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HORTICULTUBB 



Jiiiie 30, 1917 



C, D, must accompany their entries 

 with an entry fee of $2. 



All exhibits must be staged by 12 

 o'clock on Saturday, July 7. 



Exhibits sent express prepaid will 

 be taken care of and staged In the 

 absence of the exhibitor, providing 

 entry has been duly made and notice 

 has been given of intention to ship to 

 the secretary. All such exhibits 

 should be marked: American Sweet 

 Pea Society's Exhibition, c/o William 

 Gray, Secretary. Horticultural Hall, 

 Boston, Mass., with the name and ad- 

 dress of the sender. 



The schedule of prizes is well filled 

 with specials and should bring out a 

 record show. Copies may be had on 

 application to Secretary William Gray. 



RED CROSS DAY AT PALMER'S, BUFFALO, N. Y. 



NEWPORT SHOW POSTPONED. 



The first joint exhibition of the Gar- 

 den Association and the Newport Hor- 

 ticultural Society which was to have 

 been held this week has been post- 

 poned till July 3 and 4, and will take 

 place in the Lafayette Theatre. It has 

 been decided to turn over the prem- 

 ium money to the Red Cross this year. 



At the June meeting of the Nassau 

 County (N. Y.) Horticultural Society 

 in Glen Cove on Wednesday, June 13th, 

 awards for exhibits were as follows: 

 1st, Thos. Hendersen, asparagus; 

 Harry Goodband for cauliflower; John 

 W. Everett for gladioli, also cultural 

 certificate for Calceolaria Stewartii. 

 Honorable mention to J. Mastroiana 

 for a collection of vegetables. Geo. 

 Ford was appointed manager of the 

 Rose Show. It was unanimously 

 agreed to give the gross receipts of 

 the Dahlia Show on Oct. 9th and the 

 Chrysanthemum Show Nov. 1st and 

 2nd to the American Red Cross, all 

 intending exhibitors to compete for 

 prize cards only; no money prizes will 

 be given. Competition for our next 

 meeting, Wednesday, July 11th will be 

 on 12 sprays of sweet peas, white, 12 

 pink and 12 any other color. 



Harry Goodband, Cor, Secy. 



NOTES AT DEDHAM. 



We notice that it is coming to be 

 more and more the practice of trade 

 visitors in Boston to go out to look 

 over the stock in the Farquhar nurs- 

 eries at Dedham, and in the season of 

 the blooming of the Regal Lily this 

 also means a stop at Roslindale where 

 Messrs. Farquhar are growing this re- 

 markable lily. One thing which has 

 made the Dedham place so interesting 

 is that there can be seen a full stock 

 of all the Wilson collections from Chi- 

 na and these plants are now old 

 enough to show their permanent char- 

 acteristics. 



The ranges of small houses erected 

 last year and the year before are more 

 than fulfilling Mr. Parquhar's hopes. 

 For economy, convenience and the 

 great variety of uses to which they 

 are adapted these plant houses are 

 well worth examining in these times 

 of high fuel cost. A number of these 

 houses are now devoted to conifer 

 propagation by cuttings and by seed. 

 The outlook for the resumption in the 

 immediate future — or ever again — of 

 business with old European sources of 

 conifer supply is not bright and 

 Messrs. Farquhar plan to stock up 



Buffalo was allotted $1,500,000 as its 

 quota, in the National Red Cross Cam- 

 paign; due to the co-operation of busi- 

 ness men. the fund approached the 

 $2,000,000 mark. The active work of 

 W. J. Palmer & Son was a feature of 

 the campaign of lively interest. The 

 picture shows the front of one of the 

 Palmer flower shops with girls in Red 

 Cross uniforms, selling flowers for 

 personal wear, in behalf of the Red 

 Cross. The entire proceeds of the 

 sidewalk sales went into the fund. 



Bankers and longshoremen alike, 

 wore the carnations from Palmer's, 



showing that they each did a bit more 

 for the Mercy Campaign. The cam- 

 paign finished Monday night with a 

 jollification dinner held at Hotel Stat- 

 ler. 40(1 workers being seated. It was 

 Palmer's intention to give each worker 

 a carnation, so the four nurses were 

 furnished with a good armfull of car- 

 nations and passing through the ban- 

 quet room, they were rewarded with 

 many a one-dollar bill. The final stunt 

 was by Miss Mildred Lowe, Palmer's 

 office girl who mounted a chair and 

 auctioned a bunch of carnations, which 

 brought $150.00. The total collections 

 amoui.ted to $465.66. 



heavily on home-grown material In the 

 selection of which the Wilson novel- 

 ties will hold an important place. 



The avenue of overarching Bud- 

 dleias in the large house which made 

 such a sensation last fall will be re- 

 peated this season. A row has been 

 placed on either side of tall standards 

 of B. Farquhari and B, asiatica and it 

 will make a rare picture. 



PITTSBURGH. 



.lulius W, Ludwig is detained from 

 business owning to an abscess on the 

 jaw, resulting from some dental 

 trouble. 



Mrs. Rosena Rusille was in town 

 early in the week on a purchasing trip 

 for her sister. Miss Emma DeBorth, 

 the Ellwood City florist. 



Theodore P. Langhans, who was ap- 

 pointed to solicit about 150 florists of 

 Pittsburgh and vicinity in the interest 

 of Red Cross Week, is meeting with 



great success. 



Ralph W. Pinner, manager of the 

 landscape department of the A. W. 

 Smith Company, has been awarded the 

 contract for planning and planting a 

 three pool rock garden for J. French 

 Miller at Franklin. Pa. 



Dr. Otto E. Jennings, professor of 

 botany in the University of Pitts- 

 burgh, and his assistant, Mrs. Jen- 

 nings, left on last Monday for a gen- 

 eral plant survey and the collection of 



specimens for the Carnegie Institute 

 .Musemum of which he is curator. 



John Greeney of Randolph & Mc- 

 Clements' salesforce, recently enlisted 

 and expects to be called shortly for 

 war time service. Miss Eliza McKin- 

 ley of the same firm, has returned 

 after a two weeks absence owing to 

 the serious illness of her father, W. O. 

 McKinley. 



Sergeant H. Milton Grifiith, pro- 

 prietor of the Monesson Flower Shop, 

 will leave this week for service with 

 the First Field Artillery, N. G. P., leav- 

 ing his business in charge of his 

 brother, Charles F. Griftith. Mr. Grif- 

 fith who was actively engaged in bor- 

 der warfare last year, is the brother 

 of N. Shelby Griffith, manager of both 

 the Arcadia and the Fox Flower Shops 

 of this city. 



The marriage of Samuel McClem- 

 ents, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel 

 McClements, to Miss Beulah Munhall, 

 on Wednesday of last week was a 

 beautiful appointed home ceremony. 

 The floral decorations were especially 

 attractive, the bridal table being ar- 

 ranged to form a hollow square in the 

 center of which played a sparkling 

 fountain and decorated with crotons 

 larkspur, iris, peonies and hydrangeas. 

 After a motor trip through Virginia, 

 young Mrs. McClements will live with 

 her mother during Mr, McClements 

 service in the National coast defense 

 into which he recently enlisted. 



