June 23, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



797 



PITTSBURGH. 



Anthony W. Smith, Jr., is making a 

 ten days' visit in Atlanta, Georgia, as 

 a delegate to the annual convention of 

 the Rotary Club in session there. 



Charles R. McAfee and Francis 

 Babylon, attaches of the E. C. Lud- 

 wig Company, are gaining reputations 

 as patriotic orators at local flag day 

 raisings. 



The Ludwig Floral Company is in- 

 stalling an improved elevator system 

 in their Federal street plant. George 

 Meuschke. a director o£ the company, 

 has begun the erection of a fjne white 

 brick residence on the site of the 

 greenhouse at Castle Shannon, Pa. 



The ilcCallum Company has issued 

 invitations to their employees and re- 

 tail patrons for a basket picnic to be 

 held on "The Fourth" at Nursery Stop 

 on the Harmony Line, where their 

 greenhouses are located. E. .1. Mc- 

 Callum is chairman of the committee 

 in charge. 



A distinctive window decoration re- 

 cently seen down town was formed of 

 three irregularly placed tables of cat- 

 tleyas with a side massing of Crimson 

 Ramblers and quantities of silken 

 flags. In the rear were tall bronze 

 Grecian jars of lilies, while the inter- 

 vening floor space was tilled with 

 maidenhair ferns. 



A charming arrangement of flowers 

 in Dresden effect were used recently 

 by Randolph & McClements for a din- 

 ner party. The table was centered 

 with a basket of pink roses and white 

 and lavender iris and tied with blue 

 picot ribbon and white tulle. Colonial 

 bouquets of yellow, white and lavender 

 iris were used as corsage favors. 



The International Forestry Conser- 

 vation Congress, including the exhibit 

 of the U. S. forest service, will open 

 in the auditorium of the Chamber of 

 Commerce next Thursday. There will 

 be a special exhibit of the white pine 

 blister rust by the forestry department 

 of Pennsylvania. More than 100 of 

 the leading foresters of the country 

 will attend. 



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W. J. Pilcher will plant an extra 

 supply of Hadley roses tor next year. 



Myer Brothers are in with outdoor 

 sweet peas; also the Deutchmann 

 boys. 



The annual picnic given by the St. 

 Louis Florist Club will be held at Ra- 

 mona Park, in July. 



The wholesale houses during the 

 summer season will close daily at 5 

 p. m. and on Saturdays at noon. 



The St. Louis Florist Club met on 

 June 14 at the Missouri Pottery & 

 Supply Co.. 75 members being present. 



NEW YORK. 



The Greek-American Florists' Outing 

 will take place on July 11 at Wetzel's 

 Point Grove. 



P. G. Panes has discontinued his re- 

 tail flower store at 125th street and 

 Fifth avenue. 



A rose fete for the benefit of the 

 American Ambulance Hospital in 

 France has been in progress this week 

 at Admiral Ward's estate, Roslyn, L. I. 



"CHEAP" FRUIT TREES. 



For some time past we have been re- 

 ceiving newspaper clippings from va- 

 rious places in Maine, Massachusetts 

 and New York, gleefully calling atten- 

 tion editorially and otherwise to the 

 offer of some 200,000 surplus fruit 

 trees which the Horticultural Nurser- 

 ies of Dansville, N. Y., had left on 

 their hands and were prepared to de- 

 liver to the public as a philanthropic 

 proposition at ten cents apiece — prac- 

 tically the cost of packing and trans- 

 portation. Naturally the response was 

 prompt and insistent from all quarters. 

 But State Horticulturist Dudley of 

 Maine, in the performance of his offi- 

 cial duties, got after the trees that 

 were being distributed in his state and 

 is said to have found fully half of the 

 stock afiiected with crown gall and 

 hairy root. And now consternation 

 reigns among those who purchased. 



The "Horticultural Nurseries" does 

 not appear among the places listed in 

 the American Florist Directory, but, 

 we are informed, is conducted by John 

 H. Reilly and Thomas P. Reilly. who 

 were interested in the Reilly Bros.. 

 Nurseries, formerly of Danville, but 

 which, it is stated, went into bankrupt- 

 cy about two years ago. 



There is located in Dansville an es- 

 tablishment under the name of The 

 William J. Reilly Nurseries which has 

 no connection with the aforementioned 

 concern. "The Horticultural Nurser- 

 ies" have an advertisement in the Au- 

 gusta, Me., Journal disputing the find- 

 ings of the State Horticulturist. 



been arranged by the faculty to send 

 by mail the diplomas to be given to 

 the some 100 graduates this year. 



A CORRECTION. 



Burning the midnight oil and an 

 otherwise unaccountable absent-mind- 

 edness appear to have been the rea- 

 son for a vexatious slip of the pen last 

 week when we credited to Leonard 

 Barron the enjoyable lecture by J. 

 Otto Thilow before the New "York 

 Florists' Club. Mr. Barron, however. 

 was chairman of the essay committee 

 that secured Mr. Thilow. Both gentle- 

 men have forgiven us. 



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 not hold commencement exercises this 

 year. The reason is that every one of 

 the seniors of the college, who for tour 

 years has been looking ahead to this 

 year's commencement, is absent on ac- 

 count of the war and is either in mili- 

 tary or agricultural service. It has 



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