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HOKTICULTURE 



April 12, 1919 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The sympathy of the trade goes out 

 to Benjamin K. Passmore of Malvern, 

 Pa., who has just lost his boy. The 

 sad event took place on the 6th inst. 

 He was 15 years of age. 



Among the odd items to be seen at 

 the Niessen store this week is the 

 Yellow Alyssum, an early spring per- 

 ennial with long, bright yellow sprigs 

 six to nine inches long. Very attrac- 

 tive. This is said to come from 

 Lancaster County. 



The election of George C. Thomas 

 as the next president of the American 

 Rose Society meets with great ap- 

 proval in this country and abroad but 

 nowhere more so than in his home city 

 of Philadelphia where he is thought 

 much more of than wise men and 

 prophets usually are to those quite 

 close to them. 



Hon. Chas. H. Sloan of Nebraska 

 made a fine speech on the U. S. Bo- 

 tanic Garden — Its Aims, Objects, and 

 Accomplishments — before the House 

 of Representatives on January 16, 

 1919. Every one interested in the de- 

 velopment of horticulture should have 

 a copy of this speech. Same can be 

 had by dropping a postaKto George 

 W. Hess, Superintendent Botanic 

 Gardens, Washington, D. C. No 

 charge. 



Charles E. Meehan has sold off his 

 greenhouse materials at the German- 

 town place and cleared off the land for 

 building. Being in a residential neigh- 

 borhood we may expect to see soon a 

 few new streets of up-to-the-minute 

 suburban homes for those who can af- 

 ford them. His new range at Church- 

 ville, Bucks Co., is running in full 

 swing, and his time is fairly divided 

 between running this and his whole- 

 sale business in Philadelphia. 



Charles M. Weaver of Ronks is a 

 sweet pea grower of experience and 

 success and what he has to say is of 

 interest to the trade. Two of the best 

 he has been shipping to Philadelphia 

 recently are Burpee's Primrose Beauty 

 and Burpee's Exquisite, the latter hav- 

 ing the brighter pink on the edging and 

 being the best seller of the two. An 

 inquiry from an English grower and 

 Mr. Weaver's reply thereto in this 

 connection will be found in another 

 column and are self-explaining. 



Reports coming from Barnegat City, 

 N. J., near Barnegat Inlet, say the 

 lighthouse at that point is in serious 

 danger of being undermined by the 

 sea. During the heavy storms of the 

 last week the sea has encroached to 

 within seventy-five feet of the light- 

 house, and many private houses of 

 residents of that place are within fifty 

 feet of the pounding surf. The terrific 



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It must be Spring, 



When whip-poor-wills sing, 

 And the sun-kist meadows are all aflame 



With life and joy and everything 

 That goes to play the eternal game. 



It must be Spring 



When love is a'wing 

 And the hearts of maids and youth are gay, 



And each fond lover is wondering 

 Why moon-beams dance o'er the hills away. 



It must be Spring when none can know 

 Why the Gods on Olympus have made it so. 



Not an advertisement — just a reminder that 

 Spring is here — flowers are blooming— —our 

 victorious heroes are returning, leaving some 

 of their comrades to guard forever the Shrine 

 of Liberty in France — and that poppies gr\iw 

 again in peace in Flanders' Field. 



| When you Think 

 of Flowers 

 Think of Penn 



124 Tremont Street — Boston 



Botton's 

 Flowerphone 

 Beach 6900 



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Members of Society of American Florists may repro- 

 duce this announcement, with our compliments. 



current at the Inlet, backed by a 

 powerful sea kicked up by the storms. 

 has cut into the beach for a consider- 

 able distance, and unless breakwaters 

 or jetties are constructed before the 

 next heavy storm the lighthouse will 

 surely go down, engineers say. J. 



C. Vaughan, Mrs. S. S. Pennock and 

 many others whose poetic fancy has 

 been stirred by this old beacon, will 

 be joining Commodore Westcott in his 

 hopes that Old Boreas will kindly let 

 up for a while until we can raise some 

 cement fortifications. 



