October 19. 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



the show were Messrs. .lamison. 

 Xewbrand, Russell and Mackintosh, 

 all of Tarrytown. Previous to the 

 meeting they were entertained at the 

 famous Lawrence Inn at a supper 

 which it would lie liard to lieat. P. 

 W. Poiip, president of the society, 

 presided, while the exhibition was 

 under the capable managemont of 

 .lames Stuart, secretary. 



CHICAGO FLORISTS' CLUB. 

 The meeting was devoted to the 

 cause of the Fourth Liberty Loan and 

 with such good results that $52,000 

 was pledged Oct. 10. It is a matter 

 of pride and satisfaction to the flor- 

 ists to be able to say that their quota 

 of $300,000 was fully pledged when the 

 time allotted to the drive was only 

 half over. At the writing. Oct. 15. the 

 sum totals $315,000 and chairman 

 Lautenschlager expects that at the 

 finish Chicago florists will have 

 $50,000 excess with which to help put 

 Chicago "over the top."' 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Howard M. Earl, late manager for 

 W. Atlee Burpee & Co., has associated 

 himself with F. W. Bolgiano & Co., 

 of Washington, D. C, and will take up 

 his new duties at the capital in the 

 near future. 



Anthony Waterer is an advocate of 

 shorter hours f»r the seed houses of 

 Philadelphia. He says the Boston 

 and New York houses have showed 

 us it can be done. He thinks that 

 except in the rush seasons in spring 

 and fall that business could be 

 managed on a basis of nine to five 

 and twelve on Saturday. 



NEW YORK 



A meeting of the creditors of Wm. 

 Elliott & Sons will be held at No. 97 

 Water St., (Room 203), New York City, 

 on Tuesday, the 22nd inst. at 3 o'clock 

 p. m. At that time the committee 

 which has been supervising the liqui- 

 dation of the business will make a re- 

 port. 



CINCINNATI. 



R. Witterstaetter. who has been 

 confined to his home by illness, is now 

 convalescing. 



O. H. Hoffmeister has been incapac- 

 itated for the past several weeks 

 owing to severe injuries to his right 

 forearm. 



BOSTON. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 of Boston conceited its proposed free 

 exhibition of vegetables and fruits 

 that was to be held in Horticultural 

 Hall. Oct. 15 and 16. 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



CHICAGO. 



There are many cases of influenza 

 among the florists and their families. 



Mrs. Otto F. Larson, 1G04 W. ti3rd 

 street, who has been seriously ill. is 

 reported as slightly improving. 



Harry Manheim of Hoerber Bros, 

 has the sympathy of the trade in the 

 loss of his lirother Alfred on Oct. 

 13th. 



The American Bulb Co. now has re- 

 ceived in good condition all of their 

 Dutch bulbs and expect the French 

 bulbs in any day. 



Something new in the interest of 

 forestry was started this week, 

 when five trees were planted in mem- 

 ory of soldiers who had gone to the 

 service. 



The Chicago Flower Growers' Asso- 

 ciation has received a large consign- 

 ment of cosmos from Missouri. The 

 flowers are none the worse for their 

 shipment and make as fine a showing 

 in their \ray as do the splendid Mrs. 

 Russell and Milady roses seen on the 

 adjoining counters. 



Phil Schupp has reason to congratu- 

 late himself on getting chrysanthe- 

 mums in early this year as the market 

 has been shy so far. He is cutting 

 Smith's Advance. Oct. Frost, Golden 

 Glow. Queen, Kalb and others, and the 

 first pompons were cut this week. 

 Roses may be seen also at Budlong's 

 that range all the way from the popu- 

 lar baby roses to the stately Mrs. Rus- 

 sell, and some of these same baby 

 roses are now selling as high as $6.00 

 per 100. 



Another realistic war window is 

 now seen at Geo. Wienhoeber's. It 

 is a life like reproduction of the fa- 

 miliar Fourth Liberty Loan poster. 

 •Come On! " The fighting Frenchman 

 with blood stained garments just in 

 the act of springing forward over the 

 dead body of a comrade is faithfully 

 reproduced in figures which show the 

 horrors of war in their faces. A Ger- 

 man helmet and gun add to the realis- 

 tic appearance of the trampled bat- 

 tlefield. The work is so ably exe- 

 cuted that it fills one with horror even 

 while it attracts. 



Chicago had the highest death rate 

 in its history last week. Strange to 

 say there were fewer requests to 

 "omit flowers please" than usual. 

 Perhaps the difficulty of securing 

 them added to their attractiveness 

 The prairies that two weeks ago 



were beautiful with wild asters are 

 now quite bare, having lieen stripped 

 to increase the meager supply of 

 flowers as compared to the need for 

 sn many funerals. The oldest men 

 in the trade cannot recall a situa- 

 tion that equals it; no one hesitates 

 to use "weeds" if they can be had. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Zack Carrick, who has been a mem- 

 ber of the sales force at the George 

 C. Shaffer store, has accepted employ- 

 ment at the Louise Flower Shop. 



Frederick W. Meyer, formerly man- 

 ager of the floral department of the 

 F. H. Kramer store on F street, and 

 at one time member of the firm of 

 Leapley & Meyer, is now with George 

 C. Shaffer. 



The influenza has hit some of the 

 florists and members of their families 

 and included in the list is John Shar- 

 per, grower, who is located at Oxon 

 Hill, Md., who is just now able to be 

 up and about, and Mrs. George Dalg- 

 leish, wife of George Dalgleish of the 

 George C. Shaffer store force, who is 

 in the George Washington LTniversity 

 Hospital sufllering from the malady. 

 Some of Washington's stores are 

 working twenty hours a day as a re- 

 sult of the toll of up to seventy 

 deaths a day from the after effects of 

 Spanish influenza. During several 

 days last week Gude Bros. Company, 

 was forced to refuse orders for funeral 

 designs after a given hour each day. 

 Other flrms were similarly hit. "In 

 the twenty years I have been in busi- 

 ness I have never seen conditions as 

 they are now,"' said George C. Shaffer, 

 "and I will be glad to see the end of 

 the rush." There is no limit to prices 

 — the big question is whether the flow- 

 ers are obtainable and then if they can 

 be made up into designs. The last is 

 another trying problem to the retail- 

 ers. At several of the stores men were 

 compelled to stop working because of 

 being played out by the continual rush. 

 "We cannot get men to deliver the 

 stuff fast enough," said another florist. 

 "We have orders for delivery in all 

 sorts of out of the way places around 

 town and in nearby places like Alex- 

 andria, Cherrydale, Bluemont, etc., 

 and the people want automobile or 

 wagon deliveries. We cannot keep up 

 with the procession at that rate and 

 have to refuse all long distance trans- 

 portation unless the customer is will- 

 ing to have the orders go via parcel 

 post." 



