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NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



BOSTON. 

 W. U. llolil.'ii hiis Koiif to Miiliie on 

 a IlsliliiK trip In <<>iii|)uiiy «'tl> L-- E. 

 Sitmll. of TfwkHbury. 



William Mlllor of Lynn has gone to 

 BuHtln'8 iHlnnd. Casco Bay, Me,, to 

 stay throiiRli the sunimer. 



Norrls K. foniloy In cutting and 

 niark€'llnK lit-nvy dully cuts of his 

 special Terrnce Hull tomato, also the 

 English variety Buck's Tresco. 



We have to report the serious Ill- 

 ness of Peter M. Miller of Thos. J. 

 Grey Company, with pleurisy, but are 

 pleased to announce that he is now 

 convalescing satisfactorily. 



On Saturday and Sunday. June 12 

 and 13. Professor C. S. Sargent's gar- 

 dens nt Brookllne were opened to the 

 public to enjoy the gorgeous spectacle 

 of the rhododendrons and uzaleas. The 

 number of visitors was very large. 



The two sensations of the week In 

 this community are the failure of Sid- 

 ney Hoffman and the death of .\ugust 

 Gaedeke. The latter, although locat- 

 ed in .Nashua. N. H.. was well known 

 In the flower market section here and 

 highly esteemed. 



Express wagon loads of boxes ad- 

 dressed to numerous florists in north- 

 ern New York. New Hampshire. Maine, 

 Massachusetts and Vermont, have been 

 noted repeatedly, during the past few- 

 days especially, leaving the Welch 

 Bros.' wholesale place, showing a very 

 encouraging activity in the shipping 

 business, while local trade was notice- 

 ably quiet. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Arthur Nlessen tripped on a board 

 In the store and fractured an elbow. 

 Is at his desk, but can't siRn checks. 

 Head all right. Will be O. K. in about 

 a month, he thinks. 



The annual picnic of tlie Philadel- 

 phia Florists' Club will be held at 

 Scheutzen Park on June 21. afternoon 

 and evening. Games will be held in 

 the afternoon and after dinner there 

 will be music and dancing In the pa- 

 villion. 



Among the June weddings of inter- 

 est to many in the trade may be men- 

 tioned Marie Westcott, Grace Marie 

 Habermehl and Elizabeth Burton. 

 Miss Westcott's will occur on June 

 15, Miss Habermehl's on the 23rd. 

 Your society reporter has not been in- 

 formed of Miss Burton's date. 



Messrs. John Voung and F. R. New- 

 bold of New York had a meeting here 

 June 10, with representatives of Phil- 

 adelphia's 400 to arrange for a tea 

 room as a feature of the National 

 Flower Show of 1916. The local sub- 

 committees of the National Commit- 

 tee also held a meeting on the same 

 date. 



The crop of June brides is unusual- 

 ly luxuriant this year. Your society 

 reporter no sooner finishes a para- 

 graph about several of them than 

 along comes word of another. So off 



cuiiKb tlie hilt and un kocs tlic huiIIc 

 again. Tliis tinio It Is for Ell/.abolh 

 Lewis Ilulmcs, daughter of H. L. 

 Holnii's (if Harrisburg, who will l>o 

 married June 24 to Arthur Park Ituth- 

 erford. 



PITTSBURGH. 

 The annual ciniiloycs' outing of the 

 A. W. Smith Company was held last 

 Sunday at Canfleld, Ohio, the home of 

 the Smith nurseries. 



The flve-acre estate of Mrs. Tliomas 

 Armstrong has attracted much admi- 

 ration owing to a border of Azalea mol- 

 lis. Richard B. Harris is in charge of 

 these grounds. 



DeForest Ludwig has been spending 

 the past few days at Meyersdale In 

 the Allegheny Mountains. His broth- 

 er, Edward Ludwig. will return home 

 today from Cornell L'niversity, where 

 he ends his junior year. 



The Joseph Home Company is ad- 

 vertising Tuesdays and Wednesdays as 

 Rose Days, and will beautify the store 

 with bowers of these lovely June blos- 

 soms. These floral demands will as 

 usual be supplied by the A. W. Smith 

 Company. 



At tlie A. R. Peacock greenhouses, 

 Henry B. Kreillor. the head gardener, 

 has over 3000 chrysanthemums. 2000 

 carnations and 1000 cyclamens coming 

 on for next season. Mr. Kreillor. who 

 is a Scot, was formerly at the H. C. 

