DECEMBBB 30, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



25 



Albion, Mich. — F. E. Hubert recently 

 01 lied a flower store in the downtown 



(1 trict. 



Obarleston, S. C. — Karl H. Muller has 

 li ome engaged in the growing busi- 

 n xs here. 



Qulfport, Miss. — J. B. Pilsbury states 

 111 is about ready to engage in the flo- 

 n.~ts' business. 



Fryeburg, Me. — S. W. Walker has 

 withdrawn from the florists' business, 

 lie is now located at 194 East Thirty- 

 tliird street, Portland, Ore. 



Newcomersto'wn, O. — Forrest Ed- 

 w.irds, who wholesales cut flowers to lo- 

 cal florists, is contemplating the build- 

 ing of a greenhouse in the neai* future. 



Newark, N. J. — Augustine P. and 

 Michael J. Cogan have purchased one 

 and one-eighth acres of land at Maple- 

 wood, on which they will build green- 

 houses. 



Sturgeon Bay, Wis. — Miss Charlotte 

 Toseland, connected for some time with 

 the floral department of the Farmers' 

 Co., will engage in the florists' business 

 for herself. 



Glen EUyn, 111.— A. F. Wolff and W. 

 H. Churchill, in partnership, have pur- 

 chased the establishment of Charles 

 Erickson here, as well as nearly all that 

 of the late L. A. Miller. 



Roundup, Mont. — The Roundup Floral 

 Co. has erected a greenhouse at the 

 home of the concern's manager, E. Bur- 

 ton. Flowers will be grown for the 

 markets in Billings and Butte. 



Calgary, Alta.— The Eosery Floral Co. 

 Jias purchased the retail store and green- 

 houses of the Emery Floral Co. S. G. 

 Kimpton is the general manager. He 

 was formerly sales manager for the 

 Kmery Floral Co. 



Worcester, Mass. — The California 

 I'lower Shop, 21 Pearl street, during the 

 'hristmas season was filled with a large 

 Mipply of begonias, roses, poinscttias, 

 • yclamens, Jerusalem cherries and Bos- 

 ion ferns. Business was heavy. 



Hagerstown, Md. — A fire broke out in 



he greenhouse owned by Fred Gallion, 



ear Pen Mar, and if it had not been 



'<ir the presence of mind of his wife and 



i small boy, the range would have been 



'otally destroyed. The two kept the 



-ames well under control until Mr. 



■allion returned and extinguished them. 



Worcester, Mass. — The trustees of the 

 Worcester County Horticultural Society 

 let in Horticultural hall December 8, 

 'resident L. C. Midgley presiding. 

 \niong the committeemen appointed on 

 .'irious committees for the year were: 

 Albert H. Lange, Allyne W. Hixon, My- 

 on F. Converse, Walter D. Ross, all of 

 Worcester, and Herbert A. Cook, of 

 Shrewsbury, Mass. 



Headland, Ala.— Mrs. D. W. McLean 

 is beginning business as a florist and 

 market gardener. 



Eocky River, O. — The Goldwood 

 Greenhouse Co. has increased its capital 

 from $25,000 to $75,000. 



Woburn, Mass. — Following the death 

 of W. H. Croughan, the florists' busi- 

 ness he conducted was not continued by 

 his estate. 



• Louisville, Ky. — D. E. Isgrigg, for fif- 

 teen years market gardener here, has 

 built a greenhouse and intends to grow 

 flowers. 



Tupelo, Miss. — Mrs. Mary Shannon is 

 completing a successful year of busi- 

 ness, and is contemplating the erection 

 of a greenhouse next spring. 



Johnstown, Pa.- — S. J. Hoy sen, for the 

 last five years manager of the store of 

 Traugott Malbranc here, has resigned 

 his position and expects to go into busi- 

 ness for himself. 



Tallahassee, Fla. — J. Steinfuhver is 

 now a gardener at the Florida State 

 College for Women, but he still is the 

 proprietor of a greenhouse and grows 

 for the cut flower market. 



Hartford, Conn. — E. M. Smith, presi- 

 dent of the West Hartford Gladiolus 

 Co., has obtained permission from Gov- 

 ernor Calvin Coolidge to name a new 

 variety of gladiolus after him. 



