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IIORTI CULTU RE 



May 6, 1916 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 





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GU8 PoppuH. of Des Molin's. la., one 

 of the proprietors of the Alpha Floral 

 Co.. is agoin In tho hospital. 



Julius Sihuupp has loft tho Alpha 

 Floral Co. and will no to Dos Moines, 

 la., to be with the Wilson Floral Co, 



I'has. MacCauley, of the Chicago 

 Flower Cirowers" Association, is con- 

 lined to his home this week with ill- 

 ness. 



Frank Oechslln has added a small 

 car for IlKht hauls botwoen his new 

 place at Tl'nd street and Harlem ave- 

 nue and his plant establishment. 



The backwardness of the spring is 

 shown by the fact that the forsythias 

 are in bloom and early tulips and 

 hyacinths are just niakinB their ap- 

 pearance, while leaf buds are only 

 starting on most trees and vines. 



Local papers declare tliis Easter 

 means an outlay of half a million dol- 

 lars for flowers, grown in and around 

 Chicago, and that this city is the 

 greatest flower distrihuting point in 

 this country. We modestly add, If 

 the greatest in tho United States, why 

 not the greatest In the world? 



C. C. Cleminson. 7801 South Shore 

 avenue, has the sympathy of the trade 

 in the loss of his daughter. Thora, 

 aged 19, whose death from blood 

 poisoning occurred April 30. Miss 

 Cleminson assisted her father in his 

 buying and was well and favorably 

 known in the market, where she will 

 be missed. 



According to the predictions of 

 some of our wholesalers, longest in 

 the business, carnations will not be 

 able to meet the demand for Mothers' 

 Day, May 14. Incidentally they re- 

 mark, the carnation cannot be kept as 

 in the past, which practically puts 

 less on the market for any special 

 occasion. 



Phil Schupp, manager for J. A. Bud- 

 long, says the late Ea.ster proved a 

 good combination with the late season 

 bringing in stock at just the right 

 time. Mr. Schupp is authority on lily 

 of the valley, which is one of their 

 specialties, and he says the June 

 brides will not have to be deprived of 



rX-O^VEKS BY TET.EfiR.Xrn 



SAN FRANCISCO 



( Mil OKM.V 



Pelicano, Rossi & Co. 



12a KEARNY ST. 



F. R. PIERSON CO. 



FLORISTS AND 

 PLANTSMEN 



TARRYTOWNONHUDSON, ■ N. Y. 



a K»u(l .-^iipiil} lu t'uhiu rofiulurl.t 

 through the season. 



In the series of articles "What Chi- 

 cago did for .Me" running in a local 

 newspaper the issue of April 21, con- 

 tains the story and ])i('turo of John 

 J^Iangcl, a leading luup florist who 

 came to Atnorica from (Jreece in 

 18S,'). Mr. Mangel made his way to 

 Chicago, reaching there with $:!..5it of 

 whii'h he invested $2.imi In bananas, 

 the following day and began his career 

 as a merchant. He learned tlie Eng- 

 lish language on the street and a 

 friendly newsboy taught him to read 

 from the headlines on the papers. Step 

 by step business has advanced from a 

 cart which held his merchandise to 

 one of Chicago's most artistic flower 

 stores. The article closes as follows: 

 — "I have been back to Greece tliree 

 times and the utter impossibility lor" 

 tlie poor to better tlieir conditions 

 there seems more deplorable each time 

 and my heart overflows with gratitude 

 to America," 



BOSTON. 



McAlpine & McDonald have taken up 

 their new quarters directly across the 

 street from their old place, and have 

 installed a refrigerator In x :'2. 



George Cartwright is laid up in the 

 Peter B. Brigham Hospital with ail- 

 ments which are as yet unknown. X- 

 ray examinations have failed to dis- 

 close anything, and while his condi- 

 tion is not grave he is seriously ill. 



The bedding plant season is ap- 

 proaching its height, and between now 

 and Decoration Day the growers ex- 

 pect some lively business. In order to 

 appreciate fully the amount of care 

 and labor put into this work one has 

 but to visit such houses as A. Leuthy, 

 Roslindale. Mr. Leuthy has over 150,- 

 onn plants of all varieties in fine 

 condition, and he expects a good sea- 

 son. 



Local growers are having serious 

 trouble keeping their Italian laborers 

 as they are demanding wages not to 

 be heard of. Frank Edgar and Cliarles 

 Evans report that their laborers are 

 leaving upon their refusal to pay them 

 13.00 a day or more. The men claim 

 that they can easily make at least 

 $4.00 a day in the arms and munition 

 factories. Evidently they give this 

 small consideration to the risk in- 

 volved. Italian laborers are getting 

 more independent and harder to get 

 every day and the growers arc facing 

 a critical situation. 



St. Louis — J. J. Beneke, who sold his 

 place of business and lease-hold April 

 15th, left on last Sunday night for a 

 few days' stay in Chicago. On his re- 

 turn he says he will announce his 

 future plans. 



PHILADELPHIA 



llelonias bullata is a feature uf the 

 Battles store display this week. This 

 is an elegant native l>og plant with 

 pink flower racemes two to three 

 Inches long, Hometliing after the style 

 of musk hyacinth. Has an onion-like 

 root and Is easily propagated by di- 

 visions. 



Mr. and Mrs. Almim L. Pennock ar- 

 rived on the 2nd, inst., at tlieir old 

 homestead in Lansdowne, from their 

 winter home at Jupiter, Fla. Holb 

 well and hearty. The veteran Ahram 

 has liccn very much interested recent- 

 ly in superintending the building of 

 the new pier at Jupiter. He certainly 

 is a wonder for a ninety-five-year-old. 



Alfred Burton entertained his fellow 

 heroes (who won fame at the National 

 Flower Show by making it a financial 

 success) on the 2Sth, ult., at his home 

 at Wyndmoor. They were on the tick- 

 et, iirinting and advertising end and 

 they certainly did wonders, and no 

 one grudges them their full meed of 

 praise for a result for which every 

 committee did great work. 



Seventy-five degrees in the shade to- 

 day, Monday, May 1st. The cherry 

 trees are in bloom, vying with dog- 

 wood and lilac; the hyacinths ring 

 their bells with joy; the tulips are 

 holding up their brilliant cups to 

 catch the passing sunbeams. The 

 voice of the lawn mower is heard In 

 the land. Overcoats are discarded 

 and the populace are twelve deep at 

 the seed counters. March and April 

 were mean months but glory be! here 

 it is spring at last! 



P. Joseph Lynch, the Indiana cy- 

 clone, blew into towm on Saturday. It 

 was a little murky overhead for a 

 while but the sky has cleared now 

 and the bad men are beginning to 

 peek out again from the trenches. 

 From all accounts the rose men have 

 had a better year than in 1915 and 

 are again beginning to feel tlieir oats. 

 Glad of It. If Germany will come 

 across with a few cargoes of colors 

 now for next year's catalogs all will be 

 well. In any case we still have black 

 and white, and the latter day artists 

 can make a pretty good job even with 

 that. 



Seymour, Conn. — T. J. Mooney, 

 whose greenhouses are in Kenneytown 

 had a temporary store here for the 

 Easter trade. 



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