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HORTICULTURE 



November 27, 1916 



ALWAYS LEADERS! 



When you buy Bayersdorfer & Co. goods jou get the best in the country. 



We offer for This Season's Trade a splendid Hne of new Flower Baskets. Chry- 

 santhemum Baskets in Japanese novelty tints. RED — RED — RED — specialties for 

 Holiday trade. All staples such as Cycas Leaves, Magnolia Leaves, Preserved 

 Adiantum Sprays, etc., in full assortment and bed-rock prices. 



Our Silent Salesman's Supplement is Out. Send for a copy 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*^ 



Street, 

 PA. 



CHICAGO. 



W. W. Barnard, who was taken vio- 

 lently ill with ptomaine poisoning a 

 week ago, is now at the Presbyterian 

 Hospital, where he is reported as im- 

 proving slowly. 



The failure of Manusos Bros., who 

 have operated a flower store at S. 

 State and Van Buren streets for some 

 years, leaves several of the wholesal- 

 ers in the lurch. Considerable talk on 

 the inefficiency of the present bank- 

 rupt laws is heard in the market. 



The Chicago Flower Growers' Asso- 

 ciation is rapidly getting settled in 

 its new quarters and with the rush of 

 Thanksgiving trade it takes a general 

 to keep all moving smoothly. But 

 Paul Klingsporn never misses an order 

 and this firm's shipping trade is rap- 

 idly increasing. 



J. A. Budlong is getting settled in 

 the new Le Moyne Bldg. as fast as 

 possible considering this firm is one 

 of the oldest and heaviest shipping 

 houses in Chicago. Phil Schupp will 

 have a fine light office when complet- 

 ed and the packing room is especially 

 convenient, opening as it does on Lake 

 street. 



Handsome folders are being distrib- 

 uted among the patrons of Schiller the 

 Florist, announcing the opening of 

 their new loop store known as the Gift 

 Shop. The new store located at 36 S. 

 Wabash avenue, has been rearranged 

 In an attractive and artistic manner 

 and passersby can now look at two par- 

 ticularly neat retail flower stores in 

 one block, for the Gift Shop and Geo. 

 ■Wienhoeber's are opposite, and com- 

 petition in novel window displays is 

 keen. 



The last of the chrysanthemum 

 plants are being used up for Thanks- 

 giving trade. The season has not been 

 a prolonged one, the plants seemingly 

 all coming into bloom at the same time 

 and finishing up the same way. The 

 price has accordingly averaged the 

 growers less this year than in a 



longer season but they w-ill have the 

 benches for other stock. For high 

 class stock cyclamen is the chief offer- 

 ing for the week, salmon shades lead- 

 ing because they hold color better than 

 others. the standard Glory of 

 Wansbek (salmon) is still grown in 

 quantity and is hard to beat, though 

 some of similar color are offered with 

 larger flowers. The novel orchid- 

 flowering types are greatly in demand 

 for the most expensive offering.^, 

 though they do not make so large a 

 plant nor produce so many blossoms 

 but their graceful form and delicate 

 coloring make them very popular for 

 high-class stock. The rococo strains 

 are not so well liked in this market. 

 The begonias are the companion plants 

 of the cyclamen and the windows are 

 displaying many of them, Cincinnati 

 having a decided lead over Gloire 

 d'Lorraine. For cheaper plants Primu- 

 la obconica are used. A few poinset- 

 tias are showing brilliant color but the 

 bracts are not so well developed as 

 they will be later. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Mrs. George W. Hess, wife of the su- 

 perintendent of the United States Bo- 

 tanical Gardens, has been seriously ill 

 for the past two weeks suffering from 

 an attack of congestion of the lungs. 



The British Foreign Ofl5ce has 

 granted permits for the movement 

 from Rotterdam of 56 pounds of 

 alyssum seed for H. A. Dreer. Inc., 

 Phila., and 300,000 lily of the valley 

 roots for Walter P. Stokes. Moores- 

 town, N. J. A number of other Phila- 

 delphia and New York concerns have 

 filed applications to secure permits to 

 remove horticultural goods which were 

 bought and paid for prior to March 1, 

 which are still in Rotterdam. Accord- 

 ing to Fred H. Kramer and William 

 F. Gude, both large importers of for- 

 eign horticultural products, no trouble 

 is being experienced, other than the 

 usual delays incident to slow transpor- 



tation and increased freight rates, in 

 obtaining the regular supplies of such 

 goods. Many of them have received 

 a majority of their consignments from 

 both Belgium and Holland in flne con- 

 dition. Both of the florists named 

 have been getting in stock right along. 

 Although the present season's busi- 

 ness is being taken care of as above 

 stated some little concern is present 

 as to what will happen next year. 

 Salesmen representing foreign grow- 

 ers now in the United States intimate 

 that there will be a great shortage of 

 production if the war continues as the 

 armies are making the labor question 

 a very serious one. One concern of- 

 fered an order for 150,000 paper white 

 narcissi agreed to furnish about one- 

 third of that amount stating that it 

 was impossible to get enough work- 

 men to take care of all of the business 

 that would be offered. 



Cattleya bulbs which have already 

 flowered and produced leaves are ad- 

 missible as imports free of duty as 

 bulbs for propagating purposes, ac- 

 cording to a decision of the United 

 States Court of Customs Appeals. An 

 importation consigned to Maltus & 

 Ware, reported by the appraiser of 

 customs at New York to be orchid 

 plants, was assessed at 25 per cent, ad 

 valorem as orchids. The importers 

 protested that the goods were not 

 orchids, but that they were mature 

 mother bulbs, imported exclusively for 

 propagating purposes. This protest 

 was overruled by the Board of United 

 States General Appraisers and the 

 case carried to the Court of Customs 

 Appeals. It was shown by the evi- 

 dence that while strictly speaking the 

 merchandise in question was not what 

 is botanically known as "bulbs" yet 

 the method of propagating was such as 

 to bring it commercially within that 

 meaning. The court did not decide 

 whether cattleya bulbs which have not 

 yet flowered are entitled to free entry 

 under the proviso to paragraph 210. 



