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II O KT I CULTURE 



Jnnuary 8, 191G 



CHICAGO. 

 A 250 h. p. Kroesilu'll lire and water 

 tube steam boiler is being instuUed for 

 the new 600-ft. grccnlioiises of the 

 L. A. Budloiig Sons Company. 



Phil Schupp has his ofllce force clos- 

 ing up the books for the year and 

 things npi)ear to be goins his way. 

 Orders are keeping the shijiping room 

 lively for the J. A. Budloug Co. Is one 

 of the large shipping houses of this 

 city. 



Paul Kllngsporn, of the Chicago 

 Flower Growers Association, says that 

 only fancy snapdragons sold at a price 

 corresponding to the stock, will pay 

 for the growing. Some of the stock 

 coming into this market is excellent; 

 good heavy heads and long stems and 

 they sell at once but small stock is not 

 a profitable crop. 



The round, solidly built bouquets, of 

 formal type, still lead in social fash- 

 ions. Their quaint mixtures of colors, 

 when confined to the soft tones, have 

 a suggestion of demureness which 

 makes them particularly fascinating 

 for the debutante. The ne%v year is 

 opening with coming-out parties in 

 which flowers and their arrangement 

 are an important factor. 



A fire demolished the building at 127 

 X. Wabash Ave., early in the morning 

 of Dec. 29, in which was located the 

 retail store of the Harry Rowe Co. The 

 loss is a complete one, well covered by 

 insurance. Mr. Rowe did not know of 

 the fire till he saw the news in a morn- 

 ing paper. His business address for 

 the present is The Garland Bldg., cor. 

 Wabash Ave. and Washington St. Ad- 

 joining the destroyed building is the 

 one occupied for so many years by 

 the E. H. Hunt Co. and by Bassett & 

 Washburn, the latter having moved 

 last fall and the former gone out of 

 business some years ago. The build- 

 ing was injured but not destroyed. 



The epidemic of grippe which has 

 seized upon Chicago is bringing its toll 

 of victims. Always the chief cause of 

 the purchase of flowers, funerals in 

 such increased number must have a 

 large bearing on trade conditions. The 

 almost unbelieveable number of 1100 

 deaths is recorded in the local papers 

 as occurring in one week. This is an 

 unprecedented record in the history of 

 Chicago, save in the cases of the Iro- 

 quois and the Eastland disasters. The 

 usual dropping off of the florists' busi- 

 ness after a holiday season has not 

 occurred this year and the falling off 

 of the supply of roses makes the situa- 

 tion one that keeps prices up almost to 

 the Christmas schedule. 



been so well patronized by the public 

 during their holiday displays this 

 year as usual. At Garfield Park, the 

 long oval bench was a mass of red 

 and white as were also the curved side 

 benches whose sloping banks of palms 

 reached the point where glass dome 

 and side walls met. Poinsettias almost 

 touched the glass and between them 

 and in sharp contrast were doited the 

 clusters of paper white blossoms. Be- 

 gonia luminosa afforded a low growing 

 red plant and A. Koch, superintendent 

 of the park says this variety has re- 

 markable keeping qualities and is an 

 equally good Christmas plant or out- 

 door summer plant. Kong clusters of 

 red berries of Rivina humllis, afforded 

 more color. The- end beds were varied 

 by the use of pink begonias and aza- 

 leas with the paper white narcissus. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 

 J. Epstein, of the Art Floral Co., is 

 back on duty after being confined to 

 his home for several days by illness. 



The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Pacific 

 Coast Horticultural Society is conclud- 

 ing preparations for a social to be 

 given next week in conjunction with 

 the men's association. 



Chas. Willis Ward, of Cottage Gar- 

 den Nurseries, Eureka, Calif., has a 

 large force at work clearing the 232 

 acres of land on Yager Creek, near 

 Carlotta, which he purchased recently. 

 Improvements arc progressing at the 

 Eden plant also, including a dam and 

 large ressrvoir at tiie extreme eastern 

 point. 



