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HOETICULTURE 



April 21, 1917 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



BOSTON. 



William Sim picked 200,000 single 

 violets of first quality for Easter and 

 all were sold at a big price. 



Two of the bright young men, sons 

 of Boston florists, who have enlisted 

 for war service are Henry M. Robin- 

 son, Jr., who has joined the Coast Re- 

 serves, and Phil. Roland, son of 

 Thomas Roland, who leaves his 

 studies at Dartmouth to go into the 

 Ambulance Corps in France. 



Prank J. Walsh, a Maiden florist, 

 found a section of $50 last Sunday. 

 He picked up two pieces of two $20 

 bills and a piece of a $10 note in 

 Maple street. Maiden, near his home. 

 Small boys made a careful search of 

 the vicinity, hoping to find the rest of 

 the bills. The parts of the $50 which 

 Mr. Walsh holds are no good. The 

 l)ill numbers are missing and boys 

 will continue to look for them. 



The Committee on Public Safety, in 

 •connection with the appointment of 

 April 19 as "patriotic" planting day, 

 is doing some very effective publicity 

 work in the campaign to increase the 

 annual cultivation of food products 

 in Massachusetts. Detailed informa- 

 tion as to what is being done and 

 what is planned may be had by writ- 

 ing to the Committee on Food Pro- 

 'duction and Conservation, State 

 House, Boston. 



J. G. Jack will conduct a field class 

 at the Arnold Arboretum on Satur- 

 days during the spring and early sum- 

 mer, to assist those who wish to gain 

 a more intimate knowledge of the 

 native and foreign trees and shrubs 

 which grow in New England. The in- 

 struction will be given in informal 

 •outdoor talks and examinations of the 

 plants. Different botanical groups will 

 be examined at each meeting, al- 

 though any trees or shrubs found may 

 form subjects for study. No technical 

 knowledge or special preparation is 

 required in order to join the class as 

 the instruction is intended to be sim- 

 ple in character, affording opportuni- 

 ties for questions and answers relat- 

 ing to the specimens under observa- 

 tion. The class will open next Satur- 

 day and close June 23. Applications 

 or further inquiries may be addressed 

 to Mr. Jack. East Walpole, Mass.. or 

 at the Arboretum. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The Department of Agriculture is 

 keeping right after cucurbit and other 

 pond lily diseases, and Frederick V. 

 Rand, assistant pathologist in the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, has gone to 

 New York to continue his investiga- 

 tions. 



A bill has been proposed that Col- 

 quitt, Ga., will have an experimental 

 agricultural plant, shrub, fruit and or- 

 namental tree, berry and vegetable 

 station and farm, where the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture will be enabled to 

 demonstrate the character of products 



best adapted to the soil and climate 

 of that section. 



The Kiwanis Club is the name of 

 the latest organization of the Rotary 

 type to be formed in Washington. It 

 is the plan of the organizers to have 

 two representatives of each line of 

 trade, and George C. Shaffer is one of 

 the florists selected. This is a so- 

 called "golden rule" organization, with 

 the name Kiwanis standing for price, 

 service and quality. 



J. H. McFarland last week delivered 

 a lecture at the Public Library under 

 the auspices of the Federation of 

 Citizens' Associations. The Florists' 

 Club was invited also to be present 

 and those who availed themselves of 

 the opportunity declared the lecture 

 to be a most interesting one. He 

 spoke approvingly of the production 

 of "American roses for America," and 

 told of what is being done at the rose 

 test gardens at Arlington Farms. 



ST. LOUIS. 



J. J. Beneke is still confined to his 

 room with rheumatism. 



Famous Barr Dry Goods Co. and the 

 Grand Leader will open up a regular 

 floral department in the near future. 



The Rosery flower shop has been 

 opened up by John B. Barnard and 

 Olga M. Maul. These gentlemen are 

 well experienced and should make 

 good. 



The Ladies' Home Circle met at the 

 home of J. J. Beneke, April 11th. Mrs. 

