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HORTICULTURE 



June 16. 1917 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



BOSTON. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety passed the eighty-eighth anniver- 

 sary of its founding on Tuesday, June 

 12. The first annual exhibition of the 

 society was held in September, 1829. 



Ernest Borowski, a florist of Ros- 

 lindale, together with a young lady 

 with whom he was riding in his auto, 

 was severely injured in collision with 

 a touring car which ran into his ma- 

 chine and completely wrecked it, last 

 Saturday evening. 



A "punishment lot" for Somerville 

 boys who trespass on gardens under 

 cultivation and commit other acts of 

 mischief is to be established on Cen- 

 tral Hill. Here boys who have been 

 found guilty will work out their sen- 

 tences under the supervision of a 

 member of the recreation committee. 

 Somerville is the first city to adopt 

 this method of punishment for juve- 

 nile offenders. Last year two boys, 

 who stole pears from a woman's or- 

 chard, were obliged to keep the walks 

 around her home clear of snow during 

 the past winter as a sentence. 



The lilacs are the big attraction at 

 the Arnold Arboretum this week. 

 Never before in the history of the Ar- 

 boretum were the lilacs so late in 

 blooming. They are now opening rap- 

 idly, however, and for the next three 

 weeks there will be an uninterrupted 

 succession of bloom. The lilac parade 

 has made the Arnold Arboretum fa- 

 mous, and thousands of people come 

 from all over New England, and even 

 from distant states, when they learn 

 that the lilacs are in bloom. Roches- 

 ter, N. Y.. is the only other city in the 

 country which has a collection of li- 

 lacs which can approach that at the 

 Arnold Arboretum. 



The Harvard University School of 

 Landscape Architecture has established 

 a summer course in Horticulture. 

 Plant study and appreciation, lectures 

 and speciai readings; identiflcations in 

 class-room, and field excursions are on 

 the program. This course is designed 

 to make the student acquainted with 

 the summer appearance of the more 

 common of our native trees and shrubs, 

 as well as of some of those introduced 

 from other countries for ornament in 

 our parks, gardens, and private estates. 

 It is planned to give a similar course 

 in alternate years on herbaceous plants 

 grown for ornament in private gardens 

 and in parks, and on annuals used in 

 school gardens. 



Summit, N. J.— The senior class in 

 Kent Place school requested its 

 friends to devote the money they or- 

 dinarily would spend for flowers for 

 the graduates to a fund to care for a 

 French baby in the war zone. At the 

 commencements heretofore there has 

 been a profusion of flowers tor the 

 seniors, some pupils getting as many 

 as one dozen bouquets. 



CHICAGO. 



Darwin tulips came to an end while 

 the demand for them was just at its 

 height. There long graceful stems 

 made them an easy prey to the cold 

 north wind and the pelting rain. 



Sharp, Partridge & Co., report the 

 glass market very firm at from five to 

 six dollars per box, on small orders, 

 and predicts no surplus on account of 

 the great amount being required to re- 

 place the loss by wind and hail this 

 season. 



Lester E. Partridge, of Sharp, Part- 

 ridge & Co. has the sympathy of the 

 trade in the loss of his mother, Mrs. 

 Jane Earle Partridge at Cleveland, 0., 

 June 7th. Mr. and Mrs. Partridge were 

 pioneers of northern Illinois. The 

 funeral was held at Ivanhoe near 

 Libertyville, III., on June 10. 



Flowers are doing their bit towards 

 relieving the sufferings of war in other 

 ways than as expressions of sympathy. 

 In the suburban towns, the flower gar- 

 dens are used to raise money for the 

 ambulance funds, and while these sales 

 do not directly benefit the florist it 

 helps to keep flowers out of the class of 

 luxuries and gives the newspaper re- 

 porters a chance to write something for 

 flowers instead of against them as has 

 been the tendency all the spring. This 

 week Mrs. A. E. Cook of Evanston is 

 giving her acre of peonies towards the 

 ambulance fund of the Chicago College 

 Club. 



NEW YORK. 



Ed Roehrs, who has been in the hos- 

 pital following an operation for appen- 

 dicitis, is home again in Rutherford, 

 fully recovered. 