The affairs of the Luther Burbank 

 Co., a corporation organized three 

 years ago to exploit the work of the 

 Santa Rosa horticulturist, reached a 

 climax the past week when Burbank 

 filed suit in the superior court to col- 

 lect $9,775 from the Luther Burbank 

 Co. This amount is alleged to be due 

 on two promissory notes given Bur- 

 bank by the company and signed by 

 R. J. Hough, vice-president, and Leo V. 

 Belden, secretary. 



The Park conservatories have not 



While the Exposition is a thing of 

 the past, its effect is felt in certain 

 lines of business, and it is believed by 

 many of the florists that theirs will be 

 one of the lines to feel Its influence 

 for a long time to come. Through the 

 various flower shows held at the Expo- 

 sition the public was given the oppor- 

 tunity of seeing the finest new cre- 

 ations in flowers, and the tendency is 

 now to demand extra fine stock from 

 the trade. In response to this demand 

 the growers are using more than usual 

 care in their new plantings, realizing 

 that good stock will bring high prices 

 and that ordinary offerings will be 

 hard to dispose of at any price. 



PITTSBURGH. 

 George E. Ihillani. of the .North Side, 

 who recently recovered from a alx 

 weeks' attack of pneumonia. Is again 

 confined to his home with acute ab- 

 scesses of the glands of the neck. 



James Thompson, a shipping clerk 

 for the E. C. Liidwig Company, was 

 fatally injured In a Pittsburgh Railway 

 accident on New Year's evening, and 

 at time of writing is at the point of 

 death. 



Edward E. Ijidwlg. the younger son 

 of .Mr. and Mrs. Ernest C Ludwlg, re- 

 turned last Wednesday to Cornell Uni- 

 versity, where he is specializing In 

 floriculture In the College of Agricul- 

 ture. 



Ray J. Daschbach has charge of the 

 new floral department recently inaug- 

 urated in "The Big Store" of Kauf- 

 iiiann Brothers. Mr. Daschbach con- 

 tinues his own flower shop on Wood 

 street, with his former head sales- 

 woman. Miss Catharine Friel. as man 

 ager. 



Owing to the rather isolated head- 

 quarters of the Civic Club of Allegheny 

 County on the fifth floor of the Keenan 

 building, the organization's much- 

 talked of, famous Christmas tree has 

 been removed downstairs to a promi- 

 nent window of the A. W. Smith Covi- 

 pany. 



G. P. Weaklin is again in his store 

 after a severe attack of la grippe. 

 .\mong other flower people who have 

 been victims of the prevailing epidem- 

 ic, are the following: Frank M. Staf- 

 ford and William G. Picketts of Ran- 

 dolph & McClenients; Harrj' E. Graves, 

 Charles P. Manke and Oliver Beet of 

 the Zieger Company; Anthony W. 

 Smith, Jr., and James Ford of the A. 

 W. Smith Company; Mrs. E. A. Wil- 

 liams and Louis R. Biehl of the E. ('.. 

 Ludwig Floral Company. Five em- 

 ployees of the Pittsburgh Cut Flower 

 Company are detained from business 

 by the same disease. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 

 The annual openini; of bids for the 

 supply of seeds to the United States 

 Department of Agriculture will take 

 place at 2 o'clock, January 11. 



The decorations on the occasion of 

 the New Year reception to the dele- 

 gates to the Pan American Scientific 

 Congress were by J. H. Small & Sons. 

 The already elaborate decorations of 

 the building were augmented by a 

 large quantity of flowers, plants, 

 shrubs and trees. Colored illumina- 

 tions added to the beauty of the scene. 

 The buffets were decorated with L/ady 

 Stanley and Mrs. Moorfield Story roses, 

 while these, poinsettias and other flow- 

 ers were used in profusion in the differ- 

 ent rooms of the building. 



The National Theatre was decorated 

 by Gude Bros., when the delegates at- 

 tended the performance en masse. 



