August 1, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



155 



Flower Market Reports SEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



made up of asters, lilies, Shasta 

 daisies. 



"Watchful waiting" 

 WASHINGTON is now the order of 

 the day in the Na- 

 tional Capital for there is very little 

 doing in the flower marltet. Sales are 

 extremely slow and were it not for the 

 funeral work which continues to come 

 in considerable volume, everyone could 

 take a vacation. As it is, quite a tew 

 of the clerks are now enjoying their 

 annual vacations. Gladioli are mov- 

 ing in moderate quantities at average 

 prices. No one seems to want roses 

 In any great number, while such flow- 

 ers as orchids and gardenias are in 

 little or no demand. It has been sev- 

 eral weeks since the market has been 

 cleaned up on any one day and little 

 change is expected until the fall. It 

 is now uncomfortably warm and the 

 florists are looking forward to the cool- 

 ing trip to the Boston convention by 

 sea. 



PERSONAL. 



Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Capers of 

 Wellesley, Mass., will sail for a visit 

 to England on August 4. 



J. H., Playdon, ot Andover. Mass., 

 will close his store in the Arch Build- 

 ing during the month of August and 

 will rusticate in Nova Scotia. 



Arthur Kirchhoff. florist for the 

 State Institution for the Blind at Ba- 

 tavia, N. Y. is spending his vacation 

 visiting in Boston and neighborhood. 



Walter Miller, formerly with A. N. 

 Pierson. Cromwell. Ct.. has accepted 

 the position of head gardener on the 

 estate of Dr. Williams. Prospect street, 

 Hartford, Ct. 



S. D. Dysinger. of Holm & Olson's, 

 St. Paul, Minn., and Mrs. Mary M. 

 Chalmers were married recently. They 

 will be at home at 176 Summit avenue 

 after August 1. 



Samuel Batchelor. gardener for 

 twelve years at Crosswicks Farms. 

 .Jenkintown, Pa., is now manager of 

 Tahoma. estate of Frank C. Littleton. 

 Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



A post card from James McHutchi- 

 son locates that lively New Yorker at 

 Nagasaki, Japan, from whence he 

 sends greetings and says he is enjoy- 

 ing that interesting place. 



Edgar Elvin. formerly a contributor 

 df interesting articles to the columns 

 of Horticulture has opened a new 

 flower plant and seed establishment at 

 255 High Road, Chiswick, London, Eng- 

 land. 



NEW CORPORATIONS. 



Tenafly, N. J. — Kenwood Creen- 

 houses, capital stock. JSiO.OOO. Incor- 

 porators, P. F. and J. E. Burton, R. V. 

 Daly. 



Geneva, N. Y.— M. S. Harman Nurs- 

 ery Co.. capital stock, $20,000. Incor- 

 porators, T. C. Carson. Milton A. Har- 

 man and T. I. Smith. 



Longmeadow, R. I. — Maplehurst 

 Greenhouses, capital stock. $.'>o,0()(i. 

 Incorporators, Wm. C. and Stuart G. 

 Pratt and Chas. E. Cannon. 



New York City.— L. J. Kreshover 

 has purchased the building. 129 West 

 2Sth street, which the Growers' Cut 

 Flower Company have leased for a 

 term of years. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattley as 



Lilies. Longiflorum 



" Rubrum 



Uly of the Valley 



AstfTs 



Gladioli 



Com Flower 



Daises, white and yellow 



Sweet Peas (per loo bunches) 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax •. 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings (per lOo) 



" •• & Spren (loo bunches). 



Ust Half of Week 



ending July 25 



1914 



35 -oo 



2.00 



3. CO 



2.00 



2.00 



1. 00 to 

 25.00 



.50 



6.00 



25.00 

 X5.00 



to 



to 



50.00 



3.00 



4.00 

 3.00 

 1.00 

 3. CO 



.50 

 .50 



5.00 



35.00 

 .75 



12.00 



35.00 



30.00 



First Half ol Weak 



beginning inly 27 



1914 



35.00 to 



2.00 to 

 3.00 to 

 1 .00 to 



to 



2.00 to 



to 



to 



1. 00 to 



25.00 to 



.50 to 



6.00 to 



25.00 



15.00 



to 



50.00 



3.00 



4.00 



3.00 



1.00 



3.00 



■ »5 



•50 



5.00 



35.00 



•75 

 12.00 

 35.00 

 20.00 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



Miss G. Lewis of J. Mangel's leaves 

 tor a Northern trip August 1. 



Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oechslin are 

 spending some of the dull weeks in 

 Colorado. 



A. Lange has returned from a week's 

 trip to Michigan and will leave soon 

 for another. 



Wm. J. Keimmel of Wendland & 

 Keimmel, rose growers of Elmhurst, 

 111., and P. J. Foley indulged in a few 

 days' fishing at Lake Geneva, Wis. 



