April 5, 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



541 



TORNADO'S WORK AT COUNCIL 

 BLUFFS. 



The most severe property loss In 

 Council Bluffs as a result of Sunday 

 night's tornado was that of the new 

 Wilcox greenhouses at Lake Manawa. 

 The loss here is enormous. 



The immense structure of steel and 

 glass is almost ruined and with its 

 destruction came ruin to the hundreds 

 of thousands of American Beauties, car- 

 nations and other plants just coming 

 into bloom and upon which thousands 

 and thousands of dollars had been ex- 

 pended. The plants were just begin- 

 ning to produce. Only a very small 

 section in the center of the plant will 

 be saved. The loss is impossible to es- 

 timate, but Roy Wilcox said Monday 

 morning that a rough guess would not 

 put it below $50,000 to |7.5,000. No 

 tornado insurance can be carried on 

 this class of structure. Some hail in- 

 surance is carried, but does not cover 

 loss from tornado. 



Here, as elsewhere, the storm played 

 some strange freaks. The cottages in 

 which the superintendent and other 

 workmen of the plant live are located 

 within a few rods of the west end of 

 the greenhouses. Not one was harmed 

 In any way, though the big steel and 

 glass structures at the west end were 

 entirely wrecked. Iron posts imbed- 

 ded four feet in concrete were pulled 

 up and twisted about like reeds. Mil- 

 lions of square feet of glass were 

 broken. At either end of the green- 

 houses the destruction was complete, 

 but a span in the center was compar- 

 atively unharmed. 



Five employees were in the service 

 building when the storm struck. This 

 building was entirely destroyed, and 

 the men had a very narrow escape. 

 — Council Bluffs Nonpareil. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR 

 CONTEMPLATED. 



Elm Grove, Wis, 



additions. 



— Herman Staeps, 

 Franklin & Crosby, 



Park Floral Co.. 



Le Roy Ordway, 



Danlelson, Ct. — 

 one house. 



Fort Dodge, la. 

 greenhouses. 



Canisteo, N. Y. 

 house 26 x 80. 



West Scranton, Pa. — Baldwin Flor- 

 ist, house 20 X 160. 



Atlantic, la. — Atlantic Greenhouses, 

 rose house 30 x 135. 



Audubon, N. J. — Lewis Feun, Barrett 

 avenue, greenhouse. 



Middletown, Ct. — George C. Van 

 Slyke, vegetable house." 



Milton, Mass. — James Welsh, Blue 

 Hills Parkway, one house. 



Winsted, Conn. — Carl Swensen, Main 

 street and Cass avenue, one house. 



Scranton, Pa. — Baldwin Florist, 526 

 Spruce street, conservatory 30 x 90, 

 Lord & Burnham material. 



PATENTS GRANTED. 



1,057,017. Flower-Holder. Casper C. 



Trepel, New York, N. Y. 

 1,057,050. Land Marker. George W. 



Garvin, Rising Sun, Md. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Davenport, la. — The Davenport Nur- 

 sery is now under the management of 

 Wm. H. Mast and W. J. Duppert. 



Waltham, Mass. — Albert and James 

 Cartwright have leased the F. R. Math- 

 ison greenhouses and will do business 

 under the name of the Mathison Rose 

 Co. 



Toronto, Ont. — The big wind storm 

 on Friday, March 28th. completely de- 

 molished W. I. Lawrence's large house 

 on Richmond Hill, about 16 miles north 

 of Toronto. 



Salt Lake City, la. — The flower busi- 

 ness of C. S. Martin has been pur- 

 chased by the Empress Floral Co., con- 

 sisting of Charles Van Dyke, presi- 

 dent; G. F. Flashman. vice-president: 

 J. R. Whitney. Jr., secretary and treas- 

 urer; J. F. Walk, manager. 



New Orleans, La. — Louis Buchner 

 and Henry Kraak, who have been do- 

 ing business under the name of the 

 Nashville Avenue Rose Garden, have 

 dissolved partnership. Mr. Buchner 

 will go into business for himself at 

 Iberia as landscape gardener and flor- 

 ist. 



Fort Dodge, la. — Mr. Demester has 

 resigned as foreman of the North Flor- 

 al Company and gone into business 

 with W. M. Colwell under the name of 

 the Park Floral Company. As soon as 

 weather permits they plan to erect 

 greenhouses on property which they 

 have leased on North 15th street. 



Saginaw, Mich. — In the wind storm 

 of March 21, the brick chimney at the 

 J. B. Goetz Sons' greenhouses, 75 feet 

 high, was blown down and in its fall 

 it cut one greenhouse in two and 

 smashed the boiler house and work- 

 room. The foreman, Mr. Hamilton, 

 had a close call having passed through 

 the house just before the stack fell. 



Mastica Is elastic and tenacious, admits of ex- 

 pansion and contraction. Putty becomes bard 

 and brittle. Broken glass more easily removed 

 without breaking of other glass as occurs with 

 hard putty. Lasts longer than putty. Easy ta 

 •pply. 



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 iliit.v in a slx-stoi-y building with 208 

 i-adi;il(jrs and the owner is so welf 

 pleased with it that be has ordered a 

 Xo. In Kroeseliell for another building 

 which he is ereeting, also ordered 

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