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HORTICULTURE 



July 10, 1909 



Hew Offers in This Issue. 



ASTERS. 



Barnes' Gardens, Spencer, Ind. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



FRENCH AND DUTCH BULBS. 



Schlegel & Fottler Co., 26 and 27 S. Market 



St.. Boston. 



For wage see List of Advertisers. 



GERANIUMS FOR WINTER BLOOM- 

 ING. 



R. Vincent, Jr., & Sons Co., 



White Marsh, Md. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



PANSY SEED KENILWORTH 

 STRAIN. 



Charles Frost, Kenilworth, N. J. 

 For page .-jee List of Advertisers. 



PULLMAN'S INSECT AND WORM 

 DESTROYER. 



Phlla. Insecticide Co., 324 Queen Lane, 



Germantown, Phila. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



WIRE STAKES: GALV. FLORISTS' 

 WIRE. 



S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., Philadelphia. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR 

 CONTEMPLATED. 



Austin, Tex. — E. Friedrich, one house. 



Syracuse, N. Y. — L. J. Muthaser, one 

 house. 



So. Paris, Me. — E. P. Crockett, one 

 house. 



Islip, N. Y. — H. K. Knapp, house 

 40x100. 



Hanover, Mass. — J. W. Beal, exten- 

 sive additions. 



Big Rapids, Mich. — C. M. Busltirk, 

 one house. 



Menominee, Mich. — Charles Schulz, 

 range of houses. 



Martin's Ferry, O. — Davidson Bros., 

 70-ft. carnation house. 



Woburn, Mass. — John H. Newman, 

 one house, 500 feet. 



Newburgh, N. Y. — Schaefer Co., two 

 houses, each 33x78. 



Ashevllle, N. C. — Brownhurst Green- 

 houses, rose house, 30x150. 



Springfield, Mass. — Wm. Schlatter 

 & Son, three houses, each 25x100. 



Mansfield, Mass. — Charles Holmes, 

 two cucumber houses, each 25x200. 



Providence, R. I. — J. A. Macrae, 

 house 18x120; J. G. Jensen, two 

 houses, one 18x58. one 45x150. 



OBITUARY. 



0. 



C. Cramer. 



Cramer, president of the South 

 View Floral Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., died 

 on June 24, after a long illness. 



Justen Olsen. 

 Justen Olsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Mons Olsen of Chicago, was drowned 

 on the evening of June 30. The young 

 man was taking a young lady friend. 

 Miss Haakman, out in a rowboat to go 

 aboard a yacht lying half a mile off 

 Jackson Park. In some manner the 

 small boat was overturned and before 

 the life-savers could reach the spot the 

 young couple had gone down for the 

 last time. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 

 Business. 



It looks now as if the convention at 

 Cincinnati would show a goodly pro- 

 portion of Chicago florists in atten- 

 dance. 



Prank J. Keal has his new retail 

 store at 18th and Halsted streets 

 nicely fitted up and reports his first 

 week's business as satisfactory. 



Mr. and Mrs. Mons Olsen have the 

 sympathy of the trade in the sad 

 death by drowning of their son Justen, 

 as recorded in this jveek's obituary 

 notes. 



J. A. Mendel, who has a flower store 

 at 422 W. ISth street, will open a new 

 establishment at 1424 W. ISth street 

 in a few days and will also continue 

 the present one. 



Charles Fallstrom, who has been as- 

 sociated with his brother-in-law, Chas. 

 Samuelson, in the florists' business In 

 Chicago, has opened a retail flower 

 store in Dixon, 111. 



Most of the wholesalers have signed 

 an agreement to close their stores at 

 1 o'clock, July 22, to allow their em- 

 ployes to attend the annual Florists' 

 Club picnic. Allie Zeck has charge of 

 the sports and pastimes and Ed. En- 

 ders the arrangements. 



George Reinberg says that KUlarney 

 has proven itself an all-the-year-round 

 rose with him, the new stock just com- 

 ing in as the old is gone. His Rich- 

 monds are especially fine for the sea- 

 son, some of them seen by the writer 

 having clems from 20 to 30 Inches and 

 longer. 



Personal. 



Herbert Stone, of A. Lange's, suf- 

 fered painful injuries by falling from 

 a step ladder July 5. 



The three little daughters of the 

 late Mrs. T. D. Cobb, formerly Miss 

 Tonner, will be brought to Chicago 

 and cared for by Mrs. Cobb's mother. 

 Miss Olga Tonner, who was with her 

 sister at the time of her death, will 

 return in September, bringing the 

 motherless little ones with her. 

