October 7. 1905 



H ORT 1 CU LT U R E: 



DUMONT & CO. 



Wholesale Florists 

 PHILADELPHIA 



Choice Chrysanthemums, Beauties, Violets, Carnations, Etc. 



EVERYTHING SEASONABLE IN f 



I CUT FLOWERS • 



5 EDWARD REID. ^^S'rl^r i 



• ,536 K:,nMcnH Stfci, I'H II.A I IE I ,!'H I A V 



A Store 010868 7 P. M. During October • 



IN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS 

 KINDLY MENTION HORTICULTURE 



BEAUTIES, LILY OF THE VALLEY, CHRYSANTHEMUM 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



-1518 

 ST., PHILA. 



Phila. Cut Flower Co., sanIom 



POnU/CDC KinTIPC ^^'e are Open to Handle Anything 

 UnUTfLnO llUIIUL Good. We make weekly returns. 



In Vacation Time 



It has often been intimateil that a 

 cut-flower commission man has no 

 business to take vacations, but shouUl 

 stay at home and look after his con- 

 signments, yet they persist in doing it. 

 Some of them, as the two gentlemen 

 in the accompanying illustrations — S. 

 S. Pennock of Philadelphia and P. 

 Welch of Boston — being men of ex- 

 treme sensibility to the charms of na- 

 ture, are wont to retire to the mir- 

 rored watex-s, as disciples of Isaak 

 Walton, where amid the music that 

 comes from the woods and dingles, 

 and the splashing of the waves, phil- 

 osophy luxuriates as in the ancient 



grove of Academus and all thoughts 

 of "specials and extras," C. O. D.'s, 

 shipping tags, and "returns" are ef- 

 fectually obliterated. 



As we scan the features of these two 

 sportsmen we can see that both are 

 happy and perhaps we'd better leave 

 them so. But P. Welch, as he reverts 

 to his exciting experiences with that 

 14-pound land-locked salmon, pays his 

 respects to his Philadelphia rival 

 thus: 



"What? flounders! Why, tell him 

 that down at Old Orchard tons of those 

 things are washed up on the shore 

 after every storm-, and the board of 

 health is given just twenty-four hours 



in which to get out their carts and 

 pitchforks and clean up the beach. 

 I'm greatly surprised at Sam!" 



Each of these gentlemen seems to 

 have forestalled the usual skepticism 

 that he might encounter in telling of 

 his feats and, by similar mental proc- 

 esses, arrived at the conclusion that 

 some sort of occular proof might be 

 desirable; hence these photographs. 

 And just here the question arises — 

 Can a commission man be a fisherman 

 and still retain his reputation for 

 veracity? This serious problem takes 

 the matter out of the domain of local 

 gossip and makes it one of national 

 irnportance. 



NEWS NOTES. 



F. X. Millman, ,Tr., bas started in 

 business at Cumberland, Md. 



Robert Chesney of Montclair, N. J., 

 has been succeeded in business by F. 

 W. Massnian. 



David V. Tuttle has been appointed 

 head gardener on the .1. A. Folger es- 

 tate at Woodside, Calif. 



and William Gear, died on October 1, 

 after a lingering illness. 



The business of the late Hugo Stahl- 

 hut. Shepherd avenue and New Lots 

 road, Brooklyn, N. Y., has been pur- 

 chased by Otto Finger. 



Two new retail stores have been 

 opened on Madison avenue. New York: 

 one at 75th street by Alexander War- 

 endorff; the other at (Mth street by 

 Christatos & Co. 



The Tinsley Seed Co. has been in- 



corporated with a capital stock of 

 ?5,000 by James G. Tinsley, Richmond, 

 Ky.; twenty-five shares; G. T. Tinsley, 

 Nashville, and E. C. Folz, Louisville, 

 each twelve and one-half shares. 



The Charleston Cut Flower Co. of 

 Charleston, W. Va., can now be found 

 at 615 Virginia street. The loss sus- 

 tained by them in the fire which drove- 

 them from their old location is said to 

 be about $1500. on which there was- 

 an insurance of $800. 



