AUQDST 3, 1011. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



17 



Boston Gardeners' and Florists' Club on its Outing:, July 26, 1911. 



sporting blood. All his roses are planted 

 and doing well. He is specially im- 

 pressed with Eadiance, for which he 

 sees a good future. 



James Wheeler was, as usual, to the 

 fore in many of the club sporting events 

 and performed nearly as well as when 

 he was a private gardener. He has 23,- 

 000 carnations planted in his big house 

 and reports stock as looking extra well. 



Thomas Brown, of Framingham, well 

 known to many in the trade, and father- 

 in-law of S. J. Goddard, the noted car- 

 nationist, had a growth removed from 

 his lip at the Framingham hospital July 

 22. He refused to take ether and stood 

 the operation finely. The doctors con- 

 sidered this marvelous in a man 85 years 

 of age. We wish him many more years 

 of peace and content. 



William F. Walke, of Salem, who is 

 one of our most successful growers of 

 pot plants, has an extra fine lot of cycla- 

 mens, poinsettias and Lorraines for 

 Christmas. He is not growing quite so 

 many lilies this season, finding that 

 stock rooted and produced at home is 

 more profitable. 



Mr. Nelson, of Nelson & Johnson, 

 Framingham, is enjoying a much needed 

 vacation with friends in the west. 



F. E. Palmer, of Brookline, has irri- 

 gated many of his crops this season and 

 is more than pleased with the results, 

 especially in the case of vegetables. 



July 24 gave us an inch of rain and 

 ended our long drought. July 28 gave 

 an additional fall of 3.49 inches, a larger 

 amount of precipitation than we have 

 had in any full month previously in 

 1911. While outdoor crops of flowers 

 and fruits received a rude battering 

 from the wind and rain, the benefits im- 

 measurably outweigh the damage and 

 all growers are feeling happy. 



Prof. E. A. White, of Amherst, and 

 H. W. Field, of Amherst, are each plan- 

 ning to attend the Baltimore conven- 

 tion. 



H. M. Robinson & Co. are busy mak- 

 ing everything shipshape for the fall 

 trade. They report good July business. 

 Joseph Margolis, one of the firm, left 

 July 29 to spend his vacation in tb« 

 Pine Tree state. 



William R. Nicholson is busy empty- 

 ing his carnation houses and replanting. 

 Recent rains have greatly improved the 

 plants in the field, which' .are well np to 

 the average in quality. Quite a few 

 novelties are being grown. 



Rose Mv Maryland is doing particu- 

 larly well with W. H. Elliott, at 

 Brighton, as a summer bloomer. Some 



excellent Beauties and Carnots are also 

 being cut here at present. The big 

 Madbury plant is reserved for winter 

 blooming varieties. 



Henry R. Comley, the well known 

 Park street florist, is able to be around 

 again after a month's sickness. There 

 is always something new and inter- 

 esting to be seen at his store. 



Peirce Bros, are this year planting 

 five of their large houses in carnations, 

 one less than in 1910. They are each 

 year growing more of a general line of 

 flowers and plants. Their house of cat- 

 tleyas has done uncommonly well this 

 year. 



Boston in July, 1863, had twelve and 

 one-half inches of rain. This year we 

 have not had half that fall in the same 

 month. The 1863 fall was the heaviest 

 Boston ever had in a single month. 



Everyone who sees the 360-foot house 

 of the new rose. Lady Hillingdon, at 

 the Waban Rose Conservatories, is car- 

 ried away with it. It grows and flowers 

 as freely as Bridesmaid and the flower 

 is far superior to such sorts as Mrs. 

 Aaron Ward. 



B. Hammond Tracy now has a fine 

 display of gladioli in his fields at Wen- 

 ham. The rain has greatly benefited 

 them. Mr. Tracy will make an exhibi- 

 tion at the S. A. F. convention. He 

 will have the Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston as his guests toward 

 the end of August. 



Allan Sim, brother of William Sim, of 

 Cliftondale, has returned from a pleas- 

 ant visit to Scotland. 



W. N. Craig. 



OBITUARY. 



Jeremiah Oalbraith. 



Jeremiah Galbraith, for more than 

 fifty years a landscape gardener at 

 New Rochelle, N. Y., died of cancer 

 July 23, at his home, 15 Cedar street. 

 He was 76 years old and had come 

 from Ireland at the age of 26. 



Miss Minnie JohnBon. 



Miss Minnie Johnson, of the firm of 

 M. & L. Johnson, Dayton, O., died of 

 consumption July 25, at her home, 915 

 North Main street. She was born in 

 Dayton in 1852 and had spent her entire 

 life in that city. She was the daughter 

 of the late Jabez and Annie Johnson, 

 who were engaged in the nursefiffy busi- 

 ness in Dayton several years ago. In 

 1882 Miss Johnson, together with her 

 sister. Miss Lucy Johnson, established 



the first flower shop in Dayton, at 142 

 South Jefferson street. Miss Johnson's 

 health had been failing for the last 

 three years, but she was able to be at 

 the store until two years ago; since 

 then her strength had failed rapidly. In 

 character she was amiable and pleasant; 

 in business, honest and upright, and she 

 leaves a large circle of friends to mourn 

 her loss. She is survived by three sis- 

 ters. Miss Lucy Johnson, Mrs. Carrie 

 Baker and Mrs. Anna Wilson, all of 

 Dayton. Miss Lucy will continue the 

 business. 



Mrs. C. H. Woolsey. 



Mrs. C. H. Woolsey, wife of the well 

 known florist at Roekford, 111., passed 

 away July 31, after an illness of several 

 years of pernicious anemia. For the 

 past three months she had been crit- 

 ically ill, and several times during the 

 summer she was so low that it was not 

 thought she could live through the day. 



Mrs. Woolsey was born April 24, 

 1857, in the house in which she was 

 later married and which has always 

 been her home. She was married to C. 

 Harry Woolsey November 7, 1877. Four 

 children were born: Marie K., who died 

 in June, 1902; Earl Jay, who died in 

 infancy; Mrs. Ella B. Hixson, of Pasa- 

 dena, Cal.; and Ralph H., a clerk for 

 the C. & N. W. railway and living at 

 home. 



The funeral was held August 2 and 

 was largely attended, there being many 

 flowers. 



GBASSHOPPEBS IN GBEENHOUSE. 

 Will you kindly tell me how to kill 

 the grasshoppers in my greenhouse? 

 They are eating the buds off my car- 

 nations and asters. I have hand picked 

 them, but that does not get rid of them. 

 J. M. K. 



Hand picking is the only means I 

 know of for destroying grasshoppers. 

 If you will go through your house early 

 in the morning, while it is quite cool, 

 you can catch them easily. 



If you find that you can not get rid 

 of them in this way, I would suggest 

 that you screen your ventilators and 

 doors. That would prevent their com- 

 ing in from outdoors, and after you 

 got rid of the ones inside you would 

 have no more trouble with them. To 

 screen the ventilators, g«t some 

 mosquito netting and tack it around the 

 edge of the ventilators and the opening 

 in the roof. You will find this inexpen- 

 sive and effective. A. F. J. B. 



