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HORTlCULTURi: 



November 6, 1909 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



The Exhibition. 



For eighteen years OWcago has had 

 an annual flower show thai has done 

 her credit, and this year is one of the 

 best. As a reward for those who send 

 their treasures for exhibition there are 

 between four and five thousand dollars 

 to be distributed. Besides this the op- 

 portunity for advertising is greater 

 than in perhaps any other city, as Chi- 

 cago IS so centrally located that it 

 dlraws from all sides of the coimtry. 



A single idea prevails throughout 

 the whole, making a harmonious, 

 pleasing effect. A Japanese garden 

 with winding walks through sodded 

 lawns, pagodas, rustic bridges, tower- 

 ing palms, huge beds of decorative 

 stock and specimen blooming plants 

 made a scene delightful beyond de- 

 scription. 



Surrounding the Japanese garden 

 are the booths by the retailers, show- 

 ing how flowers may be used to best 

 advantage in decorating for weddings, 

 receptions and other occasions. The 

 home owner has new opportunities for 

 learning how to adorn his grounds, tor 

 City Forester Prost lectures each 

 evening, telling how to beautify the 

 yards and vacant lots. Visitors are 

 supplied free with pamphlets on this 

 subject. 



.Among the roses the lovers of that 

 flower are trying as usual to find 

 something which will surpass the 

 American Beauty. 



The predomiuating flower, of course, 

 is the chrysanthemum. Thousands 

 upon thousands of blooms, in all 

 classes large and small, delight the 

 eye on every side. 



Among the Growers. 



The Wittbold Co., whose business 

 comprises out-door planting and land- 

 scape work as well as indoor deco- 

 rative, recommend the fall planting 

 of shrubs as they become well estab- 

 lished during the winter. They have 

 recently gotten out for their custom- 

 ers' use a folder with fall and spring 

 scenes and suggestions for planting. 

 The firm of Geo. Wittbold Co. con- 

 sists of Geo. Wittbold, the founder of 

 the business fifty-two years ago, and 

 who is still actively in it, and bis 

 four sons, Louis, the manager. Otto, 

 who is in charge of the place at Edge- 

 brook, and Fred and Henry, who di- 

 vide the decorating work between 

 them. Among their yearly contracts 

 are the floral decorations for Mar- 

 shall Field and Carson Pirie Scott. 



The Disposition of Old Wire Frames. 



For some time past the disposition 

 of old wire designs, wreaths, etc., 

 from the cemeteries in and about 

 Chicago has been a vexed question 

 and people have viewed the matter 

 according to the way their personal 

 interests lay. The Cemetery Associa- 

 tion has assumed the ownership of 

 all the designs placed on the graves 

 and instructed the sexton to remove 

 them after a certain number of days. 

 No one seems to have objected so far, 

 but it is right at this point the dis- 

 agreement begins. The Board of 

 Health has long claimed that these 

 moss-filled designs, having often been 

 used where death has occurred from 

 contagious diseases, should be de- 

 stroyed. The sextons have been in 



the habit of selling them back to the 

 city florists for a nominal sum, and in 

 order to prevent this an ordinance 

 has been drafted by the Assistant Cor- 

 poration Council and was introduced 

 at the last meeting, prohibiting the 

 sale of these designs, wreaths, etc., 

 within the city limits. 



Wholesale Employes' Ball. 

 Success crowned the efforts of the 

 managers of the fourth annual recep- 

 tion given by the Wholesale Florists' 

 Employes' Club, Wednesday evening, 

 October 27, at Columbia Hall, Chicago. 

 The attendance was large and nearly 

 100 couples enjoyed the dancing till 

 the wee sma' hours. The decorations 

 were by the Geo. WittbAld Co. 



Personal. 

 The wedding of Edgar B. Wash- 

 burn of Hinsdale, 111., and Miss Belle 

 Story, of Riverside, 111., took place on 

 Oct. 20 in St. Paul's Episcopal church 

 at Riverside. Samuelson had the de- 

 coration, which consisted of white 

 chrysanthemums at the chancel and 

 white roses at the altar. The rest, 

 with the exception of the pews for 

 the relatives, was done in wild smilax 

 and palms. The bride's bouquet was 

 lily of the valley. Mr. Washburn is 

 the son of C. K Washburn and grand- 

 son of O. P. Bassett, comprising the 

 firm of Bassett & Washburn, whole- 

 sale florists. Mr. and Mrs. Washburn 

 will reside in the O. P. Bassett home 

 at Hinsdale. 



The usual number of callers from 

 out-of-town are going the rounds, glad 

 to see their old friends in the market. 

