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HORTICULTURE 



March 2, 1918 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



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CHICAGO. 

 Tho youngost wholosiilo linuse In 

 llu- tnido In CIiIcoko la WlllRren & 

 Frori'.a which wiis Just one your old. 

 Fob. 19th. 



GoorKi" J. Kn.spar. of tho niitavia 

 Grt'i'nhouso Co.. had an unwelcome 

 visitor In the shape of a burglar who 

 got away with a considerable amount 

 of Jewelry. 



Another firm has been organized to 

 handle fertilizers. John Tlplady and 

 Frank .Moore have an office at 819 Ex- 

 change avenue and will no doubt be 

 glad to see their friends there. 



Mrs. Henry Wehrman, wife of one 

 of .Maywood's prominent growers, had 

 the misfortune to fall and fracture one 

 of her limbs recently. Her friends 

 trust the accident will not permanent- 

 ly disable her 



Mr, and .Mrs. J. F. Kldwell are visit- 

 ing their sons. J. F., Jr., and Thomas, 

 In Houston, Tex., where they have 

 been In training since last October. 

 Another son. Arthur, is with the Avia- 

 tion Corps, in South Carolina. 



James Morton, 2636 Warren avenue, 

 for many years connected with the 

 trade In various ways, has the sympa- 

 thy of many friends In the death of 

 his wife on Feb. 18th. Mrs. Morton 

 has been 111 for a long time. 



Schiller the Florist, is so well satis- 

 fied with the five years on the north 

 side that a new 20-year lease has been 

 taken out. The location at 4509 Broad- 

 way is an ideal one, the store being 

 In the form of a triangle and having 

 large display windows on two sides. 



F. O. Franzer, who has a store at 

 5319 N. Clark street and greenhouses 

 also on the north side, has been con- 

 fined to his bed for several months 

 and unable to keep things running 

 successfully. A branch store at 90O 

 Belmont avenue has been given up and 

 the landlord will dispose of it If pos- 

 sible. 



So far. Chicago has not had the 

 usual amount of long-distance stock 

 shipped in this winter. The cold 

 weather in the south cut the daffodil 

 supply so home-grown stock has had 

 the market to itself and until a few 

 days ago California has failed to fur- 

 nish anything. At present some good 

 heather is being sold to our retailers 

 by firms on the Pacific Coast. 



The Chicago Wholesale Cut Flower 

 Association has become a successful 

 organization whose influence is felt 

 In all large matters of interest to local 

 flori-sts. On Feb. 14th a banquet was 

 held at the Hotel Sherman and fol- 

 lowing officers elected: President, Au- 

 gust Poehlman; vice-president. Paul 

 Klingspom: treasurer, Philip C. 

 Schupp; secretary, A. C. Kohlbrand. 



.BOSTON. 

 Dr. Donald Reddick, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, read a paper prepared by L. M. 

 Massey. of Ithaca, X. Y., before the 

 Masachusetts Horticultural Society 

 last Saturday on "The Diseases of 

 Roses." It was profusely illustrated 

 with lantern slides. Dr. Reddick ob- 



served that the rose easily leads In 

 value all others In fragrance and orna- 

 mentation. "It Is susceptible, how- 

 ever," he said, "to many diseases, par- 

 ticularly the hybrids and of those 

 diseases the 'Black Spot' is the most 

 comtnon and destructive. This disease 

 Is caused by a fungus and the best 

 known and most effective remedy Is 

 a solution of 90 parts of ground sul- 

 phur and 10 parts arsenated lead." 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Charles Sliarp is confined to his 

 home with the grip. 



A round bed of hyacinths forms an 

 effective window display of the Roch- 

 ester Floral Co. 



James Vick's Sons will occupy the 

 location at 23 to 25 Stone street about 

 March 6. The buildings have been re- 

 modeled and decorated especially for 

 thoni. 



Prank Pursell, of Irondequoit, is cut- 

 ting some very fine White Klllarney 

 and Ophelia roses. The crop is not as 

 large as last year owing to the severe 

 weather. 



Douglas M. White, in charge of Wil- 

 son's greenhouses, is well pleased with 

 the advanced condition of his rambler 

 roses for the Easter trade. Spirea 

 and azaleas will be very scarce this 

 year. 



