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TORONTO HOSTS 



OF THE F. T. D. 



'Sext month, for the first time a Canadian city has had the privilege, 

 Toronto will ivelcome the F. T. D. That visitors may get a more intimate 

 knowledge of those whom they will meet there, some personal votes regarding 

 the leading florists of Toronto are given in these pages. 



ORONTO, where the 1921 

 F. T. D. convention will be 

 held October 11 to 13, is 

 the center of a large num- 

 ber of important cities: 

 Kingston, the Limestone 

 city; Peterborough, the 

 Electric city; Ottawa, the 

 Capital city; London, the 

 Maple city; Brantford, the 

 Telephone city; Hamilton, the Birming- 

 ham of Canada. Toronto herself is the 

 Queen city. All these cities are the 

 homes of many live, up-to-date florists. 

 Visitors coming from Niagara through 

 Hamilton and those motoring from De- 

 troit through London will meet many 

 friends in the trade along the way. 



The Queen city is most 

 beautifully located on the 

 northern shore of Lake On- 

 tario and covers an area of 

 thirty-two square miles. It 

 is the capital of the prov- 

 ince of Ontario and is an 

 important manufacturing 

 city. The population of the 

 city proper is 550,000 and 

 there are many populous 

 suburbs adjacent to the 

 city. 



The land devoted to parks 

 totals over 1,472 acres and 

 there are in addition 400 

 acres of water park lots. 

 The parks include Island, 

 Exhibition, High and 

 Riverdale parks and the 

 Humber boulevard. 



There are about eighty 

 flower shops in Toronto and 

 new ones are being opened 

 continually. This article 

 gives a few facts about 

 some of the old, established 

 shops and growers. It does 

 not presume to be complete. 

 It can only give an idea of 

 tlie extent of the business 

 and point out those florists 

 whom visitors, in seeing the 

 sights of the trade in To- 

 ronto, will not wish to miss. 



H. G. Dillemuth. 



H. G. Dillemuth, the vice- 

 president of the F. T. D., 

 whose store is at 123 King 

 ctreet, west, is one of the 

 personally best known flo 

 ists in the city. He was born 

 in Pittsburgh, Pa., March 

 28, 1876, and started in the 

 florists' business early in 

 life, with Fred Burki, pres- 

 ident of tbe Pittsburgh ("ut 



Flower Co. Mr. Burki, a former presi- 

 dent of the S. A. F., is an uncle of Mr. 

 Dillemuth and gave him a good insight 

 into the florists' business. Later, Mr. 

 Dillemuth was connected with Patter- 

 son Bros, and A. M. Murdock, of Pitts: 

 burgh. He was always interested in 

 aoything pertaining to the development 

 of the business and he advanced rapidly. 

 He had an opportunity to go to Toronto 

 as manager of one of the leading firms 

 there and he accepted the position. 



Seeing the possibilities for business in 

 the Queen city, he decided to go into 

 business for liimself in 1907. 



He is one of the few retailers who 

 know i)lants and flowers, having liad 

 considerable experience in greenliouses 



H. G. Dillemuth. 



(Head of the Toronto Hosts of the F.T, !>.. Ocfoh<M II t( 



and with outside stock. He is in de- 

 mand at many shows to judge stock. A 

 few years ago, when competition was 

 keen at local shows, he was always found 

 to be among the leaders when the prizes 

 were distributed. 



His first store was on Spadina avenue, 

 but finding that business was better 

 downtown, he moved to the present ad- 

 dress, where he has bnilt op a large 

 trade. , 



He is always active in association 

 work and is a past-president of the 

 Toronto Gardeners' and Florists' As- 

 sociation and the Toronto Retail Flo- 

 rists' Club. He is vice-president of the 

 F. T. D., of which organization he was 

 ii director for several years. 



A greenhouse is operated 

 in connection with his store, 

 for growing decorative 

 stock. He has had many 

 large decorations, includ- 

 ing the immense armories 

 for the governor-gemeral 's 

 ball when the Duke of Con- 

 naught was governor. 



Mr. Dillemuth is a Mason 

 and a Presbyterian. He is 

 tlic Rotarian florist in 

 Toronto and never loses a 

 chance to boost the slogan, 

 "Say It with Flowers." 

 During the past season he 

 addressed the Rotary Club, 

 the Electric Club and the 

 Business Club on floriculture 

 and the F. T. D. 



John H. Dunlop. 



Fjinious as rose grower as 

 well as retailer, John H. 

 Dunlop is known all over the 

 continent. He was born in 

 New York, January 7, 185"). 

 He went to Toronto at the 

 age of 7. Returning to New 

 York, he wont again to 

 Toronto in ]87,j, when he 

 opened a telegra])h office in 

 the Queen's hotel. In 1880 

 lie erected a small green- 

 house on Markham street, 

 north of College street. The 

 next year the 6x12 green- 

 house was doubled. In 1882 

 ill' erected an 8x50 house 

 and the following year this 

 was replaced by a house 

 12x50 feet. This was a 

 throe-quart cr-span house. 



With Henry Winnett he 

 erected a large greenhouse 

 on Lansdowne avenue in 

 1885. This was enlarged 

 ,;!.! until they had 400,000 



