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HORTICULTURE 



April 17, 1909 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



Win. J. Smyth must be wondering 

 what will happen next Easter. One 

 year ago, three days before Easter, an 

 automobile came dashing through the 

 large plate glass window on the Michi- 

 gan avenue side of his store, making 

 a wreck of everything in its path, and 

 on Ttiesday of Easter week this year 

 the wind, blowing a gale, forced open 

 the rear door and instantly the $500 

 window on the 31st street side passed 

 into the street. Boards were placed up 

 for protection till some old sash could 

 be procured for temporary repair. 



C. A. Saniuelson had a very pretty 

 Easter window. The floor was covered 

 with moss and the back enclosed with 

 a fence and gate done in white. On 

 either side of the gate were beautiful 

 specimen plants of Lady Gay roses 

 three or four feet high, and gardenias, 

 and a few smaller plants carried out 

 the garden effect. 



An event of considerable importance 

 in Chicago is the annual sale of flowers 

 for the benefit of destitute crippled 

 children. The Children's Flower As- 

 sociation, numbering 300, of which 

 Mrs. Lysander Hill is president, was 

 organized several years ago, the object 

 beVns? to sell flowers raised by the chil- 

 dren themselves, and has among its 

 patronesses some of the leading society 

 women of Chicago. Last year the sale 

 netted ^IrM for the organization and 

 this year the amount was doubled. 

 The sale occurs on the Saturday before 

 Easter and cuts .quite a figure in the 

 volume of business done by the retail 

 trade, as the flowers sold have long 

 since been far beyond the ability of 

 the little folks to grow. Some florists 

 maintain that a considerable decrease 

 is felt in their sales as a consequence. 

 Prizes were given for the best plants 

 raised by children, and this feature of 

 encouraging children to love and care 

 for plants is in itself one of the best 

 features of the enterprise and far 

 reaohing in its possibilities. 



Ed. Hauswirth found his first Easter 

 as head of the store to be a successful 

 one. He especially noted the increased 

 demand for Killarney roses. His Uade 

 was about evenly divided on plants 

 and cut flowers. 



The supply of carnations proved to 

 be larger than anticipated and the 

 price lowered towards the end of the 

 week. Some Enchantress were left 

 over. White was in great demand 

 early in the week. Green stuff sold 

 well and was considered scarce. Short 

 lilies were left over but not in any 

 very large quantities. 



Friedman was nicely settled in his 

 new store in connection with the 

 Stratford Hotel on .Michigan avenue. 

 Here he has an excellent salesroom, 

 good workroom and basement. Every- 

 thing is nicely fitted up and he will be 

 better prepared than ever to handle 

 his large trade. Specimen plants of 

 Hiawatha rose were an attractive feat- 

 ure in his window display. 



During Easter week a hail storm 

 passed over the north part of Chi- 

 cago, catching quite a number of flor- 

 ists in its path. Anton Then lost 

 1500 lights of glass, some stock plants 

 and his hot beds containing fancy 

 plants. Julius Ristow, John H. Miller 

 and others lost more or less during 

 the three minutes that the storm pre- 



vailed. J. A. Budlong and the Rein- 

 bergs also sustained a slight loss. 



Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Bassett of Hins- 

 dale have returned from Hot Springs, 

 Va., where Mr. Bassett has been to 

 regain his health. 



Many florists found it easier to sell 

 small and medium plants than to sell 

 carnations at $1.50 per doz. 



There was a downpour of rain, ac- 

 companied by a strong wind Monday 

 following Easter. All are thankful it 

 did not occur the day before. 



EASTER BRIEFLETS. 



Bridgeport, Conn. — John Reck & 

 Sons surpassed all previous efforts in 

 their Easter show. 



Monson, Mass.— The Fuller green- 

 houses were kept open evenings to 

 accommodate the Easter visitors. 



Lincoln, III.— Gullett & Son opened 

 a down town salesroom during the 

 Easter season for the convenience of 

 their patrons. 



Greenwich, Conn.— Alex. Mead & 

 Son rented a vacant store on Green- 

 wich avenue for the display of their 

 large Easter stock. 



