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HOETICULTURE 



July 17, 1915 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO. 



Anna Troeger, bookkeeper for Ber- 

 ger Bros., of Philadelphia, called on 

 friends in the trade here last week. 

 She was on her way to the exposition. 



Charlie Hunt had the misfortune to 

 injure an eye while putting up a hook 

 for a bird cage in his home a short 

 time ago. He is just home from the 

 hospital and last report states that 

 there is little probability of saving the 

 eye. 



The West Side store of Schiller, the 

 Florist, had a narrow escape from 

 destruction last week. At 7.30 P. M. 

 it was discovered that flames were 

 coming from the roof of the building 

 adjoining their conservatories, used 

 as a laundry. Broken glass and the 

 disturbance always caused by a fire 

 resulted. The money loss amounted 

 to only $25. 



George Rozakles, who has a retail 

 store at 17 Madison St., left on the 

 13th for his old home in Sparta, 

 Greece. He came to this country 

 when only a boy and is very proud 

 of his naturalization papers which 

 show that he has been an American 

 citizen for 21 years. He will be gone 

 for three months and his daughter 

 will have charge of the store during 

 his absence. 



Why not a prize tor the l)est hints 

 on "How to lengthen the flower sea- 

 son"? The florists' dull season has 

 gradually become longer, till now it 

 includes one-half of June and all ot 

 October or until automobiling season 

 Is over. For over four months the 

 trade now depends upon funeral work. 

 Is there not some way to induce flow- 

 er lovers to buy flowers in summer. 



At Zech & Mann's, the stock of car- 

 nations is remarkable for the sub- 

 stance of its flowers and the stiffness 

 of the stems. Almost as good as the 

 winter cuts are the July offerings and 

 they have a justifiable pride in the 

 fact that not a complaint has come 

 from long distance shipments to 

 Winnipeg and other points this sea- 

 son. Some Mrs. Ward carnations 

 were seen that in every respect would 

 be considered good in cold weather. 



In a trip through Frank Oechslin's 

 plant growing establishment, a bed of 

 5,000 poinsettia cuttings are just ready 

 to be taken from the sand. The man 

 in charge said that not more than 25 

 out of the bed had failed to root. The 

 benches that had held bedding stock 

 are now all filled with Bostons. Whit- 

 mani and other ferns. A large stock 

 of cyclamen are making an especially 

 good showing. The heat of mid-day 

 is tempered by the use of adjustable 

 cloth shades in the cyclamen houses. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Oechslin are now at the 

 Panama Exposition. 



It speaks well for the men in the 

 trade that so many are thinking of 

 taking a course of study in salesman- 

 ship. The two speakers on this sub- 

 ject, who have recently addressed the 

 Chicago Florists' Club, have been 

 men of convincing power, and their 

 arguments and illustrations are com- 

 mon talk in the downtown stores dur- 



ing the quiet times of the day. The 

 florists' business, more than many 

 others, needs study, for anyone, even 

 a few years in the trade, can see the 

 change in conditions which must be 

 met. 



P. J. Foley returned July 12 from a 

 ten days' trip through the south west, 

 in which he "participated" in the 

 Texas State Florists' Association 

 meeting at Fort Worth. As the cap- 

 tain of the visitors' baseball team he 

 distinguished himself and did credit 

 to his home city. Mr. Foley had on 

 exhibition at Fort Worth a section of 

 a model greenhouse and samples of 

 the various castings used in his 

 method of construction. He reports 

 the florists of the Lone Star State as 

 very much awake to the opportunities 

 of their state. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Mr. and .Mrs. John Burton were on 

 an automobile trip through Long 

 Island for about a week. Hempstead 

 and Garden City are among the briglit 

 spots in the reminiscences. 



The Henry A. Dreer Co. have com- 

 pleted their planting in front of Con- 

 vention Hall, Broad and Lehigh. 

 Cannas, pennisetum, and double 

 petunias are dominant features of the 

 lay out. The Giant Phoenix canarien- 

 sis has also been used with good 

 effect. 



The CoU'lesh boys have bought a 

 piece of property at "The Hook" near 

 Ridley Park. The supposition is that 

 they intend to build there in the near 

 future. Their present location is at 

 53rd and Woodland avenue, where 

 property has become too valuable lu 

 be used for greenhouse purposes. 



