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HOETICULTURE 



November 6, 1915 



NEWS ITBVES FROM EVERYWHERE 



WASHINGTON. 



Sealeu proposals will be received at 

 the offioe of the Supervising Architect, 

 Treasury Building, Washington, D. C, 

 until November 13, for planting trees, 

 shrubs, etc., on the grounds of the 

 Federal Building at Steelton, Pa. 

 Drawings and specifications may be 

 had on application to the custodian of 

 the building or at the Washington 

 office. 



The Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion has ordered the Atchison, Topeka 

 & Santa Fe and other railroads to 

 apply the fourth class rate, with a 

 minimum carload weight of 15,000 

 pounds, to all future shipments of 

 sphagnum moss from City Point, 

 Mather, Sparta, Tomah, and other 

 points in the State of Wisconsin tak- 

 ing the same rates, to Oklahoma City, 

 Okla., and has condemned the charge 

 under the fifth class rating, with a 

 minimum carload weight of 24.000 

 pounds as unreasonable. This action 

 was taken on the complaint of the 

 Barteldes Seed Company, of Lawrence, 

 Kansas, and a traffic organization of 

 Oklahoma City. 



Nursery stock from Geneva, Dans- 

 ville, and Brighton, N. Y.: North Ab- 

 ington, Mass., and Dresher, Pa., will 

 hereafter take a rate of 37 cents per 

 hundred pounds in carload lots, and 

 68 cents per hundred pounds in less 

 than carload lots, to Lakeland, .Minn. 

 Wooden tree labels from Derry. X. H., 

 will also take these rates. The L. L. 

 May Company, of St. Paul. Minn., had 

 filed a complaint with the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission attacking the 

 rates assessed by the railroads as be- 

 ing considerable higher than those 

 applied to similar shipments to Still- 

 water, Minn. The Commission con- 

 curred and ordered the railroads to 

 place the above quoted rates in effect 

 on or before December 30, 1915. 



One of the most successful chrysan- 

 themum shows in the history of the 

 Department of Agriculture has been in 

 progress in the greenhouses at the north 

 side of the grounds. An innovation 

 this year is the lighting of the houses 

 to permit of people visiting the show 

 after the hours usually observed for 

 closing. Many of the exhibits are very 

 noteworthy. Among the new varieties 

 is Queen Mary white, and Mrs. Wil- 

 liam II. AValker sulph\ir yellow. It is 

 said that this is better than either the 

 Bob Pulling or Mrs. R. C. Pulling 

 ■which were declared to be the best 

 yellows at last year's show. James 

 Wilson, white, shows fine form this 

 year.. William Saunders, bronze, is 

 exceptionally good, and Amarantha is 

 also worthy of mention. 



A number of very excellent window 

 displays were made last week for All 

 Hallowe'en. At Gude Bros, store the 

 window was banked with cornstalks 

 and in the center yere placed very at- 

 tractive baskets of flowers. At the 

 store of George C. Shaffer pumpkins 

 were hollowed out and filled with 

 asters, small chrysanthemums and 

 other flowers and laid on a moss 

 covered floor. At the back of the 



window were standards of cornstalks 

 and a rustic fence went across the 

 entire width. One of the best or me 

 windows was that of J. H. Small & 

 Sons, where Old Mother Goose in ap- 

 propriate costume and perched on a 

 broom as if flying towards the skies 

 was the central figure. Back and at 

 the sides of this were palms, ferns, 

 high standards of cornstalks, and 

 vases of attractive looking chrysanthe- 

 mums forming a sort of semi-circle 

 within which had been heaped a large 

 number of pumpkins. 



BOSTON. 



Ed Stout has severed his connection 

 with the Boston Rose Company. 



The Retail Florists' Club held its 

 annual dinner at the Hotel Bellevue 

 on Tuesday evening. November 2. 



W. E. Turner, of Billerica, is help- 

 ing toward the growing popularity of 

 the pansy as a florists' cut flower by 

 sending to market blooms of super!) 

 strain. 



The Gorney brothers have bought 

 out the Houghton interests in the 

 Houghton-Gorney Company, retail flor- 

 ists on Tremont street. The old firm 

 name will be retained. 



J. A. Nelson, of Framingham. is in 

 the hospital suffering from a very 

 severe case of shingles. He has been 

 ill two weeks and is getting along as 

 well as could be expected with this 

 vicious disease. 



