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HORTICULTURE 



December 4, 1915 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO. 



Beginning Dec. 1. all the wholesale 

 stores are displaying the $2.00 per 

 1000 price on ferns. 



The Kedzie Floral Co., 3403 W. 

 Madison street, has sold out to J. 

 Feeran, who has left the undertaking 

 business to become a florist. 



John Michaelson calls attention to 

 the fact that violets are not so popu- 

 lar this year for some reason and that 

 whenever this flower is not meeting 

 with favor, sweet peas of dark color 

 share the same fate. 



Mrs, J. Simpson who has success- 

 fully conducted a retail flower store 

 at 3C.56 Og-len avenue, has now opened 

 a second one at 432 N. Parkside ave- 

 nue. Mrs. Simpson has as active 

 partner C. B. I enier, one of the rising 

 young men in the business. 



The flower show accounts are not 

 all in yet but the management states 

 that the guarantee fund will have to 

 be called in. The show is generally 

 regarded as one of the best ever held 

 In Chicago and the light attendance 

 due largely to the unusually excellent 

 shows given in the park conservator- 

 ies at the same time. 



The American Greenhouse Co. was 

 awarded the Albert F. Amling con- 

 tract for a new range of houses, to 

 consist of about 225,000 square feet 

 of glass, to be erected by May 1, at 

 Maywood, 111. The range will be up- 

 to-date in every particular. P. H. Mc- 

 Kee, president of the newly organized 

 American Greenhouse Co., won the 

 contract. The work goes forward at 

 once. 



The first cuts of Helen Frick chrys- 

 anthemum are coming now. It is a 

 splendid late variety and comes in 

 pink and in white. It is regarded by 

 the Chicago Flower Growers' Associa- 

 tion as the best late chrysanthemum 

 and their stock of it is certainly fine. 

 Mrs. Francis King gladioli are com- 

 ing also this week, a supply of which 

 will be kept on hand constantly all 

 winter. 



Frank Oechslin had a car load of 

 azaleas arrive, badly frozen. After 

 reporting their condition to the ship- 

 per and to the railway company he 

 took the stock to the greenhouses 

 where he will hold plants till damage 

 is adjusted. The ends of the refrig- 

 erator car had been left open and the 

 temperature dropped below freezing. 



The J. C. Moninger Co., Is doing 

 some splendid work in spite of the 

 winter weather. A large conservatory 

 with a one-piece forty-foot truss is be- 

 ing built for .Joseph Letter, at George- 

 town, 111. A rush order, which shows 

 the rapidity with which this firm can 

 execute work with its large force of 

 trained men. is being filled for H. J. 

 Borowski of Roslindale. Mass. It con- 

 sists of their newest steel-frame house 

 40 by 150 feet and shipping began iui- 

 mediately the order was placed. 



PITTSBURGH. 



The E. C. Ludwig Company has just 

 completed a commodious office on their 

 plant at Mars, Pa. 



The Ludwig Floral Co. will add four 

 new greenhouses to their range at 

 Castle Shannon, Pa. A new stoker 

 system has just been completed. 



Miss Emma B. Maxwell, of 812 Wood 

 street, Wilkinsburg, has just added a 

 handsome new auto truck to her equip- 

 ment — the second within the year. 



Gilbert Ludwig has been added to 

 the finance committee in charge of the 

 Municipal Christmas tree to be "plant- 

 ed" this year in City Hall Park, North 

 Side. 



George E. Hallam, who has been 

 confined to his home with pneumonia 

 for the past six weeks, was able last 

 Monday to come down to business for 

 a short time. During his absence Mrs. 

 Hallam has supervised the floral work. 



The following have contributed to 

 the flower booth of the German-Austri- 

 an Red Cross bazaar in Exposition 

 Hall: William F. Kasting, Buffalo, N. 

 Y.; Mr. Lempke of W. W. Barnard 

 Company, Chicago; John Bader Com- 

 pany; F. C. Hinkel and brothers, and 

 John Schweiger of West View; Har- 

 mony Nurseries. Evans City, Pa.; Jo- 

 seph Thomas. Greensburg; P. S. Ran- 

 dolph & Sons, Verona, Pa.; I. Shelby 

 Crall, Monongahela, Pa.; Pittsburgh 

 Cut Flower Co., McCallum Co., Ludwig 

 Floral Co.. Sasonwald Nurseries, and 

 C. Philipp, all of Pittsburgh. Henry 

 Meuschke is chairman of the commit- 

 tee in charge of this booth. 



