SCPTBUBBB 12, 1912. 



The Florists^ Review 



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salable. Late winter and early spring 

 is the time for sowing primulas. You 

 are then sure of plants of sufficient 

 size to be salable. Keep all the primu- 

 las as cool and airy as possible. 



BUSINESS EMBABBASSMENTS. 



New York, N. Y. — A voluntary peti- 

 tion in bankruptcy was filed in the U, S. 

 District Court September 6 by Wm. C. 

 Rickards, Jr., and Alfred J. Rickards, 

 doing business under the firm name of 

 Bridgeman's Seed Warehouse, Rickards 

 Bros., proprietors, at 37 East Nineteenth 

 street, with liabilities $21,194 and as- 

 sets $1,381, consisting of accounts, 

 $1,134, and bulbs in storage, $247. The 

 stock was sold by a city marshal and 

 the fixtures were sold under foreclosure 

 of a chattel mortgage held by Mary A. 

 Hurlemann for $4,000. The business 

 was established in 1840 by A. Bridge- 

 man & Son and Rickards Bros, suc- 

 ceeded to it in August, 1906. There 

 are 130 creditors, as follows: 



Frank J. Duggan $ 82.00 



M. Kepplec 8.00 



Manhattan Refrigerating Co 71.03 



ISamond & Scott (note) 775.00 



Hinch Bros 204.92 



Vanghan's Seed Store 149.75 



O. V. Zaneen 450.00 



Bank of westbnry 210.00 



Peter Small, Mary A. Heratman and 



Bahk of Weatbory 000.00 



Oe«rge A. Brann (note) 1,500.00 



wmfam Hagemann & Co. (notes) 360.00 



Mary t. Rlckarda (note) 300.00 



Samoel 3. Trepeaa (note) 1,000.00 



J. A. Stnrsbarg (balance note) 330.00 



Tbomaa RiTera & Son 32.85 



John Wenach 22.26 



B. O. Pratt ft Co 12.88 



J. T. Lovett. 71.49 



De La Mare Printing & Publishing Co. . 4(i3.10 



S. D. Woodrufr & Sons 171.60 



McBrlde Co. 22.00 



B. Smyth & Son (rent) 2,332.63 



American Florist Co 27.6.% 



Horticulture Publishing Co 41.70 



r^evltz & Mardfln 13.00 



O. Blomburg 25.00 



Peacock Dahlia Co 9.96 



Singleton Van Schaik 16.15 



Koster & Co 213.95 



Palisades Nurseries 53.65 



A. H. Milliken 20.75 



Oonrad Appel ."iU.OS 



A. C. Zrolanek 14.95 



H. Bowman .78 



H. P. Michell Co 23.19 



Bliaabeth Nursery Co 13.64 



Aphlne Mfg. Co 46.35 



Bon Arbor Chemical Co .39.50 



Bdw. Webb ft Son 96.78 



O. V. Zangen 1.065.04 



George H. Barnes 5.00 



Boston Excelsior Co ."i.ao 



Botanical Mfg. Co 14.40 



Fertilizer National Supply Co .''.5.36 



Gutte-McQuade Paper Co 14.04 



A. Heubner 14.72 



Charles Johnson .~>0.65 



D. Landretb Seed Co 7.64 



Niehler Garden Tool Co 6.84 



Oelschleger Bros 15.50 



J. C. Plerson 4.00 



William McPherson 26.00 



M. E. Beeyes & O) 10.00 



Shipley Construction Co 13.00 



George L. Stlllman .18.81 



B. Hammond Tracy 6.47 



Van Ideratine Co ."2.00 



George L. Wamcke 6.72 



Reade & McKenna 8.00 



H. Scherbome .360.00 



.T. K. Allen 125.00 



Mnmm ft Co ■ 30.00 



The Globe 37.84 



Gerlack Barklow 40.00 



Papbam & Co 6.50 



.1. R. Strong 5.00 



W. F. Allen 6.0O 



Comstock. Perre & Co 148.25 



P. Overhage 2.25 



Compton-Slien Co .68 



Florists' Publishing (3o 42.80 



Robert Simpson .">4.00 



R. S. Miller 16.81 



Colllns-Ploss Co 14.10 



HJalmar Hartmann & Co 113.10 



Arthur T. Boddington 37.52 



Welch Bros. Co 11.38 



.Tames Vlck's Sons ^S.6C, 



Hiram T. Jones 27.96 



A. L. Miller 20.75 



Charles Coral & Co 4.14 



C. W. Fortl & Co 178.00 



Allis-Chalmers Co 13.75 



S. Rockfeller 10.00 



The Chronicle Press 75.26 



C. H. Totty S8.72 



«< Vincent, Jr., ft Sons Co 23.35 



E. B. Parsons .'59.40 



BenJ. Hammond 31.11 



n. Herbert ft Son 100.04 



Jerome B. Rice Seed Co S3P.44 



A Wild Smilax Packing and Shippiog Station at Evergreen, Ala. 



