March 21, 1914 



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PRESENTATION TO CHARLES 

 KAHLERT. 



Thirty-eight years in the employ of 

 one firm is the fine record of Charles 

 Kahlert, who has heen with the retail 

 house of Pennock Brothers, Philadel- 

 phia, since the opening of the Centen- 

 nial, May 9th, 1876, and still in active 

 harness. He decorated the Centennial 

 window of the firm for the spring 

 weeli. Seizing the occasion of Mr. 

 Kahlert's 60th birthday, March 14th, 

 members of the firm and fellow em- 

 ployees attended a little celebration at 

 Mr. Kahlert's home in Norwood, Pa., 

 on the 14th inst. During the proceed- 

 ings A. B. Cartledge, senior member of 

 the firm, presented Mr. Kahlert with 

 a handsome gold watch and chain, 

 from the firm and fellow employees, 

 as a memento of their esteem and re- 

 spect. Mr. Cartledge spoke feelingly of 

 the long and faithful service and the 

 sterling worth and high character of 

 the recipient, and voiced the senti- 

 ments of all present in the happiest 

 manner. 



Commodore Westcott, who presented 

 a gold engraved seal pendant, also 

 spoke. He said Mr. Kahlert had 

 started with him in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 and later joined him in Philadelphia 

 after he became a member of Pennock 

 Bros, and had been there ever since. 

 He cordially endorsed all the good 

 things that had been said and was 

 glad to be present to testify to his 

 esteem. He considered "Charlie" one 

 of "his boys" and felt towards him 

 more like a son than an old employee. 

 Mr. Kahlert feelingly replied and 

 thanked his friends most cordially for 

 their good wishes and the beautiful 

 mark of esteem, which he would 

 wear next his heart as long as he 

 lived. 



The writer of this note has known 

 Mr. Kahlert some twenty years and 

 considers him a shining light. Tie 

 editor of this journal has known him 



even longer, and I am sure will join 

 me in wishing that he may live a 

 thousand years. We are proud to have 

 known him and extend our cordial 

 congratulations on this occasion of 

 well-deserved appreciation from his 

 friends and fellow- workers. 



Geouue C. W.\tso.\. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



W. F. Littlefield and wife passed 

 through the city and called on the 

 trade last week. They are on their 

 way home from a trip to Honolulu. 



W. Frank Therkildson, advertising 

 manager for W. Atlee Burpee & Co., 

 has gone West on a friendly visit to 

 his old location at Painesville, O. He 

 will attend incidentally to committee 

 matters connected with the American 

 Seed Trade Association, of which he 

 is vice-president. 



Counter trade among the seed 

 houses here is very backward for mid- 

 March, and while they all know why, 

 they cannot help growling at what old 

 Boreas has been doing to them these 

 five weeks back. And he is still doing 

 it. the old scoundrel. Meantime, if 

 we may believe the Washington Star: 



"The .crroundhog sleeps well tucked awny 



While blizzards blow; 

 He doesn't even deign to say 



I told you so." 



Wm. A. Leonard, Landsdowne, is 

 showing up as one of our most suc- 

 cessful and enterprising growers. He 

 has a big new addition to his already 

 large area of glass under way and will 

 cojnplete same in time for next sea- 

 son's crops. In addition to being a 

 great rose grower, Mr.- Leonard is also 

 an enthusiastic yachtsman — and a 

 member of the Yachtsmen's Club of 

 Philadelphia, with finely equipped 

 quarters at Juniper and Jenson. We 

 had the pleasure of meeting a number 

 of old friends there the other day — as 

 Mr. Leonard's guest. 



Parker Thayer Barnes is in the far 

 end counties of Pennsylvania teaching 

 the farmers how to fight the insect 

 pests for the past year or two. In a 

 personal letter he states that there is 

 going to be another short peach crop 

 in that region, mainly because his sol- 

 emn warnings have been largely un- 

 heeded. But the wise ones are wak- 

 ing up in this as in many other im- 

 portant matters, and the campaign of 

 the Department of Agriculture, of 

 which Prof. Surface is the ruling spirit, 

 is bound in time to bear fruit. Mr. 

 Barnes sends kindly greetings to all 

 his old friends of the Florists' Club 

 and others around Philadelphia. 



Your editorial about the lads who 

 are "perpetually burning incense to 

 themselves," is veiy good. It's an 

 American trait, but here in Philadel- 

 phia it has always been at low ebb. 

 I can well remember twenty-six years 

 ago, when I first settled in the Quaker 

 City, how refreshing it was to read 

 what Wilmer Atkinson said about his 

 journal, "that it did not devote one- 

 half of its space to telling how good 

 the other half was." Yet for all that. 

 Philadelphia has some advertisers of 

 world-wide fame— Burpee, for instance, 

 and Wanamaker, and lots of others. 

 But they never scream to convince. 

 They say it quietly, but strongly. 



"The Right Way of Oardeninj;" was the 

 subject of a lecture by Mauriee Fuld, of 

 Now York, a well-known liortieulturist, at 

 ITlt Chestnut street, last night. 



"Don't follow too many rules," he ad- 

 viseil his audieme. "Put little faith lu 

 what you read in rule books and seed 

 catalogs. The majority of the latter are 

 so devised as to fool the unknowing nnd 

 to trick tliem into buying seeds that will 

 be of no use to them. 



"If the seed merchants would only 

 realize that by tricking the people they 

 win a customer only to lose him again, 

 they would adopt a more business-like 

 policy. 



"Don't be afraid to dig too deep Id a 

 garden. Don't do work as an aniatenr 

 that would prove difficult to a professional 

 gardener. Don't think that anybody can 



