July 5. 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



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1129 ARCH STREET PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



Quite a number of florists are plan- 

 ing to go to Minneapolis in their auto- 

 mobiles. 



D. E. Freres Is recovering from what 

 promised to be a severe case of blood 

 poisoning in his hand, caused by a 

 rose thorn. 



Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Washburn left 

 Sunday for their western trip, which 

 includes a month with E. C. Washburn 

 and family at Pasadena. 



A. Cronis of Johnson & Cronis 

 planned another trip to Greece this 

 summer, hut now says he will defer 

 bis visit tin fighting there has ceased. 



On vacations — Robt. Northam, store 

 manager for George Relnberg; Al. 

 Lehman of E. C. Amling Co.: Geo. 

 Heidenrich of Bassett & Washburn; 

 Jack Byers of Chicago Carnation Co. 



Today, June 30th. the last of the 

 stock and fixtures of the old firm of 

 E. H. Hunt were moved from the old 

 quarters at 131 N. Wabash Ave., where 

 for so many years business has been 

 carried on. .All that remains now is a 

 division of the proceeds between the 

 creditors. 



Al. Fischer has been fortunate 

 enough to win another prize, this time 

 a bride. Al. Pischor and Lillian M. 

 Ellis were married June 25th, and have 

 the best wishes of their friends. The 

 bridegroom is one of the best known 

 of the younger florists and his name 

 for several years has headed the list of 

 prize winners at the bowling contests. 

 This year he won the Cook Co. Florists 

 Association loving cup and several 

 other large prizes. 



A jury in Judge Pomeroy's court of 

 the Circuit Court of Cook County at 

 Chicago, has rendered a verdict in fa- 

 vor of The Foley Manufacturing Co., 

 against the City of Chicago for $22,500. 

 This suit was l)rought to recover dam- 

 ages caused by the C. B. & Q. R. R. in 

 the elevation of Its tracks, pursuant to 

 the carrying out of the provisions of 

 a city ordinance passed by the city 

 council, compelling all the railroads to 

 elevate their tracks, which deprived 

 the plaintiff of the use of its switch 

 track, which had permitted the placing 

 at one time for loading or unloading 

 as many as ten carloads and comppll- 

 ing plaintiff to load and unload Its 

 cars elsewhere at great loss and in- 

 convenience, etc. 



Visitors: Fred Hoekstra of Freyllng 

 & Mendel's. Grand Rapids, Mich.; C. 

 B. Knickman of McHutchlson's. N. Y.; 



W. W. Coles, Kokoma, Ind.; Chas. 

 Steidle, Olivette, Mo. 



ABOUT AFFILIATION. 



Apropos the most interesting talk 

 of Messrs. Farenwald and Kasting be- 

 fore the New York Florists' Club it 

 might well be stated that The Florists' 

 Telegraph Delivery will be very much 

 interested in seeing a modification of 

 the dues for the S. A. F. in relation to 

 the various other organizations. It is 

 an essential requirement of The Flor- 

 ists' Telegraph Delivery that each 

 member of that organization be rep- 

 resented in the S. A. F. There are 

 about one hundred and fifteen mem- 

 bers of The Florists' Telegraph Deliv- 

 ery now represented in the S. A. F. 

 .■\ reduction of rates for the parent 

 body, say $3.00 for the first fee and 

 $1.50 or $2.00 per year thereafter, 

 would be the welcome solving of a 

 problem. There are hundreds of re- 

 tailers in the country who would 

 doubtless be willing to join The Tele- 

 graph Delivery if it were possible to 

 aid them in that way. No doubt, this 

 will hold true with the Carnation, 

 Rose and other societies and increase 

 the membership much above the fif- 

 teen hundred now identified with the 

 S. A. F. The Interested members of 

 The Florists' Telegraph Delivery 

 might do well to bear this topic in 

 mind so as to gauge the matter prop- 

 erly at the coming meeting In Minne- 

 apolis. 



Irwin Bertekm.vn.v. Pres., 

 Florists' Telegraph Delivery. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Arthur Zirkman has just returned 

 from a sviccessful southern trip in the 

 Interests of M. Rice Co. 



Samuel S. Pennock moved with his 

 family, on June 28th. to Beach Haven, 

 N. J., for the summer months. 



Micheil's and Dreer's (and probably 

 the other seed houses) will close 

 Thursday night to .Monday morning — 

 giving their employees three full boll 

 days for the Fourth. The wholesale 

 flower trade will be open Saturday as 

 their trade is such that a three-days' 

 close down would be rather disastrous. 



Visitors: E. Howard Smith and 

 wife. Hazelton. Pa.: George Morrison, 

 Baltimore. Md. ; W. C. Langbridge, 

 representing J. B. Rice Co.. Cam- 

 bridge. N. Y.; John Savage. Gwynedd, 

 Pa.; Henry Tischinger, Baltimore. Md. 



SUMMER MEETING OF THE MIN- 

 NESOTA HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



It is a very difficult matter to have 

 a successful meeting in many of our 

 western states. Not so in Minnesota. 

 Under the efl^icient leadership of Sec- 

 retary Latham there Is always a large 

 and enthusiastic attendance. The so- 

 ciety serves splendid coffee, and the 

 people bring their dinner and have a 

 good time. The attendance was large. 

 There was a very fine showing of peo- 

 nies, irises and other perennials. 

 Flowers bloom In exquisite beauty in 

 the cooler molster atmosphere of this 

 state than further south. There was 

 a splendid showing of strawberries, 

 some of them as large as crab apples. 



We were saddened this year by the 

 death of the last charter member of 

 this great society of 3000 members — 

 Lyman Eliot,— who for 45 years was 

 foremost in the work of horticulture. 

 He was a kind, faithful man, very lov- 

 able in his nature. No man has done 

 more for the advance of horticulture 

 In the Northwest. At the age of 79 

 he fell dead on the 19th of this month 

 among his flowers. He died in the 

 harness. He was a noble Christian 

 man. 



C. S. Harrison. 



Secretary Beneke of the St. Louis 

 Florist Clvib reports that the kind in- 

 vitation of Fred Ammann to meet at 

 Edwardsville In July, has been ac- 

 cepted and that the nomination of of- 

 ficers wil take place here July lOth. 



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