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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Kelly Street Business Men's 

 Association were the guests of the 

 famous civil engineer and railroad 

 builder, Capt. Frank H. Clement, at 

 Port-au-Peck, near Long Beach, N. 

 J., on August 23 and 24. This organi- 

 zation, according to the bronze tablet 

 at Kelly street, consists of: "Mem- 

 bers of the Judiciary, Senators and 

 Representatives of the United States, 

 State Legislators, Officers of the Army 

 and Navy and of the National Guard, 

 Engineers, Scientists, Lawyers, News- 

 papermen. Financiers, Merchants, 

 Manufacturers. Thespians and Boni- 

 faces." The horticultural trade was 

 represented in this remarkable ag- 

 gregation by John Burton, Paul Hueb- 

 ner and George C. Watson. A clam 

 bake under the trees on the lawn was 

 a feature of Saturday's proceedings. 



Howard M. Earl started on the L'lst 

 on a business trip among the seed 

 trade down Detroit way. John H. 

 Earl is in the P. R. R. civil engineer- 

 ing corps, at present operating in the 

 vicinity of Baltimore. Douglas Earl is 

 back on his old job at the Dreer seed 

 store having started in again on the 

 ISth inst. after a brief vacation since 

 his return from the front in France. 



departments for Johnson & Stokes, a 

 well known Philadelphia seed firm. Mr. 

 Sherry will leave for Boston on Aug. 

 30th and join his family and enter 

 upon his new duties at the Peacock 

 Dahlia Farms on September 8th. 



NEW ENGLAND. 



MR. SHERRY'S NEW POSITION. 



W. J. Sherry, of Dreer's, leaves that 

 firm on Aug. 29 and connects with the 

 Peacock Dahlia Farms at Williams- 

 town Junction, N. J., as office and 

 sales manager. Prior to his connec- 

 tion with the H. A. Dreer Corporation 

 Mr. Sherry was for 25 years manager 

 of the mail order, flower sr<n1 and bulb 



Burtt, the Greenfield, Mass., florist, 

 purchased of C. A. Bryant of Temple- 

 ton four large greenhouses which will 

 be removed to West Deerfield and 

 erected at once. Two of the houses 

 are 175 feet long by 26 feet wide and 

 the other two 100 feet by 26 feet. The 

 addition of the four houses to the 10 

 buildings already located on the West 

 Deerfield farm will make it one of the 

 largest flower growing plants in west- 

 ern Massachusetts. Ground has al- 

 ready been broken for the new build- 

 ings which will be ready for use by 

 fall. 



President William M. Wood of the 

 American Woolen Company has do- 

 nated five cups that will be awarded at 

 the flower and vegetable show of the 

 Lawrence, Mass., Horticultural Socie- 

 ty that is to be held in City Hall, Fri- 

 day and Saturday, Sept. 5 and 6. 



A gladiolus association has been 

 formed at Mansfield, Mass. 



The Florists' Club of Albany, 100 

 strong, were entertained by the Lenox- 

 Horticultural Society at their field day 

 last week. The visitors, besides be- 

 ing entertained at luncheon and din- 

 ner and participating in field sports, 

 were shown through many of the larg- 

 er estates in Lenox, Stockbridge and 

 Great Barrington. 



NEW YORK STATE. 



There will be a meeting of the New 

 York Federation of Horticultural So- 

 cieties and Floral Clubs in Commis- 

 sioner Wilson's Office at the State 

 Fair Grounds in Syracuse, N. Y., »« 

 2 p. m. Wednesday, September 10th. 



William Roemer, 60 years old, a flor- 

 ist of 367 East 234th street, New York- 

 city, was knocked down by an auto- 

 mobile at 233d street and Webster ave- 

 nue. The Bronx, and died two hours 



later. 



IMPORTANT CHANGE IN BOSTON. 



The name of the prominent green- 

 house concern known as A. Leuthy & 

 Co., has been changed to the A. Leuthy 

 Co., and the business has been incor- 

 porated. The change is an important 

 one, as four men well known in the 

 trade have joined the company as ac- 

 tive members. They are W. Rosenthal 

 of the Boston Cut Flower Co., on 

 Bromfield street, John T. Slater, Louis 

 Nelson & Martin Cunniff. Messrs. 

 Slater, Nelson & Cunniff were former- 

 ly in the employ of W. W. Edgar. They 

 will put into their own business the 

 fruits of their long years of practical 

 experience. With the addition of this 

 new blood, there will be an expansion 

 of the business. Mr. Leuthy has re- 

 cently been to New York and Philadel- 

 phia and has sent back a large amount 

 of greenhouse material, including 

 many palms. The Leuthy establish- 

 ment is among the best known in 

 greater Boston and famed for the va- 

 riety of plants which it handles. 



IOWA FLORISTS 



The 17th annual meeting of the So- 

 ciety of Iowa Florists was held Thurs- 

 day of this week at Des Moines. The 

 program was as follows: 



President's Address, J. T. D. Fulmer, 

 Des Moines. 



