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HORTICULTURE 



September 12, 1914 



WREATH OF ASTERS AND ROSES. 



For tile Finura] of Mrs. Wi.rdilrow Wilscn, r.\ (Jiirte Uros. Co. 



/'koto by Taylor, Washingtoiiy D, C. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



A. Henderson is receiving the con- 

 gratulations of his friends on his safe 

 arrival home from Europe. 



The "Luxembergers" gave their an- 

 nual festival on the north side Sunday. 

 Sept. 6, including a display of flowers 

 and vegetables. 



A new sign has appeared on N. Wa- 

 bash avenue which has the distinction 

 of being the first wholesale and retail 

 florists' sign. It is that of Harry Rowe 

 & Co.. who will open the new store 

 about Sept. 15. 



The Columbia Flower Shop, 3101 

 Cotton Grove avenue, is now enjoying 

 an established trade. During its short 

 life it has almost outgrown its limited 

 quarters and another year will proba- 

 bly make a larger place necessary. 



A. L. Vauglian is one of the few op- 

 timists in the wholesale trade and 

 largely because he always knows just 

 how business stands. When asked his 

 opinion of August trade he replied at 

 once "just $71.00 ahead of August. 

 191.3." 



Wm. J. Smyth, 3101 S. Michigan 

 avenue, has returned from his sum- 

 mer home at Antioch, III. Mr. Smyth 

 is looking remarkably well and is 

 ready for the fall business which he 

 predicts will be here soon. The sum- 

 mer trade has proven to be about nor- 

 mal, a good July balancing up the dull 

 August at this store. 



Retail florists are making as taste- 

 ful window displays as during the 

 busier seasons. The asters, various 

 kinds of lilies and early chrysanthe- 

 mums are appealing to the passersby 

 by their artistic arrangement and to 

 look at the windows one would never 



think that florists were pulling 

 the dullest time of the year. 



C. A. Samuelson is back from South 

 Idaho, where he has a young apple or- 

 chard. This store is being decorated 

 and put in readiness for the opening 

 of the season. Mr. Samuelson does 

 not anticipate loss of trade because 

 azaleas and other winter stock will 

 not be available, but plans to push 

 harder for sales of roses, carnations, 

 etc. 



Dr. A. W. Hammer, aged 33, who 

 lost his life by suffocation in a close 

 bath room recently, was the son of 

 the florist by that name in Washing- 

 ton, D. C. Recalling his years of 

 faithful service in his store, Wm. .1. 

 Smyth says he considered him at 

 once the most faithful and the most 

 promising young man he ever em- 

 ployed. For years he worked, keepin.u; 

 on meanwhile with his studies and 

 now, just as he had secured a good 

 practice, lost his life through a poorly 

 ventilated room. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Mrs, Edward Campbell and Miss 

 Jeanette Campbell, wife and daughter 

 of Edward Campbell, Ardmore, arrived 

 home from their European trip. Sept. 

 1. Their fellow pilgrims on the same 

 trip, Mrs. William Ballingall and 

 daughter also managed to make the 

 same steamer. There had been some 

 anxiety, of course, so the reunion all 

 around was of the pronounced order. 



The new Snellenburg flower depart- 

 ment opened on the 4th inst. and the 

 first day was a big success. Every 

 purchaser at the various departments 

 got a free posy. Bill Craig said it 

 looked to him very much like a riot. 



CHICAGO 



And Neighboring Towti8 



Are Thoroughly Covered by 



SCHILLER, THE FLORIST 



(Member Florists Telegraph DellTery). 



Flowergram or Mail Orders from florists 

 anywhere oarefnlly filled aad deUver»4 

 onder the supervision of 



GEORGE ASMUS, Mgr. 



2221-2223 W. Madisan St, CHICAGO. 



'Phone WMt 822 



REDTER'S 



Memberi Floriilf 



Telegraph 



Delivery 



STORES IN 



New London and Norwich, Conn. 

 and Westerly, R. I. 



We cover the territory between 



New Haven and Providence 



F. R. PIERSON CO. 



FLORISTS AND 

 PLANTSMEN 



TARRYTOWN ON HUDSON, - N. Y. 



IIemb«r of Floriati' Telegraph DeUTfry 



Messrs. Verona and Steinhoff, the pro- 

 moters, have every reason to feel en- 

 couraged, and the trade gets a new 

 outlet tor its products which it is al- 

 ways badly in need of. 



Frank M. Ross will start a force of 

 fifteen carpenters at once remodelling 

 his 52nd street store about which men- 

 tion was made week before last. New 

 bulk windows will be put in, tile 

 floors, new cooling apparatus, and 

 many other good notions to meet Mr. 

 Ross's ideas of how to make a success 

 in that particular neighborhood. Much 

 depends on the man, in all cases, and 

 here we have the man "who knows 

 how" for this locality — even if it is 

 radically different from his other 

 stores in Kensington and 61st street. 

 Frank M. Gaul started in on Friday 

 as manager. 



We lost another of our old-time 

 friends on September 1, when John 

 Grass passed on to his fathers. Mr. 

 Grass was not a florist — he was a fa- 

 mous wood turner: but he was well 

 known to the older generation of flor- 

 ists in Philadelphia. Among other 

 things, he used to make extra special 

 "ten-pin" balls for men like W. K. 

 Harris, after they had graduated into 

 the champion class. He was also af- 

 filiated with us in another way, be- 

 ing father-in-law to Phil. Breitmeyer 

 of Detroit. His death took place in 

 Detroit, where he had been on a visit. 

 He was 76 years of age. Interment 

 took place, Sept. o. at W. Laurel Hill 

 cemetery. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Philadelphia, Pa. — Van Waveren & 

 Kruijff have opened a store at 9th and 

 Market streets to retail Dutch bulbs. 



Howell, Mich. — R. F. Clark has pur- 

 chased the vegetable greenhouses 

 formerly managed by Walter HubbeH. 



