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HOETICULTUKE 



July 17, 1920 



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OBCONICA CHINENSIS MALACOIDES 



OBCONICA, Separate colors or mixed 

 CHINENSIS MIXED. 21/4 inch pots, $7 per 100; $60 per 1,000. 

 Ready Now. Raised from Selected Seed 



CINERARIA, Half Dwarf Mixed, 2^/4 inch pots, $7 per 100; $60 per 1,000. 



I 1 PFIITFR rn ^^""^ 15 Cedar St., WATERTOWN STA. 



JLi* «!• IxCjw 1 EjI\ %-•>-/• Brokers boston, mass. 



Short P. O. Addi«ess: L. J. Reuter Co., Boston 72, Mass. 



George Watson^s 

 Corner 



"Yon In your sni&U corner and me 

 In mine." 



P. Joseph Lynch, the noted rose 

 grower of New Castle. Indiana and 

 West Grove. Pa., and who also holds 

 the important office of secretary to 

 the Attorney General of the State of 

 Indiana, visited the trade in Philadel- 

 phia on the 9th inst., having come East 

 to attend the funeral of his brother. 

 M. Henry Lynch, president of the 

 Dingee & Conard Co. Mr. Lynch re- 

 ports the best mail order year in 

 roses in the history of the concerns 

 with which he is connected and pre- 

 dicts with confidence a continuance 

 for the coming year of these favorable 

 conditions. We trust politics will not 

 get this rose enthusiast too deeply in 

 the toils. We cannot spare so valu- 

 able a man. even for foreign minister 

 to Rome. Paris, or London. It is whis- 

 pered around that he is slated for 

 some such exalted office. 



"One crane, seven snappers, and all 

 the fish we could use ourselves or give 

 away to those we met," is the record 

 for one day of the Commodore and 

 Jeff on their outing at the seashore. 

 Glad to hear they are having such a 

 good time. Jeff is a good provider — 

 and can dispose of his own share per- 

 sonally. In which thought hangs a 

 possibility. Suppose he happened to 

 eat too much snapper, and have a ba I 

 dream, and during the dream the devil 



in the guise of your uncle should be 

 labor him with a big wooden club until 

 Jeff was certain that every part of his 

 insides had turned to sawdust pud- 

 ding? Wouldn't that be awful? Per- 

 haps some unkind person might say 

 it was but a just retribution for a cer- 

 tain evil deed which history records. 

 But tar be it from us to return evil 

 with evil, even with the aid of Satan. 

 Philip Freud of Michell's says he 

 is tired going to the seashore every 

 year for vacation. He has been doing 

 that now for about 20 years. He left 

 on the 10th inst. for a trip inland. 

 Pittsburgh, St. Louis and other points 

 west and southwest. His wife and 

 daughter accompany him. 



Charles H. Grakelow who is Ex- 

 alted Ruler of Philadelphia Lodge 

 No. 2, Order of Elks headed the dele- 

 gation — twenty special cars to the 

 National Convention in Chicago where 

 they intend to put Philadelphia on 

 the map as far as Elkdom is con- 

 cerned. They expect to capture 

 amongst other things the first prize 

 in the parade which is a great feature 

 in these annual meetings. Few men 

 know' better than Charlie how to 

 manage a parade and we confidently 

 look for him to get first or pretty 

 near it. Twenty-five hundred new 

 members have joined since he became 

 Exalted Ruler about six months ago 

 which breaks the record. Alvah R. 

 Jones, manager in the Pennock Flower 

 Market is a Mason of high degree and 

 thinks well of the Elks and speaks 

 highly of their work. He says that 

 besides the things above mentioned a 

 band patrol and mounted guard has 

 been organized, and other big things 

 are contemplated for Philadelphia, 

 and with such an energetic Exalted 

 Ruler as they now have there is 

 nothing to it but these big little 

 words "A Grand Success" for Lodge 

 No. 2. 



GENERAL NEWS NOTES. 

 Samuel Wax, the well known florist 

 of Boston, has been enjoying a fishing 

 trip to Sqiiam Lake, N. H., being the 

 guest of Daniel F. Cronin, Superin- 

 tendent of the Public Parks of Man- 

 chester, N. H. 



The A. M. Tuttle Co., of Melrose, 

 Mass., has been incorporated and will 

 deal in shrubs, vines, flowers, etc. The 

 directors are Alton M. Tuttle, presi- 

 dent; Howard P. Shaw, treasurer, and 

 Albina Tuttle. 



Joseph Manda & Co., the prominent 

 florists of West Orange, N. J., have se- 

 cured permits for the erection of four 

 new greenhouses on Valley Road, to 

 cost about $10,000. 



The Baker Seed House business at 

 Rutland, Vt., has been sold by Sidney 

 A. Baker to his brother, George H. 

 Baker. This house is one of the most 

 modern plants of this kind in Vermont, 

 with two greenhouses, each 204 feet 

 long. It also controls a farm of seven- 

 teen acres. The business was founded 

 by Sidney Baker about twenty-seven 

 years ago. 



Calvin A. Hodges, a well known flo- 

 rist of Watertown, N. Y., died recent- 

 ly, after a long illness. He was 67 

 years old. 



The Canadian Horticultural Associa- 

 tion will hold its annual convention at 

 Hamilton. Ont., Aug. 10 to 13, inclusive. 

 The Cooperative Flower Market and 

 the Boston Flower Exchange are clos- 

 ing at noon Saturdays during July and 

 August. 



F. R. Kaulback is making a long 

 trip through Nova Scotia and the land 

 of Evangeline, traveling by automo- 

 bile. 



