i^HPTEMBEB 11, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



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morrison. 111. — Mrs. E. M. Hurd, for- 

 merly of St. Paul, has opened a store in 

 the Boyd market building, on Main 

 Street. 



Manchester, Pa^ — Mrs. E. G. Miller 

 lias retired from business, having sold 

 hor establishment to Harry M. Augen- 

 braugh. 



Beisterstown, Md. — Charles B. Wright 

 has sold his establishment to Leonard 

 Xi. Lancaster. Mr. Wright has moved 

 to 4816 Park avenue, Baltimore. 



Baltimore, Md. — J. Nick Thomas will 

 soon start work on his greenhouse, which 

 will be 40x140. He will also erect a resi- 

 dence. The total cost will be approxi- 

 mately $20,000. 



• Columbiana, O.— Roy Smith has pur- 

 Chased two farms in Florida, one at Rus- 

 sell and the other at Soutli Jacksonville. 

 He expects to locate there this fall and 

 grow plantfl and nursery stock. 



, Newark, O. — Warren C. Weient will 

 build an addition to his range. In his 

 extensive greenhouses he grows nothing 

 but cucumbers. He will build a $30,000 

 heating plant to take care of the present 

 houses and the new addition. 



Hastings, Neb.— C. B. Tanner is build- 

 ing three greenhouses, each 30x160 feet, 

 at his new greenhouse location on Wa- 

 bash avenue, in the northeast part of 

 town. The heating plant is to contain 

 two boilers, of forty-five and eighty-five 

 horsepower capacity. 



Boston, Mass. — Penn the Florist won 

 first prize at the annual summer show 

 of the North Shore Horticultural So- 

 ciety. There were eight otlier competi- 

 tors for the gold medal. This is the first 

 time Penn has entered in competition at 

 the North Shore show. His prizf exliibit 

 \v,is a table decoration. 



Baldwin, Kan. — Mrs. Maude Brock- 

 w;iy has opened a flower store, known a» 

 Baldwin's House of Flowers. Mrs. 

 lirockway will handle cut flowers and 

 plants. Although Ottawa and Law- 

 rence, near-by towns, have excellent 

 Ihirists' §^tahlishmcnts, Mr.s. Urockway 

 is confident that she can make lier btisi- 

 ne-<.s a paying one. 



Shelby, O. — The Hayes ("ireenhouses, 

 Operated for over a quarter of a century 

 by R. B. Hayes, have been sold to S. F. 

 Yosiek, of New Philadelphia. O., who 

 will do business as the Shelby Flora! 

 Co. The new concern will grow a gen- 

 eral line of cut flowers and plants for re- 

 tail trade. Mr. Yosiek will bring his 

 stock of gladiolus bulbs from New Phila- 

 delphia and expects to iiiercase this 

 specialty considerably ujjon the tract of 

 land adjoining the range. Mr. Yosiek 

 has had four years' experience as a 

 florist. Mr. Hayes, who has been ex- 

 ceedingly successful, will retire from 

 the business 



Beatrice, Neb. — Victor Rhyd has com- 

 pleted arrangements for the building of 

 his range. The material is being ship- 

 ped from Chicago. 



Beynoldsville, Pa.— Harry T. Peters 

 is building a large addition to his 

 greenhouse, at the corner of Main and 

 Fifth streets. He has torn down one of 

 the houses in order to double the area 

 under glass. 



Baton Bouge, La. — Sam Sclieinuk has 

 just moved to his new location on Rose- 

 land terrace, where he conducts his 

 store under the title of the Roseland 

 Florist. Several lots adjoining are used 

 to grow flowers. 



Fort William, Ont. — For the funeral 

 of an aviator killed overseas and 

 brought home for interment, Charles 

 Le Cocq constructed an airplane, about 

 five feet in width, of immortelles over- 

 laid with orchids, carnations and Crego 

 asters. 



Winfield, Kan.— The Vaughan Green- 

 houses, formerly owned by J. L. 

 Vaughan, liave been purchased by N. 

 Dugan and H. Z. Cain, of Wichita, Kan., 

 and will be known as the Winfield Seed 

 & Floral Co. A landscape department 

 will be added to tlie store. 



Perry, la. — -Tlie Perry Greenhouse has 

 been purchased from William Ballard 

 by Charles K. Louwerse, and will he 

 operated under the firm name of Lou- 

 werse & ('o. Mr. Louwerse was former- 

 ly a landscape gardener at Cedar Rapids, 

 having come originally from Holland 

 some years ago. 



