HORTICULTURE 



September 2, 1916 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO. 



Mr. and Mrs. Augriist Lange returned 

 Monday from Houston via steamer to 

 New York. 



H. A. Stone is mourning tlie deatli 

 of Mrs. Stone's mother, who has Ijeen 

 a member of his family for yeare. 



Mrs. John W. Poehlmann and 

 daughter, Frieda, are spending a few 

 weel^s with relatives in New Hamp- 

 shire. 



A. H. Schneider, well-known florist 

 of Oak Park. 111., lost his father Aug. 

 2Sth. He died while walking about 

 the gardens. 



Tom McAllister is an enthusiast on 

 S. A. P. conventions and the one at 

 Houston is receiving his heartiest 

 commendations. He returned via Dal- 

 las, Ft. Worth and the Iron Mt. route. 



C. B. Knickman. who represents Mc- 

 Hutchison & Co., from coast to coast, 

 is here on his way back from Califor- 

 nia. The western coast is reported as 

 decidedly dull from a business stand- 

 point. 



Announcements of the 1916 conven- 

 tion of the Vegetable Growers' Asso- 

 ciation of America, at the La Salle 

 Hotel, Sept. 26, 27, 28, 29, are out, and 

 show a long list of attractive features 

 on the program. 



Mr. and Mrs. Grover Rambler of 

 Shreveport, La., are taking in Chicago 

 on their honeymoon trip. Mrs. Ram- 

 bler was formerly Miss D. E'. Ruch, 

 and had built up a good business as a 

 florist in Shreveport, which will be 

 continued as before. 



Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Suchy and son. 

 of San Antonio. Tex., have spent two 

 weeks in and about Chicago. They are 

 traveling by auto, and left for the 

 east, expecting to stop at various 

 cities on the way to Philadelphia, 

 where they will take a boat for Gal- 

 veston. 



John G. Poehlmann, who has been 

 in the Battle Creek Sanitarium for the 

 past four weeks, has returned to his 

 position as manager of the store on 

 East Randolph St., greatly improved 

 in health. Mr. Poehlmann devoted much 

 time to his father, the late John W. 

 Poehlmann, during his long, illness, 

 and has not been quite well since his 

 death. 



A. F. Longren, for several years 

 traveling salesman for Poehlmann 

 Bros, Co., is home from his summer 

 trip, which terminated at Houston. 

 Mr. Longren's impressions of the 

 sunny south, from a salesman's view- 

 point, are not altogether pleasing and 

 he is not optimistic about an immedi- 

 ate marked increase in southern busi- 

 ness. 



Among the Chicago visitors this 

 week is Pontius Wolff, who comes 

 from Molndal-Goteborg, Sweden. He 

 is accompanied by his sister and the 

 visit to this country is largely to see 

 its horticultural products and methods 

 of cultivation. Mr. Wolff is much in- 

 terested in horticultural societies and 

 was one of the judges at Belgium's 

 International Show three years ago. He 

 was surprised at the quantity of made- 

 up baskets and fern dishes used here 

 and says they do not sell abroad. 



PITTSBURGH. 



W. P. and S. L. Gallaber have moved 

 their flower shop from the Fifth 

 Avenue Arcade to the Buhl Building 

 at 204 Fifth avenue. 



W. T. Ammerman of Altoona, Pa., 

 who comes from the local Carnegie 

 Institute of Technology, has been en- 

 gaged in the landscape department of 

 A. W. Smith Co. 



Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Hall are at 

 Atlantic City, N. J. Theodore P. Lang- 

 hans and son are on a fishing trip in 

 Canada. Walter Breitensteen has re- 

 turned from an extended vacation at 

 Sandy Creek. 



The Ludwig Floral Company have 

 taken the foyer of the main building 

 of the Western Pennsylvania Exposi- 

 tion Society for display and selling 

 during the six weeks' exposition, 

 which opened last Wednesday. The 

 firm also has the contract for the 

 decoration of Music Hall and other 

 sections of the exposition buildings. 



C. H. Hadley, Jr.. investigator in 

 entomology at Cornell has been se- 

 lected to head the extension work in 

 entomology to be opened this fall at 

 Penna. State College. His appoint- 

 ment is made possible through the 

 operation of the Smith Lever bill, 

 passed two years ago by the federal 

 government, providing funds for agri- 

 cultural extension work. 



NEW YORK. 



