August 13, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



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"FLOWERS BY TELEGRAPH." 



Leading Retail Florists Listed by 



Towns for Ready Reference. 



Albauy, N. Y.— H. G. Eyi-es, 11 N. Pearl 

 St. 



Boston— Thos. F. Galvin, 124 Tremont St. 



Bostciu— Edward MaoMulkin, 194 Boyl- 

 ston St. 



Boston — Julius A. Zinn. 1 Park St. 



Brooklyn. N. Y. — Robert G. Wilson, Ful- 

 ton St. and Greene Ave. 



Buffalo, X. Y.— Palmer's, 3i>l Main St. 



Chit-ago — William J. Smvtb. Micbigan 

 Ave. and 31st St. 



Daylon, O.— Matthews, The Florist. 



Denver, Colo.— Park Florial Co.. 1706 

 Broadway. 



Detroit. Mir-h. — J. Breitmeyer's Sons, 

 Miami and Gratiot Aves. 



Falmouth. Mass. — H. V. Lawrence. 



Kansas City, Mo. — Samuel Murra.v, 913 

 Grand Ave. 



Kansas Citv. Mo. — Wm. L. Koek Flower 

 Co., 1116 Walnut St. 



Louisville. Ky. — Jacob Schulz. mO South 

 Fourth Ave. 



Xew York — David Clarke's Son.s. 2139- 

 2141 Broadway. 



New York — Alex. McConnell, .571 Fifth 

 Ave. 



New York— Young & Nugent, 42 W. 2Sth 

 St. 



New Y'ork — Dards. N. E. cor. 44th St. 

 and Madison Ave. 



Toledo, Ohio — George A. Heinl. 



Toronto, Can. — J. H. Dunlop, 96 Youge 



Washington, D. C— Gude Bros., 1214 F 

 St. 



Wellesley, Mass. — Tallby. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Meriden, Conn. — Alexander Dallas, 

 florist of Waterbury, has purchased 

 the Lockhart estate on Meriden Road 

 and will build a range of houses. 



Kalamazoo, Mich. — The home of 

 James Frazer, proprietor of the Moun- 

 tain Home Cemetery greenhouse, was 

 burglarized July 29 for the second 

 time within a week. 



Cincinnati, Ohio.— Suit for $10,000 

 for alleged injuries received when the 

 greenhouse at Eaton Park fell on him 

 March 13, has been filed by Wm. 

 Hueber. This is the fifth suit against 

 the city by persons injured at that 

 time. 



Floral Hill Park, N. Y.— Invitations 

 have been issued for an inspection of 

 the fields of gladioli in, bloom at 

 John Lewis Childs' new place, Flower- 

 field, L. I., on Saturday, August 13. 

 Train leaves L. I. City or Flatbush 

 Ave. at 9.12 a. m. "Flowerfleld" is 

 fifty miles from New York City. 



NEW ENGLAND 



FLOWER DELIVERIES 



Seed flower orders for delivery ia Boston 

 uid all New England potntanfo 



THOS. F. GALVIN 



124 Tremont St., Boston 



TRANSFER 



Your orders for flower or plant deliv- 

 ery in Eastern New England to 



JULIUS A. ZINN 



1 Park St , Boston 



Florists' Refris;erator8 



Write us for catalogue and Prices, stating size you 

 require, and for ■what kind of cut flowers you wish 

 to use the refrigerator: also Hate whether you 

 want it for display or only for storage. 



McCray Refris^erator Co,, 



153 Lake Street, Kendallville, Ind. 



Mentirtt H0rticitlturf ivhen vom write 



ST. LOUIS NOTES. 



Edwin Denker, the St. Charles, Mo., 

 florist, is taking in the big cities in 

 the East and will stop off at Roches- 

 ter next week to attend the Conven- 

 tion. 



Schmiius Bros., who operate quite an 

 extensive plant at Paducah. Ky., 

 motored from home to St. Louis and 

 spent a few days visiting the local 

 trade. 



A. P. Geranios, of the Metropolitan 

 Floral Co., reports that they will open 

 their new store on Monday, August 1.5. 

 Mr. Geranios was for the last tew 

 years with Fred. H. Weber. 



The first Florists' Bulletin will be 

 issued this week Tuesday tor the bene- 

 fit of the local florists. It is being 

 issued by the St. Louis Florist Club 

 and in charge of a committee of six 

 with C. Delbrow as chairman. 



Our visitors last week were F. J. 

 Farney, of M. Rice & Co., Phila.; 

 Julius Dillhoff, of Schloss Bros., New 

 York; E. W. Guy, Belleville; Ed. Den- 

 ker, St. Charles, and J. F. Ammann 

 and family, of Edwardsville, 111. 



The evergreen bag worm is givirrg 

 City Forester Meyer a great deal of 

 trouble of late and he don't seem to 

 be able to battle against it. A great 

 many of our fine trees have lost their 

 beauty through the beasts. Juniper.'; 

 and arborviiaes are especially suffer- 

 ing from them. 



