HORTICULTURE 



October 28, 1916 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



PITTSBURGH. 



Albert A. Berlin, formerly of Balti- 

 more, is an addition to the sales staff 

 of the McCallum Floral Co. 



O. C. Parker and family, have re- 

 turned from an extended sojourn at 

 Prout's Neck on the coast of Maine. 



Miss Margaret Burns, a saleswoman 

 for the A. W. Smith Company, has re- 

 turned from spending a fortnight at 

 Fairmount and Elkins, W. Va. 



The Ludwig Floral Company has 

 just completed four greenhouses tor 

 roses and carnations, aggregating 

 30,000 feet at the Castle Shannon 

 plant. 



Mr. and Mrs. De Forest W. Ludwig 

 have gone to Los Angelos. Cal., where 

 they will spend the winter. Mrs. Lud- 

 wig was formerly Miss Irene Collms 

 of Meyersdale. Pa., where the wedding 

 took place on Oct. 12 in the Jlethodist 

 Episcopal Church. Both the church 

 and the Collins home were lavishly 

 decorated with yellow chrysanthe- 

 mums, lillies and American Beauty 

 I'oses. 



Owing to the untimely absence of 

 the correspondent of HoBTicui-TtJKE 

 from the city the splendid Dahlia 

 Show oi Kaufmann's Floral Depart- 

 ment under the management of Ray 

 J. Daschbach, was unnoted at the time 

 Seven large display windows were util- 

 ized for the purpose, each containing 

 a sliadow box with a large basket of 

 gorgeous blooms. At the same time. 

 60,000 catalogues were distributed. 

 The purpose of the exhibition was to 

 permit customers of the firm to select 

 with discrimination their bulbs for 

 next spring's jilanting. The varieties 

 were all labeled and thousands of dol- 

 lars' worth were i>aid for in advance, 

 which will be delivered next May. 

 .'Vdol"'! ifi'eii^ers. who has been Mr. 

 Da »'''■' bicb'o first pssifetant since the 

 opening of the department last spring, 

 has returned to his former i^osition 

 ■with George L. Huscroft of Steuhen- 

 ville, Ohio. 



dening is carried to a high degree of 

 effectiveness. 



Quite a number of the large retail- 

 ers are getting chrysanthemums from 

 California as is also an occasional 

 commission house. It is said that this 

 stock can be sold at prices that the 

 home grower will find it hard to com- 

 pete with, being grown out of doors 

 and cared for largely by foreign labor. 



The first azaleas to reach Chicago 

 this year came in on Monday, Oct. 23, 

 when flS cases were received by Frank 

 Oechslin. This allays the fear that 

 tliese plants would not arrive this 

 year. It is said Ijy eastern importers 

 to be the first shipment of the season 

 from Belgium. Others are on the way. 

 however. 



The J. C. .Moninger Co. is very busy 

 getting out orders for greenhouses. 

 Among them is a 56 x 250 ft. "bolted 

 through the pipe" frame house for 

 Wiedemann Floral Co. of 'W^ilsouville, 

 Oregon: another 42 x 20o for J. J. Fal- 

 lon. Lynchburg. Va.; and two 28 x 100 

 for Harry E. Saier, Lansing, Mich., 

 with steel frame service shed 28 x 40 

 ft. Three of the University of Chi- 

 cago greenhouses are being extended 

 by this company to meet the increased 

 demand for the horticultural course. 



The rock gardens are few in Chi- 

 cago but their popularity is growing. 



BOSTON. 



James Ward, of Peabody, pleaded 

 guilty in the United States District 

 Court to using the mails in a scheme 

 to defraud the Fairfield Nurseries of 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



The Boston Record is responsible 

 for the following witticism: 



"C. FiDe of the Massarliusetts Ave.- 

 Boylstou St. uoif^hborhood is not an ocu- 

 list, but a Horist. Still, with the delight- 

 ful daily spectacles in his windows he 

 ought to see fine, and probably does." 



