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HORTICULTURE 



May 31, 1919 



We met him recently in Philadelphia, 

 and it was an enjoyable meeting. 



G. C. WATSON. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



P. Joseph Lynch noted as a great 

 rose grower in Pennsylvania and In- 

 diana, and now a prominent statesman 

 in the Hoosier county, has been in our 

 midst for a few days — accompanied by 

 the secretary of the governor of that 

 great commonwealth. Mr. Lynch takes 

 his latest honors very modestly and 

 would rather talk of roses than of 

 national affairs. He feels that we are 

 just on the start of a new era of splen- 

 did development in horticultural pur- 

 suits and that all the wonderful feats 

 in that line during the last fifty years 

 will be as nothing compared with what 

 the next ten years will accomplish. 



James Killgallon, of the Pennock 

 Co. ribbon dept., is back from France 

 looking hale and hearty and about 

 twelve pounds heavier. Many officers 

 and men of his regiment were killed 

 or wounded but the Good Preserver 

 that looks after the destinies of mor- 

 tal men had some other fate in store 

 for our brave Jim and he is back 

 among us once more without a 

 scratch. To all these boys life must 

 look a much more serious proposition 

 now than it did when they went off as 

 callow kids to face the Great Adven- 

 ture. A year of such experience de- 

 velops character quicker than ten 

 times that time in ordinary life. So 

 we raise our hats to them as man to 

 man now, instead of in the old atti- 

 tude of man to boy. 



Douglas Earl, another of our wai- 

 heroes is also back home again. We 

 met him at 9th and Chestnut St. on the 

 24th. He had just been down to say 

 howdy to his old friends at Dreers 

 and was on his way to the ancestral 

 castle at Doylestown where his mother 

 and other members of the family re- 

 side. He traveled with his father in 

 Europe about one week, and enjoyed 

 it; but did not feel like going with 

 him to South and Central America 



Recent visitors include the follow- 

 ing: Will Redder, Wilmington, N. C; 

 Percy B. Rigby, S. S. Pennock Co., N. 

 Y. City. 



Samuel S. Pennock, ex-president of 

 the American Rose Society, has a fine 

 collection of roses at his home in 

 Lansdowne. He reported in bloom, on 

 May 23rd, Red Radiance, Daily Mail 

 (Mae. Heriot), and Pauls Carmine 

 Pillar. The earliest of all to bloom 

 in his collection is Rosa hugonis, which 

 comes in ahead even of Harrisons 

 Yellow, and is already done blooming. 



Mr. Pennock is also very proud just 

 now of a fine specimen of English Haw- 

 thorne which is in full bloom and the 

 delight of all beholders. 



Those who wish to communicate 

 with P. Joseph Lynch, chief clerk of 

 the Supreme Court, State of Indiana, 

 should address him at Room 17, State 

 House, Indianapolis, Indiana. He is 

 still head of the Heller Bros. Co., at 

 New Castle, Ind., and the Dingle & 

 Conard Co., West Grove, Pa., but the 

 surest way to reach him promptly is 

 at the address above noted. 



If being a good politician means 

 having one's ear close to what the 

 community thinks — and acting accord- 

 ingly — the Republicans who have now 

 mounted the U. S. mustang, have an 

 excellent opportunity to make them- 

 selves solid, by quashing quarantine 

 37, and dishing the Democrats. Have 

 you got that — you fishers for a good 

 bite? Brother Mann of Illinois thinks 

 suffrage means something for his par- 

 ty. Nothing to it. The women will al- 

 ways vote just as their hubbies vote. 

 Henry Cabot thinks he's got Woodrow 

 on "the parliament of man, the feder- 

 ation of the world" which Tennyson 

 dreamed of. Nothing to that either, 

 for the Republicans. It will go through 

 anyhow. But — dish the Democrats on 

 quarantine 37. That's the slogan. 

 There's an issue really worth putting 

 up a fight for. 



C. U. Liggit has moved into larger 

 offices in the Bulletin Bldg. — from 325 

 to 303. This evidence of prosperity 

 for a new and enterprising concern 

 is a pleasing indication to Mr. Lig- 

 git's hosts of friends. Banking hours: 

 as usual, 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Business 

 hours: "there aint no such animile," 

 which means that Mr. Liggit is on the 

 job any hour of the day or night. The 

 report is current around these parts 

 that he never sleeps. And some of the 

 doubting Thomases have their doubts 

 about his going regularly to church 

 on Sundays — where it is rumored folks 

 go to sleep — occasionally. 



John Walker of Youngstown, O., is 

 located for the present with his broth- 

 er at Linwood, Ocean Heights, N. J., 

 and if any Hughey Dougherby wants 

 to communicate and have a grin with 

 him over old-timer from Shackamaxon 

 street, in the seventies, from the soap 

 business to the Isle of Pines in the 

 present century, that's the place to 

 reach him. Same old jolly. Ha, ha! 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



The greenhouses and office former- 

 ly occupied by Macklin, Somerville 

 avenue and White street, Cambridge, 

 have been leased by Henry Curtis, a 

 florist of Beverly. The premises are 

 being renovated for his use. 



Robert Groves, the fern dealer of 

 Adams, is making extensive altera- 

 tions on his property on Grove Hill. 

 Mr. Groves recently bought two lots 

 adjoining his property from the 

 Waters estate and is having a new en- 

 trance way constructed by Contractor 

 D. S. McGrath. 



An automobile bearing a Maine num- 

 ber plate crashed into the rear of a 

 wagon owned by the Casey Florist 

 Company of Melrose. The wagon was 

 overturned and the driver, Louis Har- 

 ris, was thrown to the street but es- 

 caped uninjured and maintained con- 

 trol over the horse. The wagon 

 was considerably damaged. 



Last week the Boston florists con- 

 tributed almost 100,000 carnations, 

 American Beauty roses and bouquets 

 of sweet peas to the Salvation Army 

 drive. Volunteer flower girls sold 

 them for the benefit of the army. The 

 florists of the city subscribed to a 

 fund which was turned over to the 

 Salvation Army later in the week. 



William Prince of Waverly will as- 

 sume the duties as manager of the 

 Hanover greenhouses June 1. J 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIA- 

 TION. 



The thirty-seventh annual conven- 

 tion of the association will be held 

 in Chicago, 111., June 24-26, at the Ho- 

 tel Sherman, the first session opening 

 at 10 o'clock a. m. Reservations 

 should be made as soon as possible on 

 account of the number of other con- 

 ventions. 



Notice is hereby given of a proposed 

 change in the by-laws, adding the fol- 

 lowing sections: 



No appropriation of money shall be 

 made from the treasury of the associa- 

 tion until the sum to be expended has 

 first been referred to the executive 

 committee for their consideration and 

 recommendation. 



Proper provision and distribution of 

 our badges requires as many names 

 of those who expect to attend, as pos- 

 sible, in advance of the convention, so 

 please fill out and return the inclosed 

 card as soon as possible but by June 

 15th at the latest. 



C. E. Kkndel. Secy. 



