July 24, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



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STRICTLY UP-TO-DATE NOVELTIES 



The American people will spend their money at home this season. 

 Florists who are prepared will get some of it. We are ready for 

 you with 



A SPLENDID LINE OF NEW SUMMER FLOWER BASKETS 



All staples such as Cycas Leaves, Magnolia Leaves, Presei'\'ed Adi- 

 antum Sprays, etc., etc., in full assortment and bed-rock prices. 



Send for prices and you will be astonished to see how much you can 

 do with a little money when you go straight to headquarters. 



THE FLORISTS' SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA 



112 9 Arch 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., ^AfLlDE,!pH,l*; 



Street, 

 PA. 



• SAN FRANCISCO. 



Daniel MacRorie has Just returned 

 from an outing in the Yosemite Valley 

 with his father. Malcolm MacRorie, 

 who is here from New Jersey. 



John Young, secretary of the Society 

 of American Florists, arrived in San 

 Francisco a few days ago. expecting 

 to remain until after the Convention. 



The Ladies California Floral So- 

 ciety, recently organized in this city, 

 held a social gathering at the home 

 of Mr. and Mrs, J. A. Axel on the 

 evening of July 14. Several members 

 of the Pacific Coast Horticultural So- 

 ciety attended with their wive.s, there 

 being about 35 present all told. 

 Music was furnished, light refresh- 

 ments served and the time passed 

 very pleasantly. Several new mem- 

 bers were enrolled. 



The San Francisco and Oakland 

 houses of Hogan-Kooyman & Co. will 

 hereafter be operated independently. 

 G. E. Hogan. Albert E. Evers. and C. 

 Kooyman having dissolved partner- 

 ship. Under the new arrangement. 

 Messrs. Hogan and Evers take over 

 the retail business in Oakland, and 

 Mr. Kooyman becomes sole owner of 

 the wholesale business in San Fran- 

 cisco. Both establishments have been 

 going ahead nicely, but there has been 

 no vital connection between them 

 since the wholesale department was 

 moved from Oakland to San Francisco 

 a year ago in March, at which time 

 Mr. Kooyman assumed full charge of 

 the San Francisco store and the other 

 partners took charge of the Oakland 

 shop. Both firm names 

 changed shortly. 



will be 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Mr. and Mrs. Jolin Burton and 

 grandson have been on a visit to John 

 N. May, Summit, N. J. 



The Truly-Rurals will have a week- 

 end fishing trip at the Commodore's, 

 July 30, 31 and August 1. 



Campbell Bros., Pennlynn, suffered 

 a loss of about fifty boxes of glass in 

 the hailstorm which struck that sec- 

 tion on July 13. Bill Comfort says he 

 never saw such big 'uns. Some of 

 them "large as hens' eggs." 



KANSAS CITY. 



Sam. Murray is jubilant over the in- 

 creased business in his new establish- 

 ment — very much better than last 

 year. 



This neighborhood has had no lack 

 of rainfall. In fact, since last autumn 

 the amount of rain has been the heavi- 

 est in many years. The country was 

 never more beautiful and green than 

 at the present time. 



Never was a more cool and delight- 

 ful spring. May, June and July, up 

 to the present date have been simply 

 ideal and as a consequence the florists 

 have had a superb supply of garden 

 flowers — delphiniums particularly — 

 and glai'ioli are very fine as are also 

 the dahlias v hich are now blooming 

 in abundance. 



HARTFORD, CONN. 



One of West Hartford's oldest busi- 

 ness industries changed hands last 

 week when Carl Peterson took posses- 

 sion of the Whiting greenhouses on a 

 lease for a term of years. Mr. Peter- 

 son has had charge of the greenhouses 

 for the past eighteen years, and during 

 the past ten years has been the man- 

 ager for Miss Helen F. Whiting. 



Mr. Peterson had his first horticul- 

 tural experience in his native home in 

 Sweden. He came to this country in 

 18i)3 and worked for A. .\. Pierson in 

 Cromwell and for Robt. Simpson in 

 New Jersey, after which he took 

 charge of the Whiting establishment. 

 He is vice-president of the Conn. Horti- 

 cultural Society. 



NEW BEDFORD, MASS. 



H. V. Sowle has just added a fine re- 

 frigerator to his store equipment. 



the bedding plant season is about 

 over, and business is reported as being 

 quiet. 



Post & Gray, with their employees, 

 visited the show of the American 

 Sweet Pea Society in Newport, July 16. 



Joseph Peirce of Cottage street is 

 away on a short vacation, and Samuel 

 Rusitsky is spending three months in 

 the mountains of Kentucky. 



Richard Nofftz has given up his at- 

 tractive little store on William St. 

 and is now doing all his business from 

 his greenhouses in Kempton St. 



WASHINGTONL 



Superintendent George W. Hess, of 

 the Botanic Gardens, has gone to New 

 Iberia. La., the summer home of Sen- 

 ator Robert F. Broussard, where he- 

 will spend his vacation. 



Mr. and Mrs. John Gutman, of -■Vna- 

 costia. last week suffered tlie loss of 

 their daughter. Annie E. Gutman. aged' 

 eighteen years, who died following an 

 attack of typhoid fever. Many ex- 

 pressions of sympathy were sent to the 

 bereaved parents for Miss Gutman was 

 one of the best liked of the members 

 of tlie younger set of the city. 



Otto Bauer, manager of the Pennock- 

 Meehan store, returns next week from 

 a vacation spent at .\orth Beach where 

 his family is staying during the sum- 

 mer. Fred W. Meyer, of Leapley & 

 .Meyer, also spent bis vacation at North 

 Beach. Frederick T. Leapley has re'- 

 turned from a week in Montgomery 

 County, Md. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



New York — J. C. Vaughan, Chicago; 

 J. K. M. L. Farquhar, Boston. 



Cleveland, O. — Martin Reukauf, rep- 

 resenting H. Bayersdorfer & Co., and' 

 Frank Farney, both of Philadelphia. 



Boston — Vernon T. Sherwood, 

 Charlestown. N. H.; .-V. E. Thatcher 

 and John Stafford. Bar Harbor. Me.; 

 K. J. Harmon, Portland, Me. 



Philadelphia — Benj. Hammond, Bea- 

 con. N. Y.; Louis J. Renter. Westerly, 

 R. 1.; W. R. Pierson, Cromwell, Conn.; 

 Edwin .A. Seidewitz, Baltimore. Md. 



Cincinnati — Julius Dilloff. represent- 

 ing Schloss Bros., and Victor Morgan, 

 representing Lord & Burnham Co., 

 New York City; J. P. Keller, Lexing- 

 ton, Ky.; Chas. Dudley, Jr., and R. T. 

 Virgin, Parkersburg, W. Va. 



Chicago— James Cole, Peoria, III.; 

 Martin Reukauf, representing H. Bay- 

 ersdorfer & Co., and .Mrs. Reukauf, 

 Philadelphia; .Mr. Gullett of Gullett 

 & Sons, Lincoln, Nel)raska; D. M. H. 

 rnderhill, Davenport, la.; Carl Hagen- 

 berger, West Mentor, Ohio. 



Newport, R. I. — On Thursday, July 

 2L'. E. H. Wilson of the Arnold Arbore- 

 tum, gave a stereoiiticon lecture on 

 Japan, before the Newport Garden 

 Club at the residence of Mrs. Hoffman. 



