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H () RT I CULTURE 



March 4, 191t> 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



PHILADELPHIA. 

 C. H. McKiibbiii has bpoii enjoying 

 a brief vacation trip to Hernuida. He 

 was due to return in New York on 

 the 29th. 



J. Otto Thilow, of Dreer's, was the 

 speaker of the evening before the Bal- 

 timore Florists' and Gardeners' Club 

 on February 28. He did not know 

 what he was to talk about before he 

 started; but that did not seera to 

 worry him any. 



The Henry F. Micholl Co. have 

 added 21-23 S. Bank street, which they 

 have purchased and will use as a 

 warehouse. The building is four 

 stories high and basement, modern 

 and convenient to the chief steamboat 

 and railroad depots to afford quick de- 

 livery and receipt of merchandise. 



Miss Grace Battles, daughter of H. 

 H. Battles, and George B. Yerkes. were 

 married on February 23 at Holy Trin- 

 ity Church. The floral decorations at 

 thi! church and at the Bellevue-Strat- 

 ford are pronounced by competent 

 judges to have been the most elabo- 

 rate and beautiful ever seen in Phila- 

 delphia. 



R. T. Brown, of the Cottage Gardens 

 Co., who was appointed the speaker at 

 the monthly meeting of the Florists 

 Club for Feb. 1st, but who did not ap- 

 pear, writes that he has just returned 

 from a trip south and west and ex- 

 plains that he had never received the 

 notification of his appointment — al- 

 though that had been passed by vote 

 of the club at its November meeting. 

 This explanation is due to Mr. Brown, 

 who feels that he has been put in an 

 unfavorable light through no fault of 

 his own. 



Samuel R. Aiken, who conducted a 

 retail store on Columbia avenue for 

 many years, is now located in Char- 

 lotte, X. C, with the Schultze Flower 

 Store. Robert Lockerbie, another well- 

 known Philadelphian, is also with 

 Schultze. He will give a lecture on 

 March 14 before the Presbyterian 

 Church on his native country. If there 

 should happen to be any English in 

 the audience they will feel quite small, 

 after they hear "Stirling Bridge" sung 

 by the choir. There are bugles In it. 

 Also, they seem to cut off heads about 

 six at a swish. 



PITTSBURGH. 



John R. Bracken, of the landscape 

 department of the A. W. Smith Com- 

 pany, spoke on Wednesday evening of 

 last week before the Farmers' Insti- 

 tute, which held a two-day's session 

 at Ingomar, on the Ornamentation of 

 the Home Grounds. 



Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Heinz cele- 

 brated their silver wedding anniver- 

 sary on Friday of last week. Mr. 

 Heinz was formerly a well known 

 gardener, as was his father, Henry 

 Heinz, who brought his family to 

 America in 1847 from Coblentz, 

 Prussia, of which Mrs. Heinz is also 

 a native. 



Miss Elsie Kiss, who has been a de- 

 signer for the past two years with the 



I ; i|i;iuy, aiiU Uicliurd 



Gosiovich oi Detroit, .Michigan,' were 

 married on Thursday of last week. 

 They will make their home in Detroit, 

 where the bridegroom is engaged in 

 the retail grocery business. Both are 

 .\ustrians, .Mrs. Gostovich having 

 come from Budapest al)0ut two years 

 ago. 



CHICAGO. 



J. A. Sicuta has returned from a live 

 weeks' trip to Florida and Cuba. 



John Enders was taken seriously ill 

 Saturday night and is threatened with 

 pneumonia. 



The prominence of baskets of flow- 

 ers among the trade offerings Is very 

 apparent from the displays in the 

 store windows. Everything from the 

 toy-like basket of Sweetheart roses to 

 the lart;e imposing ones of American 

 Beauties are in the running. They 

 are used in all kinds of social affairs, 

 for funeral offerings and for gifts. 



Julius Sehnapp and daughter, Elsa, 

 arrived from Seattle on the 28th to 

 again make Chicago their home. Mr. 

 Sehnapp was for many years engaged 

 in the florists' business on the south 

 side and five years ago went to 

 Seattle to take charge of the retail 

 store of the Hollywood Gardens. He 

 will now take a responsible position 

 with the Alpha Floral Co., which will 

 also include Miss Elsa. 



