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HO RT I CULTURE 



September 11, 1915 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CLEVELAND. 



C. E. Russell, of the Jones-Russell 

 Co., is spending his vacation at home, 

 superintending the rebuilding of a por- 

 tion of his residence, as more room is 

 necessary to accommodate his family, 

 which is increasing in numbers. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



Mr. Kuentzel is preparing to open a 

 new florist shop at 1462 Sutter street. 



W. S. Marshall, president of the 

 Marshall Nursery Co.. Fresno, Cal., has 

 just returned after an extended visit 

 in the east. He was gone about three 

 months, most of which he spent in 

 New York. 



At the Chas. Navlet stand at the 

 rear of the ground floor of the Empo- 

 rium, an early oiiening of the bulb sea- 

 son is reported. The tourist trade is 

 being catered to especially and with 

 very good returns. A large shipment 

 of Holland bulbs is expected about the 

 middle of the month. 



C. W. Ward of Eureka. Cal., is pre- 

 paring to extend the Cottage Garden 

 Nurseries at Humboldt and C strets, 

 which he operates, having purchased 

 the remainder of the Eden tract ad- 

 joining his property. He has already 

 completed plans for two more green- 

 houses to be erected shortly on the 

 newly acquired property. 



The party of florists and nurserymen 

 who went up into Humboldt County as 

 the guests of Chas. W. Ward, follow- 

 ing the convention, returned the first 

 of the week after a most enjoyable out- 

 ing. Daniel MacRorie, H. Plath and 

 Frank Pelicano, who made the trip, 

 have apparently all turned ardent ad- 

 mirers of the northern part of the 

 state. Mr. Pelicano says he had no 

 idea there was such scenery in this 

 part of the country. Going up they 

 spent two days at Eureka, Mr. Ward 

 making sure that they saw all the 

 principal points of interest near the 

 city before they left on the 100-mile 

 automobile trip up the coast, which 

 culminated in a 30-mile ride up the 

 Klamath River in canoes paddled by 

 Indians. They camped at the mouth 

 of Ah-Pah creek for a week, there be- 

 ing sixteen In the party which left 

 Eureka. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Edward Bowers, who has been em- 

 ployed at the store of the S. S. Pen- 

 nock-Meehan Company practically 

 since it was opened here, has resigned, 

 it is said, to accept employment with 

 the Hammond Company, Inc., Rich- 

 mond, Va. 



William J. Boas & Co., Philadelphia, 

 have brought suit agaiust Z. D. Black- 

 istone for flower boxes sold to the lat- 

 ter during the period from January 25 

 to July 16, inclusive, amounting to 

 $622.46, in addition to which interest 

 is claimed. 



The Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion has authorized a refund of $223.94 

 by the railroad companies to J. A. Mor- 

 ris & Son, of Los Angeles, Cal., cover- 

 ing an unreasonable rate charged upon 

 dormant shrubs and plants imported 

 and forwarded from Jersey City to Los 

 Angeles last November. The Commis- 

 sion has also authorized a refund to 



the Aberdeen Fruit Commission Com- 

 pany on account of an unreasonable 

 rate applied to a shipment of Christ- 

 mas trees from Trego. Wis. 



George W. Hess has practically com- 

 pleted the restoration of the Bartholdi 

 fountain in the Botanic Gardens, so 

 that it now is as it was during the Cen- 

 tennial Exposition. It will be illuminat- 

 ed at night during the fiftieth annual 

 encampment of the G. A. R., which 

 commences September 27. Special 

 flower beds are being set out around it 

 for this occasion. W. F. Gude, who is 

 chairman of the committee of citizens 

 in charge of this encampment, desires 

 that all visiting florists register at his 

 store during their stay in the city. Mr. 

 Hess, who was largely instrumental in 

 the establishment of the botanical gar- 

 den at Frederick, Md., which was form- 

 ally opened on September 2, is having 

 designed a handsome gold medal for 

 use as a first prize in competition un- 

 der the auspices of this garden. 



ST. LOUIS. 



"e. a. Kalish, of Kalish Bros. Floral 

 Co., F. C. Weber, Jr., Frank Windier, 

 C. C. Sanders and Vincent Gorly have 

 returned from their summer vacations. 



