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HORTICULTURE 



February 12, 1916 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO. 

 Mr. and Mrs. S. .\. .SiidiTttoii of IJuf- 

 falo, N. Y., went as far west as Den- 

 ver. Colo., after IcavInK i'l- Louis and 

 stopped In Clilcano to visit Frank 

 Ooi'lisUn's and other Iotro places. 



As this Koes to press the annual 

 novelty display of the Chicago Flor- 

 ists' Club Is under way. There is 

 a splendid exhibit and a special after- 

 noon session will be a new feature. 

 This event Is considered a most au- 

 spicious one for Informally displaying 

 new productions. 



The down-town Schiller store, 

 known as the Gift Shop, Is now In 

 charpo of Kelnhold Schiller, who Is 

 havhm it remodeled, with soft lights, 

 which brint: o\it the beauty of the 

 lldwors instead of dazzling the eyes, 

 and Flemish oak will take the place 

 of white in the trimmings. All will be 

 completed In time for a special Valen- 

 tine window. The shop caters to gifts 

 of all kinds In which cut flowers and 

 plants will play a part. Peter Shafer 

 of Kankakee Is now "right hand man" 

 here. 



O. A. iV L. A. Tonner have secured a 

 lease on room 205-206 In the Atlas 

 Block. It is to be used to continue 

 the wholesale cut flower business, al-. 

 ready well established, and also for a 

 supply business with which L. A. Ton- 

 ner has had many years' experience. 

 The room, which was formerly two, is 

 large and splendidly located. It Is 

 light and has two entrances, making 

 It well adapted to Its two lines of 

 business. L. A. Tonner will be the 

 Chicago representative of various large 

 concerns. 



As Valentine Day approaches, the 

 splendid business of a year ago is re- 

 called, when it suddenly became one 

 of the best of the big days. All sorts 

 of new attractions are appearing in 

 the loop windows, among them bisque 

 cupids suspended from the handles of 

 the baskets so as to seem to nestle 

 among the flowers. Ten inch hearts 

 with retainers for flowers are done in 

 harmonizing tints and the whole 

 mounted on small easels. The usu:il 

 variations in boxes and baskets suit- 

 able for the day are seen. 



A trip through A. L. Randall's 

 makes one ask "What next?" The 

 florist of ten years ago, or even of 

 five, would never have dreamed of all 

 the accessories which now are offered 

 to help fill the salesroom of the mod- 

 ern florist, and which are to be found 

 here. The third floor has now been 

 rented by this company, which al- 

 ready occupies the entire second in 

 the fine new Le Moyne building, which 

 also houses several of the largest 

 wholesale houses in the trade here. 

 All the novelties for the special days 

 are now in charge of Miss Cook, who 

 is an artist In her line and originates 

 many of the clever ideas in her de- 

 partment. 



The sale of the thousand tickets of- 

 fered at one dollar each by the Chi- 

 cago Florists' CUib, on the big silver 

 punch bowl, which was not awarded 

 at the recent flower show, is under 



way. riiiii lu'iiutltul bowl wuu Kiveii 

 by the inanufaclurers of gTcenhouHr 

 nuUcrlals In ChUiigo and was the 

 finest Iropliy offered. The proceeds of 

 the licki't.s will go luwards making 

 good tiK' dt'lli'it of tli<- show. With 

 the pluck that will not know defeat, 

 anotiier flowi-r show Is aHsumliig dtll- 

 nite form In the minds of the promol- 

 ors of the last one. As a llrsi step 

 letters have been sent out regarding 

 the sale of floor space and favorable 

 replies have already been received 

 from many luevious exhibitor.s. 



K. Kurowski. of the J. C. Moninger 

 Co., reports every indication is for a 

 good season ahead. The long list of 

 orders and inquiries includes the ter- 

 ritory from the Atlantic to the Pacific 

 coast and two more engineers and 

 four other men have recently been 

 added to its force. E. F. Kurowski re- 

 cently went to Greenfield, Mich,, to 

 Inspect the new carnation hou.se built 

 there for Thos. F. Brown last summer. 

