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HORTICULTUBE 



July 29, 1916 



J. M. SIVIAI-L. & SON 



FLORISTS 



NEW YORK and 

 WASHINGTON 



Announce the removal of their New York store to 



SOS MADISON AVENUE, AT S2d STREET 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 

 15th and H Streets 



Floral and Landscape Work 



NEW YORK— Waldorf-Astoria 

 and 505 Madison Ave. 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



PITTSBURGH. 



Henry Ludwig and Edward J. Baum- 

 bacli are visiting at Dunkirk, New 

 York. 



Samuel Cape, of Lawrenceville, flor- 

 ist, is one of a party of friends at 

 Atlantic City. 



L. F. Post, of tlie I. W. Scott Seed 

 Co., and Mrs. Post liave returned from 

 a trip to Duluth. 



Nicholas Cassaluccia, landscape gard- 

 ener for the Penn. R. R., is spending 

 several weeks in Michigan. 



Accompanied by his family Fore- 

 man James Moore of West Park will 

 leave August 1st for a lake trip to 

 Toronto. 



George B. Telfair, a member of tlie 

 seed firm of Scobie & Parker, is spend- 

 ing a month in the mountains of 

 North Carolina. 



Miss May Brush, a saleswoman for 

 The Flower Shop, Sewickley, is spend- 

 ing a vacation at Ligonier in the Alle- 

 gheny Mountains. 



Russell H. Boggs, a wealthy mer- 

 chant, who has a fine greenhouse on 

 his Sewickley Heights estate, is dis- 

 posing of his surplus flowers to some 

 of the retail trade. 



Accompanied by his family Anthony 

 Smith, Jr., left last Saturday for a 

 motoring trip to Atlantic City. Joseph 

 Koenig, a decorator for the A. W. 

 Smith Co., with his family left on 

 -Monday for a sojourn in the Maryland 

 mountains. 



Karl Doelker, salesman and designer 

 for Ray J. Daschbach, Inc., will leave 

 on Monday next for a sojourn in the 

 country near Mount Leon. Frank Kil- 

 gallen, of the same firm, left on last 

 Saturday for a trip including points 

 of interest in Ohio. 



Albert Vick has just returned from 

 Rochester, N. Y., where his father, 

 Frederick Vick, has been seriously ill 

 for some time. Jacob Gerwig, another 

 employee of Pittsburgh Cut Flower 

 Co., left last Monday to join his family 

 at Conneaut Lake. 



It is to be regretted that throughout 

 the Summer Playground season which 

 closed yesterday, there were not suffi- 

 cient flowers to meet the demand of any 

 of the Friday Flower Days, It was 

 necessary to send some little ones 



away each week without the longed 

 for and expected "bunch of flowers." 

 although the majority of the wealthy 

 owners of gardens and greenhouses 

 contributed generously and the whole- 

 sale trade did all possible within their 

 scope to relieve the situation. 



CHICAGO. 



Miss .Mabel Schuiz of J. A. Bud- 

 long's is vacationing at Cedar Lake, 

 Ind. 



Frank Hazer of Geo. Reinberg's 

 store force, was recalled from a vaca- 

 tion trip by the sudden death of his 

 father. 



A card from Henry Arnold, with O. 

 A. and L. A. Tonner, says liis vacation 

 at Eagle Lake, Wis., is all right, but 

 that mosquitoes are biting much bet- 

 ter than fish. 



Stephen Keller of George Keller & 

 Sons, Chicago, flower pot manufactur- 

 ers, who was injured some time ago 

 by being caught in the machinery. Is 

 doing nicely. He expects to be able to 

 leave the hospital soon. 



H. RoUo Mueller of Sedgewick, Kan- 

 sas, a nephew- of Chas. P. Mueller, 

 Wichita, Kan., is now- in the employ 

 of Frank Oechslin learning the prac- 

 tical side of plant growing after being 

 graduated last June from the Floricul- 

 tural department of the University of 

 Illinois. 



John Meier, carnation specialist at 

 Tessville, 111., a member of the Chi- 

 cago Flower Growers' Association, Is 

 trying the experiment of working his 

 men from 4 till 9 A. M. and from 4 

 till 8 P. M., suspending work during 

 the heat of the day. Mr. Meier says 

 tliey are now filling the houses with 

 new soil and this schedule of time is 

 not only satisfactory to the men but 

 by it he gets more accomplished than 

 under the old way. 



Of all the summer flowers, O. A. Ton- 

 ner considers the gladiolus one of 

 the most satisfactory. The oft-color 

 varieties have now been eliminated 

 from the market by the fact that they 

 would not sell and better, new varie- 

 ties have taken their places. The re- 

 tailer has learned to show the gladiolus 

 in a more attractive way than hereto- 

 fore, and in the tall basket with the 

 accompaniment of gypsophila the 

 spikes liave a stately grace not ex- 

 celled among summer flowers. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Daniel Donoghue and party of six 

 were visitors at Commodore Westcott's 

 bungalow on Barnegat Bay, July 17tli 

 to 2i)th. On the 21st W. F. Gude and 

 party of twelve distinguished men of 

 affairs from Washington, D. C, ar- 

 rived on the scene, for a few days' en- 

 joyment far from the maddenin.'? 

 crowd. 



Horace Cheeseman, well known to 

 the trade all over the country, after 

 having been on the invalid list for 

 three years has happily recovered his 

 health after a sojourn in Florida and 

 later in the Adirondacks, and is now- 

 connected with Ralph M. Ward & 

 Co., New York City. We are all glad 

 to see his smiling face again and hope 

 he may long be spared to spread the 

 shining light amid the encircling 

 gloom. 



X. B. — You can always find gloom 

 somewhere no matter how^ bright the 

 god of day beams on the universe. 



.\bram L. Pennock, the veteran re- 

 tired florist of Lansdowne, Pa. (and 

 Jupiter, Fla.), thinks that everybody 

 ought to have a hobby. No matter 

 what it Is — be it horses, horticulture 

 or hens. When one has slaved his 

 alloted span in business and acquired 

 a competance he retires, of course. 

 But if he has no hobby — he rusts out 

 in no time, is a most miserable creat- 

 ure and doesn't know what to do with 

 himself. That's where the hobby 

 comes in. Take Admiral Ward for in- 

 stance. His hobby is roses. And Isn't 

 he the joy and inspiration for all 

 lovers of the queen of flowers — as well 

 as holy poem to himself! 



NEW YORK. 



Winfried Rolker. whose respect for 

 anniversaries is w-ell-know-n to his 

 friends, observed on Saturday, July 

 22, the fiftieth anniversary of his 

 sailing from Antwerp to begin his 

 business career in New York after 

 having completed his education in 

 Europe. On Saturday, July 29. an- 

 other important event. Mr. Rolker's 

 birthday anniversary, will have a fit- 

 ting celebration. May there be many 

 happy returns. 



Charles Millang and Charles C. 

 Johnson have formed a corporation 

 under the title of Johnson & Millang. 

 Inc.. with Mr. Johnson as secretary 



