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H K T I r TT L T U K i: 



June Z6, liilu 



NEW YORK. 

 Ann 11 1 Hiiii.viird has koii<> to his 

 Newport. R. I. store for tlu' summer. 



Phil. K. Kessler will ilosf his whole- 

 sale place at 1 P. M. every day fm- th.' 

 summer months. 



Charles Thorloy's Fifth avomu- store 

 will Ik! closed from Suliirduy noon 

 until .Monday inorniiiK each week 

 throughout the summer. 



The retail trade of New York city, 

 more especially in the cla.-ss of stores 

 catering to the Fifth and .Madison ave- 

 nue people has been at a very low 

 point ever since the sinking of the 

 Lusitanla. 



The New York and .New Jersey As- 

 sociation of Plant Grower;; will hold 

 their next regular meeting at the sec- 

 retary's otlice in the Queens Plaza 

 Court Bldg.. Bridge Plaza. Long Island 

 City, on Tuesday. June i;9. at 1.30 P. 

 .M. There will lie a short meeting and 

 Immediately thereafter the members 

 will go via automobiles to Keltman's at 

 Coney Island for a dinner. The auto- 

 mohiles will be furnished by the mem- 

 bers. All who participate will be ex- 

 pected to pay a proportionate share of 

 what is spent at Feltmans'. 



The 15th annual outing and games 

 of the New York F'lorists' Club will 

 take place on Wednesday, July 14 at 

 Witzel's Point View Grove. College 

 Point. The committee in charge ot 

 this important event consists of F. W. 

 .\rmitage. chairman: Louis Schmutz, 

 Jr., A. J. Guttman. K. W. Holt, V. L. 

 Morgan, J. \V. Wagenl'olir, A. .M. Hen- 

 shaw, J. Hauck, Alex. Burns. Jr., Peter 

 Uenyse, Jr., J. J. Lane, L. W. C. Tut- 

 hill. R. G. Wilson, A. Demusey, Jr., E. 

 A. Manda. Sam. Redstone. J. Buerlein, 

 Emil Schloss, J. W. Reiniels. A. H. 

 Donaldson and Victor S. Uorval. 



The Greek American Picnic, another 

 popular outing takes plaie one week 

 earlier at the same grounds. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Southern Pacific Railway Co. 



is putting in a new depot down the 



peninsula, wliich is located on the 



MacRorie-McLaren nursery property. 



Many of the business places in Oak- 

 land. Berkeley and Alameda, includ- 

 ing florist shops, closed on Alameda 

 County Day at the exposition in order 

 to participate in that event. 



The Oregon Rose Festival, which 

 was celebrated at the Oregon building 

 at the exposition the first of the week 

 created an extra demand for roses 

 that drained the local market. Two 

 orders alone called for 20.000 blooms. 



The Fairmont Floral Co. on Powell 

 street supplied one of the largest or- 

 ders for .\merican Beauties they ever 

 handled a few days ago when they 

 decorated the Manx Hotel in honor of 

 the arrival of a delegation of sixty 

 young women, winners in a beauty 

 contest, to visit the exposition. 



CHICAGO. 



Gcorgi' Asiiais says I he Si liillir 

 stores are busy lining orders for June 

 weddings and lommencemeiils, prinil- 

 pally I he former. 



Van S. Rogers, of Saugatuck, Mich., 

 who opened a new store last spring, 

 was a visitor here. He reports a good 

 trade, especially in bedding stock. 



Miss Gertrude Lewis, whose artistic 

 work among the flowers at J. Mangel's 

 is recognized as among the best In 

 Chicago, leaves this week for a sum- 

 mer at Winnipeg and iioints in British 

 Columbia. 



Jas. S. Wilson was in Chicago with 

 the Des Moines .Advertising Club, of 

 which he is a member and which is 

 meeting in Chicago this week as a part 

 of the .-Advertising Clubs of the Worhl. 

 now in convention here. 



How to entertain the eastern delega- 

 tion when here, on their way to San 

 Francisco, is occupying the minds ui 

 a joint committee from the Chicago 

 norists' Club and the Park Superin- 

 tendents. Chicago hospitality is too 

 well known to leave any doubts as lo 

 its wish to welcome the travelers. 



The W. L. Palinsky greenhouses at 

 2865 Palmer street are offered for sale 

 to close up the estate of Mr. Palin- 

 sky, whose death occurred last August. 

 Description will be found on anotbei' 

 page. The property can be divided. 

 .Mr. Palinsky was a pioneer florist 

 whose property, at first far out, is now 

 in a residence district. 



News of the success of the Flower 

 Show committee in securing the use 

 of the Coliseum for a fall flower sho>v 

 was received with pleasure by the 

 trade in general. It is usually regard- 

 ed as a stimulus to the use of flowers 

 during the winter. The various sub- 

 committees will hold meetings this 

 week and the work will be pushed rap- 

 idly forward. 



