Decbubeb 21, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



27 



LAST CALL 



WIRE YOUR ORDERS 



For Christmas Greens For Christmas Cut Flowers For Florists' Supplies 



If anybody has what you need, Winterson has it, and Winterson will ship on next train. 



WInterson's Seed Store 



166 N. Wabash Avenue, 



Lons; Distance Phone, 

 6004 Central. 



CHICAGO 



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season. Everything in flower that is 

 worth selling is already sold, and de- 

 livery is at its height. There has been 

 considerable shipping, but the big city 

 uses an enormous quantity. The quality 

 of the azaleas, ardisias, poinsettias, 

 oranges, etc., has never been excelled. 



The event of special interest during 

 this pre-holiday week will be the re- 

 union of the gardeners Thursday after- 

 noon and evening. All branches of 

 floriculture wili be represented. Much 

 credit is due the committee, Messrs. 

 Manda, Marshall and Donlon, for the 

 thoroughness of the preparations. 



A visit last week at the establish- 

 ment of the Yonkers Nursery Co. re- 

 vealed an enterprise, within street car 

 distance of New York, that is already 

 a credit to eastern horticulture and to 

 its ambitious proprietor, Fred Smythe, 

 of Wadley & Smythe. Eobert Rennison 

 is in charge of the nursery. Sixty acres 

 are devoted to the business. Packing 

 cellars, immense palm houses and every 

 facility for handling the business are 

 in evidence. Some of the palms are 

 valued at $400 to $500 each. Mr. 

 Smythe makes annual purchasing tours 

 in Europe. A grand bank of the silver 

 spruce attracts special attention. Great 

 masses of rhododendrons on the side hill 

 must be a glorious sight in the flowering 

 season. 



Not many miles distant, between 

 White Plains and Tarrytown, one is 

 attracted by a range of greenhouses 

 and a fine nursery in embryo. The Scott 

 brothers are proprietors of a 30-acre 

 tract, one-third of which can be dis- 

 posed of any day for the original cost, 

 leaving as velvet twenty acres of splen- 

 did nursery soil in the heart of as fine 

 a suburban section as can be found 

 within a 20-mile radius of the metrop- 

 olis. In the greenhouses are grown the 

 new varieties of roses and carnations, 

 all absorbed in the neighborhood by the 

 retail trade, and an abundance of 

 rooted cuttings for the wholesale de- 

 mand. Fine homes have been built, im- 

 mense plantings of nursery stock have 

 been made and a bright future for this 

 enterprise seems assured. 



Distinguished visitors to New York 

 last week were Elmer D. Smith, of 

 Adrian, Mich.; E. G. Hill, of Richmond, 



PERCY 



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Nor the Largest 



Just the Best 



56 East Randolph Street, CHICAGO 



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Ind., and J. K. Farquhar, of Boston, the 

 latter gentleman giving one of his inter- 

 esting travelogues before the Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York Saturday 

 afternoon. 



The trade was shocked on Monday 

 morning by the announcement of the 

 accidental death of Mr. Lord, of the 

 Lord & Burnham Co., at his residence 

 in Irvington. He had evidently been 

 crushed without warning, as he was 

 found in his garage and had been, dead 



several hours when the accident was 

 discovered. 



The seedsmen are, many of them, 

 handling holly and Christmas plants, 

 some of them doing a big retail trade 

 in lower New York. After New Year's 

 all the big houses will have their repre- 

 sentatives hustling. 



Woodrow & Marketos say shipping 

 orders for plants have been ahead of 

 expectations. 



Every florists' supply house has been 



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