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HOETICULTUEE 



October 17, 1914 



BOSTON. 



J. B. McDonald, formerly with S. 

 Hoffman, has joined the staff of Wax 

 Bros. 



The Boston Flower Exchange will 

 have its annual meeting and dinner at 

 Young's Hotel on Saturday evening, 

 October 24. 



Among the new stall-holders at the 

 Boston Flower Exchange are J. J. Mc- 

 Cormick, of Maiden, and Robert Do- 

 herty, of West Medway, Mass. 



Thomas J. Grey Co., have an at- 

 tractive booth in the women's depart- 

 ment of the big food fair now run- 

 ning at Mechanics Building. Artisti- 

 cally arranged by Peter M. Miller. 



D. Iliffe is building a storage house 

 for orange trees on the Brandegee es- 

 tate in Brookline. He has just In- 

 stalled two boilers in the Back Bay 

 conservatories of Thos. F. Galvin, Inc. 



Penn, the Florist, states that he 

 spent over .$18,000 in advertising last 

 year, most of it in the newspapers. Re- 

 sults from the cards inserted in the 

 trade journals were very satisfactory. 



The new rose Ophelia has made a 

 prompt and substantial place for it- 

 self with the Boston trade. As a popu- 

 lar light pink rose it has pushed all 

 others in its class into the back- 

 ground. 



Carnation Day was observed by the 

 charitable irstitutions in Winchester, 

 Mass., Oct. 17. J. M. Cohen supplied 

 15,000 carnations to be distributed 

 among the various hospitals and other 

 institutions. 



Harry Quint expects to open up his 

 store at 199 Tremont street by October 

 19. The work of rebuilding the front 

 has been held up by the "red tape" 

 of the Building Commissioners, but it 

 is progressing rapidly now. 



As regards the Mrs. Charles Russell 

 rose, H. M. Robinson & Co. state that 

 they have been shipjiing over 6.000 

 blooms of this variety daily, which 

 would seem to demonstrate its popu- 

 larity in this market, at least. 



Sweet peas have been a rarity in the 

 market during the last few weeks and 

 at this early date Wm. Sim. of Clifton- 

 dale, and F. Bell, of Stoughton, seem 

 to be the only growers sending them 

 in to this market in any quantity. 



W. S. Phelps, of Marlboro, has 

 leased Edward Wood's place at Lex- 

 ington. Mr. Phelps intends to grow a 

 general stock of flowers and plants. E. 

 W. Austin, who formerly leased this 

 range, left during the night some time 

 last June. 



A. M. Davenport, of Watertown, has 

 received from Belgium several ship- 

 ments of azaleas, about 10,000 in all. 

 Other growers have experienced little 

 difficulty in receiving their goods 

 from Belgium, although several ship- 

 ments are still on the way. 



N. Fishelson. of Copley Square, has 

 joined the firm of J. Kopelman & Co., 

 of Providence. This firm is now mak- 

 ing extensive additions to their range 

 at Oaklawn, near Providence. Mr. 

 Fishelson's son. Max, is now in part- 

 nership with his father and has charge 

 of the Boston store. He has recently 

 become engaged to Miss R. Lando, of 

 Paris, France. 



The announcement that President 

 Farquhar has been unanimously re- 

 nominated for a third term as presl 

 dent of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society will be read with pleas- 

 ure and approval by all who know 

 how earnestly Mr. Farquhar has la- 

 bored for the interests of this great 

 society. The rare honor which it has 

 conferred upon him is a just and prop- 

 er recognition of faithful service. 



H. Huebner of Groton, Mass., who 

 is well known as an intelligent ex- 

 perimenter on new flower specialties 

 recommends the growing of Acidan- 

 thera bicolor for the Boston market. 

 He has had much success with it this 

 season. • Acidanthera bicolor is a bulb- 

 ous plant, with requirements similar 

 to the gladiolus. The flowers are 

 white with violet-maroon blotches, 

 deliciously perfumed, borne on long 

 stems and very lasting. 



The new firm of Houghton. Gorney 

 & Co., mentioned in a recent issue, is 

 composed of F. H. Houghton. E. S. 

 Gorney, Ellis Gorney and Samuel 

 Krewatz. Ihti'- • ev f[o c ;,i ihe i o: - 

 ner of Park and Tremont streets is be- 

 ing rapidly brought to completion. 