Independence, la.— .\t the state fair 

 at Des Moines Geo. S. Woodruff took all 

 first premiums on gladioli except that on 

 twelve spikes yellow, for which he re- 

 ceived second award. He filled two large 

 tables, showing upwards of sixty named 

 varieties. The exhibit was kept fresli 

 to the last day by two shipments after 

 the one on which premiums were awarded. 

 The exhibit was much admircil by visi- 

 tors. Among the varieties which at 

 tracted sjiecial attention were .\nna 

 Eberius, Titanic, Red Emperor and Pink 

 Perfection. 



Buffalo, N. Y.--S. .\. Kost, who is as 

 suciated with the W. F. Kasting Co., has 

 invented a number of labor-saving de- 

 vices for florists. Conditions have not 

 been right for manufacturing and mar- 

 keting, but it is thought they soon will 

 be. The "Oh, Boy" glazing gun has 

 been leased for a year to the Excello 

 Mfg. Co., Cleveland. Then there is tlie 

 Kost soil pulverizer, sjiles of which nl 

 ready have been made to .liilius Roelirs 

 Co., Eobbink & Atkins, W. J. I'almer tV 

 Son, Poehlmaim Bros. Co. and C. C. Poll- 

 worth Co.; and the Kost bar scrajier 

 and the Kost & Yeager planting tool. 

 each of which the Kasting concern juir 

 poses to push next season. 



Kittanning, Pa. — The opening of J. 

 W. Glenn 's flower and seed store, at 128 

 North McKean street, was held Sep- 

 tember 1 and 2. 



Baraboo, Wis. — The frame structure 

 at the greenhouse owned by E. T. Boss 

 was badly damaged by fire August 21. 

 The fire is believed to have been caused 

 by spontaneous combustion. 



Houston, Tex. — Kerr the Florist, 

 which is the name under which B. C. 

 Kerr conducts his retail enterprise, is 

 remodeling the store building and in- 

 stalling new equipment, including a 

 large Buchbinder refrigerator. 



Goshen, Ind. — A. E. Kunderd realized 

 $26,149.80 last year from a 7-acre plot 

 of gladioli and returned more than $3,- 

 t)00 because of bulbs he could not sup- 

 ply. He has approximately fifteen 

 acres devoted to bulb culture. 



Ogden, Utah. — Corporal John E. 

 Dumke has been east to participate in 

 the shooting contests at Caldwell, N. J., 

 August 8 to September 1. He is a mem- 

 ber of the rifle team of the Utah Na- 

 tional Guard and receives all expenses 

 for the trip from the government. 



St. John, Kan. — Mrs. H. K. Maxwell 

 has sold her greenhouses to Palmer 8el- 

 fridge and since August 1 they have been 

 known as the St. John Greenhouses. 

 Mr. Self ridge recently returned from 

 service in France. He intends to en- 

 large the greenhouses. He took a spe- 

 cial course in greenhouse work and hor- 

 ticulture before entering the army. 



Utica, N. Y.— J. C. Bigelow & Son 

 took The Review's advice in the snm- 

 iner of 1918 and bought coal when they 

 could get it. The result was that they 

 had full houses last spring, when some 

 others had little. So they have just 

 done the same thing again, stored 

 enough, buckwheat to carry them 

 through. "It gives a comfortable feel- 

 ing to see one's supply on hand," says 

 Mr. Bigelow. 



Elyria, O. — -Fred L. Gunton, who in 

 1915 bought the greenhouses of Copas 

 Bros., after having had experience with 

 a number of growers east and west, is 

 the inventor of a new double-action 

 ventilator and has ajiplied for a patent. 

 .Mr. (iiinton's sash opens on either the 

 iijiper or lower side, at the operator's 

 irleasure. It is attached only by means 

 of the arms, both edges being clear. 

 By turning the lifting wheel in one di- 

 rection the sash opens at the ridge, while 

 turning the other way causes the sash 

 to open at the header, a great advan 

 tage where winds are strong and chan^fc 

 able. Mr. Gunton showed liis model at 

 the S. A. F. convention at Detroit, ex 

 plaining that lie does not intend to 

 manufacture the ajjparatus but to sell 

 his inventor's rights to some of the 

 greenhouse material companies 



