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HORTICULTUEE 



October 12, 1912 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



John Wilson is now manager of 

 the Kugler Flower Shop in connection 

 with Kugler's restaurant, vice Mr. Kef- 

 fer resigned. The latter is reported 

 intending to open a new retail store 

 at Broad and Walnut streets opposite 

 the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. 



B. Eschner, of M. Rice & Co. re- 

 marks on the many large orders for 

 baskets received from all sections of 

 the country, indicating that baskets 

 are becoming more and more popu- 

 lar every year. The basket depart- 

 ment is employing more help than 

 ever before and is a hive of industry, 

 night work having been the rule for 

 some time past. 



The London Flower Shop, now lo- 

 cated at 18th and Chestnut streets, has 

 greatly improved quarters and is rap- 

 idly extending its business. Original 

 and up-to-date methods, shrewd buy- 

 ing, cash dealing, and good advertis- 

 ing is producing the inevitable result. 

 Given artists on one side; good sales- 

 manship and intelligent buying on the 

 other — the result is "a sure thing." 



The new move in the Maule prog- 

 ress reported to you some weeks ago 

 is now fully authenticated in a two- 

 column description of the new eight- 

 story concrete building to be erected 

 at 21st and Arch streets, which ap- 

 pears in the Commercial Journal. The 

 original building at 1711 Filbert street, 

 occupied for the past twenty-six years, 

 will still be maintained but mostly 

 for office purposes. 



Alfred Burton, S. S. Pennock, C. E. 

 Meehan, and C. H. Liggett paid a 

 visit to the Jersey dahlia farms on 

 the 4th inst. Mr. Burton was kind 

 enough to furnish the transportation 

 in his new safe and sane auto. The 

 Bassett firms. W. A. Murray, Wood 

 & Healy, D. Herbert & Sons, and 

 others, at Hammonton and Atco were 

 visited. The report is that the dah- 

 lias have not bloomed nearly as well 

 as usual this year. 



The Water Saving Exhibit in City 

 Hall Square is greatly enlivened by a 

 unique circle bed and fountain, ex- 

 ecuted by Philip Freud, of the Hen- 

 ry F. Michell Co. The peg to hang 

 the story and the ad. on is the "Ring 

 Fountain Spray," a device that "saves 

 water." But Michell seeds and plants 

 are the story, as exemplified in a fine 

 lawn sod: lovely plants, aquatic and 

 otherwise: trimmed pyramidal box 

 bushes on the circular margin: vases 

 of autumn foliage: Eulalia plumes and 

 tritomas in the middle distance. The 

 center is of course the feature, with 

 its aquatics in bloom; its palms and 

 other accessories. The cost of this 

 display would be conservative at five 

 hundred dollars. The procession of 

 interested people passing aggregate 

 probably one hundred thousand a day. 

 I call that effective advertising of the 

 most pronounced kind — and at a most 

 trifling cost. No other firm in their 

 line has had the enterprise to show 

 themselves, so Michell has it all his 

 own way. To paraphrase Harry Lau- 

 der: Michell, as regards Philadelphia, 

 "Will soon hae her a' to himsel'." 



Visitors: O. A. C. Oehmler, Wash- 

 ington, D. C; H. L. Holmes, Harris- 

 burg, Pa.; W. E. Marshall, New York 

 City; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Grandy. Jr., 

 Norfolk, Va.; C. D. Mills, Jacksonville, 

 Fla.; R. Vincent, Jr.. Whitemarsh. 



Md.; Mrs. Kendall Patterson, repre- 

 senting Walter Armacost, Ocean Park, 

 Cal.; R. L. Hawkins, Bridgeport, 

 Conn.; Geo. H. Seidel, Hazelton, Pa.; 

 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Newell, of 

 Kansas City, Mo., on their way back 

 from Europe; Adolphus and William 

 F. Gude. Washington, D. C; Henry 

 Hart, New York City; D. Carmichael, 

 representing J. M. McCullough's Sons, 

 Cincinnati, Ohio; A. Emerich, repre- 

 senting Vilmorin Andrieux et Cie., 

 Paris. France; A. Bachelot, represent- 

 ing M. Davy, Arpajon, France: M. H. 

 Ebel, Sacramento, Cal.; James Brown, 

 Coatesville, Pa.; Chas. Mawby, Van 

 Lindley Co., N. C. 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 



McCrory's 5 and 10-cent store last 

 week engaged in the florist business, 

 selling roses two for five cents. They 

 also had palms and ferns but these 

 brought considerably better prices. A 

 local firm supplied the stock. 



The decorating of the new section 

 of the George Washington University 

 Hospital on the occasion of its dedi- 

 cation was done by George C. Shaffer. 

 Cosmos was used in large quantities 

 and other flowers, oak leaves and 

 palms and ferns filled in. 



O. A. C. Oehmler's will open this 

 week. The interior is in green and 

 white, the walls being of the former 

 and the fixtures of the latter color. 

