Api;il 3, 1915 



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Gude Bros, have installed a very 

 novel display in a window on Ninth 

 street, by which the Florists' Tele- 

 graph Delivery is given a big boost. 

 Telegraph poles, wires and tables 

 equipped with sending and refeiving 

 instruments supposedly operated by 

 dolls, shipping tags and labels bearing 

 the names of florists in every state of 

 the Union, illustrate the widespread 

 use of the service. The background is 

 made up of plants and cut flowers and 

 show cards tell the meaning of the 

 display. Gude Bros, have secured two 

 stores on Twelfth and Thirteenth 

 streets for Easter overflow. 



PITTSBURGH. 



A. L. Griffith, secretary and treas- 

 urer of the Ray J. Daschbach Co. is 

 confined to his home with an attack of 

 la grippe. 



Supt. William Allen of Homewood 

 Cemetery is beginning to convalesce 

 from an accident of three weeks ago. 

 Just as he was leaving his house Mr. 

 Allen slipped on an icy step, fractur- 

 ing his right ankle in two places. 



The Joseph Home Company, which 

 has a floral department in the base- 

 ment from the middle of March until 

 the first of June under the supervision 

 of F. C. Campen, will have a special 

 sale of dormant stock next week. 



Handsome plant baskets are a fea- 

 ture of Mrs. Williams' Easter window. 

 There are Tausendschoen roses, baskets 

 of lilacs, and azaleas caught with wide 

 ribbons in the Dresden shades and, as 

 an artistic onlooker remarked. 'There 

 is not a discordant note." 



-Mrs. Harry Darlington, who has just 

 returned from Palm Beach, is follow- 

 ing her semi-annual custom of remem- 

 bering the many little patients in the 

 wards of the Allegheny General Hos- 

 pital. Each is the recipient of a little 

 potted azalea, which shelters a downey 

 chick, from Mrs. E. A. Williams' green- 

 houses at Knoxville. 



With the exception of carnations, 

 there has been a sufficiency of stock 

 during the week. The wholesale mo- 

 guls attribute the scarcity of carna- 

 tions to the unusual bloom early in 

 the season, continuing until the end 

 of Feljruary. Owing to the extreme 

 cold, unusual care in packing has been 

 necessary for so late in the season. 



With the wooded heights of Squirrel 

 Hill on one side, and the beautiful 

 Homewood Cemetery on another, C. 

 Phillipps of Forbes and Dallas avenue, 

 undoulitedly has the most picturesque 

 situation of any florist hereabouts. Al- 

 though only two months in business, 

 having the only flower shop in this 

 residence section, his future seems as- 

 sured. Mr. Phillipps has the advan- 

 tage of exceptional cosmopolitan ex- 

 perience, here and in Europe. He has 

 been about eight years in Pittsburgh, 

 serving as landscape gardener for H. 

 J. Heinz and Mrs. Sarah B. Cochran. 

 In connection with his shop Phillipps 

 has a landscape department. 



THE Florists' Supply 

 House of America 



H.BAYERSDORFER&CO. 



1129 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



" Another interesting" ""German land- 

 scape gardener is Ernest Guster Guter. 

 who since coming from St. Louis thir- 

 teen years ago, has been with Richard 

 Beatty Mellon. Although, figuratively 

 speaking, a landscape architect 

 "pressed the button," Mr. Mellon ana 

 Mr. Guter are, together, largely re- 

 sponsible for the splendid ten-acre es- 

 tate, which is by far the most preten- 

 tious in the city limits. In keeping 

 the greenhouse range, Italian garden, 

 cold frames and house conservatory in 

 the quintessence of order, Mr. Guter 

 employs a force of from six to eight 

 men. 



Owing to a premature notice, which 

 appeared last Saturday. Supt. James 

 Moore of North Side Parks had the 

 first of his Easter visitors — and many 

 of them, big and little — on Palm Sun- 

 day. Their objective point was what 

 was intended as the "Kindergarten de- 

 partment," otherwise the aquatic 

 house temporarily converted into a 

 "Country Gentlemen's Place," for the 

 especial benefit of Mr. Moore's many 

 little friends and admirers. Nothing 

 is lacking even to the various rabbits 

 and farm yard fowls. Their caretaker 

 is a diminutive man in overalls with 

 a lawn mower in whom, however, vital 

 breath is lacking. The French hy- 

 drangea and Dutch bulb displays are 

 exceptionally fine. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Norwich, N. V. — The business of the 

 late Edward F. Quinn will be continued 

 by Mrs. Quinn and family, under the 

 old firm name. 