 Among the earlier visitors to the 

 Flower Show was H. B. Philpott, who 

 arrived from Winnipeg, Friday. Be- 

 ing an active member of the Chicago 

 Florist Club, he is serving on a num- 

 l)er of committees. He leaves next 

 v.-eek to attend the meeting of the 

 Canadian Horticultural Society of 

 which he is first vice-president. 



Mrs. H. F. Port, who closed her 

 store on West Madison street last 

 summer and rented her greenhouses 

 at May wood, has again embarked in 

 the florist business at 321.3 West Har- 

 rison street. 



NEW BEDFORD NOTES. 



Peter Murray, Fairhaven, has made 

 extensive additions to his greenhouses 

 and installed a fine new delivery 

 wagon. 



Peter Davis has leased S. S. Peck- 

 ham's greenhouse plant in Fairhaven 

 for three years. He has stocked the 

 entire place with carnations, which 

 are looking fine. 



At the annual show of the Newport 

 Horticultural Society, Dennis Shea, 

 gardener for Mrs. Horatio Hathaway, 

 was awarded first premium in the 

 decorative class, for the best seedling 

 dahlia. The flower is nearly pure 

 white, about six inches in width and 

 two in depth. It is as yet unnamed. 



A NEW FUNGICIDE. 



During the recent fruit exhibition at 

 Boston George T. Powell, of Ghent, 

 N. Y., delivered an address upon the 

 methods to be followed in making and 

 caring for an orchard, and spoke par- 

 ticularly of the difficulties that con- 

 front New England fruit growers ia 

 resisting the attacks of San Jose Scale 

 and other fungi, as well as of insects. 

 It was necessary, he said, to find a 

 substitute for the Bordeaux Mixture. 

 To auote him, as reported In the Bos- 

 ton Transcript: 



"A very important essential in New 

 England apple culture is that of spray- 

 ing. The San Jose Scale is spreading 

 over every section of the country. For 

 five years I have used one of the Mis- 

 cible Oils, 'Scalecide,' with much suc- 

 cess, for the control of all scale In- 

 sects. A new fungicide, called 'Sulto- 

 cide' has been brought out the past 

 season, that gives promise of very val- 

 uable results. Bordeaux Mixture has 

 of late been very injurious to many 

 kinds of apples, discoloring them, and 

 we must look to something better as 

 a fungicide." 



This new fungicide called "Sulfo- 

 cide'' is made by B. G. Pratt Company 

 of New York City, and was on exhibi- 

 tion at the show. A special diploma 

 was awarded them. 



INCORPORATED. 

 West Newbury.— T. C. Thurlow's 

 Sons, nursery, capital $15,000. 



Olympia, Wash. — The Yakima Inde- 

 pendent Nursery, of Wapata, has filed 

 articles of incorporation, with a capi- 

 tal of $10,000. W. A. & Ethel Berg. 



CUCASA. 



Cucasa is a soluble saccharate of 

 copper and lime, coming into use in 

 Europe in place of the rather cumber- 

 some Bordeaux Mixture. Many influ- 

 ential institutions and experiment sta- 

 tions report favorably on its use. 



Cucasa yields a solution of copper 

 that has all the fungicidal properties 

 of Bordeaux Mixture, but with the 

 added advantages of affording a clear 

 solution in any dilution and of keep- 

 ing comparatively long. Being a clear 

 solution, It does not clog the nozzle 

 of sprays; furthermore, much less of 

 it need he used than of the Bordeaux 

 Mixture, for efficient protection. A 

 solution of cucasa is uniformly alka- 

 line; there can, therefore, be no cop- 

 per sulphate present in it that would 

 injure the foliage. 



When sprayed on the trees, the 

 thin layer of the solution is readily 

 changed by the atmosphere, as in the 

 case of Bordeaux Mixture, into the in- 

 soluble film of copper compound that 

 has the specific power to kill fungi. 

 The thinness of this film has the ad- 

 vantage of interfering all the less 

 with the important functions of the 

 foliage, and also of sticking very close 

 — which was found in one case to be 

 for three months after one spraying. 



Cucasa consists of molecular pro- 

 portions of copper sulphate (CuS0<.5 

 H20), slaked lime (Ca[OH]2), and 

 cane sugar, thus being distinguisihed 

 from other copper and sugar solu- 

 tions by the proportions in which the 

 constituents are present in order to 

 produce a clear, alkaline, fungicidal 

 solution. Its inventor is Dr. C. Rumm 

 of Stuttgart, Germany.— .l/ercfc's Re- 

 port. 



ROBERT J. mrSARf 



Public Accountant and Auditor 



SlFuple methods of correct accouDtlng 

 especially adapted for tlorlsts' use. 



Books Balanced and Adjusted 



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 28 8TATE STREET, - BOSTON 



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