July 21, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



73 



AxNT AL PuMc Greek-American Fi/irists' Assoctatiox. W'itzi;i.'s P(iixt Grum., N. V. 



PITTSBURGH. 



J. W. Glenn, of Kittanning, who is 

 known as "the tallest florist in west- 

 ern Pennsylvania'" is sojourning at 

 Mt. Clemens, Mich. 



As usual, David Fraser and his fam- 

 ily will spend the month of August as 

 members of the cottage colony at 

 North Girard. Pa., on Lake Erie. 



Bessie Stuart Campbell gave her cel- 

 ebrated lecture on "Roses" before a 

 large and interested audience at the 

 William Penn Hotel on last Monday 

 evening. 



Edward J. McCallum has returned 

 from his annual fishing jaunt in West 

 Virginia. C. C. Phillips, head sales- 

 man for the same firm, and Mrs. Phil- 

 lips, are sojourning at Clarksburg and 

 Falrmount, W. Va. 



Miss Marie Lager, of the clerical 

 force of the Pittsburgh Cut Flower 

 Co., is spending her vacation at North 

 East, Lake Erie, while Miss Alma Ab- 

 biati, of the same firm, is a member 

 of a touring party to Steubenville, O., 

 and other points. William Wanipler, 

 a P. C. F. man, is at McKlnley Park, 

 Pa. 



William T. Lowe and Joseph 

 Thomas, the latter of Greensbtiri-', and 

 Fred Burki, together with his family, 

 will form automobile parties to the 

 Florists' Convention in New York. 

 Among others scheduled for the same 

 destination are William Falconer, Ed- 

 ward C. Reineman and family, Gilbert 

 Ludwig, J. F. Zimmerman and Mr. 

 and Mrs. Julius W. Ludwig, the latter 

 two by way of Atlantic City. 



On Wednesday last the Pittsburgh 

 Florists' Club and the Horticultural 

 Society of Western Penn. entertained 

 the Sewickley Horticultural Society 

 with an automobile sight seeing tour. 

 En route calls were made at West 

 Schenley and Highland Parks, the Al- 

 legheny and Homewood cemeteries 

 and a number of the principal private 

 grounds and greenhouses of the city, 

 dinner being served at the Charles D. 

 Armstrong place. E. J. McCallum was 

 chairman of the committee in charge, 

 its personnel also including Thomas 



E. Tyler, A, A. Leach, William Thomp- 

 son, Jr., James Moore, P. S. Randolph 

 and Augustus Frishkorn. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The store of the Kelly Floral Co. is 

 closed and its contents will be sold 

 by auction. Kelly has left town and 

 gone into voluntary bankruptcy. E. W. 

 Guy, Belleville, 111., tendered his resig- 

 nation to the Club, which was not ac- 

 cepted. July 26 all aboard for Ramona 

 Park annual outing of the St. Louis 

 Florists' Club. 



The St. Louis Florists' Club held 

 their monthly meeting Thursday after- 

 noon, July 12, at Jules Bourdet's plant. 

 The feature of the meeting was the 

 re-election of present officers: Jules 

 Bourdet, pres.; August Hummert, 

 vice: J. J. Windier, sec; Wm. C. 

 Smith, treas.; W. A. Rowe, 3-year 

 trustee. Pres. Bourdet appointed J. J. 

 Beneke, H. C. Irish, August Hum- 

 mert, N. W. Ohlweiler to form a new- 

 Nat. Flower Show Committee to act 

 with Chairman Jules Bourdet. It was 

 announced by the trustees that every- 

 thing was in readiness for the picnic 

 July 26. 



CINCINNATI. 



Miss Margaret Weiland and Miss 

 Elizabeth Kartheiser, of Evanston, 111., 

 are visiting Miss Weiland's sister, 

 Mrs. P. J. Olinger, at the latter's home. 



W. Frank & Sons, of Portland, Ind., 

 have advised L. H. Kyrk that they are 

 having so much rain that it is almost 

 impossible to handle their soil and get 

 it into the greenhouses. 



An explosion on premises adjoining 

 those occupied by E. G. Gillett's es- 

 tablishment took place last week. The 

 only damage Mr, Gillett suffered was 

 from smoke and the scare when the 

 building was shaken by the force of 

 the explosion. 



OBITUARY. 



Mrs. H. O. Hannah. 



Mrs. Hannah, wife of H. O. Hannah, 

 florist, Sherman. Texas, passed away 

 on July 9 after an illness lasting sev- 

 eral weeks. She leaves her husband 

 and two sons. 



To Leisureland 



where woods are cool, streams allar- 

 Ingr, vacations ideal. Between New 

 York City (with Albany and Troy 

 the satenays ) and 



Lake George 

 The Adirondacks 

 Lake ChampUin 

 The North and West 



The Logical Route is "The 

 Luxurious Way" 



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