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HOKTICULTURE 



August 11, 1917 



NEW YORK. 



W. Gunther is siiending the summer 

 at Arvergne. N. Y. 



David Ward, of Cottage Gardens, 

 Queens, is training at the Plattsburg 

 camp. 



Traendly & Schenck have re-arranged 

 their establishment, moving the ofBce 

 from the rear to the front of the 

 store. 



A. L. Young & Co., will have a fine 

 show window when alterations now in 

 progress at 54 West 28th street are 

 completed. 



C. H. Atkins surprised his friends 

 bv getting married, on Saturday, 

 August 4. He is no longer with 

 Bobbink & Atkins. 



Harry A. Bunyard has accepted a 

 position with W. R. Grace & Co., a 

 large South American importing house 

 at Hanover square, in the nitrate de- 

 partment. 



"Buster" Wilson, who has had a 

 little flower stand in a hallway at 

 33rd street and Eighth avenue for the 

 past twenty-five years died last week 

 from the effects of the great heat. 



A cablegram to Mr. Langeler at the 

 New York office of M. Van Waveren 

 & Sons announces the safe arrival of 

 W. A. Philippo in Sweden on Saturday, 

 August 4. after a series of thrilling 

 U-boat experiences which he is not 

 likely to forget. 



The five-story building on the 

 corner of Fifth avenue and 46th 

 street, which has been occupied as 

 "The House of Flowers," by Charles 

 Thorley, has been sold. We have not 

 heard as to whether the sale will effect 

 ■Mr. Thorley's tenancy in any way. 



Phil. Kessler, chairman of the com- 

 mittee in charge, announces that he 

 has arranged for a social gatliering 

 ■nith buffet supper and some entertain- 

 ment for the S. A. F. lady visitors at 

 the McAlpin hotel, on Thursday even- 

 ing. August 23, at 8 p. m. The affair 

 ■will be limited strictly to members of 

 the ladies' S. A. F. 



The extensive concrete garage and 

 repair shop building at the Julius 

 Roehrs Company nurseries in Ruther- 

 ford, which has been recently com- 

 pleted contains a large machine shop 

 and blacksmith shop fully equipped 

 with all the power machinery and 

 tools needed for construction and re- 

 pair work on buildings, heating ap- 

 paratus and truclis. Visitors to New 

 York at Convention time should see 

 this splendid object lesson in enter- 

 prise and How to Do It. 



BOSTON. 

 Robert V. O'Connor, for some years 

 a well-known South Boston florist, has 

 closed up his business, having enlisted 

 in the hospital service of the regular 

 army. Mr. O'Connor expects to leave 

 soon for brief training before starting 

 for France. 



Max Schling 



states he does not 

 need to advertise 

 his feelings towards 

 his brotherf lorists 

 and that every out- 

 of-town florist 

 knows it is a fact 

 that whenever he 

 comes to New York he 

 is most welcome at 



MAX SCHLING'S, 

 22 West 59th street, 



and that every pos- 

 sible courtesy is 

 extended to him, and 

 the more that come 

 in the better he 

 likes it. 



CHICAGO. 



One more florist has cast his lot with 

 the food producers. lx)uls Bunt, buyer 

 for Ernst Wionhoeber of the north 

 side, left this week for Lewlstown, 

 Montana, where he will take up farm- 

 ing. 



A postal has been received from Ed 

 \'elter who recently left the wholesale 

 market with two others to try farming 

 near Wendell. Idaho. The young men 

 have not lost their enthusiasm but say 

 they are doing well and enjoying the 

 outdoor life, and best of all are able 

 to save money. Here's a venture, that 

 the girls who were left behind will 

 not stay left very long. 



R. R. Davis of Morrison, 111., is spend- 

 ing a few days in Chicago. Mr. Davis 

 with his two brothers probably own 

 the largest area of glass in the coun- 

 try, devoted to the growing of vegeta- 

 ble.s. At the Morrison plant, Boston 

 ferns are also included -with cucumbers 

 form the chief vegetable crop. The 

 Davis family have altogether extensive 

 jilanls in Streator. 111., Ottawa, 111., 

 Terre Haute. Ind., and Davenport, 

 Iciwa. 



On the morning of July 27th the 

 oHice of the Brant & Noe Floral Co. 

 was found to be a complete wreck due 

 to tlie work of safe blowers on the 

 previous night. The safe had been 

 drilled from the top and evidently 

 over-charged by the robbers, the door 

 flying all the way across the office, 

 wrecking a marble-top writing table 

 in the center and crashing into a roll- 

 top desk on the opposite side, crush- 

 ing tliis beyond repair, then falling 

 over a chair in front of the desk and 

 driving this right through the floor. 

 Only three panes of glass remained in 

 the four windows, and the door to the 

 office was blown off its hinges and 

 glass from same was found fifteen feet 

 away. No money was lost as the safe 

 contained only books and papers, some 

 of wliich were blackened beyond 

 recognitlop. 



Vacation Notes. 

 Miss Charlotte Paradise, for several 

 years with A. L. Vaughan, Is vacation- 

 ing with friends in Walkertown, Ind.; 

 and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Johnson, with 

 the same firm, are seeing the sights at 

 the Yellowstone. M. C. Gunterberg be- 

 lieves tliat a vacation is as necessary 

 to the keeping up of a good business as 

 the stock itself. JIlss Gunterberg is 

 one of the very few women in the 

 wholesale commission business and 

 has made it a practice to attend all the 

 conventions of the S. A. F. Miss Ma- 

 bel Schultz will desert the J. A. Bud- 

 long office for the dells of Wisconsin 

 for two weeks, Mrs. Schupp returning 

 from their cottage at Williams' Bay 

 during her absence. Miss Nelda Wolf, 

 of Zech & Mann's is at Deer Park, La 

 Salle Co., camping with a party of 

 friends. AUie Zech has returned from 

 a trip about the state, during which he 

 called upon many of his regular cus- 

 tomers. Wm. J. Smythe and family 

 have been at their summer home at 



