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HOETICULTURE 



March 31, 1917 



You Will Get the Easter Orders 



IF YOU HAVE THE GOODS THE CUSTOMERS WANT 



If Not — Your Competitor Will Get the Business 



THE GOODS WE OFFER YOU WILL PLEASE THEM FOR THEY ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD 



Wc have splendid novelties and all the standard goods in endless variety, Home Man- 

 ufacture and Imported. Stock up now and have the goods to show customers. Send 

 for catalogue and 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 



BOSTON. 



Ed. Welch of Welch's wholesale 

 florists, is sick at home with the grippe. 



N. F. McCarthy & Co., are seriously 

 disappointed in their spring plant auc- 

 tion business by the holding-up in Hol- 

 land of large shipments of nursery 

 stock which should now be on its way 

 to this country. 



A triple flag raising in which Boy 

 Scouts of many nationalities took part 

 attracted much attention in Winthrop 

 square last Saturday. The flags were 

 raised from the two entrances of the 

 Boston Flower Exchange at 1 Win- 

 throp square and 32 Otis street and 

 from the Co-operative Flower Ex- 

 change at 260 Devonshire street. Saint 

 Vincent's Boys Band played patriotic 

 music. 



John Duguid, supt. for H. S. Hunne- 

 well, at Wellesley, Mass., who was one 

 of the delegates sent by the Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club of Boston, to 

 the Davey Tree Surgery Convention 

 has written a very interesting account 

 of his trip for the Natick Tribune. Of 

 the uavey organization he says : 



"The Davey organizatiou is the most com- 

 plete system that could be devised and only 

 the years of practical work has brought 

 It to the high efHciency it has attained. 

 With its schools, professors, students, fore- 

 men, library and (iffiee force makes it the 

 most interesting place o( its kind I ever 

 expect to see. 1 was ; urprised to see so 

 many line young me:j ^-i ileeply interested 

 in the work. It seemed the.v were each a 

 part of the organization. The ytiung man 

 who is lucky enough to enter and study 

 under such a system learns that which 

 eventually will bring the country back to 

 ■where it belongs. 



"I believe more publicity should be given 

 Arbor Day in the public schools and out- 

 ,side and laws ouglit to be enacted that for 

 -every tree cut down one shonhl be planted." 



so forth will be the text for a while 

 and the natives will brace up from 

 their winter sleep and roll up their 

 sleeves. 



The Pennock-Meehan Co. have 

 opened an annex for their Easter plant 

 trade in the big new store, 1638-40 

 Market street. Mr. Liggitt, the man- 

 ager, reports that tor quantity, quality 

 and variety they have never been so 

 well equipped for serving the retailers. 

 Give them "the once over." 



Because of the habit of flower ven- 

 dors thrusting bouquets in the faces 

 of passersby in an effort to make sales, 

 the police have forbidden them to 

 peddle their wares on Chestnut, Mar- 

 ket and Walnut streets from Tenth to 

 Sixteenth. Many women shoppers have 

 complained of being annoyed by the 

 vendors, it was said. 



The Wholesale Florists' Exchange 

 calls our attention to the fact that one 

 of their growers took eight firsts and 

 one second out of ten entries at the 

 recent National Rose Festival. Another 

 had two entries in the double white 

 Killarney class and took both first and 

 second on these, which 's a straw 

 which shows how the wind blows for 

 buyers looking for high quality in 

 roses in this market. 



left at once for another trip gathering 

 in the orders for "futures." 



During the absence of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Wm. Graham in the East where they 

 went to see old friends and visit the 

 flower shows, burglars made an at- 

 tempt to enter their apartment but 

 were evidently frightened away before 

 they could secure anything. 



Paul Klingsporn, manager of the 

 Chicago Flower Growers' Association, 

 has returned from the East bringing 

 flne reports of the great eastern flower 

 shows. Speaking of his trip through 

 the wholesale markets, he says he 

 cannot see that the stock offered for 

 sale is in any way superior to that of 

 Chicago. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Commodore Westcott made his first 



spring visit to his farms in Waretown 



on the 29th inst. Grass seed, early 



peas, onion sets, plows, harrows and 



CHICAGO. 



M. B. Hirsch, 346 E. 51st street, has 

 sold out to Mrs. King, who takes 

 possession at once. 



.'Arnold Ringier is no longer with 

 the W. W. Barnard Co., 231 W. Madi- 

 son street. The relationship was sev- 

 ered March 23rd. Mr. and Mrs. Ringier 

 lately returned from a trip to Cal- 

 ifornia. 



Robt. Newcomb, of the American 

 Bulb Co., has returned from St. Louis 

 where he made an exhibit of novelties 

 handled by his firm, and says the 

 Hower show was a great success. He 



PITTSBURGH 



Frank P. Smoller, who saw three 

 months of National Guard service and 

 a month in the hospital last fall on the 

 Mexican border, is preparing for active 

 work again at the call for his regi- 

 ment. 



Miss Gertrude Renziehausen, a de- 

 signer for the Ludwig Floral Co., had 

 a serious accident last Saturday even- 

 ing, when she was struck by an auto- 

 mobile just as she alighted from a trol- 

 ley car en route hoiue from work. 



Walter A. Faulk has the sympathy 

 of his friends and acquaintances in the 

 death of his mother, Mrs. Elizbaeth B. 

 Faulk, which occurred on Monday of 

 last week at the home of a daughter in 

 Marienville, Pa., whom she was visit- 

 ing. 



Under the auspices of the Audubon 

 Society of Western Penn. there was 

 an interesting exhibition last Tuesday 

 at the Fort Pitt Hotel. In connection 

 with the exhibition was the second an- 

 nual dinner of the society together 

 with the Audubon Society of Sewick- 

 ley. 



Cincinnati — Mr. and Mrs. Gus Ad- 

 rian, Jr., recently purchased a home on 

 Wood avenue in Clifton. The house 

 immediately adjoins the Adrian green- 

 houses. 



