July 31. 1920 



HORTICULTURE 



89 



AMONG THE SPRINGFIELD. OHIO. 

 FLORISTS 



The retailers report business vei->' 

 good but they have not got together 

 on the Sunday closing as yet. 



The wholesalers are still busy, and 

 at this writing; the middle of July, 

 which Is unusual and goes to show 

 that stock which Is needed is not 

 plentiful as in the years gone by. 

 Some of the growers have all or part of 

 coal In and have paid as high as $8.85 

 per ton on track here for it. but the 

 writer does not know of a single re- 

 tailer who has his coal, although some 

 of them use gas all the time, and sortie 

 only part of the time. 



Planting out with the wholesalers 

 has been successful but help was 

 short and that has been the case all 

 along for the past three years. 



Gustave Schneider is now getting; 

 in shape again after his fire on A|iril 

 9th. Two houses and potting shed are 

 now completed and In use, also the 

 large service shed. The other three 

 houses are going forward nicely with 

 some of the benches up, and all the 

 mill work now painted, also two gut- 

 ters in place. 



Among the wholesalers, R. C. Blake 

 is putting up another house 20 x 80. to 

 take care of his ever increiusing trade. 

 The potting shed is completed and 

 halt of the roof bars are in place. 



J. Oliver Chick is also making im- 

 provements; one house 14x90 is 

 ready tor roof bars and two others 

 22x125 and 10x125 are contemplated 

 this fall. An addition to the service 

 shed is completed, which is 16 x 30, 

 two stories. 



The Good & Reese Co. are building 

 a large concrete and steel boiler plant 

 and putting in two 90 h. p. boilers, 

 which will be equii)|>ed with iron 

 stairs, electric hoist for ashes and up 

 to date in every way. having fifteen 

 traps to dump coal into the cellar and 

 a large new stack which will take the 

 place of the two old stacks and two 

 cellers and three boilers, which were 

 in them. 



Harold McGregor sold his interests 

 in the McGregor Rros. Co. and Is 

 building a plant to grow hardy shrubs 

 and geraniums. He expects to have 

 his house ready by September 1st. 



The Springfield Floral Co. are re- 

 building the entire south side of their 

 place which has not been used for 

 several years. This comprises nine 

 houses 20 x 80 ft. each, which will give 

 them double capacity of the last sever- 

 al years, also remodelling the service 

 and potting shed. 



We are Headquarters for the BEST OF EVERYTHING 



IN 



VEGETABLE SEEDS 



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 •f capable and experienced men, we are equipped tor aad are predoelnc 



PEAS, BEANS, CORN AND VEGETABLE SEEDS 



ef all kladi in qaantltr and of blgbeat ^oallty. 

 aiad U foete for present delivery er em grewtef eeBtraet tet tmt«ra Aeltrerj. 



JEROME B. RICE SEED CO., Cambridge, N. Y. 



''Seeds with a Lineage" All Varieties 



Thoroughly te«ted at our trial grounds, Raynes 

 Park, Ljondon, England. S«nd for Catalogue 



CARTERS TESTED SEEDS, Inc. c^.r^^'rt',l. ^,. 



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Salvia. Petunia, Verbena, Salplf loaelj. Aeparafna. 



Oofttnoi, Candytuft. Snap<lrason. Lobelia. 



Phlox, .Scabloia. (iypsophUa. 



BCLBS — OlaclioU, Cannae, Tnberoeel, Caladlome. Dahllaa, 



Anemenea, Uaddra Vlaee, dnn—iaa Ttaaa. 

 l.,[liuin Aaratum, Robrum. BAacnlllolun, pee eaee, 9SS.M. 

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If 70U have Bot received oar Florlali Ua4. a pee* eard 

 wUl brine 14. 



Foiiler, Fiske, Rawson Co. 



12 and 13 Fanenll Hall Square BOftTON, KAB*. 



A. L. Miller 



Christmas and E^st«r Pot Planta 

 a spedaltr 



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Jsunaica, N. Y, 



ABNER HOOPES 



Founder of West Chester Nursery 

 Dies at Home There 



Abner Hoopes, one of the founders 

 of the Hoopes Bros. & Thomas Co., 

 nurserymen. West Chester, Pa., died 

 in his apartment at the Mansion 

 House, West Chester, Pa., July 23rd, 

 after a protracted illness. 



Born September 27, 1836, at West 

 Chester. Mr. Hoopes was educated at 

 the Friends' Central school, Philadel- 

 phia, following which he was for three 

 years-in the woolen business. In 1853 

 he removed to West Chester and start- 

 ed the firm \s'hich bears his name. 



For several years he was a member 

 of the board of trustees of the Norris- 

 town Insane Asylum. Funeral serv- 

 ices were held Monday at the West 

 Chester Friends' meeting, with inter- 

 ment in Oakland cemetery. 



THE MARKET 

 .Market prices have been picking up 

 although it is hard to tell why unless 

 it is because high grade stuff has been 

 coming in slowly. The feature of the 

 past week was the appearance of 

 asters in fair quality. In Boston, they 

 are selling from three to six cents, 

 and just a little lower in markets 

 further South. Gladioli are coming in 

 well both- as to quality and quantity. 

 The market isn't very high as a rule, 

 but the demand is very strong. Buyers 

 are paying anywhere from 50 cents to 

 $1.50. Carnations are rather poor and 

 sell slowly at from two to three cents. 

 Roses are as good as could be expected 

 at this season of the year and nat- 

 urally the demand is not great. They 

 sell from two cents uj). Delphinium 

 seems to be about out of the Boston 

 market and proved among the best 

 sellers of the season. 



