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HORTICULTURE 



January 10, 1014 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



A Miller, of the A. Henderson Co., 

 returned last week from a western 

 trip and left again for a two months' 

 trip. He reported business as very 

 satisfactory. 



Some of the growers are having 

 trouble with their tulips as was antici- 

 pated when the bulbs arrived in a 

 heated condition. It is too early to 

 tell just how serious the trouble may 

 be. 



Mrs. M. Mailander, for many years 

 connected with the trade and for the 

 past five years at A. Lange's, will at- 

 tend the marriage of her daughter, 

 Emily Mailander, to Arthur A. Beeson 

 at Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 10. 



Chicago visitors — Miss Ethel Irby, 

 Memphis, Tenn.; W. J. Pileher, St. 

 Louis, Mo.; J. J. Karins, representing 

 H. A. Dreer, Phila.; I. M. Hoffman, 

 La Porte, Ind.; C. H. Perkins, 2nd, of 

 Jackson & Perkins, Newark, N. Y.; 

 Mr. and Mrs. Leo Bather, Clinton, la.; 

 Ralph Bather and Edith Bather, Clin- 

 ton, la.; Victor Huot, Duluth, Minn. 



The American Importing Co. has 

 given up its rooms at 219 S. Dearborn 

 street and turned its stock over to its 

 creditors. F. Jerome, the head of the 

 concern, who is leaving for France, 

 says the financial embarrassment is 

 caused by the death of his partner in 

 Germany and that the business will be 

 adjusted and a new start made about 

 Feb. 15th, upon his return. 



At Poehlmann Bros.' plant at Mor- 

 ton Grove, the carnation cut Christmas 

 week averaged 16 blooms to the lineal 

 foot in the greenhouses. Their carna- 

 tion houses have a total of 6,450 lineal 

 feet and the cut therefore was 103.200 

 blooms. The plant section was cleane(j 

 out of everything in bloom, but already 

 the benches are filled with young stock, 

 including 26,000 cyclamen plants. 



The Chicago Tribune, in summing 

 up the value of Chicago's wholesale 

 trade for 1913 puts cut flowers at 

 $2,750,000. This is much less than 

 any of the other thirty-five products 

 enumerated and is regarded by many 

 of the wholesalers as much below 

 the actual figures. E. E. Pieser, who 

 has been in the wholesale cut flower 

 business in Chicago for over thirty 

 years thinks ,?.4, 000,000 would be a 

 very conservative estimate. Others 

 place the sum at five and six millions 

 while but one wholesaler thought the 

 Tribune's estimate too high. 



Sam Pearse is now settled in his new 

 place on Higgins Road. The place has 

 seven acres, a fine brick dwelling house 

 and a range of modern greenhouses. 

 The new material and work was fur- 

 nished by the J. C. Moninger Co. and 

 the heating is with two of their hot 

 water Sun Ray boilers, with which Mr. 

 Pearse is more than pleased. There is 

 a pump which returns 100 gallons a 

 minute to the boiler when necessary. 

 The service shed is 25x227 ft., with 

 double doors at either end and on one 

 side, and teams can pass in at one en- 

 trance, get the loads of plants and pass 

 out at the other. This shed also con- 

 tains the boilers, potting and packing 

 benches, and the roof is supported by 

 trusses and contains glass ventilators, 

 affording both light and air. It speaks 

 well for old-time cypress wood that a 



part of the range is made from the old 

 houses built 22 years ago. The busi- 

 ness is now wholesale only. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Dennis T. Connor came back to 

 work on the 6th inst., after an eight- 

 weeks' illness from typhoid. The Lord 

 & Burnham Co. are glad. So are all 

 other friends of Dennis. "Is Corporal 

 Casey here? He is! Thin lit the bat- 

 tle go on, sez Napoleon." 



Fred J. Michell, Jr., has started on 

 a three weeks' business tour south. 

 This is his second trip. Last year he 

 met all the old friends of his house 

 and made many new ones. With his 

 remarkable geniality and impressive 

 personality he will surely do the same 

 again this year — only more so. 



William J. Sherry, late with the 

 Johnson Seed Co., and Johnson & 

 Stokes, is now with Henry A. Dreer as 

 assistant superintendent in the veget- 

 able seed department. Mr. Sherry has 

 had over twenty-five years experience 

 in the seed business and is well 

 grounded in all departments. We feel 

 sure he will make good under these 

 new conditions of larger responsibility 

 and opportunity. 



Edward Campbell, landscape archi- 

 tect, Ardmore, reports that business 

 has been very brisk in his line during 

 the past year In this vicinity and the 

 prospects for 1914 are also very good. 

 Others in the same line also report 

 favorably. Many old places are being 

 improved and there are some new ones 

 under way, also new golf courses and 

 work of that character, all calling for 

 nursery stock and other trade ma- 

 terials. 1914 looks like a good year 

 for those who advertise. 



M. Rice Co., florist supply house, 

 1220 Race street, gave its second an- 

 nual banquet to its male employees 

 on Monday evening, December 29th, 

 at the Hotel Bingham. Bernard Esch- 

 ner, president of the Company, de- 

 livered a short address thanking the 

 employees for their faithful work dur- 

 ing the last year, and stating that it 

 was the most prosperous in the history 

 of the concern. Some of the employ- 

 ees furnished the music and songs, 

 and the party then adjourned to 

 Keith's. 



Visitors:— G. P. McBurney and wife, 

 Atlanta, Ga.; H. M. Joy, Nashville, 

 Tenn.; Stephen Mortensen, Southamp- 

 ton, Pa.; B. F. Barr and Albert M. 

 Herr, Lancaster, Pa. 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 



William P. Gude has been nomi- 

 nated for the presidency of the Wash- 

 ington Chamber of Commerce, a posi- 

 tion which he held several years ago. 

 There are other nominees but it is 

 generally conceeded that if Mr. Gude 

 will allow his name to continue on 

 the ballots, he will win easily. Mr. 

 Gude is looked upon in this city as 

 one of the most level headed of mer- 

 chants. 



Mr. George W. Hess, a native of the 

 District of Columbia, but who has 

 for some years been living in the 

 South, has been appointed to the posi- 

 tion of superintendent of the National 

 Botanical Gardens made vacant by the 



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death of the late C. Leslie Reynolds. 

 Mr. Hess was born In this city forty- 

 nine years ago. At the age of sixteen 

 he started in the florist's business with 

 John Saul, after which time he worked 

 with a number of florists including 

 Mr. Muir of Chicago, and Freeman's 

 and was associated with the late Ed- 

 ward A. Mosely for a number of years 

 in Kenilworth, D. C. where he special- 

 ized in carnations and violets. A 

 disastrous fire put him out of business 

 and he took the civil service examina- 

 tion for a position with Uncle Sam. 

 Passing with a rating of 100 per cent 

 as a specialist on the growing of 

 foreign, economic and medicinal 

 plants, and with an average of 98 per 

 cent in gardening he was quickly 

 given employment. He is receiving the 

 congratulations of the local trade, he 

 being very well known to many of the 

 florists. 



