October 24, 190S 



HORTICULTURE 



55 1' 



elties ami often to make his purchases. 

 Is there a better advertisement for the 

 florist than the window? No. Is there 

 economy in the practice? Yes. Then 

 why not break away from the time- 

 ridden cus om of piling the show win- 

 dow tc its utmost with a mixed 

 and unattractive conglomeration of 

 flowers? 



NEW RETAIL FLOWER STORES. 



C. L. Adgate, Miles, Ohio. 



Prank Tobisch, Stillwater, Minn. 



James Puffy, 20S N. Elm St., Greens- 

 boro, N. C. 



G. R. Geiger Estate, Item Building, 

 Nazareth, Pa. 



Lloyd Swarthout, Washington, Pa.; 

 C. C. Phillips, manager. . 



Henry Fuehs, Fourth Ave., near 

 Chestnut St., Louisville, Ky. 



J. H. Newhall of the Aurora Green- 

 house Co. is in Chicago making ar- 

 rangements for the opening of his new 

 retail store, Aurora, 111., Oct. 23rd. 



Hanig, the Brooklyn, N. Y. hustler, 

 is about to open a new store at Nos- 

 trand and St. Mark's avenue which- he 

 asserts will be the finest in the city. 



BOSTON FLORIST LETTER GO. 



Ma nufacturer, of FLORISTS' LETTERS 



Thlf wooden box nicely stained and 

 varnished, 18x30x12, made In two sec- 

 tto:i? 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 florist* everywhere and 

 for sale by all wholesale florists and supply dealers 



N. P. MCCARTHY, Manager 



♦ 6 Pearl Street. BOSTON. MASS. 



FLORISTS 1 SUPPLIES 



Send for New Catalogue 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. 



1129 ARCH ST., PHILADELPHIA 



IHPnO CPUIII 7 ° 44 Fourth *▼••• 

 JAuUU OuHUlX, LOUISVILLE, KY. 



Piii Finance of BEST QUALITY in saaaoa 

 QUI rlUWBia delivered promptly to any addreae. 



Write, Telegraph or Telephone. 

 Cumberland and Home Phones 223 and 984 



THE NEW IDEA IN PLANT STANDS 



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 r.ot carry send us his name and we will promptly send full 



particulars. 



Moore-Livingston Co., rr;,;lansdowne, Pa. 



NEWS NOTES. 



The Hawkes Nurseries at Caldwell, 

 Idaho, is a new addition to the enter- 

 prising nurseries of the west. 



- Frank T. Ramsey has just admitted 

 his son, J. M. Ramsey, into partnership 

 in the Austin Nursery, Austin, Texas. 



Miss Bessie Pearce has been appoint- 

 ed manager of the branch of the Lutey 

 Floral Co.. located at Lake Linden, 

 Mich. 



C. N. Weaver has purchased the 

 Berry ranch at Free water, Ore., for the 

 purpose of raising flowers for the 

 market. 



G. A. Kuhl, of Pekin, 111., won six 

 premiums out of nine on plants and 

 six out of eight on cut flowers at the 

 Illinois State Fair. 



The Dole Floral Co., Beatrice, Neb., 

 are to move between Fifth and Sixth 

 streets, their present site having been 

 sold for park purposes. 



John DeRock has fitted up the Mau 

 Greenhouses, between Wymore and 

 Blue Springs, Nebraska, and planted 

 them largely to carnations. 



The Wichita Nursery at Wichita, 

 Kansas, has built a new fumigating 

 house for the purpose of treating all 

 plants with hydro-cyanic gas. 



The contest over the will of the late 

 George Ellwanger of Rochester, N. Y., 

 has been settled by the withdrawal of 

 the objection against the executor. 



A portion of the greenhouse of Mrs. 

 M. Neuberger of Erie, Pa., was de- 

 stroyed 1 y fie on October 1, with a 

 loss oi about Sl.iK.ii. \ defective boiler 

 was the cause. 



.Mrs. ('rare M. Nichols, who cond ict- 

 ed a floi ist store in the Allen building. 

 Worcester, Mass., was a sufferer by the 

 fire which occurred on October 14 to 

 the extent ol S10C0. 



H. P. Potter of Wilmington. Del., has 

 completely transformed his establish- 

 ment this summer, adding offi -es o i 

 the first floor and a large display room 

 on the second floor. 



Among the most striking adorn- 

 ments of the florists' windows in New 

 York are groups of superb celosias. 

 These are specialties with Lehnig & 

 Winnii'eld at Hackensack, N. .1. 



Harry Cornell and Edward Salver, 

 under the firm name of the Park Flo'.al 

 Co., had a very successful opening of 



their new store at Nanticoke, Pa., on 

 October 9. Souvenirs were presented 

 to all the ladies. 



The Empire Floral Co.. of New York 

 recently incorporated, will operate the 

 various Warendoiff stores of the War- 

 endorff brothers, Herman, Victor and 

 Edward, also the stand at the Hotel 

 Empire recently acquired from Fleisch- 

 man. 



Wietor Bros., Chicago, find a barrel 

 a good thing for holding cut chrysan- 

 themums, using about eighteen inches 

 of water in it. The barrel gives room 

 for. the stems without injury to the 

 foliage. This is, of course, for use at 

 the greenhouses and not in the store. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



C. A. Beyer succeeds Starke & Co 

 52 West 29th St., New York. 



The greenhouses of the late James 

 ) nth, Wyomissing, Pa,, have been sold 

 io C. C. Stetler. 



J. D. Lewis has bought out the green- 

 house business of his son, S. E. Lewis, 

 ,at Moosup, Conn. 



The Idlewild Floral Co. succeed D. 

 L. Lashey at the Battery Park green- 

 houses, Asheville, N. C. 



Albert C. Rott of Joliet, formerly 

 president and treasurer of the Thomp- 

 son Florisl Co. of Joliet, 111., has pur- 

 chased the interests of the other part- 

 ies and is now sole proprietor. The 

 name will probably be changed soon. 



HARDY FERNS 



By the Million 

 At $1.00 per lOOO 



Our own picking 



n. f. McCarthy & co., 



84 Hawley St., 

 BOSTON 



ROBERT J. DYSART, 



Public Accountant and Auditor 



Simple methods of correct accounting 

 especially adapted for florists' use. 



Books Balanced and Adjusted 



Merchant* Bank Building 



28 STATE ST., - BOSTOK 



Telephone, Main |l 