Word has been received that J. N. 

 May, Jr., who sailed in company with 

 a large number of fellow students from 

 Princeton College to serve in the Am- 

 bulance Corps in France, had arrived 

 safely at his destination. 



A. J. Guttman in commenting upon 

 his firm's removal to 111 West 28th 

 street, jointly occupied by the United 

 Cut Flower Co., states that the two 

 concerns will by this arrangement 

 save about $5,000 a year each in over- 

 head expense, while the available 

 space in the large store and basement 

 is ample for both. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Schuyler Arnold is shipping some 

 fine aster plants to this city. 



Frank McLins has bought out the 

 business of J. C. Brown and has taken 

 possession. 



Wm. Baker, formerly of Buffalo 

 visited the trade here last week and 

 may locate in Rochester. 



Lilac day at Highland Park was 

 postponed from June 3 to June 10 be- 

 cause of the cold weather and heavy 

 rains. 



The Wilson Floral Co. opened a 

 wholesale establishment at 41-43 Stone 

 street, June 9th. The trade wishes 

 them success. 



PITTSBURGH. 



E. E. Ludwig has enlisted with Am- 

 bulance Co. No. 4, N. G. P., which will 

 leave shortly for "somewhere in 

 France." 



As a member of the Tenth regiment, 

 N. G. P., Milton Griffith, proprietor of 

 the Monessen Flower Shop, expects to 

 be called out for duty in July. He will 

 leave his business in charge of a 

 cousin. 



Ernest R. Bolton, who recently re- 

 signed as assistant foreman on the 

 Henry J. Heinz estate, has been en- 

 gaged to assume charge of the Charles 

 E. Dinkey estate in Braddock. suc- 

 ceeding "Jack" Bysouth, who left to 

 go to Prance with the U. S. Engineer- 

 ing Corps. 



The junior employees of the E. C. 

 Ludwig Co. patriotically raised money 

 tor a handsome silk flag which was 

 unfurled on last Tuesday afternoon 

 with appropriate ceremonies. The 

 committee in charge includes John T. 

 Hoffman, chairman; John H. Coney, 

 Leo Christy, James E. Stoner. Joseph 

 Azzarella and Robert Julius Taiber. 



The prizes recently offered by the 

 A. W. Smith Co. for street car adver- 

 tising posters designed by public 

 school pupils have been awarded as 

 follows: Miss Viola Perry, $25: Clar- 

 ence Grundish, $15, and Samuel P. 

 Morrison, $10. Several others re- 

 ceived honorable mention and the en- 

 tire display forms a fine exhibition in 

 the store room this week. 



John R. Bracken has assumed 

 charge of the gardens in Arnold and 

 Monongahela, Pa., financed by the 

 American Window Glass Co.. under 

 the supervision of Norman S. Grubbs, 

 agriculturist of the Allegheny County 

 Farm Bureau. Prior to going east, 

 Mr. Bracken was an attache of the 

 landscape department of the A. W. 

 Smith Co. 



ST. LOUIS. 



National flower show committees met 

 here, Saturday June 9th, at Jefferson 

 Hotel. 



The Retail Association will have a 

 "get-together" meeting on Mondav the 

 18th. 



On and after the 16th of June whole- 

 sale houses will close daily at 5 P. M., 

 and on Saturdays at noon. 



The growers' meeting took place at 

 the Nine-Mile House, Wednesday, June 

 6th. A good attendance was there. 



A site has been selected and a tem- 

 porary show building, costing $60,000, 

 will be opened in St. Louis. There will 

 be 90,000 square feet of fioor space. The 

 following named gentlemen attended 

 the meeting at Jefferson Hotel: R. C. 

 Kerr. Houston, Tex.; John Young, N. 

 Y. ; J. J. Hess. Omaha, Neb.: George 

 Asmus, Chicago: Patrick Welch, Bos- 

 ton: Adolph Farenwald, Roslyn, Pa.; 

 A. F. J. Bauer, Indianapolis, Ind.; D. 

 G. Geddis, and F. H. Meinhart, repre- 

 senting local florists. 



