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HOETICULTUEE 



August II). 1918 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



CHICAGO. 

 Miss S. Jackson of the Chicago Flow- 

 er Growers' Association is spending 

 two weeks in the country. 



Ralph Bather and sister Edith of 

 Clinton, Iowa, visited Chicago to see 

 their sister, who is ill at the Augus- 

 tina Hospital. 



Paul Klingsporn will take his vaca- 

 tion, as all enterprising florists will 

 do this year, unless it is an absolute 

 impossibility — at the St. Louis con- 

 vention. 



Miss Mabel Schulz, popular book- 

 keeper for J. A. Budlong, is spending 

 two weeks with a party of friends at 

 Allegan, Mich., along the Kalamazoo 

 river, famous in Indian legends. 



AUie Zech is putting in his spare 

 time during the dull season looking up 

 business for the future. He will be an- 

 other of the wholesalers who will 

 wait for the convention for his vaca- 

 tion time. 



Guy M. Reburn, who is doing a 

 brokerage business, has combined 

 pleasure with work the past two 

 weeks, visiting the principal cities of 

 the east and some of the most famous 

 watering places, not omitting a stop 

 at his old home town, West Grove, Pa. 

 The government record shows the 

 temperature of July as almost contin- 

 uously below normal. As if to make 

 amends, Chicago was visited by a wave 

 of heat from the southwest which on 

 Aug. 5th registered 92 degrees by the 

 government thermometer, tlie highest 

 August record ever made. With this 

 temperature 200 feet above the streets 

 the reflected heat of the surface may 

 be imagined, and business rajiidly was 

 reduced to the necessities of life. 



Members of the American Bulb Co. 

 have been enjoying vacation trips and 

 looking after business at the same 

 time. A. Koehler is a bit reticent 

 about naming the city where he spent 

 his vacation but says it is known as 

 an ideal summer resort. B. Neil leaves 

 Wednesday for a business trip to 

 Cleveland, O. This firm has shipped 

 500,000 freesia bulbs this season and 

 more are still going. Cold storage 

 lilies are reported as selling well. 



The Geo. Keller Pottery Co., 2629 

 Herndon street, recently filei suit for 

 injunction to restrain the manufac- 

 ture of pots in certain public institu- 

 tions in Chicago, when the price was 

 cut lower than their own. The case 

 was carried over till the fall term. 

 Summer trade at the Keller Pottery 

 Co. is reijorted ' as up to the average. 



but the quantity of bulbs on the mar- 

 ket this fall is expected to play a big 

 part in the demand for the popular 

 red pots ne.xt season. 



Paul Klingsporn, manager of the 

 Chicago Flower Growers' Assn., 182 N. 

 Wabash avenue, is chairman of the 

 committee to look after the entertain- 

 ment of the florists and their ladies, 

 while in Chicago en route to the con- 

 vention at St. Louis. That they will 

 be well entertained goes without the 

 saying, and anyone going via Chicago 

 will confer a favor by dropping a card 

 to Mr. Klingsporn as far in advance 

 as possible. If this cannot be done, 

 call him up as soon as you reach the 

 city. Central 282. Mrs. M. B. Hancock, 

 5003 Berteau avenue has been ap- 

 pointed by Mr. Klingsporn to have 

 charge of the ladies. With her com- 

 mittee the ladies' interests will be 

 looked after and their stay in Chicago 

 made as pleasant as possible. 



NEW YORK. 



Winfred Rolker's family is well 

 represented in the U. S. forces in the 

 field. Two nephews, sons of his late 

 brother Herman, are, one in the Radio 

 service, the other with the flyers. 

 -Mrs. Rolker's nephew, Alfred Rolker, 

 Jr., is a captain in France and has 

 been reported gassed. Three sons of 

 Mr. Rolker's Cleveland cousin are all 

 oflScers in France, so the Rolker fam- 

 ily, although all of them not less than 

 the second generation of German 

 stock, are contributing their quota to 

 help e.xtinguish the Hun. 



Louis Manciniello, 59 years old, a 

 florist of 88 Marion street. Long Island 

 City, while his sons, Frederick, 10 

 years old, and James 12 years old, 

 slept close by him, was tossed to his 

 death at 5.30 o'clock last Tuesday 

 morning when a Broadway surface 

 car hit his wagon at Broadway and 

 Twenty-first street. He had been on 

 his way to the Floral market on West 

 Twenty-eighth street with a load of 

 ferns. The boys, after assisting their 

 father to load the wagon, were ac- 

 companying him to the market. The 

 bovs were unhurt. 



PHILADELPHIA 



For loss in his greenhouses last 

 winter from lack of heat, Joseph Kift, 

 of West Chester, has sued the Phila- 

 delphia Suburban Gas & .Electric 

 Light Co. 



Samuel S. Pennock and family will 

 spend their vacation at Indian Lake in 

 the Adirondacks. They expect to 

 leave Philadelphia on Aug. 15th and 

 return about Sept. 15th. 



Charles Sim has gone to the Adiron- 

 dacks for the summer. He is still 

 physically under par but with fresh 

 air and good attention he expects to 

 be all right again shortly. His ad- 

 dress is: Algonquin Hotel. Saranac 

 Lake, Adirondacks, N. Y. \V. E. 

 Edwards, his nephew, is running the 

 business. 



Edward J. Dooner is at the Grand 

 View Hotel, Lake Placid in the 

 Adirondacks. He writes that- the 

 scenery up there is wonderful and the 

 air very invigorating. He has already 

 foregathered with Charles Sim at the 

 Algonquin House, Saranac Lake, and 

 reports that gentleman much im- 

 proved in health. 



Among the casualties recently re- 

 ported from the front are that of 

 Lieutenant Starky, cousin of Ben 

 Starky of Pennock Bros, and Capt. 

 Howard A. McCall, son of Joseph Mc- 

 Call of the Philadelphia Electric Co. 

 The Captain's father was well known 

 in the florist trade. He was the first 

 to introduce us at a club meeting to 

 that gem of literary art — "Pigs is 

 Pigs," when it first came out. 



East Milford, Mass. — Leon Bills has 

 accepted a position with the Osgood 

 Construction Co., which is now work- 

 ing on a large government order. Mr. 

 Bills was employed at Woodman 

 Bros., florists. 



PITTSBURGH. 



Michael Steiner, with Randolph Mc- 

 Clements Co., has returned from a 

 two weeks' vacation. Miss Riley of 

 the same company has also returned. 



Prices on flowers continue high but 

 there is no apparent scarcity. Whole- 

 salers report the demand brisk and 

 good prices are readily obtained for 

 choice blooms. 



Mr. J. D. Grafiadas, manager of the 

 Liberty Florist's Shop, has lost his 

 partner, Charles Plaaenes, who is now 

 in the service in France. Mr. Grafi- 

 adas thinks the prospects for the com- 

 ing winter are good. 



William S. Holmes, a ;ormer Pitts- 

 burgher who established a flower 

 shop a few years ago in Minneapolis, 

 has sold bis business there and re- 

 turned to Pittsburgh to accept a po- 

 sition as designer with Mrs. E. .\ 

 Williams. 



