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HORTICULTURE 



Maa-cli 3, 1917 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO 



N. J. Wietor is recovering from a 

 severe attaclc of the grippe. 



A post card received at Schiller's 

 Gift Shop stated that Reinhold Schil- 

 ler and bride were at Norfolk. Va., last 

 week. 



Mrs. Samuel J. Pearse is visiting 

 her brother in New Orleans, where he 

 is foreman for the Metairie Ridge Nur- 

 sery Co. At the Pearse greenhouses 

 tulips and narcissi have been cut 

 steadily since Dec. 15th and the sup- 

 ply will continue till Easter, when 

 16,000 lilies will be ready. 



One by one the most faithful lovers 

 of the American Beauty rose are los- 

 ing heart and putting a section or so 

 each year inlo some other stock. And 

 they say "The worst of it is, there is 

 no rose that will take its place and 

 the people would buy good ones it we 

 could grow them." 



Kroeschell Bros, have just installed 

 the second 250-horse-power boiler in 

 the 1917 addition to the L. A. Budlong 

 range in Evanston, 111. These green- 

 houses are to be used exclusively for 

 the newer varieties of roses. Mr. 

 Lautenschlager says the indications 

 are for a busy season in the boiler 

 business. 



J. Mangel, the Palmer House florist, 

 has his conservatory now where it 

 answers the double purpose of utility 

 and beauty. A large fountain with con- 

 stantly changing colored lights occu- 

 pies the center of the room. Around 

 the sides are tables for making up and 

 above are overhanging shelves of rock, 

 from which vines and ferns are seen 

 in profusion. 



One of the most artistic windows 

 ever executed by a florist in Chicago 

 is on the Wabash Ave. side of the Geo. 

 Wienhoeber store. It presents a bit 

 of Dutch landscape in compliment to 

 the country that produces the bulbs. 

 Mr. Weinhoeber has avoided the com- 

 mon mistake of using too much color. 

 In the foreground is a fern bordered 

 river with bridge, in the background a 

 castle with steps to the river, and a 

 windmill with arms in motion. Just 

 enough flowers are used to relieve the 

 brown and green tones. 



Plans are being drawn for the new 

 factory warehouse of the J. C. Mon- 

 inger Co. to replace the one recently 

 destroyed by fire. The insurance ad- 

 justment was very satisfactory. So 

 many letters of inquiry are being re- 

 ceived that Mr. Kurowski thinks a 

 good season is just ahead. A contract 

 has been made by this firm for a large 

 addition to the Bohemian National 

 Cemetery greenhouses. Another order 

 just completed for two houses, 28 x 250 

 feet, for James L. Denmead, Marshall- 

 town, Iowa. A new catalogue for pri- 

 vate conservatories will be issued very 

 soon. 



With the coming of March the 

 city gardens' project, which has been 

 tried here with more or less success 

 for several years, is again before the 



people. The tracts of idle land have 

 been systematically apportioned to 

 those who will cultivate them, and 

 this year the requests for plots of 

 ground will be more numerous. Out 

 of the 200 square miles within the 

 city limits there are about 60 square 

 miles or 40,000 acres vacant. A depart- 

 ment called a Garden Bureau, has been 

 inaugurated, by a local paper, which 

 will instruct those who are without 

 gardens how they may secure one and 

 give information on seeds, etc. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Professor Sanders of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa., 

 gave an address before the Pennsyl- 

 vania Horticultural Society on Feb- 

 ruary 19th. 



J. Otto Thilow of Dreer's returned 

 from his vacation trip to Honolulu last 

 Monday, looking brown and hearty. 

 He is modest about it, but we feel sure 

 he is loaded to the limit with experi- 

 ences and pictures — enough to keep 

 the country sitting up nights to listen 

 to him for the next five years. Fine; 

 get after him. 



PITTSBURGH. 



John Arbuckle has assumed charge 

 of the accounting department of G. P. 

 Weaklin & Co. 



The Zieger Company of the East 

 End is making extensive repairs in the 

 front of the palm house. 



Accompanied by his family, O. J. 

 Parker of Scobie & Parker, will leave 

 shortly for Los Angeles, Cal. 



Anthony Aloysius Leach, superin- 

 tendent of the Henry J. Heinz grounds 

 and greenhouse, is visiting New York 

 and other eastern points. 



.Murray McGrew and his family have 

 the sympathy of a large circle of 

 friends and acquaintances in the death 

 of Mrs. McGrew on Thursday, Feb. 15. 



Miss Eliza McKinley, head sales- 

 woman for Randolph & McClements, 

 has been ill for several days with a 

 severe attack of the prevailing la 

 grippe. 



Under the auspices of the McCallum 

 Company, an exhibition of Oriental 

 wares is being held this week at the 

 Colonial-Anex Hotel by the Tajlml 

 Company of New York. 



S. E. Pearsall is in charge of a 

 flourishing new flower shop in Browns- 

 ville, Pa., the only one in the town. 

 McKees Rocks also has a similar new 

 enterprise called the Victor Flower 

 Shop. 



G. P. Weaklin & Co. have just had 

 the most distinctive early spring wed- 

 ding of the season (See illustration). 

 Quantities of wild southern smilas, 

 specimen cibotiums, bamboos and 

 crotons were used. At each end was 

 a lattice designed gateway and a 

 quaint wicker basket seven feet high 

 filled with pink snapdragon, while 

 silver-gray shafts of the same flowers 

 surmounted the altar. At each end 



A Pittsburgh Church Wedding Decoration. 

 By G. P. Weaklin & Co. 