 Vacation Notes. 



John Zeck is fishing in Wisconsin. 



E. Frausin is hunting in the Colo- 

 rado mountains. 



Sidney Witfln is camping out at 

 Lake Zurich, Wis. 



Mr. ancj Mrs. Anton Them have been 

 visiting in St. Joseph, Mich. 



Chas. McKellar and wife are on an 

 automobile trip to Milwaukee. 



Wm. J. Kidwell has joined his fam- 

 ily at their cottage at Muskegon, Mich. 



Miss Myrtle Conner, book-keeper for 

 Benthey & Coatsworth, is away on her 

 vacation. 



Fred Klingel, book-keeper for George 

 Reinberg, is spending two weeks in 

 Wisconsin. 



John Kruchten has returned from a 

 few days' stay in Milwaukee. His wife 

 will make a longer visit. 



F. Strail left July 2nd for a three 

 months' stay with his mother at her 

 summer home in Michigan. 



R. C. Northam has returned from the 

 Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where 

 he has been catching brook trout. 



John Schoepple of Benthey, Coats- 

 worth & Co., is visiting in Ohio and 

 will later go farther east on a month's 

 trip. 



Josepha Then and her sister accom- 

 panied a parly on an automobile trip 

 to Delevan Lake, Wis., and were gone 

 several days. 



IMPORTERS' PROTESTS. 



Appraisers' Decisions. 



No. 21444. — Evergreen Seedlings.^ 

 Protests 341702, etc., of Wadley & 

 Smythe (New York). Opinion by 

 Waite, G. A. 



Protests sustained in part as to 

 evergreen seedlings. United States 

 V. Ouwerkerk (166 Fed. Rep., 1022; 

 T. D. 28953) followed. 



No. 21445. — Evergreen Seedlings. — 

 Protest 351388 of Maltus & Ware 

 (New). Opinion by Waite, G. A. 



Proof sustained in part, a portion 

 of the goods being held dutiable as 

 evergreen seedlings under paragraph 

 252, tariff act of 1897. 



Court Decisions. 



Reed & Keller v. United States. 



U. S. Circuit Court, Southern District 

 of New York. May 17, 1909. Suit 5333. 



Birch Bark — Unenumerated Article — 

 Crude Fibrous Substance — Crude Veg- 

 etable Substance. 



Birch bark is not a crude fibrous 

 vegetable substance, within the mean- 

 ing of paragraph.? 5(iG and 614, respect- 

 ively, of the tariff act of 1897, but is 

 dutial)le as an unenumerated unmajiu- 

 factured article. 



On application for review of a decis- 

 ion by the Board of United States Gen- 

 eral Appraisers. 



(Decision in favor of the Govern- 

 ment.) 



Bayersdorfer v. United States. 

 U S. Circuit Court. Eastern District 

 of Pennsylvania. May 12, 1909. No. 

 50 (suit 1974). 



1. Ornamental Leayes — Prepared 

 Flowers, etc. 



Ornamental florists' supplies, consist- 

 ing of various leaves, some of which 

 are in the form of crosses and 

 wreaths and are arranged on wire 

 frames, and all of which have been 

 so treated as to prevent decomposition 

 and to retain or restore their original 

 api>earance, are dutiable as "orna- 

 mental leaves" under paragraph 425, 

 tariff act of 1897. 



2. Natural Flowers, Preserved — Sta- 

 tice Wreaths. 



Statice wreaths, which have all the 

 appearance of natural flowers, are du- 

 tiable under paragraph 251, tariff act 

 of 1897, as "natural flowers * * * 

 preserved." 



3 Ornamental Grasses — Manufac- 

 ture.'i of Grass. 



Ornamental grasses are not specifi- 

 cally described by the provision In 

 paragraph 425. tariff act of 1897, for 

 "artificial grains, leaves or flowers," 

 but are dutiable as manufactures of 

 grass under paragraph 449. 



On application for review of a decis- 

 ion by the Board of United States Gen- 

 eral Appraisers. 



(Decision adverse to the Government 

 as to the articles covered by paragraph 

 3 of the syllabus.) 



NEWS NOTES. 



Vacaville, Cal. — H. L. Blake has 

 been appointed on the state board of 

 horticultural examiners to succeed 

 Henry Stabler, resigned. 



Cambridge, Mass. — Until his new 

 buildings are completed, which it is 

 expected will be the 1st of November, 

 .lohn McKenzie will conduct his busi- 

 ness from his greenhouses on Whitte- 

 more street. 



