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HORTICULTURE 



December 2, 1911 



BOSTON NOTES. 



Jackson Dawson is on the sick list 

 this week. 



Bennie Schneider, of H. Robinson & 

 Co., lost his wife by death on Monday, 

 Nov. 26. 



H. M. Robinson & Co. have built a 

 display case in the Co-operative 

 Flower Market. 



J. A. Pettigrew has gone on a two 

 weeks' recreation trip, one week of 

 which has been spent in a visit to 

 his son, Dr. Pettigrew, in Youngstown, 

 Ohio. 



Hartford & McDonough, 70 Pember- 

 ton Sq., have quite a force making up 

 greens for Christmas trade. This 

 new firm reports business very satis- 

 factory. 



A new crimson chrysanthemum, 

 Harvard, from E. D. Smith & Co., 

 more of a Harvard color than Shrimp- 

 ton, was before the Boston committee 

 of the Chrysanthemum Society of 

 America Nov. 18. 



The Beacon Florist, 2 Beacon St., 

 has moved to 7 Beacon St. into 

 Houghton & Dutton's store. Their 

 display refrigerator stands directly in 

 front of one of the entrances. Better 

 light and more trade in the new loca- 

 tion, it is said. 



Notice the advertisement by Thom- 

 as J. Grey Co. of the new and greatly 

 improved Jerusalem Cherry, Solanum 

 Capsicastrum Melvini. In this novel- 

 ty the fruit is not hidden by the 

 leaves but stands erect away from the 

 foliage and crowded towards the tips 

 of the branches. It makes an ideal 

 holiday plant. 



The florists' supply department of 

 Welch Bros, has just undergone a 

 thorough renovating and is an exposi- 

 tion in itself of what is newest and 

 best in a practical way for the regu- 

 lar stock in hand of the up-to-date 

 florist. It occupies the entire base- 

 ment floor of the building at 226 

 Devonshire street, is brilliantly light- 

 ed and well worth a visit. There is 

 nothing worth having that one can- 

 not find there in the line of florists' 

 requisites. 



CINCINNATI NOTES. 



Bowling, Monday, December 4th, at 

 Finke's alleys. 



Geo. Klotter's barn burned early 

 Monday morning. He lost some fine 

 cattle in the conflagration. 



P. Weiland, who has a range of 

 glass at New Castle, Ind., opens a 

 wholesale house at 114 Third avenue 

 East in this city on December 1st. 



Wm. Murphy opens an "annex" on 

 Third street this week, to facilitate 

 the handling of Christmas greens. 



Visitor — Martin Reukauf, represent- 

 ing H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Phila., Pa. 



PERSONAL. 



William Wickham has charge of the 

 Oakwood cemetery, Adrian, Mich. 



R. Glendenning, writing in The Gar- 

 deners' Chronicle, says that Opuntia 

 Missouriensis should succeed in Brit- 

 ain if covered with a sheet of glass in 

 the winter, "as it is sometimes sub- 

 jected to a few degrees of frost grow- 

 ing wild." Opuntia Missouriensis is 

 hardy as far north as Massachusetts 

 where zero temperatures and some- 

 times even lower occur. 



Vernon A. Sherwood has resumed 

 his position at the greenhouses of Mrs. 

 J. L. Gardner, Brookline, Mass. 



Augustus Zirngiebel, formerly of 

 Needham, Mass., is now in the employ 

 of W. A. Manda, as traveling salesman. 



Henry I. Tucker, formerly of Hop- 

 kinsville, Ky., is now in charge of the 

 sales department of the Pleasant View 

 Greenhouse, Madison ville, Ky. 



Herbert L. Betts, for the past two 

 years gardener for J. J. Glessner, 

 Rocks Estate, Littleton, N. H, sailed 

 on the Franconia last week for a visit 

 to his old home in Falmouth, England. 



George Shields, foreman for A. Leu- 

 thy, Roslindale, Mass., is now conva- 

 lescing nicely after a long siege of 

 pneumonia, during which his life was 

 despaired of, he having suffered a re- 

 lapse. 



All will be glad to know that James 

 Bell is out of the hospital and home 

 with his family at Crawford, N. J. 

 Though weak after all his trials and 

 troubles he hopes soon to be mong 

 the many friends who sympathized 

 with him. 