Phil McKee, of the American Green- 

 house Co., is spending a few days in 

 St. Louis, Mo., looking after some 

 work there for the W. A. Rowe Floral 

 Co. This firm expects to start glaz- 

 ing at once on the big greenhouses 

 now being erected for A. F. Amling 

 at Maywood and which include 275,- 

 000 square feet of glass. It is ex- 

 pected that with favorable weather 

 the range, which was begun about 

 Dec. 10th last, will be completed next 

 month. Work on the range at Cud- 

 ahy, Wis., will begin next week. R. 

 R. Brenton is now handling a sales 

 campaign for the American Green- 

 house Co. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 

 An effort is to be made to have the 

 Government devote the so-called Plaza 

 property which it has recently ac- 

 quired, to the United States Botanic 

 Gardens and it is expected that a reso- 

 lution directing the Committee on Li- 

 brary to make report as to the desira- 

 bility of this will shortly be introduced 

 into the Senate. William P. Gude Is 

 very anxious that this be done. If the 

 gardens are extended in this way, he 

 says, he will make an ^ort to have 

 the William R. Smith Memorial lo- 

 cated in the new section. He asks that 

 all florists throughout the United 

 States who want to aid in a really 

 good work should write to their con- 

 gressmen and senators asking them to 

 favor this plan. 



The week just passed was noted for 

 its many large decorations. At the 

 Beaux Arts ball enormous amounts of 



* I" I " '11 i'' iiiiy and other roses, cai^ 

 iiutious, orchids and spring flowers and 

 palms, ferns and spruce and cedar 

 trees were used. The chandellors were 

 removed and in their place lanterns, 

 with blue lights, were 8U8|)end<'d, giv- 

 ing the effect, with the many shops 

 and booths, of a moonlight street scene 

 in Paris. The feature of the Gridiron 

 dinner was the electric fountain with 

 the water falling over a small bronze 

 statue, placed in the center of the ta- 

 ble and surrimnded by a mound of 

 growing orchid plants. Garlands were 

 placed the length of the Ubie and were 

 made of spring flowers. The walls 

 were decorated with smilax, the al- 

 ■ oves filled with palms and forsythla 

 and at one end of the room was a min- 

 iature forest. 



Speaking of Easter lilies, W. F. Gude 

 says: "We have been agreeably sur- 

 prised this year at the way our stock 

 of Bermuda Harrisii has been coming 

 along. Last year the crop was more 

 than fifty per cent failure, while the 

 preceding year the results were even 

 more unsatisfactory. We were about 

 through with this flower, but decided 

 to give it another trial and accordingly 

 put in about one-tenth the usual crop. 

 The results are such that if we can get 

 the same quality of bulbs we will again 

 go into the production of these on the 

 scale of previous years. The Formo- 

 sum lilies this year are also very good 

 and are very popular." Mr. Gude pre- 

 dicts great things for the F. T. D. S. 

 and hints at a number of things on 

 which he is at present working that 

 will bring this service before the pub- 

 lic in a way which will tend to bring 

 about undreamed of results. 



NEW YORK. 



Doubleday, Page & Company are 

 about to open a headquarters in New 

 Y'ork City, taking the Book Depart- 

 ment of Lord & Taylor. A series of 

 lectures on horticultural and rural 

 topics in the Lecture Hall will be a 

 feature of this enterprise. 



The "largest horticultural au<tion 

 salesroom in the world " will be the 

 Mecca cf a throng of interested pa- 

 trons when, at the stroke of 11 A. M. 

 Tuesday, March 7th, Auctioneer Mac- 

 Nitf makes his bow, hammer in hand, 

 for the opening gun of the season of 

 191fi Go down and see the fun and 

 help things along. 



BOSTON. 



An unusually large number of bulb 

 salesmen have come to this section 

 with very low quotations for next sea- 

 son's delivery. 



Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Patten sailed 

 February 26 on the S. S. Atlanta for 

 Savannah, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla. 

 They expect to take in some of the 

 different places through Florida and 

 get rid of some of Massachusetts 

 March weather. Neither have been in 

 the best of health since about Christ- 

 mas, and it is hoped this will do them 

 lots of good. They expect to return 

 about the first week or so of April. 



