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HORTICULTURE 



January 11, 1913 



STARTING THE NEW YEAR 



The first thing you must do Is to replenish your stocks. The florists' business Is different today 

 from what it was five or ten years ago when once or twice a year was the rule for stocking up. Now- 

 adays there is business all the time, and the wide-awake florist must keep constantly abreast and 

 keep his stocks up to the minute. 



nnU'T WAIT BEGIN NOW. FOR INSTANCr, BE SURE 

 UUn I 11 111 I YOU HAVE PLENTY OF 



OUR STANDARD PREPARED CYCAS; known all 

 over for their superior quality and finish; wide 

 and perfect leaves; unsurpassed by anything on 

 the market. 



OUR MAGNOLIA LEAVES are the very best, and 

 you ought to have a full supply for working up 

 in spare moments. Brown, green and other shades. 



4^ Our Silent Salesman Ib ready to tell you all about the above, and other florists' reqalsites, 



H. B A YERSD O RFRR ®. CO. 



OUR WHEAT SHEAVES; known everywhere as 

 the standard In quality and value. 



THE BAYERSDORFER LINE OF BASKETS; a 



magnificent assortment; all shapes and for all 

 kinds of flowers; for plants; fern dishes; table 

 decorations, etc., etc. 



Send a postal. 



THE 



FLOR.I,STS' SUPPLY 



HOUSE or 



AMERICA 



1129 ARCH STREE-T, PHILADELPHIA, PA. ^ 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



J. C. Vaughan is quite ill. 



A number of the Holland bulb sales- 

 men are in the city taking orders. 



Carnations are nearer to a normal 

 supply now than at any previous time 

 this season. 



J. Vlk is building a new store at 

 6118 S. Halsted street, Chicago, which 

 will be ready for occupancy in two 

 weeks. 



Otto F. Larson, 1604 W. 63rd street. 

 has been in the West Side Hospital 

 for a month. Mr. Larson has been ill 

 for six months but is now gaining. 



Albert Cole, American Beauty sales 

 man for E. C. Amling, has been ill 

 with scarlet fever since the week be- 

 fore Christmas. His condition is said 

 to be improving. 



Shipping trade has fallen off till the 

 market presents the greatest possible 

 contrast to its appearance just two 

 weeks ago. After two such strenuous 

 weeks a breathing spell does not come 

 amiss. 



One of the leading wholesalers put 

 a shipment of Richmond roses into a 

 holiday order by mistake and thinks it 

 worthy of mention that the florist re- 

 ceiving them wrote at once asking to 

 "please send bill." 



The regular meetings of the Chi- 

 cago Florists' Club are held on the 

 first Thursday after the first Monday 

 of each month and the secretary made 

 a mistake in dating the announce- 

 ments, hence our error in last issue. 



Chas. L. Washburn commented on 

 the recent article in a leading Chicago 

 paper in which some very broad state- 

 ments were made regarding the flower 

 business here, by saying that he be- 

 lieved the leading statement true. In 

 preparing for a speech which he made 

 before the State Florists' Associatloa 

 a short time ago, he went into the 

 Btudy of statistics pretty thoroughly 

 and Chicago appeared to be having 

 twice the wholesale flower business 

 that New York has, making it, no 

 doubt, the leading wholesale flower 

 market of the world. Mr. Washburn 

 thinks that, owing to its larger popu- 



CHICAGO PLANT BASKET STYLES. 



A Group of Holid.^y Okders at W. J. Smyth's 



lation, New York has far the largei 

 retail trade, however. Chicago's su- 

 premacy in the size and number of 

 its large plants has long been accept- 

 ed as a fact by florists. Peter Rein- 

 berg has two million feet of glass and 

 the Poehlmann Bros." place lacks but 

 200 feet of having nine miles of green- 

 houses if placed in line. 



Visitors: C. H. Perkins, represent- 

 ing Jackson & Perkins, Newark, N. 

 Y.; Frank Smith, of Smith & Fetters, 

 Cleveland, O. 



NEWS NOTES. 



North Leominster, Mass. — The hur- 

 ricane of January 3, wrecked the 

 greenhouse of Mrs. S. J. Proctor, caus- 

 ing a damage of more than a thousand 

 dollars. 



Tacoma, Wash. — Frank E. Beal, who 

 sued the city for damages caused by 

 the construction of an alleyway 

 through his place, has secured a ver- 

 dict in his favor for an award or $1,016. 



