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HORTICULTURE 



June 11, 1910 



NEWS NOTES. 



Southington, Conn. — Olson & Lun- 

 den, florists, have sold their Buck- 

 land street greenhouse to Wm. 

 Fischer. 



Secaucus, N. J. — Kessler Bros, of 

 New York have purchased five acres 

 of land upon which they will erect a 

 range of houses. 



Saginaw, Mich. — Eleven acres of 

 land on Mackinaw street has heen pur- 

 chased by J. B. Goetz & Sons and will 

 he used in connection with their flor- 

 ist business. 



London, Ohio. — A new concrete 

 building constructed expressly tor the 

 flower business has been erected on 

 Main street by E. J. Gould & Sons and 

 will be used as a sales room for their 

 products. 



Lake City, Minn. — Owing to greatly 

 increased business the Jewell Nur- 

 sery Co. find it necessary to enlarge 

 and have plans under way for the 

 erection of a building which will about 

 double their present capacity. 



Milwaukee, Wis.— The Edeltsen- 

 Leidiger florist corporation now occu- 

 py two stores, 347 and 349 Third 

 street and 782 Third street. Wm. 

 Edelfsen is president, R. Seniier, vice- 

 president, A. R. Leidiger, secretary 

 and treasurer. 



Youngstown, Ohio. — The Idora Flo- 

 ral & Landscape Co. has been organ- 

 ized by Wm. Bakody and Frank Am- 

 ant to engage in the nursery business. 

 Five acres of land will he utilized at 

 the Idora farm and ground has been 

 broken for a hot house. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — Frank Hays, 

 formerly employed by the Will Bros., 

 florists at 19th avenue and 35th street 

 N., is alleged to have entered the 

 greenhouse and destroyed 25,000 car- 

 nations. It was charged that he 

 did this because he was discharged 

 and refused his pay before the regular 

 pay day. A warrant was sworn out 

 for his arrest. He pleaded not guilty 

 in the police court, May 20th, and was 

 bound over to the grand jury under 

 $l,Ono bail. 



Bloomington, III. — Plans for the re- 

 organization of the Lilly Orchard Co. 

 were recently made. This re-organ- 

 ization, it is hoped, will carry forward 

 the work of the orchard until another 

 period of good crops which will enable 

 the stockholders to reimburse their 

 losses caused by the partial failure of 

 fruit crops culminating in the big 

 freeze of this year. This company 

 owns a large tract of fruit land in 

 Tazewell County and a pecan orchard 

 in the South. It has been conducted 

 partly to cultivate the growth of fine 

 fruit in this section and secondly for 

 the profit of the stockholders. The 

 oflicers are: President, Dr. C. M. No- 

 ble; vice-president, Thomas W. 

 Evans; secretary, C. J. Northrup; 

 treasurer and manager. Prof. R. O. 

 Graham. H. W. Punk of Normal and 

 Walter Boswell of Pittsburgh. 



PERSONAL. 



Charles Endriss is now with Hoer- 

 ber Bros., 51 Wabash avenue, Chicago. 

 III. 



John Barnard is now with the Bent- 

 zen Floral Co., 4029 Marcus avenue, 

 St. Louis, Mo. He was formerly with 

 Grimm & Gorly. 



David Welch of Welch Bros., whole- 

 sale florists. Boston, is booked to sail 

 for a brief European visit, on the 

 Lusitania, June 29. 



J. F. Huss, superintendent of the 

 Goodwin estate at Hartford, Conn., 

 will sail July 7 for a visit to his na- 

 tive country. Switzerland. 



Mrs. W. W. Edgar of Waverly, 

 Mass., is at the Waltham Hospital, re- 

 covering nicely from an operation for 

 apendicitis which took place on Thurs- 

 day of last week. 



Joseph Samuel Willoughby, of Mary- 

 land, and Miss Alice Galvin, daughter 

 of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Galvin, of 

 Boston, were married at the Church of 

 the Assumption. June 4th. The bride 

 carried a shower bouquet of lily of the 

 valley. The bridesmaids carried bas- 

 kets of Killarney roses. Nearly three 

 hundred guests attended the ceremony 

 at the church and the reception at the 

 home of the bride's parents. 



We learn with much regret and sym- 

 pathy that E. S. Miller, of Wading 

 River, N. Y., met with a very pain- 

 ful accident on Sunday morning while 

 riding his bicycle. The forks broke 

 at the head, throwing him heavily to 

 the ground, and cutting his face and 

 nose badly. Several stitches were 

 taken in each lip and the nose. Be- 

 sides the cuts he was bruised and gen- 

 erally shaken up, so that he will be 

 confined to the house for some time 

 to come. 



CINCINNATI PERSONALS. 



Miss Ada H. Kresken left last 

 Thursday for a three months' tour of 

 Europe. 



