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HOETICULTURE 



December 26, 1914 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



BOSTON. 



J. Newman & Sons have taken on 

 extra help and are working overtime 

 to meet the holiday demand. 



The mother of Fred Roberts died 

 this week. Fred Roberts is connected 

 with Cassidy of Beacon street. 



W. H. Spring of 443 Tremont street, 

 is receiving expressions of sympathy 

 on the death of his wife who passed 

 away this week. 



George Cartwright, secretary of the 

 Boston Flower Exchange, is back 

 again at his old post, ready to meet 

 the holiday rush. 



Penn the Florist ran a half-page 

 Christmas advertisement in a Tuesday 

 morning daily newspaper. Penn sets 

 the pace in advertising, for the Bos- 

 ton florists. 



B. A. Snyder Co., are completing the 

 first year of their business life and 

 from all reports it has been a very 

 successful year. The force for the rush 

 season has been tripled. 



The increase in holiday business has 

 made it necessary for Harry Quint to 

 take on an extra store during the sea- 

 son. Millard Ricker. for eight years 

 with Wax Bros., has joined the torcc, 

 and is turning out some very tasty 

 work. 



J. W. Rogers of Summer street is re- 

 ceiving her full share of holiday busi- 

 ness and has doubled the working 

 force in order to meet the demand. 

 This enterprising lady florist is lo- 

 cated very advantageously, directly in 

 the path of the thousands who daily 

 ride home from the South Station. 



Some specialties that are finding fa- 

 vor in the markets this week are 

 camellia plants and araucarias from 

 Kamayama & Serada, of Cambridge; 

 Cattleya Triana, from F. J. Dolansky, 

 of Lynn; yellow tulips, from A. M. 

 Davenport, of Watertown; carnations 

 from Wm. R. Nicholson, Hanover 

 greenhouses and Thos. Capers and 

 especially Peter Fisher whose novelty 

 Alice is going at a lively clip in this 

 market. Lily of the valley from Carl 

 Jurgens at Welch Bros, and from Wm. 

 Jurgens at Alfred Walsh's are keep- 

 ing up Newport's prestige for this im- 

 portant flower. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Burpee employees were given 

 the week-end off, commencing at 12 

 noon Friday the 18th, so as to give 

 them a chance for Christmas shopping. 

 The same liberal policy prevails for 

 Christmas week, the holidays extend- 

 ing from noon Thursday the 24th to 

 Monday the 27th. At 2.30 P. M. Thurs- 

 day, occurred the annual Santa Claus 

 act to the children of Philadelphia by 

 Mr. and Mrs. Burpee, at the Burpee 

 Buildings. If each, of the hundreds 

 of children were made half as happy 

 and glad as their hosts over the affair: 

 then joy was unconflned. 



WASHINGTON. 



The S. S. Pennock-Meehan Com- 

 pany has been granted a permit to re- 

 model their store at 1216 H street, 

 Northwest. The firm has recently 

 placed an order for an automobile de- 

 livery wagon and it is its intention to 

 change over that part of the store at 

 the rear of the icebox into a place 

 suitable for the storage of the ma- 

 chine when not in use. 



An examination for gardeners will 

 be held by the Civil Service Commis- 

 sion in Alexandria. Va., on Jan. 20. 

 Further information concerning this 

 examination can be had upon applica- 

 tion to the Commission. 



The Department of Agriculture is 

 about to make a study of pond lily 

 diseases, and Frederick Rand, assis- 

 tant in the laboratory of plant patho- 

 logy, will secure suitable material 

 therefor while on his present trip 

 through New York. New Jersey, Dela- 

 ware and Maryland. 



Gude Bros. Co. accomplished a novel 

 wedding decoration last week when 

 they transformed the dining room of 

 the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Frank 

 B. Noyes into a chapel on the occasion 

 of the marriage of their daughter. 

 The front of the impromptu chapel 

 was formed by two large Italian col- 

 umns entwined with smilax. The 

 front was decorated with cibotium 

 ferns and at the alter were masses of 

 lilies and lighted candelabra. The 

 wainscotting was separated from the 

 asparagus covered walls with an enor- 

 mous quantity of paper white narcissi. 

