HOETICULTUEE 



November 4, 1916 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



CHICAGO. 



P. J. Foley, of the Foley Greenhouse 

 Maiiuf. Co., is taking a business trip 

 through the East. 



The ten-cent stores are selling 

 'large, fine looking chrysanthemums. 

 The fact that they are without foliage 

 indicates long distance shipments. 



The American Bulb Co. has added 

 G. IVIarshut to its sales force. This 

 firm has received a word that a ship- 

 ment of hardy lilies had reached this 

 country. 



The A. L. Randall Co., who are 

 handling the Thenanthos carnation 

 report splendid sales of this great new- 

 red variety. Many Chicago florists, 

 who have no time in securing stock. 

 See advertisement with prices on an- 

 other page. 



This se'ason the arrivals of stock 

 from across the water are of more 

 than passing interest owing to the 

 extra hazard in ocean traffic. A car 

 load of bay trees has just reached 

 Chicago from Boskoop, having been 

 just one month en route. 



J. Mangel's store window attracted 

 such a crowd that it was difficult to 

 learn the cause. Beautiful specimens 

 of live ducks were wading in the water 

 which Mr. Mangel keeps running there 

 a large part of the year, and it is the 

 one thing of which passers by never 

 seem to tire. 



J. A. Budlong Co. has signed a 

 lease for the corner store adjoining 

 the one they have occupied, and the 

 partition has been removed. They 

 now have a very light corner store 

 with sufficient floor space to make work 

 easy, and can easily take care of their 

 large shipping trade. 



Mrs. A. Fulsinger, who has been in 

 the retail store of .J. Steinmetz, is pur- 

 chasing stock for the opening of a 

 flower store for Mrs. Wiedahech, Ra- 

 cine, Wis., of which Mrs. Fulsinger 

 will have charge. A store was former- 

 ly operated in this building and since 

 the death of the proprietor, .J. Dour- 

 goise, last summer, Mrs. Wiedabech 

 has had it overhauled and improved, 

 and is going into tlie business herself. 



Some new phases of the subject of 

 the respective rights of wholesalers 

 and retailers to buy and sell as they 

 please have been freely discussed this 

 week when the chrysanthemum mar- 

 ket was ruined by California flowers. 

 The consensus of opinion seems to 

 cling to the old adage that "It's a poor 

 rule that won't work both ways." and 

 if "red violets" is wrong for whole- 

 salers it's equally wrong for retailers 

 to buy direct from the growers of the 

 western coast. 



The Foley Greenhouse Manuf. Co 

 has just completed further inprove- 

 ments in their offices. The entire 

 factory has been practically built with- 

 in the three years they have occupied 

 It and IS now equipped to handle 

 work with all possible dispatch. 

 Among the recent work completed are 

 two houses 40 x 225 ft. for Frank 

 Schramm at Crystal Lake, 111., a du- 

 plicate of which they built oiie year 



ago: two houses, 40 x 200 ft., for El- 

 mer Sigwald at Arlington Heights: 

 one house. 40 x 200 ft., and one 40 x 

 S4 ft., and propagating house 12 x 50 

 ft., for L. C. Busse, Mt. Prospect, 111. 

 Material is now being shipped to 

 Gregg Station, 111., for seven houses, 

 28 X 300 ft., for Bassett & Washburn. 

 All have the Foley cliannel gutters 

 with tlieir liar clips. 



WASHINGTON. 



C. L. Jenkins & Son, of Suitland, are 

 commencing to cut some fine Delphin- 

 ium belladonna. They report that 

 their crops of mignonette and stevia 

 are showing great promise. 



The annual chrysanthemum show of 

 the Department of Agriculture was 

 held during the week. As in previous 

 years a large army of Washingtonians 

 and iieople from nearby cities visited 

 the exhibition. There is also a dis- 

 play of cactus plants, many of which 

 came from the Border where militia- 

 men of the District of Columbia are 

 now doing duty and for this reason 

 they also attracted a great deal of at- 

 tention. 



The State of Florida having desig- 

 nated Gainesville, Fla., a place of ter- 

 minal inspection of plants and plant 

 products under the provisions of exist- 

 ing law, postmasters have been in- 

 formed that packages containing 

 plants or plant products may be ac- 

 cepted for mailing only when plainly 

 marked so that the contents may be 

 readily ' ascertained by an inspection 

 of the outside thereof. The law makes 

 the failure so to mark such parcels an 

 offense punishable by a fine of not 

 more than $100. 



