December 14, 1912 



HORTICULTURE 



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SAMUEL MURRAY 



913 GRAND AVE. 



KANSAS CITY, MO. 



Member of the Florists' Telegraph Delivery 



Holiday Orders For Delivery of Flowers, 



Designs or Choice Plants 



Given Prompt and Careful Attention 



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A VISIT TO CRAIG'S. 



With their seventy-five thousand 

 square feet at 49th and Marliet streets 

 and their one hundred thousand 

 square feet at Norwood, Craig's are 

 this year more than ever before 

 equipped to hold their recognized lead 

 in the production of plants in bloom 

 for Christmas. It is a toss-up which 

 is the leader in this class of plants; 

 but there are three which mght be 

 said to almost run neck-and-neck — 

 namely, Lorraine begonia, poinsettia 

 and azalea. Many houses at the 49th 

 street place are devoted to these and 

 they are supplemented daily from the 

 great stocks at Norwood. Robert, Jr., 

 tells us they have been shipping con- 

 stantly since Thanksgiving and that 

 they expect to work all hands 18 hours 

 a day from now till Christmas. One 

 of their greatest novelties this year 

 is made up combinations in birch 

 bark with rattan — oblong, square, oc- 

 tagon, all shapes and sizes — and beau- 

 tifully arranged and harmonized. 

 These are selling fast and the only 

 trouble is to get enough of them. One 

 great point to their popularity is the 

 economy in freight and labor over the 

 old method of shipping the plants to 

 the florists and letting them make 

 them up themselves. We have never 

 seen poinsettia s better done. They 

 have short plants not over six inches 

 high with well developed bracts of 

 good diameter, three in a pan with 

 A. plumosus; daintiest and brightest 

 thing imaginable; and others grown 

 differently — a foot high, two feet high, 

 and so on. Lorraines are as fine here 

 as ever; the Lonsdale light pink (the 

 great keeper) ; the Cincinnati Glory 

 with its large petals and bright color; 

 the Norwood, dwarf and compact— just 



FOUR GENERATIONS OF BAYERSDORF7ERS. 



The accompanying picture shows 

 one rf those rare family gatherings 

 which, when possible, add so much of 

 affectionate pathos to the lives of all 

 who are so fortunate as to participate 

 in them. Four generations all in full 

 enjoyment of their faculties is some- 



thing that but few of us can indulge 

 in and we know that all our readers 

 will join with us in wishing our genial 

 friend, Harry Eayersdorfer. and his 

 wife many annual returns of the day 

 in which fathers and mothers, daugh- 

 ter and husband and grandchild can 

 join them in loving family reunion. 



the thing for made-up baskets, and 

 you can't shake the petals off. Mad- 

 ame Petrick seems to be the main 

 idea in azaleas, with Vervaeneana a 

 fair second. Acres of crotons, garden- 



ias, dracaenas, pandanus, and such. As 

 for Nephrolepis; as Robert Junior re- 

 marks: "We have Heinz and his 57 

 varieties lashed to the mast, when it 

 comes to the Nephrolepis." G. C. W. 



