

96 



The Florists^ Review 



May 4. 1916. 



KANSAS CITY. 



The Market. 



Since Easter this market has been 

 short of stock, and the shortage is ex- 

 pected to continue until summer, unless 

 a sudden drop in business occurs. Fu- 

 neral work was the chief item of trade 

 last week. Everybody now is prepar- 

 ing for a big trade for Mothers' day. 

 The bedding season is expected to start 

 this week. Bulbous stock is practically 

 off the market; only a few blooms 

 strayed, in last week. Carnations are 

 of good quality and the demand for 

 them exceeds the supply. Roses are 

 plentiful and help to fill the vacant 

 spots left by other flowers. Extra fine 

 American Beauties are scarce, which is 

 the only shortage in the roses. Sweet 

 peas are not plentiful. Greenhouse- 

 grown gladioli have made their appear- 

 ance. There was a large lot of As- 

 paragus plumosus placed on the market 

 last week, but it now is all sold. 



Various Notes. 



Nelson Jarrett has his greenhouses 

 well filled with bedding stock of all 

 kinds. He has built an addition, 20x50 

 feet, which is well filled with stock. 

 After the spring rush he intends to 

 extend the length of his house to 116 

 feet. 



Adolph Mohr has his place ready for 

 the spring business. He has some nice 

 Lorraine and Cincinnati begonias in 

 2% -inch pots. 



A. F. Barbe will have his large house 

 ready next week. He intends planting 

 it to roses exclusively. 



R. 8. Brown & Son report that ship- 

 ping business to southern points is 

 heavy this season. They still are busy 

 shipping stock throughout this section. 



The St. Mary's Greenhouse has been 

 busy filling porch boxes. Bedding stock 

 here is good. 



The Rosery reports that funeral work 

 April 28 was extremely heavy. Mrs. 

 Ellsworth has been confined to her room 

 with tonsillitis, but is expected to be 

 around again in a few days. 



W. J. Barnes received a ♦large ship- 

 ment of boxwood trees of' all shapes. 

 He is cutting some fine carnations for 

 this time of the year. 



John Stevens has finished planting 

 out 65,000 carnation plants in the field. 

 He now is cutting gladioli from his 

 benches. He has 10,000 bulbs planted 

 and is well satisfied with the percentage 

 of blooms. 



Henry Kusik & Co. say if it isn't 

 wire designs it is something else in wire 

 work that keeps them busy. They now 

 are rushed with orders for hanging 

 baskets. There was a shortage of cut 

 flowers at this place and they sometimes 

 found it hard to fill orders. Relief from 

 this situation is expected soon. 



Mrs. E. F. Biel, of Beloit, Kan., was 

 a visitor here last week. 



T. J. Noll & Co. report business keep- 

 ing up well. The iceboxes are cleared 

 of all cut stock every evening. 



W. J. B. 



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Half Iron Frame Talk No. 5 



Roof Bracings 



"you have seen plenty of 

 Pipe Frame and Half Iron 

 Frame houses put up within 

 the last two or three years, 

 that, even in fairly good 

 widths, have only a pipe cross 

 tie between the columns. 



You and I 

 know such a tie 

 can be of very 

 little use, es- 

 pecially <hen it 

 sags by t|s own 

 weight, as you 

 and I have so 

 frequently seen it 

 do. 



When the wind 

 blows against 

 the roof, instead 

 of its making the 

 frame solid as a 

 rock, that pipe 



tie often gives, loosening up 



the glass. 

 Now look at the cross tie 



in the cut and see the way we 



braced it to the column and 



tied it to the ridge. 



This is our latest method of 

 framing our Half 

 Iron Frame house. 

 It is the same, in 

 fact, that we have 

 used in our Full 

 Iron Frame. 



Of course, our 

 Half Iron Frame 

 is the next best 

 house to our Full 

 Iron Frame. 



But why build 

 the next best ? 



Why not have 

 the best ? 



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Sash dropped during a windstorm, breaking five 

 hundred feet of glass; one hundred feet more 

 broken replacing the five hundred. What is the 

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 if our material is used. 



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