros, supply rooms, is visiting 

 relatives in Benton Harbor and Xiles, 

 Mich. 



The call of our young men to the 

 help of their country is marked more 

 each day in the florists' houses. The 

 trade has long had women in the cut 

 flower commission business and now 

 the first one to be a saleswoman in 

 a wholesale house has appeared at 

 A. L. Randall's, Miss Josephine Goold. 

 who is already proving an efficient 

 saleswoman. 



Accidents and near accidents are a 

 daily occurrence in the parks, because 

 of the large clumps of shrubbei-y that 

 are planted at corners and along 

 curves in the drives. It is impossible 

 for pedestrians to see automobiles ap- 

 proaching and equally impossible for 

 drivers of machines to see each other 

 quickly enough at intersections. This 

 should be remedied. 



Herman Schiller has enlisted in the 

 Merchant Marines and another promi- 

 nent young man in the trade enters 

 the service. Mr. Schiller belongs to 

 an old family of retail florists and was 

 buyer for the west side store till the 

 opening of the one on the north side, 

 five years ago, where he has since 

 been in charge. Mr. Schiller will be 

 in and near Chicago for the present. 



The "VlTiolesale Cut Flower Associa- 

 tion held an adjourned meeting at 

 E. C. Amling's store on June 14. The 

 object of -the meeting was to take 

 action on the proposed closing of the 

 wholesale stores all day Sundays, in- 

 stead of at noon as has been the cus- 

 tom for years. Practically all the 

 houses were represented and the 

 proposition met with unanimous ap- 

 proval. It was also decided to keep 

 open till 9 o'clock on Saturday nights. 

 It will go into effect beginning July 

 7th. 



Several of the wholesalers donated 

 liberally of their cut flowers Friday 

 night when a woman's club, of which 

 Mrs. Jas. G. Hancock is president, 

 gave a card party and flower sale for 

 the benefit of a knitting fund. Xeedy 

 women, many of them blind, are paid 

 to knit socks which are turned over 

 to the Red Cross. The A. L. Randall 

 Co. donated a fine porch chair which 

 netted the club a neat sum. Another 

 evidence of the liberality of the trade. 

 There is not a week that they are 

 not appealed to for aid in some way 

 and sometimes it is a daily occur- 

 rence. 



The H. E. Wilson store force took 

 an auto trip to Livonia on June 19th. 

 A picnic lunch was served and a good 

 time followed. 



Miss Rose Brown, who has been em- 

 ployed by Collatus Bros, tor some time 

 has now taken a position with H. P. 

 Xeun. 



N. Tsukofoto of Kobe. Japan, who 

 has been commissioned by the Mayor 

 of Kobe to inspect and report on the 

 parks of this country, was the guest of 

 Commissioner T\'m. S. Riley. He was 

 taken to Highland Park, Cobb's Hill 

 and various beauty spots in East ave- 

 nue and in adjoining sections of the 

 city. 



The June meeting of the Rochester 

 Florist Association was rather disap- 

 pointing. Wm. Pitkin promised to 

 speak but he could not attend and our 

 secretary was also absent unavoidably 

 so the meeting adjourned. They will 

 not meet again till October. The at- 

 tendance was the best of any meeting 

 this season, numbering about 35. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Oliver Boucher has just returned 

 from Mt. Clements where he has been 

 taking treatments for rheumatism. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



After June 24th the wholesale flow- 

 er stores will close daily at 4 p. m. 

 (Saturdays, 1 p. m.— after July 1st.) 

 Closed all day July 4th. This action 

 is by general agreement among the 

 trade, and will last for the summer 

 months. Customers are advised to 

 get their orders in as early in the day 

 as possible in order to secure the best 

 selection. This is wise at all times, 

 but particularly so at this season when 

 most of the shipments arrive from the 

 growers in the morning deliveries. 



Editorial wisdom was never better 

 shown than in giving a prominent 

 positipn in last week's Horticulture 

 to the wise words of Joseph J. Lane. 

 He is a man who knows the trade 

 thoroughly both from the business and 

 ethical standpoints. From Doubleday, 

 Page & Co. and the Garden Magazine 

 we look for big things, and here is one 

 of them. He may be but a mere strip- 

 ling but he has the spirit. And he 

 tells us true words, and I am proud 

 of him. I think I can see Leonard 

 Barron clap bis hands with joy — with 

 a cap J! 



An organization has been formed in 

 Philadelphia for the purpose of in- 

 creasing the home consumption of 

 fresh vegetables grown near the city. 

 It is intended to urge the greater use 

 of vegetables through the medium of 

 the local papers, this advertising to 

 be supplemented by information as to 

 the best methods of cooking and pre- 

 paring vegetables for the table, to- 

 gether with hints for growers and 

 dealers. According to present plans 

 $50,000 will be spent with Philadel- 

 phia papers and through other medi- 

 ums to increase the use of home- 

 grown vegetables to offset the compe- 

 tition of nationally advertised prod- 

 ucts that are shipped in large quanti- 

 ties to the city. 



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PITTSBURGH 



Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Thompson of 

 Rochester, Pa., are about to leave for 

 an automobile trip to the Pacific 

 coast. 



John Kuntz, one of the proprietors 

 of the Liberty Flower Shop at 628 Lib- 

 erty avenue, has received notice to 

 leave for one of the military camps. 



Joseph H. Seaman has been engaged 

 to assist on the force of James J. 

 Higgins, who is conducting the floral 

 features of the Harry Davis Enter- 

 prises Company. 



En route on an automobile trip to 

 New York, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Peter- 

 son, their daughter, Miss Ida Peterson 

 and Miss Leona Hesse of Cincinnaci, 

 0., spent a few days in the city last 

 week as guests of J. A. Peterson, Jr., 

 who is employed by a local dental sup- 

 ply company. 



Seventy-five Allegheny High School 

 boys who have enlisted in the Boys' 

 Working Reserve of the Public Safety 

 Committee, have gone to State College 

 to learn the cultivation of crops. They 

 will be placed on farms to help with 

 the Julv and August harvesting. As- 

 sistant Director R. A. McDowell of the 

 Boys' Working Reserve has already 

 placed on Western Pennsylvania farms 

 this year a total of 1,187 high school 

 boys. 



Assistant Fuel Administrator Joseph 

 T. Miller of the Pittsburgh District 

 was the speaker at the weekly lunch- 

 eon of the Retail Florists' Association 

 on last Tuesday afternoon at -the 

 Seventh Avenue Hotel. The various 

 Western Penn. firms were represented 

 to about the number of sixty. Mr. 

 Miller congratulated the florists as a 

 whole upon the gracious spirit and co- 

 operation with which they had re- 

 sponded to the Government's limita- 

 tion of fifty per cent., and assured 

 them that the administration was 

 only too ready to show a reciprocal 

 spirit when the crisis should arise. 

 Mr. Miller assured his hearers that 

 while the Government considered 

 floriculture as of secondary considera- 

 tion to the munition plants and other 

 Government industries, it by no means 

 considered the business as non-essen- 

 tial, inasmuch as funeral work, espec- 

 ially, was recognized as practically in- 

 dispensable. And moreover, flowers 

 had become what might be called al- 

 most a habit with the American people 

 to such an extent that their entire 

 elimination coiild not be but detri- 

 mental to the morale so necessary of 

 in these days of trial. 



