October 2. 1915 



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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 ihe fall trade the finest 

 assortment and highest quality of goods to be found in the Ameri( an 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, llS^^^^u^t?^ 



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their Philadelphia headquarters at 

 1526 Ranstead street on September 

 21st. Carl Corts, the manager, reports 

 very good business for their first week 

 of the new season. All the Heacock 

 products, cut roses and other flowers, 

 palms, ferns and foliage plants, are up 

 to the usual high quality which has 

 made them justly famous. This is 

 what, combined with courteous and 

 efficient service, keeps their old friends 

 firmly with them — and is constantly 

 making new. 



PRIZE WINNING FLOAT. 



The auto truck value was well illus- 

 trated last week when a load of sixty- 

 four hundred pounds left Dreer's at 

 Riverton, N. J., at 3 A. M., for New 

 York City, arriving there at 3 P. M. 

 and getting back to Riverton by 2 A. 

 M. next morning. Time and labor at 

 both ends, packing and unpacking, 

 cartage, freight and other incidentals 

 all saved and the goods, got there in 

 better shape. But the railroads will 

 not welcome that sort of thing. There 

 are more loads to go yet, if one may 

 judge from the "set-aside" blocks at 

 the Riverton Nurseries. 



NEW YORK. 



Myer Othile, formerly of Badgley, 

 Rietiel & Myer is about to start in 

 the wholesale florist business for him- 

 self. 



Thomas F. Galvin's flower window 

 on Fifth avenue was devoted exclusive- 

 ly to dahlias and notices of the dahlia 

 show for two days last week. It was 

 a compliment fully appreciated by the 

 dahlia show people. 



The general committee of Ihe New 

 York Spring Flower Show met at the 

 office of Secretary John Young on Mon- 

 day afternoon, September 27 ;md prac- 

 tically completed the work on the 

 schedule, which Mr. Young will now 

 push along for early distribution. 



M. A. Vinson, publicity manager for 

 the Cleveland Flower Show lias been 

 in New York in the interest of that 

 enterprise, especially to arrange de- 

 tails for shipping the gigantic bush 

 chyrsanthemuni plants grown by John 

 Canning of .■Xrdsley. If this exhibit 

 can be safely transported to Cleveland 

 it will prove a strong attraction. Mr 



Floral Float hy Ros.s 

 The auto float shown in the accom- 

 panying picture was fully described in 

 a description of the "battle of flowers" 

 at Worcester, Mass., which we pub- 

 lished in our issue ot September 18. 



rtriis.. Worcester. .Mass. 



It was entered by W. D. Ross and won 

 first prize among sixteen competitors, 

 amounting to $170, in addition to 

 which it won a pair of Sterling tires 

 valued at $H"i and a silver cup from 

 the Cadillac people. 



Canning's plants shown at the exhibi- 

 tion here Inst fall were fifteen or six 

 teen feet in diameter and railroad 

 transportation of such is quite a prob- 

 lem. 



John Young is one of the busiest 

 men we know of. What with the sec- 

 retaryship of the Society of American 

 Florists and the New York Florists' 

 Clul), the work connected with the Na- 

 tional Flower Show at Philadelphia 

 and the New York Flower Show for 

 next spring and the Dahlia Show just 

 closed and a multitude of committee 

 meetings, there is no idle moment in 

 .Mr. Young's day — yet he never fails to 

 find a tew leisure minutes to devote 

 to members who call on liim. John H 

 Pepper is temporarily assisting him at 

 present in the clerical work. 



the time they are cut from the plants 

 —after that it's all in the packing. 

 Dahlia growers who are disappointed 

 over the prices obtained for their flow- 

 ers in the wholesale market should 

 take a trip to the city and see how 

 their competitors pack their flowers 

 and it will soon dawn upon them why 

 it is that some growers get $2.00 or 

 $3.00 per 100 while others don't re- 

 alize that much per 1000. We saw 

 some of L. K. Peacock's shipments at 

 l.iingjahr's. They were packed like 

 eggs and— well, such goods almost sell 

 themselves. 



There are dahlias and dahlias. Pos- 

 sibly they may be equally attractive at 



Much favoring comment is heard 

 among the florist trade of Boston and 

 vicinity on the very entertaining talk 

 yiven by Henry Penn before the Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Club of Boston 

 last week, giving his experiences and 

 observations on his recent trip to Cali- 

 fornia. 



