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HORTICULTURE 



July 26, 1913 



Of Interest to Retail 

 Florists 



ICE CHEST TALK. 



To sell goods you must show them, 

 and there are two ways of doing this 

 — the right and the wrong way. When 

 you receive a lot of new plants or 

 some article you consider worth show- 

 ing, you take special pains to give 

 them an advantageous spot in the 

 show -window, but cut flowers that arc 

 kept in the ice chest are frequently 

 neglected in this respect. Study the 

 stock each morning and get an origi- 

 nal arrangement tor each day. A 

 vase of cut flowers should look in- 

 viting and give the onlooker a fair 

 idea of what they would look like 

 were they standing on the dining 

 room table or mantel. 



Don't crowd the chest so full that it 

 looks like a wholesalers' box. Toj.^ 

 spread out and show the stock prop- 

 erly use glass or even a cheap vase of 

 pottery will answer very nicely, pro- 

 viding it holds two dozen roses, car- 

 nations or lilies, etc., as this number 

 will usually show up better than one 

 dozen or four dozen. 



A loosely arranged cjjest where 

 colors are kept togther, or colors are 

 brought in harmony, will tempt any- 

 body to select flowers to take home or 

 send elsewhere, but a lot of flowers 

 thrown Into jars in fifties and care- 

 lessly placed, will hardly appeal to 

 anyone. 



Stands are always an important fac- 

 tor where height is required. To have 

 a few dozen of these on hand is very 

 convenient. Get a few strips of lum- 

 ber, 3x4, planed on all sides and cut 

 up in various lengths from fifteen to 

 thirty inches long. Next get some 

 pieces of cypress eight inches square 

 and one inch thick, planed on both 

 sides, and nail to top and bottom of 

 the strips, making one end the bot- 

 tom and one the table to set the vases 

 on. Two coats of white or any other 

 colors as preferred will finish the Job 

 at very little expense. 



Mr. Storeman. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 

 Miss Robinson of Dreer's who has 

 been on the sick list for a week goes 

 to Atlantic City for a rest on the 26th 

 inst. 



William F. Dreer has been recup- 

 erating at North East Harbor, Me., for 

 the past two months. Latest reports 

 announce a good improvement. 



The sad news of the death of Julius 

 Roehrs reached this city today (21st) 

 and the expressions of sorrow are un- 

 iversal. He was a man among men and 

 was liked and respected by everyone 

 in this community who knew him — and 

 their name is legion. 



The Leo Niessen Co., wish us to 

 state that our market report on the 

 sweet pea crop last week was incor- 

 rect. We said that sweet peas were 

 on their last legs. We still think so; 

 but make our courteous bow to sup- 

 erior wisdom. 



A visit to Norwood, Pa., finds the 

 Craig place in perfect order and every- 

 thing flourishing. Talk about color 

 on crotons! Wonderful! But it they 



GEORGE H COOKE 



FLORIST 

 WASHINGTON D.C. 



can't be grown there in that pure air 

 and fine location by past masters in 

 the art, they can't be grown anywhere. 

 Cocos Weddeliana are magnificent. 



Charles E. Meehan is moving this 

 week from Germantown to his new- 

 house at Ocean City. This resort 

 seems a favorite of the fraternity. 

 George Burton is there at present; 

 also Chas. Henry Fox, Alfred M. 

 Campbell, E. J. Fancourt, J. Liddon 

 Pennock, and others too numerous to 

 mention. 



George H. Cooke and William F. 

 Gude of Washington, D. C, were the 

 guests of Commodore Westcott at the 

 Waretown villa on the 19th and 20th. 

 Robert Craig and others helped to en- 

 liven the party. Passing through 

 Philadelphia a visit to Nor-wood was 

 in order — in which Samuel S. Pennock 

 ably assisted. 



Celery plants are a scarce commodity 

 In the market at present in conse- 

 quence of the dry -weather. One dealer 

 said, "why don't we grow more? 

 Simply because last year we had two 

 hundred thousand to throw away. We 

 always have plenty when other people 

 have plenty; and when other people 

 haven't any we haven't any either." 



Paul Huebner, landscape superin- 

 tendent for the Reading system, has 

 moved his evergreens from the old 

 triangle in Philadelphia to Trenton 

 Junction to escape the deadly oil de- 

 posits from the Midville steel works. 

 In a few years from now the old loca- 

 tion will likely be abandoned. Mr. 

 Huebner's next headquarters will prob- 

 ably be at Ryers in the Cheltenham 

 district. But, of course, nothing final- 

 ly settled as yet. 



You seem to have had quite a good 

 Sweet Pea Convention and exhibition 

 in Boston in spite of the season. Pro- 

 fessor Beal's report is worthy of care- 

 ful study and everyone should read 

 this. Also George W. Kerr's carefully 

 considered synopsis of the situation as 

 it is up to the present minute. We 

 hear much favorable comment in this 

 locality on both these outgivings. 

 Splendid work; and HoiiTim.TrRE 

 strikes a good keynote in advocating 

 examining committees similar to those 

 of the Chrysanthemum Society and 

 others. Let the novelties run the 



gauntlet of public opinion before being 

 disseminated. This would keep out a 

 lot of "no-betters" and hold our 

 swollen list within reasonable bounds. 



We hear that Harry Bunyard is look- 

 ing for a successor, but has failed so 

 far to find anyone as good as himself 

 for the secretary job — and so had to 

 accept it for another year. Modest 

 Harry! We suggest to him that he 

 put a salary on the job, and he'd soon 

 find them, a whole army, better than 

 he — absolutely prepared to beat all 

 records on any proposition. And, by 

 jinks, they'd prove it too, to 75 out of 

 100 of our ordinary go as you please, 

 non-thinkers. There is rich humor in 

 Harry's offhand remark, and not the 

 faintest suggestion of shirk in doing 

 fine work and laborious work for 

 nothing. And that's what differenti- 

 ates him from the army which would 

 loom up if there were a salary at- 

 tached. Which brings me to what I 

 wanted to say — three cheers for any 

 glorious -norker, who has worked and 

 is working and will always work, not 

 for his own emolument alone, but for 

 the cause — the advancement of horti- 

 culture. 



Visitors: George H. Cooke; William 

 F. Gude, Washington, D. C; Vic. 

 Hawkins. Bridgeport, Conn.; Edwin A. 

 Seidewitz, Baltimore, Md, 



INCORPORATED. 

 Connersville, Ind. — Carnation Sup- 

 port Co., capital stock, $2,000. 



Clarksburg, W. Va. — G. W. Southern 

 & Sons, capital stock $6,000; incorpo- 

 rators. G. W.. E. C. B. T.. B. A., C. R., 

 and Melville Southern. 



Toledo, O. — The property of the 

 defunct Perennial Gardens Co., is now 

 offered for sale by the receiver for the 

 rorpoiation. 



Boston, Mass. — Carter's Tested Seeds, 

 Inc.. capital stock, $100,000. Incorpo- 

 rators. C. C. Patterson. John Wylde. G. 

 Herbert Windeler and Reginald E. F. 

 Beale. 



Stevens Gladiolus Company, Sagi- 

 naw, Mich. Capital stock $20,000. The 

 incorporators are Frederick H. Ha- 

 vens. Emily J, Hall, Margaret C. Lad- 

 ensack, Wm. E. Winship, Frederick H. 

 Stevens, Jr. and Henry H. Stevens. 



