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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 



Pres.,Chas. A. Ilk-enfritz. Monroe. Mich.: Vlce- 

 Pres.. D. S. Lake Shenandoah. I.i ; Ser'y, Ueo. C. 

 Seai-or, Rochester. N. Y.; Treas., (\ I.. Yules. 

 Kochester N. Y Tin- tuemy seventh animal 

 ..,, will behold at n.-lroil .Inn.' 111. 11 ami 

 12, 11*03. 



s. ( hicaso. report the past 

 season as showing a good gain over last 

 year. 



Spring Valley, Minn. — G. A. B. 

 Howell is now sole owner of the Spring 

 Valley Nursery. 



At the Iowa Agricultural College, at 

 Ames, a series of experiments is being 

 conducted to determine the value of ever- 

 greens as shelter belts for orchards, etc. 



Rochester, N. Y. — The Graham Nurs- 

 ery Co. has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $10,000. The directors 

 are E. O. Graham, Cora M. Graham and 

 J. M. Campbell. 



George C. Roeding, of Fresno, has 

 been asked by the state commissioners 

 to take the management of the horti- 

 cultural exhibit of California at the St. 

 Louis World's Fair. 



Charleston, W. Va.— -The J. M. Neil 

 Co. has been incorporated to succeed 

 The Nursery & Seed- Co. The capital is 

 $10,000 and the company will deal in 

 seeds, nursery stock, implements, etc. 

 J. M. Neil is secretary and treasurer. 



The twenty-seventh annual convention 

 of the American Association of Nur- 

 serymen was opened yesterday with a 

 very satisfactory attendance. There is 

 an interesting program but it is the 

 business transacted between the mem- 

 bers which makes the success of the 

 meeting. 



Nursery stock can now be sold in the 

 state of Washington only after an annual 

 license has been secured (dating from 

 April 1) and bonds of $2,000 are filed 

 with the state horticultural commis- 

 sioner, by principals. Dealers are re- 

 quired to pay a fee of $5 for license and 

 their agents .*i2.j0 each for permits to 

 do business. 



Strotjdsburg. Pa. — A new industry 

 has sprung up in Monroe county owing 

 to the great, demand for rhododendrons. 

 William Elwine, Young Price and 

 James E. Gravel are all working on 

 contracts getting rhododendrons for 

 shipment to Boston and other points. 

 Over 100 carloads have been shipped 

 from Cresco station during the last 

 year. Thirteen carloads were shipped 

 from Milanville. 



CLEVELAND. 



New Stores. 



Cleveland, as a flower market, is 

 growing very fast, and in order to 

 supply the increased demand several 

 new retail stores have been opened in 

 the past few weeks. >ir. Harrison, 

 formerly with the J. M. Gasser Co., has 

 opened an up-to-date store on Pearl 

 street, near Franklin. This location is 

 one of the busiest on the west side. A 

 few blocks further south, at 021 Pearl 

 street, E. A. Wilhelm has established 

 a fine trade. At 710 Lorain street the 

 Ehrbar' Floral Co. has been located for 

 some time and is doing a good steady 

 trade, with about all the design work 



they can possibly handle at present. A 

 short distance further west on the same 

 street C. J. Hippler has opened a new 

 store and reports that, trade has been 

 tai beyond his expectations. 



Various Notes. 



In the East End A. Graham & Sons 

 are very busy with plant trade and bed- 

 ding. They have the cream of the trade 

 in that section of the city. The F. R. 

 Williams Co. has just finished plant- 

 ing a house 35x150 to roses. They are 

 uiiiking a specialty of roses and maiden 

 hair ferns, having 12 large houses de- 

 voted to Maids. Brides and Meteors, and 

 two houses to adiantums for cut 

 fronds. The foreman, Mr. Brown, has 

 every reason to be satisfied with the 

 condition of the place. The cut is all 

 sold at wholesale from their store at 

 224 Huron street, where they do a gen- 

 eral wholesale and commission business. 



At the corner of St. Clair and Eddy 

 Road J. W. Wilson has a fine place de- 

 voted to carnations. Mr. Wilson makes 

 a specialty of this flower and has had 

 very good success with it, sending in the 

 finest blooms seen in the Cleveland mar- 

 ket. His young plants in the field are 

 as good as anyone could ask for. 



