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HORTICULTURE 



October 5, 1912 



SUCCESSFUL FLORISTS 



all over the country are using McCray Refrigerators. 

 The circulation of air is so strong and steady that there 

 can be no stagnation or dampness, so that your stock 

 will always be fresh and fragrant. Furthermore the 

 saving in Ice will more than pay for the cost. 



McCray Refrigerators 



will lend attractiveness to your shop. Beautifully made 

 and finished, they are lined with white enamel, opal 

 glass, tile, mirrors or marble, as you desire. Write 

 today for our catalog No. 72 which will give you ideas 

 how to add to the attractiveness of your establishment. 



McCRAY REFRIGERATOR CO. 



rrarasrATe 553 Lake St., Kendallville, Ind. ,'?rw«T «nrSt. 



A FLORIST'S WINDOW. 



Our title page this wee!; shows an 

 exterior view, and herewith is given 

 an inside mirror view of the decora- 

 tions this week in the sliow window 

 of Sam. Murray. Kansas City, and we 

 believe our readers all will agree that 

 it is a beautiful and hiiihly artistic 

 piece of work. The window is about 



10x15 feet and tlie picture hardly does 

 justice to the display — as is generally 

 true of all attempts at photograiibing 

 window arrangements from outside. 

 There are twelve pots of grapes used 

 in the decoration, bearing eighty-flve 

 large bunches in all. Black Hamburgs 

 predominating among the varieties. 



iiie centre leature is an especially fine 

 and highly colored group of pine- 

 apples. 



Mr. Murray makes a specialty of 

 growing these pot vines each year and, 

 as with everything he undertakes to 

 grow, gets superb results. The varie- 

 ties grown this year include Black 

 Hamburgh, Black Alicante, Gros Ma- 

 roc. Prince of Wales and Milton Con- 

 stable and they can be held in good 

 shape until late November. For fine 

 table work nothing can surpass them. 



A "LORRAINE" EXPERT. 

 We had the pleasure a few days ago- 

 of inspecting the finest lot of Lorraine 

 begonias it has ever been our privilege 

 to see. This was at the plant houses 

 of A. W. Davenport at Watertown, 

 Mass. There are about 7,000 plants 

 altogether, and, with some Glory of 

 Cincinnati filling four houses, plants 

 up to 12 inch pans in unequalled vigor 

 and beauty. These alone are worth a 

 long trip to see, but there is a fine 

 show of all other plants commonly 

 grown for the florist trade, including. 

 small ferns of which Mr. Davenport 

 disposes of 100,000 each year. Five 

 houses with concrete walls are now 

 being added to the range. 



NEW YORK NOTES. 



Anton Schultheis of College Point 

 has two new houses in working order 

 containing ferns and cyclamen, and 

 his stock generally looks very promis- 

 ing. 



Robert Jackson, foreman at P. J. 

 Smith's 28th street store, has had the 

 misfortune to lose his father, a veter- 

 inary surgeon of this city, who died on 

 Sunday last. 



D. Cameron, representative of San- 

 der & Son. of St. Albans, England, has 

 just returned from an extended Euro- 

 pean trip. He reports business pros- 

 pects for the coming season to be of 

 the best. 



George Glassy, who has been for the 

 past two years with the Stumpp & 

 Walter Co., is now in charge of the 

 mail order department at J. M. Thor- 

 burn & Co., with whom lie was pre- 

 viously associated for ten years. 



E. Benary lists Primula malachoides 

 alba as a novelty for 1913. 



Wells & Co., Morstham, Eng., have 

 a crimson, gold reverse, sport from 

 chrysanthemum Polly, which is regard- 

 ed as a fine novelty. 



