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May ^9. 191& 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



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BOSTON. 



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I'lowor Kxrhnnno has ar- 

 at U' noon i-v<ry Sat- 

 uriM* iiuiiuK lilt' months of July and 

 August. 



■ les of the local trade 

 . Mrs. May Kishor. of 



■ lotit h«r mother this 



tores have doubled 



U for the sale of 



1 iii.i^-NMlia wreathes which 



y ciittlni: Into the cut flow- 



\Sor. . M. r. 

 last week. 



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 their 



Some apecialtles noted this week are 

 .,v' ■ • ' III Donald Carmlchael; 



<; I Blossom from J. R. 



Sill. ..1. .-|. ....... from the Sutemieister 



Estate and Gypsophlla elegans from 

 \V. U. Nicholson of Framingham. 



Penn the Florist has taken on sev- 

 eral college boys as extra help, an ex- 

 periment In the psychology of employ- 

 ees which Mr. Penn has been trying 

 out during the last few months. Much 

 space Is being used In newspaper ad- 

 vertising this week. 



This is one of the busiest weeks in 

 the year for the plant grower. A. 

 Leutby who is one of the old reliables 

 for the Boston trade tells us that, the 

 bedding plant call this spring has gone 

 ahead of the record on some things 

 while on others it has lagged badly. 

 Geraniums have never sold as t'ley 

 have this year and he cannot get them 

 In bloom fast enough. Geraniums must 

 be in bloom to sell. Cannas are also 

 in unprecedented demand, as well as 

 salvias, Zurich being the popular fa- 

 vorite in the latter. Alternantheras 

 are going rapidly too, the variety Tur- 

 ban having the preference over the old 

 Brilliantissima. It is noticeable that 

 the main call this season is for bright 

 colors the reds and scarlets being al- 

 most exclusively demanded )ii many 

 cases, a very consistent predile'lion in 

 this year of fire and bloodsheil. 



Among the foliage plants which 

 have sold well this spring are Dra- 

 caena indivisa and rubbers. The latter 

 promise to be very scarce and few will 

 care to risk their importation this 

 year owing to the almost ceitain trans- 

 portation delays which rubbers can- 

 not stand. It looks like a big oppor- 

 tunity for some one to go in heavily 

 on the propagation of this plant in 

 this country. Boston ferns are very 

 scarce at present, no surplus anj-where. 

 Among the bedding stock not hither- 

 to used much for outdoor planting 

 heretofore Schizanthus Wisetonensis 

 seems to be finding a place for itself 

 and is making many friends. 



I rum Itijtiry while automolillInK hint 

 Monday afternoon. A large touring 

 car crushed Into the Gude cur and 

 badly dumaged It. Altliough escaping 

 serious injury, the ladies were badly 

 shaken up. 



The fourth annual rose exhibition of 

 the Urookland Itose Society ecllpHed 

 all previous efTorls of that orguni/.a- 

 lion. Charles F. Tansill. president of 

 the society, won must of the firizes, in- 

 cluding the sweepstaUc gold medal pre- 

 sented by Ulshop Shahan. George \V. 

 Hess, was the chairman of the judg- 

 ing committee. 



WASHINGTON, D, C. 

 Miss Esther Gude, daughter oi Adol- 

 phus Gude, her mother, grandmother 

 and a girl friend, had a narrow escape 



A miniature rose show was condml- 

 ed last week at the United States Bo- 

 tanical Gardens. .Mr. Hess made a dis- 

 play of about seventy-five varieties. 

 The gardens are now at their best 

 with respect to the spring flowers. 

 There are beds of peonies covering 

 nearly an acre of ground. A bed of 

 banana plants, has just been set out, 

 bordered with cannas. 



Hedge shears imported are dutiable 

 at the rate of Sv per cent, ad valorem 

 according to a decision of the l". S. 

 Court of Customs Appeals, and are not 

 entitled to free entry as "agricultural 

 implements." The court held that 

 hedges, whether on the farm or around 

 the city home, were ornamental only 

 and not entitled to classiflcalion with 

 articles used for the production of 

 foodstuffs. 



LANCASTER, (VIASS. 



