HORTICULTURE 



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. 



A. A. Leach, superintendent of 

 Greenlawn, has just returned from a 

 two weeks' eastern trip. 



A WELL GROWN GLOXINIA. 



James Murray McGrew, salesman 

 for G. P. Weaklin & Co., is taking a 

 fortnight's vacation in Cleveland and 

 on his farm nearby. 



Edward J. McCallum and Clarence 

 0. Phillips left on last Saturday night 

 for Independence, W. Va., and a fish- 

 ing trip along the Cheat river. 



Wilhom J. Ferguson, who recently 

 opened a retail flower and landscape 

 shop on Penn avenue, is spending a 

 part of his vacation in Cleveland, 

 Ohio. 



Miss Eliza .McKinley, the head 

 saleswoman for Randolph & Mc- 

 Clements, went to Greensburg, Pa. 

 last Monday for a two months' 

 sojourn. 



.\ccompanied by his family. Ed- 

 ward L. McGrath, manager of the 

 Blind Floral Co., will leave on the 

 16th inst. for Xorth East on Lake 

 Erie, for a two weeks' sojourn. 



.John R. Bracken, of the Oglesby 

 Paul estate, Phila., formerly an at- 

 tache of the landscape department of 

 the A. W. Smith Co.. has returned 

 east after a several days' visit in 

 McKeesport. 



NEW YORK. 

 A good sized party is assured for 

 the trip to Bar Harbor, Me., on Thurs- 

 day night, July 13. 



There has been another joint corr- 

 mittee meeting at the Hotel Manhattan 

 and the prospects are that a mutually 

 satisfactory basis for co-operation in 

 another "International" Flower Show 

 next spring will soon be reached. 



Word comes from T. B. DeForest. 

 who, with his bride, is on a honev- 

 moon trip, dated at Panama, sayin?; 

 that they have been throusjli the Canal 

 and have found a wonderful country, 

 flower bedecked everywhere. Quite so. 



E. Leuly of West Hobokeii. who for 

 many years has made it a practice to 



Our illustration shows a sturdy 

 specimen of the upright flowered 

 Gloxinia speciosa as grown for florist 

 store sales by Sam. Murray of Kan- 

 sas City. This plant is in a 7-inch 

 pot but Mr. Murray says he usually 

 grows them in 5-in. pots and he has 

 sold 500 of them this spring. Fancy- 

 leaved caladiums, he states have also 

 found a ready and eager market tliis 

 season. Florists who aim to hold a 

 position in the front rank can do it 

 by adopting Sam. Murray's plan of 

 always having something to offer that 

 "the other fellow hasn't got." 



Gloxinias are usually grown from 

 the tuberous roots offered by seeds- 

 men but may be raised from seed or 

 by cuttings of shoots or matured 

 leaves. For summer blooming the 

 roots can be started in February and 

 afterwards. Seedlings germinated in 

 February will bloom late in the same 

 year. Gloxinias require a stove tem- 

 perature but will keep longer if given 

 a lower temperature and more air 

 when they have come into bloom. They 

 do not relish cold water nor too much 

 sun. Do not spray the foliage nor let 

 the plants remain too long in small 

 pots. 



travel to the S. A. F. Convention by 

 bicycle, started on his way to Houston 

 on Thursday of this week, expecting 

 to get there on time unless the Mexi- 

 cans shoot at him. 



The firm of Moore, Hentz & Nash, 

 formerly composed of Frank L. Moore, 

 Henry Hentz, Jr. and Jonathan Xash. 

 was dissolved on .May 27th. by the 

 death of Mr. Nash. The assets. liabili- 

 ties and other affairs of said firm are 

 now in process of liquidation. 



BOSTON. 



Mrs. E. M. Gill, one of the oldest 

 florists in Massachusetts, observed her 

 SUth birthday anniversary on June 28. 

 She is in rather poor health at the 

 present time. 



The gladioli at Cedar Acres, Wen- 

 ham, Mass., will be shown on Wednes- 

 day afternoon, .\ugust 9th, from three 

 until seven o'clock for the benefit of 

 (he American Ambulance Hospital at 

 Xueilly, France. Tickets, 50 cents. 



