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HORl'ICULTUKE 



August 10, 1912 



FOR EARLY EASTER PLANT 



MICHELL'S HARRISII BULBS 



Special Brand. TKe Best Produced in Bermuda 



Every year the Florists are making greater demands for this particular strain, and we advise 

 early ordering. 



Dozen. 



5 to 7 inclies 400 bulbs to ease $0.75 



6 to 7 inches S35 bulbs to case 1.00 



7 to 9 inches 200 bulbs to case 1.S0 



9 to 11 inches.. 100 bulbs to case 3.00 



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 MAR.KET ST. 



PHILADELPHIA 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



New Society. 



August 5th at the Sherman House, 

 Chicago, a new fraternal society was 

 organized called the Associated Flor- 

 ists' Salesmen's Society. Fred Lon- 

 gren was elected chairman and T. 

 Waters, vice-chairman. The society 

 will be broad in its scope and its ob- 

 jects will be more fully defined after 

 the next meeting, August 19th. 



Pleasant Meeting of Ladies. 



Chicago members of the Ladies' So- 

 ciety of American Florists and a few 

 others connected with the trade were 

 entertained by Mrs. J. C. Vaughan last 

 Thursday and business pertaining to 

 the convention briefly discussed. Af- 

 terwards refreshments were served 

 and the hostess then took the guests 

 to the Jackson Park lagoon where a 

 pleasant hour was spent in a launch. 

 It was altogether an afternoon of de- 

 light and afforded a good opportunity 

 to further acquaintance among those 

 in the trade. 



An invitation was extended by Mrs. 

 Chas. L. Washburn to spend August 

 6th at her home in Hinsdale, 111. 



The ladles are showing considerable 

 interest in the bowling and the follow- 

 ing are practicing for the convention: 

 Mrs. C. W. McKellar, Mrs. Geo. As- 

 mus, Mrs. Guy French, Mrs. Aug. 

 Poehlmann. Mrs. Adolph Poehlmann, 

 Mrs. A. L. Vaughan, Mrs. Frank Ayers, 

 Mrs. Jas. G. Hancock. 



Personal. 



C. E. Gullett of Decatur, 111., is also 

 a delegate to the Bull Moose conven- 

 tion. 



G. L. Grant of Soquel, Cal., is at the 

 Auditorium Hotel, an early arrival 

 for the S. A. F. convention. 



Mr. and Mrs. John J. Heinl and 

 Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Heinl and daugh- 

 ter from Terre Haute, Ind., motored to 

 Chicago and spent several days calling 

 on friends. 



Other visitors are Mrs. Ennis of the 

 Wisconsin Floral Co., Milwaukee, 

 Wis.; Sam Seligman of Wertheimer's, 

 New York; Wm. Jaap of Lester Park 

 Greenhouses, Duluth, Minn. 



J. F. Ammann of Edwardsville, II!., is 

 here as delegate to the Bull Moose 

 convention. He also is making ar- 

 rangements for the booth of the Illi- 

 nois State Florists' Association at the 

 convention. 



The store force at Zech & Mann's 

 this week is light, but the business 



was rushing as in mid-winter early 

 in the week. Allie Zech and wife re- 

 turned from a lake trip to northern 

 points and Miss Wolff left at once for 

 Leesburg, Ind., and Fred Ottenbacher 

 for a vacation. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Announcement is made of the mar- 

 riage of Mabel Carr6 Field to Robert 

 Baird Gaul, on Wednesday, July 31. 

 Mr. Gaul is one of the good boys in 

 the Pennock-Meehan army. 



Commodore Westcott is wrestling 

 valiantly with the railroad for a party 

 rate to Chicago. No progress. The 

 railroads seem to feel they have us in 

 a cavity and have no inducements to 

 offer any move. "Whom the gods 

 would destroy they first make mad." 

 The railroad kings have completely 

 lost perspective and are galloping to 

 destruction. 



John P. Sibson for the past 22 years 

 gardener on the McKean estate, Ger- 

 mantown, Philadelphia, has bought 15 

 acres of land, the old Rasmussen 

 place, at Lansdale, Montgomery Co., 

 Penna., and will erect a commercial 

 establishment. Both Mr. and Mrs. 

 Thos. McKean being deceased, the 

 Germantown place is sold and being 

 cut up into building lots. 



Visitors; Mr. Gudekunst, Fairfields, 

 W. Va.: W. E. McKissick, Washing- 

 ton. D. C; Granville, Ernest, and W. F. 