The gardens at Hawthorne Hall, the 

 beautiful summer home of .Mr. and 

 -Mrs. Bayard Thayer, at Lancaster, 

 .Mass., were on Saturday last, between 

 the hours of 2 and 7, open to the pub- 

 lic, and the generous invitation ex- 

 tended by .Mr. and Mrs. Thayer to the 

 people of all this section, to view the 

 gorgeous floral display, was accepted 

 by a large number, although on ac- 

 count of the heavy rain in the after- 

 noon, the attendance was not as large 

 as last year. Throughout the after- 

 noon the i)eople wandered over the 

 spacious lawns of the estate from one 

 garden to the other, spending perliaps 

 the most time in the Italian garden 

 where the lilacs were superb this year. 

 The tulips in the walled English gar- 

 den never looked better. The Darwins 

 are remarkable for their length of 

 stem, size of flower and brilliancy of 

 color. Some new and very fine varie- 

 ties have been added to the collection 

 since last year. Irises look very prom- 

 ising. 



The new Chinese "Exochorda gran- 

 diflora Wilsoni" was a mass of white 

 flowers and is said to be the largest 

 plant of this variety in cultivation and 

 was much admired. The flowering 

 crab apples were in full bloom, the 

 double flowering Malus lonensis being 

 especially beautiful. A good many 

 rhododendrons were lost here this sea- 

 son but the survivors have all been re- 

 arranged and there is nothing left to 

 indicate any trouble, thanks to the 

 adroit planting skill of Superintendent 

 William Anderson. 



CHICAGO. 



'•'•"■ ^ic c.'k has bought out Jas 



E. I'apacek at 3250 VV. 26lh street. 



Emma G. Owen opened the "Flower 

 Shop" May 18th, at i(H N. Laramie 

 avenue. 



W. R, .Mesler & t;o. of Illmo, Mo., 

 are showing a wood veneered box of 

 the knockdown type, to growers In 

 Chicago. It is wire bound and appears 

 to be practical. 



Zech & Mann believe in a motto of 

 "old customers flrst" and are writing 

 to that effect to would-be customers 

 who send in their flrst orders this week 

 for Memorial Day. 



Garden plants are reported as being 

 ruined by the cold winds that followed 

 the premature springlike weather, and 

 at Winterson's Seed Store, demands 

 for second orders for replacing early 

 plantings are reported as coming in. 

 All soft wooded stock had a poor 

 chance to live in the open ground. 



John Michaelson of the E. C. Amling 

 Co., sizes up the peony crop as about 

 one-half of a normal one. Following 

 last year, when we had almost a double 

 crop, the situation is hard to grasp. 

 The shipments now are coming from 

 one hundred to one hundred-flfty miles 

 from Chicago and a very few locals 

 are being cut. 



S. P. Leonard has the sympathy of 

 the trade in the loss of his youngest 

 son Robert Weston Leonard, who 

 passed away at the home of his broth- 

 er, in Antec, Wis., May 17th. The 

 funeral took place from the family 

 home in Oak Park, III., March 20tb. 

 and interment was at Rose Hill Cem- 

 etery. The deceased was thirty years 

 old and had been ill over a year. 



A. L. Vaughan & Co. have taken up 

 a new enterprise in addition to their 

 regular wholesale flower business. 

 They are manufacturing a very attrac- 

 tive line of florists' baskets and as 

 the use of baskets is constantly grow- 

 ing more and more popular with the 

 flower buying public, it looks as if the 

 venture were bound to be a success 

 like everything else this flrm under- 

 t.Tkes. 



('has. A. Samuelson had the decora- 

 tion for one of the largest events of 

 the -spring, the Stout-Armstrong wed- 

 ding. It was a rose wedding and 300 

 plants of Dorothy Perkins, Tausend- 

 schoen and Baby Rambler were used. 

 The seven large arches in the home 

 were party enclosed with a lattice, 

 hung with clusters of roses. Four tall 

 standards made up to represent rose 

 trees, seven ft. in height, were used 

 where the bridal party stood. Table 

 decorations and bouquets carried out 

 the same scheme with beautiful effect 



.At Frank Oechslin's, the only exclu- 

 sive plant range in Chicago, every 

 truck and horse is in use delivering 

 plants. The extreme warm weather In 



