June 30, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



825 



CLEVELAND. 



Frank Friedley of The Friedley Com- 

 pany recently journeyed to Mt. Gilead. 

 Ohio, and left with the Mt. Gilead Pot- 

 tery Company, a contract for their en- 

 tire stock of pots, eight or ten carloads 

 in all. 



The next regular meeting of the 

 Cleveland Florists' Club will be held 

 on Monday evening, July 2. in the Club 

 Room at the Hollenden Hotel. H. P. 

 Merrick of Lord & Burnham Co., will 

 give a talk on Scientific Greenhouse 

 Planning and Construction, illustrated 

 by numerous stereopticon views. 



Knoble Brothers, following their 

 custom of several years past, have tak- 

 en the entire output of peonies from 

 the Siether Peony Farm. Owing to 

 favorable weather conditions, they 

 have been of exceptional excellence. 

 With the blooming season now at its 

 height, the peony farm is a glorious 

 sight, and worthy of a long jaunt to 

 behold. 



The interest stimulated by the talk 

 on orchids given by Joseph Manda at 

 the last meeting of the Florists' Club 

 will result in their more extensive 

 growing upon private estates of Cleve- 

 land and vicinity. The talk was enthu- 

 siastically received by the members of 

 the Horticultural Society and Garden 

 Clubs who attended at the invitation 

 of the Florists' Club. Their ardor 

 was heartily shared by the large rep- 

 resentation of private superintendents 

 and gardeners who form a consider- 

 able proportion of the membership of 

 the Florists' Club. Mr. Manda has 

 rendered a distinct service to the hor- 

 ticultural interests of Cleveland by 

 impressing upon greenhouse owners 

 the intense enjoyment which may be 

 derived from the culture of orchids, 

 especially in view of his assurances 

 that the difficulties attendant upon 

 their successful growing have been 

 greatly exaggerated. 



Business and recreation were hap- 

 pily combined in a trip to Painesville 

 recently, participated in by Messrs. 

 Brown. McLaughlin and Bartels of the 

 J. M. Gasser Co., and Mr. Darnell, 

 formerly manager of that company. 

 The Corrigan country estate, famed 

 for the beauty of its location and its 

 attractive landscape features was an 

 interesting digression from the main 

 trip. The party was impressed with 

 both the personality and evident capa- 

 bilities of Mr. Hamilton, the new super- 

 intendent who has succeeded Mr. 

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Martin Kohankie's nursery was 

 found in its usual high degree of cul- 

 tivation. ^Ir. Kohankie, through keep- 

 ing everlastingly at it, has brought his 

 soil to a state where it is as mellow as 

 ashes. The visitors unanimously voted 

 that his middle name should be "Cul- 

 tivate." 



Merkel Brothers were as busy as 

 ever. Their range of glass was great- 

 ly increased in area last year. 



A pedometer would have had to 

 work over time to register the mileage 

 covered at the Storrs & Harrison nurs- 

 try through which the visitors were 

 conducted by Mr. Schumacher and ex- 

 City Forester .Tohn Boddy Dinner 

 was served at the Willoughby Hotel. 

 F. C. W. Brown acting as host. 



S N Pentecost, president of the 

 Cleveland Florists' Club, is ab°"t 'o 

 discontinue, temporarily at least the 

 flower growing industry, of which he 



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has been proprietor for the last 

 twenty-five years and will take a well 

 deserved recreation period ot two 

 years. The probabilities are that he 

 will then erect a modern range of glass 

 upon his farm at Willoughby. The 

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 sonality, and the high business stand- 

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Mr. Pentecost's greenhouse property 

 was at the time of the inception of the 

 business, located well into the suburbs 

 of Cleveland but is now too valuable to 

 retain for greenhouse purposes. It 

 has, therefore, been sold and the 

 greenhouses are to be removed at an 

 early date. Much of the material has 

 been purchased by A. C. Fox, treasurer 

 of the Florists' Club, whose store is at 

 St. Clair avenue and msth street. Mr. 

 Fox proposes to re-erect the green- 

 houses upon his farm at Richfield. It is 

 his intention to develop this farm into a 

 nurserv for trees, shrubs, and peren- 

 nials. The greenhouses will enable 

 him to supply the continually increas- 

 ing demand of his store for plants and 

 flowers. 



WASHINGTON. D. C. 

 Among the appointments made by 

 President Wilson of members of the 

 various boards to determine all ques- 

 tions of exemption under the con- 

 scription law. is the name ot Adolpb 

 Gude. Mr. Gude has been assigned 

 to the district In Anacostia. 



There is a vacancy in the position of 

 assistant in poisonous plant investi- 

 gations, male, in the Bureau of Anirnal 

 Industry: salary $1,440 per annum Ap- 

 plicants should apply for Form 1312, 

 stating the title of the examination de- 

 sired to the Civil Service Commission 

 in Washington. The examination will 

 be held on July 25. 



R. Lloyd Jenkins, president of the 

 Florists' Club, on Tuesday of last week 

 deserted the ranks of the jolly bach- 

 elors and became a benedict, taking 

 as his bride Miss Opie Lois Allen. 

 While it was pretty generally sur- 

 mised that Mr. Jenkins was going to 

 take this fateful step, because of the 

 fact that he was building a fine new 

 house near the greenhouses in Suit- 

 land, Md., in the operation of which 

 he is connected with his father in the 

 firm of C. L. Jenkins & Son, the an- 

 nouncement that the knot has been 

 tied came as a bit of a surprise. 



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