 Koenig, Mrs. F. C. Weber, Mrs. Carl 

 Beyer and Mrs. Theodore Miller were 

 present. 



The St. Louis Florist Club met at 

 the greenhouses of W. A. Rowe at 

 Kirkwood, Mo. There were 35 mem- 

 bers present, including all officers, 

 who motored out into the country. 

 Resolutions were passed favoring pub- 

 licity for Mothers' Day and for the 

 National Flower Show, 1918. Secre- 

 tary J. Windier is kept busy. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Douglas and John Howard Earl, 

 sons of Howard M., of Burpee's, have 

 enlisted in the Gth regiment, N. G. P. 

 If the spirit spreads as it is now doing 

 we fear the seed trade will he very 

 short-handed pretty soon. 



The latest lite member to join the 

 American Rose Society is the Hon. 

 John Wanamaker who is at present 

 sojourning in Florida. President Pen- 

 nock seemed to be rather proud this 

 morning in announcing this distin- 

 guished new recruit to the rapidly 

 swelling list of membership. We 

 think the feeling is justified and that 

 the vaulting ambition to have seven 

 thousand members like the National 

 Rose Society of England may some day 

 come true — even in crude and unde- 

 veloped America. 



CHICAGO. 



Clarence Enders, son of Mr. and 

 Mrs. John Enders, has enlisted for six 

 years in Co. L, 1st Cavalry, and leaves 

 Friday for Springfield, 111. 



Walter Horn of Poehlmann Bros, 

 store force, left today for his home in 

 Carrollton, Iowa, where he will join 

 his regiment and leave for the war. 



The seed stores are getting a lot of 

 free advertising this spring. Every 

 paper in the city has its garden col- 

 umn and some of the schools are put- 

 ting practical gardening on the school 

 grounds as a part of the regular work. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. will open their 

 annex next Saturday. The room is 

 40 X 160 ft. and is fitted up with new 

 furnishings, making a splendid place 

 for a sales and sample room for sup- 

 plies. The fourth floor will be used 

 hereafter for storage and shipping 

 room. 



Fred Lautenschlager, chairman of 

 the Chicago Florists' Club Publicity 

 Committee, is industriously sending 

 circulars far and wide in exploitation 

 of the co-operative advertising plan 

 put into action for Mothers' Day by 

 means of stamps and window posters. 

 He states therein that the Publicity 

 Committee has completed arrange- 

 ments with one of America's foremost 

 advertising agencies to prepare copy 

 for a full-page advertisement which 

 we plan to use in one of the leading 

 magazines of this country. This 

 magazine has a widespread circula- 

 tion and will carry our message 

 broadcast across the land. The copy 

 of the advertisement will contain 

 a suitable design announcing Moth- 

 ers' Day, this design incorporating 

 the theme of Mothers and Flow- 

 ers; the text to exploit the theme in 

 its broader sense. A cut of the stamp 

 appeared in a recent issue of Horticul- 

 TunE. One window poster, price list 

 and order blank will be mailed with- 

 out cost to anyone applying for same. 

 Address F. Lautenschlager, 440 West 

 Erie St., Chicago, 111. Distribution of 

 stamps and posters will commence 

 immediately. 



PITTSBURGH. 



C. C. Phillips, of the McCallum 

 Floral Company, left on Wednesday 

 for a several days' trip in the interest 

 of the firm. 



Mr. and Mrs. De Forest W. Ludwig. 

 who have been spending the winter 

 in California (the former in the em- 

 ploy of the A. L. Randall Co., of Chi- 

 cago), are now in Seattle, en route 

 home, and will spend next week in 

 Portland, Oregon. 



The A. W. Smith Company has 

 taken large floor space near the en- 

 trance of Motor Square Garden for the 

 June Flower Show of the Garden Club 

 of Allegheny County, Their intention 

 is to feature an exhibition of combina- 

 tion landscape and interior decoration. 



There is now a movement afoot to 

 utilize those sections of the city parks 



