August il, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



285 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



Theo. Hanschke, Sol N. California 

 Ave., is enlarging his retail store and 

 making many improvements. 



Winterson's Seed Store was the first 

 Chicago firm to receive goods and pay 

 duty under the new tariff law. They 

 received a car load of bulbs, Roman 

 hyacinths, freesias, and others from 

 France. 



Stankowicz & Benda is the name of 

 a new firm having a flower store at 

 2928 Milwaukee Ave. Mr. Stankowicz 

 has for 14 years been superintendent 

 of the Polish and Bohemian cemetery 

 at Niles, Mich. 



The firm of Scheiden & Schoos is no 

 more. Mr. Scheiden has bought out 

 his partner and will hereafter conduct 

 ■;he business alone. This firm sent out 

 the red carnation Pres. Taft last year. 

 Mr. Schoos will probably go into busi- 

 ness alone in the near future. 



Personals. 



Sidney Wiffin spent Sunday in Mil- 

 waukee. 



Richard Schmidt of F. Oechslin's, 

 will attend the convention and also 

 visit his mother at Covington, Ky. 



Theo. Vogel of Smyth's, will go to 

 Cincinnati tor two weeks, visit his old 

 home and take in the convention. 



Ernest Farley of Chas. McKellar's, 

 has returned from a month at Indian- 

 apolis, where he has visited his moth- 

 er. 



Visitors:— J. .1. La Borius, Duluth, 

 Minn.; Mr. Tjensvold of Superior Flor- 

 al Co., Superior, Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. R, 

 E. Tuttle of Momence, 111.; Wm. Graff 

 of Columbus, O. 



A. F. Longren is suffering from a 

 serious eye complication which has 

 obliged him to lay aside business for 

 a time. He expects to leave with the 

 Cincinnati party, however. 



An extremely severe rain storm vis- 

 ited Chicago on the morning of the 

 14th. Between the hours of four and 

 nine o'clock the government report 

 says 3.46 inches of rain fell. 



Peter Weiland of Newcastle, Ind., 

 and Geo. Weiland of Evanston, are 

 calling on friends with their brother 

 Henry of California who went west 

 four years ago to seek recovery for 

 asthma. Mr. Weiland is greatly im- 

 proved but must remain in California. 



Wm. J. Smyth was able to leave the 

 hospital last week but his entire re- 

 covery is still some distance in the 

 future. When his leg was put in a 

 cast it was with the knee bent, and 

 when the cast was removed the liga- 

 ments were loosened so the limb could 

 be straightened. It is extremely pain- 

 ful to attempt to bend the knee and 

 Mr. Smyth will return to his summer 

 home, where the accident happened, 

 for a prolonged rest. 



On to the Convention. 



With the cars bearing banners 25 

 feet long and tastefully decorated with 

 fresh flowers, with calliope screaming 

 and the "German Band" making sweet 

 (?) music, the convention train pulled 

 out of the Polk street depot at exactly 

 2.42. The commissary car, Harry Phil- 

 pot in charge, went ahead fairly shin- 

 ing with great bunches of Golden Glow 

 and festoons of yellow daisies. Here 



the calliope was located; and included 

 in the abundance of eatables were a 

 hundred lunch bo.xes provided by the 

 Club. The rear of the observation car 

 was covered with carnations and asters, 

 and at the lower end appeared the ban- 

 ner "We're going too; The Ladies S. 

 A. F. & O. H." The members of the 

 Little German Band mai'ched up the 

 platform just before the train started 

 out, and the long white coats did not 

 disguise our well-known florists, many 

 of whom posed as musicians for the 

 first time. Others might have been 

 there had the coats been larger. 



About twenty florists from various 

 western points arrived in the early 

 morning. 



Genial Phil. Foley was here, there 

 and everywhere, and the last to board 

 the train. 



PERSONAL. 



Visitors in Boston — Ed. Roehrs, 

 Rutherford, N. J., 



Alfred Bunyard has resigned his pos- 

 ition with the Rosary Flower Co., New 

 York. N. Y. 



Edward F. Schmid, of Washington, 

 D. C, has taken a position with A. B. 

 Fox of Pittsburg. 



Harry L. Hunt will resume the man- 

 agement of the greenhouses of the 

 Kearney Floral Co., Kearney, Nebr. 



W'm. Tricker has taken the position 

 of foreman at the Florham Farms 

 greenhouses of C. H. Totty, Madison, 

 N. J. 



. W. A. Manda will continue westward 

 from the Cincinnati convention on a 

 three months' trip to the Pacific 

 coast. 



The parents of T. J. Mooney of the 

 Ansonia Floral Co., Ansonia, Conn., 

 celebrated their golden wedding on 

 August 11. 



George Ostertag, superintendent of 

 parks, sustained serious injuries re- 

 cently in falling from his carriage and 

 at last advice was in the hospital. 



Edw. Ernhorn. state horticultural 

 quarantine oflicer at the port of San 

 Francisco, has resigned and accepted 

 an appointment as superintendent of 

 entomolog>- and inspection at the port 

 of Honolulu. He will assume his new 

 duties October 1. 



Arthur T. Herrington, who has 

 hitherto held the position of manager 

 of Florham Farms park and commer- 

 cial greenhouses, has been appointed 

 landscape architect for the park, a 

 position which he is eminently fitted 

 to fill. We understand that the im- 

 provements contemplated by Mr. Her- 

 rington will place Florham in the 

 highest rank among the notable estates 

 of this country. 



Sunday gardening on "allotments" 

 has been prohibited by vote of the 

 Urban Council at Tunbridge, England. 

 There are of course, two sides to such 

 questions but local public opinion is 

 usually a better controller than enact- 

 ments. Caring for the welfare of 

 plants and trees does not greatly differ 

 from similar attention given to ani- 

 mals and comes much closer to the 

 classification of "necessary labor" than 

 many things which are universally ap- 

 proved of on "the Lord's day'' through- 

 out the civilized world. 



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