September 27, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



281 



NEW ENGLAND. 



C. B. Johnson, a Woburn, .Mass. flor- 

 ist. Is having a new house constructed 

 on the estate adjoining his present 

 residence. 



L. Harry Brague and John B. Mc- 

 Master of Hinsdale, Mass. have been 

 in Beninngton, Vt, superintending the 

 shipping of ferns to the New England 

 cold storage plant in Pittsfield. Owing 

 to the tieup on the electric cars they 

 shipped by automobile tracks. 



Albert H. Harvey, 67, a widely- 

 known grower of pansies, asters and 

 ginseng, whose aster bed in 1911 con- 

 tained 10,000 blossoms at one time, is 

 dead in the Brattleboro (Vt.) Memo- 

 rial Hospital. 



Philip Dauenheimer of Springfield, 

 Mass., is building a greenhouse at the 

 rear of his residence on Dawes street. 

 Mr. Dauenheimer has been in the 

 florist business for most of his life, 

 having been connected with William 

 Schlatter & Son for the past ten years. 



J. Harry Playdon, a well-known 

 florist of Lawrence, Mass., has been 

 enjoying a two weeks' vacation in 

 Nova Scotia. 



James E. Duggan, for nine years 

 manager of the John Reck & Son store 

 at Bridgeport, Conn., in company with 

 Frank Smethurst, has opened the Ar- 

 cade Flower Shop. The new store has 

 been well fitted out and is one of the 

 prettiest in Bridgeport. 



The Leominster, Mass., Floral Co. 

 has been incorporated. The directors 

 are Robt. S. Edgar, president; Joseph 

 Fuller, treasurer, and Lillian Nord- 

 gren. 



BOSTON. 

 Charles H. Rice of Lexington is add- 

 ing 100 feet to his greenhouse range. 

 Of course, he will use the additional 

 space for more carnations, as he has 

 become famed for the quality of his 

 product. 



At the October meeting of the Bos- 

 ton Gardeners' & Florists' Club, J. G. 

 Jack of the Arnold Arboretum is to 

 lecture on "Flowers and Fruits of our 

 Native Shrubs and Trees." 



Julius Snyder and Arthur Carr have 

 returned from a long automobile trip, 

 during which they visited growers in 



New York, New Jersey, Vermont and 

 New Hampshire. They had an excel- 

 lent trip. 



W. C. Stickel, the Lexington carna- 

 tion grower, has about 40,000 plants in 

 extra fine condition. 



The face of J. Eisman will be missed 

 from Penn's in the future, as Mr. Eis- 

 man has opened a new store on Bea- 

 con street, near Tremont. He goes 

 into his new work with the best wishes 

 of the Penns, who presented him a 

 purse of gold. 



Philip L. Carbone of Boylston street 

 is back from his annual European 

 trip. 



William Sim is adding another 

 house to his range at Cliftondale. 



NEW YORK. 



The New York Flower Co., a Yonk- 

 ers concern, has purchased the busi- 

 ness property at 244 Main street, New 

 Rochelle, and will take possession 

 October 1. 



Mr. Bert Dowden, who has held the 

 position as shipping clerk for three 

 years has resigned his position at the 

 Rochester Floral Co., owing to poor 

 health and will move to Maine. 



N. Harold Cottam and son of Wap- 

 pingers Falls had eight entries of 

 dahlias at the state fair in Syracuse 

 and won eight first prizes. Among 

 their awards were prizes for the best 

 collection of all types of dahlias, 

 twelve varieties, five of each and for 

 the best collection of cactus, single, 

 pompom, peony flowered, and decora- 

 tive dahlias. 



PRES. F. R. PIERSON RE-ELECTED. 



The annual meeting of the Nejw 

 York Federation of Horticultural So- 

 cieties and Floral Clubs at the State 

 Fair, Syracuse, was called to order 

 with President F. R. Pierson presid- 

 ing. Eighteen delegates were pres- 

 ent from the affiliated organizations. 

 President Pierson spoke of the three 

 projects in which the Federation is 

 especially interested at this time, viz., 

 the erection of a horticultural build- 

 ing at the State Fair grounds, Syra- 

 use; the erection of investigational 

 greenhouses for the Department of 

 Floriculture at Cornell University; 

 and Plant Quarantine No. 37. In re- 

 gard to Plant Quarantine No. 37, Pres- 



ident Pierson stated that the organi- 

 zation had already gone on record as 

 in opposition to this quarantine, and 

 therefore it was unnecessary to dis- 

 cuss it further. In regard to the hor- 

 ticultural building, he thought that 

 the time was ripe and he outlined the 

 general policy which should be 

 adopted in the campaign for the build- 

 ing. He was optimistic that the build- 

 ing would come in the near future. 



A resolution was passed urging the 

 necessity of an immediate considera- 

 tion of a horticultural building, and a 

 committee consisting of D. Lumsden, 

 Ithaca, chairman; Dr. Erl Bates, Syr- 

 acuse; Madison Cooper, Calcium; F. A. 

 Danker, Albany; and A. Cowee, Ber- 

 lin, was appointed to confer with the 

 state architect regarding plans for the 

 building. 



The following officers were elected: 

 President, F. R. Pierson, Tarrytown; 

 first vice-president, Dr. Erl Bates, Syr- 

 acuse; second vice-president, Charles 

 Vick, Rochester; third vice-president, 

 Hugh McCarthy, Syracuse; fourth 

 vice-president, F. A. Danker, Albany; 

 fifth vice-president, W. H. Workman, 

 Oswego; treasurer, W. A. Adams, Buf- 

 falo; secretary, E. A. White, Ithaca. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



George D. Clark, manager of the 

 flower, seed and bulb dept. of Dreers, 

 returned on the 18th inst. from an 

 inspection trip of growing crops under 

 contract. His journey covered as far 

 west as the Pacific coast and points in 

 between. 



Michell's had a fine new dahlia on 

 exhibition at their store on the 20th 

 inst. It is named Autumn Sun and is 

 a beautiful buff orange cactus, shad- 

 ing to very dark at the center. The 

 flowers shown were five to six inches 

 in diameter and both in form and color 

 very charming. The variety was 

 raised by a Jersey grower and will be 

 introduced by Michell next spring. 



A handy volume for seedsmen and 

 others to have at their elbow is "The 

 Book of Grasses," by Mary Evans 

 Francis. It describes and illustrates 

 the common grasses of the fields and 

 waysides — and these, to many of the 

 boys back of the counter, are not well 

 known, and customers often bring in 

 specimens and want to know what 

 they are and all about them. For the 

 commercial grasses a smaller and 

 less costly volume, "Barenbrug on 

 Grasses," covers the ground very con- 

 cisely. 



Mr. Hurd, late of Dreers, is now 

 manager of the flower seed dept. at 

 I. N. Simon & Sons, 5th and Market 

 street. 



