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HOETICULTURE 



April 7, 1917 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO. 



Miss Ida Sellinger of A. Lange's is 

 quite ill. She has the important posi- 

 tion ot taking the telephone orders. 



Lincoln Park, almost down town, is 

 called the People's Park, and here 

 every foot ot the conservatories is 

 filled. Probably more people visit this 

 place than all the others together and 

 last Sunday was no exception to the 

 rule. 



The new wholesale commission 

 house of Wiltgen & Freres is getting 

 a good start. Both young men are 

 much respected by the trade and they 

 will receive a fair share of patronage. 

 Easter orders are showing up well on 

 the books. 



Fred Lautenschlager, sales manager 

 for Kroeschell Bros., returned Satur- 

 day from the East where he saw the 

 various flower shows and incidentally 

 talked business with prospective build- 

 ers. He says it will be very difficult 

 to surpass the shows just given. 



Frank Oeschlin's entire stock of 

 blooming plants was booked three 

 weeks before Easter, although his sup- 

 ply was larger than ever before. Truck 

 difficulties were numerous during the 

 Easter delivery, causing annoyance 

 but no delay, as the disabled cars were 

 quickly replaced. 



Philip McKee has returned from a 

 business trip in the interest ot the 

 American Greenhouse Manuf. Co. An 

 order for a new range has been booked 

 for Ed. A. Humfeld, of Kansas City. 

 Mo. The houses which will be 36 x 

 150 ft. and devoted to growing roses 

 and carnations, will be erected at In- 

 dependence, Mo.. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. are finding their 

 predictions of a banner Easter already 

 fulfilled, for advance orders are foot- 

 ing up away ahead of previous years. 

 As soon as Easter is over they will 

 move to their new location on the op- 

 posite side of the street where a much 

 larger place on the ground floor, with 

 plenty of light will give them further 

 opportunity to expand. 



The Freres Windier Co., Inc., is now 

 the sign on the door ot Room 218 Ash- 

 land Block, where formerly it read 

 Dominick Freres. The new member 

 is R. J. Windier, formerly of St. I.ouis, 

 Mo , where he was in the wholesale 

 and retail flower business. He has 

 lately taken the management of the 

 range ot greenhouses on Ridge Ave., 

 owned by Adam Zender, his father-in- 

 law, and will grow stock for the new 

 concern. 



The J. C. Moninger Co. has the con- 

 tract for rebuilding the Rasmussen 

 greenhouses at New Albany, Ind„ 

 which were destroyed last week by a 

 tornado. They are old customers ot 

 J. C. Moninger whose good work here- 

 tofore made it an easy matter for their 

 representatives, who lost no time in 

 getting to the scene, to secure the new 

 order. The greater part of the 175,000 

 square feet of glass was destroyed. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co., sold out com- 

 pletely in their plant department be- 

 fore Easter week began. This looks as 



if plants were even more popular than 

 ever for each year the big plant grow- 

 ers raise more stock. In the down 

 town store, business will be facilitated 

 by having the office and samples ot the 

 supply department brought to the 

 same floor as the cut flowers. This has 

 been done by cutting a door to the ad- 

 joining building and all will be ready 

 for use after Easter. 



The spring flower shows at the park 

 conservatories opened last Sunday. 

 Great preparations had been made for 

 this annual event and it was a disap- 

 pointment to the managers that the 

 day was cold and wet and attendance 

 comparatively small in consequence. 

 At Garfield Park Conservatories the 

 Easter lily was the center of attraction 

 of course, but it shared honor with 

 beds of roses, masses of baby ram- 

 blers, great beds of cinerarias, amaryl- 

 lis and Dutch bulbous stock and some 

 splendid specimen rhododendrons. Op- 

 posite the entrance of this immense 

 conservatory is the gold fish pond, its 

 banks of rock covered with rare plants 

 and from this position one looks across 

 a mass of green shrubbery and tall 

 trees into the tropical house beyond, 

 where a sunken garden of ferns and 

 palms, encircled by a walk, give the 

 idea of distance not often found in con- 

 servatories. It is a place for rest and 

 quiet and real communion with nature. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Paul Bauer, son of Otto Bauer, man- 

 ager of the Pennock-Meehan store, has 

 been seriously ill with pneumonia. 



