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HOETICULTDRE 



June 23, 1917 



BOSTON. 



John Van Leeuwen, who has been, 

 for some time past, foreman at the 

 Dedham nurseries ot R. & J. Farquhar 

 & Co., has gone to the Bobbink & At- 

 kins nurseries at Rutherford, N. J. 



"Business as usual" is running a 

 close race with the sign, "Look out 

 for paint," this week, at the headquar- 

 ters of B. A. Snyder & Co., on Devon- 

 shire St., who are completely renovat- 

 ing their establishment. 



While driving to the station from 

 his home in East Weymouth on Wed- 

 nesday morning this week. Col. W . W. 

 Castle was thrown from his buggy 

 by the breaking of the forward axle 

 and sustained a fracture of the should- 

 er blade and a general severe shak- 

 ing up. 



By a vote of 8 to 7 the Cambridge 

 City Council has at last confirmed the 

 nomination of Professor Carroll W. 

 Doten as a member of the board ot 

 park commissioners. Mr. Doten is a 

 technical man of high attainments and 

 his presence on the board ot park com- 

 missioners will be of great value to 

 the city. 



The cold and rainy season has so 

 delayed the blooming of early flower- 

 ing plants like Lilacs, which were 

 three weeks later than usual, that 

 trees and shrubs whose flowering 

 periods are normally several weeks 

 apart are now in bloom together at 

 the Arnold Arboretum and probably 

 there has never been a time when 

 so many different flowers could be 

 seen here at once as are open this 

 week. Azaleas, Rhododendrons. Wiste- 

 rias, Viburnums, Cornels, Laburnums, 

 American Crabapples, Hawthorns, 

 Roses, Diervillas, Dipeltas, Syringas, 

 Horsechestnuts, Buckeyes, .Maples, 

 Barberries, Siberian Pea-trees, Aro- 

 nias, Robinias, Mountain Ashes, and 

 Cotoneasters are a few of the genera 

 represented by many species which 

 are now covered with flowers in the 

 Arboretum. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Many dealers report very attractive 

 business in the bedding line whilst 

 store trade is very quiet. 



W. Kavanaugh of J. B. Keller Sons, 

 is traveling for the Catholic Medal As- 

 sociation and is doing well. 



The Rochester Floral Co. had an 

 elaborate window decoration in honor 

 of Marine Week here. Baskets of red, 

 white and blue flowers were a feature. 



E. C. Kalber, Inc., had an elaborate 

 wedding decoration in Saginaw, Mich. 

 The house was profusely decorated 

 with asparagus, yellow daisies, spirea, 

 pink peonies and snowball. A large 

 marquee on the lawn was sumptuously 

 lighted and decorated with hanging 

 baskets of pink roses. 



A considerable amount of replanting 

 appears to be necessary in scattering 



districts because of the seed failing to 

 germinate due to unfavorable weather 

 conditions. Excessively heavy rainfall 

 in some places accompanied by hail 

 and high winds greatly damaged and 

 even destroyed crops by flooding and 

 washing the fields in various places in 

 and around Rochester. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The shrubs, plants, and vines dis- 

 tributed from the Miami, Fla.. station 

 of the Bureau of Plant Industry, will 

 be handled by Edward Simmonds, gar- 

 dener and fruit station superintendent. 



Fred H. Kramer is going out of the 

 ! ot plant business and is planning to 

 utilize the large conservatory at the 

 rear of his store as a palm garden for 

 the sale of ice cream and other like 

 commodities. The store proper will be 

 continued as at present for the sale of 

 cut flowers, and w-ill be oiierated in 

 conjunction with the greenhouses in 

 Anacostia. The new palm garden will 

 be ready for opening early in July. 



Washington florists are very much 

 elated over the elevation of Edward S. 

 S( hmid. to the offlce of Grand Mon- 

 arch of the Mystic Order of the En- 

 chanted Realm. The local organiza- 

 tion, Kallipolis Grotto, numbers among 

 its membership the largest part of the 

 florists of Washington. William F. 

 Gude was in charge of the entertain- 

 ment and with Mr. Schmid superin- 

 tended the planting of a tree, a cedar 

 of Lebanon, at Mount Vernon. 



The experimental rose garden at Ar- 

 lington Farms, Va., is due to undergo 

 a considerable change, if the visit of 

 Professor L. C. Corbett. of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, to New York, for 

 the purpose of conferring with the 

 American Fine Arts Commission has 

 any significance. When the members 

 of the American Rose Society visited 

 the gardens early in the month, they 

 made a number of suggestions as to 

 how the rose garden could be made 

 more beautiful. 



There seems to be considerable en- 

 thusiasm among the Washington flor- 

 ists covering the coming convention of 

 the S. A. F. & O. H., in New York, and 

 despite the fact that all the elaborate 

 entertainment features of previous 

 years are to be cut out, a very large 

 attendance is assured. The question 

 of going to the convention will be dis- 

 cussed at length at the club meeting 

 on July 3. It is expected that the 

 largest delegation that has ever left 

 Washington for such an event will be 

 noted at the convention. 



CHICAGO. 



A. Henderson & Co. report the close 

 of what has been a most successful 

 season to them. 



Several down-state florists are in 

 Chicago attending the convention of 

 the Modern Woodmen of America this 

 week. 



W. W. Adams is now established in 

 his new store at State and Division 

 streets and is much pleased with his 

 new location. 



A trip over Chicago's 55 miles ot 

 boulevard connecting its chain of 

 parks reveals a wealth of green almost 

 unrelieved by color. The geraniums 

 ;ire scarcely showing color and the 

 shrubbery was quickly robbed of bloom 

 by the rain and wind. 



The season for bedding plants is 

 practically closed and from the gen- 

 eral reports the demand was much 

 lighter than usual. This was due 

 partly to unfavorable weather and 

 partly to the unusual trend of opinion 

 in favor of vegetable rather than flow- 

 er gardens. 



Three young men employed in the 

 who'esale stores leave June 25 for an 

 entirely different line of work and to 

 see what are the opportunities offered 

 by the great west. Arthur Pasternick, 

 of the Chicago Flower Growers' Ass'n, 

 Edw. Velter, with J. A. Budlong, and 

 Leon Glaser, with the A. L. Randall 

 Co., will try outdoor lite near Jerome, 

 Idaho. 



One of the prettiest novelties seen 

 in the new goods at Poehlmann Bros.' 

 supply department is the mirror bas- 

 ket or half-basket which when fitted 

 and hung against a mirror looks like 

 a complete basket. One of these con- 

 taining white flowers and tied with a 

 bow of lavender ribbon illustrated an- 

 other use to which it could be put, and 

 as it holds a water container its use 

 on a door would be both beautiful and 

 serviceable, and much more satisfac- 

 tory than the old-time spray of wind- 

 whipped, faded flowers. 



Baltimore — The heavy hail storm 

 of June 6 did its worst damage at 

 Reisterstown and Hagerstown where 

 growing crops were mercilessly de- 

 stroyed and glass houses were riddled. 

 Charles G. Wright was the heaviest 

 loser at Reisterstown and H. A. Bester 

 & Sons at Hagerstown lost about 75,000 

 sq. ft. of glass. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



Manufacturers and Importers 



1129 Arch St. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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