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11 (J R T I C U L T U R E 



November 24, 1917 



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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



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NEW YORK. 

 \Vm. Itogart, Howlt biiyor (or I'eler 

 L. liogart. Is laid up with a severe case 

 of erysipelas. 



Local plant growers are disturbed 

 over the announcement that the price 

 of flower pots is to be advanced In 

 January. 



A. Kottniiller has opened a branch 

 store In the Ritz-Carlton hotel at the 

 stand formerly conducted by The 

 Rosary. 



Chris. Renter of New Orleans, de- 

 clared to be "'the most congenial young 

 seedsman of the South," was in New 

 York this week. 



John I. Raynor is at the Polyclinic 

 Hospital, 50th street and Ei.uhth ave- 

 nue, after a delicate operation from 

 which he is satisfactorily recovering. 



We wish to correct an error which 

 crept into our report of the X. V. Flor- 

 ists' Club meeting, in which it was 

 stated that Glenview chrysanthemums 

 by Howard Nichols of Yonkers scored 

 87 points. This should have been 

 Glenview carnation, which is a hand- 

 some white sport from Enchantress 

 Supreme. 



The "Ladies' Night" of the New 

 York Florists' Club at the .McAlpin on 

 Saturday evening, Nov. 17, was a bril- 

 liant good time enjoyed to the limit 

 by the two hundred (approximate) 

 members and ladles who were there. 

 Music and dancing and refreshments 

 constituted the program. P. F. Kess- 

 ler again demonstrated his rare ad- 

 ministrative abilities as a manager 

 and purveyor for affairs of this kind. 

 Everything moved like clockwork. 



PITTSBURGH. 



Harry Gibson, manager, and Harry 

 B. Ackermann, of the Zieger Co., left 

 last Saturday for a ten days' eastern 

 trip. 



John Jedlica, of Randolph & Mc- 

 Clements, has returned from his an- 

 nual hunting trip through western 

 Penn. 



Abram Kleinberg has been spending 

 the past fortnight in New York and 

 purchasing stock for M. Kronis. The 

 latter has engaged Joseph Seamon of 

 Clarksburg for his Alpha Flower Shop. 



It is with regret that we chronicle 

 the critical illness of Miss Eliza Mc- 

 Kinley who recently resigned her 

 position as head saleswoman with 

 Randolph & McClements. Miss Mc- 

 Kinley has the heartfelt sympathy of 

 her many friends and acquaintances. 



At the meeting here of the foresters 

 of the U. S. and Canada last week a 

 resolution was adopted urging Con- 

 gress to enact a law prohibiting the 

 importation of all plants and seeds 

 except those brought into the country 

 by the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture. There was general discussion 

 of the methods to be used to combat 

 the white pine blister rust, also the 

 Hessian fly and the coddling moth. 



CHICAGO. 



At Krooschell llrolhiT.s It is 8tate<l 

 that the boiler business is lively. As 

 .Manager Laulenschlager puts It, there 

 never was a time when Mowers were 

 more needed than now. so why should 

 there not be a demand for the boilers 

 that are needed to grow them. 



Zech & Mann this week received 

 the flrst orchid flowering sweet peas 

 of tile Christmas slock. They were 

 extremely fragrant and were large for 

 the flrst cuts. Lilies are coming now 

 in quantity. Mr. Zech says of all the 

 chrysanthemums handled this season. 

 Golden Queen has been one of the 

 most successful. 



A carload of California stock. In- 

 cluding azaleas, rhododendrons, ericas, 

 boxwood, etc., from the Cottage Gar- 

 dens' Nurseries, was received by local 

 growers this week and anotlier car- 

 load is on the way. This will afford 

 an opportunity to prove the success or 

 otherwise of material grown on the 

 Pacific slope. ' The stock looked fine 

 and apparently is in the best of con- 

 dition. The boxwoods, as seen in the 

 windows of the downtown stores, are 

 clean looking plants but smaller at the 

 base than the imported plants. 



Experiments in bulb growing have 

 been tried now for two years on the 

 Northwest side, which means the ex- 

 penditure of both money and effort. 