An extension of the work of conduct- 

 ing investigations on injury to plants 

 by frost and by action of poisonous 

 gases, is to be carried on in (^hicago 

 under the direction of Dr. William 

 Crocker. Rodney B. Harvey, micro- 

 analyst of the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try,, of the Department of Agriculture, 

 has been directed by the Chief of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry to go to Chi- 

 cago to assist Dr. Crocker. 



The last day of March saw the pass- 

 ing of one of Washington's oldest es- 

 tablishments, for on that day the J. R. 

 Freeman store at 612 Thirteenth 

 street. Northwest, was closed. In its 

 day, it was one of the largest and 

 handsomest establishments in the city. 

 There were in addition greenhouses on 

 Georgia avenue and the large place in 

 Georgetown, the former now con- 

 trolled by a Mrs. Martin, while the lat- 

 ter was discontinued some time ago. 

 The business was founded over fifty 

 years ago by the late Joseph R. Free- 

 man, who passed away in 1910. S:nce 

 that time his sons have been running 

 the business. During thirty-five 

 years of this time the store has been 

 largely looked after by Walter F. 

 Payne. Mr. Payne is now going into 

 business for himself and has opened a 

 store at 1303 F street. Northwest. 



PITTSBURGH. 



George Crosby, formerly a green- 

 house attache for G. P. Weaklen & Co., 

 has been promoted to the designing de- 

 partment. 



Rambler roses, Pink Pearl rhododen- 

 drons, French hydrangeas, heather and 

 azaleas predominate in the retailers' 

 Easter displays. Baskets of plants 

 festooned with ribbon with dainty 

 effect are shown in brilliant array. 



The Pittsburgh Vacant Lot Garden 

 Association has announced the pro- 

 vision of a garden for every deserving 

 family in Pittsburgh under the direc- 

 tion of superintendent J. H. Wiesman. 

 This is the first measure taken towards 

 economic preparedness in the event 

 of war. 



Webster T. Ammerman, who has 

 been connected with the landscape de- 

 partment of the A. W. Smith Co., has 

 resigned to accept a similar position in 

 Akron, Ohio. He is succeeded by 

 James W. Phillips, Carnegie Institute 

 of Technology, '06, and Paul Klingen- 

 smith of Indianapolis, Ind., who will 

 graduate from Carnegie "Tech." in 

 June. 



BOSTON. 



Last Saturday afternoon the mem- 

 bers of the Houghton Horticultural 

 Society visited the greenhouses of 

 Thomas Roland at Nahant to view the 

 Easter display. 



A free lecture on the cultivation of 

 city gardens was delivered by John 

 K. M. L. Farquhar in the Uphams 

 Comer Municipal Building, Monday 

 evening, April 2. 



The members of the exhibition com- 

 mittee of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society were the guests of the 

 Horticultural Club of Boston at the 

 Parker House on Wednesday evening, 

 April 4. There was a very interesting 

 discussion on Flower Show problems. 

 The decorations were vases of splendid 

 Darwin tulips by William Sim. 



PERSONAL. 



F. R. Pierson is laid up with the 

 grippe at his home in Tarrytown, N. Y. 



T. J. Nolan, of the King Construc- 

 tion Co., of No. Tonawanda, N. Y., is 

 now associated with Henry S. DeFor- 

 est in the New York office, 42nd street 

 and Broadway, where visitors are al- 

 ways welcome. Both gentlemen are 

 well known to the trade and the gar- 

 dening fraternity. 



Roy Rudolph, of Cincinnati, and 

 Miss Irene Wachers are to marry on 

 Wednesday, April 18th. The ceremony 

 will take place at the Evanston Pres- 

 byterian church. 



George W. Foulsham has resigned 

 as superintendent of Highlawn farm, 

 Lenox. Mass., and will go to Bethle- 

 hem, Pa., to engage in the florist busi- 

 ness. He was appointed superinten- 

 dent of William B. O. Field's place at 

 the time the place was being created 

 in 1907, having previously been in the 

 employ of Spencer P. Shotter at 

 Shadow Brook and at Savannah, Ga. 

 The employes at Highlawn farm pre- 

 sented a purse of gold to Mr. Foul- 

 sham. 



