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HORTICULTURE 



November 13, 1915 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



NEW YORK. 



The Brooklyn Wholesale Cut Flower 

 Market has been opened at 408 Fulton 

 street. 



Clarence Slinn, the wholesale florist, 

 has moved to a new and more commo- 

 dious store at 123 West 28th street. 



Riedel & Myer report business as 

 starting in well for a new firm and 

 see a good outlook for the coming 

 ■winter's trade. 



Guttman & Raynor express much 

 confidence in the future of the new 

 rose, Prima Donna, which they are 

 especially featuring. 



The MacNiff Horticultural Co. are 

 working night and day to try to keep 

 up with the volume of business that 

 is coming in, and find it impossible to 

 take care of it all properly. The sales 

 they are having this fall are unques- 

 tionably the largest that have ever 

 been conducted in this country, of 

 nursery stock from Holland combined 

 with local consignments 



At a meeting of the International 

 Flower Show Committee, held in New- 

 York on Monday. November 8. Arthur 

 Herrington. Madison. X. J., was ap- 

 pointed manager of the show to be 

 held in the Grand Central Palace, New- 

 York, ne.xt April. At the meeting, also, 

 details concerning the show were dis- 

 cussed, and the work of preparation 

 seen to be well advanced. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



D. Lichtenstein and Herbert Blumen- 

 thal, partners in the Terminal Florist 

 establishment on the Embarcadero 

 near the ferry, have separated, Mr. 

 Lichtenstein continuing the business. 



The Cottage Gardens Nurseries at 

 Eureka is getting in a big shipment of 

 European stock at present. The new- 

 house is ready for the new arrivals, 

 and a large reservoir is under con- 

 struction to hold water for irrigation. 



M, Ebel, of Sacramento, is visiting 

 the local trade at present. He is get- 

 ting a fine lot of chrysanthemums 

 from the Lynch Nursery Company, 

 from the same lots that took a lot of 

 first prizes at the San Francisco and 

 Menlo Park shows, which he says are 

 creating a sensation in Sacramento, 



PHILADELPHIA. 



H, A. Dreer, Inc., have been oflicial- 

 ly notified that a gold medal was 

 awarded to them for their aquatic ex- 

 hibit at San Francisco, an illustration 

 of which was given in Horticulture 

 for October 30. 



The business of H. Bayersdorfer & 

 Co.. has again overtaxed the facilities 

 of the big establishment on Arch street 

 and an adjoining four-story building on 

 12th .street has been acquired. The 

 new flooi's will be devoted to the 

 basket manufacturing department 

 which has within the last few years 

 been growing tremendously. 



BOSTON. 



W. Joseph Karp succeeds Ed. Stout 

 as salesman for the Boston Rose Co. 



J. K. M. L. Farquhar goes to St, 

 Louis next week, where he is to de- 

 liver a lecture at the Missouri Botani- 

 cal Garden, 



N. P. McCarthy & Co. are happy over 

 the winning of three 1st prizes in the 

 rose classes at the Holyoke and North- 

 ampton exhibition last week. 



Waverly Star is the name of a very 

 large and perfectly formed Anemone 

 chrysanthemum exhibited at tlie show 

 by George Detlefsen of Watertown. 



John J. Cassidy, retail florist, and an 

 appointee to the Sinking Fund Com- 

 missioners by Mayor Curley, is a candi- 

 date for election to the City Council. 



The Co-operative Flower Market 

 stockholders' annual meeting was held 

 on Saturday evening, October 30, at 

 Hurlburt's Hotel. Perry Green and 

 Carl Strieferd were elected directors. 

 The treasurer's statement showed an 

 excellent financial condition. 



CHICAGO. 



Mrs, Frank Oechslin is again very 

 III. 



Fifteen florists from St. Louis and 

 vicinity arrived Tuesday to visit the 

 flower show. Most of them are going 

 on to Cleveland and will return to 

 Chicago. 



A visit to Sam'l Pearse's place on 

 Higgins avenue, will be a delight to 

 lovers of the big flower, for they are 

 in their prime this week. The collec- 

 tion includes all colors and curves and 

 the tables in the large service shed 

 gave one the impression that a chrys- 

 anthemum show was in progress. 



