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HORTICULTURE 



AiiKUst 7, 1920 



F>FRII\/ILJ 



OBCONICA CHINENSIS MALACOIDES 



OBCONICA, Separate colors or mixed 



CHINENSIS MIXED. ZVi inch pots, $7 per 100; $60 per 1,000. 



Ready Now. Raised from Selected Seed 



CINERARIA, Half Dwarf Mixed, 2y4 inch pote, $7 per 100; $60 per 1,000. 



I I RFIITFR CC^ ^'""' 15 Cedar St., WATERTOWN STA. 



jLim U» M\t-4\J 1 t-jlx, V^x-/» Brokers boston, mass. 



Short P. O. Address: L. J. Reuter Co., Boston 72, Mass. 



George Watson^s 

 Corner 



"Yoa In your small comer and me 

 in mine." 



Edward H. Flood, our distinguished 

 ambassador to the glass manufacturing 

 centers of France and Belgium, writes 

 from London, July 13th, advising the 

 world at large that all is well. He 

 says nothing about the glass business 

 and takes three sheets of the Old Col- 

 ony Club's fancy notepaper to tell noth- 

 ing, which is some record. He was 

 walking down the Strand one morning 

 when, who does he meet but Howard 

 Earl of Philadelphia. Both of them 

 nearly dropped dead with astonish- 

 ment. After a while sanity was re- 

 stored and there was an adjournment 

 to the Norfolk, the Savoy and the Old 

 Colony and much talk and well, well 

 and my goodness and how delightful. 

 So you see you will have to wait a bit 

 for that report on the foreign glass sit- 

 uation which I have been promising 

 you these past few months. Dear ol' 

 Lunnon! A most delightful place. It's 

 our friend Ed all right! 



Gilt that is a story in itself and we 

 must not touch on it at present. Look 

 out for Craig at the convention and be 

 sure and call any time you are in Phil- 

 adelphia. 



The old 49th street range of Craig 

 greenhouses were slated to stop July 

 15th but by the display of a little 

 Scotch-Quaker generalship. Robert Ju- 

 nior got another six weeks' extension 

 from the building contractors in ex- 

 change for a few mosquito screens to 

 keep those birds out of the dwelling 

 house so the workmen can sleep nights. 

 About one-half the range has now 

 (July 29) disappeared, part to private 

 purchasers and the rest to Norwood. 

 By September 1 the old range will bo 

 a thing of memory and some wonderful 

 memories cluster round the old place. 



Edward H. Flood sailed tor New 

 York on the S.S. Kroonland from Ant- 

 werp July 28. 



Howard M. Earl sailed for New York 

 on the S. S. Imperator from Liverpool 

 July 31. 



Parker Thayer Barnes of the Penn- 

 sylvania Department of Agriculture at- 

 tended the Entymologists' meeting at 

 the Acadamy of Natural Sciences iu 

 Philadelphia on July 29. 



Bogges & Davis have taken over the 

 Smith range of greenhouses at New- 

 town. Bucks Co., Pa., entering posses- 

 sion August 1. Mr. Davies was man- 

 ager of the Richmore Greenhouses at 

 Wallingford, Pa 



Elmer J. Weaver will move his bee 

 colonies from Chester County to their 

 summer quarters in Delaware County, 

 in the vicinity of Hog Island. He has 

 been fortunate in securing a very fa- 

 vorable location, where the honey 

 plants are plentiful in the vicinity, and 

 expects to reap a rich reward in sweet- 

 ness and dollars. 



Miss Katherine Bogan of Michell's is 

 hack on duty this morning (August IM 

 after a five weeks' nip and tuck with 

 the old gentlemen — a good part of 

 which was spent In the casualty ward 

 of the hospital. The accident was sus- 

 tained in an auto collision near her 

 home at Norwood, Pa., and several 

 other people were injured at the same 

 time. We congratulate Miss Bogan on 

 her lucky escape and trust she will 

 soon be completly her good self again. 



DOUBLING YOUR CAPITAL 



Some of the florists are getting up 

 now and then, some advertising copy 

 which has considerable merit to it, and 

 who might to the mutual advantage of 

 all concerned, send them to our trade 

 press for re-publication, and through 

 this effort give your fellow florists 

 something different that will be re- 

 ciprocal later on. 



For every suggestion you give, you 

 will get back dozens. And this re- 

 minds me of what one of our sages re- 

 cently said: — "If you swap a dollar, 

 you still have only a dollar, and the 

 other fellow still has only one, but 

 when two men exchange ideas, they 

 both double their capital. " 



There are many good thoughts, sug- 

 gestions and incidents occurring daily 

 that would be worth while "copy," so 

 pass it along and progress by the inter- 

 change. 



Our "Say it with Flowers" campaign 

 has succeeded by co-operative effort, 

 so, will the above suggestion act to the 

 end that others will be encouraged to 

 further ideals and higher aims. 



Hejn'bt Penn, Chairman, 

 National Publicity Campaign 



OBITUARY 



Mrs. Mary A. Nickerson, wife of Wil- 

 liam L. Nickerson, the well known 

 florist of Framingham, Mass., is dead 

 at her home in that town. Mrs. Nicker- 

 son was born in Wales, 80 years ago, 

 ;)ut her family has lived in Framing- 

 ham lor nearly half a century. Among 

 the four children surviving her is 

 William R. Nickerson, also prominent 

 as a florist. 



