OCTOBKK 11, 11*17. 



The rionsts Kcvicw 



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{•amp at Ayer, Mass., October 5. Young 

 Mr. Abranis has been associated with 

 his father in the florists' business for 

 sevcM-al years. 



Nebraska Man Joins. 



A. T. Howard, of the Howard Green- 

 houses and Flower Shop, Scottsbluff, 

 Seh., has answered the call of Uncle 

 Sam and joined the army. He is now 

 iit one of the training camps learning 

 how to make war in the most approved 

 modern .style, 



Galveston Seedsman in Army. 



H. 1*. Hargrave, one of the owners of 

 llargraves' Seed Store, Galveston, Tex., 

 is a member of the quartermaster's 

 c.orp^ o^ ^^^ United States army and is 

 stationed at Camp Logan, Houston, 

 Tex., one of the camps where what was 

 the national guard is in training. Mr. 

 Hargravo was associated with his fa- 

 ther, M. P. Hargrave, who died recent- 

 ly, and his brother, J. F. Hargrave, in 

 the seed l)usiness at Galveston. 



A VISIT TO WHITE MARSH. 



Home of the Vincents. 



At a recent meeting of the Gardeners ' 

 and Florists ' Club of Baltimore I talked 

 to Richard Vincent, Jr., about dahlias. 

 He had a vase of new dahlias on exhi- 

 bition that surpassed anything I had 

 ever seen, and as we examined them 

 the thought struck me that I had never 

 been out at White Marsh, Md., to see 

 the home of the dahlia, canna and chry- 

 santhemum. So we made an engage- 

 ment, and in due course of time I met 

 Mr. Vincent at historic old Camden sta- 

 tion, Baltimore, and from there on it 

 was a personally conducted tour, with 

 a most interesting man for guide. As 

 we passed through the beautiful coun- 

 try Mr. Vincent pointed out to me spots 

 of unusual interest, and about fifteen 

 miles out we got oflf at a station in a 

 quiet spot. There was a postoffice and 

 a group of buildings, and things looked 

 unusually busy and i)rosperous for such 

 a location. To run ahead of my story, 

 I learned on my return to the station 

 that the Vincent dahlia farm was re- 

 sponsible for this station and postoffice 

 in the woods. 



We had about a mile's ride in one 

 of the automobiles from the place, over 

 fine roads and through a densely wooded 

 country, arriving at what is often called 

 "Vincentville. " We emerged from the 

 woods into a well kept farm of 350 

 acres. There are fourteen dwellings on 

 it, five of which are occupied by chil- 

 dren of my host, and the remainder by 

 employees of the farm. The eye would 

 become dazzled by the kaleidoscope of 

 color as we went along the drive, and 

 as far as the eye could reach were fields 

 of dahlias and cannas in full bloom. 

 Here and there was a field of chrysan- 

 themums not yet in bloom, but the 

 bright green foliage helped to make uj) 

 a picture that surpassed anything I had 

 ever seen in flowers. 



The Range and Packing Shed. 



I have stood on a peak in the Blue 

 Bidge mountains and looked off into 

 the Cumberland and Shenandoah valley 

 at fields of ripening grain that suggested 

 a patchwork quilt. This is just what 

 the Vincent dahlia farm would suggest, 

 except that nearly every color of the 



WHO'S WHO Me^-AND why 



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HENRY MEUSCHEE. 



FEW men are so fortunate as to be able to combine business witli pleasure, or, 

 rather, to have a profitable business develop from a hobby. When his health 

 failed several years ago, Henry Meuschke, Pittsburgh, Pa., sold his bakery and 

 confectionery business and moved to Castle Shannon, near that city. There he 

 occupied his leisure growing flowers. Renewed health and much pleasure were 

 derived from this work and gradually Mr. Meuschke enlarged the scope of his 

 operations. When his two sons, wh(t also had develope<l a love for flowers, decided 

 to make floriculture their life work, Mr. Meuschke built the Saxonwald Green- 

 houses, a range of l.'jOiOOO feet of glass. Five years ago the range was taken 

 over by the Ludwig Floral Co., of which Mr. Meuschke tboii became treasurer. 

 He was born in Germany sixty-three years ago and cauie to this country when 

 he was 15 years of age. 



rainbow makes up tlie beautiful scene. 



In the distance 1 caught sight of a 

 range of glass, and as we approached it 

 I began to liave some conception of its 

 magnitude. The first range we entereil 

 was the one in which the stock plants 

 are kept. In this range, which covers 

 an acre of ground, one can see 300,000 

 geraniums growing on benches, besides 

 otlier bedding plants. All of tlie best 

 varieties are grown, and as the firm 

 sells plants from 2 and 3-inch pots to 

 florists, its reputation demands that 

 everything must be the best in variety 

 and, above everything, true to name. 



As Mr. Vincent explained the care 

 and system used to accomplish this, I 

 was not surprised that shipments are 

 made to florists in every state east of 

 the Mississippi, from Maine to Florida. 

 In the packing houses there was an 

 order for 1,000 geraniums from 3-inch 

 pots being put on the truck for Maii\('. 



This grrat mass of stock is sold with- 

 out a salesman on the road, advertise- 

 ments and a catalogue being the only 

 "salesmen" employed. This packing 

 slied is three stories and a cellar, ami 

 everything about it works like a piece 

 of well lubricate<l macliinery. R. A. 

 Vincent, who has charge of this j)lant 

 en<l of the l)usiness, has his office in 

 the center of this Ix'ehive of industry, 

 and he has devise<l a system that is as 

 nearly perfect as it possibly could be. 

 There is one thing for which he is al- 

 ways on the alert; that is, an oppor- 

 tunity to economi/,(! on sj)ace and labor. 

 Radiating from this shed are four blocks 

 of houses, each of tliese covering an 

 acre of ground. In each of these ranges 

 the benches run crossways instead of 

 the length of the house, and one can 

 readily see where much time is saved 

 ill wheeling the plants from the potting 

 benches to the houses. These four 



