May 10, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



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PHILADELPHIA. 

 We had a pleasant call from Robert 

 Craig on Wednesday, the first seen of 

 him in three weeks. He has been a 

 little under the weather and conditions 

 at Norwood hold him pretty tight on 

 the job. They are still six or seven 

 men short and there is lots of work to 

 do. This seems the general cry, but 

 now that the boys are coming back 

 from France in increasing numbers 

 the situation ought to improve very 

 shortly. 



A. B. Cartledge, of Pennock Bros., is 

 a cheerful soul, but he does worry 

 about the mistakes of the government. 

 He does not approve of the way it has 

 handled the telephone, telegraph and 

 cable situation and now says that they 

 have burnt their fingers and they're 

 glad to drop it. As for lending money 

 to farmers at the expense of the na- 

 tion that's another foolishness. We 

 left him and another able florist of 

 national renown in hot debate over 

 these subjects. All of which means 

 that the retailers are not very much 

 rushed this week, else they would not 

 have time to bother about regulating 

 the affairs of the universe. 



We had the good word from Wash- 

 ington, D. C., that our old friend Will 

 Gude is so far improved in health re- 

 cently as to be on duty again. Al. 

 .Tones of the Pennock Company was 

 on a five day Southern trip and called 

 at the Gude store on P street, Wash- 

 ington. The head of the Gude house 

 had been there that morning but had 

 just stepped out to attend a meeting. 

 This was on May 2nd, so it is grati- 

 fying news to Will's many friends not 

 only in Philadelphia but all over the 

 country. If he is able to go to the 

 store aild attend meetings he is pretty 

 near all right again. Glory be. 



William N. Burchard, for a time a 

 distinguished representative of Hmiri- 

 culture in Philadelphia (having super- 

 ceded G. C. W. by superior merit and 

 a knowledge of Greek ) has just left 

 the precincts of Philadelphia and for 

 the next nine months may be ad- 

 dressed — if you have any good dip- 

 pings, letters, or papers to send him 

 — at Lake Paupac, Greentown Pike Co., 

 Pa. This is a fishing and hunting 

 camp, up in the mountains of the old 

 Keystone state, and the Meehins and 

 other hustling nurserymen and fisher- 

 men are to be congratulated in having 

 at their service not only willing hands 



and faithful intelligence but an author- 

 ity on the laws of Aristable — or any- 

 thing else — if they want to banter it 

 over the cigars after dinner. 



The old Gontram place of Volenes- 

 burg consisting of five greenhouses 

 has been purchased by Mr. Sterner. 

 We are informed by reliable authority 

 that Mr. Sterner has had Dreer train- 

 ing and is backed by financial interests 

 of standing — so that he ought to be 

 heard from in the near future. We 

 will be glad to further the new venture 

 — and anything we can do to smooth 

 the upward path to success — call on us. 

 Send us your story and we will do our 

 best to help you along. That is what 

 Horticulture has been doing for all 

 the young hopefuls since its inception 

 by William J. Stewart fifteen years 

 ago. 



The King Construction Co. are busy 

 in this neighborhood through their 

 representative, T. J. Nolan. He re- 

 ports having just signed a contract 

 with the Bickmore Co. at Wallingford 

 for two new houses, 200 x 25 feet and 

 has quite a lot of prospective work 

 which is keeping him on the jump. 

 The outlook, he says, is very good for 

 a lot of new work. Mr. Nolan is tem- 

 porarily at the Bingham House, but 

 those who wish to write him should 

 address him at his Scranton, Pa., 

 office, 307 North Irving avenue. 



Frank M. Ross, considered one 

 of our leading retail florists, reports ex- 

 cellent results recently from his F., T. 

 D. advertising in the trade papers, in- 

 cluding Horticulture. He has just 

 put in a new window feature at his 

 52nd street store in the shape of a 

 map of the United States electrically 

 illuminated with moving lights to the 

 chief cities and appropriate signs. This 

 draws big crowds evenings and seems 

 to be a stroke of excellent business al- 

 though it must have cost a pretty 

 penny. 



BOSTON PERSONALS. 

 So far as is known, all of the Great- 

 er Boston florists and market sales- 

 men who served with the colors are 

 back with the exception of three, 

 Matthew Siegel, Matthew Ruane and 

 Robert Koppelman. Mr. Siegel is 

 supposed to be on his way home, while 

 Mr. Ruane is still in France. Mr. Kop- 

 pelman is in Palestine and it is re- 

 ported that he will remain there per- 

 manently. 



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WILLOW WARE 



BASKETS 



Special assortments for Decoration 

 Day work. This immense and 

 unique line is known from one 

 end of the country to the other. 

 'Phone, wire or mail your orders 

 to 



T. J. NOLAN 



307 North Irving Avenue, 

 SCRANTON, PENNA. 



William Carr, a salesman in the 

 Exchange, has been very ill, but is 

 slowly recovering. 



Several faces that have been missed 

 from the market the past year are be- 

 ing seen again. Andrew G. Mitchell, 

 formerly with Beasley at Milton, has 

 purchased a greenhouse at North Sud- 

 bury and is sending in sweet peas. 

 Edward Gay, formerly of Stoneham, 

 who was caught by the coal shortage, 

 is back again. D. Orsine of Wakefield, 

 who also was affected by war time 

 conditions, has resumed. William Le- 

 faber, formerly of Newcastle, N. H., 

 has purchased a greenhouse plant at 

 Bridgewater. 



ST. LOUIS NEWS. 

 Market the past week showed every- 

 thing plentiful except carnations, 

 which stiffened in price, and accord- 

 ing to the outlook prices will greatly 

 advance for Mothers' Day. 



Jimmie Kahrens of Philadelphia 

 and Morris Levine of New York were 

 visitors. 



The publicity committee met and 

 special ads. will be used in the local 

 papers advertising Mothers' Day. 



The Growers' dance took place 

 April 30th at W. R. Rowe's place and 

 was a great success. 



L. S. Knetchell has bought the 

 ihouse property of Clifford Smit' 

 at Athol Highlands. 



