January 24, 1914 



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Necessity 



Fits se"iirply cm iiny stindnrrt pot nnd by the use of a little chif- 

 fon or rililinn wives yju ;i B:isket efTcct iit n very small additional 

 expense, Increasing the price of your plants 100 per cent. 



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12 Inches high, $2.50 per doz. 

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4 24 Inches high, $5.00 per doz. 

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At Your Healer's or Dlrei-t. 



GEO. B. HART, Manufacturer, 24 to 30 Stone Street, Rochester, N.Y. 



freely given and with our best wishes^ 

 I want again to thank our members 

 for their prompt and liberal assistance 

 which came as a ray of sunshine and 

 gladdened many a heart bowed with 

 grief. The Chicago Florist Club is to 

 be congratulated upon having so many 

 representative members who are will- 

 ing at all times to give good substan- 

 tial help in cases of disaster or urgent 

 need. 



Flower Show Topics. 

 I want (o thank the growers for this 

 beautiful display of carnations. I be- 

 lieve these exhibitions are a form of 

 publicity that gets more publicity. The 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America, 

 In conjunction with the Horticultural 

 Society of Chicago and the Chicago 

 Florists' Club, held their annual 

 chrysanthemum show at the Art In- 

 Btitute last fall. There was a splendid 

 showing of both cut flowers and 

 plants, but It seemed to me that the 

 Art Institute is no place to hold a 

 flower show. A few meetings ago the 

 possibilities of holding a large tent 

 abow on the lake front in the spring 

 was discussed, and a motion prevailed 

 that our trustees draft a letter making 

 such suggestions and mail it to the 

 Horticultural Society for their con- 

 elderatlon. 



We ought to make preparations for 

 a fall flower show at the Coliseum. 

 The records of 1906 show that the 

 paid admissions amounted to over 

 fl7,000, and the show was a financial 

 success without any floor space being 

 SOI "w mat times are different, 



the retailer realizes its value and is 

 paying for floor space at the big shows 

 because of its advertising possibilities. 

 If the proposition is handled right and 

 advertised freely we ought to repeat 

 the success of 1906 and then some. I 

 heard It said that a flower show kills 

 business. Look over your books of 

 1906 and see how the First National 

 Flower Show of Chicago affected your 

 business for that year, how it affected 

 prices, and then you have a decisive 

 answer that wUl satisfy you beyond a 

 doubt 



If we intend to have a flower show 

 this fall let us have a big one. See 

 if we can't eclipse the record of 1906. 

 Try to attend as many meetings as 

 possible, bring some one with you and 

 all join hands with the committees 

 and make the coming year "a hum- 

 mer." 



KOMADA BROS. 



Manufacturers of all Kinds of 



WIRE DESIGNS and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 

 1008 Vine Street, - - PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



The fern situation is unusual this 

 year and the prices are higher now 

 than at any time last year— $2.50 per 

 1,000. It seems, on account of the big 

 supply in Wisconsin last summer 

 many local wholesalers did not place 

 their usual orders in the east. Wh^en 

 the western supply ceased earlier than 

 they had expected, many were found 

 with no provision for the winter. 



THE Florists' Supply 

 House of America 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



1129 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



UNITED REFRIGERATORS 



Sell Flowers iiiiil keep them in 

 lie-t fondition. All hiies IHsplay 

 CaMes, Coalers, etc. Ask tor 

 CatiiloB: X4. 



UNITED REFRIGERATCR & iCE 

 ■MACHINE CO., Kenosha, Wis. 



A FLORAL BURNS WINDOW. 



Arranged in Honor of the Poet's BirtUday and a Potent Attraction for Throngs of 



Admirers. 



The Chicago creditors of H. A. 

 Fisher Co., of Kalamazoo, Mich., held 

 a meeting Tuesday afternoon to dis- 

 cuss ways and means of satisfying 

 their claims against that firm. The 

 Chicago market is estimated as losing 

 fifteen thousand dollars and the Kala- 

 mazoo growers as much more. E. B. 

 Pieser, representing Kennicott Bros, 

 will go to Kalamazoo to look after 

 their interests. Geo. Fisher has been 

 the Chicago buyer for years. 



ing to America he was in Falrmount 

 Park, Phila.. and at the time of the 

 St. Louis World's Fair he laid out the 

 sunken gardens there. He came from 

 St. Louis to Chicago. Mr. Stockmans 

 is a great lover of his work and his 

 skill in laying out the floor of the 

 colliseum at the time of the National 

 Flower Show is well remembered. 



Visitors: Mr. Blackman and wife, 

 Evansville, Ind.; H. W. Buckbee, 

 Rockford, 111. 



Henry J. Stockmans, for seven years 

 landscape gardener at the Chicago 

 West Side Parks, has sent in his 

 resignation to take effect Feb. 15th, 

 when he will give his whole time to 

 building up a business which he al- 

 ready has started in Chicago. Mr. 

 Stockmans, who was born and reared 

 in Belgium has followed his calling in 

 many other countries, being three 

 years in Kew Gardens in England, 

 throe in Scotland and France. Com- 



NEW CORPORATIONS. 



Savannah, Ga. — McCabe-Staftord 

 Floral Company, capital stock, $1,500. 

 Incorporators, E. F. McCabe, W. J. 

 Stafford and Bryant Beasley. 



Los Angeles, Cal.— The Van Nuys 

 Nurserv Company, capital stock, $25,- 

 000. Incorporators, C. B. Hewitt, E. 

 W. Hewitt, W. F. Eilers, C. Lehman 

 and H. A. Decker. 