Hartford, Conn.— It needed only the 

 announcement that "The show is on" 

 to make the store of John Coombs on 

 Main street the busiest place in town 



Salem, Mass.— W. T. Walke, whose 

 business has grown from one house to 

 seven in the last nine years, opened 

 his houses to the public during the 

 Easter display. 



Youngstown, O. — John Walker held 

 his annual reception at his green- 

 houses at Crab Creek on April 4, and 

 throngs of people took advantage of 

 the opportunity to inspect his Easter 



stock. 



A COMICAL SITUATION. 

 By one of those funny slips which 

 sometimes happen even in the best 

 regulated of Legislatures the Massa- 

 chusetts House last week passed to 

 engrossment a bill which forbids any 

 person to give his neighbor a plant, 

 tree or shrub without a grower's 

 license under penalty of from $25 to 

 $100 fine. 



The bill got by the committee on 

 bills in the third reading and this 

 clause in the original bill was carried 

 along with the plain intention, as its 

 backers stated, of having a State nurs- 

 ery inspection to protect trees and 

 plants from disease and insects. Re- 

 consideration will doubtless be given. 



Frank Millang, the wholesale florist 

 of New York City, has been very sick 

 with pneumonia for more than a week, 

 and two trained nurses are in attend- 

 ance. He is getting along as well as 

 could be expected under the conditions 

 and we hope to report him as out of 

 danger next week. 



A Profitable Side Crop 



Asparagus plumosus is a main crop with 

 many growers having extensive modern 

 plants but those with less up-to-date es- 

 tablishments, or parts of same defective in 

 lighting or otherwise uasuhable for high 

 grade crops,— will find this subject one of 

 the very best. We have prepared a cul- 

 tural circular giving concise directiors 

 how to make money out of this crop. 

 Send for it. No charge. An important 

 feature in asparagus culture is good seed. 

 The P. M. quality of greenhouse grown 

 seed has earned a high reputation for 

 freshness and purity. It is the true nanus 

 and greenhouse grown. Send for trial 

 pkg., too seeds filty cents, if you wish to 

 experiment only. In quantity $3-75 per 

 1000 seeds, $32.50 per 10,000 seeds. As- 

 paragus Sprengeri75c. per tooo,$5.ooper 

 10,000 seeds. 



S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO. 



1608 to 1620 Ludlow St.. Philadolphia, Pa 

 1212 N. Y. Ave., Washington, D. C. 



ASTER SEEDS 



That Will Produce Good Blooms. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



The Best For Florists. 



ELMER D. SMITH & CO. 



Adrian, Mich. 



TARIFF ON GREENHOUSE GLASS. 



The cost of greenhouse glass at 

 present is low. The Payne bill for 

 greenhouse sizes remains the same; 

 it is to be expected that a combina- 

 tion will be made to bring higher prices. 

 The Tariff Committee of the Society 

 of American Florists urge each user 

 of glass to write to their State Sen- 

 ators and Congressmen requesting a 

 reduction of at least a half a cent a 

 pound on common window glass. 

 The rate of glass, if it is to be af- 

 fected at all, can only be done by 

 prompt action on the part of an ex- 

 tended constituency. The Society in 

 their annual meetings have at various 

 times expressed very decided feelings 

 upon this matter of high cost of 

 glass, and one of the primal causes 

 was that competition from abroad 

 was out of the question. The present 

 status of the bill before the Congress 

 is not past the debatable point, but 

 what is to be done should be done at 

 once, and every man who has any di- 

 rect interest in' the matter can do his 

 part if he informs personally his 

 Congressmen and the Senators from 

 his state what his views are. 



BENJAMIN HAMMOND. 



Alois Frey has retired from the su- 

 perintendency of Lincoln Park, Chi- 

 cago, and has started in actively at 

 his own place at Crown Point, Ind. 



Headquarters for Asparagus Plumosus Seed 



GREENHOUSE CROWN I LATH HOUSE CROWN 



New 

 Crop 



100 seeds, .50 

 1,000 " $3.75 



5,000 seeds, $17.50 

 10,000 " $32.50 



100 seeds, .40 

 1,000 " $2.75 



$12.50 

 $23.00 



HENRY F. MIGHELl GO, 



Write /or Our Wholesnlf Catulogiie 



1018 Market Street, 

 , PHILADELPHIA 



