January 30, 1915 



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SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS 



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ISTS' SI^F^FaL-Y l-IO«^SI 



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St. 



Valentine's Day Novelties — Heart Boxes for Violets - 

 for Washington's Birthday 



Cherries 



CATCHY NOVELTIES IN TANGO FAVORS 

 HANDLE BASKETS With Liners TUMBLER BASKETS 



CYCAS LEAVES, Best in the World MAGNOLIA LEAVES 



WHEAT SHEAVE CREPE PAPER ANDfMATS CREPE FLOWERS 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., 



The Florists' Supply 

 House of America 



1129 4Vrc=H ^-t., 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



unusually busy now in anticipation of 

 the Easter exhibit. Forced straw- 

 berries, peaches and tomatoes have 

 been supplying the home table since 

 Thanksgiving. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



Domoto Bros.' nursery at Piedmont 

 has just received a large shipment of 

 flowering shrubs and plants from 

 Japan. 



E. W. McLellan has just returned 

 from a northern trip, calling on the 

 trade in Portland, Seattle, etc. He re- 

 ports business rather quiet in that 

 part of the country. 



S. W. Cunningham, professor of ag- 

 riculture of the Fresno Normal School, 

 is working on plans for the grounds, 

 which will be laid out and planted as 

 soon as the new building is finished. 



Joseph's flower shop on Grant ave- 

 nue has just installed a handsome 

 fountain fi.xture in its window. It is 

 making quite a feature of pansies in 

 novelty boxes, and has on exhibition a 

 lot of Polypodiuni Mandaiana, which 

 are quite a novelty here. 



Angelo J. Rossi, president of Peli 

 cano, Rossi & Co., has been elected 

 treasurer of the Down Town Associa- 

 tion for 1915. This is an organization 

 started by merchants of the shopping 

 district after the 1906 fire for the up- 

 building of the down-town streets, and 

 it still finds a wide field of usefulness. 

 ,L. L. Morse, head of C. C. Morse & Co., 

 the local seed house, is a new director 

 of the organization. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Charles Sim and his wife and her 

 sister will leave Feb. 2nd on a two 

 months' vacation to the Pacific coast. 

 Their itinerary includes San Francis- 

 co, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Loui- 

 poc. 



Dr. Peter H. Lane and Mrs. Lane 

 sailed on the S. S. "Great Northern" 

 on the 27th, via Panama for the Pacific 

 coast. The doctor is one of Tom Ro- 

 land's boys, and is an enthusiastic 

 member of the Florists' Club and the 

 S. A. F. 



W. J. Kennedy, superintendent of 

 the Chestnut Hill Reservoir reserva- 

 tion, Brookline, Mass., has been elect- 

 ed president of the Massachusetts 

 State Employees Benefit Association 

 which numbers over 1000 members. 



Obituary 



Charles W. Parker. 



Charles W. Par.^er, one of Boston's 

 oldest and most respected merchants, 

 died on Sunday, January 24, aged 83 

 years. Death was due to heart failure 

 and came very suddenly. Mr. Parker 

 was an ex-president of the Massachii- 

 setts Horticultural Society, having 

 served in that capacity for two terms 



Charles W. Parker. 



previous to the election of Mr. Farqu- 

 har. He was an ardent lover of horti- 

 culture and on many occasions re- 

 ceived and entertained the garden 

 ccmmitteo of the Society and others 

 in most hospitable ni ;nner at his lieau- 

 tiful summer estate on Marblehead 

 Nee'', which he had planted and de- 

 veloped from a rocky barren into a 

 verdant paradise. He leaves a widow 

 and two sons. The funeral on Wednes- 

 day. January 27, was attended by many 

 of the horticultural fraternily of Bos- 

 ton. 



Riverside, N. J.- The storm on Tues- 

 day night. January 12. did great dam- 

 age to the greenhouses of the local 

 florist here, A. Hirschleber. 



COMING EVENTS. 

 Club Meetings. 



Denver, Colu.. Feh. 1 



Club, Adams llutel. 



. — Colorado Florists* 

 1.— Detroit Florists'' 



Uetruit, .Mich., Feb. 



Club, 1D3 Bates St. 



Grand Kapids, Jllch., Feb. 1. — Grand 

 Itapids Florists' and Gardeners' Club. 



.Montreal, Can., Feb. 1, 7.45 P. M. — Mon- 

 treal Gardeners' and F"lorlsts' Club, Koyal 

 Guardians Bldg. 



Buffalo, N. v., Feb. 2, 8 P. M.— BuEfalO 

 FbTists' Club, 'iSo Ellieott St. 



Uayton, O., Feb. 2.— Dayton Florists' 

 Club, :;7 E. otb St. 



Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 2.— Florists' Club 

 i.f I'liila., llurtkultural Hall, Broad St. 



WaKhiuBton, 1). C, Feb. 2, 8 P.M. — Flor- 

 isls' Club of WasLingtou, D. C, 1214 F St., 

 .N. W. 



.tlinneapolis, .Minn., Feb. 2. — Minneapolis 

 Florists' Clul), lilS N. 5th St. 



Knuxville, Tenn., Feb. 2. — Knoxville Flor- 

 isis' Society. 



Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 2, 8 P. M. — Pitts- 

 Imrali I'lorists' and Gardeners' Club, Ft. 

 I'ill Hotel, .\iiiuial election of officers. 



Si-altie, Wash., Feb. 2.— Seattle Florists' 

 Siiiirt.v, Cbainber of Commerce, 2nd Ave. 

 and Columbia St. 



New Orleons, Feb. 3.— German Gardeners' 

 Club (if New Orleans, 717 Common St. 



I.unihville. K.v., Feb. 3.— Kentucky So- 

 liet.v "£ Florists. 



.\lban.v, N. V., Feb. 4.— Albany I'lorisis' 

 Club, Gil Broadway. 



(hi<aB», III., Feb. 4, 8 P. M.— Chicago 

 flurisls' Clulj, Hotel La Salle, La Salle 

 and W. Madison Sis. 



Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 4, 8 1*. .M.— Mil- 

 waukee Florists' Club, Quiet House, 8(» 

 .Masou St, 



Taeonia. Hash., Feh. 4.— Tocamo (Wash.) 

 I'lnrisis' .Association, Maccabee Hall, C and 

 mil Sts. 



BUSINESS TROUBLES. 



Fulton, N. Y.- Theodore Foederer, 

 involuntary bankruptcy; assets, $1300, 

 liabilities, $2000. 



A petition has been filed in the Su- 

 preme Coiirt of the District of Colum- 

 bia to have the Washington Florists 

 Company, adjudicated a bankrupt. The 

 petitioning creditors and their claims 

 are as follows; J. Louis Loose (head 

 of the company), $39,000 due upon the 

 principal of one hundred bonds of the 

 company of a par value of $500 and 

 $7.4!)1 in interest due upon said bonds; 

 T F. Burroughs & Sons, Alexandria, 

 Va . $49.S6; Benjamin Einstein, Wash- 

 ing-ton, D. C, $19.80; W. A. Smoot & 

 Companv, Inc., Alexandria, Va., 

 $186 63; Thomas Somerville Company. 

 Washington, D. C, $5.97. Charles F. 

 Di-gs is attorney for the petitioners. 



