February 17, 1917 



HOETICULTUEE 



217 



Do Your Spring Buying Early 



AND DON'T FORGET 



That when you stock up on Bayersdorfer & Co.'s goods you are getting 



THE BEST IN THE WORLD 



BASKETS For Plants BASKETS For Flowers BASKETS 



In Endless Variety, Home Manufacture and 

 Imported. Everything in Florists' Requisites. 



Stock up now and have the goods to show customers. Send for prices and 



see how much you can .do with a little money when you go straight to 



headquarters— THE FLORISTS' SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



Manufacturers and 

 Importers 



1129 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Write for 

 Catalogue 



AN AGREEMENT FOR MUTUAL 

 BENEFIT. 



Several of the leading florists of 

 Buffalo have organized an association, 

 at present under the leadership of 

 S. A. Anderson, for the purpose of 

 maintaining uniform prices through- 

 out the city. A price list is sent to 

 each member every day, covering a 

 full line of flowers. The members 

 have agreed to give a discount of 25 

 per cent from the price list on any- 

 thing they purchase from eacli other. 

 The association was formed because 

 several of the retailers found that it 

 was necessary to raise the prices of 

 flowers in order to meet the growing 

 overhead expense. The association is 

 doing some good community advertis- 

 ing and promises a brilliant future. 

 It would be well for the leading flor- 

 ists of other cities to take notice of 

 tliis movement for tlieir own good. 



PERSONAL. 



George Howard has concluded his 

 services as gardener at the Gordon 

 Abbott estate, Manchester. Mass. 



David Gaus. formerly with John 

 Sykes, has accepted the position of 

 manager for Clayton Weaver, Emaus, 

 Pa. 



A. T. Ellison, formerly with MuUan- 

 phy Florists, St. Louis, will manage 

 the greenhouses of Wm. C. Smith at 

 Kirkwood, Mo. 



The engagement of Nicholas Grille, 

 greenhouse grower, of Milldale, Ct., 

 and Miss Anna Castaldi, of Milldale 

 Park, has been announced. 



Howard McRae, son of Alex. McRae 

 of Providence, has returned to the 

 Mass. Agri. College after a year's prac- 

 tical experience at Cromwell Gardens, 



Boston — P. L. Carbone, who has gone 

 abroad to purchase pottery antiques, 

 etc., has cabled his family that he ar- 

 rived safely in France the first of this 

 week. Mr. Carbone was obliged to go 

 on this business trip because of the 

 fire in his store which destroyed so 

 much of his stock of pottery, vases 

 and choice antiques. 



RCED ®. KCLLER 



132 West 25th St., New York 



Florists' Supplies 



We manufacture all our 



Uatal Disiens, Baskets, Wire Werk & Noveltias 



and are dealers in 



Decorative Glassware, Growers and 



Florists* Requisites 



Teiephsne MSO KUmUsod Bqnar* 



WOODROW & MARKETOS 



WHOLKBA!.! 



PJantsmen and Florists 



37 and 39 Wast 28tli St., NEW YORK 



A. P. Crossley, who was recently ap- 

 pointed florist at the N. J. Experiment 

 Station at New Brunswick, has been 

 forced to give up his position on ac- 

 count of ill health. 



Haarlem, Netherlands. — Notwith- 

 standing the prohibition of bulb im- 

 portations to the British Isles, the 

 Association of Dutch Bulb Growers re- 

 ported at their recent annual meeting 

 that the year 1916 had been generg;!y 

 more favorable than either 191.5 or 

 1914. 



The total export of bulbs in the prin- 

 cipal export mouths of August, Sep- 

 tember and October showed a decrease 

 of 2,500,000 kilograms as compared 

 with the corresponding period of the 

 previous year, but when it is remem- 

 liered that Britain took nearly 7,000,000 

 Idlogranis in 191.5 it will be seen that 

 the loss of the British markec in the 

 past year was largely compensated for 

 liy increased export to other countries. 

 Higher prices were obtained than at 

 any time since the war began. 



Of the 19,000,000 kilograms exported 

 in the three months named, America 

 took 9.000,000, or nearly half, Germany 

 5,000,000, and the Scandinavian coun- 

 tries, 4,000,000 kilograms. The export 

 to America and the Scandinavian coun- 

 tries underwent a very considerable 

 increase, as was the case in the pre- 

 vious year, whereas the export to 

 Germany, which closed its frontiers to 

 all other flower garden products, re- 

 mained stationary. 



William James has been appointed 

 superintendent of Little Lake Ceme- 

 tery, Peterboro, Canada, succeeding 

 Frank Wise, who has resigned and will 

 go into landscape work. 



COVER ILLUSTRATION. 



At this season of the year jardin- 

 ieres of various shapes and material 

 filled with ornamental foliage plants 

 are a prominent feature in the first- 

 class flower stores of New York and 

 other centres of flrst-class trade. Our 

 cover illustration shows a very grace- 

 ful arrangement which if so desired, 

 may be brightened up by the addition 

 of a spray or two of harmonizing cut 

 bloom and I'ibbon. 



BUSINESS TROUBLES. 



Pepperell, Mass.— E. M. Stewart, 

 gardener. Park St.. liabilities, $729, no 

 assets. 



A HOLIDAY 



Washington's Birthday. 

 February 22, coming on 

 Horticulture's regular 

 publication day this year 

 we shall go to press one 

 day earlier (Wednesday) . 

 Correspondents please take 

 notice. 



