December 23^ 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



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BOSTON. 

 J. R. Shields who has conducted a 

 greenhouse in Woburn for many years 

 discontinued business last week and is 

 now with J. W. Howard. 



William J. Kennedy, a prominent 

 figure in the Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club has been re-elected president of 

 the Jlassachusetts State Employees' 

 Benefit Association. 



H. M. Robinson celebrated his 

 twentieth wedding anniversary last 

 Wednesday. The office and store em- 

 ployees presented him with a hand- 

 some leather armchair which, as Mr. 

 Robinson is now thoroughly domesti- 

 cated, will probably he very welcome. 



The Filene department store build- 

 ing has been very tastefully festooned 

 with garlands and wreaths of laurel 

 and red material by John D. Twombly. 

 The garlanding is such as is rarely 

 seen, each loop heavy in the centre, 

 and graduated gracefully to a point 

 at the tips. 



Growers in Tewksbury, Lowell and 

 Danvers suffered a severe blow when 

 C. S. Ketcham. transportation agent 

 for many greenhouses in this vicinity, 

 met with a serious accident while 

 bringing their stock to market. While 

 examining the storage battery it ex- 

 ploded, blinded him and gashed him 

 about the face and hands. The doc- 

 tor attending him advises that he may 

 lose his eyesight permanently. 



Excitement reigned, but no loss was 

 sustained when nearly a half of Bos- 

 ton's fire apparatus crowded into Win- 

 throp Sq. and vainly searched through 

 the flower market and wholesale flor- 

 ist houses for a fire at about S P. M., 

 Wednesday. After an hour's fruitless 

 search the apparatus withdrew. Later 

 it was discovered that an automatic 

 sprinkler was responsible for the 

 alarm and had put out the flames be- 

 fore the department arrived. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Robei-t W. Pyle, of West Grove, 

 Pa., delivered a lecture on the roses in 

 the Arlington experimental gardens 

 before the Takoma Park Citizens' As- 

 sociation at a meeting in Takoma Park 

 last week. 



As was the case four years ago when 

 President Wilson was first inducted in- 

 to the office, W. F. Gude will head the 

 committee on illumination and will 

 have charge of the additional electric 

 Installation which this year will make 

 the entire downtown section a "Great 

 White Way." Mr. Gude is picking a 

 lot of "live-wire" assistants, included 

 among them being a number of florists. 



A. N. Pierson, of Cromwell, Conn., 

 last week conferred with Marion Let- 

 cher, foreign trade advisor of the State 

 Department, Senator George P. Mc- 

 Lean and other officials in an effort 

 to find some way in which to secure 

 the immediate exportation from Den- 

 mark of a large quantity of lily of the 

 valley pips which have been held up 

 by the British Government on the 

 ground that they were goods of enemy 

 (German) production. Mr. Pierson as- 

 sured the officials that the pips were 

 strictly of Danish production and were 

 "neutral" goods. He was informed 

 that the State Department had a num- 

 ber of such cases in hand and that 

 every attention would be given when 

 these others were taken up with the 

 British Government- 



Worcester, Mass.— According to an 

 order issued by the committee of ar- 

 bitration which has been investigating 

 the case of James E. Carrigan of 88 

 Coburn avenue, who claims to be an 

 injured employe of H. E. Littlefield, a 

 Worcester florist, Carrigan will not 

 receive any compensation for his in- 

 juries and his claim, which was made 

 under the provisions of the workmen's 

 compensation act, has been dismissed. 



SENSE AND SENTIMENT. 



In a recent issue of the London 

 Times the following advertisement ap- 

 pears: 



"By the special desire of the late 

 Clement Leigh Watson-Smith friends 

 are requested not to send flowers at 

 his funeral, but in lieu thereof a dona- 

 tion to the Faversham Cottage Hospi- 

 tal would be appreciated by his fam- 

 ily." 



The obvious comment which the 

 average person would be inclined to 

 make with regard to this unusual re- 

 quest would be that the money un- 

 doubtedly would do more good if do- 

 nated to the hospital instead of being 

 spent for flowers. But is there not 

 another side to the question? Are we 

 becoming so utilitarian in these latter 

 days that our criteria of values are to 

 be thus weighed and measured with 

 such nice calculation? 



The custom of bringing a few flow- 

 ers to the bier of our beloved dead is 

 one which, whatever its origin, ex- 

 presses a sentiment which finds echo 

 deep in the common heart of man. The 

 parting from a loved one through 

 death is a universal experience, one 

 which sooner or later brings us face 

 to face with the one insoluble mystery 

 of life. Faith alone solves it in keep- 

 ing with the longings of the human 

 heart. Faith upholds and strengthens 

 the fragile and tender hopes of love 

 when love faces the cold and lifeless 

 form of one beloved. Somehow there 

 is an involuntary groping after some 

 tangible expression of all this, and 

 what more beautiful and appropriate 

 form could it take than the bringing of 

 an offering of a few fragrant blos- 

 soms to his grave? And why should 

 such a perfect expression of love be 

 marred by the utilitarian consideration 

 as to whether the pittance spent might 

 not be put to better use? 



So, in spite of the apparent good 

 sense of the gentleman's "special de- 

 sire," we shall bring to the bier of each 

 departing friend, as in turn they leave 

 us through the coming years, an offer- 

 ing in keeping with the tender senti- 

 ment which prompts It — whether it b» 

 good sense or not. — Macon (Ga.J News. 



