Ffelruarj- 6, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



18T 



EVERYBODY NEEDS THIS! 



For securing Cut Flowers, Plants and 

 Floral Designs in Cardboard or Corru- 

 gated Boxes. 



HART'S PATENT STAPLE TACK 



For immediate use in Box of Any Size, 

 with wooden strip of any length or form. 



Efficient, Handy, Cheap. 



PRICES: $4.00 per 1000; 50c. per 100 



DISCOUNT TO JOBBERS. 



GEORGE B. HART, 



24 STONE STREET 

 ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



quality of the stock it places on the 

 market. 



Geo. Wienhoeber has completed sev- 

 eral changes in his store, greatly add- 

 ing to its beauty and convenience and 

 also placed a large stock refrigerator 

 in the basement workroom. He says 

 the old time corsage bouquet is of the 

 past and lays it to modern dressing 

 and modern dancing. 



The hot frames on the lots opposite 

 the greenhouses, at Frank Oechslin's, 

 will be replaced this spring with a 

 range of six houses of the latest mod- 

 els for plant growing. The present 

 range is new and up to date and this 

 addition will give much needed room 

 for the high-class stock which has 

 won such a good repute for this es- 

 tablishment. 



Frank Beu has now one of the best 

 equipped as well as most attractive 

 places on the northwest side. His new 

 brick building at 4445 N. Crawford 

 avenue, containing a store and three 

 flats, is now completed and later it 

 will be joined on the south side by 

 conservatories. The store is 22x35 ft. 

 with an 18 ft. window and richly fur- 

 nished. Mr. Beu and son Carl, operate 

 the place together. Carl attending also 

 to the wholesale part in the market. 

 Mr. Beu leaves Friday for a visit to 

 his old home in Philadelpliia which he 

 left IT years ago for Chica.go. During 

 the past five years death has come 

 into his family five times and a vaca- 

 tion will afford a much needed diver- 

 sion and rest. The Kaiserine rose still 

 has one faithful champion in Chicago. 

 Frank Beu has always found it too 

 profitable a summer rose to discard 

 and grows about 3000 plants each year 

 for his retail trade, planting them after 

 the chrysanthemum houses are 

 emptied. 



ALBANY, N. Y. 



A leisurely homeward trip from the 

 Buffalo carnation meeting gave oppor- 



tunity for a brief call on a few of the 

 Albany flower establishments. The 

 Albany Cut Flower Exchange has in 

 its present quarters an ideal whole- 

 sale place, in location, size and equip- 

 ment, and Manager Thos. Tracey said 

 business was excellent. At The Rosery 

 there was quite a hustle on with 

 funeral work and some very attractive 

 and useful floral baskets with tin con- 

 tainers charmingly filled with Farley- 

 ense ferns and sweet peas. At H. G. 

 Eyres' there was also evidence of good 

 seasonable trade and a handsome win- 

 dow attractively dressed. Gloeckner's 

 cozy store close to the State Capitol 

 wore its customary inviting attire and 

 the proprietor was right on his job. 



Business was hustling at F. Ban- 

 ker's and the window filled with a line 

 of plants and flowers not usual in 

 florists' windows. Accepting Mr. Ban- 

 ker's invitation we took a hurried run 

 out to his nursery and greenhouse 

 establishment where we found a place 

 attractively adorned with groups of 

 evergreens outside and well filled with 

 varied stock inside. There are two 

 fine rose houses, each 30 x 150, one 

 filled with Killarney and in the other 

 we noted beds of rested and cut-back 

 Ward and Carnot roses which are 

 showing the effect of generous feed- 

 ing, in a vigorous break of young 

 wood. There are some ten or 

 twelve houses altogther conveniently 

 grouped around a commodious work- 

 room and also that most useful ad- 

 junct of such an establishment — a big 

 cold house in which are stored bays, 

 boxes, azaleas and bulbs. Carnations 

 were fine. 



We did intend to visit Fred Gold- 

 ring's place at Slingerlands, but Sun- 

 day trains to that noted establishment 

 are mighty scarce and Sundays at 

 Goldring's are an undisturbed solitude 

 in consequence, an inconvenience 

 which is not without its compensating 

 advantages. 



LANCASTER, PA. 



In walking through the one street 

 of Strasburg, the most magnificent 

 specimens of geraniums, coleus, prim- 

 roses, cyclamen and a few other plants- 

 were noted in the windows of almost 

 every house, Mr. Rohrer and -Mr. Herr, 

 both being wise enough to encourage- 

 this trade by having for sale a tew 

 extra good plants, not scrubby stock 

 grown In an out-of-the-way corner. 

 The writer believes that there are hun- 

 dreds and thousands of just such 

 homes as these Strasburg people have 

 that are neglected by the florists, or 

 their trade has been killed by selling 

 them ordinary stock that did not give 

 satisfaction. 



If the trade papers had been wise 

 enough to print the address given by 

 Mr. Sheldon in Philadelphia in full in- 

 stead of giving it a half-inch notice, 

 or if the S. A. F. could tor once be 

 persuaded to get such a man to ad- 

 dress their meeting, the trade might 

 gradually wake up to its opportunities 

 and to the fact that good goods,, 

 good service and honesty are the busi- 

 ness builders of this day and genera- 

 tion and unless we do thus wake up 

 we will not take our place in the 

 world to which we are entitled. 



While on this subject, at the recent 

 inauguration in this State we had 

 from Lancaster a Lieutenant-Governor 

 in the person of our B. F. McClain, one 

 of the most popular men in the city. 

 The occasion should have been one of 

 great benefit to the trade if it had 

 been properly worked up, but instead 

 there was not even a rii)ple and flow- 

 ers going to waste by the thousands. 

 It our retail florisls would take up a 

 course such as the Sheldon or one of 

 the others offered, all of which are 

 excellent, sfich opportunities would 

 not be overlooked, and .-^o.-ne of our 

 producers in the cut flower line would 

 be better enabled to count the costs- 

 before getting in too deep. 



Ai.hkrt .M. HKim. 



