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HORTICULTURE 



December 7, 1912 



HAVE YOU TRIED THE NEW | 



Christmas Decorative Grass | 



It's the only kind to make your Christmas Wreaths and other designs jg^ 



attractive. They make them ready sellers and good profit yielders. |M 



Prepared under New Methods. Called the ARTISTIC VELOUR GRASSES ^ 



STATICE VELOURED in all good flower shades 

 — Pink, Lavender, Purple, Red, Dark Lavender, 

 Blue. 



VELOURED ADIANTUM, Red and Green. 



VELOURED RUSCUS, only in Red. 



RED ARAUCARIA, in Red. 



RED MINERVA (Red Heather). 



RED BELLS. 



POINSETTIAS. 



RED ASPARAGUS ACUTI FOLIA and Other colors. 0ji 



RED ADIANTUM. ^ 



RED IMMORTELLE WREATHS. ^ 



RED CYCAS LEAVES. ^ 



RED CYCAS WREATHS. J^ 



RED MATS. j5^ 



RED CREPE, pleated ( ^"^ 

 RED, WATER-PROOF i 



Other colors it desired. 



H. BAYERSDORFER <Si> CO. 



THE 



FLORISTS' SUPPLY 



^b^si. OF AMERICA 



1129 ARCH STRE£T 



PHILADflLPHlA. PA. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



Phil Eichling is again at his old 

 place with Harry Rowe for the holi- 

 days. 



J. H. Frost, city forester, is study- 

 ing school grounds at Boston where he 

 accompanied a delegation of teachers. 



Frank Pasternick is now in the em- 

 ploy of Ganger & Bergman, Fine Arts 

 Building. He has been for nine years 

 with E. Wienhoeber Co. 



Joe Shouten, for seven years with 

 the Geo. Wittbold Co., at Buckingham 

 Place, has accepted a position with 

 the E. Wienhoeber Co., Elm street. 



J. K. M. L, Farquhar, president-elect 

 of the S. A. F. and O. H., has been in- 

 vited to lecture before the Cook Coun- 

 ty Florists' Association in January. 



Conspicuous in the office of the Chi- 

 cago Carnation Co. is a large silver cup 

 just arrived from St. Paul, a trophy 

 won by "The Herald" at the recent 

 show. 



Mr. Ganger of Ganger & Bergman 

 has blood poisoning in his hand as the 

 result of getting a thorn in his linger. 

 Each week some florist has similar ex- 

 perience with more or less serious re- 

 sults. 



All the florists are using the closing 

 days of the chrysanthemum to get up 

 as bright a window as possible. The 

 Kedzie Florists this week surpasses 

 all the rest with a combination of red 

 ruscus and deep yellow chrysanthe- 

 mums in their large corner window. 



J. Mangel has carried his idea of 

 mossing his window still farther and 

 now a succession of irregular shelves 

 are covered and upon them are used 

 potted plants of white orchids with 



good effect. In the center of the win- 

 dow is a 6 ft. glass holder for corsages. 



The first arrivals of mistletoe are 

 well berried. Some Texas shippers are 

 so confident of their stock this year 

 that they are guaranteeing arrival in 

 good shape. Only the first shipments 

 of Christmas trees are here but were 

 just in time to be reshipped to Ten- 

 nessee. 



The first week of the Austin Flower 

 Shop at 5736 Madison street was a 

 successful one and the proprietor, 

 Daniel S. Erickson, is pleased with his 

 venture. Mr. Erickson is the son of a 

 well-known grower and has also had 

 store experience with the North Edge- 

 water Floral Co. He has a fine loca- 

 tion in a rapidly growing suburb. 



Many florists had an opportunity to 

 dispose of large chrysanthemums and 

 long-stemmed American Beauties, Dec. 

 2nd, when the 300 newly elected of- 

 ficials took their offices in the court 

 house. A. Lange probably had the 

 lion share and among his orders were 

 an American flag, well executed, and 

 numerous horseshoes, which are ever 

 popular for such occasions. 



In the holiday decorations of the 

 large department stores Christmas 

 trees are unusually popular, the fes- 

 toons of green being almost absent. In 

 Marshall Field's the trees are large 

 and tower above the counters with 

 stately effect far surpassing in beauty 

 the small ones bedecked with red 

 ruscus. Wreaths are getting larger 

 each year and orders for these im- 

 mense affairs are common. 



Much concern was felt here last 

 week over the non-arrival of the 

 Christmas Tree schooner known as the 



Rouse Simmons whose captain is well- 

 known to the trade here. Capt. 

 Schueneman lost a brother in a sim- 

 ilar storm several years ago when 

 bringing a load of Christmas trees into 

 Chicago and it was a great relief when 

 it was learned the present captain had 

 remained in port till after the storm. 



On December 2nd one of Chicago's 

 rising young men, Victor Bergman, 

 who entered the employ of Ernst 

 Wrenhoeber, sixteen years ago as de- 

 livery boy, took his place as partner 

 in the Michigan avenue store of Gan- 

 ger & Gormley. The new name of the 

 firm will be Ganger & Bergman, Mr. 

 Gormley having died three years ago. 

 Mr. Ganger moved from the old loca- 

 tion on State street a year ago and 

 has one of the handsomest stores in 

 the dcv.'n-towu aistrict, at 412 Michi- 

 gan avenue. 



Visitors. — Fred H, Lemon, 

 mond, Ind.; Wm. P. Craig. 



Rich- 



INCORPORATED. 



Barker, N. Y. — Barker Floral Co.. 

 capital stock $30,000. Directors, Nellie 

 A., James R., and W. E. Spafford. 



San Antonio, Texas — San Antonio 

 Floral and Nursery Co., capital stock 

 $10,000. Incorporators, James Craw- 

 ford, W. A. Cannon and C. J. Anstrand. 



Florists' Refrigerators 



Write us for catalogue and Prices, stating size you 

 require, and for what kind of cut ffowers you wish 

 to use the refrigerator; also state whether you 

 want it for display or only for storage. 



McCray Refrigerator Co., 



553 Lake Street. Kendallville. Ind. 



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