September 28, 1912 



HOKTICULTURB 



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"THE" FLORISTS' SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA 



Be Ready for the Home Comers 



Your customers will be embellishing their homes with fresh Palms, Ferns, Rubbers, 

 and Plants of all kinds, and will want at once suitable receptacles to hold same. Be 

 ready for them. We especially recommend that you have a good display of 

 Plant Holders, Vases, Baskets, etc. 



But Especially Baskets 



We can supply these in all sizes from the little tumbler basket up to the big ones for 

 ten or twelve inch pots; and in all colors from plain willow and white enamel up to 

 the zenith which is our New French "Greunt," the premium antique and the love- 

 liest thing yet in baskets. We also recommend those other French Novelty Baskets 

 with ivory finish and flowered garlands. These give tone and distinction to your 

 display and are splendid sellers. Get acquainted. Send for "Our Silent Salesman." 



H. BAYERSDORFER (Si, CO. 



THE 



FLORISTS' SUPPLY 



HOUSE or 



AMERICA 



B 1129 ARCH STREET 



PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



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CHICAGO NOTES. 



Trade Notes. 

 Boxwood and leucothoe are seen at 

 A. L. Vaughan & Co.'s. among_ the first 

 in the market. 



Mrs. E. H. Hunt is giving the otfice 

 an overhauling that will leave things 

 in the best of shape for the busy sea- 

 son just ahead. 



Some of the department stores had 

 their openings this week and cut flow- 

 ers were used freely as well as the 

 artificial ones. Much of the work 

 showed excellent taste and the real 

 and the artificial did not clash, fes- 

 toons of the latter In deep red tones 

 being used for high effects, while 

 large vases of American Beauties and 

 gladioli formed the lower decorations 

 supplemented by hundreds of large 

 Boston ferns. These semi-annual 

 events are worth study, for much time 

 and money are devoted to them. 



Otto Wittbold, who recently organ- 

 ized a company and purchased the 

 Geo. Wittbold Nurseries, is rapidly 

 getting things into fine shape. Their 

 sales of nursery stock are starting out 

 very satisfactorily, the call for peo- 

 nies, iris and perennials being fully up 

 to expectation. A large building for 

 packing and storage will be erected 

 in the spring and the material for a 

 ten-room brick residence is now on 

 the ground. Mr. Wittbold has ability 

 and push and has won the confidence 

 of the trade in his business methods 

 in the past. 



Personal. 



Mrs. C. H. Fisk has returned from 

 an extended trip to California. 



Wm. Lynch returned on the 20th 

 inst. from Northampton, Mass., where 

 he had been called by the death of 

 his sister. While In the east, Mr. 



Lynch visited the violet district in 

 New York and says he has not seen 

 that industry in such flourishing con- 

 dition before in many years. 



Miss Anna Olsen recently returned 

 to her position as bookkeeper for A. 

 Lange. She spent several weeks rest- 

 ing at the summer home of Miss Yet- 

 terberg in Michigan. 



Visitors: Mr. Dykes, representing 

 Ed. Jansen, N. Y.; Elmer D. Smith, 

 Adrian,' Mich.; Mr. Kring, of Kring 

 Bros., Fairburg, 111.; L. Harley and 

 Geo. Webster, Hartford, Mich.; Miss 

 L. J. Baker, Ottumwa, Iowa. Miss 

 Baker has recently returned from a 

 two weeks' trip to the Pacific Slope. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Samuel H. Pennock is nome again 

 from his West Indies-Panama trip. 



Wm. Henry Maule, a leading seeds- 

 man of our town, is reported in the 

 daily press to have purchased property 

 at 20th and Arch streets for some 50,- 

 000 dollars. The supposition is that he 

 intends to erect thereon a 20-story 

 building for his seed business which 

 has outgrown the old quarters at 1711 

 Filbert street. Nothing can stop the 

 enterprising seed trade of Philadel- 

 phia. The new enterprise will entail 

 an expenditure of over a million dol- 

 lars. 



If you want to see the beatific smile 

 In the original Sanskrit ask Hari-y 

 Bayersdorfer the next time you meet 

 him how it feels to be a grandfather. 

 The interesting and important event 

 occuiTed some two weeks ago. On the 

 distaff side we rejoice with these evi- 

 dences, of course, but of late have 

 found it a problem to escape from too 

 many "Here's tae us" on the advents. 

 They seem to be arriving in all direc- 

 tions. 



We had the pleasure of making the 

 acquaintance, and spending a few 

 hours last week, with five distinguished 

 visitors from the Golden Gate, namely, 

 Mr. and Mrs. Ebel, Mr. and Mrs. Henry 

 Maier, and Angelo Rossi. This was 

 their first trip east, and everything 

 Interested them. Four days were de- 

 voted to Philadelphia, one of these in- 

 cluding its interesting suburb— Atlantic 

 City — where the baby carriage ride on 

 the Boardwalk, and other light pas- 

 times of that kind were hugely en- 

 joyed. They had one of our genial old 

 timers in their train as guide, phil- 

 osopher and friend— Daniel McRorie, 

 citizen of the world. All these folks 

 are enthusiastic missionaries on the 

 subject of 1915 for the S. A. F. in San 

 Francisco. If they keep on, it would 

 not be surprising if they get it— and 

 also a pretty good delegation from the 

 east, notwithstanding the extra time 

 and cost. We shall all want to see the 

 canal, anyway, and once that far on 

 the way are liable to keep on to the 

 rainbow's end. 



Visitors: Antoine Leuthy, Boston, 

 Mass.; Richard Vincent, Ji-., of R. Vin- 

 cent, Jr., & Sons, Whitemarsh, Md.; 

 "The Stork," at E. J. Fancourt's, 

 Roxboro, Phila.— first call, we think 

 Estelle, but it's more likely to come 

 out Mary Helen— what does an "old 

 bach" like me know about such things 

 anyway? W. p. Peacock, Williams- 

 town, N. J.; Antoine and Mrs. Wint- 

 zer. West Grove, Pa., on their way to 

 Texas; Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Ebel, Sac- 

 ramento. Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Henry 

 Maier, Burllngame, Calif.; D. McRorie, 

 McRorie-McLaren Co., San Francisco, 

 Calif.; A. Rossi, Pelicano, Rossi & Co., 

 San Francisco, Calif.; David Scott, Buf- 

 falo, N. Y. 



