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



Hope also served four years as vice- 

 president, and lie declined a renonii- 

 nation. 



The Danville Florists' Club was or- 

 ganized Tuesday evening, Jan. 13, at 

 the store of Smith Bros., Danville, 111. 

 The election ot officers resulted as fol- 

 lows: President, H. E. Smith; vice- 

 president, Peter Britz: treasurer. Chas. 

 Walker; secretary, Joseph Smith. 



The Retail Florists' Association, of 

 St. Louis, held its regular monthly 

 meeting on Monday. January 19. The 

 following officers were nominated for 

 offices: Harry Young, president; 

 Theo. Miller, vice-president; A. Ger- 

 nlous, secretary; F. H. Weber, trea- 

 surer. The election takes place at the 

 next meeting. Ex-President Sanders 

 resigned as active member and was 

 elected an honorary member. 



The County Growers' Association of 

 St. Louis will hold its meeting next 

 week, Wednesday, February 4, at the 

 usual place. A large attendance is 

 looked for. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 

 One of the handsomest stores in all 

 Chicago is the north side Schiller 

 store, in that fashionable quarter of 

 the city, at 4509 Broadway, where the 

 intersection of Kenmoro makes an 

 acute angle which is ideal in this 

 case. With windows on both streets 

 the appearance at night is that of 

 flowers and blooming plants almost in 

 the open and with the brilliant lights, 

 the handsome equipment of the store 

 shows off to best advantage. This 

 store and the one on West Madison 

 street speak well for the executive 

 ability and far sightedness of Geo. 

 Asmus, the business manager for 

 many years, and the several members 

 of the Schiller family actively en- 

 gaged in the work. 



Bulb Situation. 



The injury to the tulip bulbs last 

 summer is daily becoming more ap- 

 parent as the time for blooming comes 

 on. Among the early varieties so far, 

 whole crops of Proserpine have come 

 blind and Le Matelas so far are not 

 promising well. Just what the result 

 will be with the later varieties is hard 

 to tell, but the loss in Chicago will 

 foot up large. One grower, who had 

 forty cases for -.cut flowers, reports 

 everything coming blind and says he 

 will not waste space and effort by 

 bringing any more of them in. 



Visitors — Martin Smith, Da'"illo, 

 111.; George Vatter, Marinette, Wis.; 

 Paul Berkowitz of H. Bayersdorfer 

 & Co., Phila. Pa.; Chas Schwake, 

 New York. 



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 Hundreds in successful stores 

 everywhere. Let us show you their 

 economy. Ask tor Catalog XI. 



UNITED REFRIGERATOR & ICE 

 MACHINE CO., Kenosha, Wis. 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 

 Fred H. Kramer has an interesting 

 window display' at his store on F 



street. In the center of the window 

 is an old-fashioned spinning wheel 

 and surrounding it is a large quantity 

 of miniatures. A rocky woodland 

 scene and quantities of real cotton 

 blossoms complete the display which 

 is attracting widespread attention. 



A well thought-out plan to take ad- 

 vantages of the great natural beauty 

 of Rock Creek Park, by making it the 

 foundation for a great national arbo- 

 retum and "a greater botanic garden," 

 is about ready to be jnesented to Con- 

 gress, following conferences between 

 Assistant Secretary of Agriculture 

 Galloway, the District Commissioners, 

 army engineers and members of the 

 Joint committee on Library. 



William F. Gude, the natfcnal repre- 

 sentative of the S. A. F. and O. H., in 

 conversation with the Hnin iiTTi/uuiE 

 correspondent, states that there seems 

 to be some little misunderstanding 

 with respect to the bill recently intro- 

 duced in Congress providing for the 

 appropriation of $50,000 for erecting 

 a monument to the late William R. 

 Smith. It seems to be the opinion of 

 all that this will be something in the 

 way of a stone but there is absolutely 

 nothing in the bill to give that impres- 

 sion. "A monument," said Mr. Gude, 

 "is anything that perpetuates the 

 memory of a person or event, accord- 

 ing to Webster, and our monument 

 may take the form of a beautiful gar- 

 den, a library, a building to be the 

 home of the S. A. F. and O. H.. or 

 anything else along that line. What 

 we want is to have the bill passed 

 and then a committee will be ap- 

 pointed and florists will be asked to 

 serve thereon. Many things have been 

 suggested but the time is not yet ripe 

 for the making of permanent plans. 

 What is needed now is the sujiport of 

 every florist and society in the push- 

 ing of this bill, after that we will have 

 something to say." 



Visitors — Joseph Goudy, with H. A. 

 Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa.; Robert 

 Schoch, with M. Rice Co., Philadel- 

 phia. Pa.; Joseph Heacock, Wyncole, 



Pa.; J. L. Towner, with Griffith & 

 Turner Co., Baltimore, Md. 



CINCINNATI NOTES. 



Advices from Middletown, Ohio, 

 state Geo. Beckman has withdrawn 

 from the Busy Bee Floral Co. 



The Cincinnati delegation to the 

 Cleveland meeting this week com- 

 prises, Mrs. and Mrs. J. A. Peterson, 

 Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Critchell, Gus Ad- 

 rian, Max Rudolph, R. Witterstaetter 

 and Wm. Murphy. 



Visitors— A. J. Mueller, New York; 

 A. M. Sanders, of Poehlmann Bros.; 

 Phil Valk, representing Geo. Borgfeldt, 

 New York City; Wm. Gardner, ragr. 

 of P. J. Olinger's greenhouses, New 

 Castle, Ind., and Wm. Rodgers, mgr. 

 of the Miami Floral Co., Dayton, 

 Ohio. 



BUDDLEIA ASIATICA. 



So many inquiries have come in re- 

 garding this beautiful winter flow- 

 ering novelty since it was illus- 

 trated in our issue of January 17, that 

 we asked William Anderson, who grew 

 the plant shown in the illustration, for 

 some notes on its culture and no doubt 

 our readers will be interested in Mr. 

 Anderson's reply. He says: 



"This particular plant was from a 

 cutting tal'.en in August, 1912; so that 

 the plant is about IG months old. It 

 is easily giown and if pinched during 

 the summer until September 1st can 

 be had in flower for Christmas grown 

 in a temperature of S.'i to 60; and, I 

 believe, if grown cooler successional 

 batches could be brought in up until 

 Easter." 



Buddleia asiatica is one of the Wil- 

 son collections from the wilds of 

 China. It has been given the name 

 of the "White Flowered Winter Lilac." 

 Every shoot terminates in a slender 

 arching raceme of deliciously fragrant 

 flowers, very useful for cut-llower pur- 

 poses. 



