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horticulture: 



June 4, 1910 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



Trade and Personal Items. 



Otto Freeze has resigned his position 

 with the Poehlmann Bros. Co. 



Charles Zapfe of the Budlong force 

 is bacl< again fairly recovered from an 

 operation for appendicitis. 



Mangel reports that magnolia 

 wreaths were especially in demand for 

 Memorial Day purposes. 



Among the new things at Hunt's are 

 automobile vases, and they are very 

 attractive and sell readily. 



Kennicott Bros, report their sales for 

 the week to have exceeded those of 

 last December, including all of the hol- 

 iday sales. 



A. F. Longren and bride have re- 

 turned from their wedding trip. Mr. 

 Longren is traveling salesman for the 

 E. H. Hunt supply house. 



The tin cemetery vases, the patent 

 for which was bought by W. F. Kast- 

 ing of Buffalo, are selling well here, 

 being more nearly indestructible than 

 the glass ones. 



Michael Fink of Kennicott's while 

 dozing on an "L" car Sunday night 

 awoke to find a man relieving him of 

 his watch and money. Mike seized 

 his valuables and vv'ith the help of the 

 guard threw the fellow down the ele- 

 vated stairs. 



Mr. Peiser of Kennicotts says that if 

 growers had only brought into the 

 market on Sunday the carnations they 

 held over until Monday they would 

 have received $50 per 1000 for the stock 

 that sold on the latter day for a small 

 traction <jf that sum. 



Strail & Hahn, the newest florist 

 firm in the downtown retail district, 

 are rapidly getting settled in their new 

 store, 27 Jackson Boul. A good busi- 

 ness for Decoration Day was an auspi- 

 cious beginning. A new Blitz ice box 

 will be installed Sunday. 



Among the notable June weddings 

 will be the Rycroft-Byfort, at the 

 South Shore Club, Wednesday. Fried- 

 man will decorate with Killarneys and 

 asparagus, using the usual canopy ef- 

 fect. Over sixty tables will be set and 

 Killarney will be used for the whole 

 scheme. 



As we predicted, the freezing of the 

 early blooming shrubbery and the cold 

 backward spring has caused an un- 

 usual demand for bedding stock and 

 there was not enough to go round. 

 Many large growers were looking for 

 opportunities to buy stock two weeks 

 before Decoration Day. 



Something different will be used in 

 the decorations of the dining room at 

 the Blackstone Hotel. Boxes of large 

 size, some twelve feet in length, are 

 filled with English ivy and geraniums 

 and will be placed around the room 

 eight feet from the floor. They will 

 get no natural light. It was no easy 

 task to handle these boxes, which were 

 filled at the greenhouses of F. Oechs- 

 lin, six miles away. 



Daisy Brooks, 12 years old, is proba- 

 bly the youngest member of the trade 

 in Chicago. She is the daughter of J. 

 P. Brooks of Morton Grove, and when 

 her father was asked to supply plants 

 and flowers to one of the cemeteries he 

 said he was unable to take on the ad- 

 ditional work. Miss Daisy promptly 

 closed the contract on her own respon- 

 sibility and drives four miles with her 

 stock and sells it to good advantage, 

 too. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



George D. Clark of Dreer's leaves 

 June 1st on a crop inspection tour in 

 western territories and will extend his 

 journey as far as the Pacific coast. He 

 expects to return in about a month. 



M. Rice and Mrs. Rice arrived home 

 on the S. S. "President Grant," June 

 1st, and were met at the wharf in 

 New York hy a good sized delegation 

 of friends and relatives. Among the 

 Philadelphians were B. Eschner and 

 Eugene Weiss. 



Leo Niessen is justly proud of a fine 

 lot of Cattleya gigas he is now receiv- 

 ing. A visitor to the great orchid 

 show in Boston last week stated that 

 he had seen no finer blooms on exhibi- 

 tion. A limited supply of yellow 

 chrysanthemums are to be seen here 

 and are expected to last for the next 

 few weeks. First time they have ever 

 had them at this season. The variety 

 is Golden Glow. 



