October 16, 1915 



HOETICULTUEE 



51& 



Merit Recognized 



We won a Certificate of Merit p 

 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., '^iS^r^u^»S; 



Street, 

 PA. 



NEW YORK. 



The JlcCray Refrigerator Company 

 have a New York office now at 7 and 

 9 West 30th street. 



John P. Cleary is now engaged with 

 C. C. Trepel at the Blooniingdale es- 

 tablishment on East 59th street. 



Eugene Chatelle, of Vilmorin & Co., 

 Paris. France, is expected to arrive in 

 New York in latter part of October. 



McHutchison &. Co. have this week 

 received by one steamer six delayed 

 raffia shipments — 659 bales. Some of 

 these shipments of raffia have been in 

 transit from .Madagascar for more 

 than six months. 



Henry C. Riedel and Meyer Othile 

 have formed a partnership as Riedel 

 & Meyer, Inc., and on Monday, October 

 11, opened for business at 49 West 28th 

 street. A large floral horseshoe in the 

 window attested the good wishes of 

 their friends. 



.\s a result of the withdrawal of 

 H. C. Riede! and .Meyer Othile, the 

 wholesale business of Badgley, Riedel 

 & Meyer has been reorganized under 

 the title of Badgley & Bishop and busi- 

 ness will go on as heretofore at 34 

 West 28th street. 



John Donaldson's case against the 

 gas company for damages by leaking 

 gas at his greenhouses at Elmhurst 

 has been settled for $2700, Mr. Don- 

 aldson now fills the exalted and digni- 

 fied office of chaplain in a now Lodge 

 of Elks at Patchogue. He carries the 

 responsibility with all due solemnity. 

 Frivolous people should not intrude 

 too far. 



BOSTON. 



James Fahey has resigned his posi- 

 tion as buyer for Galvin. John Dowd, 

 for ten years associated with Galvin's 

 Back Bay store succeeds liim. Mr. 

 Fahey will henceforth give his time 

 entirely to his duties as bail commis- 

 sioner for the city of Boston. 



P. Welch has been compiling inform- 

 ation for the benefit of those who wish 

 to go from Boston to the Cleveland 

 Flower Show next month. The rate 

 of fare from Boston to Cleveland via 

 N. Y. Central R. R. is $15.50. For a 

 party of ten traveling on one ticket 

 the fare will be $14.40 each. Berths 



are $3.50 for lower and $2.80 for up- 

 per. Trains leave Boston at 2 and 4.25 

 P. M., due in Cleveland at 7.20 and 

 10.52 A. M. respectively. 



Chester I. Campbell's big Indoor 

 Country Fair will open Saturday eve- 

 ning, October 23, and will end Satur- 

 day evening, October 30, at Mechanics' 

 Building. Several acres of floor space 

 will be given over to displays of New- 

 England grown apples, fruit, vegeta- 

 bles and flowers. A wonderful exhibit 

 will be made by the Boston Market 

 Gardeners' Association. The floral ex- 

 hibit will be made by the Boston Co- 

 operative Flower Market. 



A flower garden in a coal hod was 

 one of the prize winners in the North 

 End Garden .Association competition. 

 Five hundred residents of the North 

 End have cultivated some kind of roof, 

 window or backyard garden this past 

 summer. Fifty of these were given 

 prizes. A first prize goes to the small 

 gardener who has raised his, or her, 

 flowers under the most difficult condi- 

 tions. Another prize goes to the most 

 unique garden — this to a small Italian 

 girl who hung her garden out of a 

 tenement w-indow in a coal hod. 



PITTSBURGH. 



Harvey C. Sheafr. manager for Mrs. 

 E. A. Williams, returned on .Monday 

 morning from a five weeks' trip to the 

 Pacific Coast. 



O. J. Parker of Scobie & Parker, and 

 family, have returned from a four 

 months' sojourn at Prout's Neck on 

 the Maine coast. 



The monthly meeting of the Garden 

 Club of Allegheny County was held on 

 FViday of last week at Penn Sylvan 

 Farm, country place of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Harvey Childs, Jr. 



Judging from the exterior view, Ran- 

 dol|)h Ai .McClements might be having 

 what the milliners and department 

 shop ix'ople term their "Fall Opening" 

 this week. On the marble shelf of the 

 display windows are three tall silver 

 vases of oncidiums and cattleyas. In 

 the background are large bowls of yel- 

 low chrysanthemums and ferns flanked 

 by clusters of lilies and cardinal 

 dahlias. 



Tuesday evening John R. Bracken, 

 assistant landscape architect for the 



A. W. Smith Company, gave a stereop- 

 ticon lecture in the opening session of 

 the course of "Landscape Architecture 

 and Ornamentation of Home Grounds," 

 of which Norman S. Grubbs, and Mr. 

 Bracken are the instructors. The fol- 

 lowing afternoon the latter addressed 

 the New Era Club on the subject 

 of "The Ornamentation of Home 

 Grounds." 



WASHINGTON. 



William F. Gude and George W. 

 Hess spent the week end at Barnegat 

 Bay as the guests of Commodore 

 Westcott. 



Florists and commission merchants 

 inust renew their licenses if they de- 

 sire to continue in business after Oc- 

 tober 31, on which day the old licenses 

 expire, according to the announcement 

 of the assessors of taxes. 



The Alexandria (Va.) board of civil 

 service examiners will hold an ex- 

 amination to secure eligibles for the- 

 positions of assistant in poisonous 

 plant investigations and assistant in 

 dry land aboriculture. 



In a recent statement to the press,^ 

 Secretary of the Treasury Mc.\doo an- 

 nounced that "In reply to many in- 

 quiries I have received about the 

 revenue measures that will be pro- 

 posed in the next Congress. I have 

 determined to recommend that the 

 emergency revenue act which expires 

 by limitation on December 31, 1915, 

 be extended until peace is restored* in 

 Europe. * • *" This act provides for 

 a tax of $20 upon all commission mer- 

 chants, $10 upon all custom house 

 brokers, as well as stamp taxes on ex- 

 press and freight receipts, telephone 

 (for more than 15-cent calls) and tele- 

 graph messages. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The dahlias arc dead. .\ sharp frost 

 on October 10 over in Jersey. Your 

 scribe will feel better from now on. 



The "old guards" are all back from 

 their three days' outing at Barnegat. 

 Tlioy were favored with fine weather, 

 good fishing and unlimited hospitality. 

 No one got seasick to speak of and no 

 rudders were lost this time. 



