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HORTICULTURE 



May 27, 1916 



FOR MEMORIAL DAY 



NEW CROP DAGGER FERNS 



$2.00 per 1000 



Can Supply in Any Quantity 



H. M. ROBINSON & CO., 



32 OTIS ST. 

 2 WINTHROP SQ. 



Telephone. Main 2616 2617-2618 ; Fort Hill 25290 



BOSTON 



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CHICAGO. 



Wholesalers were notified today that 

 no more shipments of ferns would be 

 made from Massachusetts to Chicago 

 at present. 



A new cottage is now completed at 

 Williams' Bay, Lake Geneva, and the 

 Budlong and Schupp families will soon 

 be settled there for the summer. 



At Kennicotfs, peonies are coming 

 in and are being promptly placed in 

 cold storage. The greater part of the 

 blooms are arriving in satisfactory 

 condition, and it looks now as it the 

 season will be a profitable one. 



The Stanley rose is each year gain- 

 ing in favor at the J. A. Budlong place 

 where it made its first appearance in 

 some unknown way. Thinking it 

 something entirely new, Mr. Schupp 

 named it Priscilla, after his daughter, 

 and later learned that it is the Stan- 

 ley. One large bloom of this bloom was 

 by actual count found to contain nearly 

 100 petals. Mr. Schupp has now quite 

 a stock and likes the rose for its pink 

 color, form and fine stem and foliage. 



The strike which is now on does not 

 affect those growers within a few miles 

 of the city who use motor trucks. So 

 far shipments by train have generally 

 been delivered without much delay and 

 no violence, but with outgoing ship- 

 ments there has been more or less de- 

 lay and with Memorial Day almost 

 upon us and commencement season at 

 hand, it is much to be desired that the 

 difficulties of the express drivers be ad- 

 justed soon, if possible. Everything 

 possible is being done by the represen- 

 tatives of the trade to bring this about. 



ST. LOUIS. 

 The Art League offers $50 in prizes 

 for floral displays in downtown win- 

 dows for the -week of the Democratic 



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 11th. 



W. J. Pilcher, of Kirkwood, reports 

 that his rose grower, George Schmidt, 

 broke his arm last week when his 

 horse ran away near his greenhouse 

 plant. 



The new greenhouse plant of H. 

 Blixen is almost completed and will 

 be, when finished, 20.000 feet of glass. 

 This is just across the way from J. F. 

 Amniaiin's place, which consists of 

 50,000 square feet of glass. The new 

 firm, known as the Woodlawn Gardens, 

 will grow roses, carnations and chrys- 

 anthemums for this market. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



George A. Comley, of 1204 Wiscon- 

 sin avenue, suffered a rather painful 

 accident recently, badly bruising his 

 hand and breaking one of his fingers. 



The Brookland Rose Society an- 

 nounces that because of the cold 

 weather it has postponed until Mon- 

 day and Tuesday of next week the 

 annual exliibition of roses which had 

 been scheduled for the present week. 



Peter Bisset has returned from a 

 trip to New York City and Philadel- 

 phia, to which places he went to in- 

 spect the cooperative tests of Ameri- 

 can and Holland grown bullis. He 

 also inspected newly-introduced ma- 

 terials in the nurseries and green- 

 houses. 



Fred IT. Kramer is complaining of 

 tlie way in which shipments of rhodo- 

 dendrons and boxwood from Holland 

 reached him last week. Both were In 

 such poor condition as to be worthless. 

 In all probability the plants were held 

 up on the docks in Europe for a long 

 time before being loaded. 



There is now required but the sig- 

 nature of the President to make the 

 Johnson measure, prohibiting fraudu- 

 lent advertising in the District of 

 Columbia, to become a law. The pro- 

 posed law carried with it fines of up 

 to $."iOO and imprisonment of up to six 

 months for violations. Washington 

 merchants have been working hard 

 for a long time in the effort to have 

 this law enacted. 



BOSTON. 



Miss E. B. Snell, of Cambridge, is 

 now in the employ of Henry R. Com- 

 ley, Park street. 



An exquisite display of pond lilies 

 is the attraction in Thomas F. Gal- 

 vin's window this week. 



Wm. T. Chase, who has been with 

 Julius Zinn for many years, is taking 

 a much-needed and well-deserved rest 

 at Hudson, Mass. 



Martin Lally, manager of J. New- 

 man's Treniont Street store waa by 

 illness forced to temporarily relin- 

 quish his duties last Wednesday. 



There has been considerable discus- 

 sion over the advisability and legal- 

 ity of keeping the Boston Market 

 open for business on Sunday, May 28. 

 Those in favor of the plan contend 

 that Saturday is a bit too early for 

 transacting the bulk of the holiday 

 trade and that Monday, on the other 

 hand, is too late. No official action 

 has yet been taken by the directors. 



The entire wholesale florist district 

 of Boston will be completely isolated 

 from all shipping points during the 

 Preparedness Parade on Saturday the 

 27tli. The route of tlie parade is such 

 that Winthrop Square and Devon- 

 shire street will be surrounded by a 

 Ijractically impenetrable human wall 

 during the busiest half-day that the 

 florist calendar knows. Permits for 

 crossing the line of march cannot he 

 obtained and there is but one way to 

 get bundles and packages to the North 

 or South Stations. This is afforded 

 by the subway on Franklin street, 

 and it will be woefully inadequate in 

 serving the purposes of the wholesale 

 consignors. There seems to be no 

 other way out of the difficulty. 



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