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The Florists^ Review 



June 10, 1920. 



Mrs. Koppenhaver sold 7,000 gerani- 

 ums and 4,000 white ruffled petunias, 

 among many other things. 



Miss Augusta Moseley, daughter of 

 Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Moseley, and John 

 Homer Mitchell were married May 11 

 in St. Paul's church, Kansas City, Kan. 

 The wedding was quiet and .was wit- 

 nessed only by members of the two 

 families. 



Miss Grace Murray will go to Cali- 

 fornia on the Shriners' special, which 

 leaves here June 14. 



Samuel Murray had a big cut of 

 Easter lilies for Memorial day. The 

 crop is holding up well and is good for 

 the many funerals of this week. Miss 

 Hayden says that the public has be- 

 come thoroughly accustomed to Sunday 

 closing. Saturday before Memorial day 

 was the heaviest ever known for this 

 holiday and some deliveries were left 

 over for Sunday and customers were told 

 that the store would be open Sunday 

 and Monday. There was little doing 

 Sunday or Monday. 



A. F. Barbe disposed of 4,000 peonies, 

 4,000 roses and 6,000 carnations for 

 Memorial day, besides many wreaths 

 and other stock. He had 20,000 gera- 

 niums and these are nearly all gone. 

 Mr. Barbe recently bought a Cadillac 

 and his son, Bernard Barbe, has a new 

 Stutz. 



E. S. Brown & Son say that they never 

 had a better Memorial day. They had 

 plenty of peonies, all out on time. They 

 have also had a good bedding plant 

 season, which has kept up later than 

 usual. 



"VT". J, Barnes is winding up his bed- 

 ding season, one of the best ever, and 

 his Memorial day business couldn't be 

 beaten, 



E. A. Humfeld has been too busy to 

 talk for the last two weeks. He did 



of Columbia and Eussell roses from the 

 new plants at the Pinehurst green- 

 houses. The benches are just beginning 

 to produce from the new planting and 

 the roses are good. Pinehurst is also 

 sending in some good Ophelia, Easter 

 and calla lilies and valley. 



Mrs. T. J. Noll has returned after 

 a two weeks' vacation. The store of 

 the T. J. Noll Floral Co. is being re- 

 modeled and renovated and many im- 

 provements will be made this summer. 



The Kansas City Wholesale Cut 

 Flower Co. has received some of the 

 finest carnations of the entire season 

 this week. Mr. Bohannon says that he 

 has not seen any better since he has 

 been here. The roses are especially 

 good and the week brought an excellent 

 assortment of delphinium. 



One woman in Kansas City, Kan., is 

 said to have cleared $1,000 from the 

 sale of peonies on her farm. The 

 customers cut the blooms themselves and 

 the woman had nothing to do but count 

 the flowers and collect for them. A 

 number of farmers in the neighborhood 

 of Kansas City, Kan., who formerly 

 grew flowers and sometimes sold part 

 of them along with their garden truck, 

 but more often sent them to the hos- 

 pitals and various institutions, are now 

 selling them all to persons who drive 

 outliv their cars. The small dealers are 

 feelin^r the effect of this practice to a 

 great extent, especially at such times 

 as Memorial day. 



George Papadakos has closed his 

 Kansas City Floral Co., at 1003 Walnut 

 street, the lease having expired. He 

 will now devote his attention exclusive- 

 ly to the Apollo Flower Shop, in Petti- 

 coat lane, which he purchased several 

 months ago. 



The fifth annual spring show of the 

 Flower Gardeners' Association will be 



Partly Erected loterlocUni; Tile Bench, Sbowlog Construction. 



manage to say that Memorial day was 

 the best by far that he ever saw and 

 that nearly everything he sold was from 

 his own greenhouses. He had an order 

 June 4 for twenty-four old-fashioned 

 bouquets and a number of corsages for 

 the closing of one of the schools here. 



The Central Avenue Florists finished 

 a good month with even better business 

 than was anticipated for Meiporial day. 



William Wade received his first cut 



held at the Hotel Muehlebach, June 12. 

 W. L. Rock has leased the 4-story 

 building at 1106-1108 Grand avenue, in 

 which his flower store is located, for 

 twenty years at an annual rental of 

 $22,000. The property has a frontage 

 of forty-nine and one-half feet and is 

 half a block deep. The W. L. Rock 

 Flower Co. occupies one of the two street 

 level stores and leases on both stores 

 have about two and a half years yet to 



run. It was to protect his location that 

 the new lease was taken and one of the 

 terms is that two additional stories must 

 be added to the building. This will cost 

 $50,000 and work will begin within 

 sixty days. Mr. Rock is handling the 

 deal individually and, although it means 

 a financial loss while the old lease is in 

 effect, after the two years are up he 

 will begin to realize on his investment. 

 The W. L. Rock Flower Co. has occupied 

 this store for eight years. When the 

 company moved there the building had 

 been idle a year and it was considered 

 outside of the business district and a 

 poor location for a florist. However, Mr. 

 Rock believed that business would move 

 eastward and his vision has been justi- 

 fied to the extent that he now has one 

 of the choicest locations in the city 

 and the lease he has just taken is in a 

 block where property valuation is about 

 the highest. J. E. K. 



NIELSEN QETS PATENT. 



On Interlockliig Tile Bench. 



Among the exhibits at the S. A. F. 

 convention at Detroit last autumn was 

 one which was solely an exhibit, for the 

 man who staged it had nothing to sell. 

 It was an interlocking tile bench, on 

 which Jacob Kier Nielsen had applied 

 for a patent, and it was set up in model 

 form about as the illustration on this 

 page shows it. The judges thought it 

 was worth honorable mention. The en- 

 graved, certificate of that fact came to 

 Mr. Nielsen just at the time he received 

 notice that his patent had been granted, 

 under date of May 7, 1920. 



Mr. Nielsen's idea of the tile bench 

 was gained from the fact that in 

 Europe building tile is often used for 

 benches, being laid on supporting bars. 

 By casting tile in patented form, so that 

 the pieces need only be fitted together, 

 Mr. Nielsen believed he could manu- 

 facture a bench which would be so last- 

 ing that it would be superior, eventually 

 in cost as well as in durability, to any 

 other material of which a bench might 

 be made. The tile is similar to roofing 

 tile, but is, of course, not glazed. 



Simple Construction. 



When manufacturing conditions per- 

 mit, perhaps in the autumn, Mr. Nielsen 

 expects to have the tile sections cast 

 ready for use. The concrete blocks 

 used for support can be easily cast by 

 the grower himself according to blue- 

 print plans. The posts can be made 

 either round or square and the support- 

 ing beams can be cast in lengths of 

 either three or six feet, being about 

 3x3 inches and the cross bars about the 

 same thickness. 



The bench is, according to plan, four 

 feet wide, being composed of eight tile 

 sections, each of which is six inches 

 wide, with about one-quarter inch space 

 between. The side boards are cast ns 

 part of the outside tile. The 3-foot 

 sections are identical except those at 

 the ends. In the end sections the sicTe 

 pieces are hooked, in L shape, the pro- 

 jection holding the end piece in place. 



There is no cement used to fasten 

 the tiles in place. The interlocking de- 

 vice holds the bench firmly together and 

 the pieces cannot be accidentally dis- 

 placed. Mr. Nielsen thinks that, in ad- 

 dition to its other advantages, a bench 

 of this type will hold the heat longer 

 and therefore make a greenhouse more 

 economical in fuel consumption. 



