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HOirn CULTURE 



January 22, li)lt> 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



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CHICAGO. 



The Gift Shop, the dowiituwii store 

 of Schiller the Florist, is making a 

 Btrong pull for the Valentino trade. 

 All sorts of novelties imhidinn some- 

 thing new in haskets will he lirought 

 out 



Guy French had his wife and three 

 children all down with grippe at the 

 same time but I hey are now convales- 

 cing nJiH'ly. Henry Weiss of the 

 Pochlmann Oros. city salesroom Is 

 still quite III with the grippe. 



William Graham has arrived from 

 Philadelphia to accept the nianage- 

 nient of Fieischman's in the Railway 

 Exchange Building. Mr. Graham finds 

 one former friend liere, Paul Kling- 

 snorn. who came two years ago from 

 Philadelphia to take charge of the 

 Flower Growers' Association and who 

 has hecome an ardent admirer of this 

 city. 



T. Waters, manager of the supply 

 department of Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 says that the scarcity of flowers Is 

 favorable to the business of the sup- 

 ply houses. All kinds of substitutes 

 are selling to relieve the situation. 

 The office and show rooms in tliis de- 

 partment have been re-arranged so as 

 to afford the buyers a better oppor- 

 tunity to make stock selections. 



State street has not had an ex- 

 clusive flower store since f'anger & 

 Gormley removed, following the death 

 of Mr. Gormley, about four years ago. 

 The high rental has been considered 

 prohibitory to this business but a 

 venture has been made by the Chicago 

 Floral House at 144 N. State street 

 with G. P. Constantino, proprietor, 

 who has another store at 39 W. 

 Randolph street. The location is op- 

 posite Marshall Field's. 



Chicago shippers are having some- 

 thing to contend with. Twice since 

 the New Year came in has the ther- 

 mometer made a sudden drop of 

 nearly 60 degrees in twenty-four hours 

 and the result was frozen shipments 

 galore. As one prominent shipper 

 says it is not enough to pack your 

 goods so as to protect them from the 

 temperature that exists when you 

 make your shipment but you must 

 pack to protect from the cold that 

 may overtake them in a few hours 

 after leaving you. 



Kroeschell Bros, are receiving the 

 usual rush orders for boilers to re- 

 place old ones which have given out 

 under the stress of heavy firing fo.' 

 the extreme cold weather. These 

 hurry-up orders are planned for and 

 so systematic are their shipping ar- 

 rangements and so perfected are all 

 the details connected w-ith them that 

 a 4 P. M. order results in a boiler be- 

 ing on the way before the office closes 

 that night. During no similar length 

 of time have more orders been re- 

 ceived than during this winter to 

 date, and business here is very satis- 

 factory. 



Guy French, of French & Salm 



whose range of greenhouses at Union 

 Grove lontalns 75,onO sq. ft. of glass, 

 all of which Is devoted to growing tlio 

 .Mrs. Uussell roses, says tliat flower 

 Is doing splendidly with them and 

 they shall grow nothing else next 

 year. His good report is backed up 

 by the stock he is cutting which Is 

 ail handled by A. C. Amling Co. The 

 36,000 plants produced 18,000 blooms 

 during the live days of Christmas 

 week, flowers ranging from 18 in. 

 up. Those who know how the Chicago 

 market averaged that week can draw 

 their own conclusions as to tlie finan- 

 cial o\itcome. Christmas prices have 

 prevailed ever since. 



NEW YORK. 



Arthur Herrington of Madison. N. J., 

 has been called suddenly to Iowa City, 

 la., by the seiious illness of his mother, 

 who resides there. 



"Tommy" Martin, for many years 

 well known, well liked and efficient as 

 a salesman in the wholesale establish- 

 ment of Traendly & Schenck, is very 

 seriously ill. W. P. Ford and Walter 

 R. Siebrecht are among the recent vic- 

 tims of grippe in the wholesale dis- 

 trict. 



The MacNiff Horticultural Company 

 has leased another building in addi- 

 tion to the buildings heretofore occu- 

 pied. This new addition is No. 52 

 Vesey St.. and is a five-story and base- 

 ment building, so that when altera- 

 tions are completed the business will 

 occupy 52, 54 and 5G Vesey street. One 

 building will be occupied by the seed 

 department, and the other two build- 

 ings will be devoted to plant auction 

 business. 



