March 29, 1913 



JIOETICULTURE 



475 



CHICAGO NOTES. 

 Storm Wrecks. 

 That Easter and equinoxial storms 

 are not desirable companions is tlie 

 verdict of Chicago florists, both whole- 

 sale and retail. The unfavorable 

 weather of the latter part of the week 

 culminated in a downpour, which 

 lasted all day Sunday and just after 

 midnight a storm burst which did 

 much damage to growers in Chicago 

 and vicinity. High wind accompanied 

 rain and in some localities hail. The 

 storm entered the city from the north- 

 west and the suburban towns in that 

 direction suffered most. At Hoerber 

 Bros.' plant, Desplaines, which is com- 

 paratively new, the loss is heavy, two 

 large houses being completely uncov- 

 ered, the west end of the range broken 

 and the big smokestack, 122 feet high, 

 is only a mass of brick. It fell just 

 as an engine and caboose were pass- 

 ing and struck the latter, killing two 

 brakemen. No bricks fell upon the 

 houses. The other Desplaines florists 

 suffered little loss except the Des- 

 plaines Floral Co., where considerable 

 glass is broken. Poehlmann Bros. Co. 

 at Morton Grove, was also in the worst 

 of the storm and Plant A suffered 

 severely. Several houses are said to 

 be down. Telephone wires are down 

 and exact information is meagre. The 

 Deerfleld Nurseries at Deerfield, 111., 

 are badly damaged, some of the houses 

 being torn to pieces. The gardenias 

 for the Chicago market come largely 

 from here and a nice stock to be cut 

 in June is completely demolished. One 

 large new greenhouse is entirely de- 

 stroyed. Frank Schram of Arlington 

 Heights, August Priebs, Hunt Bros., 

 and others of Park Ridge, are all re- 

 ported to have lost much in the storm. 

 John Muno, of Rogers Park, lost two 

 greenhouses as the result of the fall- 

 ing of the smokestack. At Wellworth 

 Farms, the new plant erected two 

 years ago for John F. Kldwell, presi- 

 dent of the Flower Growers' Associa- 

 tion, was badly damaged. Within the 

 city the loss is mostly hi broken glass 

 and those with such large areas as 

 Peter and George Reinberg, J. A. Bud- 

 long, Frank Oechslin and others con- 

 sider themselves fortunate. More 

 than one smokestack rocked and 

 seemed each minute to be on the 

 verge of toppling over. It was a very 

 severe strain on nerves that had just 

 been put to the test of a strenuous 

 Easter week and one that growers will 

 not soon forget. 



Easter Plants. 



A perceptible leaning toward col- 

 ored flowers was especially noticed In 

 plant sales. Retailers say they sold 

 more azaleas, rhododendrons and hy- 

 drangeas than usual, and these in the 

 brighter colors. At Fleischman's the 

 sale of rhododendrons was larger than 

 ever before, while fancy colored hy- 

 drangeas did not sell particularly well. 

 The shortage of American Beauties 

 was a feature which turned more or- 

 ders to plants. The floor of the great 

 rotunda of the Railway Exchange 

 building was covered each night with 

 plants, and 18 large trucks were need- 

 ed for delivery. The system of num- 

 bering different styles of filled bask- 

 ets, etc., and selling from number only, 

 was again adhered to, and as a result 

 time was saved and confusion avoided. 



HART MAKES HANDLES FOR POTS 



With Paper or Porto Rican Mats They Make Baskets. These 

 are the Weil-Known HART'S HANDY HANDLES. 



Shipments are being made daily eastward to Boston, 

 westward to San Francisco — and everywhere else. 

 Once used always used, because they are SO HANDY. 



Prices per dozen— No. 1, i2.50; No. 2, &J.50 ; No. 3, &4.00 ; 

 No. 4, &5.00 ; No. 5, i6.0O. 



GEORGE B. HART, 24 Stone St., Rochester, N.Y. 



Trade News. 



Now is the opportunity for the man- 

 ufacturers of greenhouse materials to 

 say. "I told you so," when it is not 

 their peculiar brand that went to 

 pieces. 



Poehlmann Bros, were still receiving 

 Easter orders Monday. Telegrams that 

 failed to reach them, on account of 

 wires being down, were picked up by 

 operators and sent on by mail. 



