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HORTICULTURE 



May 1. 1920 



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GARDENERS' CONFERENCE. 



A gardeners' conference under the 

 auspices of the members of the Na- 

 tional Associaiion of Gardeners, lo- 

 cated in the vicinity of Boston, will be 

 held in Boston, Thursday evening. May 

 6th, The early hour of the meeting, 

 6.30 o'clock is to enable members com- 

 ing from a distance who may desire to 

 return home the same night to do so. 



The conference will be for a general 

 discussion of subject.s relating to the 

 gardener and his profession, in which 

 all members present will be invited to 

 participate. This is in line with the 

 program of the conference recently 

 held in New York, . which proved so 

 successful and drew forth many help- 

 ful suggestions from the floor. 



The general work of the gardeners' 

 national association will be discussed, 

 and plans of the campaign about to be 

 launched to arouse the interest of 

 young men in the profession of garden- 

 ing, will be explained. As is now gen- 

 erally recognized, the difficulty of se- 

 curing assistant gardeners is proving 

 a serious factor in the operation of 

 country estates, many of which have to 

 be maintained with practically un- 

 skilled labor, skilled help being almost 

 unprocurable in these times. 



The association has recently added 

 the following names to its list of sus- 

 taining members: August Busch, St. 

 Louis, (L. P. Jensen, gardener) ; 'WMl- 

 liam Ziegler, Jr., Noroton, Conn. (A. 

 Bieschke. gardener); James B. Duke, 

 Somerville, N. J. (J. Dymock, garden- 

 er) ; H. b. Thompson, Perrysburg, O. 

 (H. Hundt, gardener) ; Irenee du Pont, 

 Wilmington, Del. (J. Buckingham, 

 gardener) : W. B. Howells, Suffern, N. 

 Y. (T. Hambleton, gardener): Mrs. 

 David Dows, Brookville, L. I. (H. Gib- 

 son, gardener) : Frank J. Dupignac, 

 Mamaroneck, N. Y. I J. Henderson. 



gardener); Harry B. Clow, Lake For- 

 est, 111 (J. Wilson, gardener); Daniel 

 Guggenheim. Port Washington, L. I. 

 (T. Leyden, gardener); Theodore F, 

 Thieme, Fort Wayne, Ind. (W. War- 

 burton, gardener) ; General Richard 

 Coulter, Greensburg, Pa. (N. T. For- 

 sythe, gardener) ; C. H. Hutchins, 

 Shrewsbury, Mass. (W. J. Dack, gar- 

 dener. 



THE MARKET. 



The market has remained practical- 

 ly stationary for the past week. It 

 has been fairly well supplied, and if 

 it had not been for the cloudy weather, 

 everything would probably have been 

 in over supply. In some places there 

 has been a somewhat downward tend- 

 ency, while in others, especially in 

 Boston, the market has stiffened a 

 little, due to a large demand from 

 Salem, Mass., where a Carnation Day 

 al)sorbed a large amount of flowers. 

 Arthur Carr of the Boston market has 

 received a few Blushing Bride Gladioli, 

 the first of the season. Some other 

 gladioli are beginning to come in a few 

 at a time. In New York, Southern 

 lilac is showing up to a limited ex- 

 tent. 



Roses are selling in the different 

 markets all the way from 3 to 30c.; it 

 is impossible to give any stable prices. 

 Carnations average about 6c., although 

 they have sold lower in New Yorl;. 

 Callas are bringing S to 16c. in New 

 York, and are selling quite as well in 

 other markets, but in Boston they have 

 been pushed down by the influx of 

 Easter lilies from growers who were 

 not able to get their blooms in for the 

 Easter trade. Snapdragons are going 

 readily at from 50c. to $1.50 a dozen. 

 Marguerites are $1 and $2 and Violets 

 remain stationary at $1 per 100. 



BOSTON. 



Mr. J. G. Jack of the Arnold Arbo- 

 retum began today conducting a field 

 class at the Arnold Arboretum. The 

 class will meet every Saturday after- 

 noon up to June 6th. These classes 

 have proved very popular in the past 

 and afford an excellent opportunity to 

 become acquainted with the trees and 

 shrubs of New England, as well as 

 those of foreign countries. 



The next meeting of the Boston 

 Florists' Association will be held at 

 Westminster Hotel, Tuesday evening. 

 May 4th. The speaker will be W. H. 

 McMasters, who will talk on "The Wit 

 and Humor of Flowers." 



Nathan Fishelson, the florist. Is a 

 director of a new organization known 

 as the American Fruit Growers of 

 Palestine, Inc., which has been char- 

 tered under the laws of Massachusetts 

 with a capital stock of .$2,000,(100. The 

 corporation aims to develop the eco- 

 nomic resources of Palestine, but the 

 head office will be in Boston. 



The Boston ofliice of Hitchings & Co., 

 the greenhouse builders of Elizabeth, 

 N. J., has been moved to larger and 

 more convenient quarters in the Old 

 South Building, Room 406. This com- 

 pany is doing a large amount of busi- 

 ness in New England and has long 

 needed more commodious quarters for 

 its Boston staff. 



Mr. Charles Robinson, of the Henry 

 M. Robinson Co., has been making a 

 (rip to Montreal and other Canadian 

 cities, combining l)usiness and pleas- 



