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HORTICULTURE 



June IS, 1910 



CHICAGO NOTES. 

 Park Notes. 

 The severe frost and the backward 

 spring have made it necessary to give 

 the trees in the South Side parlis some 

 assistance, and an appropriation of 

 $20,000 was recently made to redress 

 the top soil of the park. All over the 

 city the trees show the injury done, 

 and though most of them put out new 

 leaves they are not as hardy as in 

 other seasons and are constantly drop- 

 ping. 



Trade Items. 



D. D. Johnson Co., manufacturers of 

 the Evergreen Brand Fertilizers, are 

 sending out a very attractive circular 

 and will mail it upon request. 



One of the Wittbold Watering Sys- 

 tems was recently installed in Ocoee, 

 Fla. Mr. Nehrling, the owner of the 

 greenhouses, writes that he is greatly 

 pleased with its working. Sales of this 

 system have been unusually heavy this 

 year. 



Among the Retailers. 



Strail & Hahn had a simple and 

 dainty decoration for a home wedding 

 this week. A bank of palms and ferns 

 furnished the background and two tall 

 vases of Easter lilies marked the spot 

 where the bridal party stood. The 

 tables were done in white peas and 

 corn flower, and the effect was very 

 striking as well as beautiful. 



Some of the retailers are reporting 

 business as rather quiet this week. It 

 is looked upon as the lull before the 

 storm — of commencement orders. The 

 first and the last weeks of June now 

 seem to be preferred for weddings. A. 

 Lange states that he has been in the 

 florists' business twenty-nine years in 

 various capacities, but that he never 

 knew so busy a June before. 



Mangel's window was made attract- 

 ive last week by means of a sloping 

 moss-covered bank, at the foot of 

 which was a pool of water in which 

 a dozen ducklings were playing among 

 ferns. The construction of the window 

 is particularly adapted to the arrange- 

 ment as it brings the ducks very near 

 the f,eet of the passers-by. A 20-foot 

 dinner table, laid for forty guests at 

 Hinsdale. 111., was done by Mangel in 

 an exceedingly attractive manner. The 

 work required the use of 1000 Killar- 

 ney roses and asparagus. A 4-foot 

 vase of roses occupied the center and 

 from it extended long graceful gar- 

 lands supported by hidden rods fast- 

 ened to the top of the vase, and the 

 result was very unique and effective. 



Personal. 



Mrs. E. H. Hunt left June 17th for a 

 two months' stay in the CatskiU's. 



August Dressel, of Crown Point, Ind., 

 an old-time Chicago florist, is calling 

 on his friends and reports a good sea- 

 son's business. 



O. C. Chambers, as assistant book- 

 keeper, has been added to E. H. Hunt's 

 office force, made necessary by the ex- 

 tra heavy rush of business in the sup- 

 ply department. Their orders this 

 spring have included points in Mex- 

 ico, the Philippines and Germany. 



Among the visitors this week are 

 Sam and William Graff, old-time Chi- 

 cagoans. The former is now operating 

 two retail stores in Seattle, Wash., 

 which city he thinks has a great fu- 

 ture, and the latter is located in Colum- 

 bus, Ohio. 



A great surprise was in store for 



TAjlius ROEHRS CO.! 



RUTHERFORD, N. J. 



Offer special inducements to those stocking greenhouses 

 and conservatories. The most varied and carefully 

 selected stock of ornamental flowering and foliage stove 

 and greenhouse plants on the American continent. 

 Orchids in unprecedented variety, either established or 

 newly imported. Advice, lists and outfits at your 

 disposal. Call or write. 



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FRANK OECHSLIN 



the employees of The Alpha Floral Co. 

 last week when Lillian Hogren, who 

 has long served over the office as 

 cashier and bookkeeper, announced her 

 marriage last August to Harold Sriver. 

 Mrs. Sriver still continues to hold her 

 position at the Alpha. 



Visitors: N. B. Stover, Grand Rap- 

 ids, Mich.; August Dressel, Crown 

 Point, Ind.; Geo. Schmidt, Tuscola, 111. 



PERSONAL. 



Hugh Cody has resigned his position 

 with Edgar Bros., Waverly, Mass. 



Frank Riley has left the employ of 

 the Iowa Floral Co., Des Moines, la. 



J. Harper Hetherington is now with 

 F. H. Kramer, Washington, D. C. He 

 was formerly with H. H. Battles, of 

 Philadelphia. 



Boston, Mass. — George Wright 

 Hinckley and Miss Mary Florence Pet- 

 tigrew, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John 

 A. Pettigrew, are to be married June 

 18th. 



J. C. Elliott, head gardener on the 

 estate of W. J. Chalmers, Williams 

 Bay, Wis., has recently resigned the 

 position and will take a several 

 months' trip to Europe. 



L. P. Jensen, gardener to the Busch 

 Estate, at St. Louis, returned home 

 last week from New York, where he 

 had been superintending landscape 

 work for Mr. Adolphus Busch on his 

 (-state on the Hudson River. 



The family of Whitman C. Rowley 

 are anxious to have him located, as 

 he left Fort Russell, Wyoming, March 

 31st. appearing to be mentally de- 

 ranged. The Denver police have been 

 asked to make a search for him, as 

 he is believed to be in that city. 



Boston visitors: F. H. Moore and 

 daughter, Chatham, N. J.; B. H. Farr, 

 Reading, Pa.; Geo. H. Peterson, Fair 

 Lawn, N. J.; J. J. Styer, Concordville, 



Pa.; Albert Lahodny, Hempstead, L. I., 

 N. Y. ; Jas. Dauphin, Queens, N. Y.; 

 L. D. Batchelor, Ithaca, N. Y. ; Prof. 

 A. P. Saunders, Hamilton College, 

 Clinton. N. Y.; A. F. Faulkner, New 

 York; W. J. Bean, Kew Gardens, Lon- 

 don, Eng. 



New York visitors: J. K. M. L. 

 Farquhar, Boston, Mass.; J. T. Butter- 

 worth, So. Framingham, Mass.; G. L. 

 Freeman, Fall River, Mass.; Ernest 

 Lenker, Leipzig, Germany; Wm. Jur- 

 gens, Newport. R. I. 



WASHINGTON PERSONALS. 



E. M. Byrnes of the U. S. Agricul- 

 tural Department is off on a ten days' 

 leave of absence. 



Jas. L. Carbery has accepted a per- 

 manent position with the Department 

 of Agriculture at Washington. 



JOSEPH HEACOCK, Wyncote, Pa. 



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