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HORTICULTURE 



May 16, 1914 



HELP WANTED 



WANTED ' 



Greenhoiisf Foremiui on Private Place. 

 Must be First Class Grower of Roses. 

 'Mums, Carnations and General Greenbouse 

 Stock, of good personal habits and able 

 to produce ivfcrences to that effect. Wages 

 .$65.(XI per month and room. Apply liy let- 

 ter only, enclosing copies of recent refer- 

 ences, to 



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Westbrook Gardens, Oakdale, L. I., 



NEW YORK 



SITUATIONS WANTED 



DO YOU NEED FARM HELP? 



We have many able-bodied young men, 

 both with and without farming experience, 

 who wish to work on farms. If you need 

 a good, intelligent, sober man, write for 

 an order blank. Ours is a philanthropic 

 organization and we make no charge to 

 employer or employee. Our object Is to 

 encourage farming among Jews. 

 THE JEWISH AGRICLXTUKAL SOCIETY, 

 174 Second Avenue, New York City. 



SITUATION WANTED as gardener. In- 

 side or out, on private estate. Life experi- 

 ence — fruit, cbrysanthennims, orchids, etc. 

 First-class references. Ase, 38. English. 

 .Ad dress "P." care H ORTICULTURE. 



SITUATION WANTED- By college stu- 

 dent in floriculture. Ready for work June 

 1. Address W. H., care of HOI! ruIL- 

 TURE. 



SITUATION WANTED— Englishman of 

 good character and ability desires posi- 

 tion as Head Gardener on private place. 

 Address F. HILL, 5 Hidden St., Provi- 

 dence, R. I. 



FOR SALE ~ 



FOR SALE — Fresh from factory, new; 

 10 X 12, 13 X l.S, 16 X 24, double thick. A 

 and B qualities. Market dropped. Now Is 

 the time to buy and save money. PAR- 

 SHELSIvY BROS., INC., 215-217 Have- 

 ij^eyer St., Brooklyn, N. T. 

 ~FOR SALE— Retail and wholesale' florist 

 I'Usiness, li greenhouses on leased land; 5 

 years to run with option to buy, houses 

 were built up last year; good reason for 

 selling; just step in and do business. 

 Apply to PETERSEN, 79 Central Ave., 

 Flushing, N. Y. 



BARGAIN — Greenhoute. residence and 

 stoclt; no competition: live village. 30 

 miles from Buffalo, excellent shipping fa- 

 cilities. Write KLLIS BROS., Sprlngville, 

 . N. Y. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



St. Louis. — Julius Dillhoff of Schlo^ss 

 Bros, and Sam Sellgmaii, New York; 

 A. Miller o£ A. Henderson Co.. Chi- 

 cago; P. J. Parney of The Rice Co., 

 Philadelphia. 



Boston — W. Atlee Burpee and David 

 Burpee, en route for Europe; Mr. and 

 Mrs. A. B. Scott of Philadelphia and 

 nearly the whole Burpee family to see 

 W A. and David off; W. R. Cobb, 

 and Victor H. Morgan, representing 

 Lord & Burnham Co.. New York. 



Chicago — August Swjoboda, Omaha, 

 Neb.; Martin Reukauf, representing H. 

 Bayersdorfer & Co., Phila., Pa.; 

 Messrs. Hermann and Freese, New 

 Haven, Ind.; J. Streit, with S. A. Ander- 

 son, Buffalo, N. Y.; Harry Balsley, De- 

 troit, Mich. 



Philadelphia: Adolphus Gude and 

 William F. Gude. Washington, D. C; 

 H. L. Holmes, Harrisburg. Pa.; M. 

 Boks, Ghent, Belgium; J. F. Shader, 

 Dorrancetown, Pa.; E. Howard Smith. 

 Hazelton, Pa.; Chas. L. Schmidt and 

 Miss Elsie Schmidt, Harrisburg, Pa. W. 

 R. Thoms, Atlantic City, N. Y.; James 

 Brown, Coatsville, Pa.; W. C. Lang- 

 bridge, Albany, N. Y.; W. Maschmann, 

 Hamburg, Germany. 



A DAY WITH BURPEE. 



As the old Irish toast has it; 

 "Come in the 'evening nr come in the 



morning. 

 Come when you're looked for or come 



without warning: 

 Greetings and welcome you'll find here 



before you. 

