September 18, 1915 



HOETICTJLTURB 



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Merit Recognized 



We won a Certificate of Merit 

 and the 



ONLY MEDAL AWARDED 



for Florist Supplies at San Francisco. We offer for the fall trade the finest 

 assortment and highest quality of goods to be found in the American Market. 



A splendid line of new Flower Baskets. All staples such as Cycas Leaves, Magnolia 

 Leaves, Preserved Adiantum 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. BAYEIRSDORFER & CO., philadelphia^pa. 



for a daily paper and very well put. 

 But while it is true Burpee was born 

 in Canada, he is not much of a Cana- 

 dian — as all his people fore and aft 

 are Philadelphia colonial from "seven- 

 teen something!" G. C. W. 



CLEVELAND. 



Wm. P. Craig, representing the Rob- 

 ert Craig Co., Philadelphia, was one of 

 the visitors of the past few days. Mr. 

 Craig reserved space In the Cleveland 

 Flower Show where he is planning to 

 put a feature exhibit. 



Clarence Myers, of the Smith & Fet- 

 ters Company, left on his vacation 

 Monday. He chose a good time for 

 vacating because of this being the hot- 

 test week of the summer. Trade Is 

 very inactive and stock is hanging on 

 according to the wholesalers. 



Schiller, the Florist (George As- 

 mus?) of Chicago, was conducted by 

 Mr. F. C. W. Brown, of the J. M. Gas- 

 ser Co., through a tour of all the re- 

 tail and wholesale houses in town. Mr. 

 Schiller stated that he was going to 

 try and get away to come to the Cleve- 

 land Flower Show if he could arrange 

 It 



The Flower Show Committee is very 

 much elated in securing a special prize 

 from Mr. James W. Corrigan, one of 

 the wealthy iron ore operators In 

 Cleveland. This will be a silver cup 

 valued at $500. The order has been 

 placed with the Tiffany Company, New 

 York, to design a special cup after a 

 chrysanthemum. It is to be competed 

 for by the private gardeners of Ohio 

 only. 



This Is Style Show week in Cleve- 

 land and all the retail stores are full 

 of the newest creations for milady. J. 

 M. Gasser Company have taken ad- 

 vantage of the extensive publicity of 

 all the dry goods stores by making a 

 feature style show window. They have 

 a model bride dressed in an American- 

 created gown. At one side of the win- 

 dow Is a very fine specimen of pea- 

 cock which adds greatly to the at- 

 tractiveness of the window. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Stanley Holland has removed from 

 2406 Eighteenth street to his attrac- 

 tive new quarters, corner of Eighteenth 

 and Columbia Road, N. W. 



W. W. Kimmel has reopened his 

 store on Fourteenth street, N. W., for 

 the fall season. He had been spending 

 the summer at Colonial Beach. 



Local gossip has it that Henry Pfis- 

 ter will shortly re-enter the retail 

 florist business and will be located in 

 the vicinity of Connecticut and Rhode 

 Island avenues, N. W. 



The Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces that an examination will be 

 held on October 6 to secure eligibles 

 for appointment to the position of as- 

 sistant in shade tree insect work in 

 the Bureau of Entomology of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture. This position 

 pays between $1,400 and $1,600 per an- 

 num. 



Fred Leapley became infected with 

 poison last week by the bite of an in- 

 sect, probably a mosquito, and the ir- 

 ritation caused him to scratch his 

 forehead just above the eye. He had 

 been handling flowers and plants that 

 had evidently just been sprayed and 

 it was not long before the swelling be- 

 came of a size as to necessitate him re- 

 maining home for several days. 



Although the purchase of the prop- 

 erty has not yet been consummated, 

 the Leo Niessen Company state that 

 before another year they will be in a 

 building of their own. In addition to 

 putting on an automobile delivery 

 wagon, they intend increasing their 

 store force to take care of their added 

 business and other improvements, such 

 as increasing the capacity of their ice 

 boxes, are also to be made. 



"It was an agreeable surprise to 

 those of us who represented Washing- 

 ton and Baltimore at the recent Con- 

 vention," said William F. Gude, who 

 has recently returned from San Fran- 

 cisco, "to he entertained so royally all 

 along the line. Thro\igh the courtesy 

 of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Rock we 

 had an excellent opportunity of tour- 

 ing Kansas City, .Mo., by automobile. 

 We were their guests at a dinner at 

 the Muehlbach Hotel and later visited 

 one of the theatres, and altogether 

 spent a most enjoyable day in that 



city. This is a sample of the enter- 

 tainment provided for us at every 

 place we stopped." 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Vanderwoorts Floral depart- 

 ment worked a big force on Saturday 

 night and Stmday decorating the store 

 for their fall opening, which took place 

 Monday, Sept. 13. 



The Lady Florists held a pleasant 

 meeting at the home of Mrs. John L. 

 Koonig on Clarence avenue. All mem- 

 bers were present and enjoyed a pleas- 

 ant afternoon. Mrs. B. Schray will 

 entertain them for the October meet- 

 ing. 



A new floral concern has made its 

 appearance in St. Louis under the 

 name of Young Bros. Floral Co. Wil- 

 liam C. Young and John Young, for- 

 merly with C. Young & Sons Co., have 

 gone into the retail florists' business 

 at 5504 Waterman avenue, the old 

 West End branch of the C. Young & 

 Sons Co. 



The floral firms of Windler's, Wm. 

 Schray & Sons, A. Brix and Max Pel- 

 letier were victims of many bogus 

 telephone orders on Wednesday of the 

 past week by a young West End 

 woman to send floral baskets and 

 plants to her birthday in the names of 

 prominent brewery officials. The sec- 

 ond order to the Windier store caused 

 suspicion, and on investigation it was 

 found to be bogus and caused the ar- 

 rest of the woman, who was at the 

 time entertaining her friends. The 

 plants and floral offerings were or- 

 dered sent back and the woman held 

 for fraud. 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Wm. F. Kasting has returned from 

 the S. A. F. Convention, also Jas. Peak 

 and Wm. Slever and family. 



Al. Keitsch Is now In the swim, hav- 

 ing purchased a real Ford car, and can 

 be seen at the wholesale house early 

 In the morning. 



Peter Hoffman, well known to the 

 trade, Is at the Deaconess Hospital. 

 Mr. Hoffman had an operation per- 

 formed which was successful and he 

 Is now gradually Improving. 