Gardeners writing in the corres- 

 pondents columns of the New York 

 Sun are severely criticising the New 

 York Botanical Garden for the low 

 wages paid and exacting time rules es- 

 pecially for the gardeners in the 

 greenhouse department. 



An automobile ride to Freeport, L. 

 I., and then by boat to Green Island, 

 from the starting place at Fifth avenue 

 and Twenty-third street, is the pro- 

 gramme mapped out for the members 

 of the Greenwood Florists' Employees 

 Association for their Labor Day out- 

 ing, Sept. 4. James J. Daily, standard 

 bearer of the association, is head of 

 the Arrangements Committee. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Charles Sim, Rosemont, sailed on 

 the S. S. St. Paul, Aug. 26th, on a six 

 weeks' trip to the old country. 



President Samuel S. Pennock, of 

 the American Rose Society announces 

 that over fifty new members have 

 joined the society within the past 

 month, also that the thousand-dollar 

 guarantee fund for research purposes 

 is now fully assured and that Cornell 

 has already started on the work. En- 

 thusiasm is the word. No great work 

 was ever accomplished without enthu- 

 siasm. Keep S. S. P. and his able 

 bunch of co-operators in a while long- 

 er — we'll forget our families, friends 

 and fatherlands — o.nd call in the 

 doctor for the Rose Fever. 



BUFFALO. 



The new home of the Wm. P. Hast- 

 ing Co. will be located at 568-570 

 Washington street, near Chippewa, and 

 in the center of the market district. 

 The building is a four-story brick and 



basement and its spacious floors are 

 50x90 and well lighted. An alley ad- 

 joins the rear of the building for cart- 

 ing and shipping purposes and the 

 premises are well laid out for a whole- 

 sale flower market. There are pas- 

 senger and freight elevators and the 

 building is equipped with steam heat- 

 ing. Plans are under way for refriger- 

 ators 12x36 for cold storage purposes;. 

 On Monday, September 4, the firm will 

 be located permanently and open for 

 business at the new home, though only 

 part of the building will be used tor 

 the time being. 



BOSTON. 



John J. Williams, of Cambridge, and 

 Ethel F. , Strom, of Somerville; were 

 married on August 20. 



The annual sale of choice of stalls 

 at the Boston Co-operative Market on 

 Saturday, September 9, at 9.30 A. M. 



Welch Bros. Company are getting 

 ready to move from their old location 

 at 226 Devonshire street to the base- 

 ment of the premises now occupied by 

 Patrick Welch at 262 Devonshire St. 



America gladioli four feet tall are 

 being marketed by the Mann Com- 

 pany. The bulbs are home grown 

 from bulbs imported from Holland 

 three years ago and the spikes are the 

 finest we have seen anywhere. 



The annual meeting of the Florists' 

 Bowling Association will be held on 

 September 12, when plans tor the sea- 

 son will be mapped out. Write to J. 

 Sloane, secretary. Flower Exchange. 

 Winthrop square, if you wish to join 

 the aggregation. 



The new city headquarters of the 

 Waban Rose Conservatories at 5 Win- 

 throp square was opened on Thursday 

 of this week for business. The place is 

 .-spacious and well fitted with every ap- 

 purtenance and facility. Mr. Mont- 

 gomery is planning to cut a water- 

 melon one of these days in honor of 

 the occasion. 



NEWPORT, R. f. 



Summer American Beauties are a 

 leading crop with Carl Jurgens. There 

 is demand for all he can turn out. 



The Newport florist stores are all 

 doing good business this season. Here 

 one sees Gardenia Fortunei blooms of 

 marvelous perfection such as can be 

 found nowhere else in this country at 

 least. 



Anyone interested in the possibili- 

 ties of the transplanting of large trees 

 will find remarkable examples of suc- 

 cessful moving of big lindens, elms 

 and oaks on the Wells estate where 

 Andrew Meikle has been in charge for 

 many years. On this place many fine 

 specimens of rare conifers are to be 

 seen. 



One of the most impressive and 

 dazzling sights in Newport is the 

 sunken garden on the Berwynd estate 

 where for 23 years Bruce Butterton 

 has presided. Flanked by topiary 

 gardening and formal groups with a 

 rich background of deciduous groves. 

 Begonia Erfordi is here seen at its 

 best — 8,000 plants in trim geometrical 

 beds cut in the greensward making a 

 Iiicture long to be remembered. 