 Gude, Washington, D. C; Robt. Pyle, 

 West Grove, Pa.; also James B. Kidd 

 of the New York City customs service, 

 on a vacation, and visiting relatives 



and friends. Mr. Kidd is an old-time 

 seedsman, and still has many friends 

 in that line — who welcome him affec- 

 tionately for "Auld Lang Syne." 



Words of welcome are in order for 

 four of our returned world wanderers: 

 Alexander B. Scott, Howard M. Earl, 

 Charles Sim and George Fowler. All 

 well and a splendid voyage. We de- 

 tected none of the cockney accent in 

 Howard (over the 'phone) but he sent 

 the Philadelphia office of HORTICUL- 

 TURE a London cap to replace the 

 "MacTavish" which has been our 

 trade-mark so long — so there must be 

 some Piccadilly influence! Else he'd 

 have bought it near the Broomilaw. 



Mr. Bowers, the able advertising 

 manager for M. Rice & Co., says that 

 their new catalogue which will soon 

 be out, will be his first baby, and 

 while, like all fond papas, he modestly 

 looks at you with the glistening eye, 

 and that expression of eager expec- 

 tancy which says: "Isn't he a peach," 

 yet does not say anything — it would 

 seem to be up to all of us to respond 

 by at least a word of praise for the 

 baby — if we cannot send a little order. 

 But an order is the highest encomium 

 — so send that along with your bou- 

 quet, and thus doubly please papa 

 Bowers — and grandpapa Eschner. 



In our New York notes of last week 

 a slight inaccuracy occurred. Moore, 

 Hentz & Nash have not "acquired" 

 but are managers and selling agents 

 for the Bedford Flower Co., Bedford 

 Hills, N. Y. 



CHICAGO HOTEL RATES. 



This list includes all the important hotels easily reached from the place of meeting, 

 with the special rates offered for the convention. 



The Single Single Double Double 



Hotels. Without Bath. With Bath. Without Bath. With Bath. 



Auditorium $1.50 to $2.50 $2.50 to $4.00 $3.00 to $4.00 $4.00 to $8.00 



Bismarck 1.00 to 1.50 1.50 to 2.50 2.00 to 3.00 3.00 to 5.00 



Bl:iclt.stone 2.50 .3.00 to 5.00 5.00 to 8.00 



Brevoort l.-W to 2.50 2.50 to 4.00 3.00 to 4.00 4.00 to 5.00 



Congress 2.00 to 3.00 3.50 to 5.00 3.00 to 4.00 5.00 to 7.00 



Grand Pacific 1.50 2.00 2.00 3.00 



Great Northern 1.50 to 2.00 2.50 to 4.00 2.50 to 3.50 3.50 to 6.00 



Kaiserhof 1.00 to 2.00 2.00 to 2.50 2.00 to 3.00 3.00 to 4.00 



La Salle 2.00 to 3.00 3.00 to 5.00 3.00 to 5.00 5.00 to 8.00 



■Lexington 1.00 to 2.O0 2.00 to 3.00 2.00 to 3.00 3.00 to 4.00 



Morrison 1.00 to 1.50 2.00 to 3.00 2.00 to 3.00 3.00 to 5.00 



Palmer 1.50 to 2.00 2.50 to 3,.50 2.00 to 3.00 3.00 to 4.00 



Saratoga 1.00 to 2.00 1.50 to 2.50 2.00 to 4.00 .3.00 to 5.00 



Sherman 2 00 to 4.00 3.00 to 6.00 



Stratford 1.50 2.00 to 4.00 2.50 3.00 to 6.00 



Majestic 1.50 to 2.00 2.50 to 3.00 2.50 to 3.00 4.00 to 5.00 



Southern 1.00 to 1.50 1..50 to 3.00 2.00 to 2.50 2.50 to 4.00 



Wellington 1.00 to 1.50 2.00 to 3.00 2,00 to 2.50 4.00 to 5.00 



Windsor Clinton 1.00 to 1.50 2.00 1.50 to 2.50 3.00 



Reservations may be made through the chairmen and vice-chairmen of the local hotel 

 committees, as follows : 



.T. B. DEAMUD, ROBERT NEWCOMB, 



160 North Wabash Avenue, Chicago. 31 West Randolph Street, Chicago. 



T. B, WATERS, WM. LANGHOUT, 



32 East Randolph Street. Chicago. 31 West Randolph Street. Chicago. 



