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11 U T 1 C U L T U H E 



Novemlifr 17. IHIT 



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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



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BOSTON. 



1' L. (.'urbunc has returned from a 

 tonniontbs visit to Italy. 



iaumuel ituilby was arrested un Mon- 

 day. Nov. 12. on tlic uhurKC of larceny 

 of $5.00i» from J. Walter Howard, who 

 cond(ict.<; u llorlsl'.M uliop ut :tl!3 Broad- 

 way, Sonl0^^ille. and for whom Rallby 

 has heeii employed as a confldentlal 

 bookkeeper and clerk for some time. 

 Kailby was released on $10,000 ball. 



.\t the meeting of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club on Tuesday even- 

 ing, November 2U. a discussion on 

 trade publicity will be hail. Talks 

 will be siven by A. K. Robinson of 

 Lexinston. on propagatiMg evergreens 

 from cuttings, John Klrkt-gaard of 

 Hcdford on propuguiing deciduous 

 trees and shrubs and W. II. Judd on 

 evergreens from seeds. 



-Montiiomery Bros, are sending to 

 the Boston Rose Company a good cut 

 of the new seedling rose Boston. 

 While the flower of this rose is almost 

 identical with .Mrs. Russell in color 

 and form yet it is in quite a different 

 class, bearing broader foliage and 

 blooming more freely and unilormly. 

 giving promise of finding a place in 

 the medium priced "bread and butter" 

 class. Moreover it is sweeter in per- 

 fume than the Russell. 



As the result of the adoption of the 

 anti-aid amendment to the State con- 

 stitution at the recent State election, 

 the State Board of Agriculture will 

 have to be reorganized by the next 

 Legislature. The adoption of the 

 amendment has by indirection lopped 

 30 of the 41 members who represent 

 agricultural societies off the Board ol 

 Agriculture. The suggestion has been 

 made that this board be reorganized 

 and the department placed under a 

 commissioner of agriculture. Thirty 

 agricultural societies which were re- 

 ceiving an annual bounty of $1000 

 each will lose this State aid under the 

 amendment. 



The 17th annual meeting of the 

 Mutual Benefit Association of the em- 

 ployees of Joseph Breck & Sons Cor- 

 poration was held 'Wednesday night, 

 >.ov. 14. The welfare committee an- 

 nounced sending 12 Christmas boxes to 

 members now in France, and also hav- 

 ing purchased a $5,000 Liberty Bond 

 of the second issue. The treasurer 

 reported a balance in the treasury of 

 $2,516. The following officers were 

 elected for the ensuing year: Presi- 

 dent, Alexander J. M. Joiner; vice- 

 president. Frank S. Ferreira; treasurer, 

 Henry L. Haynes: secretarj'. Miss Har- 

 riette L. Riley; executive committee, 

 Mrs. A. Coomhs. Miss M. C. Gushing, 

 Albert E. Werner, Selden L. Hatch, 

 'U'illiam F. -Wilson. 



Harvard has received a gift of 

 $50,000 from Mrs. S. Parkman Blake, 

 the income to be used "for the care 

 of the yard or other grounds of the 

 University." The gift is a memorial 

 to her husband, S. Parkman Blake, of 



the class of Ihoi). and to her son, Kob- 

 I'rl Purknian Hlake, class of 1S94. 

 This new gift will crcati" • the only 

 I'ndowmcnt at Harvard for the care 

 of the grounds. During the past few 

 years, under the direction of I'rofcssor 

 li. T. Fisher, much has been done to 

 restore the shade trees in the yard, 

 and with shrubs and vines to beautify 

 till' colligi' surroundings. Mrs. BIak«'s 

 permanent fund will make It possible 

 to continue this work and to supply 

 the University buildings with an at- 

 tractive setting. 



As chairman of the committee for 

 the State of Massachusetts in the S. 

 A. F. Cooperative Publicity Campaign, 

 lleni^' Penn called together a few lo- 

 cal representatives of the various flor- 

 ist interests at the City Club on Tues- 

 day evening, .November 13. There 

 were present Henry Penn. Patrick 

 Welch, .las. Melhven. president of the 

 Cardeners' and Florists' Club. William 

 Sim. Henry R. Comley, Fred E. Pal- 

 mer. \Vm. H. Klliott. Herman Bartsch, 

 W. N. Craig. Robt. Cameron. Wm. J. 

 Stewart and Major O'Keefe, past pres- 

 ident of the Pilgrim Publicity Asso- 

 ciation and renowned local advertising 

 expert. The meeting was in the na- 

 ture of a preliminary conference as to 

 methods to be pursued to set the cam- 

 paign in motion in an effective and 

 systematic manner and a very interest- 

 ing exchange of views was had until a 

 late hour. Major O'Keefe contributing 

 much sound advice and suggestion 

 from his store of knowledge and long 

 experience. The keynote of the dis- 

 cussion was how to develop new busi- 

 ness in an unselfish and impersonal 

 way and to hold the good will of the 

 public for the florist interests by 

 united effort and cooperation especial- 

 ly in these times when so many at- 

 tempts are likely to be made to put 

 the business on the defensive. Prac- 

 tical work on the subscription project 

 will be vigorously pushed as soon as 

 possible. 



