April 10, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



539. 



JOHN BREITMEYER'S 

 ^=SONS^= 



Cor. Miami and Qratlot Aves. 

 DETROIT, MICH. 



Artistic Designs . . . 

 Kigli Grade Cut Blooms 



W« cover all Michigran points and rood 

 ••ctioiu of Ohio, Indiana and Canada 



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806 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 



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In Quality and Design 



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 retail orders to 



EDWARD MACMULKIN 



194 Boylston Street, Boston 



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BOSTON 



and all 

 NEW ENGLAND POINTS 



THOS. F. CALVIN 



124 Tremont St.. Boston 



TRANSFER 



Your orders for flower or plant deliv- 

 ery in Eastern New England to 



JULIUS A. ZINN, 



2 Beacon St., Boston 

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J. Newman & Sons 



Corporation 



24 Tremont Street, BOSTON 



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LOUISVILLE, KY. 



JACOB SCHULZ, 



550 South Fourth Ave. 



FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



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H. Bayersdorfer & Go. 



1129 ARCH ST., PHILADELPHIA 



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Leading Retail Florists Listed by 

 Towns for Ready Reference. 



DeiiTer, Colo.— Park Floral Co., 1706 

 Broadway. 



Washington, D. C— Gude Bros., 1214 F 

 St. 



Atlanta, Ga.— Atlanta Floral Co., 41 

 Practi Tree St. 



riii..np>— IIau.s\virtli. •■The Florist," 232 

 Michigan Ave; 



Chicago— William J. Smyth, Michigan 

 Aye. and 31st St. 



Chicago— George Wlttbold Co., 1657-59 

 Buckingham Place. 



Louisville. Ky. — Jacob Schulz, 550 South 

 Fourth Ave. 



Boston— Thos. F. Galvin, 124 Tremont St. 



Boston— Frank H. Houghton, 396 Boyl- 

 ston St. 



Boston— Edward MacMuIkIn, 194 Boyl- 

 ston St. 



Boston — Hoffman, Florist, 50-61 Massa- 

 chusetts Ave. 



Boston — J. Newman & Sons, Inc., 24 Tre- 

 mont St. 



Bcston — Julius A. ZInn, 2 Beacon St. 



Wellesley, Mass. — Tallby. 



Detroit, Mich. — J. Breitmeyer's Sons, 

 Miami and Gratiot Aves. 



Kansas City, Mo. — Samuel Murray, 1017 

 Broadway. 



Kansas City, Mo.— Wm. L. Rock Flower 

 Co., 1116 Walnut St. 



Albany, N. Y.— H. G. Eyrea, 11 N. Pearl 

 St. 



Albany, N. Y. — F. A. Danker, 40 Maiden 

 Lane. 



New York— David Clarke's Sons, 2139- 

 2141 Broadway. 



New York-Alex. McConnell, 571 5th 

 Ave. 



New York— Young & Nugent, 42 W. 28th 



New York — M. A. Bowe, 1294 Broadway. 



New York— Myer, 609-11 Madison Ave. 

 Ave. 



New York — Newman Floral Co., 202 

 Fifth Ave. & Madison Sq. 



Brooklyn, N. Y. — The Blossom (C. C. Tre- 

 pel, Mgr.), Bond and Livingston Sts. 



Brooklyn, N. Y.— Robert G. Wilson, Ful- 

 ton St. and Greene Ave. 



Buffalo, N. Y.— Palmer's, 304 Main St. 



Toronto, Can. — J. H. Dunlop, 96 Yonge St. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Hannibal, O. — The greeniiouse of 

 Emil Rist was destroyed by fire on 

 Mareli 20. 



Bridgeport, Conn. — Win. Crigtiton 

 iias talieu a position witli James 

 Horan & Son, florists. 



Richfield, N. J.— On Marcli 23 fire in 

 tlie greenliouses of Josepli Penlta de- 

 stroyed liis entire stock. 



Sweet Briar, Va. — David Harris in- 

 tends to add plants and flowers to liis 

 present marltet gardening business. 



St. Paul, Minn.— It is reported tliat 

 tlie stoclt of tile Warrendale Floral 

 Co. laas been closed out at Siieriff's 

 sale. 



Rockford, 111.— W. H. Hizer lias 

 leased a tract of land in Soutli Main 

 street and will start in the greenhouse 

 and nursery business. 



Atlanta, Ga.— The Westview Floral 

 Co. lost considerable stock through 

 the ijreaking of a large window during 

 the heavy storm on the iiight of 

 March 24. 



Calumet, Mich. — W. J. Bloy, who 

 purchased the business of the Lutey 

 Floral Co., in the Holman block, will 

 continue it under the name of Calumet 

 Flora! Co. 



Professor C. S. Sargent. Maurice L. 

 de Viiniorin, and Graf Fritz von 

 Schwerin, have become honorary mem- 

 bers of the Arboriculturai Society of 

 Austiia-Hungary. 



M. Ernest Calvet. the famous hor- 



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ticulturist and raiser of new chrysan- 

 themums, has been made an officer d' 

 Academie, an honor usually bestowed 

 on professors, literary men and jour- 

 nalists who have contributed to the- 

 instruction of the public. 



Clinton, Mass. — A. W. Schneider has 

 been appointed superintendent of Cen- 

 tral park, and M. F. O'Malley superin- 

 tendent of Franklin park. Wm. Mc- 

 Gowan takes the position of superin- 

 tendent of motii extermination. 



Golden City, Utah.— It is stated that 

 W. T. Stillweil has resigned his posi- 

 tion on the Park Commission and B. 

 Van der Schuit, gardener at the 

 Deaf and Blind School, will succeed 

 him. 



Mr. F G. Crane is having erected 

 on his estate at Dalton, Mass., a large 

 range of greenhouses. Also a very up- 

 to-date gardener's cottage. John R. 

 Shield, who has Ijeen with the Crane 

 family for a number of years, will 

 have charge of this place. 



Boston. — Having gone to Messina 

 with Edmund Billings, to assist in the 

 distritnition of the Massachusetts re- 

 lief fund, Philip L. Carbone, the Boyls- 

 ton street florist, who returned March 

 31, on the Ivernia, found an uncle, 

 aunt and cousin had been buried in the 

 ruins of the stricken city. He assisted 

 in the recovery of their bodies. 



Mr. Carbone has been abroad for 

 about three months in the relief work, 

 and to a Boston Journal reporter, who 

 was the first to shake hands with him 

 at quarantine, he declared that many 

 American women — some of them tour- 

 ists, and others trained nurses — were 

 among the real heroines of the fearful 

 disaster, though little has been cabled 

 to this country of their work. 



