Decembeb 11, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



45 



NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS 



Vermilion, S. D. — C. D. Tanner has a 

 greenhouse 20x70 feet, and is engaged 

 in market gardening. 



PaJnted Post, N. Y. — M. F. Darcy has 

 started in business, having recently 

 completed a greenhouse. 



Mercer, Pa. — Joseph F. Nelson has 

 bought the flower and market garden- 

 ing business of S. P. Smith. 



Bliinelander, Wis. — ^W. B. Creasey is 

 engaged in buying, gathering and selling 

 ornamental evergreen material. 



Concordia, Kan. — The Concordia 

 Greenhouses are rebuilding their range . 

 of houses and adding a palm house. 



CarroUton, HL — George Cocroft has 

 bought a greenhouse and is going to 

 start in business in a neighboring town. 



Springfield, Mo. — Mrs. E. E. Smith 

 has bought David Wiseman's nursery 

 and gardens and expects to continue the 

 business. 



Eureka, Kan. — L. Vanhaverbeke is 

 adding a propagating house, 10x100 feet, 

 to the Eureka Greenhouses, of which 

 he is proprietor. 



Manitowoc, Wis. — Three greenhouses 

 containing an aggregate of 8,000 feet of 

 glass have been completed for the M. G. 

 Madson Seed Co. 



nnlejrvUle, Pa.— William E. McKean 

 is beginning his fourth year of business 

 with 5,000 feet of glass and nine acres 

 in fruit and garden truck. 



BUssfield, Mich. — Julius Sprunk has 

 started in the business here with a house 

 l4 X 42, devoted to pot plants. He plans 

 to build another house 18 x 60 next sum- 

 mer. 



Cannon Falls, Minn. — The Anderson 

 Greenhouse is adding 10,000 feet of glass 

 to its range, using material supplied by 

 the American Greenhouse Mfg. Co. 

 Clyde M. Young, formerly with the 

 Kemble Floral Co., Oelwein, la., is in 

 charge. 



Aberdeen, S. D. — Although the Work- 

 man building, 205 South Main street, has 

 been sold by Mrs. J. C. Workman to 

 Peter J. Pagones and William A. Lalio- 

 tis, the business of Milady's Flower 

 Shop and of the other tenants will not 

 be disturbed. 



Hamilton, O. — Paragraphs in the local 

 Odd Fellows' bulletin are the means 

 which Dr. A. C. Carney uses to spread 

 the gospel of "Say It with Flowers." 

 Sickness last summer caused him to 

 realize the phase of flowers other than 

 commercial and now he speaks from ex- 

 perience when he spreads propaganda 

 for the trade in his addresses to lodges 

 in his district. 



Wlnsted, Conn. — Henry T. Hoctor has 

 taken over the greenhouse business of 

 Carl Swenson. 



Columbia City, Ind. — L. B. Roebuck, 

 of the West Side Greenhouses, plans to 

 grow flowers in addition to vegetables. 



Clarinda, la. — V. A. Crosthwait has 

 purchased the interest of J. V. Pfunder, 

 his partner, in the Clarinda Greenhouse. 



|3VERY now and then a well° 

 ■iB pleased reader speaks the word 

 which is the means of bringing; a 

 new advertiser to 



Such friendly assistance is thorouc^hly 

 appreciated. 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are buying, not an adver- 

 tiser, ^e especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florist's use 

 not at present advertised. 



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New Albany, Ind. — The establishment 

 of John G. Bettmann & Sons, East Main 

 street, which was founded in 1867 by 

 John G. Bettmann, has been sold to J. 

 W. M. Huckeby. 



Colorado Springs, Colo. — The green- 

 house at the Fremont experimental sta- 

 tion on Mount Manitou, where much im- 

 portant work in seed germination is 

 carried on, will be remodeled this win- 

 ter. Much laboratory experimental work 

 is planned for the winter. 



Bethesda, O. — W. P. Yaus, who was 

 formerly a market gardener on a small 

 scale in Wheeling, W. Va., and who has 

 for the last few years been growing 

 outdoor flowers in this town, is planning 

 to erect a greenhouse and increase his 

 trade. 



Winnipeg, Man. — A. R. King says the 

 prospects for the holidays are excellent. 

 He feels sure of a bumper business if the 

 weather is a little more favorable than 

 recently. "At present it is 20 degrees 

 below zero day after day; nice weather 

 to make deliveries in, but who should 

 worry? We have done it before and we 

 are prepared to do it again and again, 

 but we are not keen for it." 



Sterling, IlL — Oscar W. Eklund has 

 started in business for himself, growing 

 plants. 



Lancaster, Pa. — Ezra Miller has pur- 

 chased the greenhouses of Julius P. Sie- 

 bold. 



Danville, IlL— B. E. Taylor has bought 

 the greenhouse and business of Mrs. F. 

 B. Howell. 



Two Elvers, Wis. — Christ Hansen has 

 taken over Louis Hartung's greenhouses 

 on Greenfield avenue. 



Lansing, Mich.— W. H. Hall & Co., re- 

 cently organized, are building a range 

 on East Shiawassee street. 



Monroe, Mich. — France & Vandegrift 

 are completing a large addition to their 

 greenhouses on Washington street. 



Shlckshlnny, Pa. — H. E. Van Ronk 

 has added to his range a greenhouse, 

 28x50 feet, of semi-iron construction. 



Louisville, Ky. — Mr. and Mrs. A. E. 

 Roselle have bought out Mrs. Laura 

 Schleeter, on Gardner lane and Newburg 

 road. 



Tucson, Ariz. — John Howe, the suc- 

 cessor of Howe Bros., held the opening 

 of his new store November 15 and made 

 a fine showing. 



Bradford, Mass.— E. L. Allen has 

 taken over the two small greenhouses 

 which were owned by James B. Allen 

 until his death recently. 



Westhampton Beach, N. Y.— E. J. 0. 



Smith, employed for four years by G. L. 

 Bellows, of Good Ground, N. Y., is now 

 operating a small greenhouse of his own 

 and also grows dahlias in connection 

 with the Seaside Dahlia Farm of this 

 town. 



Lapeer, Mich.— Arthur Walker and 

 Peter Lubin, formerly employed in the 

 Lapeer Greenhouse, have gone into busi- 

 ness for themselves together and will 

 build a greenhouse on land which they 

 have bought adjoining the new school 

 playground. 



Sioux City, la.— The J. C. Rennison 

 Co. plans to move its greenhouses from 

 the present location at Twenty-fifth and 

 Jones streets to land recently purchased 

 on Smithland road. In connection with 

 this change, the range will be greatly 

 enlarged. 



Muskegon, Mich.— The greenhouse of 

 Luhman Bros., at McCracken avenue and 

 Cleveland street, had its formal open- 

 ing November 25. The two brothers 

 have for several years been the city's 

 superintendents of cemeteries, being in 

 charge of the Oakwood, Evergreen and 

 Lakeside cemeteries; Otto Luhman will 

 continue this work, while Edward Luh- 

 man has active charge of the new busi- 

 ness. 



