June 11, 1910 



HORTI CULTURE 



889 



SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 



To the Growers and Retailers of Flowers : 



Having succeeded John I. Raynor in his very large and old established 

 Wholesale Florist Business at 49 W. 28th St., Nev/ York City, after having 

 been his General Manager for the past seventeen years, 1 wish to assure all the 

 old patrons of this well-known reliable concern that a continuation of their patron- 

 age is respecfully solicited. I am prepared to take care of all new patrons, who 

 will find on first trial that I have only their best interests in view. I can furnish 

 the finest quality of Flowers of every variety obtainable in market and an early 

 call will be appreciated. Mail, telephone, or telegraph orders will receive 

 prompt and personal attention. 



Consignors solicited. Prompt returns and best marlcet prices 



P. J. SMITH 



49 West 28th Street, New YorK City 



Te/ep/ione, iggS Mad. 



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ST. LOUIS NOTES. 



Sunday at Shaw's Garden. 

 Shaw's Garden's first Sunday open- 

 ing of the year liad a beautiful day, 

 and the garden was packed with 

 visitors all day long. At the close it 

 was announced by the directors that 

 17,406 had passed through the gates. 

 G. H. Pring. who has charge of the 

 big orchid houses, had his hands full; 

 also Mr. Thompson of the cacti houses. 

 Supt. Yi. C. Irish says it was a well 

 behaved crowd and all were taken care 

 of and shown all points of interest 

 by the big force of students. 



Visiting Nurserymen. 



Delegations of nurserymen from 

 Alabama, Georgia and Rochester, N. 

 Y.. en route to the Denver convention, 

 assembled here last Monday and were 

 taken in hand by Mr. Frank Weber 

 and entertained until noon when they, 

 with the local delegation, left on a 

 special. Delegations were taken on at 

 Kansas City and Omaha. The majority 

 of the visitors expressed themselves In 

 favor of St. Louis for next year's 

 meeting. 



Personal. 



William C. Young, of C. Young & 

 Sons Co., is visiting all the large 

 plant growers in Illinois. Indiana and 

 Michigan this week. 



Miss Francis Kling, stenographer 

 at Young's Greenhouses, will leave 

 this week for a two weeks' vacation 

 at Atlantic City, N. J. 



John Barnard is now In the employ 

 of The Bentzen Floral Co., and Miss 

 May Burns has taken a position vyith 

 the New Paris Floral Co. 



W. J. Vesey, of Fort Wayne, Ind., 



was a visitor last Sunday. He was ac- 

 companied by his oldest daughter, who 

 was entertained by Miss TiUie Mein- 

 hardt. 



DURING RECESS. 



Bali Game at Madbury. 

 An exciting 12-inning game was 

 played at Madbury, N. H. between the 

 Park Street Market (Boston) team and 

 the team from Wm. H. Elliott's. Final 

 score was 9 to 10 in favor of the 

 Elliott's and the game was very close 

 throughout. In the 9th inning the 

 score was tied 8 to 8, the 10th and 11th 

 innings neither side scored and in the 

 12th the Park Street Market team 

 made one run and the Elliotts two. 

 Ten men and a few "rooters" from the 

 Market went up and considering that 

 they played the well outfitted Elliott 

 team on their home grounds, feel that 

 they did well to keep the score so 

 close. Saturday the 11th the Park 

 Street Market team plays the Land- 

 scape Architects on the Reservoir 

 grounds, Brookline, and the following 

 Saturday play the team from Thomas 

 Roland's at Nahant. Both of these 

 games look like exciting contests, 

 especially the latter. 



Chicago Bowling. 



INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES UP TO JUNE 

 3rd, 1910. 



B. Johnson 180 



Yarnall 167 



J. Zech 167 



Vaughan 166 



Farley 165 



Hnehner 164 



Pastemlck 162 



GraCf 160 



Wleczorowskl . . .160 

 Asmus 159 



Wintepson 154 



Bergman 153 



Degnan 148 



A yres 147 



Lieberman 142 



Wolf 142 



Goerlsoh 137 



Vogel 121 



Krauss 119 



DETROIT NOTES. 

 The Weather and Crops. 



Not long ago we were Jubilant about 

 the advance of vegetation as compared 

 with former years but now we ai'e 

 over three weeks behind. Everybody 

 is complaining because outdoor opera- 

 tions are so much delayed and such 

 plants as have been planted out do 

 not show any progi-ess. An idea of the 

 weather conditions can be gained from 

 the fact that on June 1st coleus were 

 badly hurt by frost and not one local 

 peony has come to our markets yet. 

 This last feature will work great em- 

 barrassment in the coming Commence- 

 ment season. Business is generally 

 very good. 



A Clever Thief. 



Many peculiar thieves develop but 

 the newest of them all was a neatly 

 executed theft by a young man, Wm. 

 Tucker, who took 7 colonial centre 

 pieces from the banquet table and 

 tried to sell them in local flower 

 shops. Hugo Schroeter who had 

 proved himself a good detective 

 several times before discovered the 

 culprit and was instrumental In land- 

 ing the fellow in jail and the goods 

 where they belonged. 



Notes. 



Breitmeyer's had the decoration for 

 the Board of Commerce which turned 

 out over 800 strong to feast with Pres. 

 Taft, who by the by was welcomed by 

 Mayor Breitmeyer in a very neat 

 speech. 



All local florists sympathize with 

 friend Pautke at Grosse Point who 

 mourns the loss of his 4-year-old 

 baby girl. FRANK DANZER. 



