January 16, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



83 



SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS 



St, 



F-L.O«IST! 



SOPFSL-Y I-IOUI2 



OF- a.ivie:ric:a. 



Valentine's Day Novelties — Heart Boxes for Violets — Cherries 

 for Washington's Birthday 



CATCHY NOVELTIES IN TANGO FAVORS 

 HANDLE BASKETS With Liners TUMBLER BASKETS 



CYCAS LEAVES, Best in the World MAGNOLIA LEAVES 



WHEAT SHEAVE CREPE PAPER AND MATS CREPE FLOWERS 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., 



The Florists' Supply 

 House of America 



1129 A.r<st-t S-t., 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



A good-sized delegation is expected 

 to leave Boston for the Buffalo car- 

 nation convention. The party will 

 leave South Station, January 26, at 

 10 a. m., arriving in Buffalo at 11.30 

 p. m. The fare one way on a 10-party 

 ticket is $9.67, chair $2.00. A large 

 number from this section will take 

 along exhibits. All who have not yet 

 notified President Goddard of their in- 

 tention to go should do so without 

 delay. 



The meeting for the discussion of 

 the surplus stock and credit problems 

 was not held January 11. as sched- 

 uled. An informal discussion took 

 place in the markets last Saturday, at 

 which a representative of a collection 

 agency proposed a plan for the or- 

 ganization of a credit protective asso- 

 ciation, consisting of local growers 

 and wholesalers. Much difficulty is 

 being found in getting a sufficient 

 number to agree upon a course of 

 action. 



Terryville, Conn. — At a hearing be- 

 fore Judge of Probate P. A. Scott, on 

 Saturday, upon the application for a 

 conservator over Clarence Fenn, the 

 florist, by the selectmen, the petition 

 was granted and Matthew F. Hayes 

 was selected. An appeal was taken. 



Penn Yan, N. Y. — In the action of 

 Watson H. Whipple, a Medina fruit 

 grower, against the Brown Brothers 

 Nursery Company, of Rochester, to re- 

 cover $1,750 damages as a result of 

 having purchased peach trees of stand- 

 ard varieties, which it is claimed, 

 were not true to name, the jury 

 awarded him $405. 



East Bridgewater, Mass. J. K. Alex- 

 ander sends a large shipment of dah- 

 lias to the Panama-Pacific Internation- 

 al Exposition, to be grown and exhib- 

 ited in connection with the Massachu- 

 setts State Exhibit, and in competi- 

 tion for the gold, silver and bronze 

 medals offered for the finest growing 

 exhibit of dahlias. This exhibit is to 

 occupy 2728 square feet of space and is 

 to be made in the form of a circular 

 bed. 



Mr. Alexander had an exhibit of 

 equal proportions at the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 

 1904 winning the silver medal, the 

 highest honor awarded to any Ameri- 

 can firm. H. Cannell & Son of Swan- 

 ley, Kent, England, were the winners 

 of the highest honor, the gold medal. 



PITTSBURGH. 



F. B. Frauenfelder of Chicago has 

 arrived for his annual visit to Superin- 

 tendent Moore of the North Side (old 

 Allegheny) Parks, and other friends. 



Mr. Marshall, a member of the 

 wholesale firm of McCallum Company. 

 137 Sandusky street, reports an un- 

 usual demand just now for baby prim- 

 rose plants. 



The Ludwig Floral Company is add- 

 ing a palm and fern house to its al- 

 ready commodious Saxonwald Green- 

 houses at Castle Shannon. The work 

 has just started with the expectation 

 of being completed by "early frost." 



The A. \V. Smith Co.. in the Keenan 

 building, which claims the distinction 

 of being the largest retail flower house 

 in America, is nearing its forty-first 

 natal anniversary. Anthony J. Smith, 

 the manager, reports the landscape 

 trade picking up with exceptionally 

 good prospects for spring. The Smiths 

 are producing an average of from 300 

 to 400 orchids daily. 



Harvey C. Sheaff, manager for Mrs. 

