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The Florists^ Review 



May 31, 1917. 



caped. The losses range upward from 

 $100 to $;i,000 for the llorists, with the 

 loss of the Davis Gardens, growing veg- 

 etables in great glass houses, running 

 much higher. 



The liorists here, with the approxi- 

 mate amount of glass operated by each, 

 are as follows: 



Terre Haute Uose & Carnation Co., 75,000 feet. 



Heinl & Weber, 30,000 feet. 



J. IJ. Heinl & Son. 18,000 feet. 



Cowan Uros.. 15.000 feet. 



F. Wunker & Sons, 12,000 feet. 



H. Graham, 10,000 feet. 



N. H. Stover & Son, 5,000 feet. 



There are several other places that 

 do retail trade only, some of them hav- 

 ing no glass at all. 



The growers who lost glass were near- 

 ly all members of the Florists' Hail As- 

 sociation and their losses on glass, from 

 $100 to $3,000, are well covered with 

 insurance. 



Much the largest greenhouse range 

 at Terre Haute is that at Davis Gar- 

 dens, the vegetable forcing establish- 

 ment started here only a few years ago 

 by J. W. Davis, of Davenport, la. 

 These are Lord & Burnham iron frame 

 houses of the most modern construc- 

 tion. The range consists of service 

 building and five houses, each 80x600 

 feet, but work is under way on an- 

 other set of houses just doubling the 

 range. Of these live new houses two 

 were practically completed, a third was 

 ready for glazing aild the two others 

 had the frames nearly up. There there- 

 fore were seven houses with the glass 

 exposed to the hail. The breakage was 

 approximately 40,000 feet, or two car- 

 loads of glass, but the loss is estimated 

 nmch higher, at $15,000, the cucumbers 

 in the older houses being badly cut 

 up. Glass and other glazing material 

 already have been ordered for repairs. 



Nashville, Tenn. 



Hail hit Nashville. The wind did no 

 damage and hail fell only in spots, so 

 that some of the growers escaped with- 

 out the loss of a single pane, but at 

 the new place of Mclntyre Bros., where 

 the construction is thoroughly modern, 

 three-quarters of the glass was broken. 

 At the old place of this firm the damage 

 was less severe, not more than one-third 

 the glass breaking. In all the firm has 

 about 150,000 feet of glass and the loss 

 will be considerable. 



Louis Haury, who has about 60,000 

 feet of glass, was hit nearly as hard as 

 the new Mclntyre place. 



L. M. Smith and other vegetable 

 growers lost considerable glass. 



The Joy Floral Co., which has the 

 largest range in Nashville, was not in 

 the direct path of the storm and es- 

 caped with small loss. 



The loss on stock in the greenhouses 

 will not be as heavy as it would have 

 been at some other season of the year. 



North Vernon, Ind. 



About 7:30 p. m. May 26 a hail storm 

 passed over North Vernon, breaking 

 nearly aJl the glass, or about 100 boxes, 

 in the greenhouses of Warren Huckle- 

 berry, who is the only florist in the 

 town. 



There are reports of losses by wind 

 and especially by hail from many other 

 towns, in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, 

 Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and 

 Kansas, and no doubt the complete story 

 of May 26 and 27, when it comes to be 

 known, will show the trade's losses to 

 be greater in number and extent than 



any heretofore recorded within an equal 

 space of time. 



Wilmington, N. C. 



Hail visited Wilmington earlier in 

 the week. It was about 4 p. m. May 23 

 that the third of the storms of the day 

 passed over the city, the final one strik- 

 ing the range of Miss Lucy B. 

 Moore, on Market street, where the 

 greenhouses were practically demol- 

 ished, and the stock injured to some 

 extent. According to a statement made 

 by Miss Moore, the damage to the stock 

 will not be serious, although the loss on 

 the greenhouses will amount to approxi- 

 mately $2,000. Work of rebuilding was 

 begun at once. 



The greenhouses of Will Eehder, on 

 Red Cross street, and Mrs. L. P. Fowler, 



Officers of tfic Southern Floral Co. 



on South Fifth street, were also con- 

 siderablv damaged, the former to the 

 extent of $300 and the latter $150. 



