May 12, 1917 



HOKTICULTURE 



625 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



George Prindle, of Salter Bros., is 

 suffering with tonsilitis. 



George Cramer and Henry Grouse 

 have left on a fishing trip to Conesus 

 Lake. 



J. M. Keller, Will and Wilfred Keller 

 are on a fishing trip to Wanakesia in 

 the Adirondack Mountains. 



According to a transfer tax affidavit 

 it appears that the net value of the 

 late Wm. C. Barry's estate is placed at 

 $629,129.80. 



In the recent window potfery dis- 

 play contest Rochester Floral Co. re- 

 ceived third prize and Edwin C. Kal- 

 ber. Inc., received fourth. 



George T. Boucher is making a spec- 

 ialty of garden craft novelties, and 

 also pushing garden and vegetable 

 seeds as a department of his flower 

 store. 



George Rauchy, formerly with 

 Frank Purrsell as rose grower for 18 

 months, has returned to Clifton as 

 foreman in the rose 4iouses of Robert 

 Simpson. 



Earl Schmidt, who has been con- 

 nected with Geo. B. Hart's wholesale 

 establishment, has joined the coast 

 artillery, now stationed at Fort Banks, 



Mass. . 



PITTSBURGH. 

 Gilbert Ludwig has just completed 

 serving two weeks as a juror in the 

 Common Pleas Court. 



Oscar A. C. Oehmler, grower and re- 

 tailer of Washington, D. C, spent a 

 few days on the North Side last week. 

 County Agriculturist, Norman S. 

 Grubbs, returned last Tuesday from a 

 several days' visit with friends in 

 Sharon, Pa. 



Karl Voelker, of The Arcade Flower 

 Shop, has the heartfelt sympathy of 

 his many friends in the death of his 

 mother, Mrs. C. L. Voelker, on April 27. 

 John F. Zimmerman, formerly on 

 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, E. B., has re- 

 moved to his new location in Ems- 

 worth. He will transact business in 

 Emsworth but expects to keep his 

 former trade in Pittsburgh. His mall 

 address is now Bellevue, Box 347A., 

 R. F. D. 



Frank P. Smoller will leave next 

 Tuesday with Battery E, First Field 

 Artillery, N. G. W. S., which has been 

 ordered to Mt. Gretna, with the ex- 

 pectation of later going to one of the 

 coasts. Mr. Smoller is a designer and 

 salesman for Walter A. Faulk of the 

 North Side, and saw extended service 

 including a month's hospital experi- 

 ence on the border. 



PERSONAL. 



C. U Brock, formerly superintendent 

 of parks, Houston, Texas, was ap- 

 pointed chief of police May 1st. 



Announcement is made of the en- 

 gagement of Miss Mabel Edythe Dick- 

 inson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 

 liam H. Dickinson, of New Haven, 

 Conn., to John Joseph Sokol, the florist, 

 of the same city. 



Antoine Leuthy, Boston's widely 

 known plantsman, was married on 

 April 23 to Miss Christina Matilda An- 

 derson at Roslindale, Mass., and the 

 happy pair has just returned from a 

 two weeks' honeymoon trip southward. 



NEW YORK. 



The Skinner Irrigation Company 

 has established a selling office at 131 

 Hudson street, under the management 

 of Charles H. Allender. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 N. Y. Florists' Club will be held as 

 usual on Monday evening. May 14. Im- 

 portant business, plenty of it. 



The annual spring plant market is 

 now well established under the 

 Queensboro bridge, at East 60th St. 

 The busy hours are from 2 to 6 A. M. 

 We are pleased to be able to an- 

 nounce that Percy Richter, salesman 

 at J. S. Fenrich's wholesale ffower 

 store on 28th street, is in a fair way 

 to recovery from a serious attack of 

 pneumonia. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



Cincinnati— Milton Alexander, New 

 York. 



Rochester, N. Y.— F. H. Moore, Sef- 

 ton Mfg. Co., Chicago. 



