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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



December 12, 1901. 



OMAHA AND COUNCIL BLUFFS. 



Mr. Hadkinson lias returned from his 

 superintendency of the Nebraska fruit 

 exhibit at Buffalo and contemplates 

 making Omaha his headquarters. He is 

 doing some park landscape work at 

 York, Neb., and has in view an exten- 

 sive nursery business in the future, in 

 conjunction with ex-Secretary of Agri- 

 culture Morton of Nebraska City, Neb. 



Our old-time friend, A. Donaghue, Sr., 

 has returned from his European trip in 

 excellent health and has taken entire 

 charge of his greenhouses and retail 

 business again. 



A call at Hess & Swoboda's green- 

 houses found Mr. Swoboda "on deck"' 

 and proud of the two large ones erected 

 during the past year. Stock of all kinds 

 looks well and is easily absorbed by the 

 retail outlet of the firm, in the Paxton 

 house. 



Lewis Henderson's store is only a 

 block away and here Mrs. Henderson 

 manages to sell all that Lewis can grow, 

 and a good deal more. Both are con- 

 templating a trip to Asheville next Aug- 

 ust. 



Miss Arnold, with whom all the eli- 

 gible horticulturists fell in love at the 

 convention of 1898, looks younger than 

 ever, and presides at her cozy little 

 store as charmingly as in the old days. 



Paul Paulson has become ambitious 

 and has a retail business this season 

 which promises well. His greenhouses 

 are fully stocked, and his perennial 

 palm decorations keep him busy. 



"JIanager" Sam Stewart still monop- 

 olizes the retail seed and bulb trade of 

 Omaha and does a fine cut flower busi- 

 ness as well. He repnrts a very pros- 

 perous year, and evervthincr looks it. 



The Peterson Bros, still maintain their 

 retail place on the same street and are 

 evidently progressing. 



On the way to South Omaha Louis 

 Lecluse has the old Haas place, and "is 

 making the best of it,"' while further on, 

 past the Henderson plant, ilonsieur De- 

 Laney has dispenseil with his green- 

 houses altogether, and is developing his 

 retail trade in that growing suburb. 



It would be no visit at all to this 

 central state of the union if one did not 

 cross the muddy Missouri and spend a 

 day with J. F. Wilcox, the young giant 

 of horticulture in this western country. 

 Those of you who attended the conven- 

 tion of 1898 and enjoyed the "outing" 

 at his hospitable home will remember 

 the acres of glass in view and the fine 

 grapery above them on the hillside. You 

 can see no grapery now. The whole hill- 

 side is a "sea of glass." and nearly half 

 a million feet constitute the largest 

 plant west of Chicago. Not yet satis- 

 fied, or compelled by the constant growth 

 of his business, he contemplates still 

 another range in 1902, and it would be 

 a bold prophet who could determine 

 when his ambition will be satisfied. The 

 plans for a $2.5,000 mansion, now in 

 process of building, are another evidence 

 of progress. 



The stock grown by Mr. Wilcox 

 reaches every state in the south and 

 west, and his shipping trade is enor- 

 mous. His retail establishment controls 

 the local trade of Council BlufTs, and 

 his store has been added to considerably 

 since the convention, by a special pack- 

 ing and shipping department, occupying 

 the second story nf (lie building. 



Austin. 



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 when wrltiner advertisers. 



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Lar^'c plants. f3-incli pots, with fine tops 50 each. 



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