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HORTICULTURE 



January 3, 1916 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



BOSTON. 



Ladles' MkIU and InsliiUnllon of of- 

 ficers of the Giirdeners' ami Klorlats' 

 Club will take place Jan. 19. 1915. 



Muili Interest Is behiK taken by 

 local florists and carnation enthuslastfl 

 In the Buffalo carnation convention. 

 President Goddard hopes for a goodly 

 followlnK from this section. 



The seed stores gathered In a large 

 part of the holiday harvest. This was 

 especially true of Fottler. Kiske, Raw- 

 son Co., who did a heavy business in 

 Christmas wreaths and other greenery. 



The season has been a rather unfor- 

 tunate one for A. Leuthy & Co., of Ros- 

 llndale. A large shipment of azaleas 

 was made worthless by exposure on a 

 New York dock for over three weeks. 



Some specialties in the markets this 

 week that are worthy of mention are 

 carnations Eureka and Matchless from 

 Paul F. Brigham and well-flowered 

 tulips in pans from Mann Bros.. The 

 flrst Golden Spur narcissi we have 

 seen were brought by J. J. Fee. 



Miss E. Patterson, of Wollaston, 

 Mass.. is receiving congratulations and 

 best wishes from her many friends up- 

 on her engagement to a Quincy busi- 

 ness man. The engagement has not 

 been publicly announced and therefore 

 Miss Patterson is reluctant to divulge 

 the name of the lucky gentleman as 

 yet. 



The local wholesale houses are 

 cheerful places to visit just now, espe- 

 cially the larger ones, who did a heavy 

 business in shipping trade. Once more 

 do the grow^ers complain of the trade 

 diverted from the sale of natural flow- 

 ers by the enormous quantity of dried 

 and artificial basket combinations and 

 plants that were sold. 



Providence, R. I. — The Providence 

 Common Council put the ban on flowers 

 for inauguration day at its meeting, 

 last Monday night, when it passed a 

 resolution requesting friends to omit 

 the gorgeous gifts of blooms and in- 

 stead, remit the money intended for 

 flowers to the City Clerk to be turned 

 over to some charitable organization. 

 Councilman William F. Sears offered 

 the resolution, stating that admiring 

 friends might do well to relieve some 

 of the suffering in the city. Mr. Sears 

 said that ordinarily between $250 and 

 $300 is spent for flow'ers. "It seems to 

 me." Mr. Sears said, "that the flower 

 money would help relieve some of the 

 suffering about the city and that is the 

 only object of my objection. 



Councilman B. Thomas Potter took 

 occasion to frown upon the floral deco- 

 rations and said: "It is time that this 

 body be awake to the fact that we are 

 business men and not a bunch of com- 

 ing-out maidens. Flowers are really 

 needed on three occasions — the com- 

 ing out of a young lady, a wedding and 

 a funeral. To the best of my belief, 

 the inauguration day ceremonies are 

 none of these things." 



CHICAGO. 



Herbert Stone has taken a position 

 as manager of the Mrs. Williams store, 

 known as The .-Vtlas. 



The Warren Floral Co. has opened 

 a store at the corner of 12th street 

 and 60th avenue, two blocks from Its 

 greenhouses. 



A. Lange has taken out a Ave years' 

 lease In the new Stevens building. 

 This building, lately comi)leted. Is one 

 of the linest. though not the largest, 

 of the Slate street buildings in the 

 loop and caters to a very high class of 

 trade. 



The extreme cold of a week ago re- 

 sulted in the loss of the stock In the 

 N. J. Kruchten greenhouses at West- 

 ern and Berwyn avenues. A defective 

 gas pipe in the street opposite the 

 houses had caused no damage so long 

 as the ground permitted the escape of 

 Uie gas. When the ground froze, the 

 gas made its way into the greenhouses 

 and the loss of 35,000 carnation plants 

 and sweet peas seems to be a total 

 one. N. J. Kruchten is one of Chica- 

 go's well-known growers and built the 

 range in 19O0. His two sons are in 

 the wholesale business in the Atlas 

 Block. 



In one block on Wabash avenue 

 the closing year has brought many 

 changes. The passing away of E. E. 