 .Among the features will be the decora- 

 tions in white and violet, a new orchid 

 and violet case with tiled bottom, and 

 the novel arrangement of the refriger- 

 ator doors. Mary Elizabeth's "Tea 

 Room, next door, will be connected at 

 the back of the store by a door and an 

 eight foot show window. 



WASHINGTON. 



Gude Bros. Company furnished in 

 the neighborhood of 2.000 bouquets of 

 i-oses for free distribution by the shoe 

 firm of Robert Beberich's Sons Co., 

 of this city, on the occasion of the 

 latter's forty-sixth anniversary celebra- 

 tion. 



Large fern and palm sales are at 

 present being held in all of the stores 

 and it is reported that good business 

 is being done in this line. The stock 

 as a whole is as good as has ever 

 been seen in the city and the people 

 are taking advantage of the opportun- 

 ity offered them. 



All licenses issued by the assessor of 

 taxes for the District of Columbia for 

 the conduct of flower stores and stands 

 expire the last day of this month, and 

 a notice emanating from the assesor's 

 office states that all florists who de- 

 sire to continue in business after that 

 time should promptly apply for a re- 

 newal of their licenses. 



The announcement recently made 

 that there would be a flower show this 

 year in Washington not having met 

 with any great enthusiasm on the part 

 of the growers and storemen, it was 

 decided at the October meeting of the 

 Florists' Club of Washington. D. C, 

 that it would be inadvisable to go 

 ahead with these plans. 



Following an informal report made 

 by several club members who attended 

 the recent dahlia and canna show 

 given by Richard Vincent, Jr., at 

 White Marsh, Md., a resolution was 

 adopted extending a vote of thanks of 

 the club to Mr. Vincent in appreciation 

 of the many courtesies shown the 

 local florists while his guests. 



J. H. Small & Sons were the decora- 



tors of the Red Room of the New Wil- 

 lard Hotel on the occasion of the Cot- 

 ton Goods Show, which was given by 

 a local society woman in connection 

 with the buy-a-bale of cotton move- 

 ment. The decorations included the 

 use of large quantities of cotton bolls 

 attached to branches and in festoons 

 and huge palms and quantities of 

 roses and dahlias backed the models 

 and booths and lined the walls. 



The increasing of prices on materi- 

 als was the matter of an informal dis- 

 cussion by the Florists' Club of Wash- 

 ington. It was felt that some of these 

 increases were unwarranted. A num- 

 ber of the local florists advocated the 

 use of more flowers and smaller 

 amounts of ribbons and chiffons. It 

 was pointed out that there has always 

 been a great waste of materials, that 

 in a majority of cases two and three 

 times as much ribbon or chiffon was 

 used in the making of a bow than the 

 1 rice of the design warranted. 



The new style of wearing flowers 

 on the shoulders rather than in the 

 shape of corsage bouquets should lead 

 to the sale of the higher-priced stock 

 such as orchids and gardenias. On 

 ihe F street promenade in the after- 

 noons are to be seen young ladies dis- 

 porting a single blossom. It remains 

 for some enterprising florist here to 

 introduce the "Wilson" Shoulder Knot" 

 for it was one of the daughters of 

 President Wilson who inaugurated 

 this style. The wearing of the flow- 

 ers on the shoulder rather than as cor- 

 sage saves them from being crushed 

 while the wearer tangoes or turkey 

 trots. 



CINCINNATI. 



P. J. Olinger reports that his wife 

 who is now visiting relatives in Aurora 

 and Evanston, 111., is greatly improved 

 in health. 



Mr. and Mrs. Gus Adrian returned 

 a fortnight ago from their summer's 

 stay in the north. Mrs. Adrian's 

 health has improved greatly 



Elmer D. Smith & Co., of Adrian, 

 Mich., exhibited his new yellow chry- 

 santhemum Golden Queen in this city. 

 The flowers were large, well formed, 

 incurved and made a distinct hit with 

 local florists. 



John C. .Moninger Co., of Chicago 

 have opened a branch office at 2309 

 t'nion Central Bldg. Otto Hirschfeld 

 is in charge. Mr. Hirschfeld and Ru- 

 dolph E. Kurowski motored down 

 from Chicago at the end of last week. 



CHICAGO 



And Neighboring Towns 



Are TboronKhly C*i'ered by 



SCHILLER, THE FLORIST 



(Member Florists Telegraph DellTery) 



Flower^ram or Mall Orders from florl't* 

 any u here earefally filled and dellT^r*^ 

 under tbe sapervUion of 



GEORGE ASMUS, Mgr. 



2221-2223 W. Madison SL, CHICAGO. 



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