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HORTICULTURE 



April 16. 191« 



CHICAGO NOTES. 

 Plants. 



The plant situation in Chicago is a 

 little unusual in that there are prac- 

 tically no winter-blooming plants left 

 for April. ' Stock was hurried on for 

 the early Easter and azaleas, cycla- 

 mens, primulas and bulbous stock 

 were all worked off at that time, and 

 other blooming plants are not forward 

 enough to take their place. About the 

 only thing to be had are the marguer- 

 ites and Baby Rambler roses. A few 

 of the spring importation of rhododen- 

 drons are beginning to make their ap- 

 pearance. The fall importation of 

 rhododendrons was very unsatisfac- 

 tory; the plants seemed to be imma- 

 ture and arrived in poor condition, 

 very few of them producing good flow- 

 ers. Bedding plant stock is in favor- 

 able condition; the early Easter and 

 the wann weather of the past month 

 has enabled the growers to give the 

 plants room and they have developed 

 rapidly. 



The Sweet Pea Crop. 



The sweet pea growers are just fin- 

 ishing up their winter crops which the 

 three days' damp weather brought to 

 a sudden termination. The result was 

 a quick raise in prices and short- 

 stemmed stock that was unsalable at 

 any price during the warm days now 

 sell readily while long stemmed peas 

 are decidedly hard to get. Norrls F. 

 Comley of Lexington, Mass., who was 

 here last week and who is an exten- 

 sive grower of sweet peas, said he was 

 very much pleased with the quality of 

 the peas he saw in the Chicago mar- 

 kets. The stems of some easily reach 

 12 inches and earlier in the season 

 were 16 inches. Summer peas are 

 Just beginning to come in. 



A New Business Venture. 



O. Johnson has bought an interest 

 in the Batavia Greenhouse Co., Ba- 

 tavia. 111., and has taken a stand in 

 the Flower Growers' Market. The 

 present range of greenhouses is de- 

 voted principally to the growing of 

 carnations and the firm will build at 

 once a new range of 60,000 ft. which 

 will be used for Beauties and tea 

 roses. Mr. Johnson is well known to 

 the trade and was for many years in 

 business for himself. For the past 

 three years he has been with the Chi- 

 cago Rose Co. 



Street "Florist" 85 Years Old. 



One of the most interesting char- 

 acters among the street venders of 

 flowers is Mrs. Ellen Fitzgerald, 85 

 years old. Through all kinds of 

 weather she faithfully attends to her 

 business and goes home at night to 

 her one room on the west side. She 

 has a sunny disposition and seems to 

 find real enjoyment in her work. Her 

 basket is kept filled with flowers by 

 one of the kind-hearted wholesalers. 

 Trade Jottings. 



The A. L. Randall Co. is making im- 

 provements in their store, moving the 

 wire department to the fourth floor. 



Schiller The Florist has a specially 

 pleasing window display in gold this 

 week. A variety of gilt baskets, filled 

 with daffodils, are suspended from the 

 ceiling, and the effect is fine. 



Chas. McKellar does not want to un- 

 duly influence anyone, but remarks 

 the orange blossoms are coming in 

 finely now and it only takes two dol- 



LUXURIES FOR THE TRAMP. 



A horticulturist of Berkeley has been experimenting with the rose for several 

 months and hy cross-grafting succeeded In obtaining from it a delicious fruit with the 

 tl.TVOr of the pineapple. — San Francisco Dailies. 



"When we bold our next convention I am goin' to offer a vote of 

 thanks to the feller what invented this floral eat." 



lars worth to make a good showing 

 at a wedding. This ought to be an 

 inducement. 



Personal. 



W. E. Ward, of the office force of 

 E. H. Hunt Co., has been ill for a 

 week at his home in Park Ridge. 



John Kruchten is back at his place 

 in the wholesale market after a week's 

 wrestling with tonsilitis. He bears evi- 

 dence cf his struggle. 



Frank Ayers is serving on jury at 

 the criminal court and says he is proud 

 to state that he does not find any 

 florists among the criminals. 



G. T. Pieser, for many years at the 

 head of Kennicolt Bros., quietly 

 slipped away from his friends and was 

 married, March 20. The bride is Mrs. 

 Cathloen Bronson Worley. 



Harry Philpott, of Winnipeg, B. C, 

 who was here to attend the meeting of 

 the Florists' Club last Thursday, re- 

 ports a very satisfactory Easter trade 

 in his northern city. Most of the 

 flowers came from "Toronto, Chicago, 

 and Minneapolis. 



AVhen we went to press last week 

 the fate of our three florists politically 

 inclined, was hanging in the balance, 

 Peter Reinberg was the only one to 

 win out, ai!d he is again alderman of 

 the 26th ward. Mr. Reinberg is spend- 

 ing a week at the Excelsior Springs, 

 Mo. 



Visitors:— Norris F. Comley, Lex- 

 ington, Mass,; G. E. Serviss, Batavia, 

 111.; J. W. Davis, Davenport, la,; H, 

 Philpott, Winnipeg, B. C. 



Roscoe, III. — The range of rose 

 houses Arthur Briscoe is building will 

 be devoted to carnations and greens 

 for this season. 



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