October 27, 1917 



HORTICULTUEE 



149 



CHICAGO. 



Mrs. Fred Heinl, of Terre Haute, 

 Ind., is ill at the Presbyterian Hospital 

 in Cliicago. 



An injured knee has given E. J. War- 

 ren of Poehlmann Bros', office an en- 

 forced vacation, but he is now able to 

 be bacli to his duties again. 



J. S. Wilson, of Des IMoines, la., is 

 much interested in the coming flower 

 show in his city and did some good 

 work for it while here recently. 



Five of the former employees of A. 

 Lange are now serving their country, 

 one having reached France, and a let- 

 ter received from him states he is 

 well. 



Schiller, the florist, has fortunately 

 disposed of his lease on the store 

 known as the Gift Shop at 36 S. 

 AVabash avenue, which he vacated 

 during the summer. 



Miss Alice McClevey and Ernest R. 

 Farley were married on Oct. 20th. 

 Both are connected with the trade and 

 their many friends wish them a happy 

 and prosperous life. 



Fred Stielow, Sr., well-known grow- 

 er at Niles Center, underwent an op- 

 eration at the Columbus Hospital Sat- 

 urday. Another one will follow short- * 

 ly. He is reported as doing well. 



At Zech & Mann's the chrysanthe- 

 mums are making such a fine showing 

 that the store looks like a flower 

 show. All the varieties now in season 

 are to be seen there and the stock 

 is excellent. 



The Chicago Retailers' Association 

 has sent out requests for signatures 

 of those in the trade, favoring the 

 abolishing of the sale of flowers in the 

 streets and platforms of the elevated 

 roads. 



All the troubles of the florists wlio 

 had shipments on the Waaldyk were 

 not over when the stock finally 

 reached Chicago. There were goods 

 without bills and bills without stocks, 

 but the twelve carloads were at last 

 distributed by the aid of the consular 

 invoices. 



A. F. Longren, salesman of florists' 

 supplies, reports business in the north- 

 w-est as very good. He says that flor- 

 ists are missing the trade the debu- 

 tantes have formerly occasioned, but 

 outside of this there is little difference 

 in the retail trade and supplies are, as 

 much in demand as they were last 

 year. 



Andrew J. O'Leary will open a flow- 

 er store at 343 E. 47th street about 

 Oct. 27th to be known as O'I.eary, 

 Florist. Mr. O'l^ary has had a wide 

 experience in the florists' biisiness, 

 having been with J. H. Small, New 

 York and Washington for eight years 

 and with various Chicago florists for 

 three years. 



August Poehlmann, president of the 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co., has just re- 

 turned from a week among the oil 

 wells of Oklahoma. He has extremely 

 interesting accounts to relate of what 

 he saw while there and acquired a 

 great deal of enthusiasm regarding 



the opportunities that exist in that 

 country. 



H. E. Scheffle, who formerly had a 

 retail flower store here and retired 

 from business a year ago, suffered a, 

 very painful accident last Saturday 

 while hunting at Pistakee Bay, 111. 

 While lifting his gun from the boat, it 

 was discharged, tearing the flesh from 

 his arm and hand. He is in the Nor- 

 wegian Deaconess' Hospital where his 

 condition is serious, but it is hoped 

 that his arm will be saved. 



The introduction of California 

 grown chrysanthemums into this mar- 

 ket last year is bearing fruit ten-fold 

 this year. The retailers have found 

 that they can get the flowers direct 

 and save the profits of the commission 

 men and are not slow to see the ad- 

 vantage. Chicago plants were a little 

 late coming into bloom this fall and 

 the downtown retailers had a splendid 

 showing of the blooms from the coast, 

 with a trade well established before 

 the home-grown ones arrived. Strange 

 to say, the ones from the coast are 

 reported to be the better keepers, but 

 this refers to early ones only. 



NEW YORK. 



We are very sorry to have to report 

 that Wm. Trumpore has been obliged 

 to go again to the hospital for treat- 

 ment, this time to a private institu- 

 tion at 63rd street and Lexington 

 avenue. 



One of the most fetching things we 

 have seen of late in the flower line 

 was a big vase of lilacs, double white, 

 in W. S. Allen's window. Mr. Allen 

 says he got as high as one dollar a 

 spray for some of it. It is certainly 

 a prime novelty at this season. 



