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HOETICULTUEE 



February 14, 1914 



CHICAGO NOTES. 

 Glass Prices and Building Outlook. 



Prices on glass in this market con- 

 tinue firm and are practically the same 

 as they have been during the past 

 year. Sharp, Partridge & Co., speci- 

 alists in greenhouse glass, and well- 

 known all over the country, are of the 

 opinion that there will be an unusual 

 amount of building this spring, and 

 that there will be no decline in prices 

 on glass, which now are a little high- 

 er than the average of the ^ast five 

 years, but lower than the average of 

 the last twelve years. 



Manager Phil. McKee of The John 

 C. Moninger Co., thinks the chances 

 good tor an advance in the price of 

 glass, which just now is quoted in 

 Chicago as 90 per cent and 15 per 

 cent on single and 90 per cent and 20 

 per cent on double strength for win- 

 dow glass and a little less on green- 

 house sizes. Mr. McKee says the pros- 

 pects are good for an unusual amount 

 of greenhouse building this spring 

 and that among their orders now 

 booked is that of P. Cudahy for tour 

 houses, 57 by 320, at Cudahy, a sub- 

 urb of Milwaukee, Wis. 



Trade Notes. 



Frank Oechslin, who has had a ser- 

 ious attack of grippe is now able to 

 be about again. 



Another retail store in the "loop" 

 at 7 W. Monroe St., was opened last. 

 week. K. Panakos, who' has a store 

 also on 125th St., New York, is pro- 

 prietor. 



Announcements have been received 

 here of the change of address of the 

 Los Angeles Flower Market, of which 

 Frederick Sperry is secretary. For 

 many years he was connected with the 

 trade here. 



The machinery is humming now at 

 the new Foley Greenhouse Manufac- 

 turing Co.'s plant. A handsome or- 

 der recently booked is for a large 

 dome roofed palm house and two 

 greenhouses, at Notre Dame, Ind. 



C. Loveridge of Peoria, J. F. Am- 

 mann of Edwardsville, 111., and Al- 

 bert T. Hey of Maywood, 111., met in 

 Chicago last week £o plan for the 

 meeting ot the Illinois State Florists' 

 Association, at Danville, 111., March 

 10-11. 



H. M. Frank and F. C. Moore of the 

 Helss Co., Dayton, O., spent a few- 

 days in Chicago visiting the large 

 greenhouse establishments, getting 

 pointers on greenhouse construction. 

 They are planning to build in the 

 near future. 



Mrs. Julia A. Wratkowsky, who has 

 conducted the retail store at 27 N. 

 Dearborn St., for a number of years, 

 under the name of Jegen, filed a peti- 

 tion in bankruptcy and notices have 

 been sent to the creditors. The li- 

 abilities are said to be $3000 and an 

 effort will be made to settle without 

 the expense of a receiver. 



Many of the wholesale florists re- 

 gret that so much of the efforts to 

 push §t. Valentine's Day to the ad- 

 vantage of the trade, should be limited 

 almost exclusively to the sale of vio- 

 lets. When the only special box for 

 that day was a heart-shaped one, there 

 was more excuse for pushing the vio- 

 lets but now wlien there are specially 

 designed long boxes, roses, carnations 



and other flowers can be used to just 

 as good advantage. 



The thermometers registered 14° be- 

 low zero early Suday morning at some 

 of the greenhouse establishments 

 within the city limits, and a high 

 wind prevailed all day, making the 

 work of keeping the temperature 

 right, one of much difficulty. It was 

 a case of practical demonstration of 

 the difference between the old-fash- 

 ioned helter-skelter -way of building 

 and the compact modern way. when it 

 comes to keeping the house warm, 

 when the piercing winds blow across 

 the prairies. 



A. T. Pyter, for many years manager 

 of the Chicago Carnation Co., and Peter 

 Olseni, supt. of the plant at Joliet, 

 111., are now launched into business for 

 themselves, having purchased the Star 

 Floral Co.'s place at Wilmette, 111., 

 Feb. 3rd. Mr. Olsem moved his fam- 

 ily there immediately and will give 

 the i)lace his personal supervision. 

 Mr. Pyfer will retain his connection 

 with the Chicago Carnation Co. for the 

 present and the stock of the new place 

 will be handled with the other at 30 

 E. Randolph street. Frank Fisher is 

 in charge at Joliet. 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 



Gude Bros. Company are about to 

 begin the rebuilding of the houses at 

 their Northeast plant on Bladensburg 

 Road, at a cost of about $2.0(10. and 

 are also rebuilding two houses in .\na- 

 costia at an estimated cost of $4,000. 



William E. McKissick, now of the 

 Leo Niesson Company, Baltimore, Md., 

 visited Washington and his many 

 friends here. Mr. McKissick states 

 that some of the growers who are 

 marketing their production through 

 the Niesson Company will shortly ex- 

 tend their operations and build new 

 houses. 



Elmer ('. Mayberry. formerly of 

 Mayberry & Hoover, with John C. 

 Walker and Earl S. Kump, has incor- 

 porated the Du Pont Flower Shop 

 with a capital stock of $10,000 divided 

 into one hundred shares at $100 each. 

 The shop is to be located at 6 Du 

 Pont Circle and will be opened for 

 business about March 1. 



M. J. McCabe, of Good Hope Road. 

 Anacostia, is about to materially in- 

 crease his production with a view to 

 entering the wholesale end of the 

 business. Mr. McCabe is producing 

 some very fine carnations at the pres- 

 ent time and some of his snapdragon 

 (Victoria) with nine-inch heads and 

 flve-foot stems is without a peer. He 

 also is showing some very good gar- 

 denias of which he has one house. 



There is considerable agitation in 

 Congress at present looking to the re- 

 moval of the National Botanic Gardens 

 from its present site on the east end 

 of the Mall to a tract ot 400 acres to 

 be allotted for that purpose in Rock 

 Creek Park. Should the removal take 

 place, the gardens would be increased 

 to take in trees that would grow in 

 this climate. Representative Slayden 

 has introduced a bill in the House of 

 Representatives for that purpose. 



The work of decorating the execu- 

 tive mansion at Richmond on the oc- 

 casion of the inauguration of the Gov- 



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 Inspect our new establisbment, Fifth 

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ernor of Virginia, fell to George H. 

 Cooke. Fully 300 American Beauty, 

 600 Killarney, 600 carnations, many 

 gardenias and a large quantity of 

 Farleyence ferns, potted ferns and 

 palms, etc., were required to complete 

 it. A novel feature was the covering 

 of a buff-colored wall with bronze 

 galax leaves, the use of garlands of 

 galax leaves and the decorating of the 

 dinner tables to match the color of 

 the ices, creams, etc., furnished by the 

 caterer. Salmon pink cyclamen, 

 iirimroses, and Sjjencer sweet peas, 

 garlanded with Farleyence fern were 

 used to good advantage in designs on 

 the tables. The entire decoration was 

 one of the handsomest seen in this 

 section for some time and is to be 

 repeated at an early date when the 

 Governor will give another brilliant 

 reception. 



