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HORTICULTURE 



October 14, 1911 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



An Anniversary Cup. 



The handsome silver loving cup pre- 

 sented to the Chicago Florists' Club is 

 calling forth many words of admira- 

 tion. It is on exhibition at the office 

 of the Chicago Carnation Co., whose 

 popular manager, A. T. Pyfer, is club 

 secretary. The cup is about 14 inches 

 high without the base, and on the side 

 is beautifully engraved Chicago Flor- 

 ists' Club Silver Anniversary, from 

 the Milwaukee Florists' Club. Oct. 5, 

 1911. 



The Chicago florists are greatly 

 moved over this expression of the good 

 will that prevails between the Mil- 

 waukee Club and their own. 



Illinois State Fair. 

 Chicago florists who attended the 

 State Fair at Springfield, 111., last week 

 speak in highest praise both of the ex- 

 hibition and the management of the 

 floricultural part. Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co., the Chicago Carnation Co. and the 

 Albert T. Hey Co., all had large ex- 

 hibits from this vicinity and carried 

 off their full share of the prizes. Out 

 of the nine entries made by the Chi- 

 cago Carnation Co., five first prizes 

 and four seconds were won. List of 

 awards is quite lengthy. Schiller, the 

 Florist, had some fine decorative work 

 there and carried off several prizes. 

 The Albert T. Hey Co., of Maywood 

 also did some very creditable work. 



Trade Jottings. 



The A. Henderson Co. are as busy as 

 bees these days and the amount of 

 bulb stock that "has come and gone 

 during the past month is very large. 

 Azaleas are expected in this week. 



Blooming plants are now few. The 

 varieties of early chrysanthemums 

 suitable for cut flowers, as a rule, 

 do not make a growth suitable 

 for pot plants, but there are a 

 few varieties that can be used 

 in this way and they are now show- 

 ing color. Cyclamen and primroses 

 are coming in in very limited quan- 

 tity, but are not far enough out 

 to make good offerings for high-class 

 trade. Celestial peppers and Jerusa- 

 lem cherries (solanum) will very soon 

 be ready for the counters, some few 

 plants being already in the stores. 

 The retail men are still depending on 

 the old standbys, Boston and Whit- 

 manii ferns, pandanus, dracaenas, etc., 

 lor bac. ground in window displays, 

 varied by the autumn foliage now of- 

 fered in great quantities. 



The fall openings were unusually 

 attractive, a profusion of color and a 

 vast amount of material being used in 

 windows, columns and overhead trim- 

 ming. The cutting out of all cut 

 flowers, except Beauties and a lew 

 chrysanthemums, is more noticeable 

 than ever this year and less artistic 

 skill is shown in the handling of the 

 artificial materials. Vines, by the 

 hundred, all of the same pattern, no 

 matter how beautiful, do not lend 

 themselves to graceful effects as natu- 

 rally as the growing vines, but their 

 lasting qualities more than make up 

 for it. The producer of prepared or 

 artificial stock seems to have gotten a 

 little ahead of the one who handles it. 



Personal. 

 H. Anderson has been added to the 

 E. H. Hunt office force. 



Edward Armstrong of A. Lange's 



and Maggie Maloney were married at 

 St. Joseph, Mich., Sept. 23rd. 



Mrs. E. H. Horton of Bassett & 

 Washburn's office force is ill at her 

 home in Evanston.— C. M. Dickinson 

 is still confined to his home. — G. H. 

 Pieser continues very ill. 



Visitor- M. S. Crozer, Cedar Rapids, 

 Iowa. 



BOSTON & MAINE R. R. STATION 

 PRIZES. 



An order has been issued by Su- 

 perintendent Lee of the Boston & 

 Maine Railroad awarding cash prizes 

 for flower displays at the stations of 

 the company. The committee which 

 examined these displays found that 

 25G stations had been competing fo.- 

 honors during the summer. Fourteen 

 of the displays were found to be com- 

 mendably well kept, but were awarded 

 no prizes because they were cared for 

 by the roadway department. Beverly 



THE NEW BREITMEYER STORE. 



An event of much interest to the 

 craft was the opening of the new 

 Breitmeyer store in Detroit last week. 

 It is built on a lot 44 x 111 and is of 

 the type of a Haarlem home, two show 

 windows below and three large and 

 one small window above. Four col- 

 umns topped with jars holding pyra- 

 midal box extend above the roof and 

 there are window boxes filled with 

 box and ivy at each of the windows. 

 The exterior finish is stucco in light 

 green, with window and door frames 

 and lettering in verde antique. 



The store interior is in ivory-yellow, 

 with verde antique ceiling and red tile 

 floor. Out of this opens a conserva- 

 tory, 44 feet wide, with arched rcof 

 and fountain. The refrigerator is 22 

 feet long and cooled artificially. The 



A\ Electric Delivery Auto 



was found to be very attractive; Mont- 

 ■ serrat auite handsome, especially with 

 the posts of the train shed covered 

 with Virginia creeper. Lyndonville is 

 in fine trim: Hoosick Falls charming; 

 Charlestown well kept; the entire 

 premises at Newport, Vt, and at Lake- 

 port have been vastly improved. 

 Woodsville excels them all. with its 

 flower beds surrounded with whitened 

 stones, and laid out in excellent taste. 



The awards in the first four classes 

 are as follows: 



First Class— Prize $."'•'. Nashua. 

 Main street. N. H. 



Second Class — Prize $40. Concord, 

 N. H.: Hill Crossing. Mass. 



Third Class— Prize $25. Brattle. 

 Mass.: Pike. N. H.: Riverview, Mass. 



Fourth Class— Prize $20. Cliftondale. 

 Mass.; .Marlboro. Mass: Merrimack, N. 

 H.: Newport, N. H.; Waltham High- 

 lands. Mass.; Webb. N. H. 



There were 24 awards in the fifth 

 class, prize $15, CO in the sixth class, 

 prize $10. and 113 in the seventh class, 

 prize $5. 



wainscotting is of marble. All the ap- 

 purtenances and adornment of the es- 

 tablishment are artistic, rich and ap- 

 l update. The plant tables a d 

 shelves are of slate. The lighting is 

 by three chandeliers and group of 

 electric lights. The lights in the con- 

 servatory are made to produce a mel- 

 low moonlight effect.' 



As a fitting adjunct to such a hand- 

 some floral emporium the delivery 

 auto, of which an illustration is heie 

 given, has been added to the Breit- 

 meyer equipment. It is a "Dttro t 

 Electric," manufactured by the Ander- 

 son Electric Car Co., of Detroit, and 

 i beauty and practicability for a 

 high-class florist outfit is our reason 

 for illustrating it here. The carrying 

 space is ample and sliding doors con- 

 nect the carrying space with the driv- 

 er's seat. The electrical equipment 

 consists of an Edison 60-cylinder A4 

 battery developing a speed of f ur- 

 teen miles and running fifty miles on 

 one charge. The car has a capacity 

 of 1000 pounds. 



