July 13, 1912 



HORTICULTUEE 



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SWEET PEA HEADQUARTERS 



COPLEY SQUARE HOTEL 



Huntington Ave., Exeter and Blagden Streets 



BOSTON, MASS. 



Convenient to the Exhibition 

 Hall, Congenial and Home- 

 like. Rooms without bath, 

 $1.50 per day up. With 

 bath, $2.00 per day up. 



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EUROPEAN PLAN. 



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PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



David Adam of Dreer's moved his 

 family from Jersey City to West 

 Philadelphia on the 6th inst. 



Charles E. Meehan and a number 

 of other Philadelphia florists and near 

 florists went to Lancaster on the 11th 

 inst. to take part in the annual outing 

 of the Lancaster brethren. A full ac- 

 count of this event will appear next 

 week. 



Arctotis grandis is the name of the 

 new lavender daisy referred to in this 

 week's market notes. It has petalage 

 very much in form of the African 

 orange daisy. The eye, which is dark 

 also, is much larger than in Dimor- 

 photheca aurantiaca. This item is be- 

 ing grown by John Savage, Gwynedd 

 Valley. Has got length, stems and 

 is entirely different from the Arctotis 

 breviscapa, 'the yellow annual sort 

 familiar to most of us. 



There are horses for sale at Nies- 

 sen's. Pretty good horses too — for the 

 shape they are in. Arthur says they 

 have a record, but declines to give 

 figures. Says their records are at 

 least as good as mine. One's named 

 "Bessie," the other "Ready Money." 

 One's blue — the other gray. The reas- 

 on for the passing of these good and 

 faithful friends — with their wagons 

 and harness — is the recent advent of 

 another autocar for the delivery serv- 

 ice. Who will be patriotic? Who will 

 fire the first shot? Shall it be the 

 blue or the gray? Start the bidding, 

 gentlemen. 



Raymond Brunswick, a nephew of 

 Bernard Eschner, has joined the forces 

 of M. Rice & Co. He will be thorough- 

 ly ground in the elementaries of the 

 business, and if all goes well, we may 

 hope to see in a few years this young 

 man taking his place as one of the 

 factors in this great establishment — 

 the personnel of which holds its place 

 entirely from merit and not from fa- 

 vor. No other policy could have placed 

 this firm in the commanding position 

 it now occupies. It has a fine, well- 

 drilled army of splendid workers, each 

 in his proper place and all pulling to- 

 gether for the glory and profit of "The 

 House of Rice." 



Visitors: John Miesem, Elmhurst, 

 N. Y.; P. O. Tuemmler, Brooklyn. N, 

 Y.; Myron Heller, New Castle, Ind.; 

 Fred H. Lemon, Richmond, Ind.; C. B. 

 Coe, D. M. Ferry & Co.' Detroit, 

 Mich.; W. B. Hibbard, Durham Flo- 

 ral Nurseries, Durham, N. C; Mrs. 

 G. G. Goldback. Lancaster, Pa.; Jno. D. 

 Lewis, Lewis Bros., Wilmington. DeJ. 

 Antoine Leuthy, Boston, Mass. 



POLYPODIUM MANDAIANUM. 



Fifteen feet high made of cut frouds cut 

 on the 5th of May at South Orange and 

 kept out of water and staged on the 22nd 

 of May at the Great Show In Loudon. 



LOOKING AFTER DETAIL. 



Every man that's living has some aim. 

 Whether it's high, or low, or sporty^ just 



the same; 

 Desire to live and gather up the gold. 

 As our fathers used to do in times of old. 



Lots of us are chasing after whales. 

 Lots of us believe in grand old tales; 

 Few of us can catch the little sprat 

 With one swoop in a fedora hat. 



Many are the misdeeds that prevail 

 By not looking after small detail; 

 When you have a purpose, to be sure. 

 Looking after small detail is cure. 



Kveryone can think, and think it twice. 

 Not a one can think, no matter if he's 



wise. 

 Three things at once, and elTorts spent 

 Are lost divided on three different scent. 



Now, while I'm at the subject, let me tell 

 If anything needs doing, do it well — 

 Do it with a will, and to be sure. 

 Looking after detail is the surest cure. 



—A. JABLONSKY. 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 



Miss Margaret Boyle, of the Centre 

 Market, is now able to attend the 

 market and stay throughout the en- 

 tire day. Miss Boyle has had quite a 

 siege of it, being ill for nearly two 

 months. 



Frank L. Schultz has removed his 

 stock from stall 292 to stall 295, Cen- 

 tre Market. At the latter number he 

 has erected a fine new sanitary tile 

 stand which is very attractive and 

 far superior to the old style stalls of 

 wood. 



The delay of Congress in passing 

 the ■ Agricultural Department appro- 

 priation bill may result in the failure 

 of the Secretary to obtain seeds for 

 the annual distribution by the Depart- 

 ment. Last year 900 tons of seeds 

 were disposed of and the applications 

 for free seeds that are being received 

 would make it appear as though an 

 equal amount would be required this 

 year. 



Samuel Everitt is spending his va- 

 cation in Centreville, Md., the home 

 of his parents. Walter Hawley leaves 

 for New York and Boston, to be gone 

 about four weeks. Both these young 

 gentlemen are employees of the Gude 

 Bros. Company. O. A. C. Oehmler 

 will spend a part of this month and 

 all of August with his family at his 

 summer home at Colonial Beach, Va. 



Quite a number of florists who have 

 their houses in the Anacostia district 

 are interested in the fight being waged 

 by the Anacostia Citizens' Association 

 for a free express delivery system in 

 that section. All express and freight 

 shipments consigned to them are 

 billed only as far as Washington 

 proper and in order to get them to 

 Anacostia, the con.signee is called 

 upon to pay an additional cartage 

 fee. Other sections of the District 

 of Columbia now enjoy a free delivery 

 service and the citizens of Anacostia 

 have taken the matter up with the 

 Interstate Commerce Committee. 



A GOOD EXHIBITION FLOWER 

 HOLDER. 



The new flower vase which is ad- 

 vertised elsewhere in this paper by 

 Messrs. Farquhar is well worth exami- 

 nation by all who are in any way in- 

 terested in the proper displaying of 

 cut flowers on the exhibition table. 

 We understand that the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society has pur- 

 chased three gross of these vases and 

 some of them may be seen in use at 

 the sweet pea show this week. The 

 metal bottom gives the stability re- 

 quired in so tall a holder and the little 

 device for holding name card will ap- 

 peal al once to everyone. 



