August 26, 3916 



HORTICULTURE 



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 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. 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO. 



Miss Mae Schultz, of J. A. Budlong's, 

 is having a two weeks' vacation and 

 Mrs. Schupp is a regular member of 

 the office force during her absence. 



Clarence H. Stuhldreher, of Mans- 

 field, O., visited the growers here this 

 week. Alex. C. Gardner returned with 

 him to have charge of the retail store. 



Aster growers have no difficulty in 

 selling their high-grade stock for six 

 cents and the money looks good with 

 the coal bills not so far in the future. 



O. A. Tonner and M. C. Gunterberg, 

 Chicago's two lady wholesale florists, 

 are away — the former in the cherry 

 district of northern Wisconsin, the 

 latter on the way from New Orleans 

 to New York by boat. 



C. H. Ketchum, of South Haven, 

 Mich., who specializes in the growing 

 of gladioli, is giving evidence that he 

 understands the cultivating of that 

 flower. He is one of the stockholders 

 in the Chicago Flower Growers' Asso- 

 ciation and naturally much of his best 

 stock is to be seen there. The spikes 

 are very long and the flowers large 

 and he keeps varieties limited to a 

 comparatively few kinds. 



The American Bulb Co. is the latest 

 addition to Chicago's wholesale firms 

 selling florists' necessities. Readers 

 will please notice that the new com- 

 pany will be glad to quote prices on 

 any of the accessories now carried by 

 up-to-date florists, as well as on bulbs. 

 The firm is composed of A. Miller, for- 

 merly member of the A. Henderson 

 Co.; Albert Koehler, lately with 

 Vaughan's Seed Store; Rolit. Xew- 

 comb, former traveling salesman for 

 the same firm, and San Seligman, 

 who traveled many years for Wert- 

 heimer Bros. Two of the men have 

 had their business training largely in 

 Chicago and the others In the still 

 larger field of traveling salesmen. 

 Their foreign connections are such as 

 will enable them to carry the best that 

 can be produced. Vincent Neil, an- 



other Vaughau graduate, will be asso- 

 ciated with the firm at their office at 

 172 N. Wabash avenue. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The new front for the store of Wil- 

 liam Marche & Co. is rapidly being 

 completed. A formal opening is in 

 prospect. 



Painters and decorators have been 

 at work at the store of J. H. Small & 

 Sons and the entire interior has been 

 gone over in preparation of a very 

 busy fall and winter season. Other 

 stores will soon follow suit. 



The attention of the florists here has 

 been directed to the fear expressed in 

 New York that the spread of the paper 

 box makers' strike may bring a famine 

 for these containers. It is said that 

 two-thirds of the workers in the in- 

 dustry already are on strike, and their 

 leaders assert that shortly the entire 

 paper box trade will be at a stand- ' 

 still. 



A number of the enaployees of J. H. 

 Small & Sons, are enjoying their an- 

 nual vacations. James Dalgleish is at 

 Atlantic City, N. J. Edwin Teague has 

 been staying in his bungalow on the 

 Potomac and last week went up to 

 Cumberland, Md. Mr. and Mrs. J. 

 Henry Small, Jr., motored to Boston 

 and Massachusetts beach resorts, also 

 visiting New York and Phila. Miss 

 Minnie E. Shea is at Atlantic City, N. 

 J. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Holland have 

 just returned from a run to Philadel- 

 phia and Atlantic City. 



intendent of the W. Henry R. Hil- 

 liard's city grounds and greenhouse. 



Accompanied by Mrs. Burke, George 

 W. Burke, Supt. of Parks, is on a mo- 

 tor trip in New England. George B. 

 Telfair, with Mrs. Telfair, has re- 

 turned from a three week's vacation 

 trip in the south. Owing to the south- 

 ern floods, Mr. Telfair found it neces- 

 sary to abandon his automobile at 

 Washington. Miss Catharine Friel, 

 manager of Ray J. Daschbach is at At- 

 lantic City where she will remain un- 

 til after Labor Day. Carl Doelker has 

 returned from a visit in Wheeling, W. 

 Va. John Hoffman, Miss Mathilda 

 Hanimerschmidt and Edward J. Bam- 

 bach, all employees for E. C. Ludwig 

 Floral Co., have returned from vaca- 

 tions. Miss Bertha Hughes, a sales- 

 woman for Randolph & McCIements, 

 is expected back today. Frank Misoe- 

 lek and Dominick Pisciioneri, assist- 

 ing gardeners on the Charles D. Arm- 

 strong estate, have returned from 

 three weeks' vacations, the latter at 

 Albany and the former to New Ro- 

 chelle, N. Y. 



PITTSBURGH. 

 Frederick J. L. James has purchased 

 the John Doleman farm in Penn town- 

 ship with the intention of going into 

 the wholesale floral business next 

 spring. Mr. James is a son of Edward 

 Shelton James, who has charge of the 

 roof greenhouse for the Fort Pitt and 

 William Penn Hotel, as well as super- 

 vising the Hotel Schenley grounds, 

 and a nephew of Walter James, super- 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Misses Guy, daughters of E. W. 

 Guy, of Belleville, 111., will leave on 

 August 31 for Decatur, 111., and Sagi- 

 naw, Mich., to teach physical culture. 



Nat Kingsley, Martin Seiger and 

 Julius Schaeffer, of the Mullanphy 

 Florists, are away for a two weeks' 

 vacation. Tobe Teason, an employee 

 of the firm, died last week and the 

 employees sent a casket cover and 

 served as pall bearers. 



The Spring Flower Show Committee 

 have decided to incorporate as the "St. 

 Louis Flower Show Association." On 

 the return of the paper from Jefferson 

 City the preliminary lists will be 

 mailed. The show will be held at 

 Armory Hall, March. 1917, when a 

 splendid outside exhibition can be 

 made. W. W. Ohlweiler, secretary, is 

 now in New York in interest of the 

 show. 



