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HORTICULTURE 



December 25, 1915 



JOSEPM A. IVII 



WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORIST, 57 West 26th Street, NEW YORK 



The Celebrated Briarcliff American Beauty Roses 



and the leading varieties of TEA ROSES from the 

 F. R. Pierson Co. and A. Farenwald Ranges as follows : 



OPHELIA, HOOSIER BEAUTY, SUNBURST, MRS. GEO. SHAWYER, KILLARNEY 

 QUEEN, MIGNON and many others. THE COTTAGE GARDENS CO.'S CARNATIONS, 

 MRS. C. W. WARD, MATCHLESS, COTTAGE MAID, CRYSTAL WHITE and other 

 fine new productions. 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



NEW YORK. 



Charles Thorley has beeu using an 

 extra store at 36 West 46th street for 

 his holiday overflow. 



P. J. Smith's 13-year-old-daughter 

 has been quite seriously ill with ton- 

 sllitis for the past week. 



Mrs. Ritta Rankin, proprietor of the 

 "House of Ferns," is suffering from a 

 severe attack of the grip. 



J. J. Coan added a department of 

 Christmas trees and holly temporarily 

 to his wholesale flower business this 

 week. 



Reed & Keller report an extraordi- 

 nary holiday demand for the various 

 florists' supplies in which they spe- 

 cialize. 



J. K. Allen, who was laid up at his 

 home, is able to be out again, having 

 made his first appearance at his place 

 of business this week. 



A. Rynveld, of Rynveld Bros., Lisse, 

 Holland, sailed from New York on 

 Wednesday, December 15. He expects 

 to return in March, and will have a 

 permanent office in New York at 44 

 Whitehall street. 



Prank H. Traendly is now able to 

 come to business for a portion of every 

 day, and customers and others who 

 visit the Traendly & Schenck estab- 

 lishment are all overjoyed to find him 

 at his post once more. 



Chas. Schwake returned on Saturday 

 night from his Western trip, having 

 been absent from his office since the 

 time of the Cleveland show. He re- 

 ports very enthusiastic business expec- 

 tations all through the West. 



G. Van der Mey, of Van der Mey & 

 Sons, bulb dealers of Lisse, and Jo- 

 hann Harduyzer, nurseryman, of Bos- 

 koop, Holland, arrived from Holland 

 last Saturday on the S. S. Noordam. 

 Their headquarters will be with Mal- 

 tus & Ware. 



That the carnation Matchless is liv- 

 ing quite up to its name no one could 

 question after seeing the quality in 

 which this superb white is being re- 

 ceived by Jos. A. Millang at the New 

 York Cut Flower Co.'s place, from 

 Cottage Gardens. It is a "top-notcher." 



Phil. P. Kessler is still receiving 

 elegant flowers of the late blooming 

 Chrysanthemum Misletoe. The flow- 

 ers of this variety are very large, in- 

 curved, white, with a faint luminous 

 flush in the depths of the blossom. 

 Foliage and stem leave nothing to be 

 desired. 



Charles Millang went very heavily 

 into imported holly trees for Christmas 

 this year and made a great success of 

 it, disposing of many hundreds of 

 trees. They were very handsome 

 specimens, all loaded with scarlet 

 fruit and some of them having varie- 

 gated foliage. 



The leading flower stores are going 

 heavily into zinc-lined baskets and jar- 

 dinieres of ornamental plants in vari- 

 ous combinations for the holiday trade. 

 Alex. McConnell utilized the large 

 basement of his store for this class of 

 work and kept many hands busy put- 

 ting up exquisite combinations of poin- 

 settias, cyclamen, ericas, crotons and 

 other appropriate things. Brilliant red 

 Christmas ribbon is quite generally 

 used on these combination gifts, but 

 the old custom of using crepe paper 

 and an excessive decoration of ribbon 

 bows seems to have gone into disuse. 



WASHINGTON. 



A bill has been introduced into the 

 House of Representatives by Congress- 

 man George S. Graham, of Pennsyl- 

 vania, providing for an appropriation 

 of $50,000 to be expended in the erec- 

 tion of a monument to the late William 

 R. Smith, to perpetuate the memory of 

 the "father of horticulture." The bill, 

 H. R. 6419, has been referred to the 

 Library Committee of the House of 

 Representatives. 



A bill introduced by Congressman 

 Charles H. Dillon, of South Dakota, 

 establishes for various commodities 

 the following net weights per bushel: 

 14 pounds, blue grass seed, orchard 

 grass seed, red top; 28 pounds, top 

 onion sets; 30 pounds, broom corn 

 seed; 32 pounds, bottom onion sets; 22 

 pounds, timothy seed; 40 pounds, apple 

 seeds; 44 pounds, hemp seed; 45 

 pounds, herds grass; 46 pounds, castor 

 beans; 50 pounds, Hungarian grass 

 seed, millet, rape seed, sorghum seed; 



60 pounds, alfalfa seed, clover seed. 

 Fraud is punishable by fines of not 

 more than $500, by imprisonment for 

 not more than three months, or both, 

 in the discretion of the court. 



J. H. Small & Sons furnished the 

 decorations for the Wilson-Gait wed- 

 ding. Cattleyas and American Beauty 

 and Lady Stanley roses were used In 

 profusion and the corsage bouquet 

 worn by the bride was of orchids. The 

 salon and dining room had been 

 thrown into one room and a large 

 bower erected in the bay window of the 

 latter. Ferns and American Beauty 

 roses and many choice orchids were 

 used. The general decorations of the 

 dining room were carried out in pink 

 and green. At one end was a bank of 

 ferns and clusters of pink roses, while 

 on the buffets and tables were pots of 

 growing roses and ferns. Cattleyas 

 ornamented the wedding cake. Aside 

 from the wedding decorations there 

 was little business for the local 

 stores. To say that the simplicity of 

 the affair was a disappointment from 

 the standpoint of the retail stores is 

 putting it mildly. 



PITTSBURGH. 



Edward L. McGrath, manager of the 

 Blind Floral Company, has a holiday 

 display of exceptionally fine poinsettias 

 grown at the greenhouses at West 



View. 



During the past week Gilbert Ludwig 

 of the Ludwig Floral Company, Fed- 

 eral Street, North Side, has been con- 

 fined to the house with a cold, which 

 seriously threatens to develop into 

 pneumonia. 



On last Sunday evening a "Ford" 

 ran into a truck belonging to William 

 M. Turner, the Penn Avenue (Wilkins- 

 burg) florist, more or less injuring the 

 five occupants and completely demol- 

 ishing the aggressive "peace" (?) car. 



At the Russian ball given last Friday 

 evening at the Pittsburgh Club by Mrs. 

 Home, the stage on each side had a 

 large urn of old bronze holding two 

 hundred poinsettias. Maidenhair ferns 

 in baskets of gold tied with the colors 

 of the czar were used for the table 

 centerpieces. At a dinner dance given 

 Monday evening at the same club the 



