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HORTICULTURE 



November 11, 1911 



CHICAGO NOTES. 

 Chrysanthemum Shows at the Parks. 

 Nov. 1st Garfield Park Chrysanthe- 

 mum Show was announced as ready 

 for the puhlic and promptly the public 

 showed its appreciation by keeping 

 up a steadv stream of admirers pour- 

 ing through the doors. Sunday, by 

 actual count, over 10,000 people 

 passed into the conservatories A 

 special feature of this year's exhibit 

 is the large center bed, irregular in 

 shape and containing one thousand 

 single-stem plants. Two hundred var- 

 ieties of these huge beauties are a 

 sight never to be forgotten. 



Lincoln Park conservatories were 

 ready with their annual display Sun- 

 dav ' A.s is alwavs the case, this park 

 being centrallv located has the most 

 visitors and the exhibit will confine 

 six weeks. 



Business Changes. 

 Friedman's new store, known as 

 the Western Floral Co.. on Congress 

 street, opens this week. 



Edw Lester, who opened a small 

 retail store in the down-town district 

 about a month ago. has decided to 

 give his attention to something else 

 or seek a less expensive district. 



Chas Erne tried the wholesale end 

 of the business for a couple of days 

 last week, using a part of the space 

 of the Chicago Carnation Co., which 

 proved too small for his purpose. 



McXallv has sold his retail store to 

 Max Cohen, who has had several 

 years' experience with the Amlmg 

 Co Poehlmann Bros. Co. and others, 

 and is ably fitted to take up the flor- 

 ists' business for himself. 



Mrs Flora M. Wintermeyer, 750 

 Throop street, has transferred the 

 paper box manufacturing business of 

 her late husband. J. C. Wintermeyer, 

 to the D. M. Goodwillie Co. Jas. 

 Vlcek, salesman, will go with the new 

 owners. 



The Chicago Rose Co. of Liberty- 

 ville 111 has sold out to two former 

 employes' of Bassett and Washburn 

 for $13,000. J. G. Schumann, an ex- 

 pert rose grower, and Joseph Kohout, 

 a successful carnation grower, com- 

 prise the new firm. 



Charlie Zapfe, for twelve years in 

 J A Budlong's wholesale store, leaves 

 Saturday night to open a retail store 

 at 61st' street and S. Park avenue. 

 The store was leased on the 1st and 

 is now being equipped with every- 

 thing up-to-date throughout. 



Clifford Pruner has forsaken indoor 

 life and returned to the road, where 

 he has spent many years of his life. 

 He is with the same firm, the E. H. 

 Hunt Co., and started for the south- 

 west Monday with a full line of sam- 

 ples. Raleigh H. Starbuek, of the 

 same firm, comes in from the road to 

 take his place. 



The son and daughters of the late 

 Joseph Klimmer have incorporated 

 under the name of Klimmer's Green- 

 houses and will carry on the business 

 which their father so successfully 

 founded many years ago at Forest 

 Park and was actively engaged in till 

 within a few months of his death last 

 year. Capital stock $5000. 



One of the most important recent 

 transfers among the down-town flor- 

 ists was arranged for this week and 



T Mangel becomes the owner of the 

 Palmer House Flower Store, so long 

 owned by Harry Rowe. The transfer 

 takes place March 1, 1912. As stated 

 in this column last week, the building 

 in which J. Mangel has had his store 

 for many vears is to be torn down 

 and a new location was necessary, 

 hence the purchase of the Harry 

 Rowe store, which is one of the finest 

 in the city and just a few doors west. 



Trade News. 



Harry Rowe will open a new store 

 after he gives up his present one, the 

 exact location of which is not yet de- 

 termined. 



Phil Schupp, manager for J. A. Bud- 

 long is pleased with the result of 

 eliminating Bridesmaids from the 

 stock grown this year. My Maryland 

 and Killarney are so satisfactory that 

 he thinks they will be used exclusive- 

 ly for pink in the near future. 



The Chicago Carnation Co. have 

 added a mimeograph and addresso- 

 graph to their office equipment and 

 are rapidly getting to the front m 

 their ability to handle successfully a 

 large output of carnations and chrys- 

 anthemums. Manager Pyfer left Mon- 

 day night for the St. Louis, Mo.. Flow- 

 er Show. 



