May 



1920 



HORTICULTURE 



373 



BOSTON 



The Flow(M- Shop on IhintiiiKton 

 avenue, near the corner of Massachu- 

 setts avenue, conducted for the past 

 few years by Mr. Petros, has been 

 purchased by Maurice M. Saunders, 

 for 14 years with Wax Bros., and 

 Samuel Einstein, for 5 years with the 

 same concern. It will be called from 

 now on the Symphony Flower Shop. 

 and with its central location and 

 good quarters should become a prom- 

 inent feature of the Back Bay, Both 

 Mr. Saunders and Mr. Einstein are 

 men of long experience and no little 

 energy. They expect to join the 

 Florists' Telegraph Delivery Associa- 

 tion immediately, and judging from 

 the plans which they are outlining, 

 will be prepared for a big business in 

 the future. 



Quite a few of the florists around 

 Boston made a very pleasant trip to 

 Saugus last week to assist William 

 Sim in taking his third Masonic de- 

 gree. Mr. Frank Edgar was extended 

 the courtesy of occupying the chair of 

 Master during the working of the de- 

 gree on Mr. Sim, by the Master of Mr. 

 Sim's lodge. Messrs. Cartwright, 

 Gibbs and Renter also assisted. Be- 

 sides these, who did their part in the 

 working of the degree, there were 

 quite a number of florists present. 



NEW ENGLAND. 



The Halifax Gardens Co. is fortunate 

 in securing the services of Mr. Eber 

 Holmes, who is to be superintendent of 

 their greenhouses and other property 

 at Halifax, Mass. Mr. Holmes is a 

 grower of excellent reputation and has 

 shown the best of results as a rose 

 grower in particular. For several 

 years he has been employed by Mark 

 Aitken of Springfield. The trade 

 around Boston will welcome Mr. 

 Holmes again in their midst, and he 

 returns with the best wishes of every- 

 one. 



Many improvements have been made 

 in the store of Jos. G. Leikens at New- 

 port, R. I. The interior is being 

 wholly redecorated and the plans call 

 for a lattice work effect which will be 

 most striking. A sunken garden is to 

 be a feature of the establishment. 



Ernest Coe, president of the Elm 

 City Nursery at New Haven, Conn., 

 recently lectured in Plymouth Church 

 House In that city on Gardening In- 

 spiration. 



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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. 



Miss Gertrude Loveless, of Warren, 

 Ohio, has disposed of her greenhouses 

 and after this will carry on a flower 

 business in only a small way. 



It is said that Tennessee and other 

 Southern peony growers are anticipat- 

 ing a very large crop this year and 

 are expecting to have it ready early 

 enough tor Mothers' Day. Report has 

 it that the Gould Nurseries at Halls, 

 Tenn., will have over 125,000 blooms 

 ready. 



The M. G. Madsen Seed Co., of Man- 

 itowoc, Wis., has increased its seed 

 farm by the purchase of a 40-acre plot 

 near its greenhouses. It is understood 

 that it will be used mostly for the 

 growing of bulbs and nursery stock. 



John H. Giles, a well known florist of 

 Reading, Pa., died recently after a 

 long illness. 



JOHN P. RICE HONORED. 

 Geneva, N. Y., April 20— John P. 

 Rice of the Rice Brothers Nursery 

 Company, is the new president of 

 Geneva Chamber of Commerce. Mr. 

 Rice was elected at a meeting of the 

 new board of directors. Mr. Rice, Is 

 one of Geneva's self-made men. He 

 began life a poor boy, working ia the 

 nursery and later with his father en- 

 gaged in a small nursery business un- 

 der the firm name of J. P. Rice & 

 Sons, T. W. Rice being the other 

 brother and partner. Later the busi- 

 ness was dissolved and reorganized 

 under the name of Rice Brothers 

 Company, with J. P. Rice as president. 

 Today the Rice Brothers Company 

 has under cultivation nearly one thou- 

 sand acres in nursery stock. Their 

 farms are in Seneca, Yates, Wayne and 

 Ontario counties 



