January 13, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



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PITTSBURGH. 



Norman S. Grubbs is spending a 

 month at State College in attendance 

 at tlie annual conference of the Penn- 

 sylvania county agriculturists. 



Frank Smoler has re-entered the em- 

 ploy of Walter A. Faulk of the North 

 Side, following an all summer and au- 

 tumn service on the Mexican border. 



Francis M. Smith, who has been in 

 indifferent health for some time past, 

 has resigned his position as salesman 

 for G. P. Weaklin & Co. and joined 

 his family at Salamanca, New York. 



The Fort Pitt Floral Company in the 

 Fort Pitt Hotel, is the innovation of 

 Orville Crisman, president of the Ray 

 J. Daschbach Company, Inc. Miss Rox- 

 ana McAfee is in charge of the depart- 

 ment. 



Milton Griffith, proprietor of Crall's 

 Flower Shop of Monessen, has recently 

 purchased the business of C. W. Kinder 

 in the neighboring town of Donora, 

 which he will conduct under the name 

 of Griffith's Flower Shop. 



Frank Misoclek has resigned from 

 his position of first assistant to 

 Thomas Edward Tyler on the East 

 End estate of Charles Dickey Arm- 

 strong and entered the employ of a 

 commercial place in New Jersey. 



After a week's visit with David 

 Eraser of Henry Clay Frick's Home- 

 wood estate, "Clayton," George Wyn- 

 ess returned east last Monday. Mr. 

 Wyuess is now superintendent of the 

 Frick's summer home at Pride's Cross- 

 ing, Mass. 



Owing to the sale of the old Carr 

 estate at Point Breeze, J. F. Zimmer- 

 man is looking up a new location for 



his floral and landscape business. Mr. 

 Zimmerman, who had charge of the 

 grounds and greenhouse for some years 

 prior to the death of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Carr. remained on later at the request 

 of Mrs. Carr, meanwhile also conduct- 

 ing a successful business of his own. 



Geza Robert Stopko of New Bruns- 

 wick, N. J., has become manager of the 

 Highland Floral Co. of which James 

 Watt is proprietor. Mr. Stopko, who 

 is a native of Kassa. Hungary, and a 

 graduate of the gardeners' college in 

 Buda Pest, came to America six years 

 ago. Meanwhile he has been the land- 

 scape gardener on the magnificent es- 

 tate of Alfred L. DuPont in Wilming- 

 ton, Delaware, later receiving commer- 

 cial experience in several places. Mr. 

 Watt, who is private secretary for 

 Alexander R. Peacock, a year ago 

 leased the latter's private conservatory 

 and growing houses which are among 

 the best equipped in the city. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The January meeting of the Flor- 

 ists' Club of Washington, D. C. was 

 devoted almost entirely to a discus- 

 sion of matters pending in the Post 

 Office Appropriation Bill. 



The large plate glass window on the 

 P street side of the Dupont Flower 

 Shop was splintered by the automobile 

 of Baron E. Akerheilm. of the Swedish 

 legation. A colored girl was knocked 

 down and had to be taken to the 

 hospital. 



George E. Anderson, of the Hubbard 

 estate, reports the conclusion of ne- 

 gotiations with A. N. Pierson. Inc.. as 

 a result of which that firm will as- 

 sume the propagation of the new rose 

 brought out by :\Ir. Anderson which 

 he has named Mrs. Charles Bell. A 

 descript'ion of the rose appeared in a 

 recent issue of Horticitltuke. 



CHICAGO. 



The closing of the year's books at 

 the J. A. Budlong store calls Mrs. 

 Schupp to duty again. 



Another new store is the Wittmer's 

 Floral Shop, which was opened late 

 in the fall at Jackson and Kedzie. 

 The greenhouses are at Winnemac, 

 Ind. 



Miss Charlotte Paradise has re- 

 ceived a letter from Miss Corinne- 

 Pearson, who is on her way to visit 

 her parents in Sweden. She evi- 

 dently is not enjoying the voyage for 

 she writes that she will never leave 

 the U. S. again. Miss Pearson came 

 over when but twelve years old and 

 this is her first visit home. She was 

 in A. L. Vaughan's office for several 

 years. 



In carrying out the plan of the 

 "City-Beautiful" the widening of 12th 

 street is under way. Mrs. O. Kreit- 

 ling. who with her late husband con- 

 ducted a flower store at Blue Island 

 and 12th street for 24 years has been 

 obliged to sell and is removing to 317 

 S. Cicero avenue. The new location 

 is a good business street and ten years 

 ago was an almost unbroken prairie, 

 and near which Frank OechsliiL 

 bought his first lots. 



The north side has two new retail 

 stores, both of which were opened 

 just in time to get a share of the 

 Christmas trade. One is known as 

 the Lakeside Flower Shop, at 4700 

 Sheridan Road. The proprietors are 

 A. Hall and W. H. Waddington. both 

 former employees of A. Lange. The 

 other store is only a quarter of a mile 

 from this one, at 4739 Broadway and 

 is called the Finer de Lis. The year 

 just closed has been so generally suc- 

 cessful, that it would not be unex- 

 pected if 1917 should see many new- 

 retail flower stores in Chicago. 