The W. E. Smith Wholesale Flor- 

 ist Co. are all upside down with al- 

 terations of their present site, which 

 when completed will give them an up- 

 to-date florists' supply house. This, 

 Mr. Smith says, will keep him from 

 attending the Convention this year, 

 but Mr. Ossic of this firm will make 

 the trip. 



PERSONAL. 



William Gray, formerly gardener for 

 Mr. Horace Russell, Southampton, L. 

 I., is now gardener for Mrs. W. B. 

 Leeds, "Rough Point," Newport, R. I. 



Visitors in Boston — F. R. Pierson, 

 Tarrytown, N. Y.; F. Mouncy, repre- 

 senting W. A. Manda, So. Orange, N. 

 J. ; H. S. De Forest, of Pierson U-Bar 

 Co., New York. 



Visitors in Buffalo. — A. N. Pierson, 

 Cromwell, Conn.; Robt. Klagge and 

 family, Mt. Clemens, Mich.; Mr. Jones, 

 representing Pennock-Meehan Co., 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



Among the out-of-town florists who 

 are taking part in the celebrations of 

 the Knight Templar Conclave, in Chi- 

 cago, this week, is M. C. Kent, New- 

 ark, Ohio; Geo. Kranz and son, Mus- 

 catine, Iowa; N. Bommersbach, Deca- 

 tur, 111.; O. J. Olson, St. Paul, Minn.; 

 A. Elberfleld, Kansas City, Mo. 



Chicago visitors — A. M. Augspurger, 

 Peoria, 111.; Mr. Steiner, of R. R. Dav- 

 is & Co., Morrison, 111.; Geo. H. Ban- 

 croft, of Joseph Bancroft & Son, Ce- 

 dar Falls, Iowa; H. R. Marquardt, of 

 The E. Welke Co., Milwaukee, Wis.; 

 Geo. Kranz and Fred Kranz, Musca- 

 tine, Iowa; V. J. Olson, St. Paul, 

 Minn.; T. B. Comandros, of Golden 

 Rule Flower Department, St. Paul, 

 Minn. 



DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL 

 FLOWER DELIVERY. 



In our advertising pages will be 

 found the announcement of a new ven- 

 ture which contemplates the estab- 

 lishment of an international medium 

 of interchange of orders and delivery 

 service among floral houses in this 

 country and abroad. That such a sys- 

 tem as is proposed would be a most 

 valuable adjunct to the florist trade 

 will be apparent to all. The idea is 

 by no means a new or novel one, for 

 it has been before the trade in one 

 form or another for the past quarter 

 of a century. The strong feature of 

 the present scheme is, as we under- 

 stand it, first, ample capitalization, 

 and, second, the fact that it is al- 

 ready well established abroad and 

 now only requires the co-operation of 

 the American trade to make it an ef- 

 ficient agent in enlarging the mai'ket 

 tor flowers and at the same time sim- 

 plifying the methods of their delivery. 



The one great obstacle to the full 

 development on these lines in the past 

 has been the ignorance of the flower 

 buying public,' due wholly to the 

 failure of the florists, who, while 

 they may have been aware of the 

 fact themselves, have tailed to in- 

 form the public of the means at 

 their command for safe flower de- 

 livery at distant points. Widespread 

 and presistent publicity concerning 

 the facilities offered — through window 

 announcements, newspaper notes and 

 local and general advertising — by those 

 who propose to identify themselves 

 with this promising project will be the 

 main essential now for success. The 

 reluctance of the retail florists, as a 

 class, to adopt the modern advertis- 

 ing methods which have been used to 

 such great advantage by other lines of 

 retail business has been frequently 

 commented upon. The time is ripe for 

 the injection of a little more enter- 

 prising spirit and from what we have 

 learned of the parties connected with 

 the project in question, that is just 

 what is going to happen. 



INCORPORATED. 



Fort Wayne, Ind.— W. J. & M. S. 

 Vesey; to do a florist business. Cap- 

 ital stock $54,000. Incorporators, Wm. 

 J. Vesey and others. 



Bloomfield, N. J. — The Greenhouse 

 Construction Co. Capital stock $125,- 

 000. Incorporators, E. J. Forham, C. 

 F. Martin and H. P. Jones. 



Utica, N. v.— Crowe-Martin; flow- 

 ers, shrubs, plants, etc. Capital stock 

 $5,000. Incorporators, Peter Crowe, 

 Henry G. Martin and Flora Martin. 



Rochester, N. Y.— J. B. Keller Sons; 

 general florist, nursery and landscape 

 business. Capital stock, $30,000. In- 

 corporators, F. J. Keller, J. M. Keller 

 and W. L. Keller, all of Rochester. 



Providence, R. I. — The Burke Rose 

 Co. Capital stock $50,000; to gro-w 

 and sell flowers and plants. Incorpor- 

 ators. John T. Burke, Robert E. Burns 

 and Isabell G. Burns, all of this city. 



Biddeford, Me. — Strout's; to con- 

 duct a general florist, market garden- 

 ing and nursery business. Capital 

 stock $40,000. President, Charles S. 

 Strout; treasurer, Harry W. Libby, 

 both of Biddeford. 



