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HORTICULTURE 



September 29, 1917 



Local and General 

 News 



BOSTON. 



IMtrii K Wi'lili ami riKHiiaB Uolaiiil 

 have ROiie to ntlcml a nuitliig ot the 

 Xutloiml Flower Show Committee in 

 St. Louis. 



James .\. Oalvlii takes the place of 

 Herman llackel as salesman on the 

 road for 11. .M. Uoblnson & Co. Mr. 

 Hackel. who has lilleil llie position for 

 several years, has enlisH-tl in a ma- 

 chine gun company. 



The 4Clh exhibition of the Melrose 

 Horticultural and Iniprovi-ment Socie- 

 ty was held in Grand Army Hall, Me- 

 morial Buildinp. Friday, September 21. 

 Fifty per cent of the receipts were do- 

 nated to the Red Cross. 



Kber Holmes, representing W. A. 

 Manda, South Orange, N. J., is show- 

 ing an attractive line of sample plants 

 In the salesroom of Waban Rose Con- 

 servatories in Winthrop Square. Poly- 

 podium Mandaianum and other ferns, 

 box trees in various sizes, box foliage, 

 dracaenas, and other foliage plant 

 stock are among the specialties 

 shown. 



Efforts by Cambridge residents, 

 both grownups and school children, to 

 help in overcoming the forecasted de- 

 ficiency of garden products this win- 

 ter were declared to be a success by 

 representatives of wholesale seed 

 houses at the first annual exhibit of 

 garden products in the English High 

 School building In Cambridge. The 

 growing of flowers was also pro- 

 nounced a success by Robert Cam- 

 eron, head ot the Harvard botanical 

 gardens. The judges of garden pro- 

 duce were J. Henry Brackett and F. J. 

 Willard. 



The threatened scarcity of bright- 

 flowering plants for Christmas this 

 year is being prepared for in part at 

 the Farquhar nurseries at Dedham 

 with Q large number ot pot geraniums, 

 including many brilliant new semi- 

 doubles of striiung beauty. There is 

 a whole house of poinsettias and sev- 

 eral houses of cyclamen. The Bud- 

 dleia-arched avenue through the big 

 show house promises to be a wonder- 

 ful sight when in bloom. Even thus 

 early the shipping of shrubbery and 

 hardy herbaceous plants is quite 

 hea\T and the vast packing and ship- 

 ping room, 360 feet long and 45 feet 

 wide, is full of activity. This spac- 

 ious central structure, from which the 

 greenhouses and executive offices 

 stretch on either side, lofty, well-ven- 

 tilated and lighted, with an area of 

 cement floor approaching half an acre, 

 is a model in its way and an invalu- 

 able part of the equipment of such an 

 establishment. 



CHICAGO. 



California chrysanthemums, shipped 

 by Japanese, are now being received 

 here. 



The Chicago Flower Growers' Asso- 

 ciation has added Herman Wallace to 

 its sales force. 



C. J. Michelsen, of the E. C. Amling 

 Co., has returned from his annual 



We are bookinjj orders rapidly for the two sensational 



ROSE NOVELTIES FOR 1918 



Columbia and Ophelia Siipreme 



It is definitiily known that there will he a shortage' of 

 Maiic'tti so it will be a case of "first come — first served, "."on 

 grafted stock. 



Grafted, $35 per 100. Own Root, $80 per 100 



CHARLES H. TOTTY, 



IVI. 



IIS^IM, 



l>JE\A/ J\ 



visit to the Rhlnebeck, N. Y., violet 

 growers. 



Thistles are making a great hit with 

 the buyers this week. They combine 

 prettily with fall flowers In making up 

 baskets. 



Quite a large number are expecting 

 to attend the meeting ot the F. T. D. 

 Monday at Detroit, leaving here Sun- 

 day at midnight. 



The .American Bulb Co. has added 

 another salesman, D. W. Duniser, to 

 the list of traveling men now repre- 

 senting this enterprising firm. 



Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Kennicott have 

 returned from Clearwater, Florida, 

 where they have spent several weeks 

 looking after their orange grove. 



E. G. Hill of Richmond. Ind., is at 

 the Presbyterian hospital where he 

 underwent an operation last Saturday. 

 It is reported that he is doing as well 

 as can be exp^ted. 



Arthur Pasternlck, who left work 

 in the wholesale flower stores for farm 

 life in Idaho In the spring, is now 

 back and expects to leave at once for 

 Rockford. Life In the open has great- 

 ly improved his health. 



Chas. Poppe, gardener at Garfield 

 Park, while on his way home Satur- 

 day, had a very narrow escape from 

 serious injury or death in a motor- 

 cycle and automobile collision. Poppe's 

 back is injured but it is believed that 

 he is on the way to recovery. 



O. Freese, manager of the whole- 

 sale store of Poehlmann Bros., tells a 

 good story ot the customer who tele- 

 graphed for 100 Mexican Ivy or "Far- 

 leyense If you do not have the ivy." 

 The customer received the Farleyense 

 C. O. D. and learned the difference In 

 price was something over eleven dol- 

 lars. 



The Woman's National Farm and 

 Garden Assn. will hold a convention at 

 the Hotel Morrison, Oct. .■?, 4 and 5. 

 They are assisted in their program by 

 the North Shore and other Garden 

 Clubs. The Ridge Women's Club is in 

 a district noted for Its great areas of 

 glass devoted to flowers and vegeta- 

 bles and has a horticultural depart- 

 ment assisting In making the conven- 

 tion a success. 



The garden campaigns launched so 



enthusiastically last sjiring could bo 

 revived now with profit and the slo- 

 gan "plant your garden now" might 

 read "harvest your weeds now." It Is 

 a sorry sight to see the vacant spaces 

 In the city where last year grew plots 

 of grass, now overrun with weeds go- 

 ing to seed. It Is doubtful If the en- 

 tire yield of potatoes equals the cost 

 ot planting and little children who 

 formerly played in the vacant lots 

 have had only the streets all summer. 



NEW YORK. 



D. Fexy has opened a new whole- 

 sale cut flower store at 106 West 28th 

 street. 



Richard Vincent, Jr., of Whitemarsh, 

 Md., lectured before the Park Garden 

 Club at Flushing on Wednesday, Sep- 

 tember 26, and at Lawrence, Long Is- 

 land, on Friday the 28th. 



R. W. Clucas, manager of the Palis- 

 ades Nurseries, Sparkill, N. Y., has 

 been seriously ill for some time and 

 is still confined to his bed and as yet 

 unable to attend to business matters. 



Chas. L. Bartels of East Tremont 

 avenue, writes that our statement ot 

 last week that he had succeeded 

 Richard Webber was not correct. Mr. 

 Bartels explains that he had been do- 

 ing business as the Richard Webber 

 Floral Department and that since the 

 R. Webber firm's retiring from busi- 

 ness he had leased larger space, tak- 

 ing a basement and two floors, 25x95, 

 on a 10-year lease. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Max Pauliczek ot Lyell avenue 

 leaves for Camp Dlx, Wrightstown, N. 

 J., this week. 



George Cramer is resting at Conesus 

 Lake after strenuous work at the Ex- 

 position. 



J. B. Keller Sons featured a win- 

 dow of single variety asters arranged 

 in vases on plush. 



Geo. T. Boucher furnished the 

 palms and cut flowers for the opening 

 of The Bedell Store, East Main St. 



Prof. R. C. Curtis of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, with a number of his students 

 visited Rochester parks to make a 

 study of the plants grown there. A. 

 A. Famum of the University ot Penn., 

 Is also inspecting the parks. 



