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HORTICULTURE 



October 7, 1911 



PERSONAL. 



Prof. C. s Sargent started Tuesday. 

 Oct. 3. for a two week's trip to the 



W On Saturday. September 30, Miss 

 Alice Burton, daughter of John Bur- 

 ton Chestnut Hill, Pa., was married 

 to Mr. Finley, junior member of the 

 lithographing firm of Craig, Finley & 

 Co.. of Philadelphia. 



A host of warm friends will be 

 pleased to learn that Col. W. W. Cas- 

 tle of Boston, who has been very ill 

 since last Easter, has recovered and 

 states that he feels better than at any- 

 time within the past two years. 



Charles Millburn, gardener and 

 florist at Hillcrest Farm, the property 

 of Mr. A. M. Lothrop, has resigned 

 his position with the latter and will 

 enter the employ of J. H. Small & 

 Sons, Washington, as a decorator on 

 October 16. 



William R. Nicholson of South Fram- 

 ingham, Mass., and Miss Juva G. Har- 

 rington were married at York Harbor, 

 Me on Saturday, September 30. The 

 Boston florist fraternity are wishing 

 William all kinds of happiness. The 

 voung couple took to the woods, fol- 

 lowing the ceremony, but were heard 

 from on Wednesday at Poland Springs. 

 Jackson Dawson, of the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum Boston, has just returned 

 from an enjoyable two weeds' holiday 

 in Nova Scotia, in -time to take note 

 of his seventieth birthday, October o, 

 and to welcome his daughter, Minnie 

 (Mrs Blossom) and his little grand- 

 daughter, who have just- come home 

 from California after a year's absence. 

 Visitors in New York: P. Welch 

 and J. K. M. L. Farquhar, Boston. 



Visitor in St. Louis— J. J. Karins, 

 representing H. A. Dreer, Philadelphia. 



Pa. 



Visiting Newcastle, Ind.: P. J- 

 Ohlinger and Charles Jones, of Cin- 

 cinnati, O. 



Visitors in Boston: F. Corner 

 Waterer, Bagshot, Eng.; D. Cameron, 

 representing F. Sander & Son, St. Al- 

 bans, Eng., and Bruges, Belgium: W. 

 A Manda, South Orange, N. J. 



A NEW ENTERPRISE. 



R. J. Irwin, Eormerly of the Skidel- 

 Sky & Irwin Co.. Philadelphia, Pa., 

 has started in business for himself in 

 New York City, and intends carrying 

 on the same line, handling seeds, 

 bulbs and plants. 



Mr. Irwin started with Pitcher & 

 Manda, Short Hills, N. J., in 1891, at 



PROVIDENCE NOTES. 



Carl O. Keiffer, 36 years old, pleaded 

 guilty to the charge of passing a 

 forged check when arraigned on Octo- 

 ber 2, and was bound over to the 

 Grand Jury in $3,000 surety. The 

 name of N. D. Pierce, a well-known 

 florist at Norwood, R. I., was signed 

 to the check. Keiffer was employed 

 by Mr. Pierce in his nursery last sum- 

 mer and was discharged about the 

 middle of August. Shortly after his 

 disappearance from Norwood the 

 worthless check appeared. He was 

 traced to Chicago and brought to 

 Providence without being extradited. 



The firm of Smith & Berker of 

 North Broadway, East Providence, do- 

 ing a general florists' business, has 

 dissolved its partnership under the 

 date of September 26. Gabriel C. Ber- 

 ker has withdrawn and the business 

 and all obligations have been taken 

 over by Frank W. Smith. The firm 

 recently constructed an elaborate 

 greenhouse, 30 x 106, on North Broad- 

 way. The foundation and walls of the 

 house are of cement concrete. Mr. 

 Smith will grow strawberries this win- 

 ter, following which he will put the 

 entire house to lily of the valley. 



TWO MT. CLEMENS GROWERS. 

 Fred. Breitmeyer's plant, the most 

 extensive of Mt. Clemens (Mich.) 

 places, looks full of promise for not 

 only a large but also a very good cut 

 in roses. These include Lady Hilling- 

 don, Melody, Canadian Queen, which 

 he cuts with stems three and four 

 feet long, Killarney and American 

 Beauties. The large range of older 

 houses is planted for summer Beau- 

 ties. One large house is entirely de- 

 voted to Adiantum cuneatum and 

 Croweanum and there are many houses 

 of chrysanthemums from a "Baby" or 

 pompon to show blooms. Carnations 

 will be a little late, just about as last 

 year, but with some varieties such as 

 White Wonder having stems two feet 

 long already. 



