September 25. 1915 



HOBTICULTURB 



419 



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 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., philadelphia^pa! 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The "Old Guard" will hold their an- 

 nual reunion at Commodore Westcott's 

 bungalow, Waretown. X. J., week end 

 of Oct. 1. 



The sympathy of the many friends 

 of Victor 1. Kidenour the well known 

 retail florist of Ridge Ave. and 32nd 

 street goes out to him on the death of 

 his fatlier which occurred in Washing- 

 ton, D. C. on the 19th inst. 



Growers about here are speaking 

 enthusiastically of the new rose Mrs. 

 Moorfield Storey which is already 

 showing great promise. One of the 

 largest plantings is that of William 

 Munro at Garrettford. His stock looks 

 very fine but he is not going to send 

 any to market just yet. We may ex- 

 pect some about raid-October. 



There were two dahlia shows here 

 on Tuesday. 21st — one at Horticultural 

 Hall, the other at Michells'. Both 

 were quite interesting and instructive 

 from a local standpoint. The society 

 idea is the best to our mind as it keeps 

 the commercial idea in the background 

 and is therefore more convincing to 

 the public. 



Our attention has been called to a 

 slip of the types and the proof reader 

 on an item in last week's notes. For 

 Fordbrook Farms read Fordhook 

 Farms. The Phila. Ledger man may 

 not have known any better but IIokti- 

 cvi.TtuK did, and Mr. Burpee will 

 please accept our apology. Fordliook 

 has a very interesting history in con- 

 nection with the family forebears of 

 the Burpees. We may tell tlie story 

 some day. 



John Deutscher, late local salesman 

 for the Thomas Young establishment 

 at Bound Brook, N. J., will start busi- 

 ness on his own account at 1625 Ran- 

 stead street on or about the 25th of 

 Sept. He will do a general wholesale 

 commission business and will handle 

 a full line in addition to the Bound 

 Brook specialties. The title of the 

 concern will be The Philadelphia 

 Wholesale Cut Flower Exchange. A 

 .Mr. Glaser will be associated with 

 Mr. Ueutsrher and Is reported to be 

 the financial backer of the new ven- 

 ture. Mr. Ueutscher is well-known 

 and well liked in the local trade here 

 and has excellent prospects of making 

 a good success. He had the advantage 

 of several years experience in the New 



York wholesale market before striking 

 Philadelphia and this, added to his 

 local experience, will be of distinct 

 benefit in carving a foothold for him- 

 self here. 



Condensed, up-to-date, thorough, may 

 be truly said of the 450 page text-book 

 or Commercial Floriculture by Profes- 

 sor White of Cornell, just published 

 by the Mac.Millan Co., and editorialh 

 noticed in HoRTicfLXfRE recently. We 

 have had the pleasure of glancing 

 through a copy and it is a monument 

 of learning, accuracy and compre- 

 hensiveness. The professor has depend- 

 ed not only on his own profound 

 knowledge of his subject, but he has 

 also gone right to the recognized ex- 

 perts in every branch of the business 

 and tells their story in their nwn 

 words. The grower, the commission 

 man, the retailer; all receive their 

 proper share of treatment in every 

 phase of their operations. This book 

 should be in the hands of pvcryone 

 connected with the business, young cr 

 old : but especially the younger ele- 

 ment. The fine work of pioneers in 

 this line, such as Henderson, Hunt. 

 Scott and others are all retained where 

 valuable; but all matter now super- 

 seded has been eliminated, so that the 

 student may grasp the essentials of 

 his particular branch in a nulshell. 

 The price of tlie volume is $1.70 net. 

 Copies can be supplied from the office 

 of Hoii-ncn.i ruF. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



Podf sta & Baldocchi are showing a 

 fine lot of Irish Elegance roses, the 

 first that have come in for some time. 



John R. Fotheringham, who repre- 

 sents the S. S. Pennock-Meehan Com- 

 pany and several other houses on the 

 Coast, is making a visit to the East. 



Arthur Cann. who has conducted a 

 flower shop at San Jose, Cal., for the 

 last 19 years, and has been for five 

 years at 51 S. First street, has just 

 moved into a new store at S. First and 

 San Antonio streets. Here he has a 

 store about twice as large as the old 

 one, and a large basement suitable for 

 storage of supplies, in connection with 

 his extensive seed business. The store 

 is beautifully fitted up and conveni- 

 ently arranged, with an oflice and 

 basket-display room on tlie balcony 

 and a comfortable writing-room on 

 thf ground floor. 



PERSONAL. 



Married at Worcester, Mass., Ralph 

 •M. Forbes, florist, and Miss Bessie A. 

 Hildreth. 



Louis Schultheis, of Scranton, Pa., 

 goes to Honesdale as manager of the 

 Maple City Greenhouses. 



Lawrence Coy, of the Coy Seed Co., 

 Valley, Xeb., and Miss Margaret Mc- 

 Coid were married on September 10. 



Fred Reynolds of New Bedford, 

 Mass., and Mrs. M. T. Edson of Ches- 

 ter, Vt., were married on September 

 22. 



Homer Richey, who is associated 

 with his father, William Richie, in the 

 florist business at .\lbia, la., was elect- 

 ed president of the State Florists' As- 

 sociation at DesMoines last week. 



Pa.; 

 Mrs. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



.Montreal. P. Q.— .Mr. and -Mrs. Wal- 

 ter Sword of Lonsdale, R. I. 



Chicago — W. P. Craig, Phila, 

 Mrs. .M. E. Irby, Memphis, Tenn.; 

 Turbiville and Son, Memphis, Tenn. 



St. Louis, Mo. — F. J. Farney. repre- 

 senting M. Rice Co., Phila.; Aug. .-V. 

 Schwerin. Burlington. Iowa. 



Boston — Paul Berkowitz, of H. 

 Bayersdorfer & Co.. Philadelphia; J. J. 

 Karins, representing H. \. Dreer. Phil- 

 adelphia. 



New York — J. C. Vaughan, Chicago, 

 111.; P. Welch. Boston; A. N. Pierson. 

 Cromwell, Conn.; Charles W. Crouch 

 and Mrs. Crouch, Knoxville, Tenn.; 

 George L. Stillmai\, Westerly. R. I. 



Cincinnati — Julius Dillofl" of Schloss 

 Bros. & Co., New York.; I. Bayersdor- 

 fer of H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Phila.; 

 .Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Bechman. .Middle- 

 town, O.; Mrs. Lamport, Xenia, Ohio. 



Philadelphia — Bates Butler. Elm 

 Grove. West Virginia; Fred Heck, 

 Heck Bros., Reading, Pa.; William 

 Walker, Louisville, Ky.; Reinhold K. 

 Schiller, Chicago. 111.; C. P. W. Nimms. 

 representing A. H. Hews & Co., Cam- 

 bridge. Mass. 



Washington. D. C. — I. Rosnosky, 

 representing H. F. Mlchell Co., Phila., 

 Pa.: Ralph M. Ward. New York; 

 Henry Bomhoft. of Gullett & Sons, 

 Lincoln. III.; Paul F. Butz. New Castle, 

 I'a.: Richard Vincent. Jr.. and Thomas 

 A. Vincent. White .Marsh. Md.. and 

 Prof. Rprt W. Anspon. College Park. 

 Md. 



