January 10, 1914 



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TESTIMONIAL TO E. H. WILSON. 



On Thursday evening, January 1, a 

 farewell dinner was tendered to E. H. 

 Wilson, as he was about to depart for 

 a year's sojourn in Japan, by the Hor- 

 ticultural Club of Boston at the Parker 

 House. About thirty members and per- 

 sonal friends of Mr. Wilson, who is 

 honorary secretary of the club, were 

 present. Among those from a distance 

 were F. R. Pierson, Tarrytown, N. Y.; 

 Leonard Barron, Garden City, N. Y.; 

 L. J. Renter, Westerly, R. I., and Judge 

 C. W. Hoitt, Nashua, N. H. The latter 

 was entrusted with the pleasant duty 

 of presenting to Mr. Wilson on behalf 

 of the members a beautiful gold watch 

 chain and locket and jewelled brooches 

 for Mrs. Wilson and Miss Wilson. 

 Judge Hoitt's effort was a master- 

 piece, as always, and Mr. Wilson's 

 response was heartfelt and eloquent. 

 Many words of kindly feeling were 

 spoken at this memorable feast In 

 honor of one whom the Boston frater- 

 nity have quickly learned to love be- 

 cause of his delightful personality, 

 with wishes for a safe voyage, a 

 successful outcome of his venture 

 and a happy return to Boston a year 

 hence. 



The table was superbly decorated 

 with the finest products of several of 

 the club members. We only mention a 

 vase of splendid blooms of Matchless 

 carnation sent with the compliments 

 of Cottage Gardens Company and a 

 vase of Buddleia Asiatica, one of Mr. 

 Wilson's Chinese introductions, which 

 formed the central feature of the deco- 

 ration and filled the banquet hall with 

 its delicious aroma while every one 

 was charmed with its graceful foun- 

 tain-like effect. 



BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENT. 



A meeting of the creditors of Ed- 

 ward MacMulkin, florist, who as- 

 signed December 23, 1913, will be held 

 in the rear of store 194 Boylston 

 Street, Boston, (Park Square en- 

 trance) on Monday, January 12, 1914, 

 at 10.30 o'clock in the forenoon at 

 which meeting the assignee will pre- 

 sent his report of the assets and lia- 

 bilities, and the question of continuing 

 the business at 194 Boylston Street 

 will come up for discussion and deter- 

 mination. William D. Gooch is as- 

 signee. 



The annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association will be held 

 at the New Willard Hotel, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, at 11.30 A. M., Wednesday, 

 January 14, 1914. The meeting will 

 be confined to a business session, the 

 general discussions and papers on 

 forestry having been disposed of at 

 meetings presided over by President 

 Henry Sturgis Drinker, and Vice- 

 President Henry S. • Graves at the 

 time the National Conservation Con- 

 gress met in November. 



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PERSONAL. 



H. F. Littlefield of Worcester, Mass., 

 is starting on a trip to Japan. 



John Cook, the veteran rosarian, of 

 Baltimore, starts January 9th for a 

 winter sojourn in Florida. 



John Allan, gardener for Mr. J. R. 

 Drexel, Newport, R. I., was elected li- 

 cense commissioner for the city on 

 Monday, Jan. 5th. 



William M. Reid, salesman for W. W. 

 Barnard Company, Chicago, sailed on 

 January 1st on a two months' busi- 

 ness and pleasure trip to Scotland. 



Announcement is received of the en- 

 gagement of Miss Geneveive Frances 

 Roy, eldest daughter of D. F. Roy, su- 

 perintendent of "The Moorings," 

 Marion, Mass., to Dr. Rogers Humph- 

 ries of Holyoke, Mass. 



Charles H. Curtis, who has been as- 

 sistant editor of The Gardeners' Mag- 

 azine, London, Eng., succeeds George 

 Gorden as editor-in-chief. Mr. Gordon 

 will act as advisory editor. The price 

 of the paper is to be reduced to one 

 penny instead of two pence, as here- 

 tofore. 



Cincinnati visitors.— William Rogers 

 of the Miami Floral Co., Dayton, O.; 

 R. M. Speer, Columbus, Ohio. 



Boston visitors. — Harvey Geddes, 

 Supt. of Portland Country Club, Fal- 

 mouth Foreside, Me.; Hon. C. W. Hoitt, 

 Nashua, N. H,; Louis J. Reuter, West- 

 erly, R. I.; F. R. Pierson, Tarrytown, 

 N. Y.; Leonard Barron, Garden City, 

 N. Y.; A. E. Thatcher, Bar Harbor, 

 Me.; D. F. Roy, Marion, Mass.; M. B. 

 Faxon, New York; Mrs. Francis King, 

 .A.lma, Mich.; William Judgens, New- 

 port, R. I.; Arthur Griffin, E. Marion, 

 Mass. V 



HENRY PENN'S ADVENTURE. 



Whether or not the joke is on Henry 

 Penn, the Bromfield street florist, or on 

 his chauffeur, Mr. Penn's friends have not 

 yet been able to decide, but the fact that 

 they are all sure of is that there was a 

 Joke, and that It is too good to be kept. 



It may have been the fault of the chauf- 

 feur, or of Mr. Pcun or the limousine. 

 This also has not been decided. 



Mr. Penn came out of his Bromfield 

 street store to his waiting car the other 

 day and said to the chauffeur: "Drive to 

 the Roland greenhouses at Nahant." 



The chauffeur bent to crank his engine, 

 and when Mr. Penn told him to "wait a 

 minute," and went back in the store for 

 something he had forgotten, the whirring 

 engine drowned his words and the chauf- 

 feur climbed to the seat, thinking Mr. 

 Penn was inside. 



In a few moments the latter came out 

 and looked around for bis car. 



There was no car and the bystanders 

 were only lazily interested when he told 

 them that a perfectly good limousine and 

 chauffeur had disappeared off the face of 

 the earth. It is told that a man once 

 lo.st a bass drum, but that's no argument. 



Mr. Penn took a train to Nahant and 

 called up the Bromfield street store and 

 .iskcd if any word had been heard of the 

 chauffeur. "He's Just calling now." said 

 the clerk, and over the other wire he 

 listened to the frenzied tale the chauffeur 

 told of starting for Nahant with Mr. Penn, 

 of losing him .somewhere on the road, and 

 of his suspicions that a horrible murder 

 had been done; that his employer's man- 

 gled body was even then lying on the 

 road somewhere — who could say where? 



When he and his employer finally got to- 

 gether he told that he had started with 

 the firm belief that the latter was Inside; 

 that he had a puncture on the Lynn 

 boulevard; had got out. Jacked up the car 

 and changed the shoe, still sure that Mr. 

 Penn was Inside. "I thought you were 

 probably reading," he said, "and I never 

 looked in. 



"When I got to the greenhouses I found 

 that you were not with me. Then I got 

 busy on the telephone." 



Mr, Penn is kept "busy on the telephone" 

 these days himself, doing some explaining 

 and quieting the vague rumors that he 

 was a victim of thugs on the road from 

 Boston to Nahant. — Boston Adverihcr. 



Gardeners' and Flarists' Union 



No. 1061S, Chicago, 111. 



Extend to the trade an invitation to attend a Smoker at Room 5, 

 232 N. [Clark Street, Wednesday Evening, January 14th, at 8.15 p. m. 



