Fbbeuary 22, 1917. 



The Florists^ Review 



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OBITUARY 



Mrs. Hannah Allen. 



Mrs. Hannah Allen, well-known flo- 

 rist at Bangor, Me., died February 8, 

 Sho was born April 7, 1828, in Coach- 

 i'ord. County Cork, Ireland, the daugh- 

 ter of Dennis Crowley, who was a fam- 

 ous tavern keeper. In 1846 she removed 

 to Bangor and has since resided there. 

 May 17, 1849, she was married to 

 Thomas Allen. Eleven children were 

 horn of the union, of whom six are liv- 

 ing. Mr. Allen died in 1888, and Mrs. 

 Allen then began in business as a florist, 

 which she afterwards carried on with 

 the cooperation of her daughters and 

 lier son, Edward, building up a large 

 and prosperous business with green- 

 houses on Court street and a downtown 

 store on State street. The business will 

 go on under the management of the 

 family. 



Mrs. Allen was a woman of wonderful 

 executive ability and although always 

 at work and in the strain of business 

 possessed such wonderful vigor of con- 

 stitution that at 88 years of age she was 

 in close touch with all its details and up 

 to her last illness was to be found with 

 her plants and flowers. 



Archibald Darling. 



Archibald Darling, who claimed to be 

 the first florist in Ehode Island, died 

 February 15 at the Rhode Island hos- 

 jiital, Providence, of pneumonia. He 

 was 92 years old and was a familiar 

 ti;;ure about the streets. He was born 

 ill Fawtucket, R. I., December 10, 1824. 

 While many doubt his claim to being the 

 first florist in Rhode Island, there is no 

 doubt that he was one of the pioneers, 

 for many years ago he sold flowers up 

 and down Westminster street and also 

 used to carry his stock on board the bay 

 steamers and peddle it there.* His fond- 

 ness for flowers never left him, and it 

 was one of his whims during his last 

 years to wear a carnation in his button- 

 hole, which made a sharp contrast to 

 his long, unkempt beard and wrinkled 

 face, and his lean, bent figure in dirty 

 brown overcoat with heavy rope knotted 

 about his waist. W. H. M. 



George V. Gooding. 



George V. Gooding died in the hos- 

 pital at Hartford, Conn., February 7. 

 He had been failing in health for alaout 

 two years, but his death came suddenly. 

 For forty years he was employed as head 

 ijrardener and florist on the estate of J. S. 

 Elton, "Waterbury, Conn. He was twice 

 a widower but is survived by several 

 daughters. 



Terre Haute, Ind.— "St. Valentine's 

 'lay business certainly was a clean-out 

 — every available flower was used, more 

 plants than ever before were sold," 

 report J. G. Heinl & Son. 



Lincoln, Neb. — C. H. Frey has an- 

 nounced that February 10 he purchased 

 all the interests in the business hereto- 

 fore conducted under the name of C. H. 

 Frey Co., the business to be continued 

 under his individual name. The green- 

 houses have been under Mr. Frey 's per- 

 sonal direction since their erection in 

 1895, to which he now adds the manage- 

 ment of the store, which previously has 

 been in the hands of those whose inter- 

 f^sts he has just acquired. 



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W. W. llorlacher, of Dayton, O., in 

 commenting on holiday shipments, said 

 in two instances he found extra fine 

 cyclamens that had the appearance of 

 being too heavily fed and forced; also 

 a lot of Erica melanthera plants grown 

 in pots too small to allow for any mois- 

 ture. Such stock cannot stand ship- 

 ping. Bulbous stock from now until 

 Easter will be the greatest proposition 

 the trade ever experienced, is the opin- 

 ion of Mr. Horlacher; owing to the 

 many unusual factors entering into it. 

 Home well grown plants of Vanda 

 caerulea and Sanderiana were noted in 

 a collection of orchids. More attention 

 is being paid to orchids — -every bloom 

 sells at a good figure. 



"Gentle love, how till thy flclds of rosos 

 Hounded close hy thorny plants do lie!" 



Thus quoted Manager J. W. Rodgers, 

 of tlic Miami Floral Co., of Dayton, while 

 going over the holiday sales with the 

 writer, who noted Killarneys at $16 per 

 liundred Avholesale. "We are not ready 

 to discard Killarney, " observed Mr. 

 Rodgers, "when we get such returns. 

