May 3, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



427 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Otto Schoeps, formerly with Small's, 

 but who has been employed in Buffalo 

 for a year or more, is now with Gude 

 Bros. 



William F. Gude was seen down- 

 town last week. He is gradually re- 

 gaining his health although it will 

 probably be many weeks yet before he 

 will be able to return to business. 



The next meeting of the Florists' 

 Club of Washington is scheduled for 

 May 7, at Schmid's Hall, 712 Twelfth 

 street, Northwest. The meeting night 

 has been changed from Tuesday to 

 Wednesday. The entertainment com- 

 mittee is working on a few good stunts 

 for that night. 



NEW YORK. 



A daughter was born in the home of 

 Mr. and Mrs. James McHutchison on 

 March 29. Both mother and daughter 

 are doing well. 



During the last four weeks, Mc- 

 Hutchison & Co. has received over 

 1,950 cases and bales of nursery stock 

 from Holland, which are now all sold. 

 This rush was due to the Hollanders 

 getting rid of the varieties grown for 

 American trade before the door was 

 closed. 



Next week, the first raffia shipments 

 are expected to arrive; the first since 

 a few months before the w r ar began. 

 The embargo on raffia still continues, 

 but these shipments were ordered re- 

 leased by the U. S. War Department, 

 to whom McHutchison & Company 

 turned over their entire stock of raffia 

 when this country entered the war. It 

 was used for camouflage purposes in 

 France. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Frank M. Ross, the "I serve" retailer 

 of Philadelphia, has been out planting 

 potatoes on his farm in Bucks County. 

 Hard on the muscles, but he swears he 

 likes it. Atta boy! Be young again. 



John Westcott thinks the proper 

 thing for the growers to do when they 

 have anything left at Christmas or 

 Easter is to let the year in and year 

 out customers have it for next to 

 nothing instead of throwing it on the 

 street for next to nothing thus break- 

 ing up prices and friendship. 



Mail service from Rotterdam is 

 slightly better, but not much. A mis- 

 sive from Howard M. Earl dated March 

 24th reached us April 26th. Six 

 months ago a letter from the same 

 point took six weeks. The British au- 

 thorities seem to be still sending the 



continental mail bags from London 

 around to the north of Scotland to be 

 leisurely censored, and then sent on 

 their way to America. And we all 

 thought the war was over November 

 11th! Howard sends his kind regards 

 to all and was delighted with the glor- 

 ious spring flowers from Amsterdam to 

 Rotterdam— Crocuses, hyacinths, tu- 

 lips — in full bloom, and glorious har- 

 bingers of spring! 



Edward H. Flood, Jr., has returned 

 from a two years' sojourn in France 

 with the U. S. Army. After a while 

 at the old homestead at Alco, N. Y., he 

 has gone to rusticate a little with rela- 

 tives at Manayunk, Pa. Later he will 

 take up his old duties with his father 

 in the New York office of the Johnston 

 Brokerage Co. This company he 

 knows from A to Z and will be wel- 

 come back at his old desk. If you need 

 any greenhouse glass you know where 

 to go. Nuff sed. 



The Florists' Club committee on the 

 "V" war loan is as follows: Robert 

 Kift, chairman; Frank Ross, John 

 Habermehl, A. M. Campbell, George 

 Burton, Mark P. Mills, Victor Riden- 

 our, E. R. Martin, W. K. Harris, Chas. 

 E. Meehan, E. J. Fancourt, Edward 

 Reid, Bruce Griffin, E. W. Gaehring, 

 Charles H. Grakelow, John C. Gracey, 

 Wm. B. Westcott. All of these gentle- 

 men are live wires and will make a 

 good showing by the wind-up. They 

 are all patriots to the finish. 



One of our Philadelphia seed trade 

 boys arrived at New York on the S. S. 

 "Kroonland" April 29th, from the 

 front. He was one of the first to en- 

 list and acquired distinction and pro- 

 motion in the service. He is John H. 

 Earl, oldest son of Howard A. Earl 

 and we all rejoice at his return home. 

 He met his father in Paris before he 

 left on his homeward journey, and 

 cheered that veteran seedsman with 

 a sight of him. His younger brother, 

 Douglas, is still in France, having de- 

 cided to take a trip with his father 

 who is making a business tour of 

 Europe at the present time. 



On asking Mr. Pennock how long he 

 had been in the wholesale cut flower 

 business he said that he became asso- 

 ciated with his brother, Charles E. 

 Pennock in 1887, the partnership laps- 

 ing on the latter's death in 1891, since 

 which time he has continued the busi- 

 ness at first personally but later un- 

 der corporate conditions. Mr. Pennock 

 has, therefore, been continually in the 

 wholesale field for thirty-two years 



and adding the six earlier years of the 

 brother Charles (1881 to 1887), makes 

 the business of the Pennock Company 

 thirty-eight years old; and few estab- 

 lishments have a finer record. They 

 have been the leaders in their line for 

 probity, progressiveness and sterling 

 worth since the start. We extend 

 greetings and congratulations. 



We came across an interesting price 

 list of the S. S. Pennock Co. the other 

 day. It is dated Easter, 1896—23 years 

 ago. Among the roses offered are Ul- 

 rich Brunner, Mrs. John Laing, Cather- 

 ine Wermet, Bride, Bridesmaid, Kai- 

 zerin Augusta Victoria, La France, 

 Perle des Jardins, Niphetos, Meteor, 

 General Jacqueminot and American 

 Beauty. Not one of these are today 

 on the list of commercial roses for cut 

 flowers except American Beauty — 

 showing that that old standby has cer- 

 tainly held its own against all comers 

 to a remarkable degree. The Easter 

 prices then ran from six to ten per 

 hundred on all roses except Jacque- 

 minot — which was quoted at twenty 

 and Brunner and Beauty at twenty-five 

 to thirty-five. Carnations were quoted 

 two fifty to four, which will make the 

 grower of today smile when he thinks 

 of the eight to ten of 1919. Valley 

 brought three to four which is not so 

 different to the regular of a few years 

 ago. Mignonette two, sweet peas 

 three, and sweet peas were a good deal 

 of an Easter novelty twenty-three 

 years ago. Callas are quoted at fifteen 

 but our old friend Harrisi could only 

 reach the eight to ten rung of the lad- 

 der. The greens list seems to have 

 been a very minor proposition these 

 days, the only items mentioned being 

 Smilax and Cycas — leaves of the lat- 

 ter being quoted at two to three dol- 

 lars per pair. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Clinton, Mass. — Fire swept about 25 

 acres of the land of the Metropolitan 

 Water and Sewerage Board April 23d, 

 destroying about 25,000 white pine 

 trees of 12 to 14 years' growth, planted 

 by state employes. 



The area burned over is known as 

 Carvilles Hill and lies easterly of the 

 great Wachusett reservoir. The Clin- 

 ton Fire Department was called out 

 twice to fight the flames. It is stated 

 that the blaze in the pine growth 

 started from a fire on a nearby piece 

 of swamp land which Lawrence A. 

 Auscher is attempting to reclaim. 

 State officials could not estimate the 

 money damage. 



