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HORTICULTUEE 



January 20, 1917 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO. 



L. D. Eastman & Sons, of 180 East 

 77th street has bought the Michal 

 store, 1168 East G3rd street. 



The Chicago Flower Growers' As- 

 sociation have the distinction of being 

 the only firm now supplying home- 

 grown inissy willows. The stock is 

 fine. 



Mrs. Fred Stollery, who was severely 

 injured when the automobile in which 

 she was riding was struck by a street 

 car and thrown through a store win- 

 dow, is recovering. Her sister was 

 killed. 



Its central location attracts many 

 exhibitors of new varieties to Chicago. 

 J. E. Yeats of Champaign, 111., showed 

 his new red rose Sarah Yeats last week 

 and the favorable impression took the 

 substantial form of several good orders. 



One of the local papers devoted an 

 editorial to the seedsman's cause last 

 week by a denunciation of the practice 

 of congressmen, who send free packets 

 of seeds to their constituents. It called 

 forth an answer favoring the stand of 

 the editor. 



Another eastern man has cast his lot 

 with Chicago. Frank Farney, for 

 many years with M. Rice & Co. of 

 Phila., is now in charge of the depart- 

 ment of infants' specialties at A. L. 

 Randall's, another new line which this 

 enterprising firm is manufacturing. 



Herman W. Rogers, for twelve years 

 with Weiland & Risch, left for his for- 

 mer home in Detroit on Monday, where 

 Mrs. Rogers has lately fallen heir to 

 considerable property. Tlie trade will 

 miss Mr. Rogers, who was always cour- 

 teous and as head of the sales depart- 

 ment made many friends. It remains 

 to be seen whether the city of his ear- 

 lier life will be able to hold him from 

 the choice of his mature years. 



The bill board nuisance had a big set 

 back, and promoters of the City Beau- 

 tiful scored a point where the United 

 States Supreme Court decided in favor 

 of the legality of the Chicago ordi- 

 nance, requiring the consent of three- 

 fourths of the owners interested, in 

 order to erect a bill board. The de- 

 cision was reached Jan. 15th and steps 

 to pass a still more stringent ordi- 

 nance are expected to follow. 



Among the big decorations of the 

 past week were those of the Coliseum, 

 for the Allied Bazaar, which called for 

 hundreds of plants and great quanti- 

 ties of green, and the Armour dinner 

 in the gold room of the Congress Hotel. 

 The size of the coliseum makes only 

 large showy effects desirable, but at 

 the Congress much originality was 

 displayed. A Robin Hood effect was 

 carried out by the_ lavish use of birch 

 bark, etc., and the expense is said to 

 have been well up toward the four fig- 

 ure mark. 



The Brookline Chronicle in an issue 

 of recent date pulilished a very per- 

 suasive plea by James Grimshaw Scott 

 in favor of the Epigaea repens as the 

 official state flower of Massachusetts. 



The Schedule of Prizes for the ex- 

 hibitions in Boston for 1917 has been 

 issued by Secretary Wm. P. Rich of 

 the .Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Eleven shows are provided for, 

 of which the spring exhibition, March 

 21 to 25 and the Outdoor Flower Show 

 in June are the principal events. 



W. E. Coburn and R. E. Dixon, chair- 

 man and secretary respectively of the 

 Everett Park Commission, have hand- 

 ed in their resignations to Mayor Mul- 

 len after a verbal altercation with that 

 dignitary. Mr. Coburn has served on 

 the board for nineteen years and Mr. 

 Dixon has been a member for nearly 

 ten years. 



Sam J. Goddard, is bending his 

 efforts to having Boston well repre- 

 sented at the meeting of the American 

 Carnation Society at Indianapolis. Mr. 

 Goddard announces special rates for a 

 party of ten, but the delegation is not 

 to be limited to this number if he can 

 possibly obtain further application for 

 tickets. Among those planning to go 

 are Mr. and Mrs. William McAlpine, 

 -Mr. and Mrs. George Noyes, and J. W. 

 Howard. 



