May So, 1914 



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BOSTON NOTES. 



One hundred and twenty varieties of 

 lilacs are blooming at the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum. 



C. B. Johnson has recently added an- 

 other big house to his carnation estab- 

 lishment at Woburn. He proposes to 

 hold over a house of carnations for a 

 second season. 



McAlpine & McDonald, the most re- 

 cent addition to the Boston wholesale 

 establishments, seem to have "caught 

 frn" from the start and are doing a fine 

 Iccal and shipping trade. 



Progress in planting the Boston Con- 

 vention Garden is very rapid now. W. 

 A. Manda has talten the entire section 

 marlced D on the layout and will mal?e 

 a record exhibit of hardy and tender 

 garden material. 



Among the plants wliich suffered 

 severely in the recent winter are the 

 Moutan peonies. Charles Sander, gar- 

 dener at Holm Lea, states that he lost 

 no less than 400 of them. Climbing 

 roses were liilled back almost to the 

 ground and outright in some places, 

 we understand. 



Frank Edgar is high liner on candy- 

 tuft for Memorial Day week. We have 

 never seen a finer showing of splendid 

 blooms of tiiis useful bouquet flower. 

 Stocks are also a main crop for this 

 occasion. Mr. Edgar bought and grew 

 the Zvolanek novelties in winter-flow- 

 ering Spencer peas, at $128.00 a pound 

 for the seed and has now a good lot 

 of seed ripening up, which appears to 

 be a pretty profitable crop. 



North Beverly has a record for good 

 carnations that reaches far beyond the 

 confines of Boston as some of the car- 

 nation exhibitors in other centres who 

 have run up against A. A. Pembroke's 

 flowers in the exhibitions realize. 

 Commodore, handsome flower as it is, 



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has proved a poor winter grower 

 here, more's the pity. Benora is un- 

 beatable in its class, and Rosette has 

 won out as a good one. Thirty-two 

 thousand plants is the capacity of Pem- 

 broke's big 60x450 house. 



Another crack carnation grower, just 

 next door to Pembroke's, is Chas. E. 

 Caldwell. White Wonder and Pink 

 Delight are his lon^suit. Having been 

 brought up in the truck business Mr. 

 Caldwell knows the game of rotation 

 crops and the wastefulness of empty 

 houses, so tomatoes follow carnations 

 iii the cutting house and cucumbers 

 and lettuce have their alternate in- 

 nings. Tons of cucumbers are now 

 hanging on the vines which were 

 planted only two months ago. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Dayton, 0. — The firm of Peter Jer- 



gens' Sons have dissolved partnership. 



Fort Wayne, Ind.— W. J. & M. S. 

 Vesey have purchased a 58 acre tract 

 of land on Huntington road, and plan 

 to build thereon a range of 400,000 ft. 

 of glass. 



Baltimore, Md. — J. George Sturgeon, 

 for the past eighteen years well known 

 to the trade in Philadelphia, has 

 opened up a wholesale brokerage busi- 

 ness in seeds, plants and bulbs, 

 four and a half acres and Mr. Millang 

 intends to use the ground as a nursery 

 for his Flushing store. He will build 

 several greenhouses and have them 

 ready for fall planting. 



Kingston, N. Y. — A law case of Grace 

 Silverman against Anders H. Ander- 

 son resulted in a jury verdict 

 of $750 for Mrs. Silverman. Mrs. Sil- 

 verman had sold her greenhouses and 

 stock to Anderson and afterwards re- 

 mained in ills employ and the alterca- 

 tion, which is said to have been a very 

 lively scrimmage, was the result of 

 some misunderstanding as to compen- 

 sation. 



John Tiplady, well known as a lead- 

 ing private gardener at Lake Forest. 

 111., has graduated into the commercial 

 class, in the Chicago Feed and Fer- 

 tilizer Co. at 810 Exchange avenue. 

 Chicago. 



THE "FOUR-HUNDRED" PLAY 



FLORIST. 

 From a horticultural or trade news 

 point of view the pleasant pastime of 

 the society ladies in fashionable Rit- 

 tenhouse Square, Philadelphia, open- 

 ing on the 20th inst., may be of small 

 interest outside of local circles. But 

 it marks an interesting departure of 

 the idle rich in providing entertain- 

 ment for themselves — and certainly a 

 more wholesome one than the tango, 

 or the dress parade. The affair was a 

 great "go" and got reams of pictures 

 and publicity from the local press. 

 Most of the local trade was laid under 

 contribution for cash, labor, or mer- 

 chandise — retail, wholesale, and grow- 

 ers. And, of course, much of the sup- 

 plies came from the private estates of 

 suburbanites, and the gardeners of 

 these were on hand to help the good 

 work along. In an indirect way the 

 affair, we believe, will help the fine 

 idea of John Burton: "Spreading a 

 love of flowers among the people." 

 We cannot have too much of that. We 

 have not nearly enough of it now. The 

 masses are always prone — the world 

 over — to ape the educated, refined and 

 wealthy, and, as we have said, this 

 "society" function will really tend in 

 the long run to a good end which may 

 have been entirely lacking in the peo- 

 ple who promoted the affair. The re- 

 ceipts were for two hospitals and the 

 Rittenhouse Improvement, supposedly 

 one-third for each. But whatever the 

 guiding motive — show or fun — it will 

 all redound to the good of horticulture 

 in the end. 



Flushing, N. Y. — The old home of 

 James A. Gray on Whitestone avenue, 

 has been purchased by August Millang 

 for $10,000. The house is on a plot of 



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