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HORTICULTURE 



October 17, 1914 



ALEX. McGONNELL 



611 FIFTH AVENUE 

 NEW YORK CITY 



Telegraphic orders forwarded to any 



part of the United States, Canada, and 



all principal cities of Europe. Orders 



transferred or Intrusted by the trade to 



omr selection for delivery on steamshlpi 



or elsewhere receive special attention. 



Cost of Cabling Foreign Deliveries 



Must be prepaid 



Reference or cash mast aceompany all 



orders from unknown correspoadenta. 



Cable Address, ALEXCONNEIX. 



G. E. M. STUMPP 



761 Fifth Ave. 

 NEW YORK CITY 



Member Florists' Telegraph Delivery Asso. 



DAVID CLARKE'S SONS 



Deliver orders from any part of the country to 

 New York City 



Or OUT-GOING STEAMERS 



Write or Telegraph 



2139-2141 Broadway, - New York 



Telephone 15S2-1663 Colomba* 



eHtabilsbed 1R74 



FLORIST 

 iN. E. Cor. 44 St. & Madison Arenae, N. T. City 



(Member Florists' Telegraph Delivery Asso.) 

 Tlowers shipped on all Steamers. Special Correspon 

 dence in all the large cities of Europe and the Britisl 

 Colonies. Telegraph and Cable address, Dardsflor 



NEW YORK CITY 



AND VICINITY 



*<. ^A^ ^V i9 E IM C3 O f9 P" F" 



Artistic Work. Reasonable Prtcea. 

 Prompt Delivery of Steamer Orderi. 



1193 Broadway, My Only Store 



YOUNG & NUGENT 



42 West 28 St., NEW YORK 



''FLOWERS BY TELEGRAPH" 



THE ROSERY 



23 STEUBEN ST. 

 AI-BAIMY, IM. Y. 



FLOWER DEUVERIES FOR ALBANY 

 AND VICINITY 



Members Florists' Telegraph Delivery 



FLOWERS delivered promptly in 

 Buffalo, Niagara Falls, East Aurora, 

 Lockport, Tonawanda, Lancaster and 

 other Western New 

 York cities and 

 towns. 



304 Main Street 

 BUFFALO, N. Y. 



IMembers Florists' Telegraph Delivery AssociatJon 



When writing to advertiser* kindly 

 mention HORTICVLTURE. 



Of Interest to Retail 

 Florists 



SEEN IN MOBILE. 



Florists in the "sunny south" have 

 had rather a better summer trade than 

 the northern florists. That oft-quoted 

 cause of little summer business, the 

 prevalence of garden flowers, does not 

 seem to apply here where there are 

 flowers everywhere practically all the 

 year round. The writer visited Mobile, 

 Ala., last weelc and found florists sell- 

 ing out-of-door flowers with a very fair 

 supply of indoor roses to supplement 

 them. 



Miss Maria Minge, who has a down- 

 town store and a range of glass farther 

 out, and has an old established busi- 

 ness says that she depends upon Ra- 

 diance for her winter rose, with a 

 splendid crop always on for Christmas. 

 Bulgarie is just now coming into 

 bloom. Cecil Brunner is a splendid lit- 

 tle rose here the year round. Poinset- 

 tias, the mainstay of the northern flor- 

 isis for the hoii(ja>s, is a vo.taiious 

 problem here in Mobile. If the weath- 

 er is fine, the plants are blooming out- 

 of-doors in quantities and if not, then 

 greenhouse stock is demanded by cus- 

 tomers and the florists have to take 

 these chances each year. All well- 

 kept lawns have immense poinsettias 

 that may or may not be in bloom at 

 Christmas but no one can foretell in 

 time to prepare indoor stock. 



Claude .M. Kavi.-r (iiuie lo Mobile 

 forty years ago and liis greenhouses 

 were among the first erected here. At 

 his death five years ago the business 

 conducted under the name of Ravier & 

 Sons was continued under the same 

 name by the sons, Louis and Fred, who 

 have a fine business. All four of the 

 florists' papers are taken by these 

 brothers which is proof enough that 

 they are progressive. A box of roses 

 came from Chicago while we were 

 there and seemed as fresh as if just 

 cut. 



.'\zalea plants are not used largely 

 for forcing here as the plants live to 

 reach great size and bloom out-of-doors 

 in February. A very graceful vine 

 grows here in profusion, covering the 

 porches and bearing a cerise flower 

 similar in shape to a spirea. They call 

 it Mexican coral here. 



Mobile has little to boast of in city 

 parks, but it has one square, right in 

 the heart of the business district, 

 which is ideal as a shady resting place. 

 It belongs to the children of Mobile, 

 having been given to them for a play- 

 ground years ago and it is always 

 filled on warm evenings. With its im- 

 mense old trees, its fountain and its 

 lights, it forms a picture never to be 

 forgotten. With all credit to the 

 northern landscape artist, nature can 

 easily surpass his best efforts here for 

 there is a grace and beauty in the 

 palms that a lawn can get from noth- 

 ing else and they give a dignity to rail- 

 way stations and public buildings that 

 no other plants can furnish. The Phoe- 

 nix carnariensis, Latania borbonica 

 and Cycas revoluta are perfectly hardy 

 here and assume immense proportions. 

 M. B. Ha.ncock. 



W. W. Kennedy & Sons. 5 E. Front 

 street. Red Bank, .\'. J., is the latest 

 addition to the membership of the 

 Florists' Telegraph Delivery Asso. 



lOHN BREITMEYER'S 

 — SONS=^ 



Cor. Broadway and Gratiot Ave*. 

 DETROIT, MICH. 



Artistic Designs . . . 

 High Grade Cut Blooms 



W« cover all Michigan points and good 



•eciloos of Ohio. Indiana and Canada. 



Members Florists' Telegraph Delivery 



Aoaoclatlon. 



HESS & SWOBODA 



rUOR-ISTS 



Telephones ISOl and L IMt 



1415 Farnum St., 



IMEB. 



OIVIAIH/V, 



CLEVELAND 



A. GRAHAM & SON 



5523 Euclid Ave. 



Will take good care of your orders 



Members of F. T. D, Associatiqn. 



WILLIAM J. SMYTH 



Cor. MiehlKan Ave. and Slst St., 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



tfember Floristfi' Telesrraph Delivery Asso.) 

 We ship to all piiiniN in llllnolM and Iowa. 



nun Kim I 



Aidini 88 1 Aldlni 882. 



SAMUEL MURRAY 



Kansas City, Mo. 

 913 Grand Ave. 



Member of the FlorlstH' Telepraph Delivery. 



Ill Ordirs Givtn Prompt and Canful AtteatioD 



^'^ Park Floral Co. 



J. A. VALENTINE, Pres. 

 Member Florists' Telesrapb Delivery. 



DENVER, COLORADO 



Rochester, N. Y. 



J. B. KELLER SONS, 



FLORISTS 

 2S Clinton Avenue, N. 



Rochester Phone 306. Long Dist. Bell Phone aiSq 



Members Florists Telegraph Delivery 



'THE HOME OF FLOWERS" 



The largrest cut tlower Ktore in America. 

 Orders for Hie TWIN CITIES and for all 



NorthivpNtern point ti ffiven prompt at- 

 lentiou. 



HOLM & OLSON, incorporate^ 

 ST. PAUL, MINN. 