 Peiser. connected with Kennicott Bros. 

 for over thirty ytars; the closing of 

 the J. B. Deamud wholesale commis- 

 sion store; the opening of Harry 

 Rowe's retail store in a wholesale dis- 

 trict and the new venture of the Frank 

 Co. all have occurred within the block 

 between Randolph and Lake street, 

 -one of the strongholds of the florists. 

 Harold Kennicott, nephew of the Ken- 

 nicott Bros., who founded the business 

 in the 70's, has decided to remain in 

 the business in Chicago. 



A rather spectacular Christmas 

 azalea sale was an event in the plant 

 market, outside of the florists' realm. 

 One of the big department stores of- 

 fered 2.000 azaleas, averaging from 12 

 Ip 15 inches across the top, at 69 cents 

 each. They sold in an incredibly short 

 time and sales were limited to one 

 plant to a customer. The way in 

 which the plants were handled was 

 brought to a system which made it 

 possible to sell, wrap and deliver 

 plants over the counter to customers 

 as fast as change could be made. The 

 plants were not perfect and a large 

 proportion could not have been sold 

 at a florist's store, but they were pur- 

 chased by every class of customers. 

 The sale was the result of the over- 

 supply of azaleas 'which came into 

 Chicago and vicinity the past sum- 



8AN FRANCISCO. 



Mrs. F. W. Chambers has opened a 

 new flower shop at Madera, Cal. 



A. E. Schlaudt, who has been In busi- 

 ness for many years at San Jose, Cal., 

 on Dec. 12, opened a new shop at 119 

 S. Second street, that city. G. V. HIara 

 is buyer and manager of the new store. 



A. O. Grnssl, lately of Oakland, has 

 taken over a nursery at Grass Valley, 

 and is overhauling the iilace and put- 

 ting In a new stock. He will operate 

 under the name of Grass Valley Green- 

 houses. 



The Universal Distributing Company 

 has been Incorporated at Suisun, Cal., 

 by Frederick S. Wythe, Marlon Veckl 

 and P. O. Peterson of San Francisco, 

 to conduct a flower, fruit and general 

 farming business In Solane county. 



The Pacific Coast Horticultural So- 

 ciety now has its bowling club formal- 

 ly organized, and the weekly practice 

 is well attended. As a result of the ex- 

 tra exercise, several of the members 

 are throwing off a good deal of surplus 

 weight, which they are well able to 

 spare. 



The city of Berkeley Is working out 

 a "city beautiful" plan, and has desig- 

 nated Live Oak Park as a "clearing 

 house" for plants with which to adorn 

 tlie streets. A large number are now 

 ready for distribution, and citizens 

 having a surplus of plants are invited 

 lo send them to the park. 



A committee consisting of John Val- 

 lance of Oakland, W. V. Eberley of 

 Niles. and E. Gill of Berkeley, all well 

 known to the flower trade, has been ap- 

 pointed to make arrangements for the 

 next annual convention of the Pacific 

 Coast and California nurserymen's as- 

 sociations. The time of meeting has 

 been tentatively set for Aug. 12, 13 and 

 14. this being ahead of the usual time 

 on account of the S. A. F. convention. 



In addition to the branch at 156 

 Powell street, the Art Floral Company 

 has opened another holiday branch 

 around the corner from its main store, 

 putting a large stock of Christmas 

 trees, holly wreaths, etc., on a vacant 

 lot on Geary street adjoining the Stew- 

 art Hotel. The large trees are ar- 

 ranged in park-like effect, with plenty 

 of incandescent lights; and as the 

 place is well within the shopping dis- 

 trict a lively business is being done. 



Washington. — Gude Bros. Co. report 

 having found it necessary to employ 

 thirty-five additional men to handle 

 the Christmas trade In addition to 

 their re.gular force and ten men 

 brought in from the greenhouses. In 

 the movement of the goods from the 

 store eleven closed and heated auto- 

 mobiles were utilized. 



CHICAGO 



And Neighboring To'wns 



Are Thoronthljr Coiered by 



SCHILLER, THE FLORIST 



(Member Florists Telegraph Dellrery). 



Flowepffram or Mall Order* from florlMt 

 ftnynhere caretnUy filled and deUvervd 

 nndcr the »tipprvl»lon of 



GEORGE ASMUS, Mgr. 



2221-2223 W. Madison SL. CHICA60. 



'Phone We.t 822 



