January 11, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



45 



CHICAGO. 



H. M. Robinson of Boston was a 

 Chicago visitor for several days. 



Among the changes of the new year 

 comes the Kyle & Foerster sign which 

 now reads Joseph Foerster Co. 



Fritz Bahr, well known florist of 

 Highland Park has the sympathy of 

 the trade in the loss of his mother 

 whose death occurred last week. 



A second dividend of 15.6 per cent, 

 has been declared to the creditors of 

 the W. H. Kidwell Co. This closes the 

 matter, one previous dividend of 20 

 per cent, having been paid some time 

 ago. 



John Poehlmann, who has just been 

 honorably discharged from the army 

 with the rank of lieutenant, is now 

 one of the directors in Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co., and will be in the Chicago 

 store. 



Mrs. Guy Reyburn is very ill with 

 double pneumonia at the American 

 Hospital. Mr. Reyburn has only re- 

 cently recovered from an attack of In- 

 fluenza, of which seven members ot 

 his family were ill at one time. 



The Alpha Floral Cc-., is making 

 some changes in its store which will 

 increase the efficiency with which It 

 can handle its trade. The work rooms 

 will now be in the basement and . 

 changes will also be made in the win- 

 dows. 



A. Miller, president of the Americai 

 Bulb Co., is in New York. Their stock 

 of gladioli is now arriving and the 

 most sought for varieties this season 

 include America, Frances King, Hal- 

 ley, Mrs. Pendleton, Niagara and 

 Schwaben. 



D. D. P. Roy, who has just returned 

 from a trip through the northwest, re- 

 ports business good and says that he 

 never saw prices so high at Minneap- 

 olis, St. Paul and other cities in that 

 vicinity on cut flowers as he saw there 

 at the holidays. 



The sympathy of the entire trade is 

 extended to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Rein- 

 berg in the loss of their son, Geo., Jr., 

 who was the victim of pneumonia and 

 passed away Dec. 30th, aged 25 years. 

 He was never strong but so far as his 

 health would permit was active in the 

 business. 



Many members of the trade learned 

 with regret of the death of Nick 

 Karthauser, who, though not a florist, 

 yet was a member of the Chicago Flo- 

 rists' Club. It Is in the grove that 



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The summary for December made 

 by the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 

 shows under what conditions the flor- 

 ists produced their Christmas stock. 

 It reports the month as warm, cloudy 

 and wet, with a mean temperature ex- 

 ceeded only twice within the past 48 

 years and with only 30 per cent, of 

 the possible amount of sunshine. 



It is predicted by those who are 

 in daily touch with the market condi- 

 tions that there will be a heavy plant- 

 ing of carnations in the greenhouses 

 for next year owing to the high prices 

 these flowers have brought so far this 

 season. This is further augmented by 

 the fact that there are no coal difficul- 

 ties now compared to those of last 

 year. 



The sad news of the death of 

 Theodore Roosevelt recalls to the 

 memory of D. D. P. Roy that it was 

 the privilege of gardener James 

 Huthie of Oyster Bay, to bring the ex- 

 president into the Masonic order of 

 that place. In one of his eastern trips 

 Mr. Roy further recalls that he had 

 the pleasure of visiting that lodge and 

 meeting Mr. Roosevelt there. 



Phil Schupp, manager for J. A. 

 Budlong, points out the advantages of 

 an association of growers which should 

 delegate to a committee of its mem- 

 bers the work of keeping closely in 

 touch with the market and report 

 prices daily. This, he thinks, would 

 cause a greater uniformity of prices, 



each wholesaler trying to do as well 

 for his consignor as the rest, and the 

 practice of selling quantities of stock 

 to the ten cent stores and cheap de- 

 partment stores at a fraction of what 

 they charge retail florists would be 

 stopped. The plan seems practical 

 and is now in operation by the vege- 

 table growers. There is now a retail- 

 ers' association here and also a whole- 

 salers', why not one for the growers? 

 Who will start it? Another branch of 

 its work would be to keep a record of 

 the stock being planted and warn 

 against over production and under 

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