September 11, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



381 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



Among the Plant Growers. 



Fall work is well under way. Lilies 

 Formosa and Harrisii are either potted 

 or are ready for immediate attention. 

 The early French bulbs and fieesia 

 have been in for some time and grow- 

 ers using them for early blooming have 

 them potted up. A few of the Dutch 

 bulbs are now here and the balance 

 will come soon. Boston ferns are a 

 subject of great interest as the market 

 has not been well supplied with these 

 popular plants for a year. Growers 

 are now potting them so they will be 

 nicely established before the dark days. 

 They are also busy getting in good 

 batches of cuttings of geraniums, Ian- 

 tanas and other bedding stock for an- 

 other spring. 



Some of the florists' windows are 

 showing fine potted plants of Celosia 

 Thonipsoni maguiflca. This variety of 

 co.xcomb in pyramid shape makes a 

 showy plant and is especially desirable, 

 for it comes at a time when there is 

 comparatively nothing else in the mar- 

 ket. Floiists will remember the fine 

 plants exhibited by Howard Gould at 

 the big flower show last fall. They 

 last a long time and are not difficult 

 to grow. Their showy color and grace- 

 ful form make them very desirable as 

 fall plants. 



Samuelson's New Store. 



Chas. A. Samuelson, who has had 

 one of Chicago's leading retail stores 

 at 2129 Michigan avenue for the past 

 fifteen years, has moved across the 

 street to 2i:J2-3,4. The interior furnish- 

 ings are not all completed, but enough 

 is finished to show that it will be a 

 fine double store. One part is devoted 

 to art pottery suitable for florists' use 

 and has a fine conservatory in the rear. 

 The other part is fitted up handsome- 

 ly for his retail trade, with a sales- 

 room in front and two model work- 

 rooms in the rear. These are lighted 

 by skylights and separated from the 

 salesrooms by a large refrigerator. 

 New Wholesale Rooms. 



The rooms in the north end of the 

 Atlas block are nearing completion. 

 Hoerber Bros, will have fine light and 

 convenient rooms for their wholesale 

 business. This company has erected 

 an extension greenhouse plant at Des 

 Plaines, and now with their large 

 salesrooms will be well equipped for 

 fall business. Kyle & Foerster will 

 have the rear rooms, which are well 

 lighted and will be thoroughly equipped 

 with facilities for handling the busi- 

 ness of a wholesale commission house. 

 Personal. 



C. M. Dickinson is confined to his 

 home by sickness. 



Leesley Bros, are taking an automo- 

 bile trip into Wisconsin. 



E. B. Washburn has returned from 

 a brief visit in New York. 



O. P. Bassetl is on an auto trip to 

 Niagara Falls and New York City. 



Mr. and Mrs. Chas. McKellar are 

 home from a two weeks' trip to Ohio. 

 Visitors. 



Adolph Bruyssens, Professor of Hor- 

 ticulture at Vilvorde, France, is in this 

 country making a study of the cultiva- 

 tion of the carnation. From here the 

 Professor will go to Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. V. Other visitors were: E. 

 J. Fancourt, representing Pennock- 

 Meehan Co., Philadelphia; A. H. Bush, 



Denver, Colo.f'X W. Worth, Parsons, 

 Kan. 



Anna Grace Sawyer has just placed 

 a fine illuminated sign on her Madison 

 street store and otherwise added to her 

 equipment, making her place one of 

 the finest of the smaller florists' stores 

 in Chicago. It is known as the Pansy 

 Store. 



PHILADELPHIA NEWS NOTES. 



J. Otto Thilow sailed August 24th on 

 the Kaiser Wilhelm for a brief vaca- 

 tion. 



Edward Reid left Sept. 5th on a four 

 weeks' trip to North Dakota and other 

 points west. 



Visitors last week: Daniel E. Gor- 

 man, Williamsport, Pa.; F. W. Emer- 

 son, Omaha, Neb. 



W. Paul Binder, late with Shellem,. 

 is now gardener for Theodore Presser, 

 Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. 



.lames E. Mapes, Clayton, N. J., a 

 dealer in florists' greens, had his build- 

 ings badly damaged by fire, Sept. 1st. 



Jno. Berger of Berger Bros, has re- 

 turned from a month's sojourn in the 

 Maine woods looking sunburned and 

 hearty. 



Paul Klingsporn, late with McKis- 

 sick, has returned from Alabama and is 

 now in the electrical business at 2220 

 North Hancock street, this city. 



George Faulkner has opened his new 

 store on i5th street, below Sansom, 

 with greatly enlarged facilities and 

 good prospects for a prosperous fall 

 trade. 



W. Atlee Burpee has returned from 

 his European trip loaded with interest- 

 ing reminiscences and full of knowl- 

 edge about novelties in the horticul- 

 tural and floricultural line. 



Henry Hughes, late gardener for H. 

 O. Wilbur, Devon, has taken a position 

 with Mrs. Fannie D. Stout, Dubuque, 

 Iowa, for which point he left Philadel- 

 phia on the Tth inst. with the best 

 wishes of his many friends. 



It is reported that E. C. Dungan has 

 resigned from his position as manager 

 for W. Henry Maule and entered the 

 newly organized Noll Corporation at 

 Newark, N. J. (See Hort. page 346, 

 Sept. 4.) 



A prominent Camden florist was 

 hunting; for violets last week. He 

 seemed very much surprised that the 

 big Philadelphia flower markets could 

 not supply a common item like that. 

 At last accounts he was still hunting. 



OBITUARY. 



John W. Dunlop. 

 John W. Dunlop, Milwaukee's first 

 professional florist, died in that city on 

 September 1 in his ninety-seventh 

 year. He was a native of Scotland. A 

 widow, a daughter and four sons sur- 

 vive him. 



Edward O. Graham. 



The death is announced of Mr. Ed- 

 ward Oliver Graham of the Graham 

 Nursery Co., of Rochester, at his home 

 in Cazenovia, N. Y., on Monday, Sep- 

 tember 6th. 



The funeral took place from the Uni- 

 versalist Chapel, Thursday, at 2.30 p. 

 m. Deceased was born .\pril 24th, 185S, 

 in Whitby, Ontario. Can. 



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Washington D. C— Gude Broe., 1214 F St 



Chicago — HauBWlrth, "The Florist," X3> 

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Chicago — William J. Smyth, Michigan 

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Chicago— George Wtttbold Co., 1667^» 

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Louisville, Ky.— Jacob Scbnlz, 660 Sooth 

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Boston— Thos. P. Galvln, 124 Tremont St. 



Boeton— Edward MacMalkin, 194 Boyl- 

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Boston — J. Newman & Sons, Inc., 24 Tre- 

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Boeton — JuUns A. Zlnn, 2 Beacon St. 



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Detroit, Mich. — J. Breltmeyer'g Soaa, 

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Kansas City, Mo. — Samuel Murray, lOTl 

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Kansas City, Mo. — Wm. L. Rock Flotrei 

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Albany, N. Y.— H. G. Eyres, 11 N, Peart 

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Albany, N. Y.— F. A. Danker, 40 Maiden 

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Ne>v York— David Clarke's Sons, 213»- 

 2141 Broadway. 



New York — Alex. McConnell, 571 6th Aveu 



New York— Young & Nugent, 42 W. 28t» 

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Brooklyn, N. Y.— Robert G. Wilson, Ful- 

 ton St. and Greene Ave. 



Buffalo, N. Y.— Palmer's, 304 Main St. 



Montreal, Can. — P. McKenna & Son, St. 

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Toronto, Can. — J. H. Dunlop, 96 Yonge St 



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