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HORTICULTUEE 



July 10, 1915 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO. 



The annual meeting of the stock- 

 holders of the Chicago Flower Grow- 

 ers' Association took place July 7. 



If there are any number of florists 

 going to the convention this year, they 

 are very loth to make that fact known. 



Miss C. Paradise, for many years 

 bookkeeper for A. L. Vaughan Co., is 

 spending two weeks at her old home 

 in Michigan. 



The failure of Paul Palos of Little 

 Rock, Arkansas, has caused some stir 

 in the wholesale market where his 

 name is found on the books of several 

 firms. He has written his creditors 

 here that everything outstanding will 

 be paid. 



No one seems able to understand 

 the ups and downs of flowers in pub- 

 lic favor. Last year the colored nym- 

 phajas were among the most popular 

 flowers, while this year they are 

 meeting with slow sale. Quite pos- 

 sibly they may regain their prestige 

 later in the season when anything 

 suggestive of water will naturally find 

 more favor. 



At Wietor Bros., the carnation space 

 will be reduced five houses to make 

 room for more roses next year. The 

 summer schedule of shipments went 

 into effect at this house today and all 

 stock will arrive in one lot. N. Wie- 

 tor is rejoicing in the fact that his 

 small son who has been ill with scar- 

 let fever is now home from the hos- 

 pital, and gaining strength daily. 



Hoerber Bros, have given up the 

 growing of carnations and their range 

 of 200,000 square feet of glass, at Des 

 Plaines, 111., now houses only roses. 

 Among the stock will be 10,000 Mrs. 

 Russell plants to supply that rose to 

 meet the popular demand. Hoosler 

 Beauty and Ophelia will also be 

 planted largely and there will be a 

 good supply of Mrs. Ward. The 

 abandoning of carnations by growers 

 seems to be gaining ground and 

 marks a change in the commercial lip 

 of the "divine flowers." 



Aloise Frey, remembered by his 

 many friends as a former superinten- 

 dent of Lincoln Park, is now making 

 a success of his favorite work of ad- 

 ding improved varieties of flowers to 

 the market supply. Just now his 

 antirrhinums are among the finest 

 offered here. They are cut from seed- 

 lings of his own hybridizing. His 

 love of experimenting with new plants 

 does not limit his success in other 

 lines, as his carnations are just now 

 bringing the highest prices in the 

 salesroom of one of the largest houses 

 in this market. 



Chas. McKellar finds but little dif- 

 ference in the amount of business 

 done in June as compared with that 

 of former years. His reports of the 

 Panama Exposition, which he visited 

 in March, are of particular interest to 

 his friends in the trade at this time, 

 as they are now trying to decide the 

 question of going to the convention. 

 Mr. McKellar is enthusiastic in his 

 descriptions of the trip and advises 

 everyone to go who possibly can. He 



was greatly pleased with the horticul- 

 tural part of the exhibit and had a 

 good word for the hearty welcome 

 Vice-President McRorie would be sure 

 to extend to Chicago florists. 



Sweet peas, two bunches for five 

 cents, carnations two dozen for fifteen 

 cents and roses seven cents a dozen, 

 offered on State St. bring a hard prob- 

 lem to the retail florist this summer. 

 Some of the stuff is not worth even 

 the price asked, but again stock is 

 sold that is as good as the retail flor- 

 ist can buy. That he cannot use the 

 amount that a large department store 

 can handle is his misfortune and 

 neither can he afford to sell at the 

 small profit made by them, but the re- 

 tail florist must live and keep up store 

 expenses during the summer months. 

 It has never been quite so hard for 

 the retailer as it is just now for the 

 buyers of the big stores are trying to 

 outdo each other in sensational of- 

 ferings. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Mrs. J. A. Philipps, who operates the 

 Flower Shop, at 14th and Harvard 

 Sts., stands a good chance of visiting 

 the Panama-Pacific Exposition at the 

 expense of the management of a mo- 

 tion picture theatre. The company 

 offers the trip to the lady selected by 

 its patrons as being the most popular 

 in the neighborhood and the energetic 

 work of her friends in obtaining votes 

 has placed her already second on the 

 list of contestants. 