This season's debutantes' affairs 

 have been the inspiration for some of 

 the most artistic floral combinations 

 f\er used in this section. For one of 

 these the centerpiece on the tea table 

 was a massive silver tray and basket, 

 the latter filled with assorted oncidi- 

 ums, laelias, cypripediums, cattleyas 

 and dendrobiums in combination with 

 Hamburgh grapes. On each end were 

 silver vases of white lilacs, the first 

 of the season. On the floor flanking 

 the mantle of the ball room where 

 the receiving party stood, were tall, 

 gold urns each filled with seventy-five 

 Golden Wedding chrysanthemums. To- 

 kay grapes in combination with oncidi- 

 ums in a Roman gold basket were 

 used on the tea table for the debut of 

 another young lady. Even the garage 

 and canopied walk were transformed 

 into veritable bowers of flowers for 

 the purpose of serving. One hundred 

 and sixty-two gift bouquets added their 

 beauty and fragrance to the scene. 

 Silver-pink snapdragon and Mrs. 

 Russell roses in pink willow baskets 

 dominated the decorations for the com- 

 ing out of one other young lady. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Harry McCabe has returned after an 

 eleven weeks' stay in Detroit, Mich., 

 to again take up his work in his 

 father's greenhouses in Anacostia. 



In commenting upon the Maryland 

 Week Flower Show held recently in 

 Baltimore, F. Gude, George Field, and 

 S. S. Pennock, who were the judges, 

 declare this to have been one of the 

 finest exhibitions of flowers that they 

 have visited. They speak well of the 

 manner in which the show was man- 

 aged and of the many courtesies 

 shown them. 



Because the order resulted in many 

 persons failing to get mail matter that 

 means much to them during the holi- 

 days, the Postmaster General has an- 

 nounced the suspension of the order 

 treating as unmailable matter having 

 adhesive stickers on the same side as 

 the stamp. The suspension will, how- 

 ever, remain in force only during the 

 month of December. 



Miss Marie Lott, who for the past 

 three years or more has been em- 

 ployed by M. J. McCabe, of Anacostia, 

 was married on Tuesday of last week 

 at the home of her employers to W. 

 C. Fry, of Miami, Fla. The McCabe 

 home was extensively decorated for 

 the occasion for Miss Lott is a great 

 favorite among her friends. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Fry later took the boat for Jack- 

 sonville. They will hereafter reside 

 in Miami. 



Superintendent George W. Hess, of 

 the Botanic Gardens, is making a spe- 

 cial show this week of poinsettias, of 

 which there are now nearly a thou- 

 sand in full bloom. It had not been 

 expected that these would come into 

 flower until about Christmas, but the 

 hot weather caused them to fairly 

 jump into maturity. The cuttings 

 were put in last February, then plant- 

 ed out in beds until August. The plants 

 have reached an average height of 

 about five feet and are very fine. 



Boston — The bowling teams start on 

 the second lap of the series this week. 

 The'e was no bowling lart Thursday 

 on account of its being the Thanks- 

 giving holiday. 



NEW YORK. 



S. Lecakes, wholesale florist, has 

 leased a store at 106 West 28th street. 



J. J. Coan has resigned as managei 

 of the Growers' Cut Flower Co., and 

 will embark in the wholesale cut flow- 

 er business on his own account. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



Extensive alterations have just been 

 completed in the shipping room of 

 Joseph's flower shop on Grant avenue. 

 They report business for Thanksgiving 

 week double that of last year. 



The Francis Floral Co., which spe- 

 cializes on novelty pottery and bas- 

 kets, reports very good success with 

 a special line of Dutch baskets filled 

 with the different varieties of small 

 pompons for the Thanksgiving trade. 



E. W. McLellan, of the E. W. McLel- 

 lan Co., has the sympathy of the trade 

 on account of the untimely death of his 

 brother. Wm. S. McLellan, who was 

 stabbed to death on his place in San 

 Mateo County, Nov. 19. by a fanatic, 

 accused of starting fires on the McLel- 

 lan ranch. 



Kansas City, Mo. — Sam Murray re- 

 ports a record Thanksgiving week for 

 business. He had one of the best 

 floral jobs ever given out in Kansas 

 City, the opening of the new Hotel 

 Muchebach. 