The J. C. Moninger Co. are exhibit- 

 ing a miniature greenhouse at the 

 Cleveland Flower Show. It is a com- 

 plete model of an iron frame green- 

 house true to a scale of %, It occu- 

 pies a space of 8x12 ft. and is under the 

 personal charge of Mr. Kurowski, vice- 

 president of the firm. This firm is so 

 busy that the steel department is 

 working nights to fill orders, 



WASHINGTON, D, C. 



The silver loving cup offered to the 

 florist making the best exhibit of flow- 

 ers at the Maryland State Fair, re- 

 cently held in Laurel, .Md.. was again 

 awarded to Gude Bros, Company, who 

 exhibited a large collection of roses, 

 chrysanthemums and dahlias, 



Michael J, McCabe, of Anacostia, D. 

 C,, successfully defended himself in 

 the case brought against him by the 

 .Merchants' Transfer and Storage Com- 

 pany, which alleged that it had de- 

 livered in error to him a consignment 

 of bulbs from abroad intended for an- 

 other party. They sued to recover 

 the value of the bulbs, the duty there- 

 on, and other expenses amounting to 

 $166.90. A jury brought in a verdict 

 for the florist but the plaintiff has 

 since filed a motion for a new trial. 



ST. LOUIS 



Quite a good-size delegation of local 

 florists left here Monday night, Novem- 

 ber 8, for a trip to Chicago and Cleve- 

 land to visit the flower shows. They 

 visit Chicago on Tuesday, and the rest 

 of the week will be spent in Cleve- 

 land. 



The annual meeting of the State 

 Horticultural Society will be held in 

 St. Louis at the Planters Hotel the 

 la'.ter part of December. At this meet- 

 ing an effort will be made to organize 

 a state florists' association such as the 

 Illinois State Florists' Association. 



The special meeting of the Florist 

 Club held on November 4 at Windler's 

 wholesale house was attended by 

 twenty-five members and they decided 

 to change the regular meeting day 

 from November 11 to November 18. 

 This meeting to be held at Shaw's 

 Garden. 



The 26th annual banquet given by 

 the Missouri Botanical Garden to flor- 

 ists, nurserymen and gardeners will 

 be held at the Leiderkranz Club, Fri- 

 day night, November 19. Covers will 

 be laid for about four hundred and 

 talk^ will be made by prominent 

 8! leakers. 



NOTES. 



Woburn, Mass. — An old Colonial 

 home, dating from 1775, was destroyed 

 in a $10,000 fire on Nov. 9, that also 

 burned a barn and carriage shed. J. 

 W. Howard, the Somerville florist, is 

 owner of the property. 



Bristol, R. I. — The Bristol Garden 

 Club held an interesting meeting Nov. 

 3 at the home of Mrs. S. S. Drury. The 

 cultivation of bulbs was the subject of 

 discussion. The following officers were 

 elected. Honorary President, Mrs. E. 

 S. Babbitt: President. George M. Mil- 

 lard; treasurer. Miss S. V. G. Peck; 

 secretary. Miss M. R. Drury. 



Pawtucket, R. I. — Kissing his wife 

 and baby before going to a lodge meet- 

 ing John W. Seamans, a prominent 

 florist, has been missing since October 

 22. Chief of Police Hill says Seamans 

 was a model husband and he believes 

 the missing man would return home 

 if he was alive. Seamans, according 

 to Chief Hill, is thirty, height five 

 feet, seven inches, weight 180 pounds, 

 black hair, dark brown eyes, rosy 

 cheeks. 



North Andover, Mass, — The Osgood 

 Hill greenhouses, where the fifth an- 

 nual chrysanthemum show was open to 

 public inspection on Sunday, -were the 

 scene of a gathering of gardeners 

 from Lawrence, Haverhill, Andover 

 and Methuen on Monday, Nov. 9, who 

 were the guests of George Westland, 

 the gardener in charge of the estate. 

 The mag-nificent array of blooms was 

 greatly admired by the visiting ex- 

 perts who paid glowing tribute to the 

 skill of Mr, Westland in floriculture. 

 Luncheon was afforded the visitors by 

 Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Stevens. 



