HORTICULTURE 



October 5, 1918 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



CHICAGO. 



The florists are evidently lieeping 

 up their usual interest in bowling this 

 year and if there is a business men's 

 league as before some will enter that 

 also. 



John Furrows, well known young 

 florist of Guthrie, Okla., spent a portion 

 of his honeymoon in Chicago with his 

 bride. Mr. Furrows has many friends 

 and business acquaintances here, all of 

 whom extend consratulations. 



A. Cronis. proprietor of the Alpha 

 Floral Co., has taken the Greek Flor- 

 ists so well in hand that his receipt 

 book for the Fourth Liberty Loan 

 shows the names of nearly all his 

 countrymen in the trade. Not that his 

 sales were all to the Greeks, for he has 

 a large number of others and all in on 

 the first day. Trade is good at this 

 store, with funeral work in the lead. 



An orchid display is a rare sight 

 these days but the Fleischman Floral 

 Co. indulged in one for their window 

 this week. Above the large sprays tow- 

 ered long stemmed American Beauty 

 roses, another sight not so frequently 

 seen as formerly. All hands are kept 

 busy getting out funeral work. Word 

 has been received of the safe arrival 

 in France of Lieut. Palmer, and two 

 others from this store will soon be on 

 the other side of the water. 



A. L. Vaughan says he scarcely re- 

 calls an October 1st when the supply 

 of flowers was so limited. A cold 

 September is the cause both in the case 

 of outdoor and greenhouse grown 

 stock. Another feature is the very 

 warm weather a few weeks ago that 

 brought out the roses that ordinarily 

 would be coming now. Mr. Vaughn 

 has been in close touch with the 

 market longer than most men in the 

 wholesale flower business here. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Fred Bohnke has lost a great deal 

 of his crop of carnations through 

 blight. 



George T. Boucher has a very at- 

 tractive window display of fancy 

 crotons. 



Mrs . Ruth Jacobs of Rochester 

 Floral Co. has severed her connec- 

 tions with the firm and will take a 

 position with J. B. Keller Sons. 



has written his father that his part- 

 ner killed the German who wounded 

 him. 



Joseph Edward Wors, sou of C. W, 

 Wors, met with an accident in the 

 armed Guard of the U. S. Navy. He 

 shot himself in the foot and is at the 

 U. S. Navy Hospital at, Brent, France. 



BOSTON. 



R. Koppelman. salesman in the 

 flower market went "over there" the 

 latter part of September. 



E. J. Welch, son of P. Welch, has 

 been seriously ill with the prevailing 

 Spanish grip, out is now happily on 

 the road to recovery. P. Welch's 

 youngest daughter is also down with 

 the same disease. 



An auto truck belonging to John J. 

 Cassidy, the florist, driven by John J. 

 Parker and accompanied by John 

 Hurley, crushed through a fence on 

 River street. Hyde Park, and was 

 ditched in five feet of water. The oc- 

 cupants had a narrow escape. 



Even HoRTici'LTrRK has indirectly 

 been a sufferer through the prevailing 

 epidemic of grippe which has prevailed 

 thioughout this locality for the past 

 few weeks, the sister of Mabel G. 

 Craig, our bookkeeper, having been 

 numbered among the victims. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Grimm & Gorly had a finely decor- 

 ated float in the Liberty Loan night 

 parade. 



Arthur Wors is now at Southwark 

 Hospital at E. Dulwick, England, but 



NEW YORK. 



Van Zonnefeld Bros. & Philippo 

 have opened an American oflice at IS 

 Broadway. 



E. J. Van Reyper, recently with 

 Riedel & Meyer, has taken a position 

 with Geo. C. Siebrecht at 109 W. 28th 

 street. 



Stillman. the dahlia specialist has 

 the use of Stumpp & Walter's show 

 window on Barclay street to display 

 his flowers. 



Mr. E. C. Vick of the N. Y. Florists' 

 Club publicity committee announces 

 that on Oct. 14th at the meeting of 

 the New 'Vork Florists' Club, Edward 

 I. Farrington, of Weymouth Heights, 

 Mass., will give an illustrated lecture 

 on "The Arnold Arboretum, The 

 World's Greatest Tree .Museum." 



Mr. Farrington will go through the 

 Arboretum from end to end. showing 

 pictures of the different groups or 

 trees and shrubs as they are found 

 along the way, picking out the most 

 interesting and describing them, as 

 well as telling something about their 

 history and the cultivation they re- 

 quire. Mr. Farrington is an entertain- 

 ing speaker and an enjoyable evening 

 is assured. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



We learn with sadnes.s of the 

 death, on Wednesday night last, of 

 the wife of S. S. Skidelsky, after a 

 six days' illness. 



The Michell store had their annual 

 exhibit of dahlias and vegetables this 

 week. The display was well arranged, 

 under the expert management of Philip 

 Freud and attracted many visitors. 

 While smaller than usual tlie quality 

 of both the flowers and vegetables 

 were fully equal to former years. 



FUEL RULING IN WESTCHESTER 

 COUNTY, N. Y. 



Paul K. Randall, county fuel admin- 

 istrator of Westchester county, has 

 issued the following statement in re- 

 gard to the use of fuel in greenhouses 

 during the coming winter: 



"This oflice has been authorized by 

 the United States Fuel Administration 

 to issue the following order: 



"No fuel of any description, except 

 w-ood or peat which does not have to 

 be transported by rail, can be burned 

 in any private greenhouse until fur- 

 ther notice from this office, unless the 

 owner of such greenhouse has received 

 a written permit from this office. 



"The term 'Private Greenhouse' shall 

 be construed to mean any building in 

 which artificial heat is used to aid in 

 the growing of flowers, plants or win- 

 ter vegetables where the owner has not 

 been in the habit of growing such flow- 

 ers, plants or winter vegetables exclu- 

 sively for profit. 



"This order does not prevent the use 

 of fuel after February first for the 

 growing of vegetable plants for trans- 

 plantation to produce summer vege- 

 tables provided that the greenhouse 

 shall be used exclusively for that pur- 

 pose. 



"Any person owning or operating a 

 greenhouse as described above, who 

 violates this regulation shall be liable 

 to penalty as described in the Lever 

 Act." 



Mr. Randall added the following ex- 

 planation of a plan to prevent the loss 

 of rare and costly plants ^y reason of 

 shutting down on the coal supply in 

 greenhouses. 



"It Is the intention of this office, if 

 possible to see that no expensive or 

 rare plants which cannot be wintered, 

 shall be lost. To accomplish this, we 

 plan to allow one greenhouse in any 



