January 1, 1916 



KORTICULTUEE 



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occupied? What a reception your 

 flowers give you. The ambrosia and 

 nectar of the feasts of the deities of 

 fable are overshadowed by the fra- 

 grance and sweetness of your wor- 

 shippers. It would seem that every 

 flower, like a royal subject, was bent 

 on rendering the most exalted honor 

 to her king. 



No company of maidens preparing 

 for nuptials were ever arrayed like 

 these. The highest art ever dis- 

 played in the palaces of kings hasn't 

 any comparison to the beauty 

 and splendor of your reception. 

 By divine right you are supreme. The 

 fertile soil puts her tributes at your 

 feet. For you all the viewless influ- 

 ences of nature are at work. For you 

 the sun shines and the showers fall. 

 So brothers, don't creep, but mount u]) 

 as on eagles' wings. Don't live all 

 the while in the basement. Spend 

 some time in the upper story of your 

 calling. 



You are not making the earth weep 

 blood. You are not spreading on the 

 fields a carpet of mangled forms. You 

 are not dropping ruin and death from 

 the skies or polluting God's pure wa- 

 ters with submarines. You are not 

 turning all your energies into the 

 work of destruction, despoiling the 

 treasures of art and the pride of the 

 ages and turning the fairest portions 

 of the earth into desolations. You are 

 not changing yourselves into demons 

 to gloat over starvation and ruin. 



See what you have done! You have 

 clothed the dreary plain with gardens, 

 orchards, and forests. Instead of 

 the air sodden with tears and trem- 

 ulous with the wail of widows and 

 orphans, you are welcomed with the 

 joy of children and the delight of 

 mothers. When you pass on to the 

 land where "everlasting spring abides" 

 may you receive the royal welcome 

 "Well done, good and faithful servant." 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



D. Raymond of the Garden City 

 Potteries Co. has left for the east to 

 look over the products of some of the 

 pottery factories. 



Jesse I. Jewell and Guy B. Grosse 

 have opened an agency in Santa Rosa, 

 Cal., for the well-known Fancher 

 Creek and Kirkman nursery products. 



Violet shippers enjoyed a very heavy 

 demand for violets the week before 

 Christmas. The American Express 

 Co. had to put on an extra car to care 

 for the final orders. 



John H. W. Field has withdrawn 

 from the recently organized Bay 

 Counties Seed Co. at 404 Market 

 street, leaving his partner, E. Milton 

 ToninI, sole proprietor of the business. 



The week before Christmas, Pelicano, 

 Rossi & Co. maintained a branch at 

 135 Sutter street to relieve the con- 

 gestion at their main shop on Kearny 

 street. Plants were featured at the 

 temporary location and a very satis- 

 factory clean-up was reported. 



The Art Floral Co. on Powell street 

 was obliged to secure additional space 

 to handle its holiday trade, the over- 

 flow from the main shop being stored 

 in a large basement across the street, 

 where it could be reached on short 

 order. P. Epstein reported this their 

 best Christmas business. 



BOSTON. 



The Florists' Bowling Association 

 resumed its schedule on Thursday 

 evening, Dec. 30. 



Ladies" Night at the Gardeners' and 

 Floiists' Club will be on January IS, 

 1916, at which time the new officers 

 will be installed. The date of the an- 

 nual banquet, which will take place at 

 the American House, has been set for 

 February 9th. 



The most remarkable case of long- 

 keeping of violets that we have seen 

 was a shipment of flowers of the old 

 Parma single from California which 

 was received in Penn's store a few 

 days before Christmas. Fragrance was 

 gone, of course, but many of the flow- 

 ers retained their color and crisp, 

 fresh appearance most surprisingly. 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co., have opened 

 out on to three floors in the building 

 which they acquired adjoining their 

 original building on South Market and 

 have been remodelling. One floor is 

 devoted to the draughting work of the 

 landscape department, and another to 

 the vegetable seed department, mate- 

 rially relieving the congestion in the 

 old quarters. 