The many friends of that sterling 

 gardener, William Anderson, South 

 Lancaster, Mass., will be sorry to learn 

 that owing to trouble with his nos- 

 trils he has had to undergo an opera- 

 tion in a private hospital in Boston 

 on Monday last. He expects to be over 

 the worst of it in a week and to meet 

 the boys at the New York gathering. 



Boston visitors — D. Cameron, repre- 

 senting Sander & Son, St. Albans, 

 Eng. Mr. Cameron will sail for home 

 on Dec. 16; Ernest Chamberlain, New 

 Bedford, Mass. 



Philadelphia visitors — J. W. Scalian, 

 Chester, Pa.; W. C. Langbridge, rep- 

 resenting Jerome B. Rice & Co., Cam- 

 bridge, N. Y. ; Joseph N. King, Norris- 

 town, Pa.; Horace Rimby, Collegville, 

 Pa. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



The D. D. Johnson Co. expect to 

 have matters in shape so that an an- 

 nouncement may be made by the New 

 Year and the Evergreen Brand Fertil- 

 izer will be manufactured in larger 

 quantities than ever before. 



Poehlmann Bros, are about to move 

 from the corner of Wabash avenue 

 and Randolph street, to 72 E. Ran- 

 dolph street, second floor, where they 

 will have three times their present 

 floor space. 



John Kidwell, president of The 

 Chicago Flower Growers' Association, 

 is very optimistic on the outlook for 

 the winter. He says business at the 

 new place is fully up to what he had 

 anticipated. 



The E. H. Hunt Co. has made ar- 

 rangements for the exclusive hand- 

 ling of the baskets and novelties of 

 one of the largest manufacturers in 

 Germany. They will have a full line 

 of samples here by January 1st. 



Jas. G. Hancock, who presides over 

 the office for Frank Oechslin, is serv- 

 ing as juror this week. A trip to the 

 Oechslin greenhouses always pays, 

 but especially now while the holiday 

 stock of plants is daily getting to 

 be in that state of perfection rarely 

 equalled by any other grower. Mr. 

 Oechslin grows plants only and his is 

 Chicago's show place in that line. 



Visitors: Jos Labo, Joliet, 111.; 

 Mrs. A. Guillaume and son, La Crosse, 

 Wis.; Mr. Kreimer of the Duluth Flor- 

 al Co.,. Duluth, Minn. 



DURING RECESS. 



Chicago Bowling Score Nov. 22. 



New York Bowling Scores Nov. 24. 



Ch'dwick. 246 200 188 Fenrick. 198 160 223 



Manda 110 165 143 Rlckards, 131122 152 



Younir, 163132 146 C.Scott. 99 141142 



Shaw 121127 134 Kakudfi, 149 163 108 



licit. 127113148 Moltez, 123 135 112 



Marshall. 182 143 140 Nog-ent, 91 — — 



W. Scctt, 122 -- — M'kenzie, 125 — — 



Donlnn, 122 - Everitt. 175 — — 



DONLAN. 



BALTIMORE NOTES. 



Geo. F. Lurssen has opened a 

 branch floral store on Baltimore 

 street. 



John Cook, Baltimore's great rose 

 grower, will soon go to Miami, Florida, 

 where he usually spends his winters. 



Indications point to the greatest 

 horticultural show the state has ever 

 had, next week. All available space 

 in the big Armory has been taken. 



Capt. Emerson, proprietor of Balti- 

 more's greatest hotel, just opened, 

 has purchased "Brooklandwood," a 

 large estate in Green Spring valley. 

 Chas. L. Seybold, formerly superin- 

 tendent of Carroll Park, is engaged 

 to do some landscape work on the 

 place, and has already commenced. 

 Immense green houses will be erected 

 where raising vegetables in winter will 

 be one of the specialties. Palms and 

 other decorative plants will also have 

 especial attention. 



ST. LOUIS NOTES. 



Chester Beyer of Beyer Bros, is 

 again laid up with a lame foot and is 

 confined to his room at his residence 

 on South Grand avenue. 



Wm. Young had a -narrow escape 

 from being killed last week in an ele- 

 vator in an office building, but luckily 

 he came out with only a few scratches 

 about the head. 



Visitors the last week were Martin 

 Reukauf of H. Bayersdorfer & Co., 

 Phila.; J. J. Karins of Dreer's, Phila.; 

 J. P. McFarrom, Litchfield, 111.; Wm. 

 P. Craig of Robt. Craig Co., Phila.; Fred 

 Lempke of Barnard & Co., Chicago. 

 All report good business trips. 



