May 27. 1916 



HOETICULTURE 



73& 



PROFITS PROFITS PROFITS 



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HERE COMES THE BRIDE 



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There's Money in June Weddings and June Graduations and Commencement 

 Days for the Florist WHO KNOWS HOW TO PLEASE. 



We can supply you with strictly up-to-date accessories, which you must have if 

 you want to give satisfaction. Stock up now and have the goods to show cus- 

 tomers. Send for prices and you will be astonished to see how much you can 

 do with a little money when you go straight to headquarters — THE FLORISTS' 

 SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO 



1129 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Dennis T. Connor, of the Lord & 

 Burnham Co., has been confined to his 

 bed for the past two weeks, the result 

 of a fall while visiting Baltimore. 



Theodore H. Bird, a well known pub- 

 lic accountant of this city, died on the 

 20th inst. He attended many of the 

 festivities of the florists and was a 

 wonderful singer and a great humor- 

 ist. 



Mr. Prince at the W. K. Harris 

 place states that their business from 

 Thanksgiving to Easter was unpre- 

 cedented, especially in the sale of 

 azaleas. Six houses are now being 

 started with chrysanthemums. 



Wni. J. Muth, of the King Construc- 

 tion Co., is much pleased with his new 

 quarters in the Harrison Building 

 where the added facilities for meeting 

 customers are greatly appreciated on 

 both sides. He still keeps up his pri- 

 vate residence at Lansdowne where 

 customers can ring him up as usual 

 outside of business hours. 



The J. Wm. Colflesh Nurseries at 

 53rd and Woodland avenue, contem- 

 plate moving to Glenolden. Pa., some- 

 time in the near future, having bought 

 a farm at that place. They will retain 

 the present place for the retail end. 

 Mr. Colflesh deplores the lack of ger- 

 aniums, saying he could dispose of 

 20,000 plants, if he had them. 



Going through the immense nurser- 

 ies of the Robt. Craig Co., at Norwood, 

 the old adage "Big oaks from little 

 acorns grow," is well exemplified. In 

 1856 when that portion of West Phil- 

 adelphia now denominated as the 

 52nd street district, was a practical 

 wilderness, Robert Craig started the 



nucleus of this immense business, 

 at 49th and Market streets. Start- 

 ing with one house 50 ft. long, right 

 by his dwelling, as was the custom 

 of florists at that period, by strict 

 attention to his business and a per- 

 fect know'ledge of his profession, Mr. 

 Craig had the pleasure of seeing his 

 original plant expand and expand, un- 

 til the nursery finally took in four 

 city blocks, with 75,000 feet of glass. 

 Among the new things being pushed 

 now are the John Wanamaker fern 

 and Picus Craigii, for which the de- 

 mand is very lively. The Craig busi- 

 ness has developed so as to require at 

 times the services of 75 to 100 expert 

 packers, under the direction of Joe 

 Hetherington, who has been with 

 them since 1882, shipping over 6,000 

 cases a year to various parts of this 

 country. There is comparatively little 

 left of the original plant at 49th and 

 Market streets, it being used practical- 

 ly as a receiving and shipping station 

 of the Norwood Nurseries. The quaint 

 old houses of 1856, together with some 

 of the later houses are still retained, 

 but there is little if any selling here, 

 with the exception of one house which 

 they still retain as a retail flower mar- 

 ket during May to July. 



NEW CORPORATIONS. 



Arlington, Mass. — Rawson Conserv- 

 atories, Inc., capital stock, $75,000. 

 Incorporators, Guy Q. Ham, Wm. H. 

 Taylor. 5.3 Farragut Road. Boston, and 

 G. A. Ham. 



St. Louis, Mo. — Foster, the Florist 

 Company. 8th and Olive streets. Capi- 

 tal stock .$2,500. The shareholders are 

 J. H. Vette, 23 shares; Frank Alwoel, 

 one share; Fred J. Poster, one share. 



DECORATION DAY. 



Do you know what it means, you boys and 

 girls. 

 Who hail from the North and the South, 

 Do you know what it means — 

 This twining of greens 

 Round the silent cannon's mouth? 

 This strewing with flowers tlie grass-grown 



grave. 

 This decking with garlands the statues 

 brave ; 

 This flaunting of flags. 

 All tatters and rags; 

 This marching and singing. 

 These bells all a-ringiug; 

 These faces grave and these faces gay. 

 This talk of the Blue and this talk of the 



Gray, 

 In the North and the South, Decoration 

 Day? 



Not simply a show-time, boys and girls, 

 Is this day of falling flowers ; 

 Not a pageant, a play. 

 Nor a holiday 

 Of flags and floral bowers; 

 It is something more than the day that 



starts 

 War memories a-throb in veteran's hearts; 

 For across the years. 

 To the hopes and the fears. 

 To the days of battle. 

 Of roar and of rattle — 

 To the past that now seems so far away, 

 Do the sons of the Blue and the sons of 



the Gray 

 Gaze — hand clasping hand — Decoration Day. 



For the wreck and the wrong of it, boys 

 and girls, 



For the terror and loss, as well. 

 Our hearts must hold 

 A regret untold, 

 As we think of those who fell. 

 But their blood, on whichever side they 



fought, 

 Kemade the nation and progress brought! 

 We forget tlie woe. 

 For we live and know 

 That the fighting and sighing, 

 The falling and dying. 

 Were but steps toward the future — the mar- 

 tyr's way ! 

 A-down which the sons of the Blue and the 



Gray 

 Look, with love and with pride. Decoration 

 Day. 



— E. 8. B. in Boston Transcript. 



A Florisfs 

 Necessity 



Flti iecurely on any itandard pot and by the Due of a little chif- 

 fon or ribbon gives yon s Basket effect at a very gmall addltlonBl 

 oxpense, increasing the price of yoar plant* 100 per cent. 



HART'S HANDY HANDLE 



12 Inches high, $2.S0 per doz. 

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4 24 Inches hlcb, 18.00 per do. 

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At Tour Dealer'* or Direct, 



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



