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HOHT I CULTURE 



May 5, 1917 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



PITTSBURGH. 



Mr. and Mrs. DeForest W. Ludwig 

 returned home last Sunday from Los 

 Angeles. 



Ernest R. Bolton has resigned from 

 his position as first assistant to A. A. 

 Leach of "Greenlawn," the residence 

 of Henry .J. Heinz, which he has filled 

 for the past two years. 



Thomas Edward Tyler, superintend- 

 ent of Charles D. Armstrong's East 

 End estate, has at present one of the 

 finest private exhibits of calceolarias 

 ever seen in this section. 



Pour trees were planted this week 

 by the Woman's Civic Club of Wilkins- 

 burg around the Lincoln monument in 

 Penn avenue. One of the trees has 

 been named for C. L. Coones, tree com- 

 missioner. 



The Horticultural Society of West- 

 ern Penn. is arranging for an open 

 session on Tuesday evening, the fif- 

 teenth inst., in the interest of amateur 

 gardeners, who are cordially invited 

 to be present and ask advice on their 

 respective problems. 



Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert P. Weaklen 

 have undergone the deepest grief that 

 can come to parents in the death of 

 their little two-year-old son. Norman 

 Francis. They have the sincere heart- 

 felt sympathy of a large circle of 

 friends and acquaintances in their sor- 

 row. 



.Judging by the present prospects of 

 the coal situation, there will be a num- 

 ber of small dealers forced out of busi- 

 ness next year. In going from one 

 place to another one hears little but 

 coal talk, dealers only contracting un- 

 til October, and at that for not less 

 than four dollars per ton. 



James Watt, proprietor of the High- 

 land Floral Company on the Alexander 

 R. Peacock estate, has engaged Albert 

 A. Brown as foreman. Mr. Brown, 

 who for some time has been with the 

 John Bader Co., has had a wide range 

 of experience in commercial work, 

 having seen extended service with the 

 Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co. and the 

 McCallum Co. 



Nicholas Cassalucia, long confined 

 to the house with an attack of bron- 

 chitis, is again able to resume his 

 work as supervisor of the landscape 

 features tor the Penn. R. R. between 

 Pittsburgh and Scottdale. Owing to 

 the scarcity of laborers and material, 

 Mr. Cassalucia finds it impossible to 

 carry out the improvements contem- 

 plated for this spring. 



The War Farms Gardening Com- 

 mission has been organized with head- 

 quarters at 541 Wood street. It is 

 under the regime of Mayor Joseph G. 

 Armstrong, chairman; William Price, 

 treas.; Roy D. Schooley, sec; the com- 

 mittee chairmen including Hon. Wil- 

 liam Flinn, executive; J. Dawson Gal- 

 lery, finance; W. P. Ashe, agriculture; 

 H. P. Hass. real estate, and HaiTey D. 

 Smith, publicity. Mr. Ashe has charge 

 of the garden work for the Pittsburgh 

 Board of Education. 



Owing to the general unsettled con- 



ditions, the Garden Club of Allegheny 

 County has decided to "call off" its 

 June Flower Show in Motor Square 

 Garden. The decision is a keen dis- 

 appointment to those members of the 

 organization who were in favor of con- 

 tinuing the work and devoting the pro- 

 ceeds to the American Red Cross. 

 Many had already expended large 

 amounts in preparation for the event 

 and their gardeners were actively pre- 

 paring to exhibit, as were also many 

 commercial florists and landscape men. 

 David Fraser is spending a fortnight 

 in New York supervising planting and 

 other landscape improvements on the 

 Fifth avenue estate of Henry Clay 

 Frick. Hereafter throughout the sea- 

 son Mr. Eraser will make fortnightly 

 trips to supervise the care of these 

 grounds. Roderick Fraser, his first as- 

 sistant on the Pittsburgh estate 

 grounds, has resigned to accept a sim- 

 ilar position on the Woodland Road 

 estate of Andrew W. Mellon. James 

 Stuart, formerly with Edward A. 

 Woods of Sewickley Heights, is in 

 charge of these grounds. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Conferences on drug plant growing 

 are being conducted in Richmond, Va., 

 by A. F. Sievers, chemical biologist 

 in the bureau of plant industry. Mr. 