 The floor is of mosaic work. To the 

 right of the entrance is the counter 

 and at the rear is the ice box, back of 

 which is a make up room and above 

 a mezzanine floor. Several chandeliers 

 with electric lamps of high power fur- 

 nish light. 



Fred H. Kramer was neatly taken 

 in by a colored woman last week who 

 told a most harrowing tale of her 

 mother's death. She wanted a few 

 blooms to put on the casket and fi- 

 nally selected a $5 design to be sent to 

 the house of sorrow. She had a chec'; 

 for $15 that had been given her, she 

 said, by the people by whom she was 

 employed. The balance was given 

 her in cash, then the delivery boy 

 couldn't locate the bereaved family at 

 the address given and to cap the cli- 

 max, the check came back stamped 

 "no good." 



Gude Bros, furnished the decora- 

 tions for the Mattingly-King wedding. 

 The house was decorated with pink and 

 white roses, chrysanthemums, greens, 

 palms and ferns, with a group of wed- 

 ding bells in the parlor. The bride's 

 bouquet was of roses and lily of the 

 valley, while the bouquets of the 

 bridesmaids were of roses of four dif- 

 ferent tints of pink, matching their 

 gowns. At the church the altar vases 

 were filled with white roses and the 

 wall pockets with chrysanthemums, 

 and the pew markers were of white 

 chrysanthemums, tied with satin rib- 

 bon. 



St. Louis. — Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Wind- 

 ier have returned from a three 

 week's trip to Chicago. 



Grimm & Gorley have bought the 

 stock and fixtures of Ed. Westermann 

 who is now in their employ. 



Visitors: Frank McCabe, represeui- 

 ing A. L. Randall, Chicago; L. P. 

 Edlefsen, Los Angeles, Cal., visiting 

 his nephew W. C. Smith. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 

 Trade Notes. 



A new auto delivery car for Schil- 

 ler, the florist, is just received. ThiB- 

 store uses two and finds them very 

 satisfactory for rush orders. 



That Boston ferns are not losing any 

 of their popularity was evidenced last 

 week when a Chicago department store 

 sold 1500 in four-inch pots in one day. 



The various growers in and about 

 Chicago are making exhibits at Spring- 

 field this week. The prizes offered are 

 larger than at the regular flower 

 shows. 



At Peter Reinberg's, American Beau- 

 ties are getting scarce in the short 

 lengths and Richmonds are filling their 

 place, the latter reaching thirty-six 

 and forty inch stems. 



All the large houses are showing 

 quantities of autumn foliage and it 

 makes a happy combination with the 

 chrysanthemums, a fact the retailers' 

 windows bear testimony to. 



Three car loads of azaleas have just 

 arrived from Belgium for Frank Oechs- 

 lin, making the distance between Bel- 

 gium and Chicago in just eighteen 

 days. Another car is on the way. 



John Kruchten, who is an authority 

 on home-grown gardenias, says the 

 plants are full of buds and that bright 

 weather will insure a good crop. The 

 cold, cloudy weather now prevailing 

 looks very discouraging. 



A beautiful new carnation, white 

 with carmine pencilings, is to be sent 

 out next year by the Chicago Carna- 

 tion Co. and several bunches are cut 

 each day and sent to the Chicago sales- 

 rooms. It is still unnamed, is of aver- 

 age size, very stiff stem and has great 

 substance to its petals. 



Joseph Ziska is now sole owner of 

 the business that was organized seven 

 years ago under the name of the Chi- 

 cago Rose Co., with a greenhouse 

 l)lant at Libertyville, 111., and which 

 will hereafter be known by his name. 

 It was organized by J. Weiland, J. Zis- 

 ka and J. B. Degnan. 



Hoerber Bros, have two large houses 

 of Bride roses now in crop. Mr. Hoer- 

 ber says he has plenty of calls tor 

 Bride and that its shipping qualities 

 makes it in good demand for out-of- 

 town trade. In carnations the entire 

 planting is of five varieties, Beacon, 

 Victory, Enchantress, White Enchan- 

 tress, and Perfection. 



Personal. 



Oscar Wiegand, 2005 N. Halsted 

 street, is taking a trip to California. 



T. V. Brown is back at his old place 

 at A. Lange's after a year in Florida. 



C. Windier of St. Louis, Mo., left 

 Friday tor home after spending several 

 wee.^s in Chicago. 



Miss Lillie Tonner, lately with the 

 A. Randall Co., leaves on the 15th for 

 the south where she has a pecan 

 orchard. 



A. F. Longren was home over Sun- 

 day after his first trip for Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co. He reports business in 

 florists' supplies as opening up nicely. 



E. B. Washburn and family are pre- 

 paring to leave very shortly for a win- 

 ter in California where a milder cli- 

 mate will be more favorable to Mr. 

 Washburn. 



Visitors: Alfred Baur, Erie, Pa.; 

 Mr. and Mrs. C. Humfeld. Clay Center, 

 Kas. 



