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HORTICULTURE 



April 1, 1916 



WE PRESENT FOR EASTER AND DECORATION DAY 



5,000,000 WAXED FLOWERS 



A Complete Line of Waxed, Metallic and Magnolia Wreaths 



WRITE FOR SPECIAL PRICES 



HENRY M. ROBINSON & CO., 



32 Otis Street, DACTHW 

 2 Winthrop Sq., DUO 1 Ull 



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NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO. 

 Chas. Erne is out of the hospital 

 and lost no time in getting down to 

 the market where he was warmly wel- 

 comed. 



Quite a party of florists, which in- 

 cluded local and outside florists, left 

 on Saturday afternoon, .March 25, for 

 the National Flower Show at Phila- 

 delphia. 



\Vm. Graham, who came from Phila- 

 delphia this winter to be manager of 

 Fleischman's. could not be spared to 

 assist at the National Flower Show 

 as planned. 



Frank Oechslin's new house on W. 

 Jackson boulevard is now completed. 

 It is a beautiful place and the grounds 

 will be suitably laid out as soon as 

 spring opens. 



Seven thousand dollars will be spent 

 this year in Chicago on school grounds 

 and vacant lots. This work has be- 

 come quite a factor in Chicago's sum- 

 mer industries. 



Wm. Keimel, president of the Chi- 

 cago F'lorists' Club, is in the Quaker 

 City and will bring home to his club 

 a report of the show. Guy French, 

 secretary, is also taking in the sights 

 at Philadelphia. 



The greenhouse construction com- 

 panies are all having many inquiries 

 for prices, &c., as well as booking 

 many orders for spring building. That 

 it is to be a busy summer in their line 

 is an assured fact. 



Some of the largest Killarney Bril- 

 liant roses of the season were seen at 

 E. C. Amling's this week. The buds 

 were nearly three inches long and the 

 heavy stems measure from 30 to 36 

 Inches. This rose is seen in all the 



houses and is making a good record 

 for itself. 



Chicago florists are keeping a close 

 watch on their greenhouses these 

 days when the loss of Easter stock 

 would mean so much. Between the 

 sudden changes of temperature and 

 the downpour of rain they have to be 

 constantly alert. Xo one claims a 

 previous record showing thunder and 

 lightning in a genuine blizzard as oc- 

 curred March 21. 



O. A. and L. A. Tonner are now 

 nicely settled in the Atlas Block, 

 where the wholesale cut flowers and 

 florists' supplies make a good combin- 

 ation. L. A. Tonner, who has also 

 large holdings in the pecan belt in 

 Georgia, makes the selling of pecan 

 orchards a part of the regular busi- 

 ness. Samples of the pecan nuts can 

 be purchased here. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The officers elected at the March 

 meeting of the Florists' Club are to be 

 installed on April 4. It is expected 

 that the newly elected president, Lloyd 

 Jenkins, w'ill be able to attend. Mr. 

 Jenkins has been confined to his 

 home suffering from scarlet fever. 



Gude Bros. Company has a very 

 attractive window display in honor of 

 the commencement in this city of the 

 national tournament of the Atlantic 

 Coast Bowling Association. One side 

 of the window is covered with a trel- 

 lis upon which is entwined pink and 

 white ramblers and at the base of 

 this is a small rookery. The main 

 decoration is that iiroduced by a bowl- 

 ing alley upon which are set candle, 

 duck and bottle pins, each bearing the 

 crest of the association. At the front 

 end of the alley is a bowling ball 



with a silver iilalo properly inscribed 

 and a large placard which announces 

 that this ball has been "iiresented to 

 William F. Gude. national president, 

 A. C. B. A., by P. B. Fletcher, to be 

 rolled at the opening of the national 

 tournament, Emery Building. April 3, 

 1916." 



PITTSBURGH. 



C. C. Phillips, lor tlie past tour 

 years in Winnipeg, .Manitoba, entered 

 the employ of The McCallum Co. last 

 Monday. 



DeForest W. Ludwig, who has been 

 seriously ill since the first of the year, 

 left on last Saturday night for an in- 

 definite sojourn at Southern Pines, 

 N. C. 



Oliver Marvin Crosby, formerly in 

 the employ of Peter Henderson & Com- 

 pany, is now associated with the Pitts- 

 l)urgh Branch of the Inside Bureau 

 as psychological lecture. 



Miss Catherine Friel, manager of 

 the Kay J. Daschbach Co., is convales- 

 cing from a severe illness. Mr. Das- 

 liach, manager for Kaufmanns' has re- 

 turned from a trip East. 



John R. Bracken, a young State 

 College man, who has been recently 

 assistant landscape architect for the 

 A. W. Smith Company, today assumed 

 a similar position in Philadelphia with 

 Oglesby Paul. 



Cincinnati — The A. Sunderliruch 

 Sons' store has moved to Fourth 

 street, near Race. It had been in its 

 old location for 38 years. 



The Reading Florists' Association, 

 Reading. Pa., will hold their fall show 

 in the Auditorium, Nov. 2, 3 and 4. 



HART'S HANDY HANDLE 



A Florisfs 

 Necessity 



Fits securely on any standard pot and by the use of a little cblf- 1 12 Incbes high, $2.50 pertloz. 



fon or ribbon gives you a Basket effect at a very small additional 2 15 " " 3.50 " " 



expense, increasing the price of yonr plants 100 per cent. 3 18 " " 4.00 " " 



At Vour Dealer's or Direct. 



GEO. B. HART, Manufacturer, 24 to 30 Stone Street, Rochester, NY. 



4 24 inches high, $5.00 per doz. 



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