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HORTICULTUBE 



Juno lu, li'Hi 



J. M. SIVI 



& SOIMS 



FLORISTS 



NEW YORK and 

 WASHINGTON 



Announce the removal of their New \'ork store to 



505 MADISON AVENUE, AT 52d STREET 



WASHINGTON. D. C. 

 ISth and H StreeU 



Floral and Landscape Work ''1 



YORK Waldorf-Attoria 

 d 505 Maditon Ave. 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 





BOSTON. 



Joseph Dowd, recently with Thomas 

 F. Galvin. New York, has been trans- 

 ferred to the Boston store of the cor- 

 poration. 



Silverman, of Winter street, has pur- 

 chased two new auto trucks, one of 

 which will be sent to the New London 

 store and the other kept for delivery 

 service in Boston. 



The grounds at Holm Lea, Prof. C. S. 

 Sargent's estate in Brookline, were 

 open for the public to visit on Satur- 

 day and Sunday, June 10 and 11. The 

 rhododendrons, irises and many other 

 Jiine flowering subjects were never 

 more attractive here than they are this 

 season. 



The Polish wire-workers of Boston 

 walked out on their employers only 

 to return when an eight per cent, raise 

 and Saturday afternoons were con- 

 ceded to them. With the 200 per cent, 

 increase in price of copper wire and 

 the eight per cent, increase in wages 

 florists' wire frames will soon go 

 sailing. 



The annual exterior plant decora- 

 tion on the Wm. Filene building is 

 exceptionally unique and interesting 

 this year. Window boxes filled with 

 geraniums and Japan maples, form the 

 basis of the decoration scheme and 

 streamers of English ivy and other 

 trailers make a decidedly pleasing 

 picture. John D. Twomljly, of Win- 

 chester, attends to this work each year. 



Mayor Curley last Monday announced 

 the withdrawal of the name of John 

 H. Dillon, to be chairman of the Park 

 and Recreation Commission. Dillon's 

 name was before the Civil Service 



FLOWERS BV TELEGRAPH 



SAN FRANCISCO 



CAirFORKIA 



Pelicano, Rossi & Co. 



12a KEARNY ST. 



> (iiiiiiiiMcin icir r'';i|i|'oiiitT'Mril , nM a 

 week ago he was subjected to an ai- 

 tack by the Good Government Asso- 

 ciation, which branded him as inef- 

 ficient and in other ways undesirable. 

 The Civil Service Commission had 

 planned a public hearing on the ap- 

 pointment. The Mayor declares that 

 Dillon will continue to bold office and 

 that confirmation of a reappointment 

 is not necessary. He charges that Sec- 

 retary Bottomly, of th; Good Govern 

 ment Association, is attempting to 

 play politics ami that a short lime ago 

 Bottomly opposed public hearings for 

 appointments. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

 The florists of Providence and other 

 sections of Rhode Island turned out 

 77 strong in the "preparedness" paradi 

 in Providence last baturday, which 

 proved the greatest civic demonstra- 

 tion ever witnessed here. Robert 

 Johnston was marshal of the Florists' 

 Division and his aids were Alexander 

 Macrae and Maxwell Villar. The firms 

 represented in the division included 

 the following: Nelson W. Aldricb 

 estate, Johnston Brothers, William 

 Appleton, T. R. Peterson, M. Sweeney, 

 O. H. Williams & Sons, Westminister 

 Greenhouses, S. H. Toher & Sons, 

 Joseph Koppleman & Company, Smith 

 the Florist, William Bowers, Lawrence 

 Hay, William Hay, T. O'Connor, Willis 

 S. Pino, George Johnson & Son, John 

 A. Macrae, Alfred M. Powell, R. J. 

 Taylor, E. E. Howard, Francis Luther, 

 Thomas Ivlack and V. Bernarducci. The 

 committee in charge of the arrange- 

 ments for the Florists' Division were 

 Robert Johnston (chairman), James 

 Dillon, Mrs. I. Dickinson, William H. 

 O'Connor, Lawrence Hay, Alexander 

 Macrae and Herbert West. S. A. G. 



Baldwinvllle, Mass. — Frank Cogs- 

 well of New Salem has purchased two 

 100-ft. greenhouses here and will en- 

 gage in cucumber forcing. 



CHICAGO. 



Some big orders are going out today 

 for the Billings-Nickless wedding. 

 Both church and house will be pro- 

 fus(i|y decorated, the former banked 

 with peonies and lilies against cibo- 

 tiunis. and the lattep calling for quan- 

 tities of roiies. C. A. Samuelson has 

 the greater share of the orders Judg- 

 ing from the way his buyer was plcK- 

 ing up stock. 



August Poehlmann does not share 

 the opinion of many that the Ameri- 

 can Beautx is declining in value as a 

 commercial flower but only wishes 

 that their 18 houses devoted to this 

 flower, numbered 36 instead. Orchid 

 plants are coming from this firm's col- 

 lector in South America and another 

 collector is now working in the Philip- 

 pines. It is between seasons for cut- 

 ting but the gipas are doing excep- 

 tionally well and the cool spring fa- 

 vors a fine crop soon. 



"Preparedness" was celebrated to 

 such an extent June 3rd that local flor- 

 ists missed a large part, and in some 

 cases nearly all of their Saturday 

 trade. With all the other lines of 

 business suspended, it would bo little 

 trade outside of funeral and wedding 

 orders that would come to them and 

 many closed their stores at noon. 

 When "old glory" is in every conspicu- 

 ous place possible, even flowers are 

 forgotten for the time. Some of the 

 down-town florists had appropriate 

 window decorations. 



May covered a range of 50 degrees 

 temperature with less sunshine than 

 normal. The month was cold and 

 windy and shrubbery was in bloom 

 but a few days. Outdoor tulips were 



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