July 22, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



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1129 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



is a fact. Charles H. Breck of I'.oston 

 will please take notice. That wonder- 

 ful whale oil soap and hellebore re- 

 cipe of his which he was so proud 

 of thirty years ago is in grave clanger. 



PITTSBURGH. 

 Francis P. Smith will leave on Au- 

 gust 1 for a visit with his family in 

 Philadelphia. 



Charles G. Ulmer left this week for 

 Conneout Lake, Pa., where he will 

 spend his vacation. 



Mr. and Jlrs. W. A. Clarke and Mrs. 

 E. A. Williams have returned from the 

 Knights Templar conclave in ijOS An- 

 geles. 



G. Wessenauer, proprietor of The 

 Flower Shop, Sewickley, has been ap- 

 pointed borough forester, succeeding 

 J. G. Curtis. 



Miss Eleanor Craig is seriously ill 

 in the Homeopathic Hospital. Miss 

 Craig is the bookkeeper for Miss 

 Emma B. Moxwell, of Wilkinsbiirg. 



The beautiful avenue of Ginkgo 

 trees fronting the Phipps Conserva- 

 tory in Schenley Park for about five 

 hundred yards now forms a charming 

 appearance and afford delightful 

 shade. Mr. Jones has exceptionally 

 fine carpet beds in the park this sea- 

 son, but labor is hard to get. 



Under the supervision of Superin- 

 tendent George W. Burke an attrac- 

 tive little park has just been laid out 

 at the confluence of the Allegheny and 

 Monongahela rivers, commonly known 

 as The Point. Foreman John W. 

 Jones, of Schenley Park, has laid out 

 flower beds and it is further planned 

 to have a road around the bend. 



Horticulture goes to press too 

 early to give full details of the outing 

 given last Wednesday by the Sewick- 

 ley florists and Sewickley Heights 

 private gardeners for the members of 

 the Pittsburgh Florists' Club and the 

 Horticultural Society of Western 

 Penn. The committees were G. Wes- 

 senauer, chairman, Thomas Sturgis. J. 

 Burnet, J. Carmon: William Thomson. 

 A. E. Bonseg, Manus Curren: Richard 

 Boxel, James Stewart. Joseph Wolffe. 



BOSTON. 



Bostonians who attended the sweet 

 pea show at Bar Harbor are all home 

 again, delighted with the trip and the 

 hospitality enjoyed at Bar Harbor. 



The annual picnic of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club will be held on 

 Thursday, July 27. A full program of 

 sports is being prepared and a big at- 

 tendance is assured, as usual, if the 

 weather is all right. 



George Asmus and Mrs. Asmus, with 

 a party of friends, landed unannounced 

 in Boston on Monday, the 17th, hav- 

 ing motored all the way from Chica- 

 go. Mr. Asmus busied himself dis- 

 tributing codfish among his friends, 

 he having had a run of luck in a fish- 

 ing trip out of Portsmouth, N. H., that 

 morning. Encountered no sharks. 



The Japanese iris was the feature 

 of a special exhibit at Horticultural 

 Hall last Saturday, where a silver 

 medal was awarded the display from 

 the estate of Dr. and Mrs. Homer Gage 

 of Shrewsbury, gard., Allen J. Jenkins. 



There was a notable display of Lil- 

 ium regale associated with perennial 

 larkspurs, by R. and J. Farquhar & 

 Co. Dr. H. Kennedy of Milton also 

 showed Japan iris and the Eastern 

 Nurseries were represented by a fine 

 show of herbaceous perennial flow- 

 ers. There were several tables of 

 small fruits. 



will Ije devoted to roses, the other to 

 miscellaneous stock. 



Mrs. M. J. McCabe, who conducts a 

 flower stand in the Center Market, has 

 returned from Miami, Fla., where she 

 visited Mrs. Marie Fry, who before 

 her marriage assisted Mrs. McCabe in 

 her work. 



The famed commercial orchid col- 

 lection of George Field has been sold 

 to W. J. and M. S. Vesey of Fort 

 Wayne, Ind., for $15,000. Mr. Vesey 

 will erect four new houses specially 

 to accommodate the plants. 



A number of Washingtonians 

 man bed in the parade of the Elks in 

 Baltimore last week. William F. 

 Gude, exalted ruler for D. C, was 

 their leader. Edward S. Schmid 

 marched with his little grandson. 

 George C. Shaffer and Jake Richards 

 were also in line. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



C. L. Jenkins & Son, of Suitland, D. 

 C, are putting concrete benches in 

 two of their large houses. 



Otto Bauer, manager for S. S. Pen- 

 nock-Meehan Co., is taking a vacation 

 at Wildwood, N. J., where his wife and 

 children are spending July. 



J. Harper Hetherington, of Washing- 

 ton Floral Co., has gone with his wife 

 to Philadelphia for his annual vaca- 

 tion. They will also visit Atlantic 

 City. 



M. J. McCabe is tearing down 10,000 

 feet of glass on his range in Anacos- 

 tia, D, C., and is rebuilding. The four 

 old houses were 18 feet wide: the two 

 that replace them will be 30 feet wide 

 and IfiO feet long. One of the houses 



NEW YORK. 



Secretary John Young has gone to 

 Texas to attend to convention prelim- 

 inaries. 



The engagement of Nat Bernstein, 

 with Gunther Bros., New York, and 

 Miss Ada Greenberg, is announced. 



The J. M. Keller Co. have bought 

 the Bergen estate, twelve acres, ad- 

 joining their property, in Whitestone, 

 on which they will erect some more 

 greenhouses during this summer, as 

 their present greenhouse plant has 

 proved insuflicient to satisfy the in- 

 creased demand for their stock. 



At a joint meeting of the Retail 

 Florists' Association and Greek-Amer- 

 ican Florists' .A.ssociation last week a 

 special committee was appointed to 

 confer with other flower and plant or- 

 ganizations in the city with a view to 

 ioetter co-operation. .\ banquet at the 

 Hotel Breslin followed the meeting. 



CATALOGUE RECEIVED. 



II. F. Michell Company, Philadel- 

 phia. Wholesale Catalogue of Bulbs, 

 Seeds. Plants and Greenhouse Supplies 

 for July and August, 1916, Giant Ex- 

 hibition Pansies in colors make a 

 brilliant cover page subject. 



