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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



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BOSTON 



Tufsday precedlnB Tlianksglvlng 

 Day made a record tor low leinpera- 

 ture not eciiialled for 37 years on that . 

 (late. 



Norrls V. roinloy, reports that coal 

 on the cars destined for his green- 

 houses at llodford has been appropri- 

 ated for government disposition. 



Attorney David Stoneman, of 24 

 Brookledge street. Roxbury, has been 

 appointed a member of the I'ark and 

 Recreation I'ommlssion by Mayor Cur- 

 ley, to (ill a vacancy caused by the 

 death of Robert Peabody. 



J. A. Nelson of FraminKham was 

 severely bruised and cut about his 

 face on Monday, this week, in an acci- 

 dent which happened while he was 

 adjusting a new tire on his automobile 

 and is now in the Framingham Hospi- 

 tal. Mr. Nelson had planned to start 

 that day for Florida for the winter. 



We took occasion a few days ago to 

 visit our old friend Gustav Thommen, 

 formerly of North Billerica, Mass.. 

 who did some remarkable stunts there 

 as a carnation grower, but now in 

 charge of the Jas. D. Casey greenhouses 

 in Reading, Mass. Mr. Thommen was 

 installed there last February. The 

 place, formerly a vegetable forcing 

 venture had jieen unoccupied for a 

 period of three years. Repairing and 

 new heating apparatus, soil making 

 and general preparation took a long 

 time and it was late April and May 

 before the four houses were at last 

 planted with carnations, a motley 

 stock of cuttings gathered together 

 from varied sources. But a trifle like 

 that doesn't disturb a grower with 

 Thommen's versatile skill and we 

 doubt if there is a handsomer sight in 

 the carnation line at this date any- 

 where on the American continent. 

 There are sixteen varieties under cul- 

 ture and all are bristling with buds 

 and bloom on stems running from 24 

 to 35 Inches tall and strong, and this 

 simultaneously on bench and solid bed 

 plantings. Beacon shows an average 

 of seven blooms per plant to be cut 

 before Christmas. Mr. Thommen has 

 promised to tell our readers something 

 of his methods though the columns of 



HORTICULTUIIE. 



rosa Uiiiiins. 'I'll"' color .■;( hiiiii- l.s 

 very efloctlve. 



The returns from the sale of flowers 

 at the Art Institute last Friday, for 

 the benelit of the Y. M. C. A. work 

 for the soldiers, netted nearly $;i,(iOii 

 to date. The florists donated most 

 liberally and the plant growers con- 

 trlbuteil with their never falling gen- 

 erosity. , 



A. Miller, president of the American 

 Bulb Co., la In Cincinnati on business. 

 Robt. Newcomb of the same firm, alter 

 visitiuK the flower shows at Cincin- 

 nati, Cleveland and Des Moines, is 

 making a tour of the west. D. W. 

 Dumser, their newest salesman, is now 

 in Ohio. The American Bulb Co. re- 

 port sales as very good and everybody 

 busy this fall. 



T. Waters, manager of the supply 

 department of Poehlmann Bros., is 

 back from Minneapolis. The Christ- 

 mas offerings are making a fine show- 

 ing in the salesroom now, and include 

 all the now and staple lines. Particu- 

 larly attractive are the baskets which 



CHICAGO. 



Mrs. Frank Oechslin is again ill with 

 neuralgia of the face and head from 

 which she has suffered severely and 

 was again taken to the hospital for 

 treatment last week. 



That the public never tires of a 

 window with something alive in it is 

 evidenced by the fact that, after many 

 wpeks. the Mandarin ducks with their 

 beautiful coloring are holding the 

 passers-by in front of John Mangel's 

 store. 



Geo. Wienhoeber's Monroe street 

 window is out of the ordinary this 

 week. It has a tiny Otaheite orange 

 grove, and scattered about on the 

 floor of the window are large ponde- 



MEETINGS NEXT WEEK. 

 Monday, Dec. 3. 



HiTiiiirdsviU.' lliirticnltural So- 

 eii'tv. Iloitlfiiltiiinl Ilall. Bernanls- 

 v<lle. N. .T. 



Elhi'ion Unrtlciiltiiral .Society, Fire 

 Hall. Klberoi). N. .T. 



Houston Florists' Club Chamber 

 of ("oiiiinfrci' Itooms. Houston, Tex. 

 Montreal Caiileners' and Florists' 

 Club. Montreal. <'anada. 



New Beilforil Ilortlenltural So- 

 ciety. New Hidforil. Mass. 



