December 11, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



85a 



XMAS XXXX HOLLY XMAS 



$5.00 PER CASE 



Laurel Wreaths, $2.50 per dozen and up. Laurel Festooning, 6 cents a yard. Boxwood Wreaths' 

 $6.00 to $18 00 per dozen. Bush Laurel, 50c. Prince.-s Pine Festoning, $b.oo per 100 vards' 

 made all round. Leucothoe Sprays, I7 50 per 1,00; $1.00 per 100. Dagger and Fancy 

 Ferns, $1.25 per 1000. New Crop Qalax, Bronze, $1.50 per loco. Green, $1.00 per 1000. 



CUT BOXWOOD SPRAYS 



$16.00 PER 100 POUNDS 

 A Full Line of Florists' Supplies. All Kinds of Insecticides. 



Chrysanthemums and Carna- 

 tions, in all Standard Varieties. 

 Roses - Beauties, Richmonds, 

 Harylands, The Two Killarneys, 

 Brides and Bridesmaids. 



Seasonable 

 Cut Flowers 



Lilies, Orchids, Gardenias, Lily 

 of the Valley, Violets, Adiantum, 

 Asparagus, etc. 



Henry M. Robinson Co., Boston, Mass. 



[15 Province Street and 9HChapman Place. 



Telephones— Main 2617-2618. Fort Mill 25290. 

 ALL ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY. PROPERLY AND TO YOUR SATISFACTION. 



est November in thirty-eight years and 

 florists have reason to regard more 

 seasonable weather as an advantage in 

 their business. 



A novel and appropriate setting for 

 a game dinner was arranged at the 

 Grand Pacific Hotel, Friday. Whole 

 trees were cut from the forests and 

 brought in with their branches intact. 

 They were sawed down the middle and 

 joined again over the pillars of the 

 room, their branches spreading out 

 overhead as in the natural forest. 

 Above and in the branches were hung 

 electric lights and the effect on the 

 autumn foliage was beautiful. 



An ordinance has been recommend- 

 ed to the city council for passage, turn- 

 ing over to the South Park Commis- 

 sion Michigan avenue between Jackson 

 Boulevard and Randolph street for 

 boulevarding purposes. Present traffic 

 is to be allowed for five years. 



Personal. 

 Frank A. Budlong of Chicago, and 

 J. J. Budlong of Providence, R. I., are 

 yachting and automobiling in Florida. 



J. W. Starrett, with Benthey & 

 Coatsworth, has invested in land near 

 Tampa, Pla., and will raise oranges, 

 grape fruit and vegetables. 



New York. — The Fernwood Nurser- 

 ies have supplied $lCtiO worth of dwarf 

 boxwood for the exterior decoration 

 of the magnificent new CafS de la 

 Opera at the corner of Broadway and 

 41st street. The effect of the green 

 against the light-colored stone and 

 the arrangement on ledges, window 

 balconies, etc., is very beautiful. 



NEW ORLEANS NOTES. 



The weather for the month of No- 

 vember was phenomenally fine, only 

 two days rain marring a perfect 

 month. Trade in the stores con- 

 tinues brisk and the volume of busi- 

 ness done at Thanksgiving was a 

 small ad\ance on last year. More at- 

 tention is being given to window dis- 

 plays and some pretty effects are 

 noted. Chrysanthemums, except the 

 late white Yanoma, are just about 

 over tor the season, which has been 

 a very good one for them. Bride and 

 Bridesmaid roses from the north are 

 rather poor in quality, hardly so good 

 as the local stock, while the color of 

 Bridesmaid is away off. T. G. Owen, 

 of Columbus, Miss., is sending some 

 nice Kaiserins and Perles to this mar- 

 ket. 



J. A. Newsham has commenced the 

 erection of a new orchid house 28x100. 

 Cattleya Triauns are blooming nicely 

 with him and he is contemplating an- 

 other trip to Central America and 

 Colombia. 



Representatives from three New 

 York seed houses called on the local 

 trade this week and J. A. Peterson of 

 Cincinnati, also had a drummer here 

 handling Christmas specialties — Cy- 

 clamen, Lorraine Begonias, A. Farley- 

 ense and Dracaena terminalis. They 

 all booked good orders. 



With Poinsettias flaunting their gor- 

 geous bracts in the open ground it is 

 difficult to realize that Christmas is 

 at hand, yet so it is and the stores 

 are already dressing up. Trade con- 

 tinues good, cut flowers and flowering 



plants selling well. The funeral of the 

 foremost Jewish citizen and noted phi- 

 lanthropist, Isadore Newman, gave all 

 the stores quite a lift. All of $3000 

 was spent tor designs, although the 

 family mnde the request, "Kindly omit 

 flowers." Carnations and roses from 

 southern points are coming in nice 

 shape now with the exception of 

 Eiidesmaid, which is washed out In 

 color. 



Sweet peas, Christmas and Mont 

 Blanc are blooming in the open and 



sell well. 



Abele Bros, have just completed a 

 new house, 100x20 feet, for asparagus. 

 Tins firm grows all the plants for the 

 Steckler Seed Co.'s catalogue trade, 

 and the amount of work and attention 

 to detail this involves is enormous. It 

 speaks well for their ability that sel- 

 dom is a "kick" registered from a dis- 

 .saiisfied customer. 



The sympathy of the trade goes out 

 to Frank Faessel on the death of his 

 mother, which occurred early Sunday 

 morning. 



Eau Claire, Wis. — Because the land- 

 scape gardener, employed by the coun- 

 ty board to beautify the courthouse 

 lawn, began his work by preparing to 

 cut down about twenty-five trees, 

 which belonged to the primeval forest, 

 a public protest was filed with the 

 board. This failed to stop the work 

 and an injunction has been asked upon 

 the grounds that cutting down magnifl- 

 cent shade trees is not "beautifying" 

 the lawn, and a violation of the coo- 

 tract. 



