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HORTICULTURE 



January 27, 1917 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO. 



Announcement has been received 

 here that the Queen City Floral Co., 

 Traverse City, Mich., was sold on Jan. 

 11 to Ralph Anderson. 



Jacob B. Wiese, wife and two daugh- 

 ters, ot Buffalo, are in Chicago on 

 their way to Los Angeles, Calif., where 

 they will spend a few weeks. 



August Jurgens is home from the 

 liospital but has not ventured down 

 to the market yet. He is one ot the 

 large growers of spring flowers for 

 this market. 



News of the death of Swain Nelson 

 -was learned with regret here where 

 he made an enviable reputation in 

 landscape work. His obituary ap- 

 pears in another column. 



M. B. Larson and family are here to 

 attend the wedding of a daughter 

 which will take place very soon. Miss 

 Larson has been associated with her 

 parents in conducting the store in 

 Racine, Wis. 



Pots and pans ot spring flowers are 

 now ready in considerable quantity. 

 These are from bulbs grown in south- 

 ern France, which are always earlier 

 than those from Holland. Azaleas, too 

 late for Christmas, are coming in very 

 conveniently now for there are few 

 other blooming plants to be had. 



The American Bulb Co., just closing 

 its first season, is much pleased with 

 the business shown by the books. All 

 the traveling men are on the road 

 now, working for the orders which will 

 make next season's sales even more 

 satisfactory. Among the new arrivals 

 is a car of gladiolus bulbs. Their or- 

 ders for the new rose sport. Pink 

 Ophelia, are showing the growers liked 

 the sample blooms shown here. It 

 looks now as if the only safe way is 

 to order early to assure getting stock, 

 for the success of Ophelia is practical- 

 ly a guarantee of what its sport Rose 

 Pink will become. 



F'red Schramm of Park Ridge, 111., 

 is a daily visitor to Chicago, for he 

 is now serving his third term as juror. 

 Mr. Schramm, who devotes his 35,000 

 sq. ft. of glass to growing carnations, 

 confines his stock to seven varieties — 

 for pink. Enchantress and Mrs. Ward; 

 for red. Victory, Beacon and Champion; 

 for white. White Enchantress and 

 White Perfection. Next year Match- 

 less will take the place of White Per- 

 fection on account of splitting. Mr. 

 Schramm, in answer to a question, said 

 he did not think that the carnation 

 enjoys the popularity that it did ten 

 or fifteen years ago, and suggests the 

 large number of spring flowers now 

 grown and the jioinilarity of the little 

 baskets of artificial flowers as among 

 the probable causes. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Retail Association met on Mon- 

 day. Jan. 15. 



The late Mrs. M. M. Ayres left sev- 

 eral thousand dollars to the Children's 

 Hospital. 



Willie Dee, manager of the plant 



and seed department at C. Young & 

 Sons, is again at his duties, having 

 recovered from a severe attack of 

 pneumonia. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



George W. Hess, superintendent of 

 the U. S. Botanical Garden, has been 

 named as a member of the Committee 

 on Illumination for the Inaugural. 



A collection of tropical and subtrop- 

 ical plants and fruits is to be made 

 for the Department of Agriculture by 

 W. E. Safford, who has just left this 

 city for a ten weeks' stay in Florida 

 for that purpose. A series of investi- 

 gations with Dutch bulbs is to be 

 carried on by Dr. David Grifllths, who 

 has just left for a trip through Vir- 

 ginia, North and South Carolina, 

 Georgia and Florida. 



I''l()i-:il (IftHling- £(ir Ailliiii-:il Dewey' 

 Funerill. 



The funeral of the late Admiral 

 Dewey brought a considerable amount 

 of business to the florists ot this city. 

 J. H. Small & Sons alone had 42 pieces, 

 and in all there were seven truck loads 

 of flowers sent to the tomb in Arling- 

 ton Cemetery. One piece furnished by 

 J. H. Small & Sons, which eclipsed 

 anything else furnished for this occa- 

 sion, was a fourteen-foot standing 

 wreath of American Beauty roses, 

 lilies, cattleyas and lily of the valley. 

 Gude Bros. Company came in for a 

 considerable share of this business, for 

 they furnished nearly a score of 

 wreaths and clusters, each more or 

 less imposing in their makeup. Fred 

 H. Kramer. George H. Cooke, Z. D. 

 Blackistone, the Washington Floral 

 Company, the DuPont Floral Co., 

 Marche & Co., and others, each fur- 

 nished a number of designs. 



BOSTON. 

 The New England party bound for 

 the carnation meeting at Indianapolis 

 will be of fair size as it now appears. 

 They will leave Boston on Monday, 

 January 29, at 2 P. M. 



Penn the Florist has leased a store 

 on Hamilton Place, two doors from the 

 Tremont street store, for ten years, 

 which will be used as a display room 

 for garden furniture and accessories. 



William N. Craig, superintendent of 

 Faulkner Farm in Brookline, spoke 

 before the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society in Horticultural Hall, last 

 Saturday on "Seeds, How to Prepare 

 Them and How to Plant Them." 



A brisk blaze raged for about 30 

 minutes in E. D. Kaulback's Maiden 

 store last week, causing much excite- 

 ment and a small loss. The origin of 

 the fire could not be ascertained. Mr. 

 Kaulback did not find it necessary to 

 shut down, and repairs are now be- 

 ing made. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



A meeting of the local committees of 

 the American Rose Society was held 

 at the Bellevue-Stratford on January 

 ISth. President Pennock in the chair. 

 There was a good attendance of the 

 members and all reported satisfactory 

 progress in their various departments, 

 nie big Rose Festival that takes place 

 in March is in excellent shape so far, 

 and everybody seems full of enthu- 

 siasm—which is as it should be— the 

 absolutely necessary ingredient to 

 make the show a big success. 



Another live wire has been added to 

 the outfit of the Philadelphia Whole- 

 sale Florists' Exchange in the person 

 of George Cook, for many years one 

 of the leading salesmen for the Pen- 

 nock-Meehan Co. The Exchange is 

 headed by W. A. Leonard, one of 

 Philadelphia's leading rose growers, 

 and his right bower is J. Deutscher, 

 one of the brightest hustlers on the 

 selling end. Since the new organiza- 

 tion was formed one year ago, busi- 

 ness has rapidly increased and bids 

 fair to be a big success. 



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