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HOETICULTUKE 



July 4, 1914 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



A. Lange always has the Egyptian 

 nelumbiums as a special offering in 

 the summer and this year the lilies 

 seem even more brilliant than ever. 



Joseph Patjau, Peter and Louis Du- 

 terinke, who came to this country 

 from Belgium a few years ago, are 

 leaving this week for a visit to their 

 old home. They will return in the 

 fall. 



M. S. Crozer, of Cedar Rapids, la., 

 says that his sales are footing up bet- 

 ter than ever in June. The new retail 

 store, recently opened in the down- 

 town district is doing nicely. His 

 father, J. G. Crozer, founder of the 

 business, who is disabled with paraly- 

 sis, is reporter as fairly comfortable. 



At Morton Grove, Poehlmann Bros, 

 are trying the two new begonias, 

 Melior, introduced by Peterson of 

 Cincinnati and Florence Davenport by 

 A. M. Davenport of Watertown. Mass. 

 Mr. Anderson, in charge of the plant 

 department, says that while he likes 

 the deeper color in the flower of 

 Melior his customers are divided in 

 their preferences, so the stock of 

 Cincinnati and Lorraine is evenly 

 divided. The house which contains 

 the stock of large palms valued at 

 $50,000. has been improved with a 

 cement floor and. by placing the heat- 

 ing pipes on the sides, room has been 

 made for the tallest palms. Beds 

 of fancy-leaved caladiums, tuberous 

 rooted begonias and hydrangeas were 

 noted as supplying the color always 

 needed in plants for retail stores. An- 

 other house contains 40,000 young 

 cyclamen plants in 3-in. pots now 

 ready for sale. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



A. E. Brown, treasurer of \V. Atlee 

 Burpee & Co. sailed on the S. S. Min- 

 neapolis, June 27th. for London, on an 

 extended vacation. 



Gude Brothers, of Washington, and 

 Samuel S. Pennock made a visit re- 

 cently to the rose garden at Hartford. 

 Conn., and were greatly pleased and 

 enlightened. They also took in the 

 Pierson place at Cromwell, one of the 

 most remarkable commercial places 

 in the country. Mr. Pennock was so 

 impressed with what he had seen that 

 he sent two of his managers, Messrs. 

 Jones and Liggett, on the same pil- 

 grimage the week following, and they 

 were equally astonished and delighted. 



I am not going to say anything 

 severe to Arthur Niessen for writing 

 that circular all by himself and sign- 

 ing the committee of seven's name to 

 it. because, as John Donald McKay 

 once remarked: "1 don't want to 

 contaminate my own interests." 



"God made the Iri.sh, 

 He sure made them mad. 



For their fights are" all merry, 

 .\n(l their songs are all sad." 



I think there is a little Irish in both 

 the Scot and the German in this con- 

 nection. 



■Visitors — Mr. and Mrs. Vesey and 

 Mrs. Woods, Fort Wayne, Ind.; P. 

 Joseph Lynch, New Castle, Ind.: B. W. 

 Delaney, representing J. Chas. McCul- 

 lough, Cincinnati, O.; W. G. Grenell 

 and grondson Wm, Grenell, Pierrepont 

 Manor, N. Y. 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 



J. Harper Hetherington has gone to 

 Philadelphia, where he will spend a 

 part of his five weeks' vacation. The 

 balance of the time he will spend in 

 Atlantic City. 



Frank P. Gaul, manager of the local 

 store of S. S. Pennock-Meehan Com- 

 pany, has so far recovered from his 

 recent illness to be able to be at his 

 place of business at least for several 

 hours each day. 



Louis Hohman and Walter Hawley, 

 clerks of the store of Gude Bros. Co., 

 have started for Boston, where they 

 will spend several weeks, after which 

 time they will visit the northern part 

 of New York. Mr. Hohman is at pres- 

 ent suffering from a severe case of oak 

 poisoning, obtained while chasing a 

 young crow out of the cornfield which 

 surrounds his home. He has been in- 

 capacitated for work for some days. 



Albert Schnell, manager of the Wash- 

 ington Florists' Exchange, reported to 

 the police last week that someone un- 

 known had removed $965 from the safe 

 in the office of the Exchange, the door 

 of the safe having been left open. The 

 police are also looking for the owners 

 of a miscellaneous collection of tools 

 left by some unknown persons in the 

 rear room of the store of F. H. 

 Kramer. The back door had been 

 forced and the two cash registers in 

 the front of the store taken to the rear 

 where they were hacked open but 

 found to be empty. The thieves found 

 nothing of value in the store and after 

 having smoked a few cigars they took 

 their departure. 



ilr. and Mrs. William F. Gude will 

 entertain the members of the Florists' 

 Club of Washington, D. C, and their 

 ladies at a lawn party at their home, 

 3800 New Hampshire avenue. North- 

 west, on Tuesday evening, July 7. A 

 feature of the evening will be the lec- 

 ture of Richard Vincent. Jr.. of White 

 Marsh, Md., on "A Trip Through 

 Scotland — The Land of Burns." illus- 

 trated with lantern slides. A vaude- 

 ville program will also be presented. 

 The regular monthly meeting of the 

 club will be held at this time and a 

 report will be rendered by the special 

 committees having in charge the trip 

 to the convention at Boston and of 

 the flower show which is to be held 

 here early in October. A large dele- 

 gation of florists and the ladies from 

 the Florists' and Gardeners' Club of 

 Baltimore, Md., will also be present. 



RECEPTION TO DR. GALLOWAY. 



A large number of officials and em- 

 ployees of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture gathered at the National Museum, 

 Washington, D. C, last week at a fare- 

 well reception tendered to Dr. Beverly 

 T. Galloway, assistant secretary of the 

 department, who leaves here shortly 

 to become dean of the agricultural col- 

 lege of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 

 The affair was an entirely informal one 

 and was under the direction of Henry 

 S. Graves, chief forester; Logan W. 

 Page, of the Division of Roads, and 

 C. S. Marvin, chief of the Weather 

 Bureau. The regrets of his associates 

 were expressed in a number of short 

 speeches and Dr. W. A. Taylor, chief of 



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the Bureau of Plant Industry, who is 

 to succeed him as assistant secretary, 

 complimented Dr. Galloway in the 

 highest of terras, accrediting to his 

 efforts much of the marked progress 

 made during his administration. Dr. 

 Galloway has been connected with the 

 Department of Agriculture for twenty- 

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