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HORTICULTURE 



June 2, 1917 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



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CHICAGO. 



There have been more wedding or- 

 ders to take care of than usual in 

 May, this year, many of them quite 

 elaborate. 



J. J. Benthey has returned to his 

 usual place of business, feeling better 

 but not quite recovered from his re- 

 cent illness. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. is having a 

 dictaphone installed in their city office 

 which they will make a permanent fix- 

 ture if it proves satisfactory. 



Some of the big department stores 

 had their regular plant sales on the 

 day previous to Memorial Day. Many 

 thousands of plants were sold. 



A. Henderson has found more room 

 necessary tor handling his seed trade 

 and has secured the use of the store 

 at the corner of State and Lake 

 streets for the balance of the season. 

 The American Greenhouse Co. is 

 holding a conference of its salesmen 

 today, whose reports show that many 

 medium sized orders are being placed. 

 One of Chicago's large growers has 

 placed his order tor coal at $5.35 per 

 ton, fearing the price will advance 

 rather than decline during the 

 summer. 



A severe frost occurred on the night 

 of May 22nd and many a precious 

 home garden is ruined. The seed 

 stores are as busy as at any time in 

 the season. 



W. J. Smart, lately with Knight & 

 Struck, is now booking orders for the 

 Foley Greenhouse Manufacturing Co., 

 of Chicago, and also representing the 

 Aurora Nursery Co., of Aurora, 111. 



Zech & Mann has a very heavy ship- 

 ping trade on Sunday. All hands 

 worked throughout the day and were 

 ready again at five the next morning 

 getting out the orders. It did not 

 facilitate matters when Mr. Zech 

 sprained his ankle, but he lost no time 

 notwithstanding. 



Among the finest peonies coming 

 into the market are those grown by 

 Dr. A. J. Knapp, of Evansville, Ind. 

 O. A, & L. A. Tonner are handling 

 these peonies. So fast is the cut flow- 

 er end of their business growing that 

 a part of the supply department will 

 be dropped in the near future. 



Hoerber Bros, cut carnations entire- 

 ly from their list of growing stock and 

 have not regretted doing so, as the 

 demand has been more steady for 

 roses. Mr. Hoerber thinks the coal 

 situation likely to improve during the 

 summer, which would bring about a 

 lower price than can be had at this 

 time, so has not placed his order. 



J. C. Butler, cashier for Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co. at their store, was hurt in 

 an accident two weeks ago when a 

 motorcycle which he was riding col- 

 lided with a street car, near Crown 

 Point, Ind. He was severely injured 

 and taken to a hospital in that city, 

 but soon returned home feeling better 

 and returned to his work. This week 

 he is worse and confined to his home. 



P. L. McKee, president of the Amer- 

 ican Greenhouse Co., has just received 

 an interesting letter from W. A. Rowe 

 of Kirkwood, Mo. The American 

 Greenhouse Co. has presented hand- 

 some gold pocket pieces wishing good 

 luck to its patrons, and Mr, Rowe had 

 just received one when his auto was 

 stolen. He says the good luck came 

 when the auto was recovered, al- 

 though it cost the life of the young 

 thief. 



W. W. Adams will move this week 

 to his new location at the corner of 

 State and Division streets about three 

 blocks from his present store. The 

 corner is an important one from a bus- 

 iness standpoint, and a number of 

 years ago the Pleischman Floral Co. 

 operated a branch store here and 

 erected conservatories, which Mr. 

 Adams has had put in first class con- 

 dition as well as the store, so the place 

 will be one of the finest on the north 

 side. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Dewey Lester of the Rochester Floral 

 Co., has joined the U. S. Enginering 

 Corps, Columbus Barracks, and was 

 presented with a New Testament as 

 a parting gift. 



H. E. Wilson will open up a whole- 

 sale flower and supply store at 41-43 

 Stone street on June 1st under the 

 name of Wilson Floral Co. The store 

 has been thoroughly remodelled and a 

 good sized icebox has been installed. 



