April 11, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



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Big Display of Memorial Day Goods 



THE FLORIST TRADE OF NEW ENGLAND 



Are invited to the Qulncy House, Boston, from April 14 to April 20, to inspect the most complete exhibit 

 of Memorial Day supplies which we have ever made in Boston. Besides the usual standard stock of Cycas 

 Wreaths, Magnolia Wreaths, Brown and Green Magnolia Foliage, Metal Designs, Crepe Roses, Dahlias, Mums. 

 Carnations, Orchids, etc., we shall show many beautiful rapid-selling novelties of seasonable interest. 



Don't Fail to Call and Look Them Over. 



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Obituary 



F. Walker. 

 P. Walker, the oldest florist in 

 Louisville, Ky., died last week, aged 

 85 years. He was head of the firm 

 of F. Walker & Co., and had been en- 

 gaged in the florist business for nearly 

 40 years. 



James H. McManus. 

 Like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, 

 came the information on Saturday 

 morning, April 4, that James McManus, 

 identified from boyhood with the flow- 

 er store of Thomas F. Galvin, Boston, 

 had dropped dead the evening before, 

 at his home in Jamaica Plain. He 

 had gone home from the store as usual 

 and after supper fell from his chair, 

 dead, without any premonition. Mr. 

 McManus was born in West Roxbury, 

 Mass., in 1858 and when a boy of 12 

 went to work in the store of John Gal- 

 vin, father of Thomas F. Galvin, who 

 is now the head of the corporation and 

 of which Mr. McManus was a stock- 

 holder. He leaves a widow and one 

 daughter. James McManus was one 

 of the most industrious men we have 

 ever known. Methodical and steady, 

 he was always on duty, alert and re- 

 liable. He had rare good taste in the 

 arrangement of flowers and no florist's 

 business has ever had the services of 

 a more loyal, faithful and useful em- 

 ployee. His sudden passing away is 

 deeply deplored. 



Springfield, Mass. S)iringfiel(l is to 

 have a rose garden in Forest park 

 which will attract attention all over 

 the land within a few years if the 

 plans of Marshall Headle, the new 

 municipal florist, materialize. Mr. 

 Headle, who recently came to the park 

 department, has scanned the field he 

 is to cover and already has a number 

 of beautification schemes developing, 

 one of which is the rose garden idea. 

 The site for the garden is practically 

 selected and the first bushes will be 

 set out this spring. 



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REACTIONARY. 



One of the things which has always 

 appealed to a man with narrow vision 

 is that he can improve his own busi- 

 ness by chasing the street vendors who 

 sell cheap posies off the earth. He has 

 succeeded in many places in doing 

 this to a large extent, and yet his 

 business does not seem to improve. 

 He refuses to see that these humble 

 vendors are really missionaries for 

 his business and the love of flowers in 

 general. 



The latest move in Philadelphia is a 

 petition to Mayor Blankenburg to 

 chase the Easter plant vendors oft the 

 City Hall Plaza — a time-honored in- 

 stitution which has done much to 

 spread a love of flowers among the 

 people. To advocate so short-sighted 

 a policy in ray opinion indicates a 

 mind defectively narrow, shallow and 

 quite unable to grasp things at their 

 fundamentals. Why not get out and 

 hustle for some more new business for 

 themselves instead of gunning for the 

 fellow who does? 



G. C. W. 



OUT OF THE ORDINARY. 

 "Tango Tints." 



The Baltimore Sun, in enumerating 

 some of the floral attractions offered 

 for Easter in that town mentions 

 "siweet peas in tango tints." Can't 

 seem to get the thing out of mind 

 even in Holy Week! 



Gardening as Penalty. 



Raising flowers and "garden sass" 

 will be the punishment given juveniles 

 for their misdemeanors in the future 

 by the Maiden (Mass.) Court. Judge 

 Bruce, whose original methods of 

 handling problems of juvenile delin- 

 quency have won him much commen- 

 dation, believes that few of the boys 

 and girls brought before him are 

 wholly bad, and that the way to re- 

 claim them is not through confine- 

 ment in correctional institutions. 



Vacant land has been offered by 

 J. G. Chandler, of Maiden, for Judge 

 Bruce's purpose, and the judge will 

 hereafter sentence juveniles to terms 

 at raising vegetables and flowers. 



BUSINESS TROUBLES. 



Hartford, Conn. — In the United 

 States Court, bankruptcy petitions were 

 filed on April S by Alfred G. Williams, 

 florist, of Norwalk. with liabilities of 

 $2,713.20 and assets of .$290.40, 



PERSONAL. 



James Watt succeeds the late Paul 

 Volquardsen as head gardener for Mrs. 

 W. G. Weld, Bellevue avenue, New- 

 port, R. I. 



W. A. Miller has taken a position 

 with the C. P. Mueller Floral Co., 

 Wichita, Kan. He has been with the 

 W. L. Rock Flower Company, Kansas 

 City, Mo., for the past twelve years. 



In its department "People of Inter- 

 est." the Boston Morning Herald for 

 Sunday, April 5, devoted two whole col- 

 umns to an account of the activities 

 and attainments of J. K. M. L. Far- 

 quhar, together with an excellent 

 portrait of that gentlemen. It was a 

 very interesting and inspiring story 

 of the career of a self-made man. 



William Allan has resigned his posi- 

 tion as gardener for Dr. H. B. Jacobs, 

 Narragansett Ave., Newport, R. I. Mr. 

 Allan was in charge of the place for 

 nearly twenty years, succeeding his 

 father who held that position for about 

 twenty-five years! John McGowan 

 who has been gardener for several 

 years at the L. S. Bruguiere estate 

 near Newport, R. 1., has succeeded 

 William .\llan at Dr. Jacobs' place. 



FIRE. 

 Brooklyn, N. Y.— Policeman O'Brien 

 ol the Herbert street station had his 

 attention attracted early Saturday 

 morning, April 4. to smoke commg 

 from the store of the Le Grand Floral 

 Company, of 575 Grand street. On 

 examination he found that the entire 

 store was ablaze, the flames being hid- 

 den from the street by the window 

 display of cut flowers. He turned in 

 an alarm after rousing the tenants in 

 the upper floors of the house. The 

 fire was extinguished after three- 

 quarters of an hour's work. The dam- 

 age, which amounted to $1,500, is- 

 covered by insurance. 



Plainfield, N. J.— H. J. Porristel has 

 bought the florist business from his 

 uncle. William H. FoiTistel, on Bell- 

 view avenue, near Park avenue, and 

 will take possession at once. 



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