June r., 1920 



H K T I C U L T U R E 



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PEMBROKE'S CARNATIONS. 



An Interesting Account of His Work 

 at Beverly. 



It i.s pleasant to find the daily papers 

 giving increased attention to I lie flor- 

 ist business and to florist themselves. 

 The following appeared in a recent 

 issue of the Salem, Mass., News: 



"One of the largest carnation grow- 

 ers in this state is Aubrey A. Pem- 

 broke, a man who is becoming mort 

 and more known to greater Salemites. 

 as he has recently bought the North 

 street greenhouses and McGee & 

 Geary's greenhouses on Crombie street. 

 Coming here from England in 1906, 

 Mr. Pembroke first worked for Mr. 

 Gordon, a well known florist in this 

 part of the state. In 1910 Mr. Pem- 

 broke started in the floral business for 

 himself. Gradually he became more in- 

 terested in carnation growing than in 

 the growing of other flowers, and while 

 he still grows quantities of geraniums, 

 hydrangeas, lilies, and enough roses t» 

 make him one of the largest rose grow- 

 ers in this vicinity, yet his specialty is 

 carnations. His largest carnation hot- 

 houses are in North Beverly, and from 

 these Mr. Pembroke picks between 

 2,000 and 3,000 carnatioDs daily. 



"So successful has he been with his 

 carnations that at a carnation exhibi- 

 tion in Buffalo in 1915 he won 10 first 

 prizes and eight seconds in 22 entries. 

 All of these flowers had been grown 

 in this state and were at least a week 

 old before being exhibited. In Phila- 

 delphia, in 1916, he took six prizes in 

 a carnation exhibition. 



"Besides growing the more familiar 

 kinds of carnation, Mr. Pembroke has 

 grown some different from any here- 

 tofore. "Good Cheer," a large, light 

 pink carnation, is one of his first spec- 

 ialties. "Elizabeth," a carnation which 

 Mr. Pembroke named for his daughter, 

 "Sensation," and the "Beverly" are 

 others which he has developed. 

 "Laddie" was first grown by Mr. Pem- 

 broke, but now florists in other parts 

 of the country are growing it There 

 are some new kinds of carnations 

 which Mr. Pembroke alone grows, but 

 as yet these have not been put on the 

 market. 



Robert S. Sturtevant was also much 

 in evidence at the Iris Show, being 

 not only its secretary but an impor- 

 tant exhibitor. He showed some very 

 fine new varieties, such as: Rose 

 Unique (Farr), Mrs. Alan Gray (Fos- 

 ter), Prestige (Sturtevant), Verbena 

 (Wallace), Prosper Lauzier (Vil- 

 morin), Syphax (Bliss), Zus (Craw- 

 ford), Fryof, Dorothea, and other no- 

 table acquisitions. 



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HOUSE INSISTS ON FREE GARDEN 

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Washington. — There are 204 mem- 

 bers of the House who do not want to 

 dispense with their right to distribute 

 free garden seed on the eve of a gen- 

 eral election. With only 107 favoring 

 the House declined to yield to the 

 Senate on the Agricultural Appro- 

 priation bill, which is in conference 

 after the House conferees had report- 

 ed back that they were unable to reach 

 an agreement on the Senate amend- 

 ment. 



Congressman Blanton, Democrat, 

 Texas, moved to concur in the Senate 

 amendment, which would strike out an 

 appropriation of $239,416 for the pur- 

 chase and distribution of valuable 

 seeds. He declared that when almost 

 for the first time in memory the Senate 

 desired to reduce rather than add to 

 an appropriation, the House should not 

 hold out against it. The Blantoil 

 motion was lost on a rollcall. 



NEW ENGLAND 



Mr. J. E. O'Donnell, formerly sales- 

 man for Thos. Roland, is now with the 

 Dolansky-McDonald Co., in Winthrop 

 Square, Bostou. 



W. D. Howard of Milford sent 32,- 

 0011 carnations into the Boston Market 

 for the Memorial Day trade. This was 

 a record breaking shipment. 



Yasse Bros, florists at 31 Washington 

 street, Haverhill, suffered considerable 

 damage by water in a recent fire. 



Joseph N. Lipman is opening a new 

 flower store at Manchester, Mass. It 

 will be called the Manchester Flower 

 Shop. 



The Park Hill Flower Shop of Man- 

 chester, Mass., has been awarded the 

 contract for supplying the city with 

 potted plants. Many thousand geran- 

 iums are used in the cemeteries. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Robert Craig is among us again 

 after an absence of four months in the 

 tropics. He arrived on the 35th ult. 

 at New York and stayed there a few 

 days to attend the last rites to Patrick 

 O'Mara. He also brought us the sad 

 news that Maurice Fuld had passed 

 away on the 27th in that city. Mr. 

 Fuld was well known in Philadelphia, 

 having been connected with the Mich- 

 ell Co. for a number of years. 



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