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HOETICULTUBE 



September 9, 1916 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO 



Some alterations and improvements 

 are under consideration in the Atlas 

 Flower Store this fall. 



R. G. Kootz was in Chicago recently 

 making arrangements tor stock for a 

 new retail store in Cincinnati, O., to 

 open about Sept. 15th. 



Morgan Park. Chicago's most south- 

 ern suburb, had a very successful flow- 

 er show on two days of last week, and 

 the event is going to be an annual af- 

 fair. 



Among the week's visitors were Mr. 

 and Mrs. Richard I. Rollins who with 

 their son had been spending a month's 

 vacation in the East and are now on 

 their way home to Des Moines, la. 



A. L. Vaughan, who has been con- 

 nected with the wholesale flower busi- 

 ness of Chicago for a generation, and 

 whose opinion is always valued, says 

 the day of the very long stemmed 

 American Beauty rose is forever gone 

 in this market, and commercially it 

 is undesirable. He thinks from 18 

 in. to 36 in. should be the aim of the 

 grower and that there is use for but 

 very few longer ones. 



Mrs. A. L. Vaughan and daughter 

 have returned from a trip through the 

 West and down the Coast. Allie Zech 

 of Zeck & Mann took his family to La 

 Porte, Ind. to spend Labor Day. 

 Charlie Rogers, proprietor of the 

 Washington Flower Market, has re- 

 turned from a month's stay in Michi- 

 gan and Indiana. M. C. Gunterberg is 

 the last one to return from the con- 

 vention. Her trips are well known as 

 business getters and some valuable 

 additions to her list of shippers is 

 looked for. 



One who has recently traveled 

 through the west, says one of the 

 queerest sights he saw on the Pacific 

 Coast was in a range of greenhouses 

 for plant gi-owing for commercial pur- 

 poses. It was quite a pretentious place 

 and made an imposing appearance, but 

 fancy the visitor's surprise when en- 

 tering the place he found a large pro- 

 portion of the plants growing in tin 

 cans, which, he was told, is nothing 

 unusual. The high freight rate was 

 said to bg the cause, although there 

 are flowers pots manufactured on the 

 western slope. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The Dunbar Floral Company, of 

 Alexandria, Va., is cutting some ex- 

 cellent summer American Beauty 

 roses. 



David J. Grillbortzer, who recently 

 purchased the houses of George Field, 

 has been hauling glass to his place 

 in Alexandria, Va. 



It is rumored around town that 

 Samuel Simmons, who up to the first 

 of the month has been employed as 

 the gardener of the Leiter estate, is 

 contemplating becoming a commercial 

 grower. 



"Bob" McLennan, of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, has just returned from 

 a trip to Philadelphia, Pa., and Cam- 

 den and Trenton, N. J., where he went 

 to select plants for the grounds of the 



Department of Agriculture in this 

 city. 



The Leo Xiessen Company is plan- 

 ning to open its new store about the 

 fifteenth. Manager Albert Schnell is 

 planning to get everything in shape 

 and the wheels of business running 

 smoothly before the commencement of 

 the fall rush. 



Carroll Carriek is spending his va- 

 cation in Virginia. Leo Geyer is auto- 

 mobiling among northern seashore re- 

 sorts. Hardy Pritchard is absent on a 

 two weeks' vacation. They are all 

 employees of Gude Bros. Co. Fred 

 Miller is taking advantage of a two 

 weeks' vacation to motor around this 

 territory; Miss Bessie Pettet is regis- 

 tered at Shadyside, Md.. and Miss 

 Nellie Toogood will avail herself of a 

 two weeks' leave. These are in the 

 employ of the Washington Floral Co. 

 Nearby spots were depleted of fish 

 when Ed Niedomanski and George C. 

 Dalgleish got out their rods and lines 

 last week. The former tried out Col- 

 onial Beach, the latter Chesapeake 

 Beach — neither caught anything worth 

 while, except when they tell about it. 

 Jake Richards is "another devotee of 

 fishing, but he has better luck. Mr. 

 and Mrs. J. A. Phillips, of the Mount 

 Pleasant district, spent a very enjoy- 

 able holiday camping near Martins- 

 burg, W. Va. 



NEW YORK. 

 Phil Kessler is back at the helm of 

 business after an extended vacation in 

 the Catskills. 



J. R. Lewis, formerly with The Flor- 

 ists' Exchange, is now with R. M. 

