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HORTICULTURE 



December 1, 190fi 



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REIYIOVAL NOTICE 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., Philcdelphia, Pa, 



THE FLORIST SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA, 



beg to announce to their patrons and the trade their removal 

 inio new, spac ous and up to dale quarters, occupying the 

 entire building ai 



1129 ARCH STREET 



where, with most modern facilit es and increased working 

 force, they will endeacor to still further improve ihcir already 

 w II established record lor promptness and reliibiliiy. 



Whin in Philadelphia stop in! Make the new centrally 

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FLORISTS' EXHIBITIONS. 



The idea of having a special store 

 or greenhouse exhibition as a sort of 

 busineoS opener for the fall and win- 

 ter has gained rapidly in favor each 

 year with retail florists in all parts 

 and is a most excellent one. Well ar- 

 rayed and generously advertised 

 locally, these pleasant little affairs are 

 good business getters and more than 

 repay all they cost. We are speaking 

 now of the purely commercial displays 

 in retail sales establishments and not 

 of the many delightful exhibitions on 

 private estates, thrown open to the 

 public by their public-spirited owners 

 or the affairs, more or less pretentious, 

 in connection with coftee booths and 

 handiwork of various kinds which 

 church ladies get up every season, all 

 of which do their little share towards 

 a better knowledge and appreciation of 

 the florists' products. 



We note below a few of the leading 

 local commercial shows. 



H. P. Campbell, Shamokin, Pa., 

 opened a fine show at his Sunbury 

 street store last week. 



R. W. Barrows, Meriden, Conn., gave 

 a fine public exhibition at his green- 

 houses and store last week. 



A. M. York, Ripley, Mich., gave the 

 townspeople a rich treat in a chrysan- 

 themum display, the last week in 

 October. 



Thomas Troughton, Merrimac, Mass., 

 provided a treat in chrysanthemums 

 for visitors to his greenhouses the 

 past week. 



The greenhouses of A. N. Pierson, 

 Cromwell, Conn., have been thronged 

 with visitors throughout the chrysan- 

 themum season. 



White's Conservatory, Sandusky, C, 

 was the scene of a brilliant display 

 beginning Wednesday, Nov. 7, and 

 lasting one week. 



Bertermann Bros., Indianapolis, 

 Ind., had a show that lasted through 

 the entire week and was visited by 

 thousands of people. 



The Ansonia Floral Co., Ansonia, 

 Conn., have been welcoming a large 

 attendance at the chrysanthemum dis- 

 play in their greenhouses. 



The Wettlin greenhouses at Hornell, 

 N. Y., were the scene of a chrysanthe- 

 mum show on Nov. 9 and 10 that 

 eclipsed all former efforts. 



John Irvine & Sons, Bay City, Mich., 

 received their friends and customers 

 last week in an unprecedented show 

 of the newer chrysanthemums. 



Stuart & Haugh, Anderson, Ind., gave 



their fifteenth annual .shciw on Xovt-m- 

 ber 15, 10. 17. Their spacious houses 

 were aglow with rich color. 



Chaterton Warburton, Fall River, 

 Mass., made a special store display on 

 Saturday, Nov. 15. Carnations shared 

 the glory with chrysanthemums. 



John F. Horn & Bro., Rittersville, 

 Pa., have been holding their annual 

 chrysanthemum show for the past ten 

 days at their greenhouses and store. 



C. Peterson & Sons, Escanaba, Mich., 

 gave a chrysanthemum exhibition last 

 week at their greenhouses, said to be 

 the finest show of its kind ever seen 

 north of Milwaukee. 



S. A. Anderson, Buffalo, N. Y., gave 

 an exhibition at his store on Main 

 street, from November 14 to 17. It 

 was a very elaborate display and drew 

 crowds ot admiring visitors. 



The new store of the Alpha Floral 

 Company, Denver, Colo., was opened 

 on November IG with a magnificent 

 and artistic exhibition of chrysanthe- 

 mums, roses, palms and Lorraine be- 

 gonias. 



The store of H. P. Kleinhans at 

 Easton, Pa., was turned into a bower 

 of beauty for Friday and Saturday, 

 Nov. 9 and 10. It was acknowledged 

 to be the finest private display ever 

 attempted in Easton. 



The Rosery, Winnipeg, Man., gave a 

 public exhibition on November 8, 

 which was declared to be the best 

 show ot chrysanthemums and roses 

 ever seen in Manitoba. Music was fur- 

 nisned by a string band. 



The big annual chrysanthemum show 

 of John Breitmeyers' Sons, Detroit, 

 was a success as usual. Their well ap- 

 pointed store was appropriately deco- 

 rated. All the show varieties, as well 

 as seme thirty-five pompon varieties 

 were artistically displayed. 



Bertermann Bros., Indianapolis, rec- 

 ognizing the great loss to the com- 

 munity in the omission of a public 

 flower show this fall, have done their 

 be=t to make up for it by staging an 

 exhibition of great magnitude at their 

 Massachusetts avenue establishment, 

 with many elaborate floral effects. 

 The show lasted two days and was 

 visited by thousands of people. 



"HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY AND 

 SAY IT." 



"I am very fond nf your journal be- 

 cause it does not treat of things in 

 the old hackneyed way, but you and 

 your contributors seem to have some- 

 thing to say and say It." — K. 0. 



OBSERVATIONS BY UNCLE JOHN. 

 Good Advertising Material Wasted. 



At the Chicago show were several 

 valuable mediums either entirely over- 

 looked or not indicated to the press 

 agent — items such as would have 

 made distinctly drawing cards. 



From the Selfridge collection of 

 orchids — Cypripedium Charlesworthii, 

 with three open flowers and three 

 buds showing color — worth $500. 



Lincoln Park showed Cyp. Cham- 

 berlainianum with six flowers, the 

 very finest form; worth $50U, or more. 



Pleurothallis tribuloides, a perfect 

 orchid with six leaves, the largest 

 1 1-4 in. long; total weight of plant, 

 one eighth of an ounce. 



Melocactus Comigeus; the finest of 

 all the spiny barrel ca-ituses. These 

 were some of the notable things. 



Greater Variety in Color Wanted. 



In the class for forty varieties of 

 chrysHnthemums, one bloom each, 

 the winning collection contained ten 

 white, sixteen yellow, six pink;' thus 

 there were only eight of all other 

 colors. Surely with reflexed maroons, 

 crimsons, oranges, amaranths, pur- 

 ples, reds, and bronze colors, which 

 are also repeated with incurved flow- 

 ers of great beauty, the reverse of the 

 petals of either silver or gold, — with 

 all this wealth there should not be 

 sixteen yellows nor ten whites per- 

 mitted in a collection of forty. Make 

 the limit eight yellows and eight 

 whites in collection of forty. I don't 

 see why fifty varieties should not be 

 called for instead of forty. 



The Passing of the Single-Stem Pot 

 Plants. 



Only one group was shown of these 

 r)iice popular and always desirable and 

 attractive exhibits. Where shows ex- 

 tend over several days, these are 

 aaiong the brightest at the end. 

 There should he classes for all colors, 

 and in numbers of ten and twenty. 

 Where only two prizes are offered in 

 a class of such attractiveness, that 

 may account for the lack of competi- 

 tion. 



John Thorpe's Red Brigade. 



He raised in 1.S81 Portia carnation; 

 in 3S.S5, Lyndhurst cactus dahlia; in 

 IScSG, S. A. Nutt geranium; in 1890, 

 Cr. W. Childs chrysanthemum. 



Suppose that royalties could have 

 been collected on all the plants of 

 the above distributed. If only for the 

 first five years! 