The Horticultural Club, of Boston, 

 met at the Parker House, on Wednes- 

 day evening, November 3. .^n inter- 

 esting discussion on the comparative 

 advisability of fall and spring plant- 

 ing of trees, shrubs and hardy her- 

 baceous plants was participated in by 

 experts on the subject. Chrysanthe- 

 mums from S. J, Goddard adorned 

 the banquet table. 



NEW YORK. 



William Badgley. of the firm of 

 Badgley & Bi.«hop, was taken to the 

 hospital on Sunday night to be oper- 

 ated on for appendicitis. 



The funeral of Mrs. Victor S. Dorval 

 at Woodside. was largely attended bv 

 members of the fiorists and gardener 

 fraternity on Friday. Oct. 29, among 

 those from a distance being J. F. Huss 

 of Hartford, Conn., a lifelong friend of 

 Mr. and Mrs. Dorval. Many beautiful 

 floral tributes were sent to the funeral. 



The two veterans, John I. Raynor 

 and John R. Weir, were overheard 

 congratulating each other on having 

 passed another birthday aniversarv— 

 Raynor on October 28 and Weir on 

 October 29. These two have seen 

 many changes and vicissitudes in the 

 flower trade since their flrst skirmish 

 as seller and buyer respectively. 



Cincinnati—Last week the E. G. Hill 

 Floral Co. gave a very successful 

 chrysanthemum exhibition at the 

 Lyric Theatre and in their store. L. 

 H. Kyrk, after returning from his re- 

 cent trip spoke in the highest terms 

 of the appearance of the places of L. 

 Frank & Sons, Portland, Ind.. and Sam 

 Bakon, Kalamazoo, Mich. 



CHICAGO. 



Earnest Farley is now with the Chi- 

 cago Carnation Co. 



Wm. J. Smyth spent the week end at 

 his summer home in Antioch, 111. 



Chrysanthemum shows at the parks 

 are now on and conservatories are 

 open evenings. 



Gus Pappas states that he will spend 

 most of his time in Chicago hereafter 

 and take charge of The Alpha. 



Mrs. Russell rose has now started 

 on its second season of being second 

 in price to American Beauty only. 



R. L. Nelson is the proprietor of a 

 new retail store at 1528 E. 51st street. 

 The firm is known as the Beach 

 Flower Co. 



Harry Rowe has taken a lease on 

 the store at 123 N. Wabash avenue 

 from Nov. 1st to May 1st and will 

 open a retail store there. 



The partitions are being put in the 

 LeMoyne building and J. A. Budlong 

 and the Chicago Flower Growers' As- 

 sociation expect to move in next week. 



A. C. Kohlbrandt was hardly through 

 receiving congratulations on being 

 grandfather when the little one died 

 and condolences were in order instead. 



H. Koster, of Boskoop, Holland, 

 was here on his way home from San 

 Francisco, where he was sent by his 

 government to inspect their part in the 

 exposition. 



Among the week's visitors was D. 

 W. Dumser. who is settling his father's 

 estate at Elgin, III. He is now with S. 

 W. Coggan, at Battle Creek, and says 

 that his firm will soon move into a 

 new store at 5 E. Main street. 



A beautiful five-piece silver service 

 is seen this week at Poehlmann Bros. 

 It Is offered by this firm for the most 

 tasteful arrangement of a basket of cut 

 flowers, at the Grand Floral Festival. 

 The basket of fiowers is each year be- 

 coming more popular. 



The news of the sudden death of 

 Geo. Economopoulos early Wednesday 

 morniug was a shock to the trade, 

 very few of whom knew of his illness. 

 He was about the market as usual on 

 Monday. A little later on the same 

 day came the news that F. W. Timme. 

 one of Chicago's pioneer florists, 

 passed away. A more complete notice 

 of both will be found in the obituary 

 columns. 



The store operated by Mrs. and Geo. 

 Lubliner. at 36 S. Wabash avenue, 

 has been purchased by Schiller, the 

 Florist. The transfer includes all the 

 fixtures and the lease on the store for 

 three years. Miss Bert Schiller will 

 have charge and will be assisted by 

 Chas. Zinns. This store will make a 

 feature of floral gifts for all occasions, 

 something new. The Schillers now 

 have three stores, one on the west 

 side, one on the north side and now 

 the new Gift Shop in the loop. 



