U O KTI G U L T U R K 



July 



1917 



NEW YORK. 



Mrs. J. n. Pepppi" and son arrived 

 home from Cuba last week. 



The big Greek-.Vmerican Florists' 

 picnic takes place on Wednesda.v, July 

 11. at Witzel's Point View. 



The Cut Flower Exchange, 55-57 W. 

 26lh street, has had its charter re- 

 newed for another period of 25 years. 



The Florists' Club will meet Monday 

 evening. July 9, at the usual place. 

 Preparation for the S. .A. F. conven- 

 tion will be the order of business. 



Gilbert C. Josephson, who was with 

 Max Schljng. is now employed in su- 

 pervising the truck gardens being cul- 

 tivated by New York schoolboys on 

 Stalen Island. 



Havana, Cuba, papers tell of a 

 large and increasing flow of oil from 

 the wells in whicli William Plumb Is 

 interested. .Mrs. Plumb sailed for 

 New York on the United Fruit steamer 

 June 28. 



We are iileased to be able to say 

 that the veteran Charlie Carlin is out 

 again after a short stay in the hospital. 

 He will now go to Cornwall, N. Y., to 

 rest up. The doctor told him he was 

 good for the "hundred mark." 



Julius Roehrs Company and Bobbink 

 & .-Mkins were liberal exhibitors of 

 plants and flowers at the annual flower 

 show of the Rutherford Women's As- 

 sociation on June 26. Half the pro- 

 ceeds were donated to the Red Cross. 



The Knight & Struck Comjjany has 

 transferred to Heatherhome Seed and 

 Nursery Company, three acres in the 

 village of Flushing, with a frontage of 

 442 feet on the east side of Parsons 

 avenue, 200 feet north of Sycamore 

 avenue and 282 feet on the south side 

 of Higgins lane. The conveyance in- 

 cludes the nursery stock. 



The endowment committee of the 

 board of managers of the New York 

 Botanical Garden has recently received 

 important gifts for construction work. 

 Daniel Guggenheim and Murry Gug- 

 genheim have each given $50,000 

 toward the completion of the green- 

 houses on the eastern side of the 

 grounds, along the Bronx Boulevard. 

 These contributions provide means, 

 also, for the construction of the cen- 

 tral display greenhouse, within which 

 lecture facilities will be arranged. In 

 the center an unplanted area will be 

 left, in which chairs may be placed and 

 botanical and horticultural topics illus- 

 trated by living tropical and sub-tropi- 

 cal plants. The gifts of the Messrs. 

 Guggenheim will also build an orchid 

 house. A stone stairway, costing about 

 $2,000, forming the western approach 

 to the new rose garden mansion, has 

 been given by Mrs. Robert E. West- 

 cott, and is essentially completed. The 

 rose garden itself, on which construc- 

 tion has been in progress for a little 

 over a year, has been planted this 

 spring, with nearly five thousand rose 

 bushes contributed through the Horti- 

 cultural Society of New Y'ork. A gift 

 of $4,000 has been made by Mrs. Fred- 

 erick F. Thompson for the construc- 

 tion of the shelter-house planned for 

 the new school garden. 



CHICAGO. 

 The Chicago I'lower Growers' .\sso. 

 elation will hold its seventh annual 

 meeting July 16. 



Mr. and Mrs. Philip Schupp and 

 daughter are spending the week ends 

 at their cottage at Williams' Bay. 



E. C. Warren, credit man for Poehl- 

 mann Bros., is in poor health and will 

 take a vacation from the store till Sep- 

 tember 1st. 



A. Miller, president of the American 

 Bulb Co.. and his bride, who was -Miss 

 Phyllis Beilman, are expected home 

 from their wedding trip this week. 



Schiller's Gift Shop. 36 S. Wabash 

 avenue, has closed and R. H. Schiller, 

 who has been in charge of it, will now 

 devote his time to the north and west 

 side stores. 



One of the department stores has 75 

 large vases of peonies staged in a 

 space adjoining their seed depart- 

 ment giving customers an opportunity 

 to see the blooms before placing or- 

 ders. 



