



AtJOTTST 17, 1916. 



The Florists' Review 



33 



One of the Three Water Gardenst that of William Tricker £state> in the Houston Convention Garden. 



B. A. Cluxton, Willis, Tex. 



The Cluxton specialty is the Texas 

 bluebell and the display is one of the 

 bright spots in the hall. 



Cohen &; HUler, New York. 



This is a new ribbon house, the senior 

 partner having traveled in middle west- 

 ern territory for a number of years in 

 the interest of one of the older New 

 York textile concerns that specializes 

 on florists' ribbons. The display con- 

 sisted of samples of ribbons, chiffons, 

 bouquet holders, etc. 



Cottage Gardens Nursery Co., Eureka, 

 Cal. 



This is C. W. Ward's Pacific coast 

 establishment, at which he plans to 

 grow a general line of the stock the 

 trade now imports from Belgium and 

 Holland. The exhibit consists of a gen- 

 eral line of Pacific coast bulbs. 



H. C. Doescher, New Orleans, La. 



Great quantities of ferns annually 

 are shipped south by growers north of 

 the Ohio, but that New Orleans is well 

 able to grow this class of stock, not 

 only for local needs, but for the trade, 

 is shown by the exhibit of H. C. 

 Doescher, which consisted entirely of 

 ferns of the Boston type. 



J. A. Hvans Co., Blchmond, Ind. 



The J. A. Evans Co., successor to the 

 Quaker City Machine Co., manufactures 

 the Challenge ventilating apparatus and 

 the Evans salt sprayer, also a line of 

 greenhouse hardware. The display 



shows the ventilating apparatus set up 

 for operation, with samples of other 

 specialties. 



C. E. Falls, Kansas City, Mo. 



This exhibit consists of advertising 

 literature for florists dealing with the 

 public. 



Foley Greenhouse Mfg. Co., Chicago. 



This exhibitor has set up a miniature 

 greenhouse, complete in all its parts 

 and embodying the different patented 

 features in its construction. President 

 P. J. Foley is in charge. 



Gullett & Sons, Uncdn, HI. 



This exhibitor recently has attracted 

 much attention in the trade by erecting 

 a range of the largest greenhouses in 

 the west as the nucleus of what is ex- 

 pected to be one of the largest cut 

 flower growing establishments in the 

 United States, but the convention ex- 

 hibit represents only the older depart- 

 ment of the business, devoted to the 

 production of ferns and Christmas and 

 Easter flowering plants. 



ELroeschell Bros. Co., Chicago. 



This exhibitor shows a large number 

 of illustrations of installations of its 

 apparatus in florists' establishments. 

 The Kroeschell hot water boiler has 

 been known for many years. Of later 

 introduction is the water tube steam 

 boiler and a high pressure fire and water 

 tube boiler of capacities ranging from 

 100 to 350 horsepower. The Kroeschell 

 ice machine also is illustrated, as many 

 florists recently have been installing it. 



Of course Fred Lautenschlager is in 

 charge. 



Lord & Bumham Co., New York. 



Although this exhibitor's headquar- 

 ters are in New York city, it has 

 branches all over the country and it is 

 the Philadelphia and Rochester men 

 who are in charge at Houston. The ex- 

 hibit shows the steel fratae construc- 

 tion of greenhouses; the curved eave 

 private conservatory or florists' display 

 house and the angle iron eave commer- 

 cial house. A large number of splendid 

 photographs show the famous green- 

 houses the exhibitor has erected in vari- 

 ous sections of the country. 



J. A. Newsham, New Orleans. 



J. A. Newsham has found Phoenix 

 Roebelenii to be specially suited to con- 

 ditions in the south and the plants in 

 this display indicate that the plant is 

 thoroughly at home at the Magnolia 

 Nursery, as Mr. Newsham calls his 

 place. 



J. A. Peterson & Sons, Cincinnati, O. 



This firm's specialty is the winter- 

 flowering begonia of the Lorraine type. 

 The exhibit contains three varieties of 

 the exhibitor's own raising and intro- 

 duction, Mrs. J. A. Peterson, Melior 

 and Glory of Cincinnati. The group 

 also contains dracaenas, cyclamen, bird's 

 nest ferns and other decorative plants. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co., Chicago, HI. 



This exhibitor long has been widely 

 known as the largest grower of cut 

 flowers in the United States and now 



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