Just as the storm from the West 

 had passed came the report of one 

 from the South. The Adams Express 

 could receive no shipments East on 

 Tuesday and trains from Indiana 

 bringing in stock were not arriving on 

 time. 



To the telephone most of the re- 

 tailers owe their Blaster sales, and 

 they are all willing to give the credit 

 due to the indispensable adjunct of 

 modern methods of selling. Without 

 it the steady downpour would have 

 kept the flowers in the florists' ice 

 boxes on Easter Sunday. 



The new store for the La Grange 

 Floral & Seed Co., at 9 South Fifth 

 avenue, was completed in time for 

 handling the Easter trade. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Walter Scott have now a well 

 established business, Mrs. Scott hav- 

 ing charge of the store while Mr. Scott 

 looks after the landscape work. 



Duncan A. Robertson of the Adams- 

 Robertson Co., regards the Easter 

 trade as unusual this year. The warm 

 weather in the early winter kept many 

 of the heaviest buyers in the city 

 during January and February, but they 

 left when the March storms came on. 

 Mr. Robertson believes the average 

 winter sales to the social patrons of 

 the city will average fully as high 

 as in former years, though sales cover 

 a slightly different period and many 

 who bought heavily for past Easters 

 were South or West this year. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — R. A. Latham 

 and O. H. Carlson, florists, have effect- 

 ed a business consolidation and leased 

 the property at 83 10th street (south) 

 for 100 years. The deal is one of the 

 largest that has been negotiated in 

 down-town property and the firm will 

 build a handsome fireproof building 

 this spring. The property has a front- 

 age on 10th street of 42% feet and a 

 depth of 110 feet. The new building, 

 which will be of brick, steel, terra 

 cotta and glass, will cover the entire 

 lot. A conservatory will be a special 

 feature of the building. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



The Easter plant trade in Philadel- 

 phia was first class in every way and 

 about everything that was fit to sell 

 found a buyer, and much that was not 

 so fit at the final round-up. Good lilies 

 were scarce and azaleas and hydran- 

 geas were also on the short side. All 

 the usual staples and standbys were in 

 plentiful supply and fairly well done 

 generally. There was little of any- 

 thing in the way of novelty. Coronilla 

 glauca was about the only thing we 

 noticed. This is a yellow flower some- 

 thing like a genista but smaller and 

 not quite so shrubby. Fragrant and 

 attractive; also, according to A. B. 

 Cartledge, very lasting. 



Visitors; — Mr. Naldrett, represent- 

 ing Kelway & Son, England; C. B. 

 Smith, Baltimore, Md.; Joseph A. Man- 

 da, West Orange, N. J.; W. C. L^ng- 

 bridge, Albany, N. Y. 



INCORPORATED. 



Dayton, O. — Advance Floral Co., 

 capital stock, $10,000. 



Sherman, Tex. — The Texas Nursery 

 Co. has increased its capital stock 

 from $100,000 to $250,000. 



Aurora, III. — W. B. Davis Co., capi- 

 tal stock, $43,500. Incorporators W. B. 

 Davis, Mildred Davis and Otto Fisk. 



Detroit, Mich. — -The Wolverine-De- 

 troit Nurseries, capital stock, $15,000. 

 Incorporators, Edwin S. Sherrill, Phil- 

 ip H. Gray, Lester F. Clark. 



Salt Lake City, Utah. — Empress 

 Floral Co., capital stock $1,000. Charles 

 Van Dyke, president; J. Ralph Whit- 

 ney, secretary and treasurer. 



Boston, Mass. — H. M. Robinson & Co., 



wholesale dealers in flowers, greens 

 and florists' supplies, have secured the 

 lease of the entire basement floor be- 

 low the Flower Exchange on Win- 

 throp Square. This will give them 

 nearly 13,000 sq. ft. of floor area. . 



Florists' Refrigerators 



Write us Tor catalogue and FViccs, stating size you 

 require, and for what kind of cut flowers you wish 

 to use the refrigerator; also slate whether you 

 want it for display or only for storage. 



McCray Refrigerator Co 



553 Lake Street Kendallville, Iml. 



Mention Horticulture -iv hen you tufite. 



