January 9, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



51 



HAPPY NEW YEAR Tq the Flodst Trade of America 



We have now come to the turning point of an exactinjj period. The busiest season of 

 the year should now ensue. It will be just what you and I make it. If customers are 

 slow in coming forward, get after them and tell them what you can do for them, just as we 

 are getting after you in this New Year's Greeting. 



IVe have (he greatest and most complete collection of Florist Supplies in this country). Stunning New Year' 

 Novelties for Dinner and Wedding Decorations and St. Valentine's Da}). Located within one block of all the 

 Express Companies, and the Parcel Post is right at our door. We can fill your orders at a moment's notice. Try us I 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., 



The Florists' Supply 

 House of America 



1129 ilVr-c=H S-t., 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



er on the north side. Two of the 

 Fleischman employees, George Mohn 

 and Peter Miller will assist Mr. Wien- 

 hoeber in his new venture. 



WASHINGTON. 



James Dalgleish has returned to his 

 duties at the store of J. H. Small & 

 Sons after an illness of about a week. 



Mr. and Mrs. George H. Cooke were 

 last week called to Buffalo, N. Y., to 

 attend . the funeral of a life long 

 friend. 



Due to the fact that the income of 

 the government derived from customs 

 returns will go behind by nearly $70,- 

 000,000 during the present fiscal year, 

 it will be necessary, according to a 

 prominent member ol the Ways and 

 Means Committee of the House of 

 Representatives, for the next Congress 

 to either renew or enact legislation 

 similar to the present internal rev- 

 enue law of October 22, 1914. Under 

 this law all commission houses are 

 subject to a tax of ?20. 



The most elaborate decoration seen 

 here in recent years was that accom- 

 plished by J. H. Small & Sons for Mrs. 

 Clarence Moore at Rauscher's ballroom 

 late last month. Tall cedar trees lined 

 the walls of all of the rooms except the 

 spacious supper rooms. Here the ce- 

 dars were massed about the pillars of 

 the apartments and the walls were 

 festooned with southern smilax and 

 quantities of holly and poinsettias. 

 The ballrooms on the second floor 

 were arranged in the form of an 

 Italian garden. The walls were a 

 solid mass of cedars from floor to 

 ceiling, except in the ballroom where 

 the mirrors were outlined with 

 smilax studded with holly, pussy wil- 

 low hanging fringe-like over the tops. 

 Branches of scarlet berries, with 

 broad scarlet satin ribbons, were 

 placed under the lights on the walls 

 and the ceilings were all a mass of 

 smilax with a fringe of Alabama moss 

 hanging throughout. The doorways 

 were outlined with the cedars, and 

 the stairways had merely an aisle 

 through a forest of evergreens. 



PITTSBURGH. 



The Blind Floral Company, 511 Lib- 

 erty avenue, with greenhouses at 

 West View, has recently installed a 

 new stoker and pumping system, as 

 well as built a great pond. 



Randolph & McClements are again 



fortunate in the presence of Samuel 

 McClements, who was confined to his 

 house during the holidays through ill- 

 ness resulting from a combination of 

 cold and overwork. 



John W. Jones, foreman of the 

 Phipps Conservatory, has his force of 

 men busy getting the roses ready and 

 other preparations for the Easter Show 

 and cleaning the tropical plants. Sev- 

 eral of the palms are fifty feet high 

 and one reached the sixty-five feet high 

 glass roof, requiring the result of its 

 ambition to be "cut off." The most 

 striking display just now is made by 

 the Lorraine begonias and poinsevtias. 



On the whole, probably no mercan- 

 tile business in Pittsburgh has been 

 less affected than the floral by the gen- 

 eral financial depression of this most 

 notable season of 1914-15. Indeed. 

 Judging from building operations, im- 

 provements and general indications de- 

 spite adverse conditions, the New 

 Year opens favorably, rather than oth- 

 erwise. During the holidays the Pitts- 

 burgh Cut Flower Company was, figur- 

 atively speaking, a hive of industry by 

 night as well as by day in supplying 

 the retail dealers of western Pennsyl- 

 vania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia. 

 The handsome and substantial new 

 home of this firm now in course of con- 

 struction, will probably be ready for 

 occupancy in time tor the Easter 

 trade. The structural work is entire- 

 ly of iron and, while only three stories 

 will be finished at present, the founda- 

 tion has been laid with a view to 

 twelve in the future. The prospective 

 store is almost directly opposite the 

 firm's present headquarters at 121 

 Seventh street. 



York. Neb.— The C. S. Harrison 

 Nursery Co. are enlarging their busi- 

 ness. From thirty pounds of peony 

 seed, they have grown thirty extra 

 fine ones, which they have been test- 

 ing for years, before putting them on 

 the market. They have also orig- 

 inated some superior irises which will 

 yet be heard from. They have now 

 200,000 iris in 250 varieties. C. S. 

 Harrison personally bought two lots 

 in the heart of York.— a city of 7.000 

 people,- and has planted them to 

 $1,000 worth of the choicest iris and 

 peonies. Every foot can be irrigated, 

 and the plot will be a fine park, which 

 all the people can enjoy. 



PERSONAL. 



R. T. Brown of Cottage Gardens Co., 

 Queens, N. Y., has gone on a trip to 

 California and will return about Jan- 

 uary 20. 



Miss Margaret Sullivan and Edward 

 L. Higgins, head gardener at the Mc- 

 Cormick estate, Cohasset, Mass., were 

 married January 1. 



R. E. Ballantyne, formerly florist at 

 the Sonnenberg greenhouses, has re- 

 signed and accepted a position with 

 the. State Experiment Station at Ge- 

 neva, N. Y. 



Arthur Comery is added to the trav- 

 eling force of N. F. .McCarthy & Co., 

 of Boston. He is one of the popular 

 men "on the road" and he represents 

 a standard house. 



Word has been received from E. H. 

 Wilson of the Arnold Arboretum that 

 he has started on his homeward trip, 

 from Japan and will arrive in Boston 

 the latter part of January, 



Charles D. Stark has resigned his po- 

 sition as gardener for Mr. T. Suffern 

 Taller at Newport, R. I. Mr. Stark has 

 been in charge of this place the past 

 twenty-eight years but most of that 

 time with another owner. 



A. M. Davenport of Watertown, 

 Mass., was waylaid by a trio of foot- 

 pads when going home from Boston 

 at 11 P. M. last Wednesday night and 

 relieved of $2.00, fortunately all the 

 cash he had in his pocket. 



-Announcement has just been re- 

 ceived of the marriage of Fred Lau- 

 tenschlager, representative of Kroe- 

 schell Bros,, of Chicago, to Miss Mar- 

 garet .Marie Bemus, of Erie, Pa., on 

 .\ugust 29. 1914. At home after Jan, 

 10 at 3500 North Herndon Street, Chi- 

 cago. 



Westfield, N, J. Frederick Doerrer 

 was severely cut about the face last 

 Sunday morning when he was com- 

 pelled to jump through the side of 

 one of his greenhouses to avoid being 

 run over by his automobile which had 

 started to run while he was at work 

 on SI) lie of the mechanism. The doc- 

 tor took twelve stitches in the cuts ou 

 his face. 



St. Louis— George Waldbart had hla 

 new pleasure car stolon from his ga- 

 ra,i;e on Monday Dec 2S by joy-riders. 

 The car was recovered the next day 

 out in the country badlv damaged. 



