July 1, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



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PROFITS PROFITS PROFITS 



There's Money in Summer Business for the Florist 

 Who Knows How to Please 



We can supply you with strictly up-to-date accessories, which you must have if 

 you want to give satisfaction. Stock up now and have the goods to show cus- 

 tomers. Send for prices and you will be astonished to see how much you can 

 do with a little money when you go straight to headquarters — THE FLORISTS' 

 SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



1129 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



PITTSBURGH. 



Accompanied by his family, O. J. 

 Parker lias gone to Prout's Neck, 

 Maine, for tlie summer. 



Ttie sunken gardens are now under 

 construction for ttie new summer 

 home of Charles M. Schwab at Loretto. 



The branch shop of the Zieger Com- 

 pany on North Highland avenue will 

 be merged with the main house on 

 Baum street the first of July. 



Edward E. Ludwig has returned 

 home from Cornell, where he was a 

 member of this year's graduating class 

 in the horticultural department. 



Frank Snioller, an employee of Wal- 

 ter A. Faulk left on Saturday night 

 for Mount Gretna, accompanying the 

 National Guard en route for the Mexi- 

 can frontier. 



David Eraser, the superintendent of 

 Henry Clay Frick's Pittsburgh estate, 

 and of Fifth avenue, has placed John 

 Martin on the New York grounds as 

 resident gardener. 



On last Wednesday a large outing 

 was held on the Castle Shannon farm 

 of Henry Meuschke, treasurer of the 

 Ludwig Floral Company, for the Ger- 

 man-Auctrian-Hungarian benefit fund. 

 The funeral services of Miss Nora 

 Noonan were held on last Monday 

 morning in St. Mary's church. Bloom- 

 field. Miss Noonan was for sixteen 

 years head bookkeeper for the A. W. 

 Smith Co. 



Mrs. M. O. Roberts has been ap- 

 pointed chairman of the flower com- 

 mittee under the Bureau of Recreation 

 for the summer. Flower Days in Pitts- 

 burgh's playgrounds this summer will 

 be on Fridays during July and August. 



Of surpassing beauty were the dec- 

 orations for the garden party given for 

 a debutante of the past season at the 

 Allegheny Country Club on Sewickley 

 Heights, where the decorations were 

 carried out with Dorothy Perkins ram- 

 blers, etc., and fully a hundred Japan- 

 ese lanterns. 



The second annual rose day of the 

 Congress of Women's Clubs of West- 

 em Pennsylvania was observed this 



month with Mrs. A. D. Price as gen- 

 eral chairman for the distribution. 

 Roses by the thousands, as well as oth- 

 er flowers, were taken by the members 

 to the hosi}itals of the city and dis- 

 tributed to the public ward patients. 



Director Robert Swan, of the Depart- 

 ment of Public Works, and Superinten- 

 dent George W. Burke, of the Bureau 

 of Parks, have started a campaign to 

 beautify the city's streets through the 

 construction of flower boxes in win- 

 dows. They hope that the movement 

 will be joined in by all citizens, particu- 

 larly in the down-town sections. The 

 Department of Public Works will glad- 

 ly furnish suggestions as to what 

 plants and flowers should be used. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Still they come. Another florist for 

 Ranstoad street. Eugene Bernheimer 

 is ihe latest. He moves from 11 jouth 

 16th to 1.531 Ranstead July 1st. The 

 great Kelly street with its bronze tab- 

 let is not "the only pebble on the 

 lieach." 



John Walker, of Youngstown, Ohio, 

 and the Isle of Pines, arrived in town 

 last week, and his merry laugh was 

 heard all over town from League 

 Island to Frankford. So of course the 

 sun was shining— and Ju|)iter Pluvius 

 chased himself out of sight. 



Allen Culberson, leader of the auto 

 forces of the Pennock-Meehan Co., left 

 on the 22nd inst. for Mount Gretna 

 where the National Guard of Pennsyl- 

 vania assemble on their way to de- 

 fend their country's honor in the 

 threatened trouble with Mexico. 



James J. Karins, of the Dreer 

 forces, who went under an operation 

 for appendicitis at the German Hos- 

 pital on the 22nd, was reported on the 

 28th to be progressing favorably. The 

 operation was performed by the fa- 

 mous Dr. Deaver, who has achieved 

 wide distinction on surgical cases of 

 this kind. 



Abram L. Pennock had a pleasant 

 surprise this week. The old veteran 

 had a call from three other old vet- 

 erans, Adam Graham of Cleveland, 



John Westcott and Robert Craig of 

 Philadelphia, at his old homestead at 

 Lansdowue, Delaware Co., Pa. His 

 son. Samuel S. Pennock, drove the par- 

 t.v out in his auto and did the honors 

 of the occasion. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The St. Louis Florist Club's picnic 

 will take place July 20th at Romona 

 Park. This is a much looked for day 

 among the florists each year. 



The St. Louis Retail Florists' Asso- 

 ciation held a pleasant meeting June 

 19th at the xMission Inn Garden and 

 talked over the season's business. 



Walter Young of C. Young & Sons 

 Co., left for the front with Battery A 

 last week. Martin Lechner of Lechner 

 Bros, also joined forces with the boys 

 ready to fight the Mexicans at a 

 morpent's notice. 



A new wholesale house was incor- 

 porated last week to be known as The 

 St. Louis Wholesale Cut Flower Co. 

 with a capital stock of $20,000 all paid 

 up. The incorporators are David S. 

 Geddis, J. J. Beneke and F. P. Maid 

 Messrs. Geddis and Beneke are well- 

 known in trade circles. The new com- 

 pany will open for business September 

 first. 



Obituary 



William Bell. 

 Wm. Bell, a florist for many years 

 in Spuyten Duyvll, N. Y., died on June 

 23 at his home on University Ave., 

 Bronx, New York, aged 89 years. 



George Shoemaker 

 George Shoemaker, orchid grower 

 for S. C. Briggs, passed away at the 

 George Washington University after 

 having been confined to that institu- 

 tion for less than a week. Death was 

 caused by stomach trouble which 

 necessitated an operation from which 

 he failed to recover. He was twenty- 

 nine years of age and had been in the 

 employ of Mr. Briggs for ten years. His 

 widow and two children survive him. 



