HOBTICULTUBB 



October 7, 1916 



CHICAGO. 



The street carnivals are under way 

 in various parts of the city. They are 

 a stimulus to trade and retail florists 

 are doing their part. 



California chrysanthemums are ar- 

 riving in a satisfactory condition ac- 

 cording to some who are handling 

 them and certainly they look fine after 

 their long journey. They are grown 

 in cloth-covered houses and are of the 

 large varieties. 



The Pot Plant Situation. 



The plant situation in Chicago is 

 not relieving that of the flowers. A 

 few plants of the Celestial peppers 

 lend a little color hut these are still 

 too undeveloped to be at their best. 

 While there have been some chrysan- 

 themums for cut flowers it will be a 

 week or so more before the varieties , 

 used for pot plants will be out enough 

 to make effective decorations. There 

 are really no blooming plants to offer 

 at this time. Boston ferns have been 

 scarce all summer but the new crop 

 will soon be in which will relieve the 

 situation there. There has been and 

 still is, a good supply of Dracaena 

 fragrans and Massangeana in small 

 sizes, but large sizes for special deco- 

 rations have been scarce all summer. 

 Palms thus far have been in good sup- 

 ply but if the same difficulties develop 

 in the Belgium supply as now 

 threaten in azaleas, the outlook will 

 be tor future shortage. 



The Marshall Field Opening. 



The opening of the fall season at 

 Marshall Field's called for the use of 

 thousands of Boston ferns, large 

 palms and cut flowers, the market 

 value of which would mean a year's 

 salary to most men. In addition to 

 these were the artificial ferns in 

 beautiful autumn colorings, and chrys- 

 anthemums, which a casual inspection 

 might class as natural. The arrange- 

 ment of these and the blending of 

 colors, as from the red brown of the 

 ferns up to the yellow of the chrysan- 

 themums made the bouquets, although 

 artificial, an object lesson worth while. 

 Festoons of vines outline the broad 

 main aisle and overhead in the center 

 room are tour chariots, suggesting the 

 assembling of goods from the four 

 corners of the earth. These decora- 

 tions are planned six months in ad- 

 vance and a large force of men and 

 women are constantly working to that 

 end. Mr. Fraser in charge travels 

 everywhere for ideas. Frank Oesch- 

 lin's stock of specimen palms was 

 heavily drawn upon for this notable 

 event. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



As examination will be held by the 

 Civil Service Commission on October 

 17, to fill a vacancy in the position of 

 gardener at T'ulalip, 'Wash., which 

 carries with it a salary of ?720 a year. 



It is reported that Mrs. Teresa J. 

 Philipps, who operates The Flower 

 Store at 2820 Fourteenth street, N. W., 

 is to open a branch under the same 



name at 134 West King street, in 

 Martinsburg, W. Va. The local busi- 

 ness will be looked after by Jack 

 Philipps. 



A number of representative business 

 men of Washington have recently 

 formed what is known as the Opti- 

 mistB' Club which takes one member 

 from each line of endeavor. Among 

 the first members selected was George 

 C. Shaffer, who will represent the 

 florist industry. 



George C. Shaffer has increased his 

 store force by the addition of Miss 

 Fay West and the return of Mrs. Net- 

 tie Supper. The former was at one 

 time W'ith the DuPont Flower Shop 

 and also with the Washington Floral 

 Co. The latter has been away from 

 the store for several months. 



W. F. Gude was chairman of the 

 judges at the eighth annual flower 

 show of the Brookland Brotherhood. 

 Associated with him were F. L. Mul- 

 ford, of the Dept. of Agriculture, and 

 Mrs. L. Helen Fowler, manager of the 

 Shaw Gardens. Mr. Gude served in a 

 like capacity during the Petw'orth 

 Flower Show, with George W. Hess 

 and Mr. Gaylord. 



David A. Bisset met with a very 

 narrow escape from death in an auto- 

 mobile accident last Thursday while 

 driving his car in which Mrs. Peter 

 Bisset and Marie, Helen and Paul 

 Bisset were also passengers. The car 

 was overturned after having struck a 

 piece of timber which had been dropped 

 by one of the laborers employed in 

 some street work. The entire party 

 was taken to the Emergency Hospital 

 by a passing automobilist. They were 

 badly shaken up and suffered some 

 few slight injuries. 



