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the largest attendance it has had in the 

 last few years. Twelve new members 

 were admitted. 



The main topic before the meeting 

 was Sunday closing. Some florists close 

 all day Sunday, some close Sunday dur- 

 ing July and August and others do not 

 close at all. Members of the club who 

 close Sunday are: Heiss Co., G. J. Hor- 

 ]acher, Abby Avenue Greenhouses, 

 Schmidt & Son and C. F. Mahan. 



A committee waa appointed to ar- 

 range for a picnic to be held early in 

 August. 



Various Notes. 



Miss F. W. Bitter had a large decora- 

 tion July 17 for the new City National 

 bank. 



E. E. Jenkins is cutting a large quan- 

 tity of gladioli. 



PITTSBUBOH, PA. 



The Market. 



Pittsburgh would be an ideal place 

 for anyone to spend a vacation as far 

 as weather is concerned. We have had 

 no hot weather as yet this summer. As 

 a result, flowers of all kinds have been 

 better than the usual summer stock. 



There are still some good carnations 

 on the market and there never were 

 better roses for this time of the year. 

 Large quantities of gladioli and lilies 

 make up most of the stock, but some 

 sweet peas, zinnias, calendulas and 

 other outdoor stock help to make va- 

 riety. 



June closed a wonderful six months' 

 business and if July continues as it has 

 started, it will be a record-breaker. 

 Everything is cleaning up every day 

 and the wholesale men are not worried, 

 as the garbage man is not getting his 

 usual summer loads. 



The supply business is particularly 

 active for summer. Judging by this, 

 the trade generally is preparing for a 

 good season next fall. 



Various Notes. 



Benjamin Elliott sent his wife and 

 daughter to Cottage Grove, Ore., to visit 

 Mrs. Elliott's father, John Bader. He 

 was to follow about the middle of 

 August, but he got lonesome and left 

 Sunday, July 18, to see the folks. 



James McCarthy, of the Pittsburgh 

 Cut Flower Co., has returned from At- 

 lantic City and says that it is a fine 

 place, but expensive. 



Sam Gidas, of the Oakland Flower 

 Shop, has been spending a few weeks 

 in Ohio, at Dayton and Akron. He ex- 

 pects to go to Atlantic City for the rest 

 of his vacation. 



A letter from Los Angeles states that 

 Fred Burki is convalescing and hopes 

 soon to be restored to health, when he 

 will pay Pittsburgh a visit. The Pitts- 

 burgh Cut Flower Co. is making some 

 improvements and he wants to see what 

 it is doing. W. A. Clarke has returned 

 to his post after a trip to Portland, 

 Ore., to the Shriners' convention and is 

 loud in his praise for the Portland peo- 

 ple as entertainers. He said that the 

 flower fete there was beyond the con- 

 ception of anyone who had not seen it. 



Edward McCallum and Ed Nigel have 

 been spending some time trout fishing 

 in the northern part of the state. 



William Usinger and his bride are 

 visiting his mother before going abroad. 



Miss Hutchinson, who presides over 

 William Turner's Wilkinsburg store, has 

 just returned after four weeks in the 



hospital. Mr. Turner is increasing the 

 size of his range with a 24xl50-foot 

 Moninger greenhouse, to be used for 

 general purposes. 



A. W. Smith, Jr., of the A. W. Smith 

 Co., took his family to the seashore last 

 week for the summer. He is too busy 

 to stay away from Pittsburgh long. 



The Elliott Nursery Co., has pur- 

 chased about seventy-five acres of land 

 near Aspinwall, Pa., which is being 

 made ready for planting nursery stock. 

 The Springdale place was too small to 

 take care of the increasiuje business. 



Miss Nellie G. King, or Homewood, 

 atter her best year in the business says 

 all the vacation she will take will be 

 in her car. C. A. W. 



leaving on an enforced vacation for 

 six weeks, due to ill health. His store 

 will be under the management of B. 

 Yavener during his absence. 



John A. Bruce, a prominent seed 

 merchant of Hamilton, died at Hamil- 

 ton recently at the age of 91 years. He 

 had been connected with the seed busi- 

 ness in that city for over fifty years. 



President Emery B. Hamilton, of the 

 C. H. A., has received many communis 

 cations from friends south of the bor- 

 der stating that they will be at the 

 Hamilton convention in August. Among 

 them are Philip Breitmeyer, Detroit; 

 John Young, New York; J. J. Hess, 

 Omaha, and W. F. Gude, Washington. 



J. J. H. 



TOBONTO, ONT. 



Business has been good for this time 

 of the year, many weddings adding to 

 the volume of business. Many of the 

 florists are taking advantage of the 

 slack season to make many needed im- 

 provements in their stores or to redeco- 

 rate. Others are taking fishing trips 

 to the northern lakes or are making the 

 rounds of American cities, chiefly New 

 York, with a run to Atlantic City. 



The annual picnic of the Toronto 

 Eetail Florists' Club, which is the big 

 event of the year, was held at Memorial 

 park, Hanlan 's Point, July 14. Although 



CHICAaO BOOSTS F. T. D. 



The advertising in the Chicago news- 

 papers last week by the Allied Florists' 

 Association was devoted to what had 

 formerly been used as an incidental part 

 of its copy. The familiar calendar with 

 the query, "Whose Birthday Comes in 

 Julyf " was used to call to the public's 

 notice the florists' telegraph delivery 

 service. So important and fertile a 

 branch of the trade's activity is this, 

 in the minds of the directors of the 

 Chicago campaign, that it merits the 

 use of funds contributed, not by re- 

 tailers alone, but also by growers and 



Through a 

 highly organ- 

 ized system op- 

 erating be- 

 tween r e p u t a- [_ 



ble Florists all over the U. S. and Canada, you 

 can have Flowers delivered in any city or town., 

 all within a few hours' time after you place the 

 order. ALLIED FLORISTS' ASS'N OF ILLINOIS 



How Chicago Florists Are Boosting the Retailers' Business. 



it rained all morning and probably kept 

 a great many away, there were nearly 

 300 present and second tables had to be 

 set at the supper. There was a long 

 list of sports carried out under the capa- 

 ble direction of E. Sanderson. All the 

 races were keenly contested. The 

 opening baseball game showed the re- 

 tailers to be the masters, but the grow- 

 ers reversed the decision in the tug of 

 war. There was a large attendance of 

 growers from Toronto and florists from 

 Hamilton, who expressed themselves as 

 having greatly enjoyed the picnic. 

 George Yavener, Arcade Florist, is 



wholesalers. In this instance the Chi- 

 cago association, far from confining its 

 efforts to promoting sales in the local 

 market, is spending its money to ad- 

 vertise a part of the florists' business 

 which will aid other markets rather 

 than its own. So altruistic have become 

 the trade 's local cooperative campaigns. 



BBIEF ANSWERS. 



F. J. G., Mo. — They are not scales, but 

 spores. Pinching carnations in the field 

 is to induce branching; plant in the 

 benches. 