 Frick estate with David Frazer, and 

 later with T. Hart Given. 



J. C. Trees, of North Highland Ave., 

 is contemplating an additional rose 

 and carnation house, twenty feet by 

 fifty, to Ills propagating house, which 

 is under the supervision of Pasquale 

 Fabbozzi. Mr. Fabbozzi has some ex- 

 ceptionally fine massed hybrid tea 

 roses throughout the estate. 



Nicholas Castelluccio, who superin- 

 tends the horticultural feat\ires for 

 the Penn. R. R. from Pittsburgh to 

 Scottdale. has added immensely to the 

 appearance of the East Liberty Sta- 

 tion waiting room by a large central 

 round of palms and other tropical foli- 

 age surrounded by white marble. Mr. 

 Castelluccio has just added two charm- 

 ing beds — geraniums bordered with 

 coleus and cannas with a border of 

 salvia — to the grounds of the superin- 

 tendent adjoining the station grounds. 



"Hearts and Flowers" is the firm 

 music of the Ludwig Floral Company, 

 these days. Announcement has just 

 been made of the engagement of Gil- 

 bert Ludwig the secretary, to Miss 

 Loretta Grau. which will terminate in 

 a quiet home wedding about the mid- 

 dle of July. The bridegroom-to-be is 

 the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Lud- 

 wig, and his fiancee has for some 

 time been associated with the firm's 

 business office. The marriage of Miss 

 Anna Meuschke, the daughter of Mr. 

 and Mrs. Henry Meuschke (the form- 

 er treasurer of the Ludwig Floral 

 Company), to Louis Walthers, also of 

 Pittsburgh, will be an elaborately ap- 

 pointed ceremony of Wednesday eve- 

 ning next at the Meuschke home iu 

 Castle Shannon. 



ST, LOUIS. 

 .1. Erlkson i'loral Co., wlio opened 

 rc.cntly In the lul Alul Building has 

 closed up his place. .Mr. Krikson Is 

 from Atlanta, Ca., where he operated 

 a range of glass known as tlie Erlkson 

 Floral Co, 



The Ladies' Home Circle met at the 

 liome of .Mrs. .\. .Meyer, Jr. on June 9 

 and were splendidly entertained by 

 the hostess. .Mrs. John Steldel of 

 Olivette will entertain the ladles at 

 their next meeting, July 14, 



Tlie many friends of Prof. Wm. Tre- 

 lease, forniiT director of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden, was glad to see 

 him in his re<eiit visit here early this 

 month. The professor is now head of 

 the School of Botany at University of 

 Illinois. 



The flower wholesalers at a meeting 

 held at Kuehn's on Saturday. June 12, 

 decided to close at 5 P. .M, dally and 

 on Saturday at noon and remain 

 closed until .Monday morning, for the 

 next three months. Notices will be 

 mailed to all In the trade to this effect. 



NEW YORK. 



William Plumb arrived home from 

 Cuba on the S. S. Havana last Wed- 

 nesday morning, rosy and smiling as 

 ever. 



Brief mention of the marriage of 

 David Don and Miss Vine comes to 

 us at the last moment without details. 

 Congratulations. 



The committee In charge of the N. 

 Y. Florists' Club outing on July 14, re- 

 port a very large advance sale for 

 tickets to that happy annual affair. 



.-Alfred T. Bunyard. retail florist, has 

 leased additional store space in 413 

 Madison avenue, corner of 48th street, 

 where he has been located for a num- 

 ber of years. 



Secretary John Young is overflowing 

 with enthusiasm and optimism re- 

 garding the progress of preliminary 

 work for the National Flower Show at 

 Philadelphia. 



Portland, Me.— The exhibit by the 

 agricultural department at the Maine 

 State Exposition during the past week 

 has attracted large numbers of vis- 

 itors and is regarded by the fair man- 

 agement as one of the most educa- 

 tional sections at the exposition. The 

 bureau of moth work combined their 

 exhibits into a very effective display 

 of entomological specimens, of insects 

 of injurious propensities, including 

 the gypsy and browntail moths. Of re- 

 markable interest was the exhibit of 

 parasites such as are being bred at 

 the state's laboratory in Portland to 

 prey upon the undesirable insect in- 

 habitants of Maine. Feeding trays for 

 the parasites, such as are in regular 

 use were shown and on these the 

 parasites were seen partaking of the 

 rations provided them, which consist- 

 ed of browntail moth caterpillars. 