Pittsburgh— Robert Shoch, Phila.; 

 O. A. C. Oehmler, Washington, D. C. 



Boston— Jos. J. Lane, Garden Maga- 

 zine, Garden City, N. Y.; Robert Kift, 

 Phila., Pa. 



Philadelphia — Felix Albert, Lenox 

 Flower Shop, Buffalo, N. Y.; Edward 

 Dory, De La Mare Co., N. Y. City; 

 George W. Hess, Washington, D. C; 

 John Horn, Allen town. Pa.; Chas. 

 Loechner, New York City. 



Chicago — Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Hal- 

 brooke, Newark, Ohio; A. N. Holt, 

 Kirkwood Floral Co., Des Moines, la.; 

 O. J. Eichen, Duluth Floral Co., Duluth, 

 Minn.; W. Harry Hankinson, repr. 

 Ralph W. Ward & Co., N. Y.; A. B. 

 Turner, Rosin & Turner, Mosinee, 

 Wis.; Ella Kaber, Kaber Floral Co., La 

 Porte, Ind. 



Antoine Leuthy 



Mr. Leuthy's friends had long given 

 him up as a confirmed old batchelor 

 but at last he has done the right thing. 

 The accompanying picture was pub- 

 lished in these columns some time ago. 

 He does not look at all like that now. 

 That lonesome, wistful expression has 

 gone completely. He has taken our 

 advice and joy reigns. 



NEWS NOTES 



Woodburg, N. J. — Fire destroyed the 

 greenhouses of Dennis D. Ctincun, 

 near Westville. The loss is $10,000. 

 The origin of the fire is not known. 



Claremont, N. H. — Lester Merrill of 

 New Hampshire College will act as 

 • manager of the Bugbee greenhouses 

 on Maple avenue this summer, while 

 Ralph Bugbee is occupied with his du- 

 ties as assistant to the County Agent 

 in the campaign for home gardens. 

 Mr. Merrill is a junior at the state 

 college and is specializing in garden 

 work. 



Rockville, Conn. — At the present time 

 126 plots of land, nearly a million 

 square feet, that was never cultivated 

 before, have been distributed to home 

 garden farmers and there is still a big 

 demand for more. The chairman of 

 the public gardens committee secured 

 fifty-five bushels of potatoes from the 

 Connecticut Food Supply Committee. 

 These potatoes have been over ordered 

 by fifteen bushels. 



A FIRST PRIZE DISPLAY OF 

 FLORAL POTTERY. 



The accompanying picture shows a 

 window display by F. R. Pierson, Tar- 

 rytown, N. Y., of art pottery such as Is 

 now an indispensable adjunct to the 

 regular furnishing and stock of a first- 

 class flower establishment. Mr. Pier- 

 son writes as follows: 



"We are mailing you under separate 

 cover a photograph of one of our win- 

 dows, which has just been awarded 



first prize, by the Pottery Co., for 



display of their pottery. The compe- 

 tition was open to florists, and there 



were many entries. Mr. writes us 



as follows: 'All the windows submit- 

 ted were excellent, — adding to your 

 credit of receiving this award.' 



"The larger pieces in the picture 

 were used by us in our display ot 

 roses at the New York Flower Show 

 and for which we were awarded first 

 prize. The two garden vases — a beau- 

 tiful shade of cucumber green— were 

 also used in our first prize rose garden 

 at the New York Flower Show." 



Second prize in this window compe- 

 tition was won by Butler & UUman, 

 Northampton. Mass. 



Nashua. N. H. — Warwick Snow, for 

 the past 11 years superintendent of 

 Woodlawn cemetery, has resigned and 

 will move to Hollis, where he has pur- 

 chased the Colburn place with the 

 greenhouses. Mr. Snow will devote 

 his time to the raising of market 

 produce and flowers. L. B. Colby, who 

 was Mr. Snow's assistant, has been 

 elected by the trustees to the position 

 ot superintendent, and Harry Gidge 

 has been appointed assistant to Mr. 

 Colby. These changes took place on 

 Jlay 1st. 



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