John P. McCarty, for the last eight 

 years with P. Carbone, severed his 

 connection there on Dec. 31, and took 

 a position for M. Rice Co., of Phila. 

 He will travel over the northern and 

 western section formerly covered by 

 R. Schalk. Having traveled for Mr. 

 Carbone for the last four years over 

 the same route he has made a lot of 

 friends who wish him success in his 

 new position. 



CHICAGO. 



The first Purity freesia arrived 

 Christmas week. It is large and long 

 stemmed. 



Not much need of new price lists. 

 Christmas is over but Christmas prices 

 remain. 



Sam Pearse cut his first jonquils 

 December 16, and will cut steadily 

 untill spring. 



Miss O'Neil, bookkeeper at Geo. 

 Reinberg's wholesale store had a sad 

 Christmas, her father having passed 

 away on the 24th. 



La Grippe is no respecter of persons 

 and many florists are in its clutches, 

 E. Wienhoeber the north shore florist 

 is one of them. 



Probably violet sales touched the 

 million mark Christmas week. Think 

 of bunching one million violets! Who 

 wouldn't rather have the returns? 



The arrival of six Ficus clastif-t 

 from Mississippi caused the express 

 company a little unusual work to de- 

 liver. They required a 20 foot box 

 and were safely set down at the Win- 

 tersons Seed Store where they were 

 already sold at ten dollars each. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



Joseph E. Koppelman has decided to 

 move his greenhouses from Oaklawn 

 to Riverside. A contract has been let 

 for the taking down of six houses 

 which are of iron construction for the 

 most part. This will add to his River- 

 side range two houses 30 by 200, two 

 30 by I.jO, and two 20 by 150. Greater 

 access to the Providence market is one 

 of the reasons for the change of loca- 

 tion. 



William E. Chappell, Secretary of 

 the Florists and Gardeners' Club, is 

 slowly recovering from the serious in- 

 juries which he received a week ago by 

 a fall in his home, although he is not 

 able to get around and take care of his 

 business. Mr. Chappell was going down 

 the cellar stairs of his home when one 

 of the top treads gave way and he fell 

 nearly to the cellar bottom. His left 

 leg was caught in such a way that the 

 muscles were badly sprained and made 

 it necessary to keep off his feet for 

 several days. 



The severe snow and wind storm 

 which visited Rhode Island last Sun- 

 day, when the wind attained a new- 

 record of 82 miles an hour, did con- 

 siderable damage to property. The 

 chimney on the Hamden Meadows 

 Greenhouses was blown over, but for- 

 tunately the houses escaped the shower 

 of brick. Work was immediately be- 

 gun to rebuild the chimney and they 

 succeeded in saving the stock in the 

 houses. The wind ripped out the end 

 of one of the houses of the Norwood 

 Floral Company and a portion of the 

 roof. There were few houses that did 

 not lose more or less glass. Fortu- 

 nately the temperature hovered around 

 the freezing mark and this allowed re- 

 pairs to be made without the loss of 

 stock. 



Chatham. N. J. — After some spirited 

 bidding in Referee Atwood L. De- 

 Coster's court of bankruptcy, trans- 

 formed temporarily into an auction 

 room, the realty holdings of Samuel 

 Lum. florist, were sold on Dec. 20, for 

 ?26,050 by Corra N. Williams, trustee 

 in bankruptcy. The successful bidder 

 was Elmer King, a Morris County at- 

 torney and Mayor of Notcong, who 

 represented a combination of creditors 

 with claims against the Lum estate 

 aggregating about $25,000. 



Mr. Lum in his schedules placed a 

 valuation of $96,120 on the real estate. 

 He valued his residence at $.5,000, the 

 greenhouses at $28,000 and the per- 

 sonal property, including the green- 

 house stock, at $1,150. In addition to 

 the mortgage creditors, those unsecured 

 appear to have claims aggi-egating 

 $39,054. The Madison Trust Company 

 and the Centervillc Bank of New York 

 are the principal creditors who joined 

 in the bid on (he property through Mr. 

 King. 