A visit was made on Tuesday of last 

 week to the rose gardens in Arlington 

 Farms by Robert Pyle and Antoine 

 Wintzer, representing the American 

 Rose Society, and Prof. F. L. Mulford 

 and Dr. Walter Van Fleet, of the Dept. 

 of Agriculture. This trip was in lieu 

 of the regular fall inspection by the 

 members of the Society, for it was 

 found that it would be impossible to 

 get any large number of members to- 

 gether for a visit to Washington at 

 this time. 



In future the attempt will be made 

 .to keep the new roses- pretty well to- 

 gether instead of planting them with 

 the older roses. Each year's additions 

 are to be kept together and only put 

 with the older roses after having been 

 in the garden for a year. It is deemed 

 desirable to get the color combina- 

 tions good when the plants are per- 

 manently placed; and. also, that only 

 the vigorous growing plants are given 

 permanent places. Nearly two hour§ 

 was spent in the garden, following 

 which a visit was made to the U. S. 

 Botanic Gardens and other places. It 

 has practically been decided upon to 

 make an official visit in the spring 

 when more members can be gotten to- 

 gether. 



BOSTON. 



Albert Stumph startled the other 

 members ot the Bowling League by 

 bowling three record-breaking strings 

 last Wednesdav night. The scores 

 were 124, 136, 112. 



A local high-water mark for lilies 

 was set this week w hen the blooms in 

 some instances commanded a price of 

 flfteen cents. This high-wire perform- 

 ance was due to an unusually strong 

 clamor for lilies, with barely enough 

 available to supply even an ordinary 

 market. 



Popular "Steve" Green, fresh from 

 Bayersdorfer & Co.'s warehouse has 

 camped in Boston for the week with 

 a line of new fall samples that are 

 catching the attention of the early 

 morning visitors in the flower market 

 district. He is displaying these in 

 the headquarters of the Waban Rose 

 Conservatories in Winthrop square. 



Henry R. Comley was elected presi- 

 dent of the Boston Retail Florists' 

 Club on Oct. 4. Other officers were 

 chosen as follows: Vice-president, 

 Samuel Wax; treasurer, Julius A. 

 Zinn; secretary, Harry Quint; direct- 

 ors, Henry Penn, chairman; Nathan 

 Silverman, Henry Comley, Julius A. 

 Zinn. Martin Tuohy and Martin Wax, 



The Boston Flower Exchange, Inc., 

 is to hold its annual business meeting 

 at Young's Hotel on Saturday, Oct. 

 28. A dividend of 20 per cent, will be 

 declared and the usual business pro- 

 ceedings will then follow. After the 

 meeting a banquet and entertainment 

 will be in order, and as the committee 

 consists of S. J. Goddard and George 

 Cartwright. those present may be sure 

 of enjoying themselves. 



At the meeting of the Horticultural 

 Club of Boston on October 4, E. H. 

 Wilson entertained the members and 

 guests with an elaborate steropticon 

 lecture on the plants of China. Among 

 the guests present were George E. 

 Barnard, Ipswich, Mftss.; J. J. Karins, 

 Philadelphia; W. W. Castle, E. Wey- 

 mouth, Mass.; Leonard Barron, Garden 

 City. N. Y., and H. J. Patten, Tewks- 

 bury, Mass. Resolutions of respect to 

 the memory of Jackson Thornton Daw- 

 son are recorded. W. A. Manda dec- 

 orated the table with large vases of 

 his dahlia novelties. 



A series of garden lectures has been 

 arranged by the Women's Educational 

 and Industrial Union for six consecu- 

 tive Monday afternoons at 4 o'clock at 

 264 Boylston street, beginning Oct. 9. 

 Miss Jane B. Patten, special instructor 

 in Botany and horticulture at Simmons 

 College, will give the flrst four talks, 

 which will cover the subjects of out- 

 door and indoor bulbs, the autumn 

 garden and house plants. The fifth 

 lecture will be given by Fletcher 

 Steele, assistant in landscape archi- 

 tecture. Harvard College, who will 

 speak on the "Intimate Pine Art ot 

 Garden Design," P. Schuyler Math- 

 ews, author of many books on birds 

 and flowers, will give a talk on birds 

 and their music in garden and forest. 