Peter Olinger has purchased the in- 

 terest of Peter Woiland, of the firm of 

 Weiland & Olinger at New Castle and 

 Cincinnati 



E. R. Bushley, formerly with Fi-ed 

 Gear. 1113 Vine street, Cincinnati, has 

 purchased the Norwood Floral Co. at 

 4625 Main avenue. Norwood. Ohio. 



OBITUARY. 



The annual trade sale which has 

 come to be recognized as an institu- 

 tion of unusual importance in the plant 

 business of New York City, will take 

 place at Wm. Elliott & Sons' auction 

 rooms on Tuesday, June 21. W. J. 

 Elliott will oflBciate as usual with ham- 

 mer and will dispense wit and wisdom 

 with his customary ability. 



Joseph W. Hulsizer. 



Joseph W. Hulsizer of the Hulsizer 

 Co., Des Moines, la., died May 23rd at 

 his home, 1609 Center street, aged 60 

 years. He had been engaged in the 

 manufacture and sale of floral decora- 

 tions for the past eight years in Des 

 Moines, moving to this city from Grin- 

 nell. He leaves a wife and one son. 



John Crimmins. 



John Crimmins, a gardener employed 

 on the estate of Mrs. C. D. Prescott 

 at Newton, Mass., was burned to death 

 on the night of June 7, when he rushed 

 into the burning stable on the estate 

 to save the four-year-old child of an- 

 other gardener, whom he supposed was 

 still in the building. His age was 22 

 years. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Charles Sim sails on the S. S. "Cali- 

 fornia," of the Allan Line for Glas- 

 gow, June 11th. 



A. E. Brown, of W. Atlee Burpee & 

 Co., will sail on the S. S. "Lapland," 

 of the Red Star Line, for Antwerp, on 

 July IGth. He will spend most of his 

 two months vacation in Switzerland. 

 We trust our friend will not be rash 

 with the Alps. AVe can't afford to lose 

 him. 



William H. McMurray, of 15th and 

 Market streets is contemplating open- 

 ing a branch store in the neighborhood 

 of -filth and Market street in the fall. 

 This w'ill not only prove a valauble 

 adjunct and outlet for the cut flower 

 business, but also very handy for the 

 large amount of outside gardening 

 done by this concern in West Phila- 

 delphia. 



European trips are so common now 

 that it is out of the question to keep 

 track of them all. But we must not 

 overlook that of C. J. Rainear, the 

 man who can give the florists pipe that 

 won't go to pieces in twelve months. 

 Ho is booked for the S. S. Kroonland, 

 June 25th for Antwerp. We wish him 

 the best of good company. He can't 

 help himself this time — Bride, of 

 course. What else did you suppose we 

 wrote such a long paragi'aph for? 



An exhibit of the new crested Scotti 

 fern (Nephrolepis Milleri) from the 

 Boston Orchid Show arrived here a 

 day late for the Rose and Peony Show 

 of the P. H. S. They were held over 

 tor the club meeting on the 7th inst. 

 and received much favorable attention 

 from the members. We understand the 

 exhibit then went to Riverton for test- 

 ing purposes. Mr. Miller evidently has 

 a good thing in this and it will be in 

 demand when he gets ready to put 

 it on the market. 



Pennock-Meehan Co. had an exhibit 

 this week of two new climbing roses 

 from Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas, of West 

 Chester. Catherine Wright is a light 

 pink cluster rose with individual 

 flowers reaching up to 4 inches 

 diameter. Wichuraiana and Testout 

 are the parents. Climbing American 

 Beauty is a hybrid between Beauty 

 and an unnamed seedling: grows in 

 clusters, with large, individual flowers 

 of a brighter color than Beauty and 

 very fragrant. Both are fine varieties 

 and apparently of great promise. 

 Nephrolepis Milleri was also on ex- 

 hil)ition here from Bar Harbor, Maine. 

 Mrs. Alphonse Pericat and family of 

 Collingdale leave for Europe shortly 

 on an extended holiday. 



We had a pleasant visit the other 

 day from that enthusiastic representa- 

 tive of the U-Bar — Mr. De Forest^ 

 who hob-nobbed with such building ex- 

 perts as George Anderson, John West- 

 cott. John Burton, and others, and ap- 

 parently succeeded in convincing them 

 that the U-Bar was "the only, only!" 

 Mr. De Forest also stated that, thanks 

 to its merits and the good publicity 

 HORTICULTURE gave to same, they 

 had m.ore orders on hand than they 

 could fill. The present writer Is a 

 pronounced and habitual unbeliever, 

 but with all his ingenuity was unable 

 to find a flaw in the argument. But 

 it he finds the faintest crack anywhere 

 he will joyfully tell. He hates to get 

 the worst of a discussion. 