Charlie Gow, formerly employed at 

 H. E. Wilson's, who has been in the 

 trenches for fourteen months,, was 

 among the first to acknowledge his box 

 which was sent by the Rochester Flor- 

 ists' Association. It arrived in first- 

 class condition. 



J. B. Keller Sons' George Washing- 

 ton window display was a large por- 

 trait surrounded by a magnolia wreath 

 and clusters of American flags, a huge 

 vase of lilies crowning the top with 

 miniature cherry trees and white 

 boxes tied with patriotic ribbon In the 

 foreground. 



CLEVELAND. 



William Krusen, of Smith & Fetters, 

 downtown florists, is recovering from 

 his recent illness. 



Timothy Smith, formerly of Smith 

 & Fetters, now in business under his 

 own name at the East 46th street 

 market, is back after an illness of sev- 

 eral weeks. 



The Cleveland Florists' Exchange, 

 of which G. W. Smith is president, con- 

 tinues for sale. In the meantime it is 

 being operated as before. Mr. Smith 

 is interested elsewhere and desires to 

 put his time on other Interests than 

 the florist business. 



The forcing of winter vegetables In 

 greenhouses is a constantly growing 

 industry in the vicinity of Cleveland. 

 Tomato plants are well under w^ay In 

 greenhouses throughout the county. 

 John G. Fisher, fonner county commis- 

 sioner, is sponsor for the statement 

 that most of the winter vegetables con- 

 sumed in Cleveland are grown in 

 Cuyahoga County and that the indus- 

 try is increasing rapidly. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Prominent In ihc market now are Iris 

 tlngitana and I. nilfolla, wallflower, 

 myoaotiB, and Purity freesta. If these 

 are not exactly novelties they are at 

 least cutting something of a figure. 

 Tho snapdragon has also come up 

 from below the surface, and Is now 

 very fine. The lowly and modest 

 Bwcct pea Is not so lowly any more 

 but from all appearances seems to 

 hold Its own over even the hardy and 

 triumphant rose and carnation. In- 

 creased quantities, splendid quality, 

 and move off in great shape. 



The glass, piping and fixtures of the 

 Edgely greenhouses at Edgely, Pa., 

 are being sold off. This plant consists 

 of about 500,000 sq. ft. of glass, and 

 was built some twenty-flve years ago. 

 It is thought that the big ship build- 

 ing operations on the upper Delawore, 

 near Philadelphia, have led to new 

 housing projects calling for large 

 blocks of real estate. The place was 

 originally owned by the Morwitz es- 

 tate, and was later acquired by 

 Chester E. Arnold and associates. 



D. T. Connor, of the Lord & Burn- 

 ham Co., reports business fairly good 

 in a subsidiary way, but as usual he 

 Is keen to hear of somebody wishing 

 to "start something," He would even 

 be willing to consider favorably the 

 construction of a conservatory on the 

 top of the S. S. Pennock Co. building 

 at 16th and Ludlow to produce those 

 wonderful obconicas — "blooms as big 

 as a dollar" — which their plant de- 

 partment is making quite a drive on 

 at present. The liead of the corpora- 

 tion smiled and said nothing. But one 

 never can tell. Dennis Is not easily 

 discouraged. 



PITTSBURGH. 

 Edward Earl Ludwig expects to re- 

 turn home on a furlough from Camp 

 Hancock on March 15. 



Pasquale Fabbozzl, who was former- 

 ly with Joseph C. Trees, now has su- 

 pervision of the magnificent "Grey- 

 stone" grounds and greenhouse of 

 Michael b. Benedum, Fifth and High- 

 land avenues, 



William R. Wamples has returned 

 from a trip through West Virginia for 

 the Pittsburgh Cut Flower Company 

 and reports the business outlook on 

 the whole most promising. Two Mor- 

 gantown firms— the J. J. Watts Com- 

 pany and the South Park Greenhouses 

 — both of which were entirely frozen 

 out a few weeks ago, are arranging to 

 resume operations in the early spring. 



Hundreds of high school boys are 

 shortly to take a two months' training 

 course at State College preliminary to 

 relieving the shortage of farm labor 

 during the summer. Advanced stu- 

 dents in the School of Agriculture will 

 supervise the training, following which 

 they will be placed in charge of farm 

 camps. Twenty-tour boys, a camp 

 leader and a cook will compose each 

 unit. 



