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HORTICULTURE 



JiiiK" 17. l:<i' 



J. H. S 



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FLORISTS 



& SOIMS 



NEW YORK and 

 WASHINGTON 



Announce the removal of their New York store to 



505 MADISON AVENUE, AT 52d STREET 



WASHINGTON. D. C. 

 15th and H Sirectt 



Floral and Landscape Work 



NEW YORK Waldorf-AHorU 

 and 505 Madiion Ave. 



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NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO. 



lx)uis H. Winterson has left the seed 

 business to deal in real estate. 



S. Y. Bloom, 822 E. 63rd street, and 

 Alta Levy have selected June 18th as 

 their wedding day. 



Miss Klsa Schnapp is now with J. 

 Mangel as assistant in the Blackstone, 

 ■where business is always good. 



John Michaelson says that sales at 

 E. C. Amling's ran $12,000 ahead of 

 last year's in the month of May. 



Miss Virginia Poehhnann was grad- 

 uated from the University School for 

 Girls on the North bhore last week. 



The A. V. Amling Co.'s new place at 

 Mavwood is liaving its heating plant 

 installed this week. Four Kroeschell 

 boilers, each of 300 horse power, will 

 do the work. 



Miss Josephine Then, daughter of 

 Mr. and Mrs. Anton Then and well 

 known to the trade, is seriously ill at 

 the German hospital. At this writing 

 she is said to be slightly improved. 



Miss L. A. Tonner, who brings her 

 stock of peonies each day to their 

 wholesale store says that the rain and 

 winu together have made a hard com- 

 bination against peonies this year, but 

 they are showing some very fine stock 

 notwithstanding. 



During Manager Lautenschlagers 

 trip to Philadelphia, a community or- 

 der was placed with him for new 

 Kroeschell boilers and two car loads 

 will be on the tracks when this is in 

 print. The order includes two No. 15 

 boilers, one No. 14. one No. 12 and one 

 No. 24 and their destination Is Ken- 

 nett Square. Pa. 



Large shipments of palms, araucar- 

 ias. Days and aspidistras have arrived 

 recently for Frank Oechslin, Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co. and Winterson's Seed 

 Store. On account of war conditions 

 and congestion at terminals some have 

 been long on the way. Some of them, 

 however, have reached their destina- 

 tion in splendid condition. 



FLOWERS BY TEl-r.GRAI'H 



SAN FRANCISCO 



CAXIFOBNIA 



Pelicano, Rossi & Co. 



123 KEARNY ST. 



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 yet terminating the express employ- 

 ees' strike, but the office men were 

 replaced promptly and the regular 

 delivery of flowers to the trains is 

 made daily by the committee and 

 business goes on about as usual. By 

 actual count, the express company's 

 books show the handling of a larger 

 number of orders the past four weeks 

 than in a corresponding time last 

 year. 



The Vegetable Growers' 'Associa- 

 tion of America, through the efforts 

 of Fred Latitenschlager, are invited 

 to hold tlieir annual meeting this fall, 

 in Cliicago. The Association has 

 never met further west tlian Grand 

 Rapids, but there are so many en- 

 gaged in market gardening and so 

 much money invested in that business 

 in and around Chicago that it is a 

 most desirable place for meeting 

 occasionally. Mr. Lautenschlager has 

 .got all the seed houses and the build- 

 ing material firms interested ana 

 with the entertainment part in his 

 hands, success is assured. The ex- 

 ecutive board is meeting here June 

 15th for final arrangements. 



NEW YORK. 



A joint meeting of the committees 

 of the New York Florists' Club and the 

 Horticultural Society of New York to 

 for'iHilatc co-operative plans for next 

 year's spinng show, was held on Mon- 

 day, June 12, at the Hotel Manhattan. 

 No definite result was arrived at and 

 the meeting adjourned until .Monday, 

 June 19. when it is expected that some 

 mutual basis of co-operation will be 

 reached. 



The Tenth Annual Outing of the 

 New York and New Jersey Association 

 of Plant Growers will be held on June 

 27 at Forest Park Hotel, Forest Park, 

 Pike County, Pa. The party will leave 

 New York at 10.00 A. M. In a special 

 car attached to the Lackawanna Lim- 

 ited, arri-iang at the hotel at 1.30 P. M. 

 and in time for the mid-day dinner. 

 Refreshments will be provided en 

 route. Rooms, lodging and meals will 

 be provided at the hotel until the after- 

 noon of June 29th when the party will 

 return to New York via special car. 

 The tickets. Including fare, auto, rooms, 

 meals and all other expenses, are only 

 $15.00 per person. The affair has all 



ihe iiulualiuii.-) u: iiLiu^, i.i,c oi i..tj As- 

 sociation's most unique three-day out- 

 ings and will provide a most enjoyable, 

 "different" and economical outing In 

 the mountains and In genial company 

 for three days. 



PITTSBURGH. 



Landscape men on all sides are com- 

 plaining of continued scarcity of labor 

 witli no proiialiility of relief in sight. 



Clarence .Mason Sallee of Pittsburgh 

 was graduated last week from the Ohio 

 State University with the degree of 

 bachelor of Science in Horticulture. 



DeForrest W. Ludwig served as 

 chairman of the Foral Committee for 

 the Milk and Ice Association's benefit 

 performance at the Alvin Theatre last 

 week. 



During last week's celebration of the 

 elimination of the R. R. grade cross- 

 ings in Wilkinsburg, Miss Emma B. 

 .Maxwell's display window was charm- 

 ingly arranged with pink variegated 

 caladium foliage. Miss Maxwell's pro- 

 cessional float was also outlined with 

 pink roses. William M. Turner had a 

 most eflective float composed of thou- 

 sands of red and white peonies from 

 wliicl. was scattered along the trail 

 five thousand carnations of correspond- 

 ing shades. 



WASHINGTON, D. 0. 



July 19 has been selected for the an- 

 nual field day of the Florists' Club of 

 Washington, D. C. Captain William 

 H. Ernest, chairman of the committee, 

 predicted the event would be the most 

 successful in the history of the club. 

 Great Falls has again been selected 

 for the event. 



Harry B. Lewis was appointed chair- 

 man of the Preparedness Day commit- 

 tee with Instructions to enter into the 

 parade with as large a representation 

 as possible. It was later announced 

 that it was expected that more than 

 200 people directly connected with the 



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