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HORTICULTUEE 



August 7, 1915 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO. 



P. J. Foley is back from a business 

 trip and says tlie greenliouse business 

 is "picking up." 



Mr. and Mrs. F. Oechslin returned 

 Monday from their three weeks' trip. 

 They iironounce the West in general 

 and the exposition in particular as 

 splendid places for a vacation. 



T. McAllister, who is in charge of 

 the plant department at A. Lange's, 

 has left for an extended trip through 

 the west and will be at San Francisco 

 in time for the Convention. 



Ed. Enders. for many years buyer 

 for Chas. A. Samuelson, left on Satur- 

 day last for a tour of the western 

 states which will include a visit to the 

 apple orchard of his employee. He 

 will be away for several weeks. 



The florists of Chicago and vicinity 

 had a big flower sale on the 4th of Au- 

 gust, the proceeds of which are to go 

 to the Eastland survivors. The com- 

 mittee to handle the project were J. L. 

 Raske. W. P. Kyle, A. Chronis, Eric 

 Johnson and Conelia Ryan. 



Mr. and Mrs. Jas. G. Hancock and 

 daughters Belle and Miriam left Au- 

 gust 3 for a month in the west. They 

 went via the Canadian Pacific and will 

 visit friends in Seattle before going to 

 San Francisco, where they will meet 

 their daughter Franc, who has been 

 studying at the University of Califor- 

 nia. 



ST. LOUIS. 



C. C. Sanders, of the Sanders 

 Nursery leaves this week for a month's 

 western trip which will end at San 

 Francisco during the S. A. F. Conven- 

 tion. 



Supt. Ernest Strehl and the 25 park 

 employees who visited Chicago last 

 week returned home much pleased 

 with their trip and the hospitality of 

 the Chicago Park employees and the 

 members of Poehlmann Bros. Co. 



Albert Gumz, vice-president of the 

 Windier Wholesale Floral Co.. and his 

 bride were tendered a big surprise 

 party at the home of W. A. Rowe in 

 Kirkwood on Saturday, July 31, by 

 about 50 of their friends. Congratu- 

 lations and numerous presents were 

 forthcoming and a number of friends 

 who visit the wholesale houses each 

 morning clublied in with a handsome 

 cut glass set and china closet. The 

 evening was spent in a most enjoyable 

 manner. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The E. W. McClcllan Co. are moving 

 trom 18 Lick Place to 451 Bush street, 

 just across from the California fiower 

 market. 



The local market has been well sup- 

 plied with very nice tritoma brought 

 in by Schwerin Bros., from Visitacion 

 Valley, South San Francisco. 



Daniel MacRorie of the MacRorie- 

 McLaren Co., has returned from a visit 

 to the San Diego exposition and Los 

 Angeles with his father, and has taken 

 up his residence at Burlingame for the 

 next two months. 



The Francis Floral Co. is making 

 some improvements at its Powell 

 street shop, which will add to the gen- 

 eral appearance of the place, and pro- 

 vide better facilities in the packing and 

 shipping room at the rear. 



The MacRorie-McLaren Co. has about 

 completed the laying out of a large 

 garden at the home of Hiram Johnson, 

 Jr., on Russian Hill, said to be the 

 highest point in San Francisco. The 

 garden bed is made on solid rock. 



F. J, Bertrand, chairman of the Hotel 

 committee of the S. A. P. Convention, 

 says he is now receiving many in- 

 quiries about accommodations and is al- 

 ready making a good many reserva- 

 tions, which bids fair for a large at- 

 tendance at the Convention. Prepara- 

 tions are practically complete here. 



Mr. McLaren of the MacRorie-Mc- 

 Laren Co.. has just returned from Ash- 

 land. Ore., where he had been for some 

 little time laying out the Lafayette 

 Park of over a thousand acres. The 

 job included the architectural embel- 

 lishments of the park as well as the 

 landscaping. 



WASHINGTON. 



Frank Slye, of the Center Market, 

 has just returned from a two weeks' 

 stay at his country home in Bushwood 

 Md. 



Milton J. Redman, of the S. S. Pen- 

 nock-Meehan store, left last Saturday 

 for a ten days' stay at Atlantic Citv 

 N. J. 



Miss Minnie E. Shea, bookkeeper for 

 S. S. Pennock-Meehan Company, has 

 left the city for a three weeks' visit 

 in Springfield, Mass. 



Miss Jessie W'indsor, with Gude 

 Bros. Company, acquired an excellent 

 coat of tan during her month's vaca- 

 tion at Colonial Beach. Va. 



Peter T. Leapley, father of Frederick 

 Leapley, of Leapley & Meyer, died last 

 week at the age of sixty years. The 

 sympathy of the entire trade is with 

 the family of the deceased in their be- 

 reavement. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



George Edmondson late with Bur- 

 nett Bros., N. Y. City, has joined the 

 Dreer staff as assistant to J. Otto Thi- 

 low in the vegetable seed department. 



It is reproted that the outlook for 

 a reorganization and continuance of 

 the John-son Seed C'o.'s business, now 

 in receivership, is not encouraging. 



The Truly Rural Association held 

 their annual fishing trip at Waretown, 

 N. J., on July 3o, 31 and Aug. 1. One 

 Ijaby member was added to the ranks 

 this year — Charles L. -oybold, Super- 

 intendent of Parks, Wilkesbarre, Pa., 

 and received a warm baptism trom the 

 old timers. 



CINCINNATI. 



J. T. Conger has returned from a 

 visit to his son at Wichita, Kansas. 



Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kyrk have re- 

 turned from their honeymoon trip. 



Wm. Mayhall of E. G. Glllett's was 

 at home sick the first part of this 

 week. 



Ed. Bossmeyer, of C. E. Critchell's 

 is having his vacation during the cur- 

 rent fortnight. 



Gus. Brunner has left for a trip 

 through the northern states. His first 

 stopping place is Petoskey, Mich. 



Northampton, Mass. — Edward J. 

 Canning, Northampton, Mass., an- 

 nounces that he will offer a fall and 

 winter course of twelve weeks to am- 

 bitious young men tor the study of 

 practical landscape gardening, draw- 

 ing plans, etc., and a critical study of 

 trees, shrubs, vines and herbaceous 

 perennials used in the art of land- 

 scape gardening. The course will be 

 divided into two terms of six weeks 

 each, the first term beginning Novem- 

 ber 9, and ending December 23, 1915; 

 the second term beginning January 4, 

 and ending February 17. 1916. Mr. 

 Canning has had a long experience 

 at landscape gardening and teaching. 

 He is a graduate of the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Kew, London, England. He 

 was for nineteen years curator of the 

 Botanic Gardens and instructor In 

 horticulture and practical landscape 

 gardening at Smith College, North- 

 ampton, .Mass., and for a time in- 

 structor in plant materials at the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 Amherst, JIass. He is now In busi- 

 ness as a practical landscape archi- 

 tect. 



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