On the same road are located the 

 KJunze Bros., who grow a great many 

 geraniums and bedding plants and who 

 have a good trade established. Near 

 them is Fred Ponting. who grows about 

 20.000 geraniums each year. 



A. Schmidt, of Burton avenue. Glen- 

 ville, seems to be very unlucky with 

 his horses, having one of them run away 

 the first part of the week, smashing the 



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horses, consequently the loss is 

 Speaking of horses reminds 

 Geo. Smith, of Wade Park 

 just purchased a fast one. He savs it 

 can beat a 2:20 clip. This is the 

 gentleman who grows the seedling car- 

 nal ion. Magdaline, a very beautiful 

 flower, and evidently a money maker. 



H. P.. Carleton. of Willoughhy. Ohio, 

 had a severe loss by hail on the night 

 of May 24. nearlj $800 on glass alone, 

 not to mention the damage to the 

 plants, of which he had a large stock 

 ready for Decoration day. E. 



NEW BEDFORD, MASS. 



We are surrounded today by - ke 



from the forest fires in the vicinity. We 

 are not having as bad fires as they are 

 having in Maine, but there are hund- 

 reds of acres of pine forests burning and 

 the air is full of smoke. We have had 



i tv ninths' drought, broken only by 



a little rain in the small hours of the 

 early morning of May 30. when the 

 tired florists were busy putting up their 

 orders for early delivery. It did not. 

 wet the ground more than a quarter 

 ot an inch. If we do not get rain pretty 

 soon all plants in the field, and all 

 crops, will be ruined. 



Memorial day was a record breaker 

 for the store men. partly becau-e there 

 was so little outdoor stock available, 

 which was quite a loss to some of the 

 growers. All cut. flowers were sold out, 

 about the nnlv outdoor bloom available 

 being snowballs, and many of these had 

 gone by. Plant trade was immense, par- 

 ticularly on geraniums. There was al- 

 so a large sale on metallic designs. 



R. E. Nofftz is planning a trip to 

 Europe on Memorial day profits, and 

 expects to sail the first week in July. 



W. G. Kraber will leave us the last 

 of June to start in a new field. 



H. V. Sowle has opened a store in 

 the North End. 



Robt. Greenlaw, of N. F. McCarthy 

 & Co., Boston, was a recent visitor. 



O. 



KANSAS CITY. 



Notes. 



This city has just had a most disas- 

 trous flood, all our small towns close 

 around suffering alike. It rained here 

 for forty-eight hours steadily. The 

 water was fifteen feet over low water 

 mark. There were 15,000 people out of 

 homes, some of them being left with 

 just the clothes on their backs. Our 

 east and west bottoms were all under 

 water. That is where all our factories 

 and wholesale implement houses and 

 our old Union Station are. The water 

 was nine feet all around it. Our stock 

 yards were a sea of water. All our 

 bridges on the Kansas side were gone, 

 eight in all. Our city was out of city 

 water for forty-eight hours, and then 

 such water! You have to boil it and 

 strain it before you can use it. 



The only florist who was flooded was 

 D. Freudenthal, on Union avenue, oppo- 

 site the Union Station. His place was 

 water to the ceiling and he is on the 

 ground iloor. Everything was a loss. 



There was no flower business done. 

 Nobody in town wanted any flowers and 

 we could not ship any out. of town, as 

 there was water all around us. But 

 everything is coming around in good 

 shape now. Some of the florists did 

 a little business at the tail end of the 



Visitors during the flood were Mrs. 

 Burns, of Leavenworth. Kans.. and 

 George M. Kellogg and "Billy" Bastin, 

 of Pleasant Hill. Mo. L. M. S. 



W, & T. SMITH COMPANY 



GENEVA, N. Y. 



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namental Trees, Shrub b 

 Roses, Clematis, Fruit 

 Trees, and Small Fruits 

 in great variety. 

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'Anna Foster' Fern 



Plants from 3-inch pots at $20 per 100. See Am. 

 Florist, April 4th, pa?e 38(1. 



Boston Ferns— 20,000 now ready at S25.U0 per 

 10c cat from bench O alers booked for small 

 Bostons, slimmer deliver., a: *.i.00 per 100; 

 SlU.UOper 1000. 



lOO.OOO Iteririinc Plants In • .e-.-atmtms. Helio- 



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Alternantheras, Lemon Verbenas. Asters, etc. 



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