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HOETICULTUEE 



January 17, 1914 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



H. C. Wullbrandt, proprietor of 

 The Glove Greenhouses at 5200 Madi- 

 son St., is in the soutli looking after 

 his interests in a pecan orchard. 



Local newspapers devoted large 

 space to the report of the carnation 

 exhibit given by the Chicago Florists' 

 Club at the La Salle Hotel, Jan. 8. 



Prospects are said to be bright tor 

 the success of the annual ball of the 

 ■Cook Co. Florists' Association. Jan. 

 23. Tickets at one dollar per couple 

 with no charge for extra ladies, can 

 be secured from any of the whole- 

 salers or from any members of the 

 club. 



The Poehlmann Bros. Co., placed 

 the order for the wood work for 

 .thirteen new houses, with the Foley 

 Greenhouse Co., Jan. 13. The houses 

 are to be 27 by 250 feet with Garland 

 gutters and Poehlmann truss, the lat- 

 ter the invention of their chief en- 

 gineer E. G. Goodwin. The houses are 

 to be erected by Wm. Mailander, and 

 the rows of cement gutter posts are in 

 place. 



Two of the downtown retail florists 

 report that they each sold over a 

 thousand baskets filled with ruscus, 

 statice, red berries, etc. Christmas 

 week. The price was from $1.50 to 

 $5.00 each and took the place of the 

 dozen carnations or other flowers once 

 so sought for as remembrances at the 

 holidays. The retail stores still use 

 many little baskets made up with 

 prepared material or a mixture of the 

 fresh flowers and prepared goods. A 

 favorite combination just now is that 

 at tulips lifted from pans and separ- 

 ated by dried statice. 



The newly orgainzed Foley Green- 

 house Co., located at 31st St., near 

 Kedzie Ave., now has its plant ready 

 for use. The place has a depth of 

 265 ft. with tracks running into the 

 yards where cars can be loaded and 

 unloaded inside the building. Spacious 

 oflBces are located on the second floor. 

 A feature of this location is its splen- 

 did natural light all through the build- 

 ing. A blue print room is convenient 

 to the main room and there are pos- 

 sibilities for increasing to any size 

 the upper floor by extensions over the 

 machine rooms. Mr, Foley says the 

 inquiries coming in indicate a good 

 season ahead. 



A serious accident happened to five 

 of the six big boilers at Plant C. at 

 Poehlmann Bros., Morton Grove, Jan. 

 12th. The boiler feed pump was not 

 working and cold water was put in 

 when the water in the boilers was 

 low. The result was the springing of 

 the flues out of the boiler heads, put- 

 ting five boilers out of use and leav- 

 ing but one set of pipes running 

 around the outside to keep up heat, 

 with an outside temperature of 4 de- 

 grees above zero. The accident was 

 at 8 A. M., and Kroeschell was tel- 

 phoned and truck loads of supplies 

 and another of men were soon on the 

 spot. The boilers were temporarily 

 repaired by 4 P. M. and only the fact 

 that it occurred on the one day of sun- 

 shine that we have had, saved the 

 stock, for the temperature went to 36 

 degrees in the thirteen houses, each 

 27x750 ft. 



Visitors — Thos. Brown, Robt. Ra- 

 haley and Albert Stahelin of Detroit, 

 Mich.; Joseph Harmann, Cold water, 

 Mich.; Mr. Desmond, Minneapolis, 

 Minn.; Jos. Hill, Richmond, Ind.; J. E. 

 Jones and son Raymond of the Ad- 

 vance Co., Richmond, Ind. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Alexander B. Scott, of Robert Scott 

 & Son, Sharon Hill, left on the 13th 

 inst. for a short vacation at Summer- 

 ville, S. C. 



Mr. and Mrs. Robert Craig sail the 

 19th inst., on the "Havana," for a 

 brief trip to the Isle of Pines and 

 other points in the West Indies. They 

 are accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Free- 

 man (parents of Mrs. Robert Craig, 

 Jr.). 



We had a pleasant *'isit at this of- 

 fice the other day from Professor Pan- 

 court, in charge of the Horticultural 

 Department of the National Farm 

 School. In renewing his subscription 

 he said: "I like Hokticulture more 

 and more. It gets better every week." 



"Flowers from Snow to Snow" was 

 the topic of a lecture delivered by 

 J. Otto Thilow before the Garden and 

 Orchard Society Friday evening in 

 Presser Hall, 1714 Chestnut street. 

 Among those present were Miss 

 Jessie T. Morgan, principal of the 

 Pennsylvania School of Horticulture 

 for women, at Ambler, and a num- 

 ber of the students. Also a goodly 

 sprinkling of prominent members of 

 Philadelphia's 400 for twenty miles 

 around. We call this good practical 

 work for the advancement of horticul- 

 ture. Is it any wonder the Florists' 

 Club has elected Mr. Thilow its presi- 

 dent three times running? We are all 

 proud of him. 



Visitors: Chas. Schoenhut, Buffalo, 

 N. Y.; A. Graham, Warren, Pa.; Rich- 

 ard C. McGill. secretary McGill Seed 

 Growers Co., San Francisco, Cal.; 

 P. H. Neally, Suburban Life, New York 

 City; A. N. Pierson. Cromwell, Conn.; 

 P. L. Carbone, Boston. Mass.; H. 

 Wilden, representing Warnaar & Co., 

 Sassenheim, Holland. 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 



William F. Gude was unanimously 

 elected president of the Washington 

 Chamber of Commerce amid unpre- 

 cedented acclaim, at the annual meet- 

 ing of that organization held on 

 Tuesday. Mr. Gude held this same 

 position during the years 1909 and 

 1910 and it is said of him that never 

 before or since has the chamber been 

 so prosperous as during his adminis- 

 tration. It has now a membership of 

 about 800. Another victory for the 

 florists. 



In a report to Secretary Houston, 

 of the Department of Agriculture, C. 

 L. Marlatt, chairman of the federal 

 plant quarantine board, gives the re- 

 sult of the first year of the board's 

 work. Fourteen foreign countries, he 

 states, have so far co-operated with 

 the United States by establishing 

 plant quarantine inspection with sat- 

 isfactory certificates covering exporta- 

 tions here. Some plant shipments have 

 contained injurious insect and furgous 

 plant enemies in spite of their coming 

 from countries where there was an in- 

 spection service. Out of 169 ship- 



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William P. Gude, of this city, Mr. 

 and Mrs. Richard Vincent, Jr., of 

 White Marsh, Md., and Mr. Henry 

 Bester, of Hagerstown. Md., were last 

 week the guests of the peopl.e of Fred- 

 erick, Md. The occasion was the de- 

 livering of a lecture by Mr. Vincent 

 in the large auditorium of Hood Col- 

 lege in that city. A banquet was held 

 in their honor at the City Hotel, at 

 which were present city officials, the 

 faculty of the college, florists from 

 nearby towns and others, about forty 

 in all. Every attention possible was 

 accorded the guests and the local 

 street car company placed at their 

 disposal a special parlor-observation 

 car which carried them to adjoining 

 towns on a sight-seeing excursion. 



