March 16, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



257' 



WELCH BROS. CO 



PATRICK WELCH, President 



F. J. REYNOLDS, Manager 



FOR EASTER 



Large Line of Plants and Cut Flowers from the Best Growers in New England 



EASTER LILIES in pots, 25 plants to crate. 



AZALEAS, GENISTAS, HYDRANGEAS, etc., all 

 packed well and shipped to any address. 



CARNATIONS. ' All leading varieties, including 

 Benora, Pink Delight, Ward, Matchless, Fenn, 

 Beacon and others. 



ROSES. Russell, Stanley, Ophelia, Sunburst, Hadley, 

 Montrose, Shawyer, and many more varieties. 



BULBOUS STOCK of all varieties. 



We will have an extra fine line of Lily of the Valley 

 and Cattleyas, Adiantum, Plumosus, Sprengeri and 

 Smilax. 



Flowers and Plants travel at risk of Purchaser 



Get our Price List and save money. Satisfaction guaranteed. Why not give us a trial? 



262 Devonshire Street, Telephone Main )|^|^ Boston, Mass. 



CHICAGO. 

 A new flower store was opened Sat- 

 urday at 2226 N. California avenue 

 and is known as tlie Lvndale Flower 

 Shop. 



At J. A. Budlong's, where shipping 

 trade is good if it is good anywhere, 

 all the best varieties of roses now on 

 the market are offered to the buyers. 

 This year their entire range has been 

 devoted to roses with the result that 

 they have a large stock to draw from 

 of their own and their many growers 

 keep the supply of other stock com- 

 plete. 



Mr. Phillips, of the Phillips Flower 

 Store, 2852 Armitage avenue, has 

 opened a temporary store for the 

 Easter and spring trade at 9.57 Bel- 

 mont avenue. Mr. Phillips has three 

 fine sons all devoting their live.s to 

 the defense of their country, and their 

 pictures with the names of their com- 

 panies form a part of a very unique 

 business card. 



The newest of Chicago's wholesale 

 flower stores closed its doors at the 

 expiration of the first year's business. 

 ■Wiltgen & Freres as a firm are no 



more. Wiltgen expects to go to war 

 soon while Freres has taken a position 

 with Zech & Mann. Both young men 

 are energetic and business-like and 

 their failure in no way reflects dis- 

 credit upon them. 



August Juergens, for many years a 

 grower in Chicago, tried the experi- 

 ment of growing bulbous stock in 

 Mississippi and shipping the flowers 

 home to this market. The narcissus 

 now are arriving at the Chicago Flow- 

 er Growers' Association and are large, 

 strong stock that compares favorably 

 with the home-grown flowers. They 

 sell for $1.00 per 100 or $7.50 per 1,000. 



The Poehlmann Bros', greenhouses 

 are as usual filled with Easter stock. 

 Though a considerable part has been 

 kept just above freezing point in the 

 desire to conserve coal, there is still 

 an extra large crop of roses, carna- 

 tions and lilies to meet the Easter de- 

 mands. 40,000 pot plants of lilies are 

 just at their best and the i)lants 

 grown for cutting are expected to 

 yield 50,000 or more of blooms. O. 

 Freese, manager of the sales depart- 

 ment says it is the first time in this 



history that the orchid houses have 

 had such an immense crop. There will 

 still be a large quantity for Easter. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Shaw's Garden has a display of 

 Magnolia grandiflora and some beauti- 

 ful cinerarias at present. 



The publicity meeting on the 5th 

 at S. A. F. headquarters was a suc- 

 cess. Members and money were 

 brought in. 



The son of Bill Edward, Kirkwood, 

 who enlisted in the navy last June, 

 surprised his family last Sunday, com- 

 ing home on a furlough for 15 days. 



.John Walther, florist, 3645 Iowa ave- 

 nue, had a customer wearing the uni- 

 form of a soldier order a wreath sent 

 and received $4 in change on a worth- 

 less check. 



O. B. Nicholson, president of the 

 Nicholson Printing Co., who for many 

 years has had his hobby with orchids, 

 has donated these orchids to the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden. 



THE CHICAGO FLOWER GROWERS ASSOCIATION 



Wholesale Growers of Cut Flowers and Plants 



Everything in Season Try us with Your Easter Order 



182 N. Wabash Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. 



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