Albany, N. Y.—Charles S. Wilson, a 

 professor in Cornell University, has 

 been unanimously confirmed by the 

 Senate as state commissioner of agri- 

 culture. 



Utica, N. Y.— Frank McGowan, 808 

 Sunset avenue, has sold his range of 

 greenhouses to Williams & Weider. 

 Mr. McGowan has accepted the man- 

 agement of the greenhouses of the late 

 E. F. Quinn at Norwich, N. Y. 



New York — P. J. Smith, long located 

 at 49 West 28th street, where John I. 

 Raynor preceded him, will abandon the 

 old headquarters about May 1, and 

 move to the much larger and better 

 equipped store at 131 W. 2Sth street, 

 now occupied by Traendly & Schenck. 

 Treandly & Schenck will move to a 

 new location on Sixth avenue, near 

 W. 2bth street. 



Bedford, Mass.— Only the prompt 

 work of the local fire department pre- 

 vented a serious fire at the New Eng- 

 land Nurseries at Shady Hill in the 

 west part of this town, last Saturday 

 afternoon, when a large pile of moss 

 used in packing caught fire outside the 

 packing house, and set fire to the 

 packing shed. A high wind spread the 

 blaze, which was tlireatening (he entire 

 huge nursery plant when the firemen 

 arrived. The damage to material and 

 the building will not exceed $500. The 

 officials at the nurseries believe the 

 fire was set by a spark from a train, 

 although the fire authorities are of 

 the belief that it was caused from a 

 cigarette carelessly thrown down by a 

 workman. 



A forest blaze in the south part of 

 the town burned over nearly half a 

 dozen acres of woodland, owned by 

 Charles "W. Jenks. The fire was set 

 by a spark from a passing locomotive. 



PERSONAL. 



Otto Wolff, of Corfu, has taken a po- 

 sition with L. C. Stroh & Sons, Bata- 

 via, N. Y. 



Manuel J. Brooks, Florist, 100 South 

 6th street. New Bedford, Mass., and 

 Miss Christina Costa, are to be mar- 

 ried shortly. 



William Whitton formerly with E. 

 Iselin, New Rochelle, N. Y., is now en- 

 gaged on North Brook Farm, Green- 

 wich, Conn. 



Professor C. S. Sargent of the Arnold 

 Arboretum is away on a trip south 

 and west. We may look for some more 

 additions to the Crataegus list. 



John S. Doig, recently of Grosse 

 Point, Mich., has accepted a position 

 as second gardener under Robert John- 

 ston at Wolf Pen Farm, Southbridge, 

 Mass. 



NEW FLOWER STORES. 

 Winston-Salem, N. C. — Shelton Seed 

 Store. 



St. Paul, Minn. — John Hoffman, East 

 6th street. 



Bound Brook, N. J. — Geo. Schmidt, 

 422 Main street. 



Rochester, N. Y. — John A. Murrell, 

 368 E. Main street. 



San Francisco, Cal. — Navarret Bros., 

 1422 Haight street. 



Portland, Ore. — Edward Nausa, 23d 

 and Lovejoy streets. 



Brooklyn, N. Y. — Joseph Trepel, 

 1070 Flatbush avenue. 



Utica, N. Y. — Pierce & Gray, Oneida. 

 Square after May 1st. 



Glens Falls, N. Y.— Geo. M. Watklns, 

 189 Main street, for Easter trade. 



Meadville, Pa.— C. R. Betts, Mer- 

 chants' National Bank Bldg., Chestnut 

 street. 



IT'S THE SAME IN FLORALVILLE, 

 BROTHER. 



The editor of one of our esteemed 

 contemporaries recently received from 

 a subscriber a postal card reading as 

 follows: 



"Please send me a few copies of 

 your paper containing the obituary 

 notice of my aunt. Also publish the 

 clipping about the marriage of my 

 niece who lives in Texas. When I 

 was in your town last week I called at 

 your office and chatted with you over 

 an hour and yet you made no men- 

 tion of it in your paper the week fol- 

 lowing. Why w-as this? Also, I wish 

 you would mention in your columns 

 (provided it doesn't cost anything) 

 that I have two bull-calves for sale. I 

 might add in conclusion that as my 

 subscription has expired you may 

 please stop my paper. Times are too 

 liad to waste money on newspapers." 

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