April 28, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



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AFTER EASTER 



Weddings = Mothers' Day == Memorial Day 



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CHICAGO. 

 A. L. Glaser of Des Moines, Iowa, 

 whose obituary appeared in last week's 

 issue, was a frequent visitor to this 

 market for many years and he will be 

 missed. 



The committee appointed by the Chi- 

 cago Florists' Club to try and make ar- 

 rangements for coal for next year, 

 have the matter in hand but so far 

 have reached nothing definite. 



Joe Eringe has the sympathy of the 

 trade in the loss of his father, whose 

 death occurred Friday, April 20th. His 

 employers, Zech & Mann, and his fel- 

 low workers sent many handsome 

 floral tokens. 



After four months of "daily perform- 

 ance" the greenhouse grown daffodil is 

 about to retire for a time. This is 

 probably the longest run this flower 

 has made in anything like such quan- 

 tity and its disappearance will not be 

 regretted by the carnation growers. 



M. Bloy was calling on the trade last 

 week on his way home to Detroit after 

 spending a winter in California. Mr. 

 Bloy says it is the first time in many 

 years that he has not been actively in 

 the rush of Easter week and enjoyed 

 being an onlooker this year, seeing it 

 from another angle in Denver, Colo. 



The shortage in certain plant foods 

 is attracting the attention of large 

 dealers in other lines, and the possible 

 advantages of taking up the handling 

 of commercial fertilizers is appealing 

 to them. One of Chicago's large mail 

 order houses has just invested one 

 million dollars in such a department. 



The posterettes offered by the Chi- 

 cago Florists' Club in the interest of 

 flower sales for Mothers' Day are be- 

 ing secured by local florists, who have 

 not forgotten what a stimulus the 



same kind of advertising was to St. 

 Valentine's Day, doing much toward 

 making that the best day of its kind 

 on record. Mothers' Day needs only 

 intelligent pushing to make it an equal 

 success, and the florists are going 

 after it. 



A. M. Terrill of Calgary, Alberta. 

 Can., visited Chicago last week. He 

 reports trade in the northern city as 

 having been very good all the past 

 year. Jlr. Terrill says the flrst year 

 of the great war had a marked and 

 depressing effect on the florists' busi- 

 ness, but that this year the big wheat 

 crop and the abnormally high prices 

 they brought, has tended to boom busi- 

 ness, notwithstanding the absence of 

 the young men who have gone to war. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Dr. Lane is around again. This will 

 be pleasant news for his many friends 

 in the horticultural world. As pre- 

 viously reported in these columns the 

 doctor went under an operation for ap- 

 pendicitis about six weeks ago. 



J. Horace Macfarland of Harrisburg 

 gave a lecture on roses before the 

 Penna Horticultural Society on April 

 ISth. The meeting was attended by 

 about 120 members, mostly ladies, and 

 was very much enjoyed, being not only 

 instructive but entertaining and in 

 Mr. Macfarland's very best style. 



Stephen Mortensen, Southampton, 

 one of our most noted rose growers, is 

 about completing a new addition to 

 his extensive establishment 60'x27.5' 

 of the latest Lord & Burnham con- 

 struction. A few years ago a half acre 

 of new glass was considered news. 

 Today it is hardly worth mentioning. 

 But Steve is a progressive and tries 

 out all the new roses, so we love to 

 mention him when we get a chance. 



ST. LOUIS. 



J. J. Beneke has suffered a relapse. 

 He caught cold while attending the 

 Florists' Club meeting in the county. 

 It is sincerely hoped he will have a 

 speedy recovery. 



Walter J. Young of C. Young & Sons 

 was married Saturday morning, April 

 21st, at St. Marguerite's Church to 

 Cletus Ann Peet. The bride carried a 

 muff of white lilac and lily of the val- 

 ley. Two maids of honor had bouquets 

 of Sunburst and Ophelia. Bridesmaids 

 — Pink KlUarney; flower girl — white 

 sweet peas. They go to Chicago and 

 other cities for a honeymoon. Walter 

 belongs to Battery A and has recently 

 returned from the border. 



PITTSBURGH. 



The advice given by George W. 

 Burke, superintendent of the Bureau 

 of Parks, that owners of lawn and 

 street trees and shrubbery consult 

 with his offlce before allowing a tree 

 pruner to touch the growth, is being 

 followed by many persons who have 

 read his counsel in the daily papers. 

 James L. Grimes, foreman of the Tree 

 Division and former city forester; 

 Robert Foley, foreman of Riverview 

 Park: Willia:p Dole, of the Schenley 

 Park nursery, and Charles Ge'ten- 

 bough, of the Highland Park nursery, 

 have been busy inspecting trees and 

 shrubbery and advising how they 

 should be pruned. 



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