LET THE REVIEW KNOW. 



If the wind and hail have done any 

 damage to the greenhouses in your vi- 

 cinity, or to the florists' outdoor crop, 

 stop long enough at this busy season 

 to drop a line to The Review. Everyone 

 in the trade will be watching next 

 week 's paper for fuller information re- 

 garding the losses sustained. Let's 

 hear from you. And do it now! 



HYDRANGEAS NOT FLOWERING. 



I have some hydrangeas carried over 

 from last year. They are fine plants, 

 but have no blooms on them. They 

 were bought last year in small pots and 

 planted out, making nice plants. Shall 

 I cut them back and root the tips or 

 will they bloom? They are the French 

 and Otaksa varieties. J. G. C. — Mo. 



damped off. Hydrangeas during win- 

 ter must be kept tolerably dry at the 

 root and just clear of freezing. The 

 French varieties are somewhat more 

 tender than Otaksa, but both are of 

 such easy culture that it is difficult 

 to see how you could have failed to 

 flower them at all. Cut back well, plant 

 outdoors in good soil, pot up in Oc- 

 tober, keep outside so long as frost 

 keeps off them, place in a frostproof 

 cellar, pit or frame and air on all 

 favorable occasions through the winter. 



C. W. 



SOUTHERNERS GET IN THE GAME. 



The Southern Floral Co., of Houston, 

 Tex., is making arrangements with 

 northern wholesale houses for the dis- 

 tribution of its large crop of cut gla- 

 dioli, the stock to be handled by only 

 one house in each of several of the 

 larger flower centers of the north. The 

 company, aside from its range of green- 

 houses, has farms in several localities 

 in keeping with the various crops it 

 wishes to produce. The gladiolus crop 

 this year will consist of about 750,000 

 spikes. 



A. E. Kutschbach, who stands at 

 the left in the accompanying illustra- 

 tion, is president of the Southern Floral 

 Co., and J. B. Flynn, who is at the 

 right, is secretary. 



A SHORTAGE OF PARIS GREEN. 



A probable shortage of Paris green 

 this year, depending largely upon the 

 extent of the ravages of potato bugs, is 

 forecast by manufacturers and dealers. 

 The price of Paris green advanced 

 sharply recently to from 40 cents to 45 

 cents a pound in kegs, standing at from 

 3 cents to 5 cents a pound above the 

 quotation at the beginning of the 

 month, and representing an advance of 

 about 10 cents a pound over the price 

 a year ago. This condition is ascribed 

 to the difficulties in obtaining white 

 arsenic, the principal material used in 

 making Paris green, which is scarce and 

 high at present. 



The opinion is generally expressed in 

 the trade that there would be about 

 enough Paris green to accommodate the 

 normal requirements, but in view of the 

 plans for extensively increasing the cul- 

 tivation of the potato to prevent a food 

 shortage it is feared that the supply will 

 not be ample to fill the demand. The 

 representative of one of the largest 

 houses manufacturing the poison said 

 that its entire supply had been sold out 

 some time ago and that all inquiries 

 were being turned away. 



The bulk of Paris green is manufac- 

 tured during the winter months, as its 

 production is highly dangerous, requir- 

 ing that the workers be closely confined, 

 and warm weather- would make the risk 

 to workers too high. Moreover, the lack 

 of white arsenic will prevent any large 

 increase in the output. If there is a 

 scourge of potato bugs, such as comes 

 in some seasons, the plants will proba- 

 bly suffer, particularly if the cotton 

 crop demands a large part of the sup- 

 ply for the extinction of cotton pests. 



You must have either frozen the 

 flower buds on your hydrangeas, or 

 subjected them to unsuitable storage 

 conditions in winter, so that they have 



Independence, Kan. — After a two 

 weeks' honeymoon, P. A. Bunyar is 

 back on the job with greater ambitions. 

 The lady in the case was Miss Esther 

 Knight. P. A. is son of Robert Bunyar, 

 proprietor of the Independence Green- 

 houses & Gardens. 