Perfection Chemical Co $ 1.75 



S. L. Allen Co 7.07 



Arthur Cowee 109.50 



J. H. Hamilton Co 7.94 



W. Atlee Burpee ft Co .">0.00 



Burnett Bros 8.80 



WhlUdln Pottery Co .20 



Reed ft Keller ::s.77 



.John Lewis Childs 212.19 



Bobblnk ft Atkins 41.Hr, 



J. M. Thorbum ft Co 9.75 



H. King ft Son 292.66 



Vanghan's Seed Store 14.93 



Vaughan's Seed Store 128.55 



Xungestter-Uickinson Co 148.29 



Lister Agricultural Chemical Co 1.t8..38 



H. D. Cnlen 1.29 



George Repperger 30.00 



B. Senary 356.90 



Caldwell Lawn Mower Co 223.75 



New Jersey Moss ft Peat Co 12.75 



R. ft J. Farquhar ft Co 8.87 



C. W. Elcbelman -"j.O:! 



B. R. Donovan 52.57 



Scott Bros 25.90 



George Rottentraln 31.65 



H. P. Darrow 182.40 



Doubleday, Page ft Co 127.20 



Lager ft Hurrell 1.80 



John A. Scollay S..50 



G. W. Hopping 2.25 



George A. Steele 4..38 



Westbnry Greenhouses 3.00 



G. B. Fellows ft Co 2.25 



W. C. Jones 26.56 



B. A. Reth 247.97 



Mary A. Hurlemann 4,000.00 



Yokohama Nursery Co .339.10 



O. J. Gude Co 299.6.3 



Elderlng ft Son 400.00 



Estate C. W. Heuss 83.80 



Total $21,194.88 



Mary J. Rickards Is accommodation endorser 



for eight notes of $1,000 each given to and held 



by Mary A. Hurlemann. 



THE WILD SMILAX INDUSTRY. 



Was it chance or an appreciation of 

 the eternal fitness of things that makes 

 Evergreen, Ala., the headquarters of 

 the wild smilax industry? 



Smilaz, the botanists tell us, is native 

 over a large part of the eastern and 

 southern United States, but it was at 

 Evergreen, amid the swamps of Ala- 

 bama, that George W. Caldwell, the 

 pioneer, established his shipping sta- 

 tion, and it is from Evergreen that 

 millions of cases of the hardy decorat- 

 ive evergreen have since gone out. 

 Caldwell is dead, but the industry he 

 founded is in the full strength of pros- 

 perity. 



Just how many cases of wild smilax 

 go out of Evergreen in a season it has 

 never been possible to ascertain. Prac- 

 tically every express train from Sep- 

 tember to Majy carries its quota, and 

 scores of solid carloads go out by 

 freight, frequently in refrigerator cars, 

 in which it travels splendidly. Wild 

 smilax can be kept in cold storage al- 

 most indefinitely. 



The three or four principal shippers 

 from Evergreen enlist the services of 

 a small army of men, gathering in sea- 

 son wild smilax, ferns, sheet moss, mag- 

 nolia leaves, palm leaves an-d crowns,, 

 needle pines, mistletoe, etc., but the 

 smilax is the important item. As with 

 most if not all decorative greens, the 

 shippers are not really gatherers, al- 

 though they have their regular people 

 in the woods. Payment is in accord- 

 ance with the quantity and quality of 

 the stock brought in, not by the day. 

 The shipper will buy from anyone who- 

 brings in the kind of stock wanted, so- 

 that half the countryside augments its 

 income by picking greens, in addition 

 to those who depend on it. 



While wild smilax is an article that 

 keeps, the shippers do not as a mle 

 carry much stock at Evergreen. It 

 goes out as fast as it comes in, and on 

 any large demand the stock practically 

 is picked to order. The accompanying 

 illustration shows four loads of smilax 

 just in from the swamps of ConecnU 

 county, of which Evergreen is the 

 county seat, in front of the packing 

 shed of Charles S. Lee & Co. This,, 

 with other loads picked that morning,, 

 went to make up fifty cases on ai> 

 order for the C. A. Dahl Co., Atlanta, 

 6a. The stock goes from the wagtm 

 to the cases, and by mid-afternoon wa» 

 in the express cars. The next day the 

 Atlanta florist was putting it up in a 

 decoration for an automobile show. 



It is said that the supply of wUd 

 smilax in Conecuh county is practically 

 inexhaustible. The summer's growth 

 replenishes the winter's picking. The 

 shippers get what they want when tbey 

 want it, except for an occasional 

 flood, which renders the swamps im- 

 passable and the smilax inaccessible. 

 In the autumn the picking is close to 

 town, but by spring the countryside is 

 pretty well stripped, and the pickers 

 have to go out some distance, but that 

 matters little; there isn't any hook- 

 worm at Evergreen. 



Those who have made the acquaint- 

 ance of Charles S. Lee at the Baltimore 

 or Chicago conventions will enjoy the 

 illustration. He is the typical south- 

 erner. Does he stand next the bull 

 dog, or the dog next to him? Which- 

 ever it is, you can tell they are good 

 friends. 



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