Wiliam Gray has left the employ of 

 the Mullanphy Florists Co. and left for 

 Kansas City, Mo., where he has asso- 

 ciated himself with Larkins the Flor- 

 ist. 



M. S. Newman's store which was 

 closed for the past two months is 

 again open for business. Miss New- 

 man has as yet not returned home 

 from her summer trip to Colorado. 

 Miss Armstrong is in charge until her 

 return. 



C. H. Thompson, botanist at the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden for the past 

 sixteen years, has resigned his posi- 

 tion to become assistant professor of 

 horticulture at Amherst, Mass. Mr. 

 Thompson has many friends here in 

 the trade. 



William Seeger, president of the 

 Mullanphy Florists' Company, was 

 married on August 31 to a charming 

 widow, Mrs. B. K. Ranford of Chatta- 

 nooga. Tenn. Mr. Seeger and Mrs. 

 Ranford had known each other only 

 twenty-four hours. 



On Saturday, Sept. 4, Superintendent 

 of Parks E. Strehle escorted twenty- 

 five members of the Park Superinten- 

 dents' Association on their way home 

 from San Francisco, through all the 

 parks and show gardens and a dinner 

 was enjoyed at Sunset Inn. 



Cincinnati — Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Gil- 

 lett again have as their guests Mr. and 

 Mrs. C. J. Ohmer and Master Jim 

 Ohmer of West Palm Beach, Fla., who 

 have just returned from an auto tour 

 through Ohio. 



P. J, Olinger went to Chicago, 111., 

 last Saturday. He and Mrs. Olinger 

 who have been spending some time 

 with relatives at Evanston, 111., will 

 return to this city at the end of this 

 week. 



The Gasser Company has now under 

 construction a $10,000 store building at 

 .527 Huron road on a site leased sev- 

 eral months ago. The work is being 

 pushed rapidly. The store will be oc- 

 cupied for their wholesale business 

 and will be much more central than 

 their old location. 



F. C. W. Brown, manager of the 

 Gasser Co., accompanied by F. C. Bar- 

 tels, manager of the greenhouses of 

 the Gasser Co., left on August 28th, 

 taking the water trip to Toronto, w-here 

 they will visit the Canadian Exposi- 

 tion and some of the large growers 

 near Toronto, including the Dale es- 

 tate. 



Among the magnet events that will 

 draw all live commercial and private 

 growers and retail and wholesale flor- 

 ists to Cleveland, November 10 to 14, 

 are the following: Annual Exhibition 

 and Convention of the Chrysanthemum 

 Society of America; Fall Exhibition 

 and Meeting of the American Rose So- 

 ciety; Adjourned Meeting of the Flor- 

 ists Telegraph Delivery Association; 

 Adjourned Meeting of the Gladiolus So- 

 ciety of Ohio. 



Michael Bloy of Detroit, who was in 

 the city from Sunday until Tuesday, 

 was kept busy by the various members 

 of the Cleveland Florists' Club seeing 

 the improvements and additions that 

 have been made to the Sixth City, 

 since he was a resident here eight or 

 ten years ago. On Tuesday Herb. Bate 

 and Frank Friedley accompanied Mr. 

 Bloy to Storrs & Harrison Co.'s plant 

 at Painesville, and they also called 

 upon Carl Hagenberger and Merkel 

 Bros, at Mentor, and inspected the 

 private estate of James Corrigan at 

 Wickliffe. Mr. Bloy is to be one of the 

 judges in the coming flower show. 



Herbert Bate spent a few weeks 

 down at the Lakes south of Cleveland, 

 and is now back on the job. getting the 

 final premium list for the big Novem- 

 ber Flower Show shaped up. A lot of 

 fine special prizes are being received 

 from the owners of private estates In 

 and near Cleveland, all of which will 

 go to make the premium list more in- 

 teresting to the growers. Mr. Bate fig- 

 ures on not less than 500 prominent 

 dealers and growers in attendance. 

 The campaign for the next four 

 weeks will be to get exhibitors that 

 have been withholding their decision 

 regarding taking display space for 

 trade exhibits; telling us how much 

 space they really want and arranging 

 for it before it is too late for them 

 to get the full advantage of having 

 time enough to make plans to get the 

 best results out of the show. 



