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HORTICULTURE 



February 10, 1917 



BOSTON 



Weis, the florist, with store on Hyde 

 Park avenue in the new Dana block, 

 has discontinued his business here. 



H. Barrows, of Brockton, Mass., has 

 taken charge of a large private estate 

 in Florida and the business is now be- 

 ing handled by R. B. Frost. 



The parents of Miss Sadie Mitchell 

 have announced her engagement to 

 Adrian F. Kommers, of Newtonville. 

 Miss Mitchell has been the head book- 

 keeper for Henry M. Robinson & Co. 

 for nearly two years. 



Prof. Arno H. Xehrling of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College gave an 

 illustrated lecture in Horticultural 

 Hall on Saturday, Feb. 3. His subject 

 was "Perennials We Should Grow." 

 There was an audience of between 

 four and five hundred present. 



The carnation party leaving Boston 

 for Indianapolis got their flowers, 

 about 3,000 blooms in all. there in per- 

 fect order and brought home fourteen 

 1st prizes, ten 2nd prizes and one certi- 

 ficate of merit. C. S. Strout, out of 

 eight entries got six 1st and two 2nd, 

 and C. S. Goddard made an equal cap- 

 ture. They each took along about 800 

 blooms. "That's going some." 



On Friday, Feb. 16. a garden con- 

 ference of women, Mrs. Joseph S. 

 Leach, chairman, will be held in Hor- 

 ticultural Hall. At 10.30, W. N. Craig 

 will speak on "The Home Vegetable 

 Garden," with a discussion following, 

 led by Miss Helen Holmes. Mrs. Effie 

 S. Nowers -will speak on "The Home 

 Fruit Garden and Apple Orchard," 

 with Miss Sarah Brassill as leader of 

 the discussion. "Making Use of the 

 Vacant Lot for Gardens" will be the 

 subject of an address by Wilfrid 

 Wheeler. At the afternoon session 

 Loring Underwood will give a message 

 on. the planning of the home grounds 

 through his lecture. "Old ^ew Eng- 

 land Gardens," illustrated by the new 

 process of direct color photographs 

 used as lantern slides. Miss Louise 

 Hetzer, of the Lowthorpe School of 

 Landscape Architecture for Women at 

 Groton, will speak on "Succession of 

 Bloom in the Flower Garden." Miss 

 Annie Burke, director of boys' and 

 girls' agricultural work in Plymouth 

 County, will speak on "Children's 

 Home and School Gardens," and sev- 

 eral pupils will give an account of 

 their garden experiences. All women 

 Interested in these subjects are in- 

 vited to attend and to take part. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Mr. and Mrs. William F. Gude and 

 George W. Hess were members of the 

 delegation which recently visited Mon- 

 ticello to look over the property with 

 a view to acquiring it by purchase for 

 the purpose of making it a second 

 Mount Vernon. 



The mountain laurel was last week 

 advocated by a delegation of women 

 as the national flower. The House 

 Committee on Library had before it 

 the bill providing for such recognition. 

 W. F. Gude. for the S. A. F., who was 

 the first witness, told the members of 



having inserted a request in the flor- 

 ists' trade papers for an expression of 

 opinion and that with the exception of 

 one. all the responses favored the 

 mountain laurel. 



CHICAGO. 



A new flower store has been opened 

 by Mrs. Marie Smith & Co.. at 5225 

 N. Clark St., under the name of the 

 Clark St. Posey Shop. 



J. J. Mohrley has purchased the 

 store known as the Fisher Flower 

 Shop at 23 S. Crawford Ave., and will 

 change the name to the Mohrley 

 Flower Shop. 



No one is complaining of results as 

 the January sales are footed up and 

 it is fair to infer that the month aver- 

 aged well. John Michaelson states 

 that the E. C. Amling Co.'s sales were 

 $7400 ahead of those of last January. 