The Philadelphia-Frisco Line has 

 been established and their first 

 steamer will sail from this port July 

 26th. She is the "Walter D. Noyes" 

 TOOO tons and will take the Panama 

 route. 0. G. Hempstead & Sons are 

 the agents. This will be a conven- 

 ience and a saving for shippers from 

 this point and no doubt the line will 

 also carry passengers. 



The Kelly St. Business Men's Asso- 

 ciation will make an auto pilgrimage 

 on the 19th inst. Among other places 

 to be visited are the Shallcross 

 .\sparagus Farm near Bustleton; the 

 Burton greenhouses at Chestnut Hill: 

 and the Dwyer residence at Over- 

 brook. A dinner will be given at 

 Dooner's on the same evening at 7 

 p. m., with Judge Campbell as host. 



We had a pleasant visit from Mr. 

 Farqnhar, of Boston, and his nursery 

 manager this week. A visit to Com- 

 modore John Westcott. to the Andorra 

 Nurseries, and a joy ride through the 

 park, were features of the occasion. 



"The rich man has his motor car. 

 His country and his town estate. 

 He smokes a fifty-cent cigar 

 And jeers at fate. 



But 'though my lamp burns low and 

 dim, 

 'Though I must toil for livelihood. 

 Think you that I would change with 

 him? 

 You bet I would." 



CLEVELAND. 



W. A. Manda of So, Orange, N. J., 

 who was in the city a few days ago is 

 very much interested in the coming 

 big Cleveland Flower Show and ac- 

 cording to the statements he made, 

 the entire East is watching the pro- 

 gress our show committees are mak- 

 ing. "They are all waiting for the 

 final premium list" was his significant 

 comment. 



All retailers report a general slow- 

 ing up of business, as compared with 

 the past few weeks. Smith & Fetters 

 were the exception, because they had 

 the one big wedding of the week. 

 This wedding received much notice in 

 the local papers by the fact that the 

 groom composed his own wedding 

 march. The father of the bride is one 

 of the suburban street cars magnates 

 of Cleveland. 



The annual picnic of the Cleveland 

 Florists' Club is to be held Friday, 

 July 23rd at Willoughbeach Park. 

 This park is twenty miles east of the 

 city on the banks of Lake Erie. The 

 men In charge of the picnic are to 

 meet this week and it is announced 

 that a splendid program is to be pre- 

 pared with plenty of interesting prizes 

 for the athletic events. A complete 

 announcement will be made next 

 week. 



F. J. Schoen, manager of the Jas. 

 Eadie Co. store is receiving congratu- 

 lations on his Fourth of July window. 

 It was a very large wire globe repre- 

 senting the World. In it were two 

 white pigeons symbolizing peace with 

 little American flags and red, white 

 and blue ribbons entwined around the 

 globe. When Mr. Schoen was ready to 

 take out the window he discovered 

 that Mrs. Dove of Peace was conten- 

 tedly setting on some eggs and re- 

 fused to be disturbed. "You can look 

 for additions to the 'peace party' De- 

 fore very long," says Mr. Schoen. 



The premiums committee of the 

 Cleveland Flower Show, composed of 

 Herbert Bate, Frank A. Friedley, and 

 J. Curnow of Akron, have made an an- 

 nouncement that will interest the 

 assistants in every greenhouse. They 

 have decided to give a special prize 

 of $5.00 in every important class and 

 sweepstakes all th^ way through their 

 final list which will be ready to mail 

 September 1st. There will be at least 

 fifty of these special prizes all of 

 which will go to the section man in 

 charge of the bench on which prize 

 winners were grown and from which 

 they were picked. This incentive for 

 the men with the hose will mean more 

 first prizes for his employer, if his 

 efforts are successful, and it will mean 

 $5.00 for the assistant, in addition to 

 the big prize. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Pacific Coast Horticultural Society was 

 postponed from the first Saturday in 

 the month to the 10th. as several 

 members were spending the holiday 

 week-end out of town. 



The local trade has been advised by 

 the American Express Co., which a 

 short time ago inaugurated refriger- 



