June 7, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



543 



you sending it in the cheapest allow- 

 able class?" 



Personal letters should be written by 

 executives or department heads, com- 

 mending every employe who has done 

 anything worth while in the saving 

 line, to let him or her know that such 

 effort is appreciated. 



Monthly results of saving in figures 

 can be compiled and published. 



Wherever savings can be put in fig- 

 ures, reduce costs, increase profits and 

 actual money, that money should be 

 shared with employes in the form of 

 prizes or bonuses. 



An organization permeated with this 

 saving spirit would soon learn to save 

 for itself as well as the boss by watch- 

 ing household expenses in the same 

 way, cutting personal costs, and put- 

 ting savings aside in War Saving 

 Stamps. On the same plan, if a busi- 

 ness concern encouraged personal 

 thrift by employes and investment in 

 War Saving Stamps, the employe who 

 learned to save for himself would 

 quickly see the point of saving for the 

 boss. 



be also displays of other seasonable 

 plants in flower and vegetables. A 

 notable exhibit will be brought in by 

 Miss Grace Sturtevant of Wellesley 

 Farms, consisting mostly of new seed- 

 ling irises of her own raising. Miss 

 Sturtevant has been very successful in 

 the cultivation of the iris and has at- 

 tained a wide reputation among horti- 

 culturists for her work with this pop- 

 ular flower. The exhibition is free to 

 the public and will be open Saturday 

 from 12 to 6 and Sunday from 1 to 6 

 o'clock. 



TO PROTECT BUYERS. 

 Bill Against Dealing in Misnamed 

 Fruit or Nursery Stock 

 Washington— An effort is to be 

 made at this session of Congress to 

 protect purchasers of fruit trees and 

 nursery stock from misbranded goods. 

 A bill has been referred to the House 

 Committee on Interstate and Foreign 

 Commerce, providing fines of not to 

 exceed $200, imprisonment not ex- 

 ceeding six months, or both fine and 

 imprisonment, for dealing in mis- 

 named stocks in interstate commerce 

 This bill will make it a misdemeanor 

 for any person to ship in interstate 

 commerce any nursery stock which 

 does not bear on each tree, shrub or 

 plant, or on the original unbroken 

 package thereof, a label stating the 

 true, accepted and correct name of the 

 variety of such nursery stock, the 

 name of the person who grew it, and 

 the place where grown. Under the 

 head of nursery stock are included all 

 field and greenhouse grown plants, 

 such as fruit trees, fruit tree stocks, 

 trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, 

 scions, buds, and all other plants or 

 parts of plants for planting or propa- 

 gation. — Newport News. 



pany. The balance of $1,500 to apply 

 on her personal account against the 

 Arm of Welch & Lane. The balance 

 of her claim to remain until certain 

 disputed items of the account are 

 passed upon by the judge. 



IRIS EXHIBITION IN BOSTON. 



The first of the two June exhibi- 

 tions of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society will be held at Horticul- 

 tural Hall on Saturday and Sunday. 



While the principal feature of this 

 exhibition will be the irises, there will 



NORTH SHORE ROSE EXHIBITION. 



A rose exhibition is to be given by 

 the North Shore Horticultural Society 

 at Manchester, Mass., June 25. All en- 

 tries must be sent in two days before 

 the show. Exhibits must be ready for 

 judging by 12 o'clock noon. Exhibi- 

 tion open to the public at 2 p. m. 



While the roses will be most in evi- 

 dence, there will be entries of other 

 flowers, including Canterbury Bells, 

 Delphiniums, Pyrethrums, Peonies and 

 Sweet Williams. Fruits and vege- 

 tables will also be shown. 



The officers of the Society for this 

 year: 



President, Frank P. Knight; vice- 

 president, Eric H. Wetterlow; treas- 

 urer, John Jaffrey; secretary, Leon W. 

 Carter; librarian, Herman Sandford. 



