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HORTICULTURE 



November 21, 1914 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



BOSTON 



The first indoor America gladioli 

 were noted this week at Penn the 

 Florist's. 



The new Lord & Burnham green- 

 house erected by Thomas Roland at 

 Revere is now completed. It is over 

 800 feet long. 



H. F. Hartford, formerly with H. M. 

 Robinson & Co.. and A. L. Bork, for- 

 merly with T. F. Galvin. have joined 

 the force of Wax Bros. 



A glass-encased honey-comb swarm- 

 ing with bees was part of a very at- 

 tractive window display at Harry 

 Quint's store last week. 



A new flower store has been opened 

 by Roger T. Sullivan at 181A Hamp- 

 shire street, Cambridge, Mass. Walt 

 Farrell, who has been in the florist 

 business for 30 years, is associated 

 with Mr. Sullivan in his new enter- 

 prise. 



Red carnations have come and gone, 

 but Harry Fenn continues to be a 

 favorite with local carnation special- 

 ists. This time we hear from J. A. 

 Nelson of Framingham, through Wm. 

 Hastings, his salesman, that this old 

 red is doing remarkably well and has 

 not lost any of its virility. 



Ferns of good quality are in steady 

 demand in the market. A. M. Daven- 

 port of Watortown and The Needham 

 Conservatories are two local growers 

 who have established a reputation for 

 superb clean stock. The latter firm is 

 now being represented by H. G. Cathie 

 in the Boston Flower Exchange. 



Display advertisements consistently 

 inserted in the trade papers certainly 

 do bring results. From a 2-inch adver- 

 tisement displayed in the trade papers, 

 orders for over 225.000 rooted cuttings 

 of his new carnation, Alice, have been 

 received by Peter Fisher, of Ellis. 

 Mass. It has been exhibited at most 

 of the shows this fall and has been at- 

 tracting very favorable attention. 



The season for azaleas and bulbs 

 brings with it a demand for bulb pans 

 and azalea pots. Despite the undue 

 warmth of the past month, which 

 would naturally discourage the de- 

 mand for house plants, A. Leuthy and 

 several other large growers of pot 

 plants report business as quite good. 

 As a complement to this plant activ- 

 ity comes a report from the A. H. 

 Hews Co. of North Cambridge that 

 the pot business is improving. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



Ferrari Bros, are adding a 100 h. p. 

 boiler to their heating plant in the 

 Ocean View district. 



Architect I.. P. Robart. this city, 

 has completed plans for extensive 

 garden work for the Newhall resi- 

 dence at Burlingame, Cal. 



The Cottage Gardens Nurseries, Inc., 

 in which Charles Willis Ward, of New 

 York, is largely interested, has taken 

 over 45 lots in the Eden tract. Eureka, 

 (Cal., as a site for its greenhouses. 



The company is also doing experimen- 

 tal work on a 220-acre tract on Yager 

 Creek near that place. 



Domoto Bros, have about 200 boxes 

 of Japanese lily of the valley with 

 which the}' are experimenting, in hope 

 of producing something that will be 

 acceptable to this market. They say 

 the stock so far has not been up to 

 standard, and they can make no prom- 

 ises, but hope to get better results. 



The Pacific Coast Hortioiltural So- 

 ciety has not yet fixed upon a date for 

 the exhibition next spring, which is to 

 take the place of the usual fall exhibi- 

 tion, omitted this year; but plans are 

 gradually being worked out. and it is 

 hoped tliat the main hall of the new 

 .Auditorium will be available for the 

 purpose, as an unusually large showing 

 is expected. 



R. D. Paul, representing Mrs. M. 

 Shimmins, who operates flower shops 

 in several California towns, has leased 

 quarters for a new store at Hanford, 

 Cal. The store will be operated as 

 the Hanford Floral Company, and will 

 open about Nov. 25. This will be the 

 first exclusive flower shop in Hanford, 

 the business having formerly been 

 handled by the fruit nurserymen. 



In connection with landscape work, 

 the MacRorie-McLaren Company re- 

 cently made what is said to be the 

 largest shipment of heathers ever 

 made on the Coast, including vagans, 

 codonodes, Veitchii, melanthera, per 

 soluta. insitanica. cinera carnea ani 

 Mediterranean. This company is now 

 carrying out a large landscape con- 

 tract for Balboa Terraces, a real 

 estate tract in this city. 



