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December 4, 1019. 



The Florists^ Review 



Mankato, Minn. — The Windmiller Co., 

 one of the progressive concerns of the 

 northwest, now runs a chain of five 

 stores and is doing a big business. 



West Webster, N. Y.— Henry E. Wood 

 has just started with two greenhouses 

 to grow flowers for the Eochester mar- 

 ket, also vegetables and plants in 

 season. 



Anderson, Ind. — William Klus recent- 

 ly suffered a loss estimated at $3,500 

 when the heating system in his green- 

 house failed to work and thousands of 

 mums were frozen. 



Willlamsport, Pa. — The Collins- 

 Bhoades Co. has been organized by H. C. 

 Collins and B. D. Bhoades and has taken 

 over the greenhouses formerly run by 

 the Williamsport Floral Co. 



Helena, Mont. — During the "Say It 

 with Flowers" week in this city No- 

 vember 3 to 8, the feature flower was 

 the chrysanthemum, particularly at the 

 store of the State Nursery & Seed Co. 



Maasillon, O. — J. F. Myers, proprietor 

 of Springbrook Farm, is erecting three 

 houses, 36x200 feet, with which he plans 

 to add the growing of greenhouse prod- 

 ucts to his raising of cattle and hogs. 



Lincoln, Neb. — Frey & Frey report 

 that business has been excellent from 

 the start of the season, with prospects 

 for a big Christmas, as all growers here 

 have fine lots of plants and promise for 

 good cuts of roses and carnations. 



Blackwell, Okla.— The Hart Floral Co. 

 recently had a disastrous "fire, which de- 

 stroyed the office and most of the busi- 

 ness records, the workroom and part of 

 a greenhouse, together with about half 

 the stock. Reconstruction is under way. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — The Lakewood 

 Cemetery Association has awarded the 

 contract to the American Greenhouse 

 Mfg. Co., Chicago, for erection next 

 spring of four houses. One is to be 

 steel-frame, 56x320; two pipe-frame, 

 36 X 150, and one pipe-frame," 29 x 100, 



Alexandria, Va.— The Dunbarr Floral 

 Co. has opened a new store on King 

 street, where Mrs. Thomas M. Dunbarr 

 will be in charge. The Braddock road 

 range, under the supervision of Mr. 

 Dunbarr, has been improved by the in- 

 stallation of two new pressure boilers 

 and by the tearing down of two small 

 houses to make room for one house of 

 modern construction. 



Sioux City, la.— The Growers' and Re- 

 tailers' Association, of which A. Albert, 

 superintendent of the J. C. Rennison 

 Co., is president, will hold its next meet- 

 ing December 15. This association was 

 formed October 20 of this year at the 

 establishment of the J. C. Rennison Co. 

 to bring about better growing condi- 

 tions and closer cooperation within the 

 trade. 



Paris, Tenn. — Mrs. S. J. Ronton has 

 purchased a Moninger greenhouse, 

 21x100 feet. 



La Porte, Ind. — John A. Lambert, 

 after a most successful trip for the Ove 

 Gnatt Co., is going to Atlanta, Ga., to 

 join his wife and baby for a rest over 

 the holidays. 



Charleston, S. C. — The Art Floral Co. 

 has filed incorporation papers with a pro- 

 posed capital of $10,000. The incorpora- 

 tors are Paul M. McMillan and William 

 G. Albrecht. 



Anderson, Ind. — J. S. Stuart & Son 

 gave their thirty-first annual flower 

 show November 13 to 15. The plants 

 and mums exhibited were excellent. 

 The weather was favorable and the at- 

 tendance large. Both visitors and 

 hosts were well pleased with the show. 



Darby, Pa. — The dwelling, store and 

 greenhouses of Mrs. J. Carroll, Eleventh 

 street and Cedar avenue, were destroyed 

 by fire November 19. The store was on 

 the first floor of the 2-story brick dwell- 

 ing, to which were attached the two 

 greenhouses; in one of these the fir<? is 

 believed to have started. 



Madison, N. J. — John F. Piper, fore- 

 man for the C. H. Totty Co., saileil 

 for England on the Mauretania Novem- 

 ber 29. He expects to visit W. Wells 

 & Co., H. J. Jones, of Lewisham, J. 