 Sievers is also consulting with ofl^cials 

 of the Richmond Pharmaceutical Col- 

 lege in the matter of growing these 

 plants. 



Local growers are very uneasy con- 

 cerning the existing coal situation, and 

 all who can do so are putting in as 

 much fuel as the dealers will sell 

 them. Fear has been expressed that 

 the existing shortage of coal may be- 

 come more aggravated by lack of 

 transportation facilities, labor disatfec- 

 fion, etc., and that possibly the florists 

 may sufler heavy losses. 



May 29 and 30 are the tentative 

 dates set tor the Brookland rose show. 

 This is an annual event, a very credit- 

 able one, which attracts widespread 

 attention throughout the city. Every 

 effort is being made to have this ex- 

 hibition the equal of those of preced- 

 ing years despite various difliculties 

 under which the members of the 

 Brookland Society are laboring. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Planting out and opening of sum- 

 mer gardens will be late here this 

 year. 



The display of tulips at Missouri 

 Botanical Garden was the feature all 

 last week. 



The monthly meeting of the Florist 

 Club comes second Thursday in the 

 month at 11 Mile House. 



Mothers' Day is being advertised by 

 the retailers, hangers in the windows 

 and other places being liberally dis- 

 played. 



The rare Cypripedium Boltoni San- 

 derae. a white-flowered type, has been 

 donated to the Missouri Botanical Gar- 

 den's orchid collection by D. S. Brown, 

 of Kirkwood. Mo. 



CHICAGO. 



A. Miller, president of the American 

 Bulb Co., is on a busin'ess trip in the 

 east. 



F^-ank Oechslin returned May 1st 

 from a brief visit to Philadelphia and 

 New York. 



The J. A. Budlong Co. is finding the 

 volume of business so great that an 

 adding machine is about to be added 

 to the necessary office equipment. 



R. A. Brenton. publicity manager for 

 various florists' enterprises, has en- 

 listed with the machine gun corps. The 

 two brothers of J. E. Pollworth 

 are also among those who have enlist- 

 ed. 



Orders are coming in rapidly now 

 for Mothers' Day. So far they are con- 

 fined exclusively to carnations but all 

 wholesalers expect a good demand for 

 all kinds of flowers as the day draws 

 nearer. 



News of the sudden death of John 

 W. Fink, 2632 Herndon street, which 

 occurred in New York City, April 26th, 

 was heard with regret by his friends 

 in the trade. Obituary notice will be 

 found on another page. 



E. C. Amling Co. is specializing in 

 novelties and his collection of ane- 

 mones, ranunculuses and Shirley pop- 

 pies is very attractive. There is always 

 a call for something new and novelties 

 are always welcome and sure to sell. 



AUie Zech, of Zech & Mann, who al- 

 ways lends a hand when there is any- 

 thing to be done, has disposed of ten 

 thousand Mothers' Day posterettes. 

 This is the kind of men that keeps 

 business moving both in peace and 

 war. 



Frank E. MacFarland enlisted in the 

 U. S. Marine Corps and left Chicago, 

 May 1st, for a few days in his home 

 town, down state, when he will report 

 for duty in the east. Mr. MacFarland 

 has been for some time with Frank 

 Oechslin. 



The American Bulb Co. has secured 

 additional floor space and now have a 

 large and conveniently arranged room 

 with three entrances. Aside from their 

 regular lines, they are selling Burpee's 

 seeds at retail, in which field they are 

 doing well. The attractive window dis- 

 play stops many passers-by. 



J. E. Pollworth, manager of Kenni- 

 cott Bros., has just returned from a 

 trip to the south, which included stops 

 in Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky 

 and Arkansas. One special object of 

 the trip was to look into the peony 

 stiuation which he reports to be most 

 favorable. The first cut of the season 

 was received by this firm May 1st. Mr. 

 Pollworth is looking for ?50,000 worth 

 of business in peonies in May for his 

 firm. 



Northampton, Mass. — Fifty students 

 from the horticultural classes in the 

 department of botany are to give four 

 hours each Saturday for the remainder 

 of the term to supervision of gardens 

 cultivated by children of the public 

 schools of the city. 



