May 3, 1913 



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CHICAGO NOTES. 



Jas. G. Hancock is moving his fam- 

 ily into their new home at 5003 Ber- 

 teau avenue in West Irving Park, this 

 week. 



Invitations are being received in 

 Chicago for the annual opening on 

 May 1st of the Meredith Flower and 

 Vegetable Co., at Libertyville, 111. 



Tearing down of the buildings on 

 the northeast corner of the Marshall 

 Field block begins this week and a 

 good location for a flower store is no 

 more. For many years Lubliner & 

 Trinz have occupied a store in this 

 building. 



A. Vanderpoehl, known as the Doug- 

 las Boulevard Florist, Is now tempo- 

 rarily at 4013 Colorado avenue, while 

 his houses are being demolished. He 

 has purchased a new site and will 

 build during the summer so as to be 

 ready for the fall trade. 



The new tariff bill, known as the 

 Underwood Bill, which has passed the 

 Ways and Means Committee and is 

 now before Congress is attracting con- 

 siderable attention among the Chicago 

 florists and nurserymen, especially 

 among those who do importing. Let- 

 ters are being sent to Congressmen in 

 hopes of rectifying the errors before 

 the bill is passed. 



To be regretted is the action of the 

 Mothers' Emergency" League, which is 

 preparing artificial white carnations to 

 sell upon the streets and elsewhere on 

 "Mothers' Day." Not a card calling 

 attention to Mothers' Day, now only a 

 few days off, has been seen in any of 

 the florists' windows so far. The or- 

 ders that come for the day will prob- 

 ably be in spite of, rather than be- 

 cause of, the attitude of the trade. 



The committee that handled the 

 financial part of the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion in Chicago, last August, met on 

 the 24th inst. and had a final closing 

 up of all matters pertaining to their 

 work. Their report showed a balance 

 of 40 per cent of the guarantee fund 

 to be returned to the subscribers and 

 checks have already been sent out for 

 that amount. The committee, of which 

 N. J. Wietor is treasurer, has received 

 many well-deserved compliments for 

 the way in which the financial affairs 

 totaling an expense of about $8,000 



were handled. A banquet is arranged 

 for at the Union Hotel, May 1st, when 

 the committee will celebrate the clos- 

 ing up of their work and then con- 

 sider themselves as discharged. 



There was a very good attendance 

 at the regular meeting of the Cook 

 County Florists' Association, April 

 17th. and the live topic of publicity to 

 the florists' business was the main 

 item. The advisability of regular ad- 

 vertising in the Chicago street cars 

 was discussed and prices furnished by 

 a representative of the company. H. 

 N. Bruns was on the program for a 

 talk on his recent trip abroad, but 

 was absent on account of illness. H. 

 E. Philpott. who has just returned 

 from England and the New York 

 Flower Show gave the club his im- 

 pressions and drew comparisons be- 

 tween methods in flower markets in 

 London and cities of this country; 

 The transportation committee re- 

 ported on the special train accommo- 

 dations to Minneapolis over the St. 

 Paul Railroad. 



A $4,000 collection of orchids, na- 

 tive to many foreign countries 

 have been offered to the city of 

 Omaha, Neb., tree by Mrs. George 

 A. Joslyn, in addition to $1,0U0 in 

 money with which to care for Vwm. 

 The Joslyn residence was badly (..urn- 

 aged in the tornado and probably 

 half of the plants in their private 

 greenhouse were destroyed. Park 

 Commissioner Hummel has asked the 

 city commission for $3,000 with which 

 to build a greenhouse in Hanscom 

 Park, where the plants could be kept 



DETROIT NOTES. 



John Breitmeyers' Sons are making 

 quite a hit with English market bas- 

 kets filled with pansy plants. 



Three little Jewish boys were found 

 to be the real culprits of recent bur- 

 glaries of fiower stores. They dis- 

 posed of flowers so stolen at cheap 

 dance halls. 



A very interesting visitor was Wil- 

 liam Wells of Merstham, England. 

 Mr. Wells was so impressed with car- 

 nation Philadelphia that he pro- 

 nounced it the best yet seen in his- 

 travels. A large number of them he 

 ordered shipped at once in two-inch 

 pots to be propagated for European 

 dissemination. 



THE TARIFF BILL. 



All florists and horticulturists who 

 have any suggestions to make as to 

 changes. If any, in the present tariff 

 bill which is now before Congress 

 should send in suggestions at once, if 

 they have not already done so, to the 

 Chairman of the Tariff Committee of 

 the S A. F. and O. H., Mr. William P. 

 Gude 1214 F street, N. W., Washing- 

 ton b C. Mr. Gude will be pleased 

 t. do all that he can to further the 

 interest of the florists and horticul- 

 turists, and members of the kindred 

 organizations, hut i?, at a loss to know 

 ■nhat action to take until the parties 

 interested make complaints or sugges- 

 tions. 



\ cable despatch received from the 

 Grand International Exhibition at 

 Ghent. ' Belgium, states that W. A. 

 Mpiida has won five medals there. 



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