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HORTICULTURE 



February 1, 1913 



Cherry Sprays for the George Washington Festival 



These are dainty green with bright red berries, 

 bunches. Inexpensive and charming. Add the fi 



Bayersdorfer Two-Tone London Baskets 



The Hit of the Season. Delicate pinlv. blue, lav- 

 ender, green, white, etc.; and in all sizes from the 

 small ones at little prices up to elaborate designs. 

 Crape Paper. Our green Waterproof, and new 

 Pleated, especially desirable. 



Magnolia Leaves prepared, green, bronze and 

 red. Selected uniform stock; no culls. 



H. BAYERSDORFER ca CO. 



just the thing for baskets, boxes, bouquets or 

 nishing touch to the first-class florists' work. 



Special Brive on Boston Straw Ribbon 



This splendid and popular Ribbon at greatly re- 

 duced prices. Write us for special quotations. 

 We can highly recommend this and are offering 

 a genuine bargain. Do not miss this opportunity. 



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THE FLORWTs. SUPPLY ^^^^^ ^^ AMERICA 



1129 ARCH STRE-ET, 



FMII^ADE-LPHIA, PA. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



Miss Corinne Pearson of A. L. 

 Vaughan & Co., is back after a siege 

 with bronchitis. 



N. Wietor and Mrs. Wietor are at 

 Ocean Springs, Miss., enjoying their 

 winter vacation. 



John Welch, who has greenhouses 

 at North Hoyne avenue, will open a 

 store at Robey street and Leland ave- 

 nue. 



Miss Marion Garland, daughter of 

 Solomon Garland of Desplaines, began 

 her career as a florist today, selling 

 her father's stock in the Fairbank 

 Building. 



There seems to be a difference of 

 opinion about the return of the former 

 occupants of the Flower Growers' Mar- 

 ket to their old quarter.s in the Fair- 

 bank Building. 



The Foley Manufacturing Co. has 

 taken on new office help to handle the 

 correspondence and resultant orders 

 coming earlier than usual this year on 

 account of the open winter. 



J. A. Budlong, whose name means 

 lily of the valley in Chicago, finds the 

 general lack of roses in short and me- 

 dium lengths to add favor to that al- 

 ready favorite flower. No matter how 

 large the cut, the demand equals it. 



Two thousand roses will be among 

 the Easter stock of potted plants at 

 Ernest Oechslln's. They will include 

 several varieties especially adapted for 

 the season. Mr. Oechslin has entirely 

 recovered from the gun shot wound of 

 a few years ago. 



A. T. Pyfer reports the sales of The 

 Herald carnation as very gratifying, 

 all the stock up to March 1st being 

 now booked. The Herald can be seen 

 any day at the salesrooms where It is 

 keeping up its reputation as a good 

 commercial variety by being shipped 

 to all parts of the country. 



One of the large orders of the past 

 week was a decoration for a dance 

 given by Mrs. Harold McCormick to 

 the Grand Opera singers at the Con- 

 gress Hotel. It required 10,000 bul- 

 bous flowers. Another event at the 

 same place Is a reception also given 

 by Mrs. McCormick on the 31st. Both 

 were in charge of Henry Wittbold and 

 for the latter he has transformed the 

 gold room into an Italian garden with 



DRAC/ENA MASSANGEANA. 



Dracaena Massangiana 



One of the most effective and desir- 

 able of the variegated decorative fo- 

 liage plants. It is a sport or form of 

 Dracaena fragrans having a lovely 

 golden variegation extending through 

 the center of the leaf. It is regarded as 

 preferable to its sister variety D. Lin- 

 deni which has the golden variegation 



on the edge of the leaf principally, be- 

 ing less liable to suffer from exposure 

 or rough handling, the golden edge of 

 the latter being more tender than the 

 tough solid green border of Massan- 

 geana. Our picture shows one of the 

 houses full of this popular subject at 

 the Dreer plant range, Riverton, N. J. 



a sky scene completely covering the 

 ceiling. Blooming plants, palms, wild 

 smilax and scenery painted for the oc- 

 casion will be required. 



Visitor: Chas. Loechner, New York 

 City. 



BOSTON'S NEW FLOWER MARKET. 

 The opening up of the new and 

 spacious headquarters of the Boston 

 Flower Exchange at Winthrop Square, 

 is scheduled to take place on Febru- 

 ary 15. There will be a grand recep- 

 tion, speeches by eminent men, colla- 

 tion, floral display, etc., all in keeping 

 with this event which promises to be 

 an epoch-maker in the development of 

 Boston's great flower industry. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Baltimore — J. D. Blackstone have 

 moved from their old store into a new 

 building at 421 N. Howard street, 

 where they have a larger show front. 

 Their window display is most unique. 



Cincinnati, Ohio — Henry Nieporte, 

 of J. M. McCuUough Sons Co., and 

 Miss Julia Vogt were united in wed- 

 lock on Wednesday of this week. 



Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Olinger's guest. 

 Miss Margaret Weiland, Mrs. Olinger's 

 sister, has returned to her home in 

 Rvanston, Ind. 



Visitor: Julius Dillhof, of Schloss 

 Bros., New York. 



