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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JULY 21, ISEIS. 



There are many beautiful views from 

 tlie elevations, and in fact from every 

 part of Omaha; a grand vista of bluffs 

 and lakes and river may be enjoyed. 

 It is "a city set on a hill." The parks 

 will attract many of the convention 

 florists I am sure, and add not a little 

 to the feast of pleasure which I be- 

 speak them. J. AUSTIN SHAW. 



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SOME OMAHA FLORISTS. 



In our introduction group in this is- 

 sue will be seen the faces of a number 

 of Omaha florists who will be met at 

 the coming convention. 



A. Donaghue, Sr., whose pleasant 

 face appears first in the group, is vice- 

 president of the S, A. F. this year and 

 will surely be well liked by the visit- 

 ors. His enthusiasm as to the conven- 

 tion and his efforts to arrange for the 

 pleasure and comfort of the visitors 

 should awaken any interest that may 



be dormant east of the Mississippi. 

 Mr. Donaghue is enjoying a well won 

 retirement from the cares of business. 

 His 50 years rest lightly upon him and 

 his devotion to athletics and his bowl- 

 ing scores indicate a reserve force that 

 gives promise of a "good old age." 



A. Donaghue, Jr., as you may see, is 

 still a young man, in fact about the 

 youngest in this country with the re- 

 sponsibility of nearly 40,000 square 

 feet of glass on his shoulders. He has 

 succeeded to the business so splendidly 

 established by his father. He is a 

 "chip off the old block" as to sport, 

 and will be very apt to Captain the 

 Omaha bowling team if he maintains 

 his present average. 



J. J. Hess is one of the leading flor- 

 ists of Omaha, having been in the busi- 

 ness here since LS.S.S. He was born in 

 Amrisweil, near Lake Constance, 

 Switzerland, in 1.S03, and acquired his 

 first experience in the business in the 

 University of Tubingen in Southern 

 Germany. He was also employed in the 

 Basle Botanical Gardens of Basle, 

 Switzerland, for nearly three years, 

 and was associated for a year with 

 Steir, the leading landscape gardener 

 of Switzerland. Mr. Hess came to 

 America in 1.S.S4 and located in Indi- 

 anapolis, having charge of the green- 

 houses at the insane asylum in that 

 city until he moved to Omaha. 



Mr. Hess's partner, Geo. Swoboda, 

 was born in Saxony in l.SOl. He 

 leaiiied the business with his uncle, J. 

 C. Schmidt, of Erfurt, one of the larg- 

 est horticultural concerns of Germany, 

 and is a brother-in-law of Schultz, the 

 leading florist of Berlin. 



Mr. Swoboda worked in Belgium, and 

 afterwards with Sanders, of London. 

 He came to America in 1884 and work- 

 ed first with Siebrecht & Son, of New 

 Rochelle. He has entire charge of the 

 greenhouse department of the firm's 

 business and their plant comprises 

 over 20,000 square feet of glass. 



Messrs. Hess and Swoboda are both 

 much interested in the coming conven- 

 tion and will do their share towards 

 making it a success. 



R. H. Davey is one of Omaha's 

 oldest florists, having been in the busi- 

 ness 14 years in that city. He does a 

 general decorating business, but his 

 specialties are aloes and cacti, of which 

 he has had over 500 varieties. He has 

 four large beds of plants on the Ex- 

 position grounds in the Nebraska 

 State and County exhibits that attract 

 much attention. Two beds of his seed- 

 ling cannas, all novel, will interest vis- 

 iting florists. 



He was born in "My Maryland" in 

 1.S3G, and fought in the 24th Michigan 

 Regiment during the civil war under 

 Col. Morrow, and if he wasn't 02 years 

 old he would be flghting against an- 

 other "Morro" now. 



The Chapin Bros., of Lincoln, Neb., 

 are amongst the leading florist houses 

 of the west. Their plant, 4 miles from 

 Lincoln's centre, consists of 15,000 

 square feet of glass, while connected 



with their store in the centre of the 

 residence district and close to the cap- 

 itol, they have two other greenhouses 

 devoted to their palm stock and hand- 

 somest plants for home decoration. 

 From a very small beginning in 1880 

 they have built up a first class trade, 

 which shows a goodly increase every 

 year. 



H. A. Chapin was born in 1803 and 

 L. C. in ISG!). They are over reet in 

 height and weigh exactly the same, and 

 strangers have difliculty in distinguish- 

 ing them apart. In fact, it has been 

 stated that their wives have occa- 

 sional trouble in deciding which one 

 has stayed out too late for bowling 

 practice. They are both fond of ath- 

 letic sports, and will do their share to 

 make the convention enjoyable. Botli 

 are life members of the Nebraska State 

 Hort. Society and members of the Ne- 

 braska and Iowa F'lorists' Club of 

 Omaha. L. C. is in charge of the Ne- 

 braska State Horticultural exhibit and 

 the Nebraska State Building. 



Lewis Henderson, of Omaha, came 

 to the "land of the free" from the 

 mountains of William Tell over oO 

 years ago. He has been in the florist 

 business in Omaha during the last 10 

 years and has a flne plant of ."50,000 

 square feet of glass in South Omaha, 

 the Magic City, and a store in Omaha 

 on Farnham street, in the best busi- 

 ness part of the city. 



He is a member and director of the 

 Neb. State Hort. Society, the Florists' 

 Club and the S. A. F., and is an en- 

 thusiastic bowler. He has ability also 

 as a speaker and made the oration 

 last year at the State Hort. convention. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market, 



That the demand for good white 

 roses is brisk for the season is shown 

 by the fact that quite a lot of orders 

 could not be filled last week, despite 

 there being a great many more Kaiser- 

 ins grown this summer than there 

 were last year. The advent of grafted 

 stock is responsible for this, the plants 

 benched after Easter are now in many 

 cases producing good crops. This rose 

 brings .f3 and $4; a very few specials 

 have brought $5. There is not much 

 else worthy of mention. Orchids, 

 though nice, sell slowly, A few fair 

 Beauties are coming in, some of them 

 from young stock. When cared for, 

 peas are excellent but woefully cheap 

 — that is, the grower finds it so. Per- 

 haps the flower loving public thinlc 

 two bunches for a quarter dear enough 

 in warm weather. Cornflower is ^cood 

 but not very plentiful. Some fine Vic- 

 tor and Scott are seen. 



Auctions. 



Two auction sales of old greenhouse 

 establishments were held last week. 

 The march of improvements made it 

 necessary for them to go. One of the 

 sales especially emphasized the high 



