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HORTICULTURE 



May 8, 1909 



CHICAGO NOTES. 

 The Great Storm. 



The culmination of a stormy week 

 was reached last Wednesday night 

 when Chicago was struck by the most 

 severe wind, rain, hail and thunder 

 storm known to many of the florists 

 who have lived there for half a cen- 

 tury. The hail, driven by the fierce 

 wind, would have done much damage 

 had the hail stones been large, which 

 fortunately they were not. During 

 Wednesday and Thursday the i-aiufall 

 was three inches, on ground already 

 soaked. On Saturday, May 1st, those 

 who had planted their young carna- 

 tions in the field found them sticking 

 out through the ice. 



The heavy rainfall coming after the 

 frequent showers of the past month on 

 ground already soaked completely 

 flooded the low ground in the market 

 gardening district. Mr. Kraush at 

 7Sth St. and Jeffrey Ave., lost his en- 

 tire plant used principally for vege- 

 tables. 



The N. C. Moore greenhouses at 

 Morton Grove suffered much. The 

 tall chimney was struck by lightning 

 ■ind in falling ruined the heating and 

 watering systems. Six-inch iron pii)€s 

 ■were twisted like straw in the terrible 

 gale. 



Poehlmann Bros., Morton Grove, esti- 

 mate their loss at $1500 to ?2000, and 

 think they are fortunate to come 

 through a cyclone so well. The west 

 end of their rose range is entirely out 

 and the stock more or less injured. 



Kirchel Bros, of Morton Grove had a 

 12 ft. section, including rafters, taken 

 from their greenhouses, leaving both 

 ends standing. 



J. C. Brooks, also o£ Morton Grove, 

 was fortunate in escaping with slight 

 damage. 



Most of Kvanston escaped with a 

 bad scare. It looked as if the many 

 establishments were to be wiped out 

 but the storm passed them by. Michael 

 Reding, a vegetable grower, had the 

 roof of his barn lifted and dropped on 

 the greenhouse, demolishing it pretty 

 thoroughly. 



At Frank Oechslin's the small chim- 

 ney on his storage house was blown 

 over, breaking in the roof and demol- 

 ishing, among other things, some fine 

 plants of boxwood, just imported, and 

 considerable glass. He estimates hia 

 loss at $200. 



Hoerber Bros., who are building a 

 range at Des Plaines, had five houses 

 up but no glass set. The frame work 

 for four was completely wrecked. The 

 loss will be mostly for labor. 



Helm Bros, of Blue Island are also 

 heavy losers. 



A. W. Meyer, whose greenhouses are 

 at Dalton, thought his place was gone, 

 for he was directly in the path of the 

 storm. Just as it reached his corner 

 the wind turned to the north, passing 

 him by with almost no injury. 



.\t Frank Beu's the greenhouses 

 danced in the wind, but Mr. Beu had 

 no idea of giving up his possessions 

 so easily. He and his men risked their 

 lives by trying to hold down, by means 

 of hose, the corners of a new house. 

 40 teet wide, and he succeeded. 



H. P. Gerhardt of Winnetka was not 

 so fortunate. A greenhouse may be 

 held down but a- smokestack cannot be 

 held up. In falling It severed the ends 

 of the houses, letting the wind under 



the glass, which took the roof off the 

 entire plant. Total loss, seven houses, 

 barn and dwelling. 



C. Clemensen, 8128 Sherman Ave., 

 So. Chicago, is receiving the congratu- 

 lations of his friends at his miraculou.s 

 escape. He saw brick buildings blow 

 down and freight cars pile up. The 

 air was filled with flying bricks and 

 cajj stones weighing three and four 

 hundred pounds were falling from the 

 new buildings. Mr. Clemensen did not 

 venture out for the two hours the 

 storm lasted there, and when he did he 

 hardly recognized the vicinity, so ter- 

 rible was the destruction. What was 

 his astonishment to find his 20,000 feet 

 of glass safe and sound. 



H. C. Bluett and Chas. Wifiin of Des 

 Plaines, 111., both suffered loss from 

 the overflowing of the Des Plaines 

 river. The water put out the fires and 

 made it almost impossible to pick the 

 flowers. 



, The Sick People. 



Fred Klingel, of Geo. Reinberg's 

 wholesale store, is suffering from 

 bronchitis. Phil Schupp is able to be 

 back at his desk, after a tussle with 

 grip. Louis Coatsworth, after suffer- 

 ing all winter with rheumatism, is 

 now recovering from an attack of ap- 

 pendicitis. Mrs. O. P. Bassett is 

 slowly improving and Is now consid- 

 ered out of danger. 



Miscellaneous. 



The son of N. P. Miller, greenhouse 

 builder, will be married June 9th to 

 Miss Margaret Schaefer. Miss Josepha 

 Then will be bridesmaid. 



Imported pot plants of magnolia 

 have proved unsatisfactory in the 

 Chicago market. Calceolarias are 

 seen in very beautiful colors but they 

 do not sell well. 



According to the report from the 

 weather bureau April made a record 

 for rain fall over an inch higher than 

 ever before. It was 7.73 this year and 

 the highest previous was that for 

 April 1882—6.73. 



Provincetown, Mass. — J. & A. E. 



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