Charles Millang, who has been in- 

 dustriously advocating the permanent 

 discontinuance of Sunday business by 

 the wholesale flower trade, is much 

 pleased over the isuccess in inducing 

 the complete closing on Sundays of 

 the Coogan Building in which the 

 flower market and a number of whole- 

 sale firms are located. 



We have been watching the Hadley 

 roses from time to time as they ar- 

 rived at P. J. Smith's in the morn- 

 ing and each day they appear to bet- 

 ter and better advantage. There is 

 every rea&on to expect that this grand 

 crimson rose will again hold the pre- 

 mier position among roses in the New 

 York market as it did last season. 



Charles Thorley has purchased the 

 five-story building at 2 East 46th 

 street, opposite the rebuilt Windsor 

 Arcade. According to report, which 

 could not be authoritatively confirmed, 

 Mr. Thorley bought it for the purpose 

 of establishing his business there 

 when the lease of his present estab- 

 lishment, at the Fifth avenue and 46th 

 street, expires three years hence, and 

 in time, make a gift of the outfit to 

 his employees. 



BOSTON. 



Charles H. Fi-aser, brother of John 

 A. l<'raser, florist, of Wellesley, leaves 

 for France within a week. He is a 

 first lieutenant in the Ofiicers' Re- 

 serve Engineering Corps and has been 

 training at the American University, 

 Washington, D. C, and Camp Meade. 



Samuel Sloane, a gardener living at 

 l:!7 Boylston street, suffered such a 

 severe injury to his right foot when 

 struck by an electric car on Harvard 

 street last Monday morning that it 

 will be necessary to amputate it. 

 Sloane was riding on his bicycle and 

 turned out to avoid hitting some chil- 

 dren and was struck by the electric 

 car. 



Boston rose growers will be particu- 

 larly interested in the E. G. Hill Com- 

 pany's advertisement of Columbia in 

 this issue of Horticulture, for blooms 

 of this new rose were seen by a num- 

 ber of them at a recent gathering of 

 the craft and they unanimously ac- 

 corded it a place in the foremost rank 

 of all forcing roses up to the present 

 time. 



PITTSBURGH. 



0. J. Parker, of Scobie & Parker, has 

 returned from a five months' sojourn 

 in Los Angeles, Cal., leaving his large 

 fruit ranch in charge of his son, 

 Joseph Parker. 



Mr. and Mrs. DeForest W. Ludwig 

 entertained with a dinner party on • 

 last Tuesday evening in celebration of^ 

 the thirty-second wedding anniversary 

 of Mr. Ludwig's parents, Mr. and Mrs. 

 E. C. Ludwig. 



Miss Eliza McKinley has resigned 

 as head salesman for Randolph & Mc- 

 Clements. Miss McKinley, who is one 

 of the best known and best liked 

 women in the trade, will be missed 

 alike by employers, associates and 

 patrons. 



A handsome silver loving cup was 

 awarded to the Krut Floral Co., of 

 Butler, for the best window decoration 

 at the recent Style Show of the pro- 

 .?ressive little city. The design was a 

 bridal table arranged by Mrs. McGuire, 

 formerly Miss Krut, manager of the 

 firm. 



The Blind Floral Company has just 

 received word of the arrival of a large 

 consignment of Holland bulbs long 

 overdue. Edward L. McC.rath, mana- 

 ger, and Harry P. Langhans, designer 

 and salesman, who recently purchased 

 the retail end of the business, located 

 in the Empire building, have renamed 

 it the Empire Floral Shop. 



The seventeenth annual prize com- 

 petition for the most beautiful lawns, 

 (lower culture, grounds, vegetable and 

 window or porch boxes in Wil- 

 merding ended last Friday with the 

 announcement of winners. Prizes, all 

 cash, were given by ofllcials of the 

 Westinghouse Airbrake Company. The 

 same evening a report of the garden- 

 ing committee of the Community 

 Center of Oakland, Pittsburgh, was 

 given, and prizes awarded by the Oak- 

 land Board of Trade and the Women's 

 Club of Oakland. 



Lee, Mass. — The greenhouses at An- 

 drew Carnegie's place are to be re- 

 paired. A. L. Peters has the contract. 



Franklintown, Md.— John Eberhard 

 has sold his greenhouses to William 

 Stehling of Baltimore. 