 E. W. A. Williams. 621 Penn avenue. 

 reports the usual dull post-holiday sea- 

 son rather better than usual with a 

 steady run of orders for small, in- 

 formal entertainments. Two large de- 

 mands were made upon his resources 

 owing to the deaths of Sidney B. Lig- 

 gett and John H. Dury, both veteran 

 officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad 

 Company. 



David Fraser, under whose regime 

 the private conservatory of Henry 

 Clay Frick has been during its 

 eighteen years' existence, has about 

 recovered from his serious illness of 

 the late summer and autumn. Al- 

 though naturally of robust physique 

 and constitution, Mr. Fraser suffered 

 from a succession of hemorrhages from 

 the lungs caused through over exertion 

 in rowing, while spending his vacation 

 at "Eaglosmere." the Prick's summer 

 home at Pride's Crossing, Mass. With 

 the assistance of a capable helper, Mr. 

 Fraser keeps the conservatory at "con- 

 cert pitch," (figuratively speaking) 

 "year in and year out," and practically 

 keeps the Frick New York house on 

 Fifth avenue and Seventieth street, 

 supplied with cut flowers during the 

 family's stay in town, shipping regular- 

 ly semi-weekly. The chrysanthemum 

 season is usually spent at Pride's 

 Crossing. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



Boston — A. E. Thatcher, Bar Harbor,, 

 .Maine. 



Excelsior Spring, Mo. — Sam. Murray, 

 Kansas City, Mo.; Arnold Ringier, 

 Chicago, 111. 



Washington, D. C. — Ernest F. Hoehl, 

 representing S. S. Skidelsky & Co., 

 Phila., Pa. 



New York — J. A. Peterson, Cincinnati 

 O.; W. R. Pierson, Cromwell, Conn.; 

 Robert Pyle, West Grove, Pa.; L. J. 

 Renter, Westerly, R. I.; S. S. Pennock, 

 Philadelphia, Pa.; Benj. Hammond, 

 Beacon, N. Y. 



Pittsburgh, Pa. — George Hampton, 

 Philadelphia; A. Rosnosky of the 

 Henry F. Michell Seed Company, Phil- 

 adelphia; J. S. Hennon, New Castle, 

 Pa., and A. Miller, representing A. 

 Henderson & Co., Chicago. 



Philadelphia— H. W. Rubel, Fleisch- 

 raan Floral Co., Chicago, 111.; B. E. 

 Brotherton, Detroit, Mich.; W. C. 

 Langbridge, Albany, N. Y. ; J. B. Ag- 

 new, San Francisco, Cal.; Joseph J. 

 Lane of Doubleday, Page & Co.. Gar- 

 den City, N. Y.; J. Bdmondson, repre- 

 senting Braslan Seed Growers' Co., San 

 Jose, Cal.; P. Joseph Lynch, New Cas- 

 tle, Ind.; George Cruickshanks repre- 

 senting R. & J. Farquhar & Co., Bos- 

 ton, Mass.; G. R. Clark, Scranton, Pa.; 

 Antoine Leuthy, Roslindale, Mass. 



DURING RECESS. 



The Albany (N. Y.) Florist Club 

 .gathered around the festive board 

 last Thursday night and partook of a 

 dinner after the annual installation of 

 officers. 



On Tuesday evening. January 12, the 

 Tarrytown (N. Y.) Horticultural Socie- 

 ty enjoyed its 16th annual dinner at 

 the Florence Inn. where so many simi- 

 lar happy events have been pulled ofl 

 in the past. The Tarrytown dinner Is 

 a veritable "feast of reason and flow 

 of soul" as everyone knows who has 

 been enabled to participate in any ot 

 its annual festivities. We were hon- 

 ored with an invitation but, much to 

 our sorrow were obliged to forego the 

 pleasure this time. We may have 

 some further notes of the proceedings 

 next week. 



Frederick W. Sraythe of Newport, 

 R. I., has filed a certificate of owner- 

 ship of the Newport Nursery Company 

 with the City Clerk of that city. 



