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HOETICULTURE 



October 19, 1912 



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CHICAGO NOTES. 

 Trade Notes. 



C. F. McCorniick is the latest addi- 

 tion to tlie staff at A. L. Randall's. 



A report that August Jurgens has 

 sold his greenhouses is not confirmed 

 as yet and Mr. .Jurgens is still in Mich- 

 igan planting peonies. 



A. Henderson Co. is receiving a car- 

 load of Liiium gigantiuni this week. 

 Mr. Henderson finds the fall business 

 very good but it is hard to get enough 

 stock. 



Clifford Pruner has severed his con- 

 nection with the E. H. Hunt Co. The 

 cut flower department will hereafter b:- 

 discontinued and orders filled by Ernie 

 & Klingle. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. have just re- 

 ceived a carload of palms and another 

 of azaleas from Belgium. A new pack- 

 ing shed is now being constructed for 

 the plant section. 



The trustees of the Cook County 

 Florists' Association have found sev- 

 eral places more or less suitable for 

 permanent clubrooms and action will 

 be taken at the ne.xt meeting. 



There has not been a killing frost in 

 this vicinity. Many plants and flowers 

 are apparently dying of old age but 

 canna beds and salvia are as bright at 

 present writing as at any time this 

 summer. 



Miss Virginia Benson, formerly of 

 Duluth, Minn., has taken an interest 

 in Young Flower Shop, 10 N. Western 

 Ave., and is in charge of the store 

 An auto delivery car will soon be a 

 part of their equipment. 



I. Cassidy and P. M. Bryant are out 

 on trips for The Foley Manufacturing 

 Co. Mr. Foley has just returned from 

 a personal tour of Inspection of the 

 new plants they have recently erected. 

 Among them are a couple of iron- 

 frame show houses for the Idlewild 

 Greenhouses, Memphis, Tenn.; a show 

 house for Bertermann Bros., Indian- 

 apolis, Tnd.; two iron-frame houses for 

 Mount Mora Cemetery Co., St. Joseph. 

 Mo. Private places for N. G. Moo e, 

 Oak Park, and J. Simpson, Glencce, 

 111., have just been completed. 



Samuel J. Pearse, Clybourne Ave., 

 has sold his greenhouse plant, includ- 

 ing residence and store, to a company 

 which will use the land for shops for 

 manufacturing machinery. August 

 Dussel, whose death occurred recently 

 at Crown Point. Ind., bought the placf 

 when it was considered quite far out 



but the growth of the city has made it 

 too far down town for greenhouse pur- 

 poses and Mr. Pearse sold out at a 

 price highly satisfactory. No definite 

 plans for the future are made yet and 

 Mr. Pearse retains possession till Octo- 

 ber Its, 1913. unless he chorses to give 

 it up earlier. 



Personal. 



Ernest Farley and Wm. Wolf are 

 both back at their respective places 

 after an absence caused by illness. 



.John Sinner comes into the store oc- 

 casionally but spends most of his time 

 at the greenhouses. His brother, Peter 

 Sinner, is still at the hospital where 

 he was taken .July 4th suffering from 

 blood poison, the result of a cut from 

 glass. 



Announcement was made Sept. 26 at 

 the home, 3G2S Maple Square Ave., of 

 the engagement of Minnie Wa'ttman, 

 for nine years bookkeeper for the Am- 

 ling Co., and Gustave B. Hammer, su- 

 lierintendent architect tor Marshall & 

 Pox 



George Mount and his son of Canter- 

 bury, England, were in Chicago spend- 

 ing two days with C. L. Washburn. 

 They were later the guests of th^ 

 Poehlmann Bros. The Messrs. Mount 

 Jel't here for a visit to E. G. Hill ar 

 Richmond, Ind. 



Visitors: J. A. Peterson, Cincinnati, 

 O.: J. N. Mann, Richmond, Ind.: H. E. 

 Philpott, Winnipeg, Man. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Ye olden-time bouquet holders of 

 silk, lace and paper seem to be in 

 vogue now. The House of Rice re- 

 ports large orders for these antique 

 holders; their use is general all over 

 the country. 



An interesting display of the new 

 rose Mme. Chas. Russell was seen at 

 the Pennock-Meehan Co.'s this week. 

 These came from Boston and were 

 greatly admired by the connoisseurs. 

 It looks like a "comer." We under- 

 stand it is to be put on the market 

 next spring. Our California friend 

 Mark Ebel of Sacramento, on being 

 asked a couple of weeks ago what was 

 the most interesting thing he had 

 seen on his visit to Boston replied 

 promptly "the Mme. Charles Russell 

 Rose." A straw — but it shows how 

 the wind blows. 



Visitors: .1. B. Hobbs, rep. Mann & 

 Brown, Richmond, Va.; E. P. Hostet- 

 ter, Lancaster, Pa.; W. F. Fancourt, 



Farm School, Pa.; Henry Penn, Bos- 

 ton, Mass.; Stephen Mortensen, South- 

 ampton, Pa. 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 



John Watson, who has been in the 

 employ of F. H. Kramer for the past 

 nine years, has been made foreman 

 of the latter's houses in Anacostia, 

 D. C. 



A very pleasing and artistic decora- 

 tion by Mayberry & Hoover, of the 

 Woodward & Lothrop department 

 store, called for large quantities of 

 chrysanthemums, palms, ferns and fall 

 leaves. 



Florists played a prominent part in 

 the reception to the delegates from 

 the International Congress of Cham- 

 bers of Commerce held in the building 

 of the Pan-American Union. This also 

 marked the opening of the magnifi- 

 cent terrace gardens recently con- 

 structed in the rear of the building at 

 a cost of more than $100,000. 



J. L. Loose, of the Washington Flor- 

 ists' Company and D. J. Grillbortzer 

 were among the many witnesses in 

 the Alexandria (Va.) annexation pro- 

 ceedings by which that city is trying 

 to gain additional territory. The 

 properties of both of these gentlemen 

 are within the limits of the disputed 

 ground and both are strongly opposed 

 to the annexation as it would do them 

 no good and would result in an in- 

 creased taxation. 



Robert Pyle delivered a very inter- 

 esting lecture before the Florists' Club 

 of Washington and invited guests in 

 the Business High School hall on 

 "Rose Growing in Europe." Numer- 

 ous lantern slides illustrated his re- 

 marks and included a fine picture of 

 the late William R. Smith, at which 

 time Mr. Pyle paid a glowing tribute 

 to his memory. He also recommended 

 that efforts be made to have in this 

 city, stretching from the Capitol to 

 the White House, through the Mall, a 

 rose garden fashioned along the lines 

 of similar gardens existing abroad 

 which, in itself, would be a a most 

 beautiful memorial to Mr. Smith. Over 

 500 persons attended. 



Greenville, Ohio — One section of the 

 greenhouses of James Frost. 748 

 Sweitzer street, together with a barn, 

 shed, stock and tools was destroyed 

 by fire recently. Loss partly covered 

 bv insurance. 



