October 10, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



487 



PERSONAL. 



Henry Small is lying dangerously ill 

 at his home in Washington. 



Vsitors in Boston: Mr. and Mrs. 

 Leonard Barron, New York, en route 

 to Nova Scotia. 



Visitors in New York: Mrs. W. W. 

 Edgar, Waverley, Mass.; Mr. Hatcher, 

 Amsterdam, N. Y. 



Wm. P. Kasting has been appointed 

 park commissioner of Buffalo, N. Y., 

 for a term of five years. 



Kershaw Clegg of East Orange, N. 

 J., is now on the Mauretania on his 

 return from a visit to his native Eng- 

 land. 



George Simpson, of Buchey & Simp- 

 son, of East Orange, N. J., was mar- 

 ried last week to a Schooley's Moun- 

 tain girl. 



Harry Bunyard, A. T. Boddington's 

 popular representative, is on the high 

 seas, on board the Lusitania, due to 

 arrive at New York on Saturday, Oct 

 10. 



Gus Freytag, Jr., son of Gus Frey- 

 tag, florist, of Hilltop place, Orange, N. 

 J., has secured a position in the flour- 

 ishing floral emporium of George 

 Smith on Main street. 



Chicago visitors are few this week 

 — mostly traveling salesmen, drifting 

 in after (he early business. Among 

 them we noted A. Martial of Reed & 

 Keller, New York; Wm. Ford, with A. 

 Hermann of New York, and E. J. Fan- 

 court of Bennock-Meehan Co., Phila- 

 delphia. 



BOSTON FLORIST LETTER CO. 



Manufacturers of FLORISTS' LETTERS 



Thli wooden box nicely stained and 

 Tarnished, 18x30x12, made in two sec- 

 tions, one for each size letter, given 

 away with first order of 500 letters 



Block Letters, iJ4 or 2 Inch size per 100, $2. 



Script Letters, 3. Fastener with each letter or 

 word. Used by leading florists everywhere and 

 for sale by all wholesale florists and supply dealers 



N. r. MCCARTHY, Manager 



66 Pearl Street. BOSTON, MASS. 



FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



Send for Me w Ga talogue 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. 



1129 ARCH ST., PHILADELPHIA 



lAPnD 0PUIII 7 *** Fourth Ave., 



JAbUD OUnllLZ., LOUISVILLE, ICY. 



Put Plnwore of BEST QUALITY in ieimi 



uUl rlUWCIo d.iivered promptly to any address. 



Write, Telegraph or Telephone. 

 Cumberland and Home Phones 223 and 984 



THE NEW IDEA IN PLANT S.TANDS 



The Moore-Livingston 

 Graduating or Adjusting 



Saves one-half to two-thirds of cost over ordinary galvanized 

 iron stands. 



SEND FOR CIRCULAR GIVING FULL PARTICULARS 



SOLD BY SEEDSMEN AND SUPPLY HOUSES 



If your seedsman does not carry send us his name and we will promptly send full 



particulars. 



Moore-LivingstonCo.,r:r- jansdowne, Pa. 



NEW RETAIL FLOWER STORES. 



W. F. Dutton, Holland, Mich. 



Phillips reopened his store on Oct. 

 loth. 



R. J. Turner, 112 E. 12th St., Kansas 

 City, Mo. 



E. J. Donovan, 874 Ninth avenue, 

 New York. 



J. W. Grandy, Jr., 251 Granby street, 

 Norfolk. Va. 



A. T. Holmes, 708 Minnesota Ave., 

 Kansas City, Mo. 



Miss McGrady, 67 Union street, New- 

 ton Centre, Mass. 



P. O. Riebe, Webster, Mass.; Miss 

 M. Dufour, manager. 



W. Commandaros, 6th avenue and 

 5Sth street, New York. 



M. h. Kingman, Hunt's Block, Am- 

 herst, Mass., re-opened. 



Phillips reopened his store in Wash- 

 ington, D. C, on Oct. 15th. 



Fred Hoffman, Providence, R. I.; 

 Bernard Cor.roy, manager. 



Vernon Lee opened a new store at 

 1328 14th street N. W., Washington, 

 D. C, on Oct. 5th. 



C. A. Norton is to start a new store 

 at 2818 14th street, Washington, D. C, 

 on Saturday, Oct. 10th. 



W. Murchie, formerly with Black- 

 istone, will open on Oct. 15th at 18th 

 and M streets, Washington, D. C. 



FALL OPENINGS. 



Z. D. Blackistone, Washington, D. C, 

 invited the public, especially those 

 interested in children's garden work, 

 to visit his establishment from Oct. 1 

 to 10. 



A. O. McCrea, New Haven, Conn., 

 has opened the season wth a large 

 stock of standard plants and novelties 

 which he has invited the public to in- 

 spect. 



NEWS NOTES. 

 No flower recently adopted for flor- 

 ists' use has "caught on" in popularity 

 so quickly as the Spanish iris. Dainty 

 in form, lovely in its colors and sim- 

 ple in its culture under glass, it will 

 have a big sale this year. Beckert is 

 advertising them in this issue. 



The latest sensation among the De- 

 troit florists is the forming of the 

 "Bright-Mayor-Club" for the purpose 

 of advancing the political prospects of 

 Mr. Phil. Breitmeyer. A party of 75 

 f-orists and business men marched to 

 Mr. Breitmeyer's home last Wednes- 

 day and serenaded him, carrying a 

 transparency inscribed: "Bright- 

 Mayor-Club— Our Next Mayor— Philip 

 Breitmeyer." Each participant carried 

 a Japanese lantern. Mr. Breitmeyer 

 was escorted to the Harmonic Hall, 

 where a supper was served, the club 

 organized and officers chosen. 



A DEPARTMENT STORE OPENING. 



Marshall Field's annual opening in 

 Chicago this week is a study of inesti- 

 mable value to the florist and in its 

 practical lessons is worth going far to 

 see. Harmony of color is its predomi- 

 nating feature, while it artistically 

 weaves together all the brilliant au- 

 tumnal hues. The central effect is 

 that of a sweep of color representing 

 the Dancing of the Winds, while min- 

 gling with the trees, some in autumnal 

 tints and some still in their summer 

 green prophetic of another summer to 

 oome, are nymphs and dryads, sprites 

 and sylphs. The stately columns of 

 the main aisle of the block-long store 

 are draped with vines carrying out a 

 color scheme to be found in constant 

 use by our first and best teacher- 

 Nature. As a complement to all this 

 rich coloring, potted plants were used; 

 Boston ferns, mostly large, and palms 

 to the height of twelve or more feet; 

 from pillar to pillar on some floors 

 were festoons of Asparagus plumosa 

 and chandeliers were hung with 

 smilax. The tea room was beautified 

 with cut flowers and potted plants. 

 Special attention was given to the 

 china and cut glass departments, ia ' 

 which were used long-stemmed Amer- 

 ican Beauty roses by the hundred. 

 The Killarney rose was also largely 

 used. The decoration of this store, 

 which has no superior in the world 

 today, called for the use of 2500 addi- 

 tional pot plants and over 4000 roses 

 and a large amount of asparagus and 

 smilax. 



HARDY FERNS 



By the Million 

 At 75 Cents per lOOO 



Our own picking 



n. f. McCarthy & co., 



84 Hawley St., 

 BOSTON 



ROBERT J. DYSARTs 



Public Accountant and Auditor 



Simple methods of correct accounting i 

 especially adapted for florists' use. ^ 



Books Balanced and Adjusted 



Merchants Bank Building 



38 STATE ST., - BOSTON 



Telephone, Main ft ,' ™" 