Directors — Frank Foster, chairman; 

 Frank P. Knight, Alfred E. Parsons, 

 Herbert Shaw, Eric H. Wetterlow, 

 Axel Magnuson, F. J. Merrill. 



Advisory Board — Mrs. W. Scott Fitz, 

 Mrs. Lester Leland, Miss Mary Bart- 

 lett, Mrs. W. B. Walker, Mrs. Geo. E. 

 Cabot. 



Nominating Committee — William 

 Till, chairman; Otis Bohaker, George 

 L' Anson, Alfred E. T. Rogers, James 

 Gallagher. 



Discussion Committee — Alfred E. 

 Parsons, chairman; George LAnson, 

 Percival C. Veinot. 



Exhibition Committee — Alfred E. T. 

 Rogers, chairman; Allen S. Peabody, 

 Martin Eyeberse, Douglas Eccleston, 

 Axel Magnuson. 



CLAIMS AGAINST HARTFORD 

 FLORISTS. 



In the Supreme Court at Hartford, 

 Conn., last week, it was ordered in 

 the matter of the claims of Mrs. Ellen 

 M. Welch against Welch & Lane, who 

 conducted a florists' business, that 

 $6,500 be paid to Mrs. Welch on ac- 

 count of her claim of $11,000. It was 

 stipulated that $5,000 of the $6,500 ap- 

 ply on Mrs. Welch's obligation to the 

 Fidelity Trust Company under an en- 

 dorsement in that sum she made on 

 a note of the firm to the trust com- 



ST. LOUIS NOTES. 

 The Retail Association met Monday 

 evening, May 14. Publicity was dis- 

 cussed, also the high prices for 

 Mothers' Day and what influence it 

 had on the general trade. F. C. Weber, 

 Jr., presided and stated that many of 

 his customers refused to pay the 

 prices, but trade was large notwith- 

 standing. 



SPECIAL NOTICE TO CANADIAN 

 EXHIBITORS. 

 Arrangements have been made with 

 the Internal Revenue Office at Detroit 

 whereby Canadian peony growers may 

 send their exhibits free of duty. Sim- 

 ply mark the shipment "For the Peony 

 Exhibition," care of the Michigan Cut 

 Flower Exchange, prepaying express 

 charges. 



COMING MEETINGS. 



Chicago — American Seed Trade Ass'n, 

 annual convention, June 24 to 26. 

 Secretary, C. E. Kendell, 216 Pros- 

 pect Ave., Cleveland, O. 



Chicago — American Association of 

 Nurserymen, convention, Hotel Sher- 

 man, Chicago, June 25-26-27. 

 Charles Sizemore, Louisiana, Mo., 

 Sec'y. 



Detroit, Mich.— S. A. F. and O. H. Con- 

 vention at Acadia Hall, Aug. 19, 20 

 and 21. Secretary, John Young, 1170 

 Broadway, N. Y. City. 



Hartford, Conn. — Conn. Hort. Society, 

 fall flower show, Sept. 9, 10 and 11. 

 Sec'y Alfred Dixon, Wethersfleld, 

 Conn. 



New York City.— The American Insti- 

 tute and the American Dahlia So- 

 ciety, exhibition of dahlias in the 

 Engineering Building, 25-33 West 

 39th St., Sept. 23 to 25. William A. 

 Eagleson, 322-324 West 23d St., Sec- 

 retary. 

 San Francisco, Cal.— Dahlia Society 



of California, Fall show at the Palace 

 Hotel, oept. 4, 5 and 6. 



FLOWERING VIBURNUMS. 

 Viburnums of the week are the Eng- 

 lish Traveler's Tree, Viburnum lan- 

 tana, and the American Black Haw, V. 

 prunifolium. The former is a tall, 

 broad bush, with wide gray-green 

 leaves and large convex clusters of 

 white flowers which are followed by 

 handsome and abundant lustrous 

 fruits, bright red when fully grown, 