 Ward & Co., the Lily House. 



C. A. Dards is home from Japan. 

 On his arrival he motored to Booth- 

 bay Harbor. -Me., where his family had 

 been spending the summer. 



Hogewoning & Sons, whose Ameri- 

 can office is at 32 Broadway have 

 just received a shipment of 400,000 

 Chinese narcissus bulbs and 500 cases 

 of Dutch bulbs have also come in. 



Watch the announcements of the 

 New York platit auction establish- 

 ments in this issue. These opening 

 sales will to a considerable extent test 

 out the attitude of the buying public 

 on the question of bulbs and fall 

 planting material generally. We have 

 seen some of the stock already arrived 

 and it is exceptionally good. 



Johnson & Millang, Inc., are now 

 established in their large and commo- 

 dious quarters in the Coogan Build- 

 ing and the opening plant auction sale 

 will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 12th, 

 and sales will be held every Tuesday 

 and Friday thereafter at 9 A. M. The 

 first sale will consist of a large assort- 

 ment of decorative plant stock, to- 

 gether with a heavy consignment of 

 Holland-grown and other bulbs. This 

 source of supply should prove a great 

 convenience for the uptown florist 

 trade. Charles C. Johnson has years 

 of thorough experience in the auction 

 business and Charles Millang is well 

 known among the florist trade. Miss 

 Marie Kneudell will have charge of 

 the office affairs of this firm, 



BOSTON. 



Mrs. Fred. R. Mathison has sold out 

 her greenhouse property and business 

 to the Janiten & Wollrath Company. 



The annual exhibition of dahlias 

 will take place at Horticultural Hall 

 on Saturday and Sunday, September 

 9 and 10. The many new and im- 

 proved varieties will be shown and 

 this exhibition will be of more than 

 usual interest. There will be also ex- 

 hibits of seasonable fruits and hardy 

 herbaceous flowers. The exhibition 

 will be open on Saturday from 12 to 

 6 and Sunday from 1 to 6 o'clock. 



The school gardens exhibition at 

 Horticultural Hall, last Saturday, was 

 au eye-opener. It was the finest and 

 largest school garden exhibition in the 

 history of the movement to turn the at- 

 tention of Massachusetts school chil- 

 dren from the dust of the streets to 

 the rich soil of their own profit-mak- 

 ing gardens. The children who have 

 taken up gardening so earnestly in 

 nearly all lines equalled the exhibits 

 of professional gardeners. The Hunt- 

 ington and Copeland school districts of 

 Brockton, which captured three of the 

 four major prizes in the State com- 

 petition last year, were represented by 

 two big truckloads of flowers, vege- 

 tables and canned vegetables. Their 

 cold-packed canned vegetables and 

 fruit exhibits numbered 133 cans. 

 I'robably the finest personal exhibit 

 was that of Miss Hermine A. Schulz of 

 Roslindale, who last year received the 

 distinction of being the "only girl who 

 could beat Brockton." She had a whole 

 table reserved for her exhibit of 37 

 varieties of garden plants and vege- 

 tables, all grown on a plot of land less 

 than one-twentieth of an acre in size. 

 In addition to caring for her garden 

 Miss Schulz has canned 37,5 cans of 

 vegetables and supervised the gardens 

 of 150 children in Roslindale. 



PITTSBURGH. 



Miss Catherine Friel. manager of the 

 Ray J. Daschbach Company, has just 

 returned from a several weeks' so- 

 journ at Atlantic City. Edward W. 

 Blind, president, and Edward L. Mc- 

 Grath, manager of the Blind Floral 

 Company, have returned from a trip 

 through the east. Ralph W. Pinner 

 spent several days in Yoimgstown, 

 Ohio, in the interest of the landscape 

 work of the A. W. Smith Co. 



Ray J. Daschbach has resigned from 

 the presidency and severed active con- 

 nection with the Ray J. Daschbach 

 Company, Inc., and hereafter expects 

 to devote his entire time to the floral 

 department of the Kaufmann Com- 

 pany, of which he is manager. Mr. 

 Daschbach is succeeded by Orville 

 Crisman, a young man new to the 

 trade, but who, for the past fourteen 

 years has been prominently identified 

 with the accounting department of 

 a hardware company. The floral fra- 

 ternity welcomes Mr. Crisman to its 

 ranks, wishing him the utmost suc- 

 cess in his new undertaking, which 

 has attended his past. 



