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HOETICULTUBE 



March 17, 1917 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO. 



Mr. and Mrs. Emil Buettner are 

 spending some time in southern Cali- 

 fornia. Mr. Buettner is president of 

 the A. L. Randall Co. 



Chas. Wiffin and son, Sidney, left 

 Mar. 10th for South Dakota to try 

 farming and stoca raising instead of 

 growing flowers. 



H. N. Bruns and family returned 

 from California, March 6th, where they 

 have spent several weeks. Mr. Bruns 

 says he saw much to admire in south- 

 ern California, but nothing that would 

 tempt him to leave Chicago for several 

 years at least. 



Flower beds must go this year and 

 vegetable gardens take their places if 

 Chicago people are to be in line with 

 the popular idea. The "Grow a Gar- 

 den" movement began with the utiliza- 

 tion of the vacant tracts by the city's 

 poor, but has steadily climbed up- 

 ward till it has now reached the dig- 

 nity of meetings at the Art Institute. 



Preparations for St. Patrick's Day 

 are confined almost exclusively to the 

 sale of colored carnations, tulips and 

 roses and the sickly green (?) flowers 

 will be looked upon with mirth by 

 some and disgust by others as in for- 

 mer years. Many thousands of shiim- 

 rocks have been grotVn for Saturday's 

 trade and the tiny plants with their 

 dainty foliage are in great demand. 

 Ten years ago these acceptable offer- 

 ings first were placed before the trade 

 in "Chicago. 



The city gardens' movement is being 

 helped along by the principal's school 

 garden committee, which has recom- 

 mended that the one thousand acres of 

 vacant land belonging to the school 

 system be turned over to garden pur- 

 poses. It was further recommended 

 that for each reservation of 50 x 100 ft. 

 a deposit of one dollar lie made to in- 

 sure good faith, and that parts of large 

 tracts should be reserved for nurseries 

 to supply the public schools with trees, 

 shrubs, etc. Provision for the purchase 

 of seeds at cost price by the school 

 board is included and gives the retail 

 seedsman one more grievance. 



PITTSBURGH 



G. Wessenauer, of The Flower Shop, 

 Sewickley, is laid up with a severe at- 

 tack of influenza. 



Arthur H. Kramer is in charge of 

 the new flowershop opened by David 

 Hill at 6117 Penn avenue. East End. 



Edward J. Baumbach has again re- 

 turned to business after six weeks' ab 

 sence on account o^ having had pneu- 

 monia. 



George II. Thompson is in charge of 

 the exhibit of the A. W. Smith Com- 

 pany being held at the Fort Pitt Hotel 

 in connection with the annual products 

 show of the Rotary Club. 



The city of Pittsburgh has just re- 

 ceived a fine collection of orchids for 

 the Phipps Conservatory. They are the 

 gift of Dr. John Fremont Shafer, who 

 has abandoned his private conserva- 

 ■tory in the East End. Merton L. Har- 



ris of Plymouth, England, has been in 

 cliarge of Dr. Siiater's greenhouse for 

 some years past. 



The Humane Society of Western 

 Pennsylvania has issued a warning to 

 boys that unnecessary killing of birds 

 will be prosecuted to the full extent of 

 the law. The warning was the result of 

 a communication stating that boys were 

 selling postcards with the idea of us- 

 ing the proceeds to buy airguns to kill 

 birds. 



A permanent organization to be 

 jaiown as the Pittsburgh Backyard 

 Gardening Association has come out of 

 the mass meeting held in the Chamber 

 of Commerce rooms Tuesday evening. 

 The next session will be held on Mon- 

 day, March 26, and the organization 

 will co-operate with the Pittsburgh 

 Vacant Lot Gardening Association. 



J. H. Weisman. superintendent of 

 the Pittsburgh Vacant Lot Garden As- 

 sociation and Instructor in Nature 

 Study and Garden Craft for the Pitts- 

 Ijurgh Playground Association, has 

 begun a course of Thursday evening 

 lectures on gardening at the Central 

 Young Men's Christian Association. 

 Supplementing these lectures, demon- 

 stration work will be given on gardens 

 of the Vacant Lot Gardening As^socia- 

 tion. 



CINCINNATI. 