Robert Klagge, his neighbor, is a 

 master in rose-growing and there are 

 splendid looking houses of Rhea Reid, 

 La Detroit, Kaiserin, Killarney, Mary- 

 land, Maman Cochet and Mrs. Aaron 

 Ward. His carnations are simply ex- 

 quisite and some of them planted last 

 May have stems 2% feet and longer. 

 The varieties grown comprise: Pink 

 Delight, Enchantress, Winsor and 

 Mayday. Mr. Klagge has his own cold 

 storage place and no less than 600,000 

 bulbs have been planted this fall. 

 Lilium lancifolium and Lilium longi- 

 florum are principal among them. Lily 

 of the valley is also grown in quan- 

 tity. — 



DURING RECESS. 



R. J. Irwin 



the age of fifteen years, being em- 

 ployed in the greenhouses doing gen- 

 eral work. In 1893, with the desire of 

 learning the seed and bulb business, 

 he entered the employ of J. M. Thor- 

 burn Co., New York City, where he 

 staved for seven years, working him- 

 self up to a salesmanship and then 

 accepted a position with Vaughan's 

 Seed Store, New York, as traveling 

 salesman, holding this position for the 

 ensuing seven years. In 1907 he be- 

 came connected with the H. H. Ber- 

 ger Co.. New York, acquiring an in- 

 terest in that concern. During the fall 

 of 1908, he started in business with 

 Mr. S. S. Skidelsky, under the name of 

 Skidelsky & Irwin Co., Philadelphia, 

 with which concern he has just sev- 

 ered his connection. 



We extend best wishes for the suc- 

 cess of the new business. 



CONSTRUCTION AND COST OF 

 CHIMNEY. 



For my new houses I have to build 

 a new heating plant, with a chimney 

 of about two feet inside diameter, and 

 about thirty to fifty feet high. Which 

 is the best, an iron, brick or cement 

 chimney, and what is the difference in 

 in ices of material and construction? 



F. S. 



It would be almost impossible to 

 give any satisfactory answer to an in- 

 quiry so indefinite in its terms but as 

 near as I can get to it, a brick chim- 

 ney such as your subscriber wants 

 would cost about $200, and an iron one 

 of the same size $150. On a cement 

 chimney I could not approximate any 

 figures." The only party I know of that 

 has a cement chimney is E. G. Hill 

 ALEX MONTGOMERY. 



Cincinnati Bowling Club. 



The Bowling Club at a meeting on 

 Monday at the Cincinnati Cut Flower 

 Exchange decided to roll at Wielert's 

 this winter on the first and third Mon- 

 days of each month. Chas. H. Hoff- 

 meister was again chosen secretary 



and treasurer. 



Chicago Bowling League. 



The bowling season opens October 

 4th at the new Bensinger alleys on 

 West Monroe street. At a meeting 

 held at Zeck and Mann's, Monday- 

 evening, Allie Zeck was unanimously 

 chosen treasurer of the league, a trib- 

 ute to his faithful work in the interest 

 of the game. Among the prizes offered 

 were a silver cup by Zeck & Mann, 

 six umbrellas by John Michaelson of 

 the Amling Co., and four scarf pins 

 by the A. L. Randall Co. Cash prizes 

 will also be given. 



The names of the teams are the 

 same as in other years and the mem- 

 bership starts out as follows: 



ROSES. CARNATIONS 



A. Fisher A. Zeck 



W Wolf W. Lorman 



J. Schlossman E. Winterson 



A. Seiuuemanu E. Schultz 



B. Conners M. Fink 



VIOLETS. ORCHIKS. 



V. Beix-man J. Zeck 



A. Cole J- Huebner 



.1. Friedman E. Farley 



I' Lieberman W. Graff 



J. Byers O. Goerisch 



Newport, R. I. — Much interest is 

 being taken here in the offer of prizes 

 recently accepted from Mrs. Burke 

 Roche by the Horticultural Society 

 for its June show of 1912. The offer 

 as accepted is $30 for a new yellow 

 rose to be an improvement over 

 Marechal Niel, and $15 for a new yel- 

 low carnation, and we learn that the 

 donor is to increase her offer to $50 

 for the rose and $25 for the carna- 

 tion; the competition to be open to 

 all comers. 



