HORTICULTURE 



May 12, 1917 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO. 



Wm. Van Dame, president of the 

 Rapid Wrapper Co., is about again 

 after an operation for appendicitis. 



H. G. Maclellan, who was operated 

 upon recently for appendicitis, is able 

 to be at home but is still confined to 

 the house. 



Store and office furnishings are being 

 rapidly installed for the new store of 

 Kennicott Bros., to which they will 

 move shortly. 



Henry C. Dunn, formerly with Wm. 

 T. Scofield, has opened a store for 

 himself in the next block, at 807 N. 

 State street. 



Lord & Burnham Company have 

 moved their offices from the Rookery 

 Building to the Continental and Com- 

 mercial Bank Building. 



The formal opening of the new resi- 

 dential Parkway Hotel, facing Lincoln 

 Park at Garfield Ave., called for the 

 use of many flowers from the north 

 side florists May 8th. 



Chas. Schneider has for several 

 years proved that a ground floor was 

 not an absolute necessity for a retail 

 flower store, but he Is now showing 

 that it is more desirable by moving to 

 6 W. Jackson Boulevard. 



The Geo. Wittbold Co. has executed 

 $25,000 worth of 6 per cent, serial first 

 mortgage gold bonds which are now 

 being offered for sale. This is to take 

 up a loan now due on the Edgebrook 

 property and to make further improve- 

 ments. 



The Foley Greenhouse Manuf. Co. is 

 now building two fine private green- 

 houses, one for Mrs. C. H. McCormick 

 on her Lake Forest estate and the 

 other for W. L. Zelie at Moline, 111. 

 Both houses are of the curved eave 

 iron-frame type. 



There is a marked decrease in the 

 amount of floral display, both natural 

 and artificial, being used in the big 

 State street stores this spring. Old 

 Glory reigns supreme and beside the 

 wide flag-draped aisles flowers seem 

 almost out of place. 



August Poehlmann, president of 

 Poehlmann Bros., has been indisposed 

 lately and went to Lake View hospital 

 last week for rest and treatment. His 

 son Earle has filed his application for 

 admission to the officers' training sta- 

 tion at Fort Sheridan, 111. 



A. Longren, who has just returned 

 from a very satisfactory trip through 

 the northwest, reports sales of florists' 

 supplies away ahead of those of last 

 year, and his opinion is that the war 

 situation is not going to seriously in- 

 jure the flower business, unless florists 

 themselves bring it about by an undue 

 amount of fear. 



The effort to save the Dunes along 

 the southern shore of Lake Michigan 

 by making that section a National 

 park, is having an uplift in the Memo- 

 rial Day exercises there. The special 

 feature is a Dunes Pageant with woods 



and lake for a setting, which will draw 

 thousands of people who have never 

 visited that spot before. 



The prices for Mothers' Day are sup- 

 posed to be in effect all the previous 

 week and are so quoted in the column 

 for that purpose. The market being 

 rather quiet, buyers on the spot have 

 not been held strictly to quotations. 

 Orders are now on the books for a 

 sufficient amount of shipping stock to 

 make it sure that a good week is 

 ahead. 



There are very few blooming plants 

 in the market at this time. The hybrid 

 calceolarias have been making a fine 

 showing in the windows of the loop 

 flower stores where their beautiful 

 brilliant colors gave a much needed 

 brightness during the cold backward 

 spring, but these plants are about 

 through blooming now, leaving pelar- 

 goniums to take their place. The beau- 

 tiful variety Easter Greeting with its 

 sports have such masses of large 

 blooms that a good plant closely re- 

 sembles a well-grown azalea with its 

 rounded top almost hidden with bloom. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Alex. Siegel is, we are sorry to say, 

 pretty low and unable to get around. 



J. J. Beneke is better and every one 

 was pleased to see him at his post 

 again at the Cut Flower Co. 



A burglar attempted to ransack the 

 office of C. A. Kuehn but only suc- 

 ceeded in breaking a window glass. 



