October 2^. 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



605 



CHICAGO NEWS. 

 Table Decorations. 



Among the notable banquets of the 

 season was the one given by the Amer- 

 ican Steel and Iron Institutions at the 

 Blackstonc Hotel. A special feature 

 was the arrangement of the tables in 

 the form of a hor.'^eshoc, with three 

 small tables extending from the top 

 to the bottom inside the shoe. Strings 

 of smilax and American Beauty roses 

 were used upon the tables and south- 

 ern smilax around the room. Six 

 large vases of the Beauties were placed 

 upon the horseshoe and three large 

 and six small ones upon the small ta- 

 bles. The officers of the companies 

 were seated at the top and outside of 

 the horseshoe. 



Street Carnival. 

 Another street carnival in the nature 

 of a trade exhibit was held last week 

 on Madison St. from Desplaines Ave. 

 to 40th. a distance of five miles. There 

 are several florists in this territory, 

 some of whom took part. The Pansy 

 Flower Store was unable to prepare a 

 float owing to an accident, but dis- 

 tributed 1200 carnations to the passers- 

 by. The West End Floral Co. had an 

 automobile decorated in bunting and 

 American Beauty roses in the parade, 

 and it was pronounc'ed very good. 

 Schiller The Florist had their store 

 beautifully decorated and had an or- 

 chestra hidden among the palms in 

 their show house. When lighted the 

 effect was beautiful and the music 

 drew much attention. Floats were 

 mainly used in the street parade and 

 from the florists' point of view the 

 whole scheme was a financial success 

 as well as a good proposition for fu- 

 ture business. 



Flower Show Improvements. 

 E. Wienhoeber is planning some de- 

 cided improvements over the former 

 method of arranging the flowers after 

 the judges are through with them. 

 Some artistic vases for showing 

 flowers to good advantage in the 

 home will be used, and the flower 

 show visitors will get many hints on 

 arrangements. 



Sam. Pearse is building a fine new- 

 store in connection with his green- 

 houses on Clybourn Ave. It will be 

 ' 15x20 ft, with fine cement basement 

 for keeping flowers. Mr. Pearse is one 

 of Chicago's well known growers as 

 well as retailers. 



Trade Notes. 

 Joliet reports a killing frost on the 

 night of Oct. 22nd and that practically 

 all out-of-door flowers are gone. 



Damm Bros., N. Irving Ave., have 

 two plants of Ficus elastica from 

 which they made 2000 cuttings this 

 season, and out of that number 1200 

 rooted. 



The Pasteur Filter Co. of 105 Dear- 

 born St. has recently added a flower 

 department. Miss Josepha Then, well 

 known to the trade, is an able assis- 

 tant, having been in the business in 

 various capacities. 



Mat. and .John Evert have taken a 

 stand in the Flower Growers' Market 

 where Miss Ida Evert will handle their 

 chrysanthemums. This firm has added 

 four houses the past year, and now 

 devote eighteen houses to chrysanthe- 

 mums. 



H. H. Meyer of Dalton ha'^ 20,000 sq. 

 ft. of glass devoted to radishes exclu- 

 sively. Mr, Meyer says taking one sea- 



son with another this vegetable has 

 proved a paying one for him to grow. 

 He does not find it necessary to use 

 new soil each year. 



Bitter Sweet berries made their first 

 and probably only appearance on the 

 market this week, and were quickly 

 bought up for window novelties, as 

 they hold their color all winter. They 

 are not plentiful on the Illinois prai- 

 ries and the clusters are smaller than 

 those found on timber land. 



H. J. Stockwell, who laid out the 

 floor space for the fiower show last 

 year, has charge pgain this year. Un- 

 der his skillful hand the vast coliseum 

 will be transformed into a beautiful 

 garden. A lady singer and an orches- 

 lia on the main floor will be new fea- 

 tures at the fiower show this year. 

 Personal. 

 August Poehlmann celebrated his 

 41st birthday Oct. 21st. 



A. A. Sawyer will spend the winter 

 with his daughter, Anna Grace Sawyer, 

 at the Pansy Flower Store, where the 

 increasing business makes it neces- 

 sary to have more assistance. 



The friends of H. R. Richards, who 

 lately went from Chicago to Los An- 

 geles to go into orchid growing, are 

 glad to learn that he is getting nicely 

 started. His place is located at Holly- 

 wood. 



H. C. Wuhlbrandt of the Globe 

 Greenhouses. West Madison St., is tak- 

 ing an automobile trip to Kentucky. 

 Mrs. Wuhlbrandt has been there sev- 

 eral weeks and thei' will return to- 

 gether. 



Visitors. — Swan Peterson, Gibson 

 City, 111.; August S. Swanson, St. Paul, 

 Minn.: Geo. E. Serviss. Batavia, 111.; 

 J. A. 1-tsy, Davenport, la.; Mr. Steiner, 

 of R. R. Davis Co., Morrison, 111.; Aug. 

 Friederickson, St. Joseph. Mich.; Edw. 

 .4merpohl, Janesville, Wis. 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 



The Department of Agriculture has 

 just harvested 30,000 new potatoes, 

 seedlings derived from that number of 

 crosses between 200 varieties brought 

 from Chile where the tubers originated 

 and the best varieties to be found in 

 this country and Europe. As many as 

 a peck, averaging half of marketable 

 size, were taken from single hills. The 

 Department hopes, within three or four 

 years, to be able to show some new 

 disease-resisting varieties of marked 

 value. 



R. Vincent, Jr., of White Marsh, 

 Md., has promised to give an illus- 

 trated talk before the Florists' Club of 

 this city on bulbs and markets in Hol- 

 land and England. He recently re- 

 turned from a European trip, and 

 brought back many interesting photo- 

 graphs, as well as considerable lore 

 garnered from the experience of the 

 old-world growers. The date for the 

 address has not been decided on defi- 

 nitely. 



The florists are making gnat prepa- 

 rations for the exhibit to be given next 

 week in conjunction with the house- 

 holders' and Industrial fair in Conven- 

 tion Hall. This display is expected to 

 eclipse anything heretofore seen in 

 Washington. 



A lily bulb is a small 

 matter to make so 

 much fuss about. 



There would be no 

 need of fuss if we 

 could convince bulb 

 growers that Horse- 

 shoe Brand Lily bulbs 

 will average more 

 blooms per thousand 

 bulbs than any other 

 brand; that they are 

 packed well and keep 

 better; that they are 

 secured from only the 

 finest fields in the 

 world; and that their 

 actual cost is less than 

 inferior goods. 



Don't be fooled — at 

 the present time there 

 is no brand put up 

 that will equal Horse- 

 shoe Brand. 



Vou may have a catalog 

 ij you write for it— you 

 are not obliged to buy 



Luthervllle, Md.— Fire on Oct. 18th 

 destroyed the greenhouses at the sum- 

 mer residence of Miss Nannie Sloan; 

 damage about $1,000. 



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\ Ralph M. Ward & Co 



1 2 West Broadway 

 NEW YORK 



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Formosum, Mukiflorum and 

 Giganteum ready for delivery. 



