December 5, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



751 



I T * SS TIME 



"To Make a Noise Like an Order," 

 IF YOU DESIRE OUR ADJUSTABLE PLANT STANDS 



for the coming Fall and Winter Horticultural Displays, as we are raj icily sell- 

 ing up our production until that time, and late ccm- rs will be disappointed. 

 Prize winners this season for display and banking of plants will be 

 ihise equipped with The Moore-Livingston Adi stable Plant .Stand". 



With three si/ts of stands all heights can be obtained from 6 to 48 inches. 

 If jour seedsman or suppl) house cannot furnish them, wiite, phone, wire or c. ble us 

 ar.d we are "Ji hnnies on 1 he spot'' for a prompt reply as to where they can be obtained. 



The Moore-Livingston Co See" Lansdowne, Pa. 



PHILADELPHIA OFFICE: Cen'ral Trust Building, 4th and Market Sis., Philadelphia 



NEWS NOTES. 



Providence, R. I. — T. F. Keller has 

 assigned to J. M. Bligh. 



Stratford, Conn. — H. Meacham is re- 

 building his furnace room. 



Santa Cruz, Calif.— The A. Mitting 

 Calla Lily Bulb Co. is being reor- 

 ganized for the better conduct of its 

 business. 



Chicago, III. — Manusos Bros, have 

 closed their flower stand, 176 State 

 street, and will continue the one at 

 State and Van Buren streets. 



No. Stratford, N. H.— The green- 

 house of Albert Felker has recently 

 been improved by the addition of an 



STRING UP 



Asparagus and Smilax with 



GREEN SILKALINE 



There's Nothing So Good. 



JOHN C. M EYE R & CO., Bostonjja ss, 



The Original Telegraph Order Florist 



WILL DELIVER 



Christmas % New Years Flowers 



to order in Boston and Vicinity. Usual Discount. 



J. NEWMAN & SONS, Inc. 



Est. 1870 24TREMONT ST., 80ST0N 



TRANSFER 



Your orders for flower or plant delivery in 

 Eastern New England to 



JULIUS A. ZINN, 



2 Beacon St., Boston. 

 Fine Design Work a Specialty. 



644 Fourth Ave., 

 LOUISVILLE, KY. 



JACOB SCHULZ, 



Put Plnwer? of BEST QUALITY in seato* 

 tlHt riBWBIa delivered promptly to any addreaa. 



Write, Telegraph or Telephone. 

 Cumberland and Hom< Phones 223 and 9»4 



"mLESLETcOLLEGE 



Dana Hall. Walnut Hill and Rockridge Hall 



Schools. TAILBY, Wellesley, Mass. 



Tel. Wellesley 44-1 and 2. Night 44-3. 



office building and other minor 

 changes. 



Salem, Ore. — Chas. A. Kibbe, the 

 aster specialist of Elmhurst, 111., has 

 taken up his residence at this place 

 in the hope that his son's health will 

 materially improve. 



Chicago, III. — The Peterson Nursery 

 is consolidating its business offices 

 and landscape department, and both 

 will now 7 be found on the tenth floor 

 of the Stock Exchange Building. 



New York. — There are in the State 

 of New York about five hundred nur- 

 series embracing about ten thousand 

 acres of land. These nurseries have 

 27,535,000 fruit trees, 16,600,000 orna- 

 mental trees, 4,750 currants and 16.- 

 500,000 grape vines. 



New York. — The law in New York 

 providing for apple barrels of stan- 

 dard size is being well enforced this 

 year. The legal barrel contains three 

 bushels and measures 17 1-2 inches 

 head and 2S 1-2 inches in length of 

 staves, with a circumference around 

 the largest part of sixty-four inches 

 outside measurement. Barrels below 

 these measurements are marked 

 "short barrel." and are discriminated 

 against by the dealers. 



PERSONAL. 



John Wanderle has started in the 

 landscape business for himself in St. 

 Louis. 



Hans Jensen, of Central, Mo., has 

 taken a position as foreman at San- 

 ders' Nurseries, St. Louis. 



Visitors in New York: L. \V. Bowen, 

 president of D. M. Ferry Co., Detroit, 

 Mich.: August Jergens, Chicago: Wil- 

 liam Jurgens. Newport. R. I. 



A. H. Kirkland of Boston, has re- 

 signed his position as superintended 

 for Ihe suppression of the gypsy and 

 brown-tail moth in Massachusetts. 



Dana M. Pratt of Bryantville, Mass.. 

 has ju;-;t completed work on the exten- 

 sive Italian gardens of W Ct. .Mather, 

 at Cleveland, O. 



Visitors in Albany, X. Y.: Mr. Sny- 

 der of Rhinebeck, N. Y.; S. E. Pn> 

 Warrensburgh, N. Y.: Mr. Zirkmau, 

 representing M. Rice & Co., Philadel- 

 phia. 



Otto Will of Minneapolis and Miss 

 Florence Keeling of Caldwell, Kansas, 

 will be married next Wednesday at 

 Caldwell. The wedding trip will be a 

 tour around the world. 



Mr. Edward Hatch, of Boston, having 



entirely recovered from his recent 

 severe illness, will spend the winter in. 

 the South. He has removed his office 

 to the Worthington Building, :J1 State 

 street, the spot where for twenty-four 

 years he previously had an office. 



Visitors in Boston: George C. Wat- 

 son, Philadelphia; Paul Berkowitz, of 

 Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia; 

 Louis J. Reuter, Westerly, R. I.; O. W. 

 Cutler, Niagara Falls, N. Y. ; H. S. 

 DeForest. of Pierson U-Bar Co., New 

 York; A. Martial, representing Reed & 

 Keller, New York; P. T. Barnes. 

 Suburban Life, Harrisburg, Pa. 



IN BANKRUPTCY. 

 The Fleischman Floral Company and 

 Joseph Fleischman, individual, of New 

 Vork City, were petitioned into bank- 

 ruptey on Dec. 1. Robert C. Morris has 

 been appointed receiver for the Hoff- 

 man House store. Among the largest 

 creditors are John I. Raynor $2700, and" 

 A. J. Outtman $500. 



NOTICE 



We desire to notify the trade that we 

 are the owners of United States patent No. 

 489,218 for Floral Figure which claims: 



" A florist's letter or figure 

 stamped from a sheet of paste- 

 board or other suitable material, 

 having an adhesive coating ap- 

 plied thereto and an outer cov- 

 ering of granules of sawdust 

 appropriately colored to repre- 

 sent the petals of the Heli- 

 chryMum arenarium substan- 

 tially as described." 



Letters which are a direct 

 infringement of this pat- 

 ent are being put on the market and we 

 intend to hold ?11 who make or sell the 

 infringing letters to strict account. 



The lawful patent- d gocds are in ev<-ry 

 respect much superior to the infringement. 

 BOSTON FLORIST LETTFR CO. 

 66 Pearl St. N. F. McCarthy. Mgr. Boston, Mass. 



FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



Send for New Catalogue 



H. Bayersdorfer & Go. 



1129 ARCH ST., PHILADELPHIA 



ROBERT J. DYSART, 



Public Accountant and Jtuditot 



Simple methods of correct accounting I 

 especially adapted for florists' use. ' 



Books Balanced and Adjusted 



Mcrcfajmu Bank Building 



88 8TATE ST., BOSTON 



Telephone, Mlfc }< . 



