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11 O U T 1 C U L T U U E 



Juiiiiury Jti, IftlB 



Cat. 176S 



Pot Makers for a 

 Contury anda Half 



HEWS 



STRONG 



RED 

 POROUS 



POTS 



Inc. 1»04 



World'* Lmrg»m* 

 Manufacturor* 



Standard, Aialaa, Bulb, Orchid, Fern Hanging. Emboaaad, Roaa, Carnation, Palm, Cyclamen, Cut Flowor. 

 Spsclai Shapes to Order. Chicken Founts, Pigeon Nests, Bean Pots, Etc. 



Wnt» for Calaloga* 

 mmd Oiacoanr* 



A. H. HEWS & CO., Inc., Cambridge, Mass. 



CAMHKIIMiK. MAS* 

 NBW TORK. N. ¥. 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 





CHICAGO. 



The Alpha Floral Co, lost many of 

 their plants last week when the tem- 

 perature of the building was alloweti 

 to go below freezing. 



The creditors of the Flower Oraft 

 Shop on Hyde Park noulevard have 

 opened the store and secured Duncan 

 Robertson to take charge of it. 



Robt. Newcomb, of the American 

 Bulb Co., visited the Nebraska State 

 Florists meeting at Lincoln. Neb., 

 last week and will call upon the trade 

 In the southwest before returning to 

 Chicago. 



The Elston Flower Shop lost all 

 their plants in the recent storm when 

 a transom blew in and the full force 

 of the blizzard struck- the stock which 

 had been placed for safety on tables 

 In the center of the store. 



George Wienhoeber says fuel con- 

 servation is not new in his building, 

 where heat has been dealt out so 

 sparingly all winter that it is the prac- 

 tice to put all palms, etc., in the office 

 and heat with electricity each night. 



John Tiplady. who has had many 

 years' experience as a private gar 

 dener on some of the large places on 

 the North Shore, has opened an office 

 at 513 4th' street, Wilmette, and will 

 go into the business of landscape 

 gardening. 



Joseph L. Raske was the victim of 

 hold-up men who entered his store at 

 170 W. Jackson Block last Saturday 

 evening, and at the point of pistols 

 drove him into the back room and 

 took his watch and chain, $32.00 and 

 a valuable diamond rinp. Mr. Uaske 

 is a well-known florist and his store 

 is in the downtown district. 



Peter Miller was down town on Sat- 

 urday for the first time since his at- 

 tack of bloofl poisoning three weeks 

 ago. In handling American Beauties 

 a thorn pierced his hand and the in- 

 fection spread so rapidly that his life 

 was seriously endangered. Geo. Wien- 

 hoeber, his employer, had him re- 

 moved to St. Mary's Hospital where 

 extreme measures were used to stop 

 the disease. 



The Embee Artificial I•^owe^ Co. has 

 rented, and is fitting up, rooms in the 

 Atlas Block where many wholesale 

 florists are located. At one time this 

 would have been the last place a 

 manufacturer of artificial flowers 

 would have selected for his salesroom, 

 but now every florist uses more or less 

 prepared foliage, etc., and the location 



i.s convenient for linrisls coming lo 

 the market. 



More than once has Fred Lauten- 

 schlager jiroved himself an efficient 

 emergency man to the florists in times 

 of trouble, and now he has been se- 

 lected to try and get the shipping 

 business on a better basis. It has been 

 a most trying time for wholesalers to 

 get their orders from their out-of-town 

 customers, especially from a long dis- 

 tance, filled in a satisfactory manner 

 on account of the transportation and 

 the reluctance of the express com- 

 panies to accept their goods in extreme 

 weather. 



About forty growers held a meeting 

 at the salesroom of Geo. Reinberg, 

 Saturday, Jan. 19th, to discuss some 

 of their difficulties The coal situation 

 was the most prominent one and C. L. 

 Washburn reported that a delegation 

 had waited upon the fuel adminis- 

 trator and they had l)een assured 

 every effort would be made to protect 



See Announcement of 



$200 PRIZE COtVIPETITION 



on page 79. 



the growers against the loss of their 

 stock by freezing. The relief was very 

 evident when it was made known that 

 the business they had worked years 

 to build uj) would be secure for the 

 present at least. 



ST. LOUIS. 



A banquet was given to the members 

 of the S. A. F. Executive Board at the 

 Jefferson Hotel on Tuesday evening. 

 January 22. 



Arthur Wors, son of C. W. Wors. 

 wrote to his father from the Canadian 

 expeditionary forces, dated Dec. 24th, 

 from West Sandling. Kent, England. 

 He will train there a while and thence 

 go to the front. 



The firm of Young Bros., Berlin and 

 De Bolivere avenue, have filed a vol- 

 untary petition in bankruptcy, their 

 liabilities to three floral houses 

 amounting to $2,53ii.85, assets $1,000. 

 Three creditors named in the petition 

 are Elizabeth Nursery Co., Elizabeth 

 X. J.; Peter Henderson & Co., New 

 York; William C. Young, St. Louis. 

 They also asked that a receiver be ap- 

 pointed because the company is insol- 

 vent and the property is about to be 

 seized by an administrator. 



CLEVELAND. 

 On account of business condltlonii 

 the Wholesale Florists Credit Asso- 

 ciation is adhering strictly to its rule 

 of ('. O. D. for all retailers whose ac- 

 counts run over 30 days. 



.\ canvass of the situation shows a 

 number of florists and their expe- 

 rienced heli)ers placed in Class I un- 

 der the new draft. None have been 

 called recently but a number are In 

 line for the next call. 



George Bate, of the Cleveland Cut 

 Flower Co., is a member of the exemp- 

 tion board in his district and finds his 

 time largely taken up with these 

 duties. For a time he was quite a 

 stranger in his own office. 



Milford Parks, formerly a flower 

 jobber on East Fourth street, is about 

 town but not engaged In the flower 

 business this winter. Last summer 

 he was on the road with a carnival 

 company as manager of a flower base- 

 ball game. 



The Wilson Floral Co., on Wood- 

 worth road and O. E. Cunningham in 

 the Collinwood district, were among 

 those who lost a small part of their 

 stock during the cold spell. They are 

 still operating, however, with a great- 

 er part of the stock intact. 



Frank J. Schoen, aged 43. secretary- 

 treasurer of the Schoen Floral Co., 

 1268 Euclid Avenue, has been released 

 on $500 bail, after being arrested on 

 warrants charging arson. It is said 

 Schoen and two others set fire to the 

 place of business of the Schoen Floral 

 Co., November 18, 1917. The charge 

 was made by the city fire warden. 



While florists were exempted by the 

 recent fuel order from closing on heat- 

 less Monday, the majority of them 

 obeyed the spirit of the order as tar 

 as possible without endangering their 

 stocks. The wholesale florists and 

 supply houses closed completely, 

 while the retail stores closed their 

 street doors and only took care of 

 such funeral and other work as was 

 necessary. 



C. E. Kendel. of the A. C. Kendel 

 Seed Co., secretary of the American 

 Seed Trade Association, has taken 

 out a permit for the erection of $50,000 

 building at 210 Prospect avenue, S. E. 

 The building will be four stories of 

 loft type, of steel and concrete con- 

 struction, 40 by 82 feet. The first floor 

 and part of the second floor has al- 

 ready been leased for ten years. Work 

 on the new building will start April 1. 