 It is out of the ordinary, being 84x600 

 feet, of the New Moninger all-steel 

 equal span construction, with not a 

 casting in the house. A letter from 

 Mr. Brown says the house was not 

 noticeably affected by the expansion 

 or contraction this winter, Ijut was 

 satisfactory through all the ranges of 

 temperature. It is 26 feet high at the 

 ridge. It is planted with carnations, 

 the plants being placed in the ground 

 at its natural level and cross aisles 

 running from the center aisle, which 

 saves walking when picking flowers, 

 btit slightly lessens the floor space. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Executive Committee of the 

 Florist Club who handled the recent 

 carnation meeting held a meeting at 

 Smith's to prepare their final report. 



Our wholesalers who close their 

 places of business on Sunday made an 

 announcement that on Feb. l.^th they 

 will open up to give the retailers a 

 chance to buy for Valentine's day 

 orders. Many retailers say they hope 

 they will see the folly of closing Sun- 

 days and make it a permanent feature 

 from now on. 



The officers of the Florist Club held 

 a delightful meeting at the home of 

 Trustee Ohlweiler and mapped out an 

 interesting program for this week's 

 club meeting, including a lecture by 

 Mr. Ohlweiler on "How New Varieties 

 in Flowers Are Created." The mem- 

 bers were entertained after the meet- 

 ing by Mrs. Ohlweiler. 



WASHINGTON. 



J. A. Phillips, of the Flower Shop, 

 on Upper Fourteenth street, is spend- 

 ing an extended vacation with rela- 

 tives and friends in Toledo, Ohio. He 

 has taken his young son with him. 



Norman Simms, chauffeur for the Du 

 Pont Flower Shop, had a narrow es- 

 cape from serious injury last week 

 when the delivery automobile which 

 he was driving came in collision with 

 another machine. Both automobiles 

 were damaged. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Frederick .McDonald was married 

 Feb. 8tli to Mrs. J. II. Chalfont. Mr. 

 McDonald is u member of the Orm 

 of McDonald HroH., Kcnnett Square, 

 Pa, 



There are many new carnations 

 around this year. .New York. Massa- 

 < hUHetts, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, 

 .\el)ra8ka are among the contributors. 

 The bright parti<iilar star bo far 

 seems to be Uelle Washburn. That's 

 "some pink." if you ask me. A glow- 

 ing red. Shines in the dark. 



The "Dark Russell ' roses that came 

 down from Waban Rose Conservato- 

 ries for the Florists' Club meeting 

 could hardly be distinguished from tlie 

 regular Russell. But we saw some 

 that came In today from Alfred Bur- 

 ton's and if it is like that, then Dark 

 Russell is something, after all. 



March 7th will be a red-letter day 

 for the sweet pea at the monthly 

 meeting of the Florists' Club when 

 Howard .\I. Earl, general manager for 

 W. Atlee Burpee & Co., will be the 

 speaker and exhibits will be shown 

 of the latest Improvements by all the 

 best growers in the vicinity as well 

 as from New York and New England. 



We cordially agree with the many 

 fine editorials that have aiii)eared In 

 HoRTicuLTUKE condemning Bensation- 

 alism and lies in the daily press and 

 elsewhere in regard to our' business. 

 These editorials have had great in- 

 fluence and things are not so bad now 

 as they used to be. We have just 

 been reading one from the "Indian- 

 apolis Star" which is sane and fine" 

 and gives another evidence among 

 many for the changed and better 

 spirit. 



Chairman Fancourt announces that 

 the National Flower Show Committee 

 have made provisions to offer tickets 

 to the trade in lots of 100 or more at 

 $25 per hundred with the purchaser's 

 name printed on the ticket. This offer 

 is also good for Garden Clubs and 

 Horticultural Societies for use of their 

 members. There will be a big demand 

 for tickets, and the concessions in 

 price made will enable them to hand 

 them out more liberally than they 

 could do otherwise. 



The regular meeting of the South- 

 ampton (N. Y.) Horticultural Society 

 was held on Thursday, Feb. 3rd. The 

 paper, "Is Gardening a Profession," 

 was read by a member and received 

 very enthusiastically. O. C. Gardiner 

 made some very interesting remarks 

 on Increase of greenhouses since 1890. 

 There were here then one commercial 

 and one private greenhouse whereas 

 now there are five commercial and 

 nearly a score of private greenhouses 

 and conservatories, and G. E. M. 

 Stumpp has a branch of his city 

 flower house here in the summer. 



Cincinnati — Mrs. Augusta Hoffmels- 

 ter and family have been receiving the 

 sympathies of their friends w-ho also 

 mourn the death of Mrs. Hoffmeister's 

 youngest brother last week. 