Gude Bros. Co. furnished the deco- 

 rations for the wedding of Margaret 

 Preston Draper, daughter of the late 

 General William Franklin Draper, and 

 Prince Andrea Boncompagni, of Rome, 

 Italy. From the entrance to the ball' 

 room the guests passed through a lane 

 of flowers, palms, and ferns, numerous 

 white chrysanthemums and American 

 Beauty roses, combining to reproduce 

 the Italian national colors. Asparagus 

 and southern smilax studded with 

 white chrysanthemums and American 

 Beauty roses faced the balcony in the 

 lower hall. Standards of American 

 Beauty roses marked the approach to 

 the stairway. Farleyense terns, 

 studded with purple orchids banked 

 the mantels in the halls and drawing 

 room suite and towering ferns filled 

 every corner. In the ballroom, tempo- 

 rarily converted Into a chapel, the 

 ferns threw into relief the white mar- 

 ble altar and prie(|ieux. Ferns and 

 American Beauty roses banked the 

 face of the altar and the platform and 

 there were standards of the roses on 

 the altar. In the ante room an organ 

 was ensconced in a bower of ferns. 

 The bride carried a shower of lilies 

 of the valley and white orchids, and 

 the maid of* honor carried a bouquet 

 of pink orchids. 



PITTSBURGH. 



William M. Turner of Penn avenue 

 Wilkinsburg, has returned from his 

 annual week's hunting trip in Cameron 

 County. 



M' F. Hutchison of Sewickley, florist, 

 tor the Pennsylvania Lines West left 

 last Tuesday night for Xenia, Ohio to 

 sijpervise the landscape features and 

 planting for the new station there He 

 has just completed extensive work for 

 the company's new stations in Canton 

 Ohio, and Chicago, 111. Mr. Hutchison 

 succeeds his father, Robert W Hutchi- 

 son, who died on July IT at West Palm 

 Beach, Florida. 



In honor of the city's charter centen- 

 nial this week, a downtown shop has 

 decorations distinctive for elegance 

 and at the same time, simplicity. 

 Maidenhair ferns and large clusters of 

 specimen chrysanthemums are inter- 

 mingled, a few of the more conspicu- 

 ous clusters being caught with broad 

 ribbons of rich texture in Pittsburgh's 

 black and yellow. A patriotic touch 



and blue background formed of me- 

 dium sized silken flags. 



Randolph & McClements made a 

 u-Uh' .^''""'''®''^" display, distinctive 



tH Iv All «"^,^°*'''''"^' "^he essen- 

 lally A 1 Saints' pumpkin appeared in 



he wT.'"' "°^ ^^^'" ''" ^'^"^ end Of 

 the wide window ledge, but cleveriv 

 subdued" by overhanging autumn ?o^ 

 iia„e. The centerpiece" held a large 

 borning wax candle, and nearby wis 

 an unusual touch given by a few selm! 

 .ngl.v carelessly arranged cattleyas; 

 and on the window ledge and floo ■ 

 conspicuous space was given to ob- 

 ong dominoe boxes and variegated 

 oliage. Chrysanthemums, largefv in 

 lironze tints, prevailed 



ST. LOUIS. 



r^y„ !^- ^""'^^ Wholesale Floral 

 ^.°-/ 1^^'"^"y truck caught fire and 

 as entirely demolished. Another car 

 will be in service in a few davs. 



fhI°T-,- ^^^ ""'"'^f' '« advertising in 

 bnwnT, "'"'"" ^ chrysanthemum 

 .-liow, October 30 and 31. at his store 

 on Ohio street. Music both days! 



Publicity in regard to the coming 



■ o«er Show ,s being pushed to the 



ont Frank Windier, of the Windier 



Wholesale Floral Co., is especially ac- 



fh^^^'"*'"?^' I^^^:^- H. Wagland, 

 he Broadway florist, is preparing a 

 petition to be presented to the city 

 government, asking that the Arling- 

 on mills be compelled to abate an al- 

 leged smoke nuisance, Mr. Wagland 

 and residents of the vicinity of the 

 mills, claim that the Ariington has a 

 blower equiimient on the mill chim- 

 neys which spreads the soft coal soot 

 ail over the district. According to 

 city hall officials there is a statute cov- 

 ering such a smoke nuisance, but it 

 must be adopted by the city council 

 before it can be enforced. The penal- 

 ty IS .$100 a week as long as continued 



