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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



June 26, 1902. 



AMERICAN ART INDUSTRIES. 



IJnder the above headiug the New York 

 Tribune is printing a series of interest- 

 ing descriptive articles, and the third 

 one, which appeared June 14, is devoted 

 to horticultural architecture. It contains 

 a very interesting description of the work 

 done by the Lord & Burnham Co., Irving- 

 ton-on-Hudson, N. Y., together with an 

 illustration showing some conservatories 

 erected by the company at Bethayres, Pa. 



Our readers are thoroughly familiar 

 with the large business done by the com- 

 pany in the designing and erecting of 

 conservatories and greenhouses and in the 

 manufacturing of heating and ventilat- 

 ing apparatus, but the following extract 

 from the liistorical sketch of the firm 

 will no doubt be of general interest : 



The Lord & Burnham Compati.v was foumh'ii 

 by a man of versatile genius. Frederick A. 

 Lord, a Boston bo.T who was educated as a 

 mechanic, and who rose carlv in lite to a po- 

 sition at the head of the old Eaton Mills, in 

 Butfalo, Mr. Lord, who was full of artistic 

 tastes, then lived in Delaware Ave., one of 

 the most beautiful streets In any American 

 city, and occupied his leisure in horticulture 

 and soon acquired such a reputation In this 

 avocation that he became a consulting authority 

 for the entire region. He coveted and flnallv 

 built a vinery for his own establishment and 

 as a result found himself engaged in buildinK 

 greenhouses, at Brst as an amateur, but as 

 early as 1856 as a business. Working alone 

 for sixteen years, Mr. Lord erected greenhouses 

 all about the country, recognized everywhere 

 as an artist in the truest sense: but he haO 

 not been at worii a year before he began to 

 recreate his product. He was not satisfled 

 to build glass houses which, when sheltered and 

 warmed, would grow plants. He had a practi- 

 cal genius for invention, which transformed 

 everything it touched. He furnished the Chick- 

 erlngs with the first scroll mnsic holder foi- 

 the piano. He got up the first machine foi 

 rope moulding." Always thinking out toward 

 the beauty that arises from supreme fitness 

 he soon evolved a series of architectural Im- 

 provements in greenhouse building which are 

 largely in use to-day. The elliptical roof was 

 invented by Mr. Lord early in his career, but it 

 still furnishes the principle upon which the 

 best modern greenhouses are built. 



The business of greenhouse construction, how- 

 ever, cannot be said to have reached its pres- 

 ent development under Mr. Lord. It waited the 

 advent of Mr. W. Addison Burnham. who hav- 

 ing married the daughter of Mr. Lord, entered 

 the concern in 1.S72. To the administration of 

 the building department Mr. Burnham brought 

 a business man's trained grasp of detail, and as 

 an outcome. Lord & Burnham began to manu- 

 facture the constituent parts of their green- 

 houses in quantity. These being always in 

 stock. It remained for the architectural depart- 

 inent to design and plan with the detail of the 

 stock in mind. This resulted in a great sav- 

 ing of time and expense to the purchaser and 

 a very great economy of labor to the builders 

 Customers who had heretofore been obliged to 

 wait months for the manufacture of each com- 

 ponent of their houses, could, under this sys- 

 tem, be supplied expeditiously and with a miich 

 more perfect building. With the manufactory 

 began a steady perfecting of the detail's o'f 

 greenhouse work. The introduction of the iron 

 frame by the Ijord & Burnham Company fol- 

 lowed in 1881. This announces the liodern 

 American greenhouse, and its aprenrance gave 

 a tremendous Impetus to the business. It was 

 quickly adopted by other builders, but the 

 latter made a mistake carefully avoided by the 

 more experienced inventors. Discarding the 

 use of wood altogether, the imitators under- 

 took to build solely of iron, which resulted in 

 a condition impossible to plant life. Either 

 the house was cold or. If heated, required n 

 temperature uncontrollable and excessive The 

 method of the Lord & Burnham Company has 

 always been to cover the iron with wood the 

 non-conductor, which by protecting the iron 

 prevents contraction and expansion ami 

 '^^'i'"!?';!!"* b'-fakage of glass. It m.iv he 

 added that cypress is the wood most used by the 

 company in its greenhouse work, a materLai al 

 most as indestructible as iron itself 



New London, O.— On June 12th a hail 

 storm swept through this little eitv, but 

 . fortunately Chase & Son, the florists, suf- 

 fered damage to their houses amounting 

 to only about ,$2,5. They are verv thank- 

 ful that they escaped so easily. Six years 

 ago they lost .$1,000 in five ininutes time 

 from hail. 



JtlDDLETOWN, Pa.— Mr. Linus Penical, 

 the Main street florist, will soon add 

 some new glass to his establishment. 



THE GEO.WITrBOLD CO., CHICAGO 



Gro'wers and Importers of 

 , Palms, Ferns and Tropical Plants 



variety. 

 Areca Lutescens.. 



WHOLESALE PRICE LIST. 



Size Pots. Height. In. No. Leaves. Each. Per Doz 



*7s 5 to ti » 7'; 



3 stolO loo"' 



■iH 12 to 15 ;:: ::: :;:::::: 2:00::: 



Kfntia Belmoreana. 



Forsteriana . 



■ < U tolti 



. 2K 8 to 9 3 to 



3 10 to 12 1 to 



3H 12 to 14 5 to 



* 14 tolti !i to 



2Ji. 



