February 14, 1920 



HORTICULTURE 



129 



George Watson^s 

 Corner 



"YoD In your small corner and me 

 In mine." 



Mrs. Stokes, widow of the late Wal- 

 ter P. Stokes, passed away on the 5th 

 inst. at her home, Moorestown, N. J. 

 Mrs. Stokes was actively engaged in 

 the florist business at Moorestown 

 growing special crops for the Phila- 

 delphia market. She is survived by 

 two sons and one daughter. The sons 

 now carry on their father's seed and 

 plant business, making Moorestown 

 their headquarters. 



Visitors to the old seedsmen's Phil- 

 adelphia Iieadquarters, Dooner's Hotel, 

 will miss a familiar face when they 

 call this way again. Captain Dan 

 Hasset, night clerk of the famous 

 hostelry for thirty-two years, passed 

 away Feb. 1st of pneumonia after an 

 illness of three days. He was horn 

 in Ireland and passed his boyhood in 

 Worcester, Mass. He was big and 

 jolly and his three hundred pound 

 bulk of ruddy health masculiarly was 

 always a cheerful greeting to the 

 weary traveler arriving on a late train 

 and a cheery au revoir for the one 

 who left on an early one. 



The Florex Gardens Co. at North 

 Wales are prohably the lieaviest suf- 

 ferer among the greenhouse men in the 

 big snow storm of the 4th, nth and 

 6th inst. This place Is noted for 

 what is known as the biggest green- 

 house in the country. It is certainly 

 a large structure covering an area of 

 about six acres or about two hundred 

 and sixty-seven thousand square feet 

 of glass. This was built aliout seven 

 years ago at a cost said to be about 

 seventy-five thousand dollars. It caved 

 in once before about four winters ago 

 in a big storm but the damage then 

 was not so great as the present catas- 

 trophe which is reported to aggregate 

 including the building and ruined 

 stock some twenty-five thousand dol- 

 lars. This is readily believable when 

 it is noted that roses were the prin- 

 cipal crop and roses are worth some- 

 thing at present and the cropping sea- 

 son is only about half through. 



H. P. Michell Co. do not have much 

 surcease from the rush in their retail 

 store from year's end to year's end, 

 but what little they have comes in 

 January. This year they have utilized 

 the breathing spell in putting in a 

 new cashier's department on the retail 



floor at .'ith and market and in mov- 

 ing the private office of Fred Michell 

 Sr., and Fred Michell Jr., from the 

 street floor to more commodious 

 quarters In the rotunda. The Michell 

 store has long heen a model one and 

 they are all the time adding another 

 little touch to it for the benefit of all 

 concerned. 



The H. W. Doughten Co., of Moores- 

 town, N. J., and N. Y. City, who make 

 a specialty of grass and clover seeds 

 at wholesale have just opened a new 

 branch. This is at 216 South Front 

 street and occupies the whole building 

 with the counting rooms on the sec- 

 ond floor. Mr. Fred Horton, late of 

 P. B. Mingle & Co., Is the Philadelphia 

 manager. 



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The Stokes Seed Co. have closed 

 their store on Market street and 

 moved to Moorestown, N. J., where 

 they have their growing establishment 

 and will operate as the Stokes Seed 

 Farms Co.. The Floracroft Gardens at 

 the same place, are now being run by 

 Anna Taylor Stokes, widow of Walter 

 P. Stokes. There is a considerable 

 range of glass and a specialty Is made 

 of plants and cut flowers for the Phila- 

 delphia market. 



Robert Lockerbie moves to Green- 

 ville, S. C, to associate himself 

 as a partner in the Greenville 

 Florist Co. This makes an opening 

 for a good grower and manager for 

 Mr. Lockerbie's present place — the 

 Belk Greenhouses at Charlotte, N. C. 

 Applications may be sent to Mr. Lock- 

 erbie. 



Recent Philadelphia visitors include 

 .lames F. Fox, Milwaukee. Wis., and 

 A. L. Barber, Cleveland, O. 



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 If you are In the market for thU elan af 

 plants w respeotfolly solicit your Inqolrlaa 

 and orders. Special lists on appltoatloa. 



LAGER & HURRELL, Summit, N. J. 



When writing to advertisers kindly 

 mention HORTICULTURE 



TO FIGHT ROSE ROOT BEETLE. 



Professor J. G. Saunders, head of 

 the Plant Industry Board of Harris- 

 liurg, Pa,, has arranged with the Fed- 

 eral Horticultural Board at Washing- 

 ton to place an expert in all green- 

 houses in the Philadelphia district 

 where roses are grown to fight the rose 

 root beetle. It is announced that the 

 agent will be maintained by the State 

 .Agricultural Department of Pennsyl- 

 vania, but will be paid by the govern- 

 ment. 



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