HOETICULTURE 



December 2, 1916 



CHICAGO 



Andrew Benson is booked to leave 

 in December for another trip to South 

 America to collect orchids for Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co. Before leaving he has 

 promised to give some of his experi- 

 ences before the Chicago Florists 

 Club. 



For the season of the year, Kroe- 

 schell Bros. Co. are having a fine run 

 of business. During the past -sveek 

 orders have come from extreme parts 

 of the country, one from the south, 

 one from Maine and one from the 

 state of Washington. 



After repeated rumors to the effect 

 that the E. C. Amling Co. are nego- 

 tiating for the Green Truax BUlg.. op- 

 posite their present location, it is no-.v 

 stated by their friends that a lease 

 has been signed and that they will 

 occupy the new store .Tan. 1st, 1917. 

 J. Huebner, 11 W. Randolph street. 

 says business is very satisfactory at 

 his store, -where a specialty is made 

 of decorating for social functions, of 

 which the season so far has been very 

 full. Mr. Huebner has a cqllection of 

 photographs of his work of which he 

 Is justly proud. 



At the Poehlniann Bros. Co. potted 

 chrysanthemums are nearly gone, only 

 a few remaining for Thanksgiving 

 sales. A good supply of azaleas, cycla- 

 men, and begonias will leave no gap 

 in the potted plant department, how- 

 ever. Christmas and regular orders 

 are showing that business is picking 

 up all over the country. 



At Frank Oechslin"s the time of the 

 potted chrysanthemum plants is over. 

 About forty of the best standard vari- 

 eties were grown with yellow in the 

 lead, about evenly divided between 

 large flowering pompon and single 

 varieties, all grown to bush shape 

 and in pots ranging from five to eight 

 Inches. Demand this year has been a 

 little heavier for the large flowering, 

 that is from two to four inches on 

 bush plants. 



The fall flower shows at the various 

 parks are in full swing this week, and 

 the park conservations are open each 

 evening till ten o'clock. These affairs 

 are generally well patronized and this 

 year one of the women's clubs led the 

 way to a still larger appreciation of 

 their value by holding a meeting 

 there. It is not uncommon to find 

 people who have lived in Chicago a 

 lifetime and have never been inside 

 the conservatories. 



CINCINNATI. 



A. K. Davis who was formerly in 

 business in Bellevue is opening a new 

 flower store in Newport. Ky. 



Farrf'l & Co.. are orening a flower 

 store in the Gait House at Sixth and 

 Main Sts. Mr. Farrel. formerly was 

 with Julius Baer. 



The R. G. Kootz Floral Co. are re- 

 moving their store from its nresent 

 location to the Gwynne Building at 

 the busy corner of Sixth and Main 

 streets. 



BOSTON. 



The New England Florist Supply 

 Co. have recruited their staff for the 

 Christmas business by the addition of 

 William J. Flynn, a well-known mem- 

 ber of the craft. 



W. S. Spring, who for the last 16 

 years has been known as the Castle 

 Square Florist, has recently opened a 

 new store in the Auditorium Building 

 in Maiden. Mr. Spring has equipped 

 his shop with neat up-to-date ideas 

 and conveniences and is confident of 

 success in his new undertaking. 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co., have in 

 course of construction some new 

 plant houses at their Dedham nur- 

 series in which an ingeniously de- 

 signed, home-constructed concrete gut- 

 ter is used between the houses. The 

 houses are intended for hybrid 

 roses. We noticed a new begonia at 

 this place, of German origin, which 

 although greatly resembling Glory of 

 Cincinnati, is yet different and has 

 some advantages over that popular 

 sort, in the color of the foliage and 

 the slightly deeper pink of the flow- 

 ers. The latter is not so much due to 

 the exact color of the petals as to 

 the form of the flower which is some- 

 what cup shaped and thus showing 

 more of the outside of the petal. 