PITTSBURGH. 



William .M. Turner of Wilkinsburg 

 has returned from his annual ten 

 days' hunting trip in Cameron County. 



Miss Catherine Friel has resigned 

 as manager of the Jenkins Arcade 

 Flower Shop and is temporarily suc- 

 ceeded by Mrs. Orville Christman, 

 wife of the proprietor, and Miss Anna 

 Bradley. 



The Florists' and Gardeners' Club 

 are jubilant over having corralled the 

 1918 meetings of the Chrysanthemum 

 Society of America and the American 

 Rose Society together with the . un- 

 official American Carnation Society's 

 exhibition, and will inaugurate pre- 

 liminary arrangements at their next 

 session, Monday evening, December 3. 

 Motor Square Garden has already 

 practically been decided upon for the 

 show, and Secretary McCallum an- 

 nounces that $2,000 have already been 

 guaranteed and that the amount will 

 shortly be doubled by subscription. 



NEW YORK. 



Itimnot Bros have given up I heir 

 wholesale (lower business at 55 W. 2ti 

 street and will open u retail store on 

 Klghth avenue. 



Seven thousand four hundred vl»- 

 llors in one day Is an excellent record 

 for the chrysanlhemum show at I'ros- 

 I)ect Park, Brooklyn. 



There was a meeting of memlK>rs of 

 the American Peony Society at Hotel 

 Grand, on .Monday. November 8, at 

 which were present President K. Vin- 

 cent, Jr., Secretary J. Harrison UIck, 

 James Duthie. Jos. J. IjUHP, Geo. L. 

 Stillman and George W. Kerr. The 

 proposed exhiliition in Boston, Septem- 

 ber 8 and 9. 1918, was considered 

 among other topics of society interest. 



At the meeting of the Associated 

 Florists of New York at the Hotel 

 Netherlands on October 3, officers 

 were chosen as follows: Alfred T. 

 Bunyard, president; Wm. G. Phillips, 

 vice-president; Geo. E. M. Stumpp, 

 treasurer; Wm. H. Slebrecht, secre- 

 tary; Michael Clark, Chas. A. Small, 

 Edw. J. Hession. Herman Warendorff 

 and Harold J. Perry, directors. 



Alexander McConnell, a leading Fifth 

 avenue florist for many years, has a 

 little gold mine in his Woodside Nur- 

 series at New Rochelle. 17 miles from 

 the city. The nurseries consist of 

 three and one-half acres of valuable 

 land abutting on the Boston Post 

 Road, a much travelled thoroughfare, 

 and is devoted to ver>' choice ever- 

 greens and other ornamental land- 

 scape planting material in selected 

 grades. Blue spruce is a favorite 

 stock and represented by numerous 

 fine specimens. There is a well 

 equipped office building, storage and 

 packing sheds, garage and big delivery 

 trucks, also a greenhouse in which are 

 housed the ornamental plants, palms, 

 etc.. required in the city store decora- 

 tive work, an indispensable adjunct 

 for such an establishment. A large 

 local trade has been developed since 

 the advent of auto pleasure touring 

 through this aristocratic suburban sec- 

 tion and Mr. McConnells landscape 

 department has been growing rapidly. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The St. Louis Florist Club met 

 Thursday. Nov. 8th. at -tt'lndler Whole- 

 sale Floral Co. 



Ed. Loyett, manager at Grand Lead- 

 er floral department, gave a chrysan- 

 themum show of 4,000 blooms. 



A new store will shortly be opened 

 in the downtown district. It is to be 

 called the Famous Art & Floral Shop. 



The entrance of the dry goods de- 

 partment stores into the flower busi- 

 ness has curtailed the glut and cut 

 the retailers' profits in half. 



The lady florists held a meeting at 

 National Flower Show headquarters 

 to forward plans to entertain lady flor- 

 ist visitors and in other ways advance 

 the interests of publicity for the show. 



