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HORTICULTURE 



October 6. 1917 



BOSTON. 



wmiuiii Sim Is alroaily will sliirtecl 

 pickiDK a line (luulliy of single violets. 



W. A. UIkks of .\uburndale lias 

 taken over Ihe Flower Shop «l 4i>6 

 Centre street. Newton, which has 

 been londucted by Mr Neal for some 

 years. 



The Hortlcnltural flub of Boston 

 at Its October session, Wednesday 

 night, October S. took special notice 

 of the fact that Patrick Welch is cel- 

 ebrating the fortieth anniversary of 

 his starting the cut flower commis- 

 sion business in Boston and extended 

 enthusiastic congratulations and good 

 wishes. D. J. I'appas of New York 

 and P. .1. nonohue of Uoston were 

 guests. Thomas Roland, who had 

 just returned from the west, had some 

 blooms of the sensational new rose 

 Columbia. It would be hardly possi- 

 ble to say too much of the beauty of 

 this new-comer. 



Mayor Curley has sent to the City 

 Council an order for transferring from 

 the Parkman Fund to the Park and 

 Recreation fund $100,000 for the 

 further improvements of the public 

 parks. It is planned to expend this 

 $100,000 as follows: $25,000 for re- 

 planting shrubbery and the continua- 

 tion of oak tree planting from the 

 Hiverway at Simmons College to 

 Franklin Park; $30,000 for improve- 

 ment of buildings and reconstruction 

 of the water supply system at Frank- 

 lin Park; $15,000 for concrete walks 

 on the Boylston and Charles streets 

 sides of Boston Common; $30,000 for 

 permanent roadway improvements 

 along the Fenway from Charlesgate 

 West to Charlesgate East. 



CHICAGO. 



P. J. Foley, president of the Foley 

 Greenhouse Mfg. Co., is back from a 

 business trip through the middle west. 



Artificial flowers have their place, 

 but there really seems no excuse for 

 the manufactured ])ussy willows now 

 shown. 



Quite a large number of the repre- 

 sentative men of the trade left on 

 Monday night for the F. T. D. con- 

 vention at Detroit. 



The many friends of E. G. Hill, who 

 was operated on at the Presbyterian 

 Hospital in Chicago recently, are 

 pleased to learn that he is convales- 

 cent and able to see his friends. 



Garden product exhibits are nearly 

 over, having been quite a feature the 

 past month. It was noted that when 

 the schools and community centers 

 were back of the garden movements 

 the results were usually satisfactory. 



Xic Monson, retail florist at 3640 

 Fullerton avenue, has for his guest 

 his father, M. J. Jlonson of Bergen, 

 Norway, who has just arrived and ex- 

 pects to remain for some time. Mr. 

 Monson's last visit to this country 

 was made forty-flve years ago. 



It is gratifying to the growers here 



Wd are boolcin^r orders rapidly for the two sensational 



ROSE NOVELTIES FOR 1918 



Columbia and Ophelia Supreme 



It is definitely known that there will be a shortage of 

 Manetti so it will be a case of "first come — first served," on 

 };;[rafted stock. 



Grafted, $35 per 100. Own Root, $30 per iOO 



CHARLES H. TOTTY, 



IVI^VDIS^IM, 



IMEINA/ -H^PRSEY 



F> L- A. INJ T S IVI E: IM 



Orchids, Conservatory Plants, Novelties, Begonias, Garden 

 Perennials. 



Finest Stock in America for Trade or Private Requirements. 



RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY 



IF in need of RELIABLE NURSERY STOCK 



that is well grown, well dug and well packed 

 Send to the BAY STATE NURSERIES 



Whohsale and Retail NORTH ABINGTON, MASS. 



STUART LOW & CO., 



ROYAL NURSERIES 



BUSH HILL PARK, ENFIELD 



Near London, Eng. 



Specialists in Orchids, Acacias, Fruit Trees, Grape Vines, Palms and Roses 



Any rommunliatioiiH nddreNsril lo ll.VKKY A. I!.VKN.\H1>, IIOTKl. ALBERT, NEW 

 YOKK, UDtil end of October will have prompt attention. 



to learn of the safe arrival in New- 

 York of the boat carrying bulbs. Ad^ 

 vice has been received that the 

 twelve or thirteen hundred cases 

 whose destination is Chicago and vi- 

 cinity are now en route from New 

 York. 



Lawrence .lensen of the Jenson 

 Flower Shop suffered a loss of $20 

 and damage to his store and cash reg- 

 ister on Friday, September 28. Some- 

 one broke in the rear door, apparent- 

 ly, and broke open the cash register. 

 No clew to the perpetrator has been 

 found so far. 



The fall opening of the Marshall 

 Field store took place October 1. It 

 is always an event from the decora- 

 tive standpoint. Many palms and 

 ferns were used, running into the 

 thousands, and at intervals were boxes 

 of aster plants, which kept up only 

 fairly well. Cut flowers were notice- i 

 ably absent in all the fall openings 

 this year. 



At a meeting of the wholesalers, 

 last Monday evening, the proposition 

 of closing at 5 o'clock the year round 



was discussed and seemed to meet 

 with the approval of those present. 

 As the express companies will not 

 collect after n o'clock and there is 

 very little local ti'ade after that hour 

 it would seem the desirable thing to 

 clo.se early. A. L. Vaughan, who has 

 been in intimate touch with the Chi- 

 cago wholesale market for many 

 years, in discussing the question of 5 

 o'clock closing, which he heartily 

 favors, recalls the time when it was 

 thought necessary for some one to 

 sleep at the store in order to receive 

 night telegrams. He says that flor- 

 ists have changed many methods of 

 conducting business in the past 25 

 years and believes many more changes 

 will come. 



ORCHIDS 



We cr«« Uld •dl nothlnc but OBTHIDS. 

 If TOD ar« In th« market for this ehm» mt 

 plADte we re«p««tfollr nollclt jour Inqalriee 

 ■nd erderk. Speetal Mete on »»pUe«H— . 



LAGER & HURRELL. Summit, N.J. 