BOSTON. 



New victims of the grippe are Mrs. 

 Brown, of .T. W. Rogers, and S. Cra- 

 vath. of Houghton & Cravath. 



We regret to announce the very seri- 

 ous illness of Mrs. Thomas A. Cox, who 

 suffered a shock two weeks ago. 



J. K. M. L. Farquhar is booked to 

 deliver a lecture before the Garden 

 Club of Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednes- 

 day, Jan. 26. 



J. A. Budlong, of the Budlong Rose 

 Co., has the sympathy of the florists 

 of Boston on the loss of his daughter, 

 who was murdered Monday, Jan. 17. 

 by a rejected suitor. 



The symiiathy of the retail and 

 wholesale florists of Boston is ex- 

 tended to Archibald Harrigan, of the 

 W. H. Elliott crew^ on the death of his 

 mother on Monday, Jan. 17, of pneu- 

 monia. Mr. Harrigan also lost his 

 brother three weeks ago. 



HORTICULTURE Publishing Com- 

 pany: 



Gentlemen — Enclosed please find 

 one dollar, currency, in payment for 

 subscription to HORTICULTURE for 

 the year 1916. I think much of this 

 paper and believe that it comes as near 

 giving me the worth of my money as 

 anything that I buy. 



Very truly yours, 

 Burlington, la. S. 



PITTSBURGH. 



Julius W. Ludwig is conllui-d to his 

 home with a severe attack of iulluenza. 

 His nephew, UeForest W. Ludwlg, Is 

 also ill in the same manner. 



Joseph G. Geary, an attache of the 

 Pittsburgh Cut Flower Company, has 

 the distinction of being the champion 

 ten pin roller of Western Pennsyl- 

 vania, 



Since the departure of Harry E. 

 Graves for California, Oliver J. Beet 

 has been In charge of the branch shop 

 of the Zleger Company on North High- 

 land avenue. 



Thomas Edward Tyler, the "orchid 

 man" for Charles Dickey Armstrong, 

 has developed a new double Primula 

 malacoides which he is contemplating 

 p\itting on the market later. 



Ernest Guter recently supervised 

 the removal of a line old iiquidamber 

 tree from the Westinghouse estate to 

 that of Richard Beatty Mellon. The 

 tree measured lifty feet in height and 

 trunk fourteen inches in diameter. 



Merlin Harris, who has charge of 

 Dr. John Fremont Shaffer's orchid 

 houses, now has in flower a Cypripedi- 

 um insigne bearing two blooms on one 

 spike, the texture of the blooms being 

 much heavier than the type. Mr. Har- 

 ris is just convalescing from a serious 

 attack of influenza. 



Samuel B. .McClements has returned 

 from a sojourn at Atlantic (Mty, where 

 he went to recuperate following the 

 holiday trade. I'rank Stafford, one of 

 his salesmen, has a severe attack of 

 grippe. J. .Murray McGrew, a sales- 

 man for G. P. Weaklin & Company, 

 also has the grippe. 



Edward S. James, who has been tor 

 some years in charge of the Hotel 

 Schenley grounds, has severed this re- 

 lation and accepted the charge of the 

 roof storage greenhouse of the new 

 service house for the joint use of the 

 Fort Pitt and the William Penn Ho- 

 tels, the latter now in course of con- 

 struction. 



The Highland l'"'loral Company is the 

 name of the new- wholesale and retail 

 commercial enterprise recently as- 

 sumed by James \Vatt. superintendent 

 for Alexander R. Peacock, on his es- 

 tate. "Rowanlea." Mr. Watt leases 

 the show house, a handsome structure 

 of five sections on the residential 

 grounds, and the propagating house 

 just across the way which includes 

 eight sections. Henry B. Keillor, who 

 for some time has been Mr. Peacock's 

 head gardener, will continue under 

 Mr. Watts' regime as the greenhouse 

 foreman. 



CINCINNATI. 



lien George. Jr.. has been seriously 

 ill for the past week. 



C. E. Critchell, J. A. Peterson and 

 K. Witterstaetter will attend the Car- 

 nation Society's meeting at St. Louis. 



The preliminary flower show com- 

 mittee met on Tuesday afternoon. They 

 will have a complete report ready for 

 the Society at its next regnlar meeting. 



