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cavations shall be large enough to af- 

 ford plenty of root room. J. G. Han- 

 cock is chairman of the tree commit- 

 tee. 



Notes. 



Two hundred vacant lots were as- 

 signed last week, to applicants for 

 garden purposes. The demand for 

 these lots is far ahead of the number 

 to be offered. The small farms move- 

 ment is getting under way and some- 

 thing definite will soon be arranged. 



The incorporation of the Napierville 

 Nurseries, April 1st, adds another to 

 the long list in and about Chicago. 

 Helen Von Oven, and Frederick and 

 Emma Von Oven comprise the firm. 



Fred Lautenschlager is expected 

 home from the east about April 20th, 

 where he has spent several weeks in 

 the interests of Kroeschell Brothers, 

 gathering m the orders. Two more 

 boilers were added to the number al- 

 ready sent to England by this firm. 



Miss Harper of the Bassett & Wash- 

 burn ofhce force had the misfortune to 

 have her hand seriously injured on an 

 elevated train, when the guard closed 

 the door upon it. The slipping out of 

 joint of one of the small bones near 

 the wrist, saved breaking of the arm 

 but it was extremely painful. No set- 

 tlement has been made as yet by the 

 railway company. To some it would 

 have been fortunate that the left hand 

 was the one injured, but to her it is 

 unfortunate as she is left-handed. 



WASHINGTON. 



Mrs. J. A. Philipps, of the Flower 

 Shop, has gone near Sycamore Island, 

 in Virginia, for a short rest. 



Fred H. Kramer can now boast of 

 having in his employ a young man who 

 can readily qualify as a good amateur 

 boxer, for Wilbur I. Doty, his chauffeur, 

 did valiant w'ork recently in capturing 

 a man giving his name as Joseph R. 

 Rollins, whom he caught in the act of 

 scaling the partition that encloses Mr. 

 Kramer's private office. Another man. 

 said to have been working with Rol- 

 lins, was <'aptured later. 



Plans for the coming encampment 



THE Florists' Supply 

 House of America 



H.BAYERSDORFER&CO. 



1129 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



of the Grand Army of the Republic are 

 progressing in a very satisfactory man- 

 ner and a large number of florists are 

 on the various committees on which 

 they hold important positions. It is 

 expected that this will be the last en- 

 campment of the old soldiers that will 

 ever be held. A number of veterans 

 engaged in the florist business are 

 expected to come with their old regi- 

 ments. 



Charles Scarborough, an employee 

 of Gude Bros. Company, has gone to 

 his father's place in Philadelphia to re- 

 cuperate following a serious accident 

 caused by being struck by a trolley 

 car, in which it is feared that several 

 of his ribs may have been fractured. 

 Another of the employees of this firm 

 who is unable to perform his usual du- 

 ties is Earl Wilson who is suffering 

 from a badly poisoned arm and hand 

 due to handling American Beauty 

 roses which had been sprayed with a 

 poisonous liquid. He is in quite bad 

 shape. 



PITTSBURGH. 



H. E. Graves, of the Zieger Com- 

 pany, has returned from a visit to his 

 former home in Beloit, Ohio. 



Ernest Guter, who has charge of the 

 Richard Beatty Mellon estate on Fifth 

 avenue and Beechwood boulevard, is 

 seriously ill with pneumonia. 



The usual reaction has followed 

 Easter, and were it not for the unusual 

 amount of funeral work, the week 

 would have been "too dull for words." 

 The wholesale houses have been fairly 

 glutted with plants and cut flowers, 

 "the finest in the land, too." One local 

 house is shortly to begin some exten- 

 sive additions to its nursery depart- 

 ment, but not wanting to be flooded 

 prematurely with agents, will make no 

 announcement of the fact until ab- 

 solutely necessary, which practically 

 means until "the tact leaks out." 



Superintendent William Allen, of the 

 Homewood Cemetery, and .1. Gerry 

 Curtis, borough forester for Sewickley, 

 Wilkinsburg and Dormont, who are 

 largely responsible for the Vacant Lot 

 movement, which is just assuming pro- 

 portions in this city, have been ap- 

 pointed chairmen respectively of the 

 two sub-committees of the Civic Club 

 of Allegheny County in charge. Mr. 

 Curtis is also now in charge of "Soli- 

 tude," the Pittsburgh estate of the late 

 George Westinghouse in Homewood, 

 and, with his family, moved there the 

 first of April. He came here from Bos- 



ton a few years ago as assistant chair- 

 man of the Tree Planting Commission, 

 which work was abolished by councils 

 last year, and has offices in the Farm- 

 ers' Bank Building. Mr. Curtis re- 

 ceived his technical training at the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College at 

 Amherst. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Arbor Day was celebrated by the 

 city officials, who, headed by Mayor 

 Kirl. planted 100 trees in Fair Ground 

 Park Friday, April 9. 



Otto G. Koenig, well known in trade 

 circles, was elected alderman at an 

 election held Tuesday, April 13. He 

 went in with the rest of the big Repub- 

 lican victory. 



Nelson Conliff, who was chief en- 

 gineer of the City Park Department, 

 was on April 10 appointed park com- 

 missioner to succeed Dwight F. Davis 

 by Director of Public Welfare Tol- 

 kaez. 



R. J. Windier, with his family, will 

 leave St. Louis May 1 to make their 

 home in Chicago, having leased one 

 of the places owned by Adam Zender, 

 his father-in-law, at Rodgers Park, 

 where he will grow cut flowers for 

 this market. 



New York — The collapse of the steel' 

 underpinning supporting the sidewalk 

 and building line in the new subway 

 costructions in Broadway between 28th 

 and 29th street late last Monday 

 afternoon dropped the sidewalk four 

 inches, caused a panic among the 

 workmen under the street and spread 

 an alarm among pedestrians. A score 

 of policemen were kept busy stilling 

 the cries of fear and blocking off the 

 threatened section of the street. Fifty 

 occupants in Oestreicher Brothers' 

 store at No. 1191 Broadway and in the 

 florist shop of Warendorff at No. 1193 

 were conducted to places of safety. 

 The ceilings of these offices were 

 found to be cracked. 



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