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HORTICULTURE 



December 11, 1909 



POEHLMANN BROS. COMPANY 



33-35-37 Randolph Street, CHICAGO 



When in doubt where to buy your Christmas Flowers TURN TO POEHLMANN'S 



We uadoubtedly have the best the market affords. Prices according to quality. Cheaper 

 grade at correspondingly low prices. Like all others we are not infallible but as a rule 

 we have what yoa ask for. 



Backed up by the growing stock in our own greenhouses we are in a strorg pcsilicn to do as we agree. 



Weekly price lists of cut flowers will be mailed- to those desiring same. Have your 



name added to our mailing list. 



Watch for our Advertisements ! Sometimes we have specials which are good value. 



POEHLMANN BROS. CO. 



We Please Others 



We Can Please You 



No Order Too Large 

 No Order Too Small 



Send Us Your Orders 



and you will be pleased with the QUALITY of our STOCK, our PRICES and the 

 CAREFUL ATTENTION given your orders. 



J. A. BUDLONG 



Anything and everything 



in the line of cut flowers 



in season 



Roses and 

 Carnations 

 A Specialty. 



37-39 Randolph Street, CHICAQO. 

 WHOLES/ 



GROWER 



"", CUT FLOWERS 



CHICAGO NOTES. 

 Plants for Christmas. 

 It is a happy fact that azaleas are 

 coining on much better for Christmas 

 than was expected and will probably 

 be in ample supply. The appearance 

 of the plants when received gave the 

 impression that there would be diffi- 

 culty in getting them ready for the 

 Holidays, but upon being put under 

 mild heat the buds developed rapidly, 

 so that there were many in for 

 Thanksgiving and they will require 

 very little, if any, forcing to get them 

 in now. Poinsettias will also be plen- 

 tiful and in good condition. Indica- 

 tions are that the supply will be 50 

 per cent in excess of last year, though, 

 of course, demand is also increasing. 

 Cyclamens will be in fair supply and 

 in fine condition. Chicago growers are 

 giving special attention to the best 

 strains of this favorite plant so that 

 what plants are in will have fine large 

 blooms and of the best colors. Pri- 

 mula obconica will be in no excessive 

 quantity. Begonia Gloire de Lorraine 

 are not so much in evidence this year 



as formerly and stock will be decided- 

 ly limited. Purchasers must order 

 early. The berried plants will be in 

 fair supply. There is a good stock of 

 Christmas peppers of various sizes. Of 

 Jeiusalem cherries there are somewhat 

 less. Ardesias and aucubas will be in 

 limited supply, though probably enough 

 for the local demand. Pandanus Veit- 

 chii is to be had in quantity, particu- 

 larly in the small and medium sizes, 

 G-inch pot plants especially being heavy 

 in supply. They are well colored and 

 make very salable plants. Dracaena 

 terminalis is in fair quantity and well 

 colored. Dracaena Masangeana and 

 Fragrans are to be had in abundance. 

 The stock of green plants as Boston 

 ferns, palms, araucarias, etc., is ample 

 and in splendid condition. 



A Useful Device. 

 The Geo. M. Garland Co. have dis- 

 posed of their old foundry at Des 

 Plaines, 111., and have a new one well 

 under way. The new structure is 

 planned on the latest models and will 

 have every convenience for manufac- 

 turing the well-known Garland gut- 



ters. Arrangements are also complet- 

 ed for the manufacturing of their soil 

 conveyor which will be put upon the 

 market in the spring of 1910. This 

 conveyor is a device of their own and 

 makes simple and easy one of the 

 hardest tasks in greenhouse work, that 

 of carrying out and replacing the soil. 

 With tills conveyor three wheelbarrow 

 loads can be handled at one time and 

 dropped in place without employes be- 

 ing exposed to the heat under the 

 glass for more than a few seconds at 

 a time. The carrier is used only with 

 houses built with the Garland truss, 

 to which is attached arms bearing the 

 ends of a steel bar, on which the car- 

 rier runs by means of ball-bearing 

 wheels. These carriers are to be in- 

 stalled in a range of houses at Poehl- 

 mann Bros.' plant B. 



City News. 

 Since Sunday this city is in the grasp 

 of a genuine blizzard, bringing a fall 

 in temperature and snow enough to 

 make the florists happy who have so 

 long looked for this event to make 

 trade brisk. We have had the warm- 



