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HOETICULTURE 



September 18, 1915 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO. 



Mr. and Mrs. Louis Winterson have 

 returned from two weeks at Deleran 

 Lake, Wis. 



Allie Zech is back from a fishing ex- 

 position at Tomahawk Lake, Wis., 

 where he spent a fortnight. 



Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Asmus are home 

 and like all the rest think Cliicago a 

 pretty good place to live in after all. 



Theodore Vogel, formerly known as 

 "Teddy" is back in Chicago where he 

 hopes to secure a position and again 

 call Chicago his home. 



W. Weatherwax formerly with W. J. 

 Smyth, 31st and Michigan Ave., has 

 opened a store at 47th St. and Drexel 

 Boul, known as the Drexel Floral Co. 



H. Perkins, 2nd, formerly of the 

 Shaw Gardens, St. Louis, Mo., was in 

 Chicago this week looking up mate- 

 rials for building. He will go into 

 business in Pacific, Mo. 



Miss Marguerite McNulty and Miss 

 Parker are both back at their desks 

 and pleased with their western outing 

 which included some 6000 miles of 

 continuous sight-seeing. 



E. W. Siebrecht will sever his con- 

 nection with the Fleischman Floral Co. 

 in the Railway Exchange Bldg. and 

 open a store at 6972 N. Clark St., to 

 be known as the Rosery Florist. 



Victor Young, manager of Geo. Witt- 

 bold & Co.'s retail store on N. Clark St. 

 will go into business with Fred Rons- 

 ley, now doing business under the 

 name of Ronsley the Florist, on Dear- 

 born St. 



The new warehouse now being built 

 by Vanghan's Seed Store at .Morton 

 Grove, is nearing completion under 

 the supervision of Albert Erickson. It 

 is for storing onion sets and surplus 

 seeds. 



A Lange and family and Tom Mac- 

 Allister are all back from the Pacific 

 Coast. At this popular store four or 

 five wedding orders per day have come 

 in regularly since Sept. 1, and no drop- 

 ping off as yet. The little colonial 

 corsages are taking as well as ever at 

 their stand in the Stevens Arcade. 



C. B. Knickman was a welcome visi- 

 tor here on his way back from the Pa- 

 cific Coast this week. He found 

 enough business there to keep him 

 well past his usual schedule and says 

 he is well pleased with the summer's 

 work. This seems to be the general 

 verdict of those who sought business 

 in the West this summer, possibly be- 

 cause so few ventured to undertake It. 



Jas. G. Hancock and family say 

 that when they were crossing the Ca- 

 nadian Rockies they stopped at that 

 pearl in the mountains. Lake Louise, 

 on August 5th. Leaving the hotel they 



climbed the trail a thousand feet high- 

 er to Lake Agnes, then skirted the 

 rocky side of the mountain above the 

 water and continued to climb till snow 

 line was reached. Very few flowers 

 were passed on the trail but beyond 

 that and growing not more than fifty 

 feet from the ice snow packs, were 

 quantities of wild flowersT Mr. Han- 

 cock gathered a collection of 20 va- 

 rieties. There was nothing, however, 

 that closely resembled the Edelweis of 

 Switzerland. 



Mr. and Mrs. Jas. G. Hancock and 

 their daughters have returned from an 

 extended trip through the West, going 

 out via the Canadian Pacific then 

 down the Coast as far as Mexico and 

 home via the Grand Canyon of the 

 Colorado, Colorado Springs, etc. One 

 of the most unique things they saw 

 was the Great American Desert cov- 

 ered with sage bush and cactus trees, 

 broken up by orchards of apples and 

 fields of hay. The great desert seems 

 bound to give way to the conquest by 

 water which engineers are solving wi*li 

 their irrigation projects. A "prairie 

 schooner," and an automobile seen 

 from the car window at the same tii.ie, 

 crossing the desert seemed to link the 

 past with the present. 



The Outlook. 

 Judging from the number of de- 

 butantes, Chicago florists have reason 

 to look forward to a good season just 

 ahead. Social butterflies they may be, 

 but they revel in roses, and social af- 

 fairs of all kinds follow in their wake. 

 This has been a busy summer for Cupid. 

