JCNS 8, 1916 



^ The Florists' Review 



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MAYWOOD, ni. 



Close of a Successful Season. 



On the whole the season now closing 

 for most of the Maywood growers, all 

 of whom loolc to the Chicago market, has 

 been the most successful in years. . A 

 few growers still are cutting quite a 

 few roses, but active preparations for 

 another season are under way and by 

 the end of June or early July shipments 

 will be at the low point of the year. 

 Maywood is a rose town. Several es- 

 tablishments produce only mums and 

 sweet peas, but there are only a few 

 carnations; the three largest places 

 have roses only. The general situation 

 is apparent from the fact that at prac- 

 tically every place building of some 

 sort is going on— greenhouses, chim- 

 neys, garages, etc. 



The Maywood growers' colony is lo- 

 cated about two and one-half miles 

 northwest of the town itself. Albert 

 F. Amling was the pioneer and most of 

 the activities as well as the other 

 places center around the "Company's" 

 range. Its motor truck hauls the cut 

 to market for most of the others and 

 brings their supplies from the city; its 

 teams also haul the coal for most of the 

 community, which is quite a job. Also, 

 most of the growers are either mem- 

 bers of the Amling family or graduates 

 from the .original Amling establishment 

 and follow its successful methods, one 

 of which is to buy young stock rather 

 than propagate its own; scarcely any- 

 one in Maywood propagates roses or 

 mums. 



The "Company's" Activities. 



The American Greenhouse Mfg. Co. 

 is bringing to a rapid close the work of 

 erecting nine steel frame houses, each 

 44x550, on the north side of the original 

 range of the Albert F. Amling Co., and 

 right on the heels of the builders the 

 planters have been at work. The es- 

 tablishment now consists of nearly half 

 a million feet of glass and is devoted 

 exclusively to roses. The planting list 

 is of interest because of the small 

 number of varieties. At the beginning 

 of the year the following schedule was 

 made for the whole place: 



Mrs. Charles Russell 80,000 plants 



Ophelia 45,000 plants 



Mrs. Aaron Ward 35,000 plants 



White Killarney 30,000 plants 



Killarney Brilliant 15,000 plants 



Milady 6,000 plants 



Mrs. George Shawyer 5,000 plants 



Sunburst 5,000 plants 



Mile. Cecile Brunner 5,000 plants 



Space for others 10,000 plants 



Total 235,000 plants 



The diflSeulty of getting stock of cer- 

 tain varieties at the time wanted has 

 caused some changes. Shawyer and 

 Brunner were dropped and this with 

 unassigned space given to Milady and 

 Sunburst. The planting list for the 

 144 benches, approximately 4x270, in 

 the new houses is: 



Mrs. Russell 40,000 plants 



Ophelia 35,000 plants 



Killa.-ney Brilliant 10.000 plants 



White Killarney 10.000 plants 



Mrs. Ward 9,000 plants 



Milady 10,000 plants 



Sunburst 15,000 plants 



Total 129,000 plants 



The new greenhouses are practically 

 finished, and in the benches first planted 

 the stock is taking hold nicely, but the 

 addition to the service building remains 

 to go up. It is to house two big Kroes- 

 chell steam boilers with mechanical 

 stokers. A new Heine chimney, 175 

 feet high, also is to be built. 



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HENRY PENN. 



THIS is the Penn that put publicity into the retail flower business in Boston. 

 Like many of the most skillful advertisers, Mr. Penn is of unassuming disposi- 

 tion — it is his business, not himself he advertises — and it required no little 

 diplomacy to obtain the photograph necessary for the purposes of this note. Mr. 

 Penn was born in Boston, March 27, 1877. He started in the flower business as a 

 boy of 14 and had his own store when he was 21. Since his brother, William, ob- 

 tained an interest in the business it has been conducted under the title, Penn the 

 Florist. No other retail florist seems to understand so well converting one dollar 

 spent for newspaper space into two to put back in the cash register; certainly 

 no other retail florist spends anything like so much money for newspaper adver- 

 tising and few ever have enjoyed so large an increase in business as that which 

 has come to Penn these last few years. 



Albert Amling, accompanied by Mrs. 

 Amling, went to the Battle Creek sani- 

 tarium last week for a rest, so that 

 Otto Amling and William CoUatz have 

 plenty to occupy their time for some 

 weeks. There are some 6,000 tons of 

 coal to be hauled in from the railroad 

 half a mile away. 



At W. H. Amling 's. 



Although the planting of 40,000 

 mums has begun, .W. H. Amling, with a 

 pick of 25,000 sweet peas daily, still is 

 three or four weeks away from the 

 end of the most successful sweet pea 

 season he ever has enjoyed. Mr. 

 Amling is at Defiance, O., this week. 



' ' where I got my wife, " as he puts it. 

 He takes life considerably easier than 

 he did, for he has three sons who take 

 the greater part of the work and re- 

 sponsibility off his shoulders. Walter, 

 who has charge of the separate range 

 of five houses in roses; Herbert, who 

 looks after the mums and sweet peas, 

 and Martin, 19 years old but weighing 

 180 pounds, who has the carnations 

 and the two families of canaries rear- 

 ing their young among the flowers. At 

 the rose range a 75-foot Heine stack 

 has been completed; the 6x16 Kroes- 

 chell boiler that shortly will be in- 

 stalled was ordered by telephone. 

 W. H. has a new Paige in the old 