Grafton, Mass. — The Creeper Hill Or- 

 chard & Greenhouse Co. has received 

 papers of incorporation, capitalizing it 

 at $25,000. The incorporators are War- 

 ren F. Holden, George R. Stubbs and 

 Stearns L. Davenport. 



Norfolk, Va.^ — George, Inc., recently 

 completed a greenhouse to be used for 

 roses. The house measures 250 feet in 

 length. It now shelters more than 5,000 

 roses of six varieties, which are Hadley, 

 Columbia, Russell, White Killarney, 

 Ophelia and Sunburst. 



Helena, Mont. — December 12 was vis- 

 itors' day at the range of the State 

 Nursery & Seed Co. One of Helena's 

 leading newspapers published a glowing 

 description of the quality and quantity 

 of the firm's stock. The greenhouses 

 were crowded with potted plants, mostly 

 poinsettias .ind cyclamens, just before 

 shipping to customers for the holiday 

 trade. 



Anthony, Kan. — C. Humfeld, of the 

 Humfeld Floral Co., Concordia, Kan., 

 lias opened a store in the rooms adjoin- 

 ing the Homo State bank. He jilans to 

 stock a wide variety of cut flowers from 

 his two greenhouses and perhaps erect 

 a small greenhouse at Anthony next 

 spring. Mr. Humfeld, it is said, for- 

 merly owned and operated several large 

 greenhouses, which Jire now managed by 

 \■.■'.^ sons. 



New Britain, Conn. — A. W. and E. 

 M. Welch, of Hartford, Conn., have 

 ()j)ened a branch establishment at 89 

 West Main street. 



Wilder, Ida.— Mrs. Frank C. McNees, 

 who has been catering to the local trade 

 as a gardener on a small scale, expects 

 to build a greenhouse soon. 



Massillon, O. — A. Heitzer has opened 

 his greenhouses, at 813 North Mill 

 street, and expects to run them all win- 

 ter. They have been closed for about 

 two years. 



Winfield, la.— 8. B. Patton, formerly 

 employed by I. L. Pillsbury, of Gales- 

 burg, 111., is planning to open a retail 

 store, but has not decided on a suitable 

 location. 



Brazil, Ind. — A concrete bench busi- 

 ness is being started here by Jacob Kier 

 Nielsen, formerly of Oak Park, 111., who 

 intends to have his concrete tiles manu- 

 factured in this town. 



Del Rio, Tex. — The Border Floral Co., 

 of which Mrs. Frances Dorland is pro- 

 prietor, has had a constantly increasing 

 business since its beginning, a little over 

 a year ago, with 100 plants. 



Pontiac, 111.— W. J. Miller & Son re- 

 j)ort a tremendous Christmas business. 

 Although the cut stock was not so plen- 

 tiful as had been hoped, a large plant 

 sale made up for the shortage of cut 

 flowers. 



Jackson, Tenn. — Murray Sands again 

 is in the liospital. He spent twelve 

 weeks there in the summer and was 

 home only a short time when he re- 

 turned for an operation. Mrs. Sands is 

 looking after the business. 



Livingston, Mont. — Henry Bothwil 

 opened a flower store, December 4, at 

 LM)5 West Park street. The new store 

 will be known as the Livingston Flower 

 Slioj). When the new Elite hotel build- 

 ing is opened the establishment will take 

 up a location on Second street in the new 

 building. 



Kearney, Neb. — The Kearney Floral 

 Co. is growing rapidly and the estab- 

 lishment now consists of six buildings, 

 including one of the most up-to-date 

 greenhouses in the state. The com- 

 pany was founded in 1908 by George H. 

 Downing and was jmrchased by the 

 ])resent owner, J. E. Charlson, in 1915. 

 The firm now employs eight men. 



Holland, Mich. — Miss Helene Huiz- 

 engn, of the Twelfth Street Floral Shop, 

 rei)orts a successful yonr. For Christmas 

 this firm had an abundance of cylamens, 

 poinsettias, primroses, cherries, narcissi 

 and all kinds of cut flowers. The stock 

 was ]>ractically all sold out Christmas 

 eve. December 17 this firm had a Inrgn 

 banquet to care for, and this reqiiircd 

 several dozen corsages. 