The Polyanthus Primroses make a 

 display of exceptional beauty at High- 

 land Park. They are finer this year 

 than ever before. The evergreen rasp- 

 berry from Oregon, not over a foot 

 high and covering about 100 square 

 feet of ground, is worth a special visit, 

 with its clusters of yellow blossoms. 

 The Siberian crabapple now blossom- 

 ing in the Shakespeare garden offers a 

 brilliant bit of color with its flowers of 

 deep red. Lilac day, a big day at High- 

 land Park, will be the first Sunday in 

 June. 



NEW YORK. 



Guttman & Raynor, Inc., have 

 leased adequate space in the well 

 equipped and commodious store of the 

 United Cut Fower Company, 111 West 

 28 street, which arrangement takes 

 effect June 1. This move is a clear 

 manifestation of the trend of the times 

 toward practical economy and the at- 

 tainment of maximum efficiency, while 

 at the same time bringing the over- 

 head expenses down to a minimum. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



There is no truth in the rumor as- 

 siduosly circulated by adverse inter- 

 ests that Charles E. Meehan is to re- 

 tire from the Pennock-Meehan Co 

 He only retires as vice-president, so 

 that he may have more time to devote 

 to his growing establishments in Ger- 

 mantown and Churchville. He still 

 remains a stockholder in the corpora- 

 tion. A change in the personnel of 

 the officers of a company is of daily 

 occurrence, and no one gets excited 

 about it unless hard up tor a peg to 

 hang a story on. 



PITTSBURGH. 



Earl J. Hunkle. who has been for a 

 long time with the E. C. Ludwig Floral 

 Company, is now with the McCallum 

 Company. 



Gilbert P. Weaklen. of G. P. Weak- 

 len & Co., has bought out the other 

 member of the firm and is now in full 

 control of the business. 



WASHINGTON. 



Horticulturist and assistant horti- 

 culturist are wanted in the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry. Salary of horticul- 

 turist is $2100 to $2500 a year. Salary 

 of assistant is $1800 to $2000. Duties 

 of the position include work investi- 

 gating improvement of potato raising. 

 Botanical artist is wanted in the Bu- 

 reau of Plant Industry. Salary $900 a 

 year. Both men and women are eli- 

 gible. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 

 Chicago — Thos. Kane, with Peter- 

 sons' Floral Co., Kansas City, Mo.; 

 W. J. Vesey, Jr., Fort Wayne, Ind.; 

 W. A. Toole, Baraboo, Wis. 



Philadelphia — Watson Woodruff, 

 Orange, Conn.; Harry O. May, Sum- 

 mit, N. J.; S. F. Leonard, Chicago. 

 111.; Mr. Canfield, Shenandoah, Pa.; 

 Harry Fries, Lancaster, Pa. 



PEONY IDENTITIES 



The following communication was 

 received by the Secretary of the 

 American Peony Society not long ago 

 from Messrs. Kallen and Lunnemann 

 of Boskoop, Holland: 



"Peony President Tiift. This variety 

 was placed on the market by Messrs. 

 Blaauw & Co., of Boskoop, who obtained 

 it as an unnamed variety from France, we 

 believe. 



From observations made this summer it 

 seems to us that President Taft is identi- 

 cal with Heine Hortense." 



They then request that those who 

 possess both varieties should make 

 further careful comparison of the two 

 sorts and report their findings. There 

 are already several of our growers 

 who share the conviction of Messrs. 

 Kallen and Lunnemann as to their 

 identity; yet in some American lists 

 they are offered as distinct varieties. 

 We should be able to get this question 

 cleared up without delay. I may add 

 that there is a very pretty color plate 

 of Reine Hortense in Mrs. Harding's 

 new book. 



Your ad. on Hydrangeas w^as 

 very effective and has helped me 

 to dispose of two houses of Hy- 

 drangeas for Memorial Day. We 

 have had a great many letters' tell- 

 ing us how fine the stock is. 

 Thanking you, I am 



Yours very truly, 



A. L. MILLER. 



