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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



BOSTON. 



G. A. Gavin, Roston, representative 

 of the King Construction Company, 

 was drafted and has gone to camp. 



Pi'llo Ciirtwriglit and I^o O'Neil. a 

 diamond ring by Thomas F. Galvin, a 

 purse ot gold by his friends in the 

 liorisl tra<le and a sweater and money 

 belt by Miss Harriet O'Brien. 



F. J. Dolansky, of Lynn, takes the 

 place of Mr. McAlpine in the firm of 

 McAlpine & McDonald at 256 Devon- 

 shire street. The firm name is changed 

 to Dolansky & McDonald. 



Henry Robinson Jr., son of Henry 

 M. Robinson, of Henry M. Robin- 

 son & C. who was formerly one of 

 HoiiTicui.TfRE's representatives, but 

 who now wears the blue uniform of 

 Uncle Sam's naval reserve has been 

 promoted to chief quartermaster in 

 the quartermaster's department of the 

 naval reserve. 



Announcement is made that the city 

 had accepted an offer made by the 

 board of directors of the First Church 

 of Christ, Scientist, to take all prop- 

 erty along Norway street, between 

 Falmouth street and Hunlinston 

 avenue, and the property numbered 

 203 to 217 Huntington avenue, inclu- 

 sive, and to extend the park on Hunt- 

 ington avenue, provided the city will 

 extend Dalton street through to Hunt- 

 ington avenue. 



Boston's Own regimental exchange 

 Is the first of the camp regimental ex- 

 changes to take on its Christmas holi- 

 day attire. Through the gift of Henry 

 M. Robinson, 300 yards of laurel rop- 

 ing was soon festooned about the raft- 

 ers and along the front of counters. 

 From the centre of the roof is depend- 

 ed a large green ball of boxwood 

 foliage, while In corners are large 

 palms. The decorations were put up by 

 Private Herbert Hartford of G. com- 

 pany and H. R. Hackel of the machine 

 gun company. 



John F. Dowd, a buyer for Thomas 

 F. Galvin, was tendered a reception at 

 his home, 24 Clarence street, on Mon- 

 day night, Dec. 10, by several friends. 

 J. M. Cohen presided and musical num- 

 bers were contributed by B. A. Ma- 

 glnty, Morris Hambro, Hugh J. Mc- 

 Nally and Charles Evans. Mr. Dowd 

 leaves shortly for one of the harbor 

 forts, where he is to be connected with 

 the Quartermaster's Department. He 

 was presented a wrist watch by mem- 

 bers ot the florists' trade; a razor set 

 by Miss Fusoni, a fountain pen by 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The sympathy of the trade goes out 

 to Walter Davis of the S. S. Pennock 

 forces, who lost his only son on the 

 10th Inst. The boy was in his ninth 

 year. Rheumatism is given as the 

 cause of his death. 



Prof. A. P. Saunders will deliver a 

 lecture on Peony and Iris Culture in 

 America, at Griffith Hall, under the 

 auspices of the Penna. Horticultural 

 Society on Tuesday, December 18, at 

 3.30 p. m. 



Kmil Lieker an old established 

 flower grower of Lansdowne used his 

 last barrowful of coal last Saturday 

 night. Today he is frozen out. We 

 trust there are not many more in this 

 unfortunate catastrophe. Seems re- 

 markable, Philadelphia being near the 

 coal fields should not suffer so bad as 

 localities further afield. But there It 

 is. And why — nobody seems to under- 

 stand. Down to six above here today. 



NEW YORK. 



Percy E. James, bookkeeper for A. 

 T. Boddington Company, who enlisted 

 nearly a year ago in the naval re- 

 serves was called upon last week to 

 report at Pelham Bay on Nov. 29. 

 Thanksgiving Day, and there he has 

 been ever since. 



At the United Cut Flower Com- 

 pany's salesroom we were surprised 

 to see some very nice Golden Spur 

 narcissi on December 10. This Is the 

 earliest date on which we have ever 

 seen these flowers. We understand 

 they were grown by WMlliam Jurgens 

 of Newport, R. I. 



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CLEVELAND. 



.Miss Christine Cliff, one of Cleve- 

 land's well known East Side florists 

 with a shop at 7720 Hough avenue, 

 surprised her friends by announcing 

 her wedding, Saturday morning, Dec. 

 1, to Mr. Charles Cares, a chemist, 

 after which the couple left for a weeks 

 trip to the South. 



Florists as a rule seem to have suf- 

 ficient coal to weather the cold spell 

 now in progress. There are no re- 

 ports of any being caught shorL al- 

 though a few report low stocks. John , 

 Blenkschmidt has had some difficulty 

 but from latest reports was procuring 

 enough to run from day to day. 



Express companies in Cleveland 

 have notified all wholesalers of an em- 

 bargo on all Fastbound express. Little 

 or no florists shipments are made any 

 distance East but a considerable busi- 

 ness with retailers between Cleveland 

 and the Pennsylrania state line has 

 been affected. Incoming express from 

 the East continues to arrive. 



A number of Cleveland greenhouse 

 men have announced their intention to 

 close their greenhouses for the winter. 

 One of these is the Wilson Florist Co., 

 14113 Woodworth avenue. -Mr. J. W. 

 Wilson stated that he will stay in busi- 

 ness nnd may do some plantinL^ in the 

 spring. The Gamble greenhouse In 

 Brateiiahl is just ready to close, and 

 Charles Smith in the same section 

 does not expect to operate after 

 Christmas. 



In order to protect themselves 

 against loss many Cleveland seed and 

 flower firms refused to accept ship- 

 ments of bulbs which arrived late this 

 year, and which were either sprouted 

 or unseasonable. In order to pay 

 freight charges and custom duties the 

 Nickel Plate railroad turned over 

 25,000 bulbs to the city for sale after 

 consignees had refused them. Narcis- 

 sus bulbs sold at 25 cents a dozen, 

 tulips at 15 cents, and hyacinths at 

 various prices. City Forester Hyatt 

 has just received 19,000 tulips and 

 4,000 hyacinth bulbs from Holland for 

 the Public Square gardens. 



CHICAGO. 



With the shortage of coal making 

 heavy firing impossible, the prospects 

 for a large amount of Christmas stock 

 were not increased any by the wave of 

 extreme cold now prevailing here. 

 The records show the lowest tempera- 

 ture for the time in 35 years. 



