February 15, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



157 



CHICAGO. 



A letter was received this week from 

 Jack Byers, who is with the army of 

 occupation in Germany. 



Gus Alles hears that all is well with 

 his two boys, one in the army in 

 France, and the other a marine. 



Miss Miriam, daughter of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Jas. G. Hancock, was quite se- 

 riously injured in, an ice boat accident 

 at Madison, Wis. She is in the Uni- 

 versity infirmary with a badly lacer- 

 ated leg. 



John Enders recently talked with a 

 returned officer who knew Clarence 

 Enders personally. He says army life 

 agrees with him and that the' slender 

 boy who left Chicago in August, 1917, 

 is now a robust young man in France, 

 larger than his father. 



The American Bulb Co. has received 

 a car of carinas, tuberoses, etc., and as 

 usual they are going out as fast as 

 they can be handled. A. Miller, presi- 

 dent of the company, is just back from 

 a swing round the middle west, fol- 

 lowing the S. A. F. convention. 



Miss Olga Tonner is still unable to 

 go to the store and Miss L. A. Tonner 

 manages to do the work of both. 0. A. 

 & L. A. Tonner have the distinction 

 of being the only women in the whole- 

 sale cut flower and supply business in 

 Chicago, and they are known for hav- 

 ing "made good." 



Geo. Weinhoeber has a novelty for 

 St. Valentine's day which he origi- 

 nated. Noticing that the red boxes do 

 not always produce harmonious re- 

 sults when filled with flowers, he had 

 a box of shining black with heart of 

 red made to his order, and the result 

 is very pleasing. All kinds of corsage 

 flowers look very neat and attractive 

 in this box. 



A. Henderson Co., who recently pur- 

 chased the Winterson Seed Co.'s store, 

 166 No. Wabash avenue, has made sev- 

 eral changes, enlarging the counter 

 spaces, etc. This is one of the best 

 locations in the city for a large retail 

 business in seeds, plants and nursery 

 stock and everything will be in readi- 

 ness for the spring trade, no matter 

 how early it comes. 



A. Lange has an unusually attractive 

 Valentine window display, the work be- 

 ing designed and executed by Herbert 

 Stone. Diagonally across the east end 

 of the window is a curtain of narrow 

 red ribbons from which peeps a large 

 white cupid. In front of the curtain 

 is an open red heart four feet across 

 and several cupids playing upon the 

 fine strings that cross the heart. It is 

 very pretty and attracts much atten- 

 tion to the window, the balance of 

 which contains stock for Valentine's 

 Day and other occasions. 



Young "Trees 



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complete in grades and sizes. 



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Seedlings and Transplants, Firs, Junipers, Arborvitae, Pines, Spruces, 

 Maples, Ash, Oaks, Lindens, Elms, etc. 



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 Boston, Mass. (£) 



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CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, 

 O. — General Plant Catalogue for 1919. 

 176 pages, illustrated. 



Edward Gillett, Southwick, Mass. — 

 List of native shrubs for garden plant- 

 ing. A very coaxing little brochure. 



W. W. Wilmore, Denver, Col — 

 Dahlias for 1919. This is an exceed- 

 ingly carefully selected list. Some of 

 the best varieties listed are repre- 

 sented by plates of unusual clearness 

 and quality. Quite a number of new 

 and extra choice sorts are enumerated. 



S. M. Isbell & Co., Jackson, Mich — 

 Isbell's Seeds, 1919. The slogan of 

 Isbell's seeds Is, "As they grow, their 

 fame grows." Not bad. This cata- 

 logue is a very comprehensive one de- 

 voted in large part to fine vegetables 

 and field crops. Small fruits, roots, 

 plants and various other things are 

 also included. 



Peter Henderson & Co., New York. 

 — Wholesale catalogue for market gar- 

 deners and florists. Superbly illus- 

 trated, containing a vast amount of 

 information in a small space, well ar- 

 ranged and tabulated to give desired 

 information quickly and accurately. 

 This is a model of what such a cata- 

 logue should be. 



W. E. Marshall & Co., New York. — 

 Marshall's Seeds for 1919. This is 

 Messrs. Marshall's 15th anniversary 

 list, and it is a creditable showing for 

 the time, everything considered. It 

 gives quite a full selection of vege- 

 table and flower seeds, lawn grass. 

 Spring requisites in plant and garden 

 requirements, etc.. and well fills its 

 place in the progressive seed trade of 

 the day. 



Alex. Forbes & Co., Newark, N. J. — 

 We have received two catalogues from 

 Messrs. Forbes & Co., one of them the 

 regular Spring issue of their offers in 

 every garden requisite, which is an 

 exceedingly handsome catalogue, with 

 natural colors used frequently through- 

 out the book. Accompanying this is 

 the Market Gardeners' catalogue, 

 equally attractive and exceedingly 

 creditable to the publishers. 



Sluis & Groot. Enkhuizen, Holland. — 

 General wholesale price list of flower 

 seeds, November, 1918. This is one 

 of the representative and reliable 



Holland seed establishments, and 

 their list coming as it does at the 

 present time is exceedingly interest- 

 ing. It contains a very large selection 

 of species and varieties, and speaks 

 well for early resumption of good 

 commercial possibilities in Holland 

 seeds. 



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