David Rust, in addition to his duties 

 as secretary of the P. H. S. and the 

 Florists' Club will, dating from June 

 1st, act as Philadelphia representative 



David Rust. 



of the David Landreth Seed Co., Bris- 

 tol, Pa. Mr, Rust has had long train- 

 ing in the horticultural world, both as 

 a gardener in England and the United 

 States, and as a commercial man with 

 Dreer. We wish him all prosperity in 

 this new connection and bespeak the 

 courtesy and favorable consideration 

 of all our readers. 



During June, July and August M. 

 Rice & Co. will close their establish- 

 ment at 5 p. m., and on Saturdays at 

 1 p. m. This firm believes in doing 

 as it would be done by and thinks that 

 humane treatment of employes really 

 pays in the long run. They are thor- 

 oughly in touch with the modern hu^ 

 mane sentiment of shorter hours which 

 has become a marked feature of Amer- 

 ican civilization. 



Joseph Heacock, Robert Craig, Al- 

 iihonse Pericat, Parker Thayer Barnes, 

 Thomas Long, Theodore Shober, and 

 many others of our local people have 

 arrived home from the Boston Orchid 

 Show and all are loud in their praise 

 of the magnificent exhibition. They 

 are glad they went to this epoch-mak- 



CLAY'S 



For Fertilizing tlie Soil 



56 lb. $3.25 



WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, 



42 Vesey St., New York. 



ing event and D V. will be at the 

 next one scheduled for three years 

 hence. But they all sincerely hope 

 the date will be either before or after 

 Memorial week. 



David Rust reports that the amateur 

 show of the Main Line residents at the 

 Marion Cricket Club, May 2Sth, was 

 a great success, and that a permanent 

 Horticultural Society is likely to re- 

 sult from same. A brief account of 

 the show from the pen of Mr. Rust— 

 who was one of the chief chefs in this 

 floral menu — appears in another col- 

 umn, HORTICULTURE'S regular Phil- 

 adelphia correspondent being in Bos- 

 ton at the Orchid Show on the 28th. 



The silver medal for cut roses award- 

 ed to the Dreer display at Boston was 

 well deserved and a duplicate of the 

 same exhibit is attracting much atten- 

 tion this week in their Chestnut Street 

 windows — as is also a fine collection 

 of the higher class peonies which are 

 now becoming so popular. Crowds are 

 to be seen, pencil in hand, all day long 

 taking notes of the finer sorts and a 

 good harvest of orders is bound to re- 

 sult later on. This is an exhibit which 

 is really as educational to the general 

 liublic as the average flower show — 

 the more so as all the varieties are 

 forrectly labeled and the labels cor- 

 rectly spelled. 



Visitors: T. W. Duggan, son and 

 foreman, Brampton, Ontario; E. G. 

 Hill, en route for Europe via Riverton. 



NEWS NOTES. 



A. Y. Scofleld has started in busi- 

 ness on his own account at Akin, a su- 

 burb of Amsterdam, N. Y. He was 

 formerly with Frank Hotaling. 



Sumner, Wash. — The Sumner Floral 

 Co. is progressing rapidly in the con- 

 struction of its greenhouses. The man- 

 ager expects to have the work done by 

 summer. 



Rockford, 111. — The greenhouses in 



this vicinity were considerably dam- 

 aged by the recent hail storm. The 

 greatest damage was done to the 

 Buckbee house on 14th avenue. The 

 hail smashed much of the roof and 

 side glass and the house was flooded 

 with water. Falling glass destroyed 

 some of the stock. In the house of 

 C. H. Woolsey about 150 lights of 

 glass were broken, but the damage Is 

 not considered serious. N. S. Sade- 

 water lost about 250 lights of glass 

 which in falling did much damage to 

 his stock. J. W. Ingalls lost about 100 

 lights of glass. S. Shearer and E. H. 

 Johansan lost some glass; no damage 

 was done to the Soper greenhouses. 



