October 19, 1912 



HORTICULTURE 



547 



HALLOWE'EN 



The festival of Hallowmass (or Hallowe'en as the Scots call it) is peculiarly adapted at the present day 

 for the florist — not only for its ancient religious rites but for the innocent fun, frolic and sentiment of youth, 

 which is bound to find a way for letting off its superabundant life and energy — it is peculiarly adapted to 

 the art of the florist and is the florists' opportunity. Why not take advantage of this? 



Why not have a good display in your window of 



Our Parisian Colored Baskets 



These blend splendidly with the red and gold of the autumn flowers and with 

 the varicolored ribbons in all the shades of chrome and yellow and crimson. 



Oak Foliage 



is another thing — especially when you can get our prepared sprays at reasonable 

 price and every branch perfect in coloring and texture. 

 Then there are our 



Gnome Figures 



in red, gold and grey, just the thing to add the finishing touch to a display! 



Send us an idea of your wants and let us select for you from our enormous 

 stocks of everything in the line and get the benefit of our judgment of what will 

 be the best for your trade. 



H. BAYERSDORFER ®, CO. 



THE 



FLORISTS* SUPPLY 



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1129 ARCH STREET 



PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



PRACTICAL POINTERS FROM 

 POEHLMANN'S. 



There are plenty of interesting 

 things at Poehlmann Bros.' big plant 

 now. at the opening of the season. 

 Record books are being brought out 

 and the beginning of things carefully 

 noted, for here every bench and every 

 plant on every bench has to prove its 

 right to be there by a balance on the 

 profit side at the close of the season. 



Foreman Guy French knows just 

 when every one of the 300.000 carna- 

 tion plants went into the houses and 

 how many blooms each house pro- 

 duces each month. All of their car- 

 nation plants were placed in the field 

 as this method, they say. gives a 

 greater total of cut blooms than is pro- 

 duced by plants that are summered 

 in the houses. They are housed early 

 in August or late July. These same 

 records show the number of first and 

 of second-grade carnation blooms and 

 a recent cutting of 20,000 carnations 

 showed but 100 splits. One of the 

 recent English visitors sent rooted cut- 

 tings last spring. They were three 

 weeks on the way and the wood was 

 badly shriveled, but they are now 

 thrifty little carnation plants and give 

 promise of doing well. 



Chrysanthemum season began here 

 In August and one-half mile will 

 be traversed to take a look at 

 these houses. Two houses of Oc- 

 tober Frost and Golden Glow are 

 all cut and so good is the demand 

 that blooms are not opening fast 

 enough. The first regular cutting 

 began August 28th and the last 

 will be about December 1st. Among 

 other varieties they grow Como- 

 leta, and Chrysolora, both yellow and 



both Smith introductions. These two 

 yellows follow Golden Glow in the 

 order named, the latter being more 

 double and of the style of Appleton, 

 and at Springfield it was taken for 

 that variety. The new yellow Crocus 

 is now opening its first buds. Mr. 

 French says the greatest demand is 

 for yellow and white varieties in about 

 equal proportion, and the least de- 

 mand is for the bronze. Poehlmann 

 Bros, are testing a large number of 

 new varieties this year in order to 

 select best commercial sorts. Chad- 

 wick is still a favorite and a fine white 

 sport of Chadwick is being grown here 

 quite extensively. Virginia Poehlmann, 

 the big white variety that originated 

 here is just coming into bloom. Bon- 

 naffon is still popular. The demand 

 for pompon varieties has increased so 

 fast that it is predicted here that in 

 a few years they will outsell the large 

 flowering sorts. 



The orchid houses are making it 

 very good fall record. Among the cut 

 this week were several spikes of Cat- 

 tleya labiata. which had six flowers. 

 Dendrobium formosum giganteum 

 comes into bloom next and from the 

 small 25 x 50 foot section they expect 

 to cut 8,000 blooms. Poehlmann Bros, 

 have the largest collection of white 

 orchids in this section of the country. 



ST. LOUIS NOTES. 



The F. A. Ryan Floral Co., at 14 

 East St. Louis avenue, closed its 

 doors last week and the creditors 

 sold the place to John Bernard who 

 has opened it up and will run it under 

 his own name. 



Ashleigh P. Boles has been elected 

 secretary of the Missouri State Horti- 

 cultural Board. Mr. Boles was a for- 

 mer student of the University of Mis- 

 souri and is well up in anything per- 

 taining to horticulture and the selec- 

 tion is a splendid one. 



Sympathy was extended to Geo. S. 

 Walters the Wire Worker in the loss 

 of his 16-year-old son, who died on 

 Friday, Oct. 11th. The young man was 

 well known among the trade, being 

 employed in his father's wire shop. 

 The funeral took place Mondav, Oct. 

 14. 



Cleveland, Ohio — Following the do- 

 nation to the city of a collection of 

 plants, trees, etc., by W. E. Telling, 

 it is announced that the gift includes 

 the Telling Greenhouses. These will 

 be removed to Gordon Park. These 

 houses with another building at the 

 park and one to be erected will en- 

 able the city to produce its own bed- 

 ding plants, etc. 



CINCINNATI NOTES. 



Jos. Sonnenberg has opened a retail 

 flower store in Hyde Park. 



Mr. and Mrs. Julius are back home 

 after a two weeks' stay at Martinsville, 

 Ind. 



C. E. Critchell is in receipt of a 

 postal from D. Rusconi who, with his 

 family, is in Italy. 



E. G. Gillett departed for Cleveland 

 Tuesday to attend the State Conclave 

 of Masons at that place. 



Visitors: N. J. Rupp, of John C. 

 Moninger Co., Chicago; Jos. Marks, of 

 A. A. Arnold, Chicago; Mr. Geller, of 

 the Geller Florist Supply Co., New 

 York; Julius Dillhoff, of Schloss Bros., 

 New York, and J. Neidinger. of Phila- 

 delphia. 