The Brookline selectmen will hold a 

 joint convention with the park com- 

 missioners on Jan. 23 to elect a suc- 

 cessor to Albert L. Lincoln, who re- 

 signed from the park commission 

 about two weeks ago. The selectmen 

 last week decided that as it was so 

 near the annual town election they 

 would not call a joint convention. It 

 is understood, however, that the com- 

 missioners desired to elect a successor 

 to Mr. Lincoln at once. 



The first of a series of free lectures 

 on horticultural subjects, which will 

 be given under the auspices of the 

 -Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 every Saturday afternoon until and 

 including March 31, was given on Jan^ 

 uary 13 by Loring Underwood, in Hor- 

 ticultural Hall, before a large audi- 

 ence, on "Home Gardens." Mr. Un- 

 derwood illustrated his lecture with 

 the new process of "direct color" 

 photography, illuminated and thrown 

 u|ion the screen by an electrically 

 lighted stereopticon. 



BOSTON. 



William J. Magee, florist, of Salem, 

 has been confined to his bed for the 

 last week with a severe attack of 

 pleurisy. He has sincere wishes of a 

 host of friends in the Boston market, 

 fine. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



An automobile of J. H. Small & Sous 

 was quite badly damaged as a result 

 of being hit by another car driven by a 

 woman automobilist. 



William A. Royal, a chauffeur for 

 Gude Bros. Co., narrowly escaped seri- 

 ous personal injury last week in an 

 automobile collision. Both machines 

 were damaged. 



Uncle Sam is in need of a gardener 

 at the U. S. Progagating Gardens. 

 The Ci^il Service Commission will 

 hold an examination for that position 

 on January 27. Further information 



can be obtained upon application to 

 I he Commission. 



The S. S. Pennock-Meehan Com- 

 pany has been offering some of the 

 finest white lilac blooms ever seen in 

 Washington. They are being cut from 

 lilants grown in this country and it is 

 said that Washington florists are ex- 

 ceedingly lucky in being able to get 

 these as (lorists in other states have 

 been unable to get good lilacs on ac- 

 count of the lateness of importations. 



The Oehmler Floral Company, Inc., 

 will hereafter conduct the business of 

 O. A. C. Oehmler at 1329 G St. N. W., 

 with the latter as secretary and man- 

 ager. The change came when James 

 M. Dunbar and G. Wolf, of Alexandria, 

 Va.. bought the business of Mr. 

 Oehmler. The company will confine 

 itself strictly to retail business, the 

 wholesale stock going to the Leo Nies- 

 sen Company, which has for a long 

 time been marketing the stock of the 

 Dunliai- Floral Co. 



PITTSBURGH. 



H. E. Taylor and S. V. Reeves gave 

 interesting talks at the recent meeting 

 of the Farmers' Association at Nixon 

 Station. 



Mrs. Gilbert Ludwig, bookkeeper for 

 the Ludwig Floral Company, has been 

 ill for the past ten days with a se- 

 vere attack of influenza and stomach 

 ti'ouble. 



Ralph W. Pinner, manager of the 

 landscape department of the A. W. 

 Smith Co., has arranged for exhibition 

 space at the June Flower Show to be 

 given in Motor Square Garden under 

 the auspices of the Garden Club of 

 .Allegheny County. 



From all sections of the state word 

 has been received at Harrisburg that 

 large delegations are forming to at- 

 tend the Agricultural Show January 

 22-26, and Secretary of Agriculture 

 Charles E. Patton has arranged with 

 the passenger department of the Trunk 

 Line Association for reduced rates. Al- 

 ready many exhibits of apples and corn 

 have been received. 



PERSONAL. 



Miss Clarissa A. Fuller, for nine 

 and a half years clerk for W. W. Hath- 

 away, florist, Brockton, Mass., has re- 

 signed her position. 



William Wilder, florist, of Somers- 

 worth, N. H., and Carrie Spofford of 

 Vermont, were recently united in mar- 

 riage. They will reside in Somers- 

 worth. 



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