February 28, 1914 



HOETICULTURE 



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QUALITY SCRIPT LETTERS 



Our Script Letters Are Sold As Low As Right Quality Letters Can Be Sold. We Cannot Meet Low Price Competi- 

 tion With Our Standard Goods. The Letters We Offer Are Well Finished, Uniform In Color and First Class 

 Every Way. They Give Tone To Any Work Where They Are Used. Send for a Sample of Our Goods and of the 

 Cheap Stuff Offered In Competition and Compare Them. That's All. We Buy No Job Lots. 



IIM iBk,L.L. F'L.ORISI-S' SI^P>F>I_IES 



we hold to high standard. When there is anything new worth having we sell it. Special for this week: — 

 St. Patrick's Day Hats, Pipes and Other Conceits for sending out with March 17th orders. 



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A Florist's 

 Necessity 



Flta securely on any stindard pot and by the OBe of a little chlf- 1 12 Inches high. $2.50 per doz. 4 24 Inches high, 96.00 per dM. 

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fon or rilibnn »;ives y )U a Basket effect at a very small additional 

 •xpense, Increasing the price of your plants 100 per cent. 3 IS 



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GEO. B. HART, Manufacturer, 24 to 30 Stone Street, Rochester, N.Y. 



Obituary 



Henry Meyn. 



Henry Meyn, a retail florist of 2045 

 Germantown road, Philadelphia, died 

 on Thursday, Feb. 19th. 



Truxton Craven. 



Truxton Craven, a. well-known land- 

 scape gardener of Manhasset, N. Y., 

 died on Feb. 10th from Injuries re- 

 ceived in an automobile accident. He 

 is survived by his father, a prominent 

 civil engineer of New York. 



ESTABLISHMENT OF A PROSPEROUS LADY FLORIST. 



Stephen McHale. 



Stephen McHale, foreman for John 

 Condon, florist, Brooklyn, N. Y., died 

 February 18 from pneumonia at his 

 home, 33 Nineteenth street. He was 

 born in Castle Bar, County Mayo, Ire- 

 land, thirty-four years ago. and is sur- 

 vived by one son, a brother and five 

 sisters. 



S. H. Warren. 



Samuel H. Warren died on Feb. 

 20th at his home in Weston, Mass., 

 aged 77 years. Mr. Warren was an 

 expert cultivator of strawberries and 

 a frequent prize winner at the straw- 

 berry exhibitions of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society. He has been 

 in failing health for over a year. He 

 is survived by a sister, with whom he 

 lived. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 the place of Mrs. A. I. Colburn, 

 florist, 68 Graham street, Gardner. 

 Mass. There are two greenhouses, 

 one 30x160, the other 20x100. The evi- 



dences of scrupulous care and neat- 

 ness and consequent prosperity are ap- 

 parent. There will never be too many 

 such places in Massachusetts or any- 

 where else. 



FIRES. 



KIrkwood, Mo. — A. S. Cerny's green- 

 houses were badly damaged by fire 

 on Feb. 10th. 



KOMADA BROS. 



Manufacturers of all Kind* of 



WIRE DESIGNS and FLORISTS SUPPLIES 

 1008 Vine St, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Lowell, Mass. — The greenhouses 

 owned by Mrs. P. J. Riley, on Fair- 

 mount street, were destroyed by fire 

 on the morning of Saturday, Feb. 21. 

 This place was for many years con- 

 ducted by the late Edwin Sheppard. 



Brockton, Mass. — Fire starting from 

 an overheated furnace in the green- 

 house of W. J. Marshall at 517 Cope- 

 land street today destroyed structures. 



plants and blooms valued at $15,000, 

 on Wednesday, February 25. The fire 

 spread quickly and most of the grow- 

 ing things shrivelled up under the in- 

 tense heat. What escaped the heat 

 was frost-bitten, as practically every 

 light of glass was melted or broken. 

 All of the horse-drawn apparatus was 

 stalled at the foot of the big hill in 

 Capeland street, 200 yards from the 

 fire, and the automobile combination 

 apparatus had to fight the fire un- 

 assisted. 



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 ture has NO superior. Because they- 

 ALL read It and they read it ALL. 