Walter Young, of C. Young & Sons, 

 recently married, will leave shortly 

 to join his regiment. Battery A, for 

 the front. 



The Plant and Flower Growers' 

 Association met at Eleven Mile House, 

 Wednesday evening. May 2nd. A good 

 attendance was there. W. A. Rowe 

 was elected president; A. S. Cemy, 

 vice-president; Joe Deutchmann re- 

 elected secretary; August Hartmas 

 re-elected treasurer; Albert Scheidder, 

 trustee. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



J. Horace McFarland, of Harrisburg, 

 will give an illustrated lecture in the 

 auditorium of the Twentieth Century 

 Cluib, Lansdowne, Delaware Co., Pa., 

 on the evening of June 8th, under the 

 auspices of the Landowne Flower 

 Show Association. The public is in- 

 vited. No charge for admission. 

 Samuel S. Pennock is president of the 

 society and asks that all his friends 

 and their friends show up and give fit- 

 ting greeting to a most distinguished 

 flower enthusiast and at the same time 

 pass a pleasant and Instructive even- 

 ing. The annual spring show of the 

 society will be held at the same place 

 on the following day — June 9Ui. 



BOSTON. 



Edward I. Farrington will entertain 

 the Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 next Tuesday evening with a steropti- 

 con lecture on "What's New in the 

 Garden." 



At a meeting of the directors of the 

 Boston Flower Exchange last Satur- 

 day, it was voted to send a check for 

 twenty-five dollars to the Mothers' 

 Day fund. 



Robert Bums, of the Sutermeister 

 estate at Readville, who was seriously 

 injured by being run down by an au- 

 tomobile is said to be recovering satis- 

 factorily at the Massachusetts General 

 Hospital. 



Sixty-two separate lots 50 by 100 feet 

 have been staked out on the new 

 campus of Tufts College for the pur- 

 pose of cultivating the land. These 

 lots were assigned to the residents of 

 Somerville. 



Amid the crowing of roosters and 

 the chatter of small birds, firemen 

 fought a fire in a chicken brooder at 

 the Stapler Seed Company, 261 Pur- 

 chase street, last Tuesday morning. 

 Three hundred and twenty-five small 

 chicks inside the brooder perished 

 when the kerosene heater exploded. 



J. K. M. L. Farquhar gave a talk on 

 Back Yard Gardens before a large au- 

 dience in the Public Library lecture 

 hall, last Sunday afternoon. There 

 was enthusiasm unlimited and long 

 after the lecture proper was over a 

 crowd lingered around the speaker 

 deluging him with questions. 



More than 500 South End boys and 

 girls under 15 years recently accepted 

 the offer of Miss Mildred Champagne 

 to provide an acre of land near her 

 theatre on Berkeley street, which 

 they will plant and care for and from 

 which they will receive the harvest. 

 Garden seeds and tools will be provid- 

 ed and an expert gardener will be in 

 attendance during the summer. 



Several members of the Women's G. 

 A. of Boston have written to Mayor 

 Curley and John H. Dillon, chairman 

 of the Park and Recreation Depart- 

 ment, requesting that the plowing and 

 planting of the Franklin Park golf 

 course be postponed until other oppor- 

 tunities for the raising of foodstuffs 

 are exhausted. The letter was turned 

 over to the sub-committee on food pro- 

 duction of the Boston Public Safety 

 Committee, of which Robert S. Pea- 

 body is chairman. Mr. Peabody says 

 there will be no stopping and that all 

 available land in the vicinity of Bos- 

 ton which can be used for cultivation 

 will be taken for that purpose. 



Hobart, Ind. — E. H. Kellon has pur- 

 chased the business and greenhouses 

 of A. Londenberg, who has left for 

 Tampa, Pla. 



The officers-elect of the newly organ- 

 ized Binghamton (N. Y.) Florists' As- 

 sociation are as follows: President, 

 William Baker, Suskana Flower Shop; 

 vice-president, J. W. Beckwith; sec- 

 retary-treasurer, A. M. Pancher. The 

 new society starts with very promis- 

 ing auspices. 



