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HOBTICULTUEE 



November 22, 1912 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



The North Shore Floral Co. moved 

 into its new store, 849 Irving Park 

 Boulevard, last week. 



R. C. Schiller is again at his home in 

 Evanston, after three weeks in a hos- 

 pital following an operation. 



Alex Henderson Co. are just unpack- 

 ing a large shipment of Japanese 

 bulbs, Lilium auratum, rubrum, etc. 



Another retail store is added to Chi- 

 cago's long list in the outlying district. 

 It is J. J. Kolar & Son's at 511o W. 

 25th street. 



John F. Kidwell & Bro., whose store 

 and greenhouses were badly injured 

 by fire recently, have the repairs well 

 under way and business is now car- 

 ried on again. 



There seems to be something un- 

 usual in the fern conditions this year. 

 The only ones who appear to feel easy 

 are those whose stock is secured by 

 good contracts. 



A rose grower for J. F. Kidwell at 

 his Belmont place, was found dead 

 Sunday night, beside the Chicago, Bur- 

 lington & Quincy R. R. He had been 

 with Mr Kidwell three months, but no 

 one knows of his family or friends. 



Two carloads of hydrangea plants 

 that had come all the way from Bel- 

 gium to be frozen in the big snow 

 storm, will be a disappointment to 

 Poehlmann Bros., who have refused to 

 accept the stock. It means just that 

 many less plants for Easter. 



A visit to the preparing rooms of 

 the Poehlmann Bros, store, reveals the 

 fact that no time is being lost m get- 

 ting evervthing into shape for the 

 coming rush and the holiday season 

 will be one of good stock, clean, fresh 

 and with plenty of variety to choose 

 from. 



The 'Wholesalers' Credit Association 

 has not yet materialized and the time 

 of the old one has expired. Though 

 no meetings have been held during the 

 past week, considerable interest is 

 known to exist and the outcome of a 

 strong association is predicted by 

 many. 



Arthur Bloome is receiving the con- 

 gratulations of his friends, many of 

 whom were taken by surprise, when 

 they received the announcement of his 

 marriage with Maude Margaret Lau, 

 which occurred at River Forest on 

 Nov. 5th. The groom is well-known to 

 the trade, having been many years 

 with his brother, Paul Bloome, in their 

 retail store on No. Clark street. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Bloome will reside at 2749 

 Hampden Court. 



■Work is progressing rapidly on the 

 factory at 31st street and Spaulding 

 avenue, rented by the Foley Green- 

 house Mfg. Co.. which supersedes the 

 well-known Foley Mfg. Co.. formerly at 

 "Western avenue and 26th street. The 

 factory site has some advantages over 

 the old one, being on the Illinois 

 Northern whose tracks, unelevated, 

 run close by and whose side tracks 

 enter the factory, and is of the same 

 easy access to callers, being close to 

 Kedzie avenue, a main, north and 

 south street car line. Philip J. Foley 

 says factory will be ready in the short- 

 est possible time and that the firm is 



already handling estimates on its new 

 work. 



An annual event, always of great 

 interest to the public, is the opening 

 of the chrysanthemum shows at the 

 parks. At the conservatories in Gar- 

 field Park, said to be the largest park 

 conservatories in the world head gar- 

 dener August Koch had the exhibit 

 ready for the public Sunday, Nov. 9, 

 and in spite of the storm, thousands of 

 people were in attendance. The large 

 floor space has an oval center bed 75 

 feet long entirely filled with white va- 

 rieties. The side beds slope from 

 the floor to the roof and a fine color 

 effect was made by using pink shades 

 running from white to the deepest 

 rose on one entire side and yellow 

 running through bronze and red on 

 the opposite. Specimen plants grouped 

 at either end were exceedingly fine, 

 a Zenoba with over 1000 blooms being 

 prominent. At the four corners are 

 grouped 1200 single-stemmed plants in 

 100 varieties, many of them of the 

 newest kinds. Totty's single red, Alex 

 Rowbottom, held the place of honor 

 as the largest of the singles. The 

 grower, Louis Heidtmann, for many 

 years with the park, is an enthusiast 

 and a student in his work, and the 

 new varieties are tried as they come 

 out. As all plants are plainly labeled 

 a visit here is an opportunity to see 

 what is being developed in the chrys- 

 anthemum world. 



Visitors: J. McHutchison, New 

 York; Mrs. Baunigarten, Milwaukee, 

 Wis.; J. E. Matthewson. Sheboygan, 

 Wis.; A. R. Leidiger of Edlefson Leid- 

 iger Co., Milwaukee, "ft'ls.; Walter 

 Mott, representing Benj. Hammond, 

 Beacon. N. Y.; Wallace R. Pierson, 

 Cromwell, Conn. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Paul Klingsporn has left Berger 

 Bros, and will locate in the west. 



Samuel J. Irvine, late with Louis 

 Burk, has opened a flower store at 

 807 North Broad street. 



Mr. and Mrs. John N. May and 

 .Alexander Montgomery and son were 

 guests of John Burton last week. 



H. C. Hoileman has sold out his 

 flower store on Germantown avenue 

 and will go into other business. 



Gustave Koethe has purchased ad- 

 ditional land at Roxborough. for the 

 further extension of his florist busi- 

 ness. 



Billy Stevens, late with John Bur- 

 ton, is now on the sales staff of Ber- 

 ger Bros. He is proudly wearing a 

 gold watch, presented to him by his 

 late employer "for long and faithful 

 service." 



Thanks to the fireproof character 

 of the Niessen Building no damage 

 was done to the main floor where the 

 Niessen business is conducted from 

 the fire which occurred on the second 

 floor occupied by Koons Bros., leath- 

 er manufacturers. 



BUSINESS TROUBLES. 

 Corny, Pa. — Charles Oscar Richard 

 Miller, proprietor of the Corry Plant 

 & Floral Company for the past two 

 months, has left town. He is wanted 

 by the United States Post Office in- 

 spectors for alleged fraudulent use of 

 the mails. 



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