R. Schiller of the Gift Shop learns 

 that his brother-in-law in El Paso, Tex., 

 is critically ill and that his demise 

 may occur at any moment, consequent- 

 ly no date will be set at present for 

 his wedding, which was scheduled for 

 this month. 



A telegram has been received an- 

 nouncing the safe arrival in southern 

 •California of E. C. Amling and H. N. 

 Bruns and their families, where' they 

 will spend the balance of the winter. 

 With the mercury away down in Chi- 

 cago, friends are a bit envious of their 

 escape. 



The question of charging customers 

 for boxes and packing has been re- 

 vived with the advance in the cost of 

 lumber, paper, etc., and was the main 

 object of a meeting of wholesalers on 

 Jan. 30. The subject was not decided 

 and after discussion was left to an- 

 other meeting," Fel5. 6, ' ' , ., 



NEWS NOTES. 

 Cromwell, Conn. — Ground has been 

 broken on Main street for a building 

 to be used as a rooming house to take 

 care of the large number of out-of- 

 town young men now employed at the 

 greenhouses. This spring a new build- 

 ing is to be erected to be used as a 

 clubhouse to give the men a place for 

 social recreation, something which the 

 town is lacking. 



New 'York— Mr. E. R. Storey has 

 been appointed sales manager of the 

 Metropolitan Material Co.. this to 

 take effect March 1st. 1917. On 

 and after that date, they will move 

 to their new ten acre plant at 

 Flushing and Woodward avenues, 

 Brooklyn, New York. A special an- 

 nouncement to the trade from the 

 Metropolitan Material Co. will be made 

 later. 



MIddletown, Conn. — There has just 

 been completed at the State hospital 

 for the insane a greenhouse. 150 feet 

 long, which was made by the patients 

 under the direction of a superinten- 

 dent. The grounds are to be graded 

 about it and it will be one of the 

 beauty spots on the hill. The cost 

 was little more than for the material 

 and the effort itself was of much value 

 to the patients. 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Bos- 

 ton. 



Wednesday night, February 8, was 

 a gala occasion for the members of the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Bos- 

 ton and their ladies, for on that even- 

 ing they celebrated, to the number of 

 250, the 30th anniversity of the Club's 

 birth. Horticultural Hall presented a 

 beautiful and inspiring picture. The 

 (aides and stage were lavishly adorned 

 with flowers of rare loveliness. During 

 the feast, there was plenty of stirring 

 music by the orchestra. President 

 Methven. although suffering from an 

 attack of grippe, was right on his job 

 and after a brief address of welcome 

 and congratulation called upon A. P. 

 Calder to fill the post of toastmaster, 

 and it is almost superfluous to say 

 here how well that finished master of 

 oratory fulfilled his duties. 



The first speaker was President R. 

 M. Saltonstall. of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, who captured all 

 hearts with the eloquent sincerity of 

 his presentation of the society's cordial 

 good wishes and his appeal for a gen- 

 erous support for that time-honored in- 

 stitution in the plans for its work of 

 the future and special activities of the 

 coming year. He outlined the ambi- 

 tious program of exhibitions now laid 

 out and reminded his audience that 

 the centennial of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society is now but 

 twelve years distant. 



Wm. J. Stewart, being next called 

 upon, as the Club's first president en- 

 tertained with some amusing rehiinis- 

 cences of the early days of the organ-^ 

 ization. 



Secretary W. N. Craig and Vice^ 

 President A. K. Rogers were the Qjily 

 other speakers. Mr. Craig was enthu- 

 siastic as ever in his comment on the 

 activities of the Club, and aroused his 

 hearers to a high pitch by offering a 

 resolution of support to be expressed 

 in a telegram to President Wilson in 

 the present international emergency. 

 The vote was unanimous. 



Between the speeches there was sing- 

 ing by Miss S. MacPherson, Mr. James 

 Singer and Mel. Eastman, and piano 

 music by Miss Lewis. "My country 

 'tis of Thee" was then sung, after 

 which came the dancing, twelve num- 

 bers on the program, under the direc- 



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