 The bride's bouquet was a shower of 

 orange blossoms and camellias, that of 

 the bridesmaid was of gardenias, 

 while the little flower girl carried a 

 prim bouquet of rosebuds. 



J. Harper Hetherington, manager of 

 the store of the Washington Florists' 

 Company, last week complained to the 

 police of the theft of a diamond ring, 

 the property of Miss Alice Craeraer, 

 bookkeeper at the store, which was 

 taken from a pocketbook in the cloak- 

 room. The police found the ring hid- 

 den in some material at the rear of 

 the store and the theft was laid to a 

 negro employee. 



The store of Fred H. Kramer pre- 

 sented a very attractive appearance 

 during the holiday season, the center 

 of the establishment having been 

 covered with an archway of red and 

 green trimming, from which was sus- 

 pended a large number of miniature 

 figures of Saint Nicholas. 



Elmhurst, N. Y.^Alexander Donald- 

 son is having the same trouble from 

 a leak in the gas main which his 

 father experienced last winter, three 

 houses of lilies and callas being prac- 

 tically ruined. 



Knoxville, Tenn. — Addison J. Mc- 

 Nutt is somewhat discouraged about 

 his crop of sweet peas, which has been 

 practically ruined by the recent cloudy 

 weather. 



Chas. L. Baum has a very at- 

 tractive F. T. D. window, which 

 brings out the idea to the pub- 

 lic that flowers can be delivered to any 

 part of the United States or Canada 

 on very short notice, and with the as- 

 surance that the order will receive the 

 same care and attention as if it were 

 to be delivered in Knoxville. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Art Floral Company, of 255 

 Powell street, has just opened a 

 branch for the holiday season at 156 

 Powell. 



The upper three doors above B. M. 

 Joseph's new shop on Grant avenue 

 will be opened Dec. 21 as afternoon 

 tea rooms, which is expected to make 

 this location quite a gathering place 

 for fashionable people. Mr. Joseph 

 says the results of his first month In 

 business have greatly exceeded his ex- 

 pectations. He is preparing to install 

 a large Christmas tree, with elaborate 

 decorations, on his second floor for the 

 holidays. John R. Sievers, formerly 

 of Sievers & LTzick, who has been for 

 some years in the nursery and cut- 

 flower business, is acting as chief 

 salesman at Joseph's. 



Three carloads of rare varieties of 

 rhododendrons for the decoration of 

 the Panaiiia-Pacific International Ex- 

 position grounds have been received 

 yesterday from England. Among them 

 are one thousand Rhododendron cor- 

 muia, which comprise the largest ship- 

 ment of the kind ever sent to this 

 country. The plants will blossom 

 early in February. For this reason 

 they are to be used as the first of the 

 series of floral decorations that are to 

 keep the exposition grounds in con- 

 tinual bloom throughout the ten 

 months of its existence. 



The past few days have been 

 marked by the influx of great quanti- 

 ties of exhibits and shipments of vari- 

 ous kinds to the exposition grounds. 



St. Louis. Mo. — George B. Windler's 

 greenhouses on Delor street, were 

 visited by fire on Friday night which 

 caused considerable damage to flowers 

 and plants. The fire started in the 

 sheds and spread to the greenhouses 

 and also caused the boiler to crack. 

 Oil stoves were put in use and these 

 will save some of the Christmas plants 

 from freezing. The loss has not been 

 estimated yet. 



CHICAGO 



And Neighboring Towns 



Are ThoroDffhly Covered by 



SCHILLER, THE FLORIST 



(Member Klorlsts Telegrapb DellT»ry). 



Flon-ericrani or Mall Orders from lorlsta 

 anywhere rarefnlly fliled mnd dellverW 

 ODder the §upervlMlon of 



GEORGE ASMUS, Mgr. 



2221-2223 W. Madison St., CHICAGO. 



'Phone We.t 822 



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