 Shut off from the usual outdoor sports 

 by the daily downpour, the summer 

 youth has used his time awooing and 

 the florist reaps the benefit. From all 

 the retailers comes the same report 

 that September is making a record tor 

 weddings. Florists and fashion mak- 

 ers have apparently entered into a 

 friendly conspiracy, for the fall suits 

 seem to demand the return of the cor- 

 sage for street wear, while for parties 

 and evening affairs they are more pop- 

 ular than ever, 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



The September Exhibition of the 

 Rhode Island Horticultural Society 

 opened in the ball room of the Nar- 

 ragansett Hotel, Thursday, Sept. 16, 

 for a two days' exhibit of dahlias, as- 

 ters and gladioli in commercial and 

 professional classes. 



The Elmwood Dahlia Society of 

 Providence held a dahlia show last 

 week and prizes were taken by John 

 Cade, 1st; William Ashcroft, 2nd; and 

 James W. Speight, third. The judges 

 were Thomas Gould, John Morrison 

 and Thomas Stones. 



The professional classes at the 

 South County fair this week were well 

 filled and keen competition was a re- 

 sult. A new feature was the big ex- 

 hibit of gladioli by Carmichael Broth- 

 ers of Shannock. George L. Stillman 

 the Westerly "dahlia king," was also 

 a large exhibitor. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Charles R. O'Donnell representing 

 Henry A. Dreer left on the 15th inst. 

 on a business trip West. 



Edwin J. Fancourt of the S. S. Pen- 

 nock-Meehan Co., was reported to be at 

 Butte, Montana, on the 15th inst. head- 

 ed East, after a successful business 

 tour of the Pacific Coast. 



Howard M. Earl will leave on the 

 18th inst. for his second trip this sea- 

 son to California. We presume this 

 is, in part, called for by the death of 

 Mr. Lonsdale, their manager at the 

 Floradale Farms, and the new ar- 

 rangements made necessary thereby. 



George Anderson is about the same; 

 but for the first time in five weeks two 

 of his brother craftsmen, John Burton 

 and your scribe, were allowed in his 

 sick room on the 14th inst. He looks 

 natural enough, and was able to sit up 

 to greet us. But can only speak a few 

 syllables. The doctor says the lingual 

 nerve ought to be the first to re- 

 cover but its not there yet. Still, 

 George knew us, and seemed glad to 

 nod an acquiescence for a motor race 

 with honorable Burton and smile at a 

 cigar from thrifty scribe. This is not 

 a very cheerful report but it is the 

 best we dare give under the circum- 

 stances. 



"God Almighty first planted a garden," 

 said Bacon, and ever since Eden gardening 

 has been a highly respectable business. 



Emerson said that "the earth laughs in 

 flowers," and John Milton, blind though he 

 was, spoke of "flowers of paradise." I 

 didn't intend, however, to reproduce Bart- 

 lett's familiar quotations, but to tell ,vou 

 something about Washington Atlee Burpee. 



Here Is a gentleman whose father was 

 from the French Beaupres, whose mother's 

 people, the Atlees, lived in England at the 

 early home of the Washingtons, and him- 

 self born in Canada, works in Philadel- 

 phia and lives in Bucks County. 



Besides that, he is probably responsible 

 for more flowers than any other person In 

 the land. Thousands of years ago it was 

 commanded ; 



"In the morning sow thy seed and in 

 the evening withhold not thine hand;"' 

 and Burpee is the man who grows the 

 seeds you sow, hence I might almost 

 christen him the godfather of flowers. 



Nearly everybody hereabouts has heard 

 of the wonderful Fordhrook farms, near 

 Doylestown : but bless you. broad as aie 

 their several hundred acres, they don't 

 produce more than a fraction of all the 

 seeds which this bucolic artist and poet 

 distributes over the world. 



"Do you buy seeds in Europe?" I asked 

 him. 



"I dislike that word 'buy' because I 

 don't buy seeds anywhere. I grow and 

 sell them." was his answer. 



Yes. Mr. Burpee not only raises tomato 

 seeds in Bucks County, but cabbages in 

 Denmark, beets, radislies and carrots in 

 France, sweet peas in California and good- 

 ness alone knows how many other things 

 in, other parts of America. Each thing is 

 Krown where it will develop the best; but 

 oven so. Mr. Burpee takes nobody's say-So 

 for a seed any more than Uncle Sam's 

 mint will take your gold without assaying 

 it. 



The above is clipped from a lengthy 

 article which appeared in the Phila- 

 delphia Ledger, September 11th, 

 which is certainly pretty good work 