 So far all is well and there is reason 

 to expect success in the undertaking. 

 Peter Pearson, who has a compara- 

 tively small place, seven years ago 

 became interested in bulbs which he 

 was growing for the blooms and began 

 the study of their culture with the ob- 

 ject of raising the bulbs. He followed 

 it up and this week he has 200.000 

 tulip and narcissus bulbs in the 

 ground, most of which were grown by 

 him last year. So far his bulbs have 

 proven of better substance than im- 

 ported stock and bloom earlier than 

 those brought from across the water. 



At the meeting of the Illinois State 

 Federation of Women's Clubs, held 

 here last week, Jens Jenson, land- 

 scape artist, spoke on Tuesday on the 

 Lincoln Highway. He said a formal 

 decoration of the borders of that 

 highway was not what he would rec- 

 ommend. He suggested that the ideal 

 way would be to follow the leadings 

 of nature and where the highway 

 crossed a prairie state the plantings 

 should be those that would tend to 

 lead US back to the beauty of the 

 plains. He suggested also that we 

 might be paying too much attention 

 to the Rocky Mountain Parks and 

 neglecting that shrine of the outdoors 

 of the middle west, the dunes of In- 

 diana. 



ADVERTISERS AND 

 CORRESPONDENTS 



Please take notice that on 

 account of Thanksgiving Day 

 "Horticulture" will go to press 

 next week one day earlier than 

 customary. 



BOSTON. 



John J. CaKsldy, IIh- Hoacon street 

 florist, has flled his papers for certlU- 

 cation as a candidate (or the City 

 Council In the approaching municipal 

 election. 



It has been decided by the trustees 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety to cut the customary appropria- 

 tion of 16,000 (or prizes to »4,000 for 

 the year 1918, owing to war exigencies. 



A number o( interested florists met 

 at the ofllce of Patrick Welch on Wed- 

 nesday of this week to consider the 

 important questions of coal supply and 

 S. A. F. Flower Publicity (und. Tl^are 

 was a general interchange of views 

 on the course to be pursued to make 

 sure that the .New England green- 

 house people are not deprived o( a 

 supply of coal sufficient to keep their 

 places in operation through the com- 

 ing winter. It is possible that a dele- 

 gation may go to Washington later on 

 but no action to that end is deemed 

 advisable at the present juncture. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Geo. T. Boucher has a very attrac- 

 tive booklet which he is sending to 

 his patrons. 



The Lady Florists' Auxiliary met on 

 Tuesday at the Red Cross house to 

 work on towels, etc. 



Miss Ethel Foster of Geo. B. Hart's 

 has announced her marriage last June 

 to Warren De Clyne. 



Thomas Sullivan of Geo. B. Hart's 

 has been drafted and will leave for 

 Camp Dix next week. 



Watson Brown has severed his con- 

 nection with the K. C. Kaelber Co., 

 Inc., and Arthur Colbert, formerly 

 with J. B. Keller Sons, has taken his 

 place. E. C. Kaelber of the above 

 firm has been confined to his home 

 for a week with a nervous break- 

 down. 



At the meeting of the Rochester 

 Florists' Association, Nov. 12, Harry 

 E. Bates gave an address on The Na- 

 tional Publicity Campaign for Florists. 

 The members voted to raise $5,000 of 

 the fifty thousand which is hoped to 

 be raised in the U. S. Ambrose Seek- 

 er, George Cramer and Harry Bates 

 attended the banquet of the N. Y. 

 State Federation at Buffalo. 



The motorcycle of Geo. F. Demuth 

 was stolen from his home on Oct. 21. 

 It is a Henderson motorcycle, engine 

 No. 7235. Rodgers side car attached, 

 license No. 16,490, valued at $460. A 

 reward of $25.00 has been offered. No 

 trace of it has yet been f6und. 



Mrs. Alma Keyes has taken over the 

 flower shop formerly the Boston 

 Flower Shop, on Central Ave., opposite 

 the N. Y. Central, now called The 

 Alma Flower Shop. 



Cincinnati. — G. E. Michley is back 

 with the Hill Co. He said "it's getting 

 back home." 