Washington Florists' Club, Wash- 

 injrton. D. C. 



Cleveland Florists' Club, Cleve- 

 land, O. 



Tuesday, Dec. 4. 

 Florists' ami (iMnleners' Club of 

 Hol.voke and Northampton, Mass. 



Lake Geneva (iardeners' and Fore- 

 men's Association. Horticultural 

 Hall. Lake Geneva. Wis. 



Los Angeles County Horticultural 

 Society, Los Angeles. Cal. 



Paterson Floricultural Society. Y. 

 M C. A. Bldg. raterson. N. J. 



Florists' Club of Philadelphia, 

 PhilMilelphia, Pa. 



Pittsburgh Florists' and Garden- 

 ers' Club, Fort Pitt Hotel. Pltts- 

 bur^'h. Pa. 



Wednesday, Dec. 5. 

 Tuxedo H..riiiuUural Society. 

 Tuxedo Park. N. Y. 



Thursday, Dec. 6. 

 .Mbany Florists' Club. 

 N. Y. 



Hearting (Pa.) Florists' 

 ti<.n, I{ea<ling. Pa. 



.•-;■. uthamiil on Horticultural 

 ciety. Odd Fellows Hall, 

 ton. N. Y. 



Friday, Dec. 7. 

 North Shore Horticultural Society. 

 Minchester Mass. 



North Shore Horticultural Society. 

 T.'kp Forest, HI. 



I'asadcna Horticultural Society, 

 r^i^artena. Cal. 



I'.'onle's Park Cottage Gardeners 

 .\s oriatlon, Paterson. N. J. 



Vonkers Horticultur.al Society. 

 Y.iikers. N. Y. 



Saturday, Dec. 8. 

 Iiobbs .Ferry Garrteners' ASBOCia- 

 ii..n. Dobhs Ferry. N. Y. 



Albany. 



Associfl- 



So- 

 Southainp- 



i'(]iii<' In di'sltii.^ sMiialile for every sort 

 of occasion, and tli'' ribbons which are 

 more beautiful each year 



PHILADELPHIA. 



August WanJeU, liOlh and Lehigh 

 avenue, is niirHluf; a broken arm. Ho 

 was cranking up bis car In front of 

 his flower store and the first thing he 

 knew he brought up against a wall 

 ten feet away and later brought up 

 in the Episcopal Hospital. 



A one-fifth interest In the Dick 

 property, 1721 Chestnut street, will be 

 sold at auction Deo. Cth by Samuel 

 T. Freeman and Co. This la tho 

 location of the old Kift flower store 

 and the liquidation is called for on 

 account of the Halliday Interest. In 

 the property. 



We are pleased to see a little rift In 

 the clouds. The Thanksgiving spirit 

 has a deeper hold on the American 

 people than the debutante and other 

 society crazes that come and go. The 

 demand for our products is better 

 than any one could have expected — 

 after what we have been going 

 through. Thanksgiving looks like the 

 same old-timer it has always been, 

 which augurs well for Christmas trade, 

 which is a festival even more country- 

 wide than Thanksgiving. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



G. B. Costigh is leaving for St. 

 Petersbury, Florida. 



J. B. Keller Sons are displaying 

 fancy baskets of helichrysum, 



Hugo Toity has fine houses of 

 cyclamen, begonias and primroses. 



At the greenhouses of H. E. Wilson 

 they are cutting some excellent late 

 chrysanthemums. 



Tom Sullivan was given a rousing 

 send-off to camp. Cigars, a woolen 

 blanket, sweater and wristlets were 

 given him by Hart's employees. 



In the nurseries of the Rochester 

 Park Department there are now being 

 raised hundreds of Japanese cherries 

 which are to be planted at Durand- 

 Eastman park in a conspicuous site 

 selected by Dr. Charles S. Sargent of 

 the Arnold Arboretum, Boston. A 

 natural setting of evergreens will form 

 a beautiful background for the cherry 

 blossoms. The trees from which these 

 were secured were grown from grafts 

 brought from Japan by E. H. Wilson 

 the noted plant collector and natural- 

 ist. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Chrysanthemum Show at 

 Shaws' Botanical Garden last week 

 was one of the best ever given. 



AH the St. Louis wholesale houses 

 have agreed to close at 5 p. m. during 

 the winter months. 



NEW YORK 



A. Halukeas has leased a part of 

 the store of the Gray Drug Company 

 at Broadway and 43rd street for a 

 flower shop. 



