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HORTICULTURE 



June 30, 1917 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



BOSTON. 



The Boston Flower Exchange bought 

 a $1,000 Liberty Bond. 



Young cabbage plants and pot-grown 

 strawberries are in very active demand 

 here at the present time. 



Much interest attaches to the not- 

 able exhibition o£ sweet peas scheduled 

 for July 7 and 8 at Horticultural Hall 

 under the auspices of the American 

 Sweet Pea Society and the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society. 



Two or three sultry days iast week 

 brought out the rhododendrons and 

 other belated spring shrubbery and also 

 on acount of their softness due to long 

 continued moist weather, finished them 

 up in ruthless double-quick time. 



The peony show at Horticultural 

 Hall, Saturday, June 30. and Sunday, 

 July 1, promises to be a gorgeous 

 affair. Among the notable exhibits 

 will be that of E. J. Shaylor, which 

 will comprise a lot of seedlings of sen- 

 sational merit. 



Holm Lea, the magnificent Brook- 

 line estate of Prof. Charles S. Sargent, 

 with its wonderful collection of rare 

 and beautiful plants and shrubs, was 

 thrown open free to the public all day 

 last Sunday. The estate comprises 

 one hundred and eighty acres. 



Bedding plant trade is reported gen- 

 erally in this part of the country as 

 having fallen off materially from the 

 average of former years. Of gerani- 

 ums there is a large overstock Includ- 

 ing the most popular varieties, of 

 which there are seldom too many and 

 last year there was a great scarcity. 



All South Boston is Interested in 

 the coming marriage of Martin E. 

 Tuohy, the well known florist of West 

 Broadway, who on account of his ex- 

 treme popularity has often been re- 

 ferred to as "The Mayor of South Bos- 

 ton," and Miss Alice O'Brien, night 

 chief operator of the Cambridge tele- 

 phone exchange, which takes place 

 Saturday, June 30, at St. Mary's 

 church, Cambridge. 



A correspondent in New York City 

 writes: "I had the privilege of see- 

 ing different views of the recent Bos- 

 ton show in Proctor's. This was cer- 

 tainly good publicity. The pictures 

 were very fine. It makes me think of 

 the old days when, if anyone suggest- 

 ed that pictures of a flower show 

 would be shown in a theatre, they 

 would have been conflned in the pad- 

 ded cell. I am not exaggerating when 

 I say that these pictures were magnifi- 

 cent." 



CHICAGO. 



John Walsh of the Chicago Flower 

 Growers' Association left on Saturday 

 for two weeks on a farm. 



At the Alpha Floral Co.'s a very ap- 

 propriate window display this week in- 

 cludes a bride and groom, the former 

 carrying a shower bouquet of lily of 

 the valley. 



Walter Young, of C. Young & Sons. 

 St. Louis, Mo., was in Chicago last 

 week, where he was successful in 



passing the examination for the avi- 

 ation corps. 



At the Schiller Floral Gift Shop a 

 very neat window is arranged with a 

 background of flags. The vases of 

 flowers on display rest upon a carpet 

 of moss which gives a woodsy effect. 



The sale of the peonies from the 

 summer home of Albert E. Cook, at 

 Hinsdale, 111., is taking place at the 

 Red Cross rooms and the proceeds are 

 used for that society. Other flowers 

 have also been contributed. 



Schiller's advertising card has been 

 criticized by State's Attorney Hoyne, 

 who has started a campaign against 

 using the American flag for advertis- 

 ing purposes. A state statute pro- 

 vides for a fine of from $10 to $100 or 

 imprisonment for not more than 30 

 days, or both. 



A letter from Rollo Mueller, who re- 

 cently left Frank Oechslin's, where for 

 a year he has been adding practical 

 experience to his training in the flori- 

 cultural department of the University 

 of Illinois, says he returned to his 

 home in Wichita, Kas., and has en- 

 listed with the Kansas artillery, to be 

 called into Federal service August 5. 

 Mr. Mueller also announces a life en- 

 listment on the 29th of June when he 

 will be married to Miss McHenry of 

 the same city. Mr. Mueller gives 

 promise of being an honor to the flor- 

 ists profession and declined a very 

 good business opportunity that he 

 might serve his country. 



The competition of the department 

 stores, during the summer months par- 

 ticularly, is a topic of local interest 

 and some very good arguments are 

 being heard. The wholesalers as a 

 body have taken no steps because 

 many of them are also growers and 

 they see the subject from two angles. 

 That a great quantity of stock is 

 cleared from the market at these sales 

 needs no telling, nor that It is sold 

 to the big stores cheaper than a florist 

 can buy it in small quantities, but that 

 it tends to cultivate a love of flowers 

 or the habit of buying them, does not 

 seem to the writer at all sure to fol- 



low, for the flowers are so often 

 worthless before they are in the hands 

 of the customers, because of the way 

 they are handled on the counters. 



NEW YORK. 



Chairman Charles Knight says there 

 will be a gorgeous display of gladioli at 

 the July meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club. 



Alfred Fischer, has assumed charge 

 of the florist business conducted by 

 his father, Charles Fischer, who died 

 recently. The greenhouses are locat- 

 ed on Prospect near Seventeenth 

 street, Winfield, L. I. 



Next Sunday, July 1, will see the 

 inauguration of the all-day Sunday 

 closing by the wholesale florist trade. 

 It is a sane and in all respects a com- 

 mendable innovation which should 

 have gone into effect long ago. 



Secretary Young says that from all 

 accounts reported to his office by trav- 

 eling men, there will be a splendid S. 

 A. F. convention attendance from all 

 sections of the country and he is sat- 

 isfied that there -will be a very credit- 

 able display in the trade exhibit sec- 

 tion. 



The schedule committee of the 

 National Flower Show met at the of- 

 fice of Secretary John Young last Sat- 

 urday. Present, Thomas Roland, Na- 

 hant, Mass.; Chas. H. Totty, Madison, 

 N. J.; A. Farenwald, Roslyn, Pa., and 

 the Secretary. The result of their de- 

 liberations will soon appear in the is- 

 suance of a second preliminary sched- 

 ule. 



In the Circuit Court on June 19, the 

 suit of Frederick Meerbott, a Secau. 

 cus florist, to recover ?10,000 from 

 the Public Service Gas Company, re- 

 sulted in the jury in the case bring- 

 ing in a verdict for six cents for the 

 plaintiff. Meerbott testified that gas 

 leaking from the pipes of the defen- 

 dant company near his hothouses had 

 injured a large quantity of his plants, 

 and his attempts to grow sweet peas 

 in particular had been failures. Ed- 

 win R. Smith appeared for the florist, 

 and Howard MacSherry represented 

 the defendant company. 



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