Word was received here of the death 

 of D. U. Augspurger. of Peoria. 111., on 

 Sunday, June 20. The funeral was on 

 Tuesday. Mr. Augspurger was the 

 head of the firm of D. V. .-Augsiiurger 

 & Sons and has been for many years 

 actively engaged in the florists' busi- 

 ness. His frequent trips to Chicago 

 gave him a wide acquaintance here 

 and he will be missed by his friends 

 in the trade. 



Samuel Garner, of 4309 N. Kostner 

 avenue, believes that a city lot can be 

 made beautiful and yield a profit at 

 the same time. On the rear half of a 

 50x150 ft. lot he has 2ofp peonies, in- 

 cluding the choicest varieties, and his 

 place is visited daily during the bloom- 

 ing season by scores of flower lovers. 

 Mr. Garner sells a limited quantity of 

 his plants each year. He formerly de- 

 voted this space to a rose garden but 

 he says "Roses have all the diseases 

 and bugs that plants are heir to" and 

 he takes more pleasure in his big 

 peony beauties. 



New Bedford, Mass, — Business 

 among the local florists is still far 

 from dull. Geraniums continue in 

 brisk demand and are not always easy 

 to get. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The deeds of Kiiberl .Morris were rt^ 

 lulled and his memory honored when 

 a tablet was unveiled at the luncheon 

 iif the Chestnut Street Business Men's 

 .Association. June 15, In the Hotel 

 .\delphla Dr. Ellis Paxlon Oherholt- 

 zer extolled the financier of the Revo- 

 lution as having accomplished even 

 more for American independence than 

 did George Washington, Benjamin 

 I'ranklln or Thomas Jefferson. 



The tablet will be erected outside 

 the store of Henry A. Dreer, Inc., Nos. 

 714 and 71ti Chestnut street, within a 

 few days. This site Is chosen because 

 it was on this ground Morris planned 

 to erect a residence calculated to sur- 

 pass in magniflcence any building In 

 the land. He laid the foundations, 

 which still are to be seen in the base- 

 ment of the Dreer and other proper- 

 ties In the row. just before he met 

 financial misfortune, which resulted In 

 his being thrown in the debtors' Jail. 



The tablet is bronze and bears the 

 inscription, "Site of the residence of 

 Robert Morris, statesman and finan- 

 cier. Born 1734. Died 1806. Founded 

 Bank of North America in 1781. 

 Buried in Christ Church. This tablet 

 is erected to his memory by the 

 Chestnut Street Business Men's Asso- 

 ciation." 



The Philadelphia Cut Flower Co. 

 will be under new management after 

 July 1. R. ('. Hayden. who was the 

 founder and backer of the company, 

 has sold out his interest to his man- 

 ager. Geo. Aeugle. Mr. .Aeugle is 

 young and enthusiastic and we look to 

 him as a comer in the commission 

 field. 



.Mai-rioiiald's iJniss Rluiikots liiivo fre- 

 • lii«-iitly Oecii incntfoneU in tliesi* (■(tlMiiin» 

 as well as nil other jrardeiilup [>nperM. It 

 is wiirtli niithm. however, (hat at) eiiler- 

 prisiiij; Ilrni. who do husinesK in lawn 

 spriuklors. has liceii iislnjr this ready ii)eaii» 

 of in)pro\isiii;i a lawn in their shop win- 

 dow, witli a spriniiler at work over its 

 surfare. It's a good idea, and it should 

 set the ininils of some of toir tdg seedsmen 

 at work tliinking out iiiually ingenious 

 S'-heiuoa for making their shop window* 

 more nttractlve. 



The foregoing from an English trade 

 paper "sounds reasonable!" — as Bo'sn 

 Trainer would say. But how about 

 our American jiastmasters in window 

 decorations, like Philip Freud, of 

 Michell's, for instance. Wouldn't he 

 smile if he should ever happen to read 

 a iiaragraph like that! 



ST. LOUIS. 

 .V committee consisting of W. A. 

 Rowe, W. Edwards and Hugo Gross 

 has been appointed by the County 

 Growers' Association to meet the 

 wholesalers and try to persuade them 

 to continue Sunday opening as hereto- 

 fore so they could dispose of their Sat- 

 urday morning cut. 



Merchantville, N. J.— Mrs. M. A. Sea- 

 man became .Mrs. Wm. S. Johnston. 

 June 15th. Mr. Johnston is in the 

 grocery business; but it is said that 

 he is also an experienced fiorist — -and 

 this will no doubt develop added im- 

 portance to the Seaman fioral estab- 

 lishment. 