 Cheal & Sons, the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Gardens, where he gained the society's 

 diploma, and other large firms where he 

 served his apprenticeship. 



Mansfield, O. — This is proving an ex- 

 ceptionally good season for Stuhldreher 

 Bros. At the greenhouses at Cline street 

 and Lexington avenue, where George H. 

 and Leo D. Stuhldreher are busy, stock 

 is coming along nicely, but not fast 

 enough to meet all the needs of the store 

 at 32 West Fourth street, where Clar- 

 ence H. Stuhldreher is manager. 



Akron, O. — A 3-story building with a 

 conservatory is being erected at 283 

 South Main street, for Grossberg & 

 Cahill, who are soon to open an up-to- 

 date retail flower store, the opportu- 

 nities for another florist being thought 

 better here than in any other manufac- 

 turing city in the United States. A 

 contract has been made with the A. L. 

 Randall Co., Chicago, for a 14-foot dis- 

 play refrigerator and a complete outfit 

 of fixtures and furniture. 



Hutchinson, Kan. — J. Ralph Souder 

 has sold his retail business to Harry L. 

 Smith, who conducts Smith 's Flower 

 Shop. He will continue the stand for- 

 merly operated by Mr. Souder in the 

 Rorabaugh-Wiley ouilding. Mr. Souder 

 will confine himself entirely to growing 

 flowers, most of his output being used 

 by Mr. Smith. A joint advertisement 

 of more than two-thirds of a page an- 

 nounced the change of ownership in the 

 Hutchinson News November 11. 



Charleston, S. C. — T. T. Bolger has re- 

 cently been featuring in his store an 

 attractive display of large chrysanthe- 

 mums, brought there from the flower 

 show at Philadelphia. 



Vancouver, B. C. — E. H. Peace is 

 erecting a range about four miles from 

 this city for .growing flowers for the 

 wholesale trade only. The range will 

 be ready about January 1, 1920, 



Tyrone, Pa. — Glenn Meloy has opened 

 a store near the Pennsylvania railroad 

 station. On the day of his opening, 

 Saturday, November 8, he gave away 

 1,000 roses to the ladies who visited the 

 store. 



Marion, HL — Mrs. Minnie Lilley Cope- 

 land, proprietor of the Marion Green- 

 houses, has added to her range a green- 

 house 21x100, built by Lawrence Clary, 

 who with his mother, Mrs. E. J. Clary, 

 owns the Clary greenhouses in Coshoc- 

 ton, O. 



Lakeland, Fla.— E. R. Giddings, for- 

 merly owner of the Tulsa Greenhouses, 

 Tulsa, Okla., has moved to this town, 

 where he is starting business under the 

 name of the Westmoreland Greenhouses. 

 J. W. Scharfenberg is manager and 

 Nettie C. Giddings is store manager and 

 designer. 



Grinnell, la.— The Kemble Floral Co., 

 which has a chain of stores and green- 

 houses in various Iowa towns, has been 

 making extensive improvements in the 

 Hazelwood Greenhouse. Paul Kinsman, 

 who is in charge of the Hazelwood 

 Greenhouse, was with the Kemble Flo- 

 ral Co., in Oskaloosa, la., for ten years 

 and his three assistants are all experi- 

 enced workers in the trade. 



Booneville, Ind.— Lutz & McConnell 

 have moved from their temporary quar- 

 ters, at 117 East Main street, to their 

 recently completed houses adjoining 

 Maple Grove cemetery. There they have 

 7,000 feet of glass, which will be de- 

 voted to the culture of lettuce, sweet 

 peas and pot plants. The installation 

 has just been completed of a Lalley 

 lighting system and a Gould pressure 

 pumping system. Lutz & McConnell 

 have added nursery stock and landscape 

 planting to their business. 



Marquette, Mich.— E. R. Taueh held 

 the opening last week of the new green- 

 house and sales and office building re- 

 cently completed. The range now com- 

 prises 16,000 feet of glass. The sales- 

 room has two large display windows, 

 forty feot long, in one of which is a fish 

 pond. An electric aeroplane fan circles 

 in the store. A new hot water heating 

 plant has also been installed. In the 

 front of the building, worked into the 

 concrete, is the title Tauch Greenhouses 

 and also the slogan, "Say It with Flow- 

 ers." 