 Our crop produced for plants once 

 pinched, $1.50; twice pinched, $2.50; 

 thrice pinched, $3.50, and so on. Rus- 

 sell, Ophelia, Ward and Shawyer are 

 good. Tlie last-named we believe will 

 be grown more extensively when its 

 habits are better understood. It cer- 

 tainly is a grand rose." 



At Springfield, 0., every member of 

 the trade wliO does a mailing business 

 is either rushing out catalogues or get- 

 ting stock in shape for early spring 

 shipment. As G. Botley, of the Schmidt 

 & Botley Co., expressed it: "The days 

 are lengthening and, although the coal 



pile gives us many anxious moments". 

 Old Sol cheers us up and makes us feel 

 optimistic." Stocks generally, roses 

 and ferns particularly, are in tiptop con- 

 dition Avith all growers. 



Gustav Schneider, of Springfield, says 

 retail trade was never better, and since 

 his store has been remodeled and en- 

 larged the force is able to wait on 

 patrons more satisfactorily. Mr. 

 Schneider contemplates removing the 

 old range of houses to tlie newer block, 

 to facilitate the growing end and to 

 concentrate with the nursery. 



John Boehner, of Dayton, is so* 

 pleased with the new house recently 

 erected that, if the business keeps up- 

 as well as at present, another house 

 will be erected this summer to take the 

 place of two old ones. 



"We cut 10,000 roses during holiday 

 week," commented Manager Aaron 

 Shives, of the Flick Floral Co., of Fort 

 Wayne, "and I think it was pretty 

 good for the amount of glass we devote 

 to roses. I'll tell you one thing, 

 you cannot get 10 cents or 12 

 cents for Killarney right along, as 

 we are getting for Shawyer. During 

 the entire summer we received 6 cents 

 from our commission house,f or Shawyer. 

 Our plants are not affected with mildew. 

 Note those strong leads; there is one 

 with three blooming shoots, each three 

 feet long, on one stem. To my mind, 

 Shawyer will entirely supersede Killar- 

 ney," concluded Mr. Shives. Rich- 

 mond is good yet. Ophelia, Sunburot, 

 Ward and Killarney complete the list. 

 "Yes, we were stung on our imported 

 plant shipments, little being of any 

 use," said the manager. W. M. 





Amherst, Mass. — During Farmers ' 

 Week, Martli 27 and 28, the department 

 of floriculture at the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College will have an exhi- 

 bition of spring bulbous plants and has 

 prepared a series of public lectures on 

 floricultural topics by Prof. F. A. Waugh, 

 Prof. A. H. Nehrling, Prof. F. W. Morse, 

 Prof. C. H. Thompson, Prof. A. K. Harri- 

 son and Prof. A. C. Beal, the latter of 

 Cornell. 



Wobum, Mass. — Early in the morning 

 of February 18 the boiler shed of Alex- 

 ander Porter, a prominent florist and 

 market gardener, caught fire. In two 

 houses each 40x300 were crops of lettuce 

 nearly ready for market, while a third 

 house, 50x475, had cucumbers in the 

 early fruiting stage. Good work by the 

 fire department confined the flames to 

 the boiler house, which contained four 

 large steam boilers, although at one 

 time it seemed as though the wagon 

 sheds and residence would go with the 

 rest. Fortunately February 18 was mild 

 and the houses were closed up without 



serious damage to the crops. The loss i» 

 estiihated at $2,000. 



Augusta, Me.— House Bill No. 110, re- 

 cently introduced in the legislature here 

 by Representative Wilson, of Portland, 

 is entitled "An act for the protection 

 of life and property in cities of over 

 40,000 population, against loss or dam- 

 age from steam machinery operated by 

 incompetent persons." Section 1 of this 

 bill provides that "it shall be the duty 

 of the municipal officers annually in the 

 month of April * * *, to appoint 

 an examiner of steam engineers and fire- 

 men • * *," while Section 2 will 

 make it "unlawful for any person or 

 persons to operate a steam plant where 

 the services of an engineer or fireman 

 are required, excepting those plants in 

 dwelling houses and apartment houses, 

 without first obtaining a certificate of 

 competency from said examiner." If 

 this bill should pass, apparently it woulcJ 

 mean that every florist would have ta 

 employ a licensed fireman to run his 

 boiler. 



