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HORT ICnLTURE 



March 11. 1916 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 





CHICAGO. 



Wni. K. TrlcUcr has Bcvoreil his con- 

 nection with VauKlian's Greenhouses, 

 at Western Springs. III. 



The condition of John Endus shows 

 no improvement and at this writing 

 he Is very sick with pneumonia. 



Sani'l Kabniwltz. formerly buyer 

 for Poehlmann Bros. Co., instead of 

 handling flowers, is now in the flour 

 business, on the road in the interest 

 of a relative. 



Openings of spring styles at Mar- 

 shall Fields and Stevens Bro.'s. called 

 for the use of many hundreds of dec- 

 orative plants in their suit sections. 

 It was a matter of surprise and ques- 

 tionable as to its artistic fitness, when 

 these palms were adorned with sprays 

 of roses (artincial) and live ficus held 

 rhododendrons on their long branches. 



Mardi Gras called for a large num- 

 ber of flowers and the New Orleans 

 shipments covered the week end. 

 There was a good demand for stock 

 and the orders helped make doubly 

 brisk an already good business Satur- 

 day. Sunday and Monday. Notwith- 

 standing this, the volume of business 

 done with the old city is said to be 

 much less than in former years. 



The A. Henderson Co. has the retail 

 part of its store nearly completed, 

 the finishing touches being put on this 

 week. The first retail catalog issued 

 by this firm is now ready for mailing. 

 Mr. Henderson, president of the com- 

 pany, is a man of judcment and his 

 policy is the conservative and safe 

 order. This adds a fourth firm doing 

 a wholesale and retail seed business 

 in the down-town district. 



Several of the local growers have 

 installed the Humphrey Heaters for 

 warming the water used in the green- 

 houses. Great care has been taken to 

 give no opportunity for gas to escape 

 into the houses, but tlie matter is still 

 in the experimental stage. Aside from 

 the advantages to the plants in using 

 warm water instead of cold, the sav- 

 ing in the loss of temperature in the 

 house is a big item. The results are 

 being watched with interest. The 

 heaters are carefully encased when oc- 

 cupying a portion of the greenhouse. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



William F. Gude and George W. 

 Hess last week accompanied W. F. 

 Therkildson and E. C. Dungan on a 

 visit to members of Congress and of- 

 ficials of the Post Office Dept. with a 

 view to securing more equitable rates 

 with respect to the mailing of price 

 lists, catalogues and similar matter. 

 Mention of this proposed legislation 

 was made in our issue of last week. 



The office of the Foreign Trade Ad- 

 viser of the State Department has 

 been notified by the British Embassy 

 of the issuance of a permit by the 

 British Foreign Office for the release 

 from Rotterdam and the uninterrupt- 

 ed shipment to the United States of a 

 quantity of florists' supplies of Ger- 



niun production to the value of 2.850 

 marks for A. L. Kandall & Co., Chi- 

 cago, 111, 



A great deal of enthusiasm is being 

 manifested by (he Washington florists 

 over the coming flower show at Phila- 

 delphia. Marry B. Lewis, chairman of 

 the committee on transportation, has 

 arranged for a special train to leave 

 over the B. & O. R. R. at 10 A. .M., 

 Monday, March 27. Washington is 

 also to be represented by its howling 

 team, which sends forth a challenge 

 to all other strictly florists' club 

 teams, and it is hoped that a match 

 will lie arranged for them. George C. 

 Shaffer is looking after this and asso- 

 ciated with him are George H. Cooke, 

 l^iward Niedomanski. Samuel Sim- 

 mons, Captain William H. Ernest, 

 George C. nalgleish. Robert F. .McLen- 

 nan and Harry B. Lewis. Fred H. 

 Kramer Is to be in charge of the en- 

 tertainment on the train. 



PITTSBURGH, 



Albert F. Vick, formerly manager of 

 Buffalo, has joined the force of the 

 Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co. 



Edward B^rl Liidwlg. who Is a 

 senior in the Agricultural College at 

 Cornell, visited his parents this week. 

 Young Mr. Ludwlg Is a short stop on 

 the first baseball team of Cornell. 



