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BUSINESS CHANGES AND NEW 

 ESTABLISHMENTS. 



A. Lang has removed to his new 

 store, 44 Madison street. Chicago. 



Lundnerg Bros., florists, Auburndale, 

 Mass., have discontinued business. 



W. S. Stanley is about to start in 

 the nursery business at Baylies, B. C. 



E. Leonhard & Son succeed E. Leon- 

 hard at Portchester, N. Y., as retail 

 floiists. 



R. Altman, a pioneer florist of Mani- 

 towoc, Wis., is about to retire from 

 business. 



Berkeley, Cal. — A new retail flower 

 store by the Pacific Flora] Co. on 

 University avenue. 



Cleveland, O.— A new flower and 

 seed store by Schlaefer & Oweheek at 

 7403 Dunser avenue. 



Mrs. S. A. Moir has closed her 

 flower store in Brockton, Mass., and 

 the business is for sale. 



Radke & Vogt succeed Frank Vogt 

 in the retail florist business at 4136 

 Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago. 



The County Seat Nursery, Logan, la., 

 formerly owned by J. H. M. Edwards, 

 has been sold to Chas. F. Luce. 



I. C. Willis, senior partner of the 

 Salineville Floral Company at Saline- 

 ville, O., has retired from the firm. 



Charles W. Mowry has purchased 

 the Daniel Brown farm at Union Vil- 

 large. Conn., and will start a nur- 

 sery. 



The greenhouse establishment re- 

 cently run by Mrs. Tyrill at Corfu, 

 N. Y., has been leased to Win. Eh- 

 mann. 



Mrs. Mary A. Reissig resumes con- 

 trol of the establishment at Riverside, 

 111., Mr. Mayer's lease of same having 

 expired. 



The Corning Floral Company. Corn- 

 ing, N. Y., has purchased the W. J. 

 Chi ney greenhouse property on West 

 Pultney street. 



The greenhouses owned by A. A. 

 Weldon, for a number of years, at 

 Worthington, Conn., have been sold to 

 Leland Watkins and John Canfield. 



The greenhouse owned by W. J. 

 Cheney, at Corning. N. Y., has been 

 purchased by the Corning Floral Co., 

 ami will be removed to a new location. 



The firm of Goossens & Hellemons, 

 at Audenbosch, Holland, has been dis- 

 solved and the business will be con- 

 tinued by Mr. Hellemons under the 

 firm name of L. J. Hellemons. 



NEWS NOTES. 



The Columbia Gardens, Butte, Mont., 

 Victor Siegel, gardener, aie to be 

 enlarged. 



The greenhouse ot Geo. M. Roak at 

 Auburn, Me., was struck by lightning 

 on July .2 Damage slight. 



The latest at rival in the Flower 

 Growers' Market, Chicago, is Herman 

 Schau. His daughter will have charge 

 of the selling. 



The offices of the National Nurser- 

 man at Rochester, N. Y., have been 

 removed to 21S Livingston Building, 

 Exchange street. 



Plans have been completed for a 

 flower show at Bar Harbor, Me., on 

 August 6. The show will be held at 

 the Building of Arts. 



In the recent timber fires at Bruns- 

 wick, Me., a nursery maintained by 

 Prof. Austin Cary, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, was burned over. 



George Reinberg, who has the dis- 

 tinction of being the only Chicago 

 grower of orchids for the trade, has 

 doubled his stock this season. 



The Foley Manufacturing Company 

 have the contract for the new green- 

 houses and connected buildings for the 

 University of Illinois at Urbana. 



A large plate glass window in the 

 flower store of E. H. Beears, Reading, 

 Pa., was shot through by some un- 

 known person on the street, July (J. 



Victor R. Gardner has been elected 

 assistant professor of horticulture at 

 the University of Maine. Leroy H. 

 Ha'.vey has been elected instructor in 

 botany. 



The elm leaf beetle is very abundant 

 in and about Boston this year. Many 

 fine tiees in the suburban districts 

 are as brown as if a fierce fire had 

 swept over them. 



Alex. .Mead & Son 'have bought the 

 greenhouses of John Cooke at Green- 

 wich, Conn., and will tear them down, 

 using the glass, piping, etc., in addi- 

 tions to their establishment on Lake 

 avenue. 



Charles Rose, an employe of Wax 

 Bros., floiists. Boston, has been ai- 

 rested charged with entering and rob- 

 bing the store at night during the 

 lime he was enjoying a vacation at 

 the firm's expense. 



Alexander Johnson has been ap- 

 pointed City Forester of Providence, 

 R. I. Mr. Johnson is a son of George 

 Johnson, who has conducted a green- 



house establishment on Elmwood ave- 

 nue for many years and is well in- 

 formed on tree topics. 



The granite statues of Pomona, 

 Ceres and Flora which adorned old 

 Horticultural Hall in Boston, which 

 were purchased and set up on his 

 grounds at Clifton by the Late Benj. 

 Ware, after the demolition fo the old 

 building, have been secured by Mr. 

 Arthur Little who will use them to. 

 adorn his place at Beverly. 



At the Reclamation of the Flats at 

 Washington, hundreds of men and nu- 

 merous teams are at work leveling 

 and planting the grounds. The 

 portion which has been finished is 

 very beautiful, shrubbery and flow- 

 ers of numberless varieties having 

 completely transformed an erstwhile 

 unsightly and unhealthy section iuto 

 a garden of Eden. 



Plant dealers advertising for gen- 

 eral wholesale trade report variously 

 on collection of accounts but the con- 

 sensus seems to be that the experience 

 with i he different sections through the 

 recent season follows almost on identi- 

 cal lines with what has commonly been 

 understood as to the effect of the fi- 

 nancial disturbance, viz., New York, 

 bad; New England, slow: elsewhere, 

 good: Wesi . very si od. 



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