.W.25 



.25.... 

 30.. 



3.00. 

 1.60.. 

 2.00., 

 3.00.. 



3.B0., 



Per 100 

 ...I 5.0U 

 ... 8.00 

 ... 15.00 

 ... 25.00 

 ... 12.00 

 ... 15.00 

 ... 20.00 



8 to a 3 to 4.'.'.'.'.'.'.! ... '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. L5o! 



Latania Borbonica. 



.10 to 12 4 to 



• 31i 12 to 14 6 to 



12.00 

 15.00 



20.00 



strong.. 

 Asparagus Sprengert 



10 6 to B 



■ 18 to24 6 to 8 75.. 



• 22 toze rto 9 I.OO.. 



■26 to 30 7 to 10 1.50.. 



Plu. Nanns. 



Arancaria Kxoelsa .'.'.'.... 4 



Pandanus Veitchii 5 



6 



Utilis 4 



Nephrolepsis Itostoniensis 2 



. .50. 

 l.UO. 

 1.5CI.. 

 2.60.. 

 3.60.. 

 .25.. 



a 



.10 



100,000 



Cannas. 



Bouvier, Star of '91, Crozy, 

 Florence Vaughan. Austria, 

 etc., etc., mixed, from 4-inch 

 pots. .$('..00 per 100. 



Colens, J. Goode, Verschaffeltii, BeckwithGem, 

 etc.. ■214-inch, at $3.U0 per 100; S'Z5 00 per 1000. 

 Centaurea, 3-inch, at S3 00 per 100 

 Salleroi, 3-inch, at $3.00 per 100. 

 Petunias, 4-inch. dble. and single. $7.00 per 10 1 



CRABB & HUNTER, Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Assorted Ferns, for fern dishes.'V-lnchpoVs 24.0U. 



Japanese Fern Balls, from $3.00 to lo.OO per dozen, price accord lug ti'quaii'ty.' 



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GER4NIIJMS1 



''I? 0?' er IWl"**"^ sorts, from 2M-lnch pots, 



Caladinm Esculentnm, 4 to O-in., $1 .00. 



Acbyranthes EmersoDll, 2-ln. pots. $2 per 100- 

 rooted cuttings. 76e per 100. 



Altemanthera, from2-in. pots. $2.00 per 100 



Colens, 20 standard varieties. 2-ln. pots 12 00 



Cannas, in varieties, 3-la. pots. lo.OO per 100. 



Ctirysanthemnms, pompons, best collection 

 known. 2M-ln. pots, $2 00 per 106: rooted cut- 

 tings, $1 ,00 per 100, or $1 .25 postpaid. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



standard Varieties. 



Bonnaffon, Culllngfordli. Eureka. J. H Wood- 

 ISSl,.*""'""^''" Mrs. Jerome Jones. Mrs. J. D. 

 Whilldin. Modesto. Mrs. S. T. Murdock. Mrs. 

 John J. Glessner. Mrs. R. McArthur Mrs H 

 Weeks. Mrs. O. P. Bassett, Nireus, RoseOweni 

 y. H. Halloek, Prince of Wales, large-flowering 

 hardy white. 



2>i-in. pots, 30c per doz.; t'>.00 per 100. 



SPECIAL PRICE on CHRYSANTHEMIMS: 



1,000 our selection of from 10 to 30 kinds, tor 115 00 



Write for prices on large lots. 



CASH WITH ORDER. 



R. VINCENT, Jr. & SON, White Marsh, Md. 



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2.00 



3.00 



4.00 



. .60 



1.00 



-.20. 



. 10.00, 



IS.tO, 



. .£0 



, I.IO 



, 1.50 



2.00 



, .50, 



1.00, 



, 6.00, 



12.00 



18.00 



30.00 



4'2.00 



3.C0 



.50 4.00 



l.UO 8.00 



3.00 26.00 



9.00 



12.00 

 18.00 



4.00 

 8.00 



eo.oo 



3.00 

 8.00 

 12.00 

 15.00 

 4.00 

 8.00 



3.00 



Fine plants from 2^4 inch pots, ready for plant- 

 ing. $l,'2,s per 100; .S10.no per lOCK) ; $1,5,00 per 5000. 



OUBLE FRINGED 



Petunias. 



Our superb collection of 10 varieties. strODg 

 2>^-inch plants, in bud and bloom. SI, '25 per 100; 

 $10.00 per 1000. 50O at 1000 rate. Cash. 



The W. T. Buckley Plant Co., 



SFBI2rGFIEI.D, ILL. 



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PSNSY 



NEW 

 GIANT 



Carnations,Geraniuffls, 



Cannas, etc. 



Prices quoted upon application. 



THE COTTAGE GARDENS, Queens, LI. 



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ALL, 

 THE 

 BEST 



Orders Booked Now for Tall Delivery. 

 SEND FOR PRICES. 



Rooted Cuttings and young plants all out. 



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CARNATIONS 



-Mme. Perrat 



The Prize Strain, exhibited at the Pan-Ameri- 

 can Exposition, true stock. 50c per trade packet : 

 $5.00 per ounce. 



Our Choicest Mixture of the best strains pro- 

 curable. 50c per trade packet : $1.25 per Jg ounce; 

 $2.00 per I4 ounce. 



WALTER MOTT SEED & BULB CO., 



JAMESTOWN, N. Y. 



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JOHN BROD, 



349 W. North Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. 



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