Washington florists will participate 

 in two outings during the month, the 

 first of these being one given under 

 the auspices of the Florists' Club at 

 Great Falls, Va., on July 21, the 

 second one being a week later at 

 Chesapeake Beach, given by Kallipolis 

 Grotto. This latter is to be a triple 

 affair as the florists of Baltimore are 

 also to be invited and a large gather- 

 ing from that city is expected. Edward 

 S. Schmid and Fi-ed H. Kramer are 

 planning an unusual number of stunts. 

 An effort is to be made to match the 

 florists of the two cities in a baseball 

 game. 



A sentence of five years in the peni- 

 tentiary was last week imposed upon 

 Felipe Guasp, a former employee of 

 the Leo Niessen Company, who was 

 arrested and pleaded guilty to the 

 charge of forgery, but because he has 

 a wife and three small children, and 

 upon his promise to keep out of 

 trouble in the future, he was placed 

 on probation. Guasp, after being dis- 

 charged, had sent a telegram to the 

 Philadelphia office of the firm ordering 

 a large amount of stock. A slip-up in 

 the wording led to the discovery that 

 it was fraudulent and suspicion was 

 fastened on Guasp who was then ar- 

 rested. 



Spokane, Wash. — Preparations are 

 in progress for a fall flower show to 

 be held the first week in September 

 under the auspices of the Spokane 

 Horticultural Society. Arrangements 

 have been made for the use of the 

 Armory tor the show, and much in- 

 terest is being shown in the event. 



PITTSBURGH. 



Mr. and Mrs. Karl Kiinke, the form- 

 er secretary of the McCallum Com- 

 pany, will leave next Monday to spend 

 two weeks at Burleigh Falls, Ontario. 



Murray McGrew, of G. P. Weaklin 

 & Company, and family expects to 

 leave next Saturday for a visit on the 

 shore of Lake Erie in Northern Ohio. 



To conform to the raising of down- 

 town Penn avenue, the floor of Mrs. 

 E. A. Williams' store is being likewise 

 raised two feet. This will preclude 

 the trouble of former years in case of 

 a twenty-five foot flood stage. 



J. W. Rhea, credit man for the E. 

 C. Ludwig Company, will leave on 

 Monday next to represent his firm at 

 a business convention in Wheeling, W. 

 Va. Louis R. Biehl, of the same com- 

 pany, and family will leave next Satur- 

 day for a two weeks' vacation at Ni- 

 agara Falls and Canada. 



The Japanese Flower Shop show 

 window has been transformed into a 

 charming summer scene through the 

 introduction of an aquatic pool de- 

 signed by the owner, Ray J. Dasch- 

 bach. Nymphaeas and other water 

 plants, live ducks and a rocky water- 

 fall add to the picturesque effect. 



To the A. W. Smith Company has 

 been awarded the contract for the 

 landscape work for the Schenley High 

 School to begin in August. F. Rus- 

 sell Bower, the assistant landscape ar- 

 chitect for the Smiths, is spending 

 most of the summer in Ithaca, New 

 York. Miss Elizabeth Boyd, and Miss 

 Beckert of the store force are enjoy- 

 ing their vacations at home. 



The marriage of Miss Loretta Grau, 

 and Gilljert Ludwig, of the Ludwig 

 Floral Company, was an informal 

 home ceremony of last Thursday even- 

 ing at the home of the bride's mother. 

 The young couple left for a short East- 

 ern trip. The bridegroom is the son 

 of Mr. and Mrs. Julius W. Ludwig and 

 the secretary of the firm, while the 

 bride was for some time associated 

 with the business office. 



The family of William A. Clark of 

 the Pittsburgh Cut Flower Company, 

 have gone to their cottage on Lake 

 Chautauqua, where they will be joined 

 later by Mr. Clark. William Usinger 

 and Joseph Gotti, employees of the 

 Pittsburgh Cut Flower Company, left 

 last Saturday night for a fortnight's 

 tour of the Great Lakes, Cleveland, 

 Sandusky and Detroit. William CoUi- 

 gan, will go to Mackinac, Michigan, 

 early in August for his vacation. 



In a recent statement. Dr. William 

 M. Davidson, superintendent of 

 schools, said that the school gardens 

 introduced in the curriculum of the 

 public schools on April 1st, 1914, to in- 

 struct and develop interest on the 

 part of children in nature study work, 

 had proved most satisfactory, both 

 with regard to the instruction of the 

 children and the garden products. 

 John L. Randall is director of the 

 School Garden and Nature Study De- 

 partment. 