Owing to the avalanche of seml- 

 Informal entertainments and wed- 

 dings, which are invariably crowded 

 In just preceding Lent, and several 

 "pretty good funerals" (as a whole- 

 sale dispenser put It), the week has 

 been one of favor in floral trade cir- 

 cles. With the exception of American 

 Beauties, there has been plenty of 

 stock for all. 



.^n Interesting feature of the March 

 session of the Florists' Club of Pitts- 

 burgh last Tuesday evening was the 

 presentation of a substantial testimo- 

 nial to the retiring president, Neil 

 McCallum. Congratulations galore 

 were showered on William A. Clarke, 

 treasurer of the Pittsburi-'h Cut 

 Flower Company, on Friday, March 3, 

 the day celebrating the fortieth anni- 

 versary of his entree Into the florlcul- 

 tural world. Mr. Clarke, who was then 

 a mere fad, made his "debut" on 

 March 3, 1876, with the B. A. Elliott 

 Company, which, as he expressed It, 

 "covered the broad field of seeds, flow- 

 ers, plants, trees, shrubbery, gold fish, 

 rabbits, guinea pigs and monkeys." 

 He Is one of the most popular men In 

 the trade. 



Cincinnati — Roy Rudolph has taken 

 charge of the business of his father, 

 the late Max Rudolph. Roy has had 

 several years' experience while asso- 

 ciated with his father In the business 

 and should be very successful. 



Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kelley re- 

 turned from their trip to Florida last 

 Friday. 



NEW YORK. 



John Klusel, Hiiwjt buyer for G. E. 

 M. Stumpp, who has been for thirty 

 yenrs an employee of the Slumpp es- 

 lablisliment, has gone over to the 

 wholesale business as salesman for 

 P. J. Smith. 



The general committee on the New 

 York Inlernational Flower Show met 

 on .Monday of this week and had a 

 very harmonious and highly elated 

 session. The interest taken in thl& 

 event Is well shown by the fact that 

 sixteen out of tlie membership of 

 twenty were present at the meeting, 

 although a violent storm was in prog- 

 ress. 



Reed & Keller suffered a consider- 

 able loss from fire whiih broke out in 

 their basket department at 120 West 

 2.5th street on Sunday, March 5. For- 

 tunately the place was fully insured. 

 The wire work department and gen- 

 eral offices are going on as usual and 

 commendable enterprise was displayed 

 i-n the securing of frmiiorary work- 

 rooms with complete outfit for carry- 

 ing on business within twenty-four 

 hours after the conflagration. 



Next Monday night the Florists' 

 Club meeting— Rose Night. Exhibits 

 ()( novelty roses are expected, and also 

 many novelties in carnations that 

 were not sept to the last meeting ow- 

 ing to the very severe weather. The 

 question of Inviting the S. A. F. to 

 hold their 1917 Convention In New 

 York will also be considered at this 

 meeting. Chairman Thos. Goothe de 

 Forest will make a report of the 

 annual dinner committee. It is ru- 

 mored that the Hotel Biltmore has 

 been selected for this imiiortant 

 event. 



The Flower Show Committee are 

 holding weekly meetings and are con- 

 gratulating themselves upon the very 

 satisfactory conditions In regard to 

 the exhibition. All available space In 

 the trade section has practically been 

 taken up. There are more exhibitors 

 In the trade section than there were 

 a year ago, and there is a promise of 

 many more large exhibits in the com- 

 petitive section. Manager Arthur 

 Herrlngton reports that the private 

 gardeners In all sections of the coun- 

 try are only waiting the receipt of 

 the final sciiedule so that they may 

 send In their entries. Already many 

 spaces have been reserved for the 

 large groups and displays, and It Is 

 expected that this exhibition will be 

 better than any of Its predecessors. 

 There is an active demand for trade 

 tickets, the price of which hafe been 

 placed at $20.00 per 100: in blocks of 

 less than 100. 25 cents each. No 

 orders received for less than 25. 



The Dutchess County Horticultural 

 Society meets on the second Wednes- 

 day, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in the 

 Faliklll Building, corner Main and 

 Washington streets. 



