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HORTICULTUHE 



July H. iai7 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



BOSTON. 



R. & J. l-'ttrquhar & Co. closed their 

 store all day Saturday. July 7, on ac- 

 count of the annual picnic of the om- 

 I)loyees which took place on that date. 



All classes for fruit to he exhibited 

 at Horticultural Hall July 7 have been 

 postponed to Saturday, July :;i, on ac- 

 count of the backwardness of the sea- 

 son. 



The next important exhibition by the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 will be the Gladiolus and Phlox Kxhi- 

 bition on Saturday and Sunday, 

 August 11-12. 



Mr. and Mrs. A. S. MacUonald cele- 

 brated their golden wedding anni- 

 versary at their home in Lexington, on 

 July 4. Mr. MacDonald is a well 

 known Boston florist, located on Tem- 

 ple Place. He is a Grand .-Vrmy vet- 

 eran and quartermaster sergeant of 

 the George G. Meade Post. U9, G. A. 

 R., of Lexington. He was born in Ply- 

 mouth. Feb. 29, 1840. .Mrs. .McDonald 

 was born in Middlebury, Vt., she is 

 active in the Woman's Relief Corps. 

 Mr. and Mrs. McDonald received many 

 pieces of gold as gifts. 



Professor C. S. Sargent entertained 

 a gathering of newspaper men at Holm 

 Lea on Monday of this week. In an 

 informal talk he spoke of the desira- 

 bility of the acquirement of a 75-acre 

 plot which is now available as an addi- 

 tion to the Arboretum grounds. "The 

 Arboretum is now badly crowded," 

 said Professor Sargent, "and it could 

 use a great deal of additional land. 

 In carrying out the provisions of the 

 givers of the Arboretum estate we 

 have gathered and are gathering hun- 

 dreds and thousands of valuable speci- 

 mens which must have room. Already 

 the need is badly felt and later it will 

 cramp us still more. Boston has one 

 of the finest institutions in the world, 

 and the chance to acquire these 75 

 additional acres — even at an estimated 

 cost of $5,000 the acre — should not be 

 passed by." , 



At the Flower Exchance they are 

 talking yet about the decorations at 

 the Heyburne-Reuter wedding at 

 Jamaica Plain, by Stephen J. Qulnn. 

 The church was completely trans- 

 formed into a bower of flowers and 

 foliage. Peonies, hydrangeas, rhodo- 

 dendrons, spiraea, etc., were used pro- 

 fusely. The chandeliers were complete 

 balls of flowers. The rear of the 

 church received the same care of 

 decorations as the chancel and sides, 

 and there was no evidence of the ex- 

 posed walls and beams so noticeable 

 in most church decorations. At the 

 home the decorations were even more 

 elaborate. Over 1,000 peonies were 

 used at the church and 1,000 yards of 

 laurel. A large tent on the lawn at 

 the home was festooned with laurel 

 and a literal forest of bay trees, 

 laurels and aucubas were arranged. 



NEW YORK. 



The event of this week was — or 

 would have been it it had not rained— 

 the Greek Florists' picnic on Wednes- 

 day. 



E. E. Bniggcrhot, of J. M. Thorburn 

 & Co., has gone up north on his vaca- 

 tion. "On and up, where Nature's 

 heart beats strong amid the hills." 



We have never seen primroses to 

 excel in color, size and substance of 

 flower than those that we noted on a 

 visit last spring to Henry Schmidt's 

 greenhouses at North Bergen. This 

 was especially true of P. obconica. 

 They are the true Arends strain of 

 which Mr. Schmidt is said to have got 

 tlie only seeds that came to this coun- 

 try last season and these are what he 

 is now advertising. 



The Horticultural Society of New 

 York will hold an exhibition in the 

 Museum Building at the New York 

 Botanical Garden, on July 14th and 

 15th. The exhibition will be open from 

 2 to 5 on the first day, and from 10 

 to 5 on the second day. Premiums for 

 roses, Japan iris, herbaceous and 

 shrub flowers and vegetables are 

 offered by the New York Botanical 

 Garden, from the income of the Wil- 

 liam R. Sands Fund, to be awarded by 

 the Exhibition Committee of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of New York. William 

 Becker will have charge of the ar- 

 rangements on behalf of the New York 

 Botanical Garden. Plants and flowers 

 for exhibition should be sent by ex- 

 press, prepaid, addressed: Horticul- 

 tural Society, Museum Building, New- 

 York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, 

 New York City. A lecture will be de- 

 livered at 4 p. m. in the Lecture Hall 

 of the Museum, by Dr. A. B. Stout, 

 on "Plants Grown by the American 



Indians." 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



The Peony Show was not a financial 

 success. 



The working force of Geo. Boucher 

 have started on their summer vaca- 

 tions. 



George Cramer and Charles H. 

 Vick have gone to Conesus on a fish- 

 ing trip. 



White Bros., of Medina, are sending 

 in large quantities of Harrisii lilies 

 to this market. 



A. Schoenfelder has two hundred 

 varieties of choice roses in full bloom. 

 One of the best is the new London 

 "Daily Mail." A large numljer of 

 visitors are at his garden daily. 



H. B. E. 



CHICAGO. 



The flower shop In the Wlllard Thea- 

 tre Building at 346 E. 51st street, has 

 again changed hands. Mrs. King hav- 

 ing sold out to Gardner & Alexander. 



Wm. J. Smyth's large store windows 

 have each a large American Flag with 

 fern and i)alm plants in the back- 

 ground. The effect is very beautiful. 



The Foley Greenhouse Manuf. Co. 

 are shipping the materials today for a 

 vegetable greenhouse for Nick .\rrlgo, 

 Lincoln, Nebraska. Mr. Arrigo has a 

 large fruit store and the combination 

 of vegetables and fruit will be a good 

 one. 



Mrs. A. C. Schutz, of Hammond, 

 Ind., who has been seriously ill for 

 some time, is no better and recovery 

 seems Impossible. Two operations 

 have been performed for the removal 

 of a cancerous growth without check- 

 ing Its progress. 



J. W. Gore of Paris, Texas, was re- 

 cently in Chicago. He Is now adding 

 to his range of houses with perfect 

 confidence in the business outlook. Mr. 

 Gore says he has lived through wars 

 l)efore and he sees no reason for an- 

 ticipating anything except good busi- 

 ness. 



P. J. Foley, president of the Foley 

 Greenhouse Manuf. Co., has been 

 called as an expert witness to help fix 

 the value of the old Reissig green- 

 houses at Riverside, 111. In settling 

 the estate after the death of Mrs. Reis- 

 sig, about four years ago, the property 

 was purchased by a southslde banker, 

 whose bank has now suspended pay- 

 ments, and the commercial value of 

 the place as one of the assets, is now 

 an important factor. 



Mr. and Mrs. Jas. G. Hancock gave 

 a benefit party July 6th, at their home 

 at 5003 Berteau avenue, which netted 

 the neat sum of fifty dollars. Two 

 groups of blind musicians furnished 

 the entertainment and shared the pro- 

 ceeds, one group giving a concert In 

 the house and the other furnishing the 

 music for a lawn dance. Solos were 

 also given from an upper balcony 

 which was hung with red white and 

 blue lights and over the lawn below 

 were strung a hundred Japanese lan- 

 teriffe making a beautiful picture. Lit- 

 tle girls in white varied the program 

 by fancy dances on the lawn while 

 searchlights were thrown upon them. 

 Mr. Hancock takes great pride in his 

 beautiful grounds which came out but 

 little the worse for the entertainment. 



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