Miss Mae Carroll, of Norwood, is on 

 a trip to Florida. 



Florists in the Sixth Street Flower 

 Market had an excellent day last Sat- 

 urdav. Many potted blooming plants 

 were the best sellers. 



Neither Peter Welland's nor P. J. 

 Olinger's greenhouses at New Castle, 

 Ind., were touched by the tornado 

 which passed through that town on 

 Sundav. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



H. B. Stringer has returned to Inisi- 

 ness after ten days illness. 



Robert Havill, of Geo. B. Hart's, was 

 married on Wednesday, March 12th. 



The regular monthly meeting of tlie 

 Florist Club took place March 12th. 



Herman Muller, East Rochester, is 

 erecting a new greenhouse, 20 x 60 feet, 

 which he expects to have completed 

 in a few days. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



A Stag Smoker will be given by the 

 Florists' Club in lionor of the visiting 

 members of the National Rose Associa- 

 tion on Wednesday evening, (9 o'clock) 

 March 21st, in the Adelphia Roof 

 Garden. A buffet luncheon, prominent 

 speakers and a vaudeville show from 

 tlie leading shows in town will combine 

 to make a very pleasant evening, last- 

 ing until midnight. 



Attleboro, Mass. — The Mossberg Jlan- 

 ufacturing Company has notified its 

 employees, several hundred in number, 

 that land for garden purpo^^es would 

 be given them. Eacli employee who de- 

 sires to have a garden will be furnished 

 with a lot, and at the end of the sea- 

 son the firm will award prizes for the 

 best gardens. 



BOSTON. 



The Bowling League will close its 

 present season with a royal banquet 

 at Young's Hotel on Thursday night. 

 Jlarch 22. A dazzling array of cups 

 contributed by local firms and individ- 

 uals, sixteen in number, to be awarded 

 to the high-liners, is shown in the win- 

 dow of Penn the Florist, where it has 

 attracted much attention. 



The first visit of the Boston Mar- 

 ket Gardeners' Association to Woburn 

 occurred on March 3, when a number 

 of the association members made a 

 tour of the greenhouse plants in that 

 city. They met at the home of Alex 

 Porter, to have dinner, and In the 

 afternoon visited greenhouse estab- 

 lishments where vegetable forcing is 

 carried on. 



The park and recreation commission 

 has arranged for practical lessons in 

 gardening to be given every day from 

 10 A. M. to 12 noon and from 2 to 5 

 P. M. at the yard of the city green- 

 houses at East Cottage street and 

 Massachusetts avenue. Martin Fin- 

 aghty of the department, will have 

 charge of the work. He will instruct 

 all applicants. 



The big Spring Show at Horticul- 

 tural Hall is scheduled to open on 

 Wednesday, March 21, and it is to 

 have a number of unique features in 

 arrangement and exhibits. A Flemish 

 garden is promised by R. & J. Farqu- 

 har & Co. 



President R. M. Saltonstall is en- 

 deavoring to stimulate a wider inter- 

 est in floriculture among the public, 

 and has arranged for a number of ex- 

 pert floriculturists to be in attendance 

 during the show. They will explain to 

 the visitors the different exhibits and 

 gladly give any information about the 

 growing and culture of plants and 

 flowers. 



UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS INSPEC- 

 TION TRIP. 



Seventeen members of the Floricul- 

 tural Club of the University of Illinois 

 visited Chicago on an inspection trip 

 from March 8 to 11. On Thursday 

 evening, March 8, they were the guests 

 of the Chicago Florists' Club at a 

 chicken dinner and later at their 

 monthly meeting. The spirit of good 

 fellowship so evident at this gathering 

 made a lasting impression upon the 

 visitors. An interesting Novelty Ex- 

 hibition was held in conjunction with 

 this meeting. 



On Friday morning several of the 

 leading wholesale and retail stores 

 were visited. A thorough inspection 

 was made of the immense A. L. Ran- 

 dall Company supply house where they 

 were shown the manufacture of many 

 florist novelties. After taking luncheon 

 with P. J. Foley, a visit was paid to 

 the J. C. Vaughan greenhouses where 

 the students were given an opportunity 

 of seeing the large and varied stock 

 reQ\ured for a catalogue trade. Later 

 in the afternoon, the Gregg Station 