G. A. Dennison, chief of the Depart- 

 ment of Horticulture of the Panama- 

 I^acific Exposition, has received an an- 

 nouncement from a firm at St. Albans, 

 England, that its shipment of shrubs 

 and trees for the Exposition will pro- 

 ceed without delay. It will include be- 

 gonias from Bruges, Belgium, and a 

 collection of bay trees. There are now 

 98 gardeners employed on the Exposi- 

 tion grounds. H. Plath has just de- 

 livered to the ExposHion a large lot 

 of ferns and cyclamen plants. 



The finishing touches are now be- 

 ing put on B. M. .loseph's new floral 

 shop on Grant avenue, in preparation 

 for the opening Monday, Nov. 16. This 

 shop will be entirely different from 

 anything previously seen in this city. 

 It will occupy two floors of a five- 

 story building, the entire front of 

 which has been decorated in Italian 

 Rennaissance style, with window 

 boxes on all the floors, and a trellis, 

 to be covered with vines, from the 

 second floor to the roof. The ground 

 floor will be devoted to cut flowers, 

 and the second to growing plants and 

 ferns, which will be strongly featured. 

 Mr. Joseph, who has dealt in art 

 goods for many years, will make a 

 specialty of art boxes, etc. 



SPRINGFIELD, ILL, 



A. C. Brown, 217 South 5th avenue, 

 has a large share of the decorations in 

 Springfield. All kinds of flowers and 



bedding plants are grown in the 80,000 

 square feet of glass for their wholesale 

 and retail store, over which Geo. W. 

 Jacks has presided for many years. 



i\Iost of the State House pilgrims 

 pass the Capitol Greenhouses, which 

 were bought by Geo. J. Dinkel after 

 the death of A. C. Canfield, many 

 years their owner. There is a store 

 and 20,000 feet of glass. Mr. Dinkel 

 has been a fiorlst tor 22 years and his 

 successful competition in the recent 

 flower show at Indianapolis speaks 

 well for his product. 



Edw. Middendort and his able as- 

 sistant, Mrs. Middendorf, went into the 

 retail flower business two years ago, 

 with a store and greenhouses at 207 

 South Fourth street. Already a good 

 trade has been established and plans 

 are on foot for further developing the 

 business. Among their recent orders 

 was a large book with the word 

 "Mother." Mr. Middendorf placed the 

 word upon a ribbon and hung it over 

 the page in book-mark form, clianging 

 a hard and often unsatisfactory design 

 into a pleasing one. 



Springfield, 111., has an example of 

 the successful woman florist in Miss 

 Bell Miller, who began when a mere 

 child. Her 60,000 square feet of glass 

 are under her personal supervision 

 and the visitor finds everything in per- 

 fect order. 



Miss Miller has also ten acres of 

 land, two of which are in peonies. 

 Her business is both wholesale and re- 

 tail and her oflice and store are built 

 in bungalow style at 829 South Second 

 street. 



"Down state," the chrysanthemums 

 are blooming as profusely as in Chi- 

 cago and are not tempting the dollars 

 from the pockets any more readily. 

 Pompons are crowding their big sis- 

 ters hard, as most buyers prefer num- 

 bers to size. ■ The many shades make 

 up into tempting baskets and bouquets 

 for home and public buildings. It was 

 noted that not a large chrysanthemum 

 was used in the decoration of the 

 State House for the meetings of the 

 State Federation of Women's Clubs 

 last week. None of the florists made 

 any special appeal to the 600 delegates 

 in the way of window display and no 

 flowers were distributed in the corri- 

 dors or streets for advertising pur- 

 poses. A good many flowers were 

 used, however, and the florists would 

 have appreciated more orders. 



CHICAGO 



And Neighboring Towns 



Are Thoronjhiy C«iered by 



SCHILLER, THE FLORIST 



(Member FlorlstB TeJeicraph DellT^ry). 



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GEORGE ASMUS, Mgr. 



2221-2223 W. Madison SL, CHICAGO. 



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