May 26, 1917 



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be formally turned over to the society 

 until June 2. On the previous day 

 the exhibit will be given over to the 

 Massachusetts Chapter of the Red 

 Cross Society, which will charge a $5 

 admission fee. The show will be open 

 from 10 o'clock in the forenoon until 

 dusk each day. There will be concerts 

 by the Mainnente orchestra. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



George W. Kerr of Burpee's is on a 

 crop inspection trip to California. 



Douglas Laird, late of Dreer's and 

 Thorburn's, is now with the Robert 

 Buist Co. 



A. B. Cartledge has been laid up for 

 the past month with a nervous break- 

 down but is now much improved and 

 is back on duty again at 1514 Chestnut 

 street. 



Frank Adelberger is still at the 

 Presbyterian Hospital but is much 

 more comfortable and the doctors have 

 decided not to make any surgical oper- 

 ation at this time. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co., report that 

 they are Working day and night to get 

 their Memorial Day orders filled and 

 therefore cannot accept any more 

 orders for that occasion this year. 



The judges appointed for the Eighth 

 Annual Lansdowne Spring Flower 

 Show, June 9th, are Mrs. Du Best, H. 

 F. Michell, Casper Pennock, Rowland 

 T Satterthwaite. J. Otto Thilow and 

 George C. Thomas, Jr. Admission free. 

 It will be a fine show. Don't miss it. 

 We have over 200 members which is 

 pretty good for a little burg of 5000. 



PITTSBURGH. 



Augustus Wintz, an attache of the 

 Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co., Is laid up 

 in one of the local hospitals. 



James Riley, who has been a sales- 

 man for the McCallum Co., has ac- 

 cepted a similar position with the 

 A. L.. Randall Co. of Chicago. 



"Jack" Bysouth, who for some time 

 has been in Braddock on the estate of 

 one of the oflicials of the Carnegie 

 Steel Co., has resigned to go to France 

 with the U. S. Engineering Corps. 



Arthur James, formerly engaged in 

 the growing of decorative plants on 

 the Greensburg Pike, Turtle Creek, is 

 about to leave for Oneca, Florida, 

 where he will specialize in growing 

 decorative asparagus. 



Earnest R. Bolton has resigned as 

 secretary for the Horticultural Society 

 of Western Penna. He will be suc- 

 ceeded by Thomas Carr, who has also 

 succeeded him as first assistant on the 

 Heinz estate "Greenlawn." Mr. Carr, 

 who was recently married, came to 

 Pittsburgh from Cleveland and has 

 gone to housekeeping on the Heinz 

 place. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



L. W. Kephart, scientific assistant in 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry has left 

 for New England points to engage in 

 experimental work in connection with 

 the spread of the white pine blister 

 rust. 



The Florists' Club of Washington is 

 planning for a round-up meeting June 

 5. The program for the evening has 

 not yet been selected but President R. 

 L. Jenkins is planning for something 

 good. 



Alden A. Potter, an assistant patho- 

 logist in the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 has gone to Manhattan, Kansas, and 

 Chicago, 111., for the purpose of hold- 

 ing consultations with experts in those 

 cities concerning a new system of seed 

 treatment. 



The American Florists and Z. D. 

 Blackistone are among the several hun- 

 dred merchants that have joined the 

 Chamber of Commerce in a round-up 

 campaign to enlist all of the merchants 

 in a Greater Washington movement. 

 William P. Gude, recently entertained 

 the members of the membership com- 

 mittee at a luncheon at a downtown 

 hotel. 



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