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HOKTICULTURE 



December 11, 1915 



FOR CHRISTMAS DELIVERY 

 IN BOSTON 



And Other Points in Eastern 

 IVIassachusetts 



Orders for Cut Flowers or 



Made-up Work Carefully 



Executed with First- 



Ciass Material 



JULIUS A. ZINN 



4 PARK STREET, BOSTON 



WM. H. LONG 



412 Columbus Ave. 



IME\A^ YORK 



DELIVERS 



Flowers, Plants, Designs 

 or Plant Baskets anywhere 

 in New York, Brooklyn 

 and neighboring territory. 



First Glass Service 



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CHICAGO. 



The E. C. Amling Co. had some of 

 the best Mrs. Russell roses last week 

 that the season has produced. Five 

 hundred were sold in one order for 

 $115. 



The tiny rose George Elgar is seen 

 In the wholesale houses and is quickly 

 picked up. It is the smallest rose 

 grown in this vicinity and a bunch of 

 25 is no larger than a bunch of violets. 

 They are used in corsages. 



Mrs. Frances Rubel, who was finan- 

 cially interested in the Fleischman 

 Floral Co., passed away Dec. 5, at her 

 home at 4337 Grand Boulevard. A 

 great many flowers were used at the 

 funeral which took place Dec. 7, one 

 order alone calling for over twenty 

 thousand violets. 



The opening of a department of 

 Christmas decorations In one of Chi- 

 cago's largest stores, has caused quite 

 a ripple in florists' circles. All of the 

 leading State street stores have han- 

 dled this class of goods but not on so 

 large a scale as this one which em- 

 ploys fifty or more clerks, and has a 

 buying power which makes it possible 

 to retail below the florists' wholesale 

 prices. The development of the trade 

 in artificial flowers and plants and in 

 all kinds of decorative substitutes for 

 cut flowers, has been noted year after 

 year and its effect in limiting the sale 

 of cut flowers has become an acknowl- 

 edged tact. 



Chas. W. Ward, who has 160 acres 



in one of the valleys of California 

 near Eureka, was a Chicago visitor 

 this week, and expressed himself as 

 pleased with the outlook for growing 

 there azaleas, rhododendrons and oth- 

 er plants, heretofore imported from 

 Europe. The trial so far is satisfac- 

 tory. In the lower parts of the valley 

 citrus fruits are grown and higher up 

 the English walnut, pecan and other 

 nut-bearing trees are planted. Mr. 

 Ward believes in the future of Cali- 

 fornia as a producer of the stock 

 which florists have not grown here and 

 is backing up his ideas by going into 

 the business there where one of the ad- 

 vantages is the unlimited supply of 

 water. His place is known as the Cot- 

 tage Gardens Nurseries. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Albion, Mich. — F. E. Hubert has pur- 

 chased the greenhouses of Carl Jacobs. 



Wilmington, Mass. — Wm. M. Wylie 

 has purchased the greenhouses of Dr. 

 M. E. Brande on West street. 



Hillside, N. J. — One of the Elizabeth 

 Nursery Company's greenhouses was 

 badly damaged by fire Nov. 27th. It 

 is thought the fire was of incendiary 

 origin. 



New Castle, Pa. — W. H. Wein- 



schenk's boiler house and greenhouse 

 were destroyed by fire Nov. 30th. The 

 loss will amount to about $1200. Be- 

 sides the buildings, a large amount of 

 onion sets were destroyed. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Mr. and -Mrs. Alexander B. Scott of 

 Sharon Hill will leave tor the Pacific 

 Coast on Saturday, the 11th inst., for 

 rest and change of scene. Mrs. Scott, 

 who is a sister of the late W. Atlee 

 Burpee, has devoted herself, with other 

 members of the family, to soothing thft 

 fevered hours of the departed witii 

 true sisterly devotion. It is not a thing 

 to talk about — being too sacred for 

 that. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. are now doing 

 tlie largest business in the history of 

 their house. Mr. Bayersdorfer's visit 

 to Japan last summer was very fruit- 

 ful as is shown in the vast quantity 

 and wide variety of the Japanese man- 

 ufactured goods they are handling. 

 The Japanese have quickly learned the 

 manufacture of baskets, jardinieres 

 and other things heretofore imported 

 from Germany and even Porto Rico 

 matting of perfect weave. These with 

 the goods being made in their own fac- 

 tory give Bayersdorfer & Co. an Im- 

 mense advantage and the demand from 

 all parts of the country is such that 25 

 or 30 more employees have necessarily 

 been added. Mr. Berkowitz says that 

 the Japs are making a strong bid to 

 control this line of work and it looks 

 as if they would entirely supersede the 

 European manufacturers. 



Watch the Buyers' Directory these 

 days for Information as to good plants, 

 seeds, supplies, etc., and where they 

 can be purchased to best advantage. 



