March 1, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



813 



Local and General 

 News 



CHICAGO 



A. T. Hey, for two years with the 

 A. L. Randall Co., is now traveling 

 salesman for Poehlmann Bros. 



Joe Erringer, for several years with 

 Zech Ai .Mann, is receiving the con- 

 gratulations of his friends on his mar- 

 riage. Feb. 19. 



Vol. 1, No. 1, of the Journal of the 

 Society of American Florists and Or- 

 namental Horticulturists, is being re- 

 ceived in Chicago this week. 



T. Waters, manager of the supply 

 department of Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 had his hands full over the week end 

 helping four salesmen to get started 

 on their spring trip. 



Archie Spencer has rented the sales- 

 room in the Atlas block, 162 N. Wabash 

 avenue, where Hoerber Bros, have 

 been, and the larger space will give 

 him room to expand the business he 

 has built up during the last four years. 



In the city bowling tournament, 

 played last Sunday, Mrs. Chas. Mc- 

 Kellar played on the team that won 

 the honors. It was very hotly con- 

 tested being the third year that the 

 Lefhngwell team has carried off the 

 first place, this time by just five points. 

 The individuals were played the fol- 

 lowing day, Mrs. McKellar scoring 

 second highest with 237 points. The 

 National League in which she was a 

 winner last year will play at Toledo 

 in March. 



The details of the sale of the Hoer- 

 ber Bros, greenhouses and lease of the 

 salesroom were completed Feb. 24th 

 and the business passes to Ernest and 

 Paul Amling of Maywood, sons of A. 

 F. Amling. well known and successful 

 grower. The young men will start for 

 themselves under very favorable cir- 

 cumstances, having been brought up in 

 the work. The greenhouse plant is 

 located at Desplaines and consists of 

 twenty houses three hundred feet long, 

 built nine years ago after the latest 

 methods of construction. The business 

 will be run under the name of the 

 Amling Bros. 



Philip C. Schupp has bought the 

 wholesale business at 184 N. Wabash 

 avenue, of which he has been manager 

 for fourteen years, from Mrs. J. A. 

 Budlong, mother of Mrs. Schupp. 

 Mrs. Budlong also sold the green- 

 houses to her son, A. H. Budlong, 

 who will operate them as before. 

 While the two purchases make the 

 men sole owners each of his part of 

 the business they will work together 

 as before, Mr. Budlong tending to the 

 growing and his brother-in-law. Mr. 

 Schupp, having the selling. The store 

 will be managed under the name of 

 the J. A. Budlong Co. 



Last week Allie Zech became the 



owner of the half interest in the firm 

 of Zech and Mann, formerly owned by 

 his father, the late John Zech. who 

 with Mathias Mann, founded the busi- 

 ness in 1905. After the death of Mr. 



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Zeeh, four years ago, his interest 

 passed to Mrs. Zech whose death oc- 

 curred last year. From the first Allie 

 was with his father as chief assistant 

 and since his death he has had entire 

 charge. The firm does a large ship- 

 ping and local trade, and while not 

 one of the largest, it has built up a 

 splendid business and an enviable 

 requtation for good stock and fair 

 dealing. 



Anthony Ruzicka of Madison, exten- 

 sive improvements to the property and 

 the rose houses located upon it are 

 contemplated by the new owner. The 

 property contains about 16 acres, of 

 which about 50,000 square feet is un- 

 der glass. Mr. Ruzicka was formerly 

 connected with the Brookside green- 

 houses. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Mrs. Wm. C. Smith, wife of Wm. C. 

 Smith, the wholesaler, is convalescing. 



The florists' dance and entertain- 

 ment on March 4th from present in- 

 dications will be largely attended. The 

 retailers met Monday night, Feb. 24th, 

 at Knights of Columbus Hall. 



NEWS NOTES 



Boston — -Market gardeners and hor- 

 ticulturists from all sections of the 

 state, before the committee on mer- 

 cantile affairs at the state house last 

 Thursday, opposed the petition of 

 Chief Plunkett of the district police 

 requiring the inspection of hot water 

 heaters and low pressure boilers and 

 the payment of a fee therefor, claim- 

 ing that its passage would result in 

 scrapping $100,000 worth of boilers 

 used by market gardeners. 



Fredonia, N. Y. — The greenhouses 

 of Gilray Brothers in Sheridan were 

 damaged to the extent of about $1,500 

 by fire February 13. 



Syracuse, N. Y. — Frederick H. Ebe- 

 ling, against whom a verdict of 

 $418 in favor of Abram Rynveld 

 and Herman Rynveld of Eisse, Hol- 

 land, was found, will be supported 

 by the National Association of Seeds- 

 men, who will make a test case 

 against the Bulb Growers association 

 of Holland. Mr. Ebeling refused to 

 pay for cases of tulips which arrived 

 a year ago too late for the fall trade, 

 due to a delay in shipping resulting 

 from the submarine menace. 



Stratford, Ont. — At a meeting of 

 Grand Trunk Railroad employes for 

 the purpose of organizing an Em- 

 ployes' Horticultural Society, the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected: Honor- 

 ary president, J. C. Garden; president, 

 Harry Davis; vice-president, William 

 Osborne; secretary-treasurer, G. F. 

 Nornabell; committee, J. Heideman, 

 H. Barker, H. Wigglesworth, J. Ken- 

 nedy, W. Carr, W. Babense, J. Peck 

 and A. W. Davis. 



Chatham, N. J. — With the acquisi- 

 tion of the Samuel Lum property by 



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