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K<-I>nmry 13, 1915 



PACIFIC COAST NOTES. 



K. TsukiUii. a Jiiiuuifsi' Iloilst ol 

 lx)s Angflts. has sold out to T. 

 Kawato. 



Joseph's floral shop on Grant avenue 

 is making quite a hit wltli a side line 

 of very original Valentine novelties. 



The State of Pennsylvania lias in- 

 ireased the appropriation for its build- 

 ing at tlie E.\positlon. and is recon- 

 structing its gardens. 



Sebastian Simon, a llorisi of i:!M 

 Third avenue. Los Angeles, haa Just 

 returned from the war zone, where he 

 has been since .lune. Mr. Simon is a 

 native of Alsace, and was at Stiasburg 

 wlien the war broke out. remaining in 

 the district to aid in gathering the 

 crops. 



The third large shipment from Hol- 

 land for the Panama-Pacific Kxposition 

 arrived this week, consisting of eleven 

 carloads of rhododendrons, clipped 

 conifers and bulbs, which will com- 

 plete the most important horticultural 

 exhibit ever made by Holland outside 

 its own borders. 



The Ways and Means Committee of 

 the Pacific Coast Horticultural Society. 

 met on the evening of Feb. 4 to look 

 over designs for the souvenir program 

 for the S. A. F. convention, but did not 

 make any final selection. The regular 

 monthly meeting of the Society will 

 be held the coming Saturday. 



The MacRorie-McIyaren Company is 

 still busy with Exposition work. A 

 lot of mammoth tree ferns planted 

 around the Australia building are com- 

 ing out nicely since the rain, and ;i 

 large amount of similar stcK-k is being 

 planted in the Hawaiian section. Thi.s 

 company is carrying out a large plant- 

 ing of miscellaneous material around 

 the Australia building, consisting en- 

 tirely of plants native to Australasia. 



Richard Groves, who for fourteen 

 years was proprietor of the Park 

 Floral Company, at I4:?8 Haight street. 

 San Francisco, which he sold out re- 

 cently, was struck and almost instantly 

 killed by a Southern Pacific train at 

 San Leandro on the night of .Ian. 29. 

 He was 43 years of age. At the time 

 of his death he was engaged in horti- 

 cultural experiments with has brother, 

 F. R. Groves, of 5500 E. Fourteenth 

 street. Oakland. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Our good friend Tliomas B. Meehan 

 is a very busy man these days. Besides 

 being the head of one of the oldest 

 nurseries, he is also the guiding spirit 

 in several important committees of 

 the American Association of Nursery- 

 men. He is also secretary of the 

 Nurserymen's Protective Association, 

 and on the executive committee and 

 the legislative committee of the Penn- 

 sylvania Nurserymen's Association. In 

 addition to all this the Florists' Club 

 of Philadelphia has recently had the 

 nerve to appoint him on the institute 

 committee for the celebration March 

 5th and 6th. next. 



One on the Philosopher. 



Paul is a German: George a Scot. 

 They are dear friends of twenty-five 

 years standing. George was moraliz- 

 ing on the war. "Well, thank the 



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Lord, we are both of us too old now 

 to shoulder a musket. But just think 

 of the insanity of it. Suppose you and 

 I at opposite sides of a trench and told 

 to shoot each other. There would be 

 two good men wiped off the map — and 

 the, world that much worse oft and 

 witliout any reason." "No," says Paul, 

 "you're wrong there. There would 

 only be one less Scotsman." "Is that 

 so! How do you make that out?" 

 "Why, donner blitzen, I'd shoot first, 

 of course!" Ouch. G. C. W. 



Begonias were named after M. Begon, 

 governor of San Domingo, about 200 

 years ago. 



Spiraea .laponica and its varieties 

 will now force quite readily. These 

 should be started in a brisk heat. 



.\n article well advertised in the 

 trade papers has advanced letters of 

 introduction that open the merchant's 

 doors upon the salesman's arrival^ 



DO YOU KNOW THAT— 



There are almost a thousand nanicn 

 varieties of sweet peas. 



In 18.54 there was not a single flowir 

 store in Xew York City. 



The first greenhouse in America was 

 built in New York in 1764. 



Cypress wood has been known to en- 

 dure for more than 1000 years. 



Clean sand is one of the most im- 

 portant requisites for propagation. 



The first American exhibition of thf 

 chrysanthemum, was held in Boston. 



Small and frequent shifts lead to 

 freer growth in young rose plants 

 than one shift to large pots. 



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