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HORTICULTURE 



December 20, 1913 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



Among the salesmen back for the 



holidays are Clifford Pruner and A. F. 



Longren of the Poehlmann Bros. Co., 



and Guy Reyburn of A. Henderson Co. 



There was an unusual number of 

 disappointed plant buyers in the city 

 the past week. Plants in bloom had 

 been bought up days ago and plants 

 that should be in bloom are waiting 

 for the sunshine. 



H. E. Philpott, who came down from 

 Winnipeg, Man., Canada, to secure 

 ■Christmas stock, says that in his 32 

 years there, he has not known so 

 warm a December. After a brief cold 

 Bpell warm weather followed and now 

 it is like spring. 



Visitors: Mr. and Mrs. Geo. S. 

 Balsley, Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. S. J. Hill- 

 yer, Austin, Tex.; H. J. Peterson, Chi- 

 cago Heights, 111.; Mr. Beyer, of Beyer 

 Floral Co., South Bend, Ind.; Mrs. 

 Evans, La Salle, 111.; H. E. Philpott, 

 "Winnipeg, Man.; S. W. Coggan, Bat- 

 tle Creek, Mich. 



The excursion given by the Chicago 

 •Carnation Co. to its plant at Joliet on 

 Dec. 12 was attended by 53, almost 

 without exception, growers. The 

 ■chief object of the visit was to see 

 Peerless Pink, their new carnation for 

 1914 and The Herald, the red sent out 

 last year. The weather had been so 

 far from favorable that the stock did 

 Jiot look its best, but there were many 

 approving comments on both varieties. 

 The Chicago Carnation Co., noted for 

 Its hospitality, lived up to its reputa- 

 tion in the way of good things to eat, 

 and after an inspection of the entire 

 plant the company returned to Chi- 

 cago much pleased with their day at 

 Joliet. 



Holiday preparations. Cut out the red 

 Tuscus and half the Christmas color- 

 ing would disappear. It is given place 

 •of honor in window decorations, in 

 hampers, in wreaths, in vases and 

 among the branches of the box trees. 

 The quantity used in Chicago alone 

 would be hard to estimate, but dealers 

 ■who handled it in pounds two years 

 ago are now using it by tons. That 

 the use of prepared materials is going 

 to be overdone is without a doubt. 

 While the large department stores 

 cannot be said to have equalled former 

 years in artistic decorations the re- 

 tail florists have shown much taste 

 and their windows are not so crowded 

 as often they have been. Some of the 

 prettiest ones are entirely in red and 

 green. Araucarias, very much red rib- 

 Ijoned, are strongly featured in many 

 stores. The only really new material 

 is the thistle, large and dyed brilliant 

 red, and a few of these were shown 

 last year. They are a success already 

 for brightening up wreaths and bask- 

 ets. Christmas bells appear to be as 

 popular as ever. 



PERSONAL. 



N. A. Crisman has been appointed 

 city florist of Phoenix, Ariz. 



Adam H. Graham, Jr., has been ap- 

 pointed director of public service of 

 East Cleveland, Ohio. 



Otto Ackerman of the Riverside 

 Floral Company, Columbus, Ohio, and 

 Miss Mabel Belle Taylor, were mar- 

 ried last week. 



Clifford Paden has been appointed 

 superintendent for the George H. Mel- 

 len Company, succeeding the late 

 Christian Binnig. 



James McGilvray, president of the 

 Pasadena Horticultural Society, has 

 been appointed greenhouse superin- 

 tendent at Eastlake Park, Los An- 

 geles, Cal. 



H. C. Neubrand, who has beep iden- 

 tified with the seed trade of Provi- 

 dence, R. I., for the past eleven years, 

 has accepted a position as traveling 

 salesman for A. N. Pierson, Inc., Crom- 

 well, Conn. Mr. Neubrand has the 

 requisite qualifications for a popular 

 salesman and his selection to repre- 

 sent the big Cromwell establishment 

 on the road, looks like excellent judg- 

 ment. 



New York visitors: E. H. Wilson, 

 Arnold Arboretum, Boston; P. Welch, 

 Boston; William McAlpine. Boston. 



Boston visitors: — Louis Sander, Bru- 

 ges. Belgium, and D. Cameron repre- 

 senting P. Sander & Sons, St. Albans. 

 England; Ed. Gurneay, Montreal, P. 

 Q. ; Henry J. Hass, Newport, R. I. 



NEWS NOTES. 

 Elgin, III. — Charles Swaby has pur- 

 chased the Swaby Greenhouse. 



Knoxville, Tenn. — The organization 

 of a Florists' Club is contemplated 

 here and preliminary steps towards 

 this have already been taken. It is 

 hoped to hold a chrysanthemum show 

 next year. 



Providence, R. I. — A large tree was 

 blown down Monday night, Dec. 15, 

 crushing in its fall a greenhouse filled 

 with azaleas and other Christmas 

 plants, belonging to The Westminster 

 Greenhouses. Inc. The plants were 

 mostly ruined. 



Boston — A novelty in Galvin's show 

 window is Acacia platyptera. This odd 

 species has never to our knowledge 

 been offered here before as a commer- 

 cial flowering plant. It has a certain 

 beauty in the character and arrange- 

 ment of its bright golden flowers but 

 the peculiar flat and winged stems 

 and foliage are not graceful or particu- 

 larly attractive as acacias go. 



H. A. Stevens, of Dedham, has a 

 very promising violet, a seedling from 

 the Princess of Wales. It differs from 

 that popular variety in being fuller in 

 flower, the wings and base petals be- 

 ing broader and the whole blossom 

 showing a wavyness suggestive of the 

 Spencer sweet pea. The blooms aver- 

 age 1% inches across. 



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