Miss Annie Montgomery, daughter 

 of Alexander Montgomery of Waban 

 Rose Conservatories, and Dr. E. G. 

 Baum, of Natick, Mass., were married 

 at Natick on Wednesday evening, 

 October 25, and are now on a honey- 

 moon auto trip through Maine. 



Robert S. Peabody, landscape archi- 

 tect and civil engineer, was confirmed 

 by the Civil Service Commission as a 

 member of the Park and Recreation 

 Department. Peabody resigned as a 

 member of the Park and Recreation 

 Commission a year and a half ago, 

 and w^s succeeded by Charles Gibson. 

 Gibson resigned five months ago, and 

 Peabody, therefore, obtaines his old 

 position. 



The Boston Co-operative Flower 

 Market held its 10th annual meeting 

 and dinner at the Quincy House on 

 Saturday night. Oct. 21. President 

 William H. Elliott presided. The of- 

 ficers elected Included, treasurer, Don- 

 ald Carmichael; secretary, ,Iohn Mc- 

 Farland; directors, William H. Elliott, 

 Norris F. Comley, Robert Montgom- 

 ery, James Lester, John McFarland, 

 Edwin Wood, Elijah Cartwright, Don- 

 ald Carmichael and J. W. Simpson. 



CHICAGO. 



Walter Amling. son of the well 

 known grower, Wm. H. Amling, of 

 Maywood, 111., was married Oct. 26, 

 at Holgate, Ohio. 



John Poehlmann is again back at 

 his office, makin.a regular time for the 

 first, since his father's long illness, 

 during which he overtaxed himself. 



A special sale of ferns, jialms and 

 decorative plants is given this week 

 by one of the department stores in 

 which thousands of plants will be sold 

 at a small traction of profit. 



Property is being rapidly bought ui> 

 at Lake Forest, the popular north 

 shore town where manv of Chicago's 

 millionaires have their summer 

 homes, and where the landscape gar- 



Section of Koc-k (;iii4lfn at Frank OechsKn's 



The dead level of this city makes 

 these gardens appeal to the owner of 

 a lot large enough to hold even a 

 small one, and the height and depth 

 of the miniature caves, the tall 

 shrubs at the back, the overhanging 

 vines and the falling water finding its 

 way to the lily pond at the base, all 

 give a variety which even a beautiful 

 lawn and flower beds often need. The 

 cut shows a section of the one just 

 made on the grounds at Frank 

 Oechslin's new residence. 



Philadelphia. — Commodore Westcott 

 went to Waretown on the 21st inst. 

 This will probably be the last trip of 

 the season as the bungalo-w is usually 

 closed about this time each year and 

 the old homestead — half a mile inland 

 — is used for winter C4uarters. Noxt 

 week he goes to Long Island to visit 

 his old friend. James Dean, for a few 

 days. 



ST. LOUIS 



The Episcopalians who met here in 

 convention were entertained at Shaw's 

 Botanical Garden last Friday. 



Henry Ostertag was recently ap- 

 pointed police commissioner and is 

 well qualified for any duties entrusted 

 to him. He has always been a suc- 

 cessful business man. 



Ray Young, of Young Bros., on 

 Waterman avenue, was married to 

 .Miss Juliette R. Meyer and has now 

 returned from his honeymoon, pre- 

 pared for the opening of fall business. 



H. G. Berning, St. Louis Wholesale 

 Cut Flower Co., C. A. Kuehn, Windier 

 Wholesale Floral Co.. Geo. H. Anger- 

 mueller, Wm. C. Smith Wholesale 

 Flower Co., are the big six of the 

 wholesale cut flower trade of St. 

 Louis. High grade roses, fancy 

 chrysanthemums, carnations, orchids 

 and American Beauties are amon,g 

 the specialties now in the foreground 

 and buyers anywhere within shipping 

 limits need seek no further for good 

 stock and right prices. 



J. H. Playdon, of Andover, Mass., the 

 well-known florist, has returned from 

 Nova Scotia where he has been spend- 

 ing a vacation. 