The sympathy of the trade is ex- 

 tended to Jos. Igler, of Frank Oechs- 

 lin's force, in the loss of his wife, aged 

 23 years, on July 24. She leaves two 

 small children. 



The Budiong and Schupp families 

 are occupying their cottage at Wil- 

 liam's Bay, Wis., and Phil. Schupp 

 takes his vacation in week end trips 

 to that beautiful resort. 



Harry Rowe has a letter from his 

 brother in Seattle, Wash., which says 

 that florists there are doing little busi- 

 ness this month. Chicago florists know 

 how to sympathize with them. 



Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Washburn leave 

 August 3, for a visit to E. B. Washburn 

 at Pasadena, Cal. Mr. Washburn is 

 a regular attendant at the S. A. F. 

 Conventions and will be missed this 

 year. 



John Michaelson and E. C. Amling 

 and families have made automobile 

 tours through Wisconsin, the former 

 returning to Chicago and the latter 

 going farther North and West, return- 

 ing through Iowa. 



Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cole, of the 

 Columbia Flower Shop, 3101 Wabash 

 Ave., dropped business for a belated 

 wedding trip, which included Toronto, 

 the St. Lawrence and Quebec. Mr. Cole 

 spent much of his boyhood in Montreal. 



Among those spending vacations in 

 this city is John H. Holden, who was 

 in business here about nine years ago. 

 He now has charge of the park and 

 cemetery at Rensselaer, Ind., and ex- 

 pects to build more greenhouses this 

 fall. 



"Flowers for all occasions" is a favor- 

 ite advertising phrase in Chicago, but it 

 took on new meaning when the "oc- 

 casion" was the opening of a store at 

 23 S. Wabash avenue, where flowers 

 are sold for the benefit of the suffrage 

 cause. 



The Lake Shore Horticultural So- 

 ciety announces its first Horticultural 

 Show to be given at Winnetka, III., 

 August 6. 1914, Copies of the pre- 

 mium list may be had upon applica- 

 tion to the secretary Edward Boulter, 

 Winnetka, III. 



Mrs. M. Buckholz of The Wind- 

 miller Co., Mankato. Minn., is getting 

 pointers on the best methods of con- 

 structing a new range of greenhouses 

 by a tour of inspection in Chicago. 

 She is disposing of her interest in the 

 Windrailler Co. and the new range 

 will be built at Aberdeen, S. D. 



J. J. Marsh announces that he is 

 now sole proprietor of the Farmers' 

 & Florists' Fertilizer Co., the other 

 members, F. S. Markey and Wm. J. 

 Downey having withdrawn on May 

 10th. Mr. Marsh has now a fine suite 

 of offices at 809 Exchange avenue, 

 Union Stock Yards. Send orders to 

 Room 4, where they will receive 

 prompt attention. 



A. L. Vaughan has returned from a 

 week's visit with his brother in Ala- 

 bama. He found the South very dry in 

 more ways than one, but says he has 

 no doubt it means the ultimate good ot 

 that part of the country. In States 

 that have adjusted themselves to the 

 change, he reports business good and 

 less difliculty in securing labor in cot- 

 ton picking times, etc. Florists were 

 having a dull summer but expect 

 nothing else. 



Phil. Schupp, ot the firm of J. A. 

 Budiong, is convinced that the Chicago 

 market has need of more roses and 

 especially ot well-grown ones. His firm, 

 one of the pioneers of the wholesale 

 growers of Chicago, will this season 

 diminish its output of carnations and 

 increase its supply of roses. Among 

 the varieties grown extensively will 

 be Sunburst, Ward, Killarney Bril- 

 liant and Ophelia. Of Killarney Bril- 

 liant, Mr. Schupp says he regards the 

 color as too harsh to make it a favorite 

 when pink Killarney is at its best. It 

 is too early yet to judge the merits of 

 Ophelia at his houses, but he expects 

 that later in the season, when it de- 

 velops fragrance, it will be popular. 



There are no signs of mid-summer at 

 the factory of the Foley Greenhouse 

 Manufacturing Co., nor any vacations 

 in sight, for every wheel is humming. 

 The colleges of three states, Illinois, 

 Indiana and Iowa have all placed their 

 orders tor greenhouses with this com- 

 panv. The Botanical Department of 

 the University of Illinois at Urbana, is 

 adding one house 21 feet 4 inches by 

 252 feet, divided into eleven compart- 

 ments. At Purdue, Ind.. there will be 

 four houses 37 feet. 4 inches by 100 

 feet, and one cross-house 15 feet by 

 107 feet 8 inches, while a shipment of 

 material is already on its way to Ames, 

 la., for ten houses. There will be a 

 curved roof palm house, two curved 

 root wings, and other houses, all struc- 

 tures of the latest type of construc- 

 tion. 