Personal. 



Thos. Franks of Champaign, was 

 proudly introducing his bride to his 

 friends in the wholesale market last 

 week 



Ed P. Hauswirth is receiving a 

 heartv welcome from his friends 

 among the florists after his absence 

 from the city for the past two years. 

 He is now city salesman at Vaughan s 

 Seed Store. 



Mrs. Edson Haas, 5455 W. Lake St., 

 is verv ill following an operation for 

 appendicitis with other complications. 

 Mrs. Geo. Hartung of Mt. Pullman, 

 is recovering from a recent operation 

 at Pullman hospital. 



Word has just been received here 

 that the son of R. S. Petts of Craw- 

 fordsville, Ind., was burned to death 

 Sunday, Nov. 5. No particulars have 

 been received, but the family have 

 the sympathy of the trade. 



Visitors:— W. R. Pierson, Crom- 

 well Conn.; R. M. Groves, Adams, 

 Mass.: E. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind.; 

 H Roth. Lafayette, Ind.; Chas. J. 

 Bond. Naperville. 111.; A. F. Augsper- 

 ger Peoria, 111.; Mrs. Rennison, Sioux 

 City, la,; F. J. Farney, of M. Rice & 

 Co., Phila,; R. H. Simmons, La Salle, 

 111 ■ Mrs. M. D. Reimers, Louisville, 

 Ky • Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Franks, 

 Champaign, 111.; Harry Philpott, Win- 

 nipeg, Man.; Chas Schaefer. Kanka- 

 kee, 111. 



Des Moines, Iowa.— The Iowa Seed 

 Company celebrated the completion of 

 their extensive new range of green- 

 houses by giving a flower show on 

 Nov. 1 and 2, to which the public were 

 invited and free souvenirs given to the 

 lady visitors. There are 32 houses in 

 the entire range and they contain in 

 addition to the usual stock in such 

 establishments many rare plants not 

 often found in commercial green- 

 houses. Although somewhat inconven- 

 iently located— being about six blocks 

 from the street car line— they were 

 crowded during the reception day?. 



INCORPORATED. 



Westminster, Vt.— The Connecticut 

 Valley Orchard Co., capital stock $10,- 

 000. Incorporators, E. G. Tuthill, J. 

 Dascomb, Geo. H. Dascomb. 



Camden, N. J.— Pittsburgh Florists* 

 Exchange, capital stock $15,000. In- 

 corporators, V. A. Murray, Harvey U 

 Lechner, Julian H. Kendig. 



Fort Atkinson, Wis.— The Ellison 

 Bay Orchard Co., capital stock $40,000. 

 Incorporators, W. T. Clark, C. T. Tel- 

 fer, A. J. Edwards, R. J. Coe. 



Indianapolis, Ind.— The Minnesota 

 Orchard Co., capital stock $50,000. 

 Directors, R. S. Kennedy, Geo. A. 

 Smith, Arthur Christofferson, Julius 

 Harvet, and Wm. H. Dye. 



Forest Park, III.— Klimmer's Green- 

 houses, general seed and florist busi- 

 ness, capital stock $5,000. Incorpora- 

 tors, Augusta Klimmer, Frank Klim- 

 mer, Minnie Klimmer and Lillie Zan- 

 der. 



Seaford, Del.— The Woodland Or- 

 chard Co., capital stock $100,000. In- 

 corporators, Orlando Harrison, Ber- 

 lin Md.- C. Donoho. Seaford; A. H. 

 Hardesty, Dover; F. P. Adkins, Salis- 

 bury, Md. 



Port Ewen, N. Y.— The Francis 

 Howard Corporation, capital stock 

 $250,000. To do a landscape garden- 

 ing business. Incorporators, D. Ca- 

 hart, B. B. Cattel and A. P. Hallett, 

 all of New York city. 



Romney, W. Va.— Potomac High- 

 lands Orchard Co., capital stock $10,- 

 000 Incorporators, M. E. Ailes, of 

 Washington, D. C, Eugene E. Ailes 

 and John J. Cornwell, of Romney, A. 

 S. Ailes. and C. C. Ailes, of Okonoko, 

 W. Va. 



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