A card from A. Pasternick an- 

 nounces the safe arrival of the young 

 men who left the wholesale flower 

 stores for life in the west. Their first 

 impressions upon arrival were very 

 pleasant. 



O. A. & L. A. Tonner call attention 

 to the fact that there is always one 

 week in each peony season when that 

 flower will not sell and that was the 

 case last week. The glut came as the 

 last of the local crop was cut. 



Robert Northam, manager of the 

 George Reinberg wholesale store, says 

 the Mrs. Russell is the finest pink rose 

 grown today. It has been in splendid 

 condition all winter and now in sum- 

 mer its color is almost as good. 



A. L. Koehler, of the American Bulb 

 Co., leaves next week for Colorado 

 where, with Mrs. Koehler. he will 

 spend two weeks in the mountains. 

 Another member of the firm, Robt. 

 Newcomb, has been on the coast for 

 some time and spent the P''ourth 

 of July with his mother at San Demas, 

 Cal. 



Plant supply is at very low ebb. 

 There is nothing now to offer In 

 blooming plants. The last of the cal- 

 ceolarias, which have done splendid 

 window service until now, are gone. 

 Palms, ferns and aspidistras, not hav- 

 ing been imported from Europe this 

 season, are not to be had In any con- 

 siderable number. 



BOSTON. 



l'"rcd FolnKolii. Kjrmcrly with Smal- 

 ley, Chelsea, has been offered a sales- 

 man's position with Penn. the Florist. 



.lohn K. .\1. L. Farquhar has been 

 unanimously confirmed as a member 

 of the Boston Park Commission by the 

 Civil Service Board. 



Penn, the Florist, had a very fetchy 

 advertisement of the shower bouquet 

 in the Boston daily i)apers under the 

 caption of "The Keynote of a Pretty 

 Wedding." 



l-'rancis Lazenby, who has had 

 charge of the Stone estate, Plymouth, 

 Mass., has been employed by R. & J. 

 Farquhar Co.. to take charge of their 

 nursery department at Dedham. 



.Many distinguished votaries of the 

 Sweet Pea are expected in town at the 

 end of this week in attendance upon 

 the annual meeting and exhibition of 

 the .American Sweet Pea Society. 



N. T. Kidder of Milton, ex-president 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, has presented over two hun- 

 dred volumes of standard botanical 

 books to the New York Botanical Gar- 

 den. 



ROCHESTER. 



Rose Day was held June 30th at 

 Highland Park. 



George Boucher has the decora- 

 tions for the boot and shoe style show 

 early in July. 



William Dunbar, son of John Dun- 

 bar, will take a summer course at 

 Harvard College. 



The Peony Show at Convention 

 Hall, June 29 and 30 for the 

 benefit of the Red Cross was pro- 

 nounced by experts as the greatest 

 ever held, over 500 varieties being 

 shown. The general scheme was a 

 (TOSS of red peonies outlined by white 

 peonies. Directly above on the ceil- 

 ing was a cross of red electric lights. 

 The ceiling was draped in white fire- 

 proof cheese cloth, garnished with as- 

 paragus, and the lighting was very 

 soft and beautiful. The lady florists 

 served refreshments. Music was fur- 

 nished by Lapham's orchestra and 

 many indulged in dancing. E. P. Wil- 

 son was chairman of the decorating 



committee. 



PITTSBURGH PERSONALS. 



.\lbert F. Vlick will leave on the 

 twenty-first inst. to visit his family In 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



James A. McCarthy left last Satur- 

 day to spend a two-weeks' vacation at 

 f'onneaut Lake, Pa. 



William A. Clarke expects to leave 

 shortly to join his family at their cot- 

 tage at Stow, Chautauqua. Lake, N. Y. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



Manufacturers and Importers 



1129 Arch St. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



A Full Line of Bridal Accessories for tlie Jure Wedding Decoiaticrs 



THE LEADING FLORISTS' SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA 