 And the oftener you c. nic llie more we'll 



adore you !" 

 That's the feeling that everybody 

 has when they're invited to Burpee's 

 and that was the feeling of the mem- 

 bers of the Poor Richard Club who 

 turned out about one hundred strong 

 for a day at Fordhook on the 7th inst. 

 as the guests of W. Atlee Burpee 

 The Poor Richards take their title 

 from Benjamin Franklin's nom de 

 plume. They are newspaper men 

 mostly and it goes without saying that 

 they are the salt of the earth in both 

 brains and breeding, the flower of 

 our civilization and always have 

 the last word in a discussion. 

 Thomas Martindale is one of the 

 ruling spirit of the Club. The spacious 

 acres of Fordhook were traversed ami 

 the horticultural operations carefully 

 explained. Incidentally a visit was 

 made to a neighboring institution — 

 the National Farm School, presided 

 over by Dr. John H. Washburn, wher.- 

 they each Jewish boys how to become 

 farmers and gardeners. 



The creature comforts were ably 

 taken care of by Mrs. Burpee, the 

 ideal hostess. She also made the 

 best speech of the evening and even 

 went so far as to help out Dr. Swartz- 

 lander when wits and roasters had him 

 stampeded. Judge Yerkes proved one 

 of the most entertaining speakers. 

 Howard W. Earl, Burpee's first lieu- 

 tenent was everywhere, quietly ef- 

 ficient as always. David Burpee was 

 also a delightful feature of the fes- 

 tivities especially among the younger 

 men. The popular advertising man- 

 ager of the company W. F. Therkild- 

 son was also indefatigable in seeing 

 that every guest was made at home 

 and happy. 



A rural band in big straws, red 

 bandanas and long dustcoats were a 

 source of much merriment between 

 times. They also had three pipers in 

 full highland costume who gave them 

 marching tunes and dinner solos and 

 break downs to their hearts' content. 

 "The Cock O'the North " and "Bonnie 

 Dundee," "Loch Lomond" and "Mony- 

 musk," "Macpherson's Farewell" and 

 the "Marquis of Huntly," "Yankee 

 Doodle" and "The Wearing of the 

 Green" all came alike to them. They 

 nearly blew their heads off and did'nt 

 seem to mind it a bit. Heavenly 

 music! Especially a little way oit! 

 George C. Watson. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



T. Waters reports a brisk demand 

 for cemetery wreaths of cycas and 

 other prepared materials at Poehl- 

 mann Bros. 



Frank Oeschlin returned Monday 

 from a business trip to Philadelphia. 

 He reports the season as much in ad- 

 vance of that here as was plainly 

 shown in the condition of the shrub- 

 bery. 



Michael Fink of the Flower Growers' 

 Association, one of the standbys of 

 the Chicago market, while working in 

 Ills garden Sunday afternoon, fell, 

 striking his head and cutting his face 

 with his broken glasses. He was found 

 in an unconscious condition by his 



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wife and it was two hours before he 

 regained consciousness. 



Tlie nursery season is being pro- 

 longed by the continued cold which 

 averages about one week of winter to 

 one day of spring. Heeled-in stock 

 is all right but the enthusiasm of the 

 customers is getting chilled. Though 

 the season will be of greater length 

 than the average, it is doubtful if the 

 total sales will be larger or the net 

 profits as large as in some other years. 



The impression generally prevails 

 that Mothers' Day is now on a perma- 

 nent basis. With very little effort to 

 push the sales of flowers and with an 

 entire lack of large newspaper adver- 

 tisements, the demand for flowers has 

 increased till there is no question but 

 that the day will now mean one to- 

 plan for, as for other florists' special 

 days. Two causes, widely different, 

 seem largely responsible for this 

 change according to reports rrom 

 both wholesalers and retailers. First, 

 the inability of the growers to produce 

 a greatly increased quantity of carna- 

 tions for the one day and which was 

 thought at one time to mean the doom 

 of the day, but which really turned 

 the demand into a broader channel. 

 Second, the switching of the wearing 

 of a flower "for mother's sake" to the 

 use of bouquets, boxes or baskets in 

 the observance of the day. Three years 

 ago this day meant extra demand for 

 carnations. This year it meant the sale 

 at advanced prices of everything. 