W. E. Fischer, who has been many 

 years in the Boston Park Department, 

 leaves here after thirty years' service 

 to take the superintendency of the 

 Cyrus McCormick estate at Lake 

 Forest, 111., succeeding E. O. Orpet, 

 who has resigned and will go to the 

 Pacific Coast. 



On Monday night. November 27, Mr. 

 Fischer was given a rousing farewell 

 banquet and send-off at the Hotel 

 Brewster by over one hundred friends 

 in the Boston and Metropolitan Park 

 departments and the florist and gar- 

 dening profession. Wm. P. Glennon of 

 Jamaica Plain was toastniaster and he 

 was a brilliant success. Starting with 

 P. Welch he succeeded in drawing 

 out a line of high-class oratory such 

 as is rarely equalled. The affair was 

 under the management of Jas. B. Shea 

 and those who know that prince of 

 genial hospitality can faintly realize 

 how it was carried out. As for Mr. 

 Fischer he has something to remem- 

 ber as long as he lives even if he 

 should rival Methuselah in that re- 

 spect. He was presented, incidentally 

 with a traveling bag, purse of gold, 

 field glasses and a set of horticultural 

 books, and on the Saturday before, he 

 had been presented with a gold watch 

 and chain by his associates at Frank- 

 lin Park. Previous to the speech mak- 

 ing a lively cabaret entertainment 

 was given. The affair was one of the 

 liveliest "pulled off" in Boston horti- 

 cultural circles for many a year. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



An examination will be held by the 

 Civil Service Commission on January 

 3, tor scientific assistant in drug 

 plant investigation at the Department 

 of Agriculture, which position pays 

 from $1400 to $1800 per annum. 



Postmaster General Burleson has 

 ordered the suspension of the rule 

 which provides that domestic mail 

 matter bearing on the address side 

 adhesive seals or stickers, other than 

 lawful postage, shall be treated as un- 

 mailable. during the period from 

 December 1 to January 1. The sus- 

 pension is granted in order to facili- 

 tate handling and delivery of mail 

 during the Christmas holidays but 

 postmasters are instructed to inform 

 their patrons that such seals or stick- 

 ers should not be placed on the ad- 

 dress side of mail. 



Announcement has been made by 

 the White House of the following 

 formal program of social events, 

 starting with the Cabinet Dinner on 

 December 12. the events coming this 

 year three weeks earlier than usual; 

 then follows the Judicial Reception 

 on December 19; the Diplomatic Din- 

 ners on January 9 and 16, one of these 

 being tendered to the representatives 

 of the Allied nations, the other, to the 

 representatives of Germany. Austria, 

 and their allies; the Congressional 

 Reception will be held on January 23, 

 and the Supreme Court Dinner on 

 January 30, and the reception to the 

 Army and Navy on February 6, while 

 the season will close February 13, 

 with the Speaker's Dinner. 



NEWPORT, R. I. 



The Thomas Galvin Estate has 

 gone out of business. The green- 

 houses were bought for removal by 

 W. C. Vanicek. 



Mr. Falkenholme, gardener at the 

 Hutton place whose leg was ampu- 

 tated about three weeks ago is pro- 

 gressing satisfactorily toward re- 

 covery. 



John Forbes, gardener at the Au- 

 gust Belmont estate, Newport, is 

 leaving to take charge of the new 

 Schwab establishment in Pittsburgh, 

 where it is said that half a million 

 dollars will be spent on greenhouses 

 alone. 



PITTSBURGH 



Randolph & McClements had the 

 decorating for a debutante tea, which 

 was the finest affair of its kind this 

 season. Centering the tea table in 

 the dining room was a large F-ench 

 basket filled with cattleyas and onci- 

 diums with tea- roses and adiantum, 

 with yellow ribbons entwined. Maid- 

 enhair ferns banked the mantel shelf. 

 and at each side were silver bowls 

 filled with sunliurst roses. Conven- 

 tional decorations of siiecimen chrys- 

 anthemums and foliage were used 

 throughout the other apartments. 



