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The Florists' Review 



June 23, 1921 



BUSINESS EMBARBASSMENTS. 



Moorestown, N. J. — The Stokes Seed 

 Farms Co. this week went into volun- 

 tary bankrujitcy. Francis P. Stokes 

 says that it will mean the loss of the 

 entire plant at Windermoor farm and 

 probably the closing up of the business. 

 The effort to put the business on a 

 profitable basis has proved futile under 

 the conditions prevailing during the 

 last two years, and the company is un- 

 able to continue under present losses. 

 Mr. Stokes has not determined on his 

 own plans for the future, but will prob- 

 ably resume connection with the trade 

 in some other position. The Stokes 

 Seed Farms Co. was incorporated in 

 1914 to take over the business of Walter 

 P. Stokes', who at that time conducted 

 a retail seed store in Philadelphia, and 

 to undertake the production of seed at 

 Moorestown. Walter P. Stokes died in 

 1916. In 1919 the store in Philadelphia 

 was closed. It was at 219 Market street 

 and was half of the store once operated 

 by the firm of Johnson & Stokes. Upon 

 dissolution of the partnership, in 1906, 

 Mr. Johnson conducted his business in 

 the half at 217 Market street. In 1915 

 an involuntary petition in bankruptcy 

 caused the discontinuance of his busi- 

 ness. 



Cleveland, O. — Harry L. Snyder, 

 referee in bankruptcy, has, in District 

 court, given notice to all parties con- 

 cerned in the matter of Joseph Levine 

 and H. W. Grossberg, proprietors of the 

 store of Grossberg & Cahill, Akron, O., 

 who filed a voluntary petition in bank- 

 ruptcy April 29, that the said bank- 

 rupts filed their petition for confirma- 

 tion of composition of twenty-five per 

 cent and the same has been assigned for 

 hearing before D. C. Westerhaver, 

 judge of the District court of the United 

 States for the northern district of Ohio, 

 eastern division, at Cleveland, O., July 

 1, 1921, at 9:30 a. m. All known cred- 

 itors and other persons in interest may 

 appear at the same time and place and 

 show cause, if any they have, why the 

 prayer of said petition should not be 

 answered. 



Salt Lake City, Utah. — Notice has 

 been given by Jerrold B. Letcher, ref- 

 eree in bankruptcy, in the district court 

 at Salt Lake City, Utah, to the creditors 

 of Howard Edris, doing business as the 

 Utah Floral Co. in that city, that on 

 June 15, 1921, the said Howard Edris 

 was duly adjudicated bankrupt and that 

 the first meeting of the creditors will 

 be held at the offices of the referee, 424 

 Continental Bank building, Salt Lake 

 City, June 29, at 10:. 10 a. m., at which 

 time the said creditors may attend, 

 prove their claims, ap{)oint a trustee, 

 oxamine the bankrupt and transact such 

 other business as may properly come 

 before said meeting. 



AFTEB THE FLOOD WAS OVER. 



How complete was the dolapidation in 

 the wake of the flood at Pueblo, Colo., 

 is shown bv the view of the store of the 

 Pueblo Floral Co. at 216 North Main 

 street after the waters had subsided. 

 This store was a total loss. The flood 

 entered by way of the front windows 

 and departed through the rear wall, tak- 

 ing with it both and all that was be- 

 tween. Eefrigerators, counters and all 

 were swept away. Not a sign of a 

 flower shop's having occupied the prem- 

 ises was left. 



Fortunately, the store of the company 



at 523 North Main street was left in- 

 tact, only supplies stored in the base- 

 ment being damaged, and the green- 

 houses were untouched. So the com- 

 pany made a quick recovery and is now 

 operating as usual, having taken care 

 of much business consequent upon the 

 flood's toll of life. The total loss was 

 in the neighborhood of $3,000, reports 

 Manager George Bolt, Jr. 



HARTFORD, CONN. 



The Market. 



Business among all the florists is 

 quiet. Beginning Monday, June 20, 

 commencement exercises were held at 

 most of the schools and colleges here, 

 which caused some demand for bou- 

 quets. 



Various Notes. 



J. A. Brodrib and Coombs have been 

 carrying some snappy advertisements 

 in the daily papers, with some nice 

 cuts of brides' bouquets, and offering 

 their made-up pieces for graduation. 



The June flower show of the Con- 

 necticut Horticultural Society, the 

 Garden Club and the Amateur Garden 

 Club, of Hartford, was held at Unity 

 hall, on Pratt street, June 16 and 17, 

 where throngs of garden lovers viewed 

 the largest and best arranged exhibi- 

 tion they ever held. The exhibits com- 

 pletely filled the hall, the brilliant hues 

 of the flowers showing in pleasing con- 

 trast against the hemlock-bedecked 

 walls. The roses were naturally the 

 most abundant, and one of the most 

 interesting individual exhibits was that 

 containing fifty vases from Elizabeth 

 park. A large number of awards was 

 made. Keen competition was shown in 

 the made-up baskets. Miss Mary Haven 

 won the first prize with a combination of 

 pink roses and Delphinium Belladonna, 

 nicely arranged. Mrs. Frank S. Kemble 

 won the second prize. W. S. Mason, of 

 Farmington, president of the society, 

 carried off the largest number of 

 awards for roses, hardy perennials and 

 flowering shrubs, with eleven firsts and 

 two seconds, besides special mention for 

 a collection of his valuable native 

 woods, of which he showed several hun- 

 dred. Mrs. F. C. Sumner won three 



first prizes; Mrs. Morgan G. Buckley, 

 four firsts; Mrs. S. O. Prentice, three 

 firsts; Mrs. A. W. North, three firsts, 

 three seconds and a certificate of merit; 

 W. W. Hunt, four firsts and one second. 

 Mrs. J. S. Goodwin won seven firsts and 

 a special award for a collection of deco- 

 rative plants. Louis Chauvy won four 

 firsts, one second; Neil Nelson, of the 

 Hartford Retreat, five firsts and six 

 seconds; Gustavo Menge, two firsts and 

 three seconds; Miss A. Lorenz, two 

 firsts and special mention for a collec- 

 tion of new and rare roses. George E. 

 Goodwin won six firsts for roses and 

 sweet peas. A. N. Pierson, Inc., Crom- 

 well Gardens, received a special prize 

 for some remarkable vases of Columbia, 

 Premier, Butterfly and Priscilla roses. 

 The park department of this city re- 

 ceived a similar award for its collection. 



The arrangements of this successful 

 exhibit were in charge of S. H. Deming, 

 secretary of the Connecticut Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



Recent visitors were Robert Mont- 

 gomery, of the T. J. Grey Co., Boston, 

 Mass., and A. G. McMillan, of the 

 Albert Dickinson Co., Chicago. C. P. M. 



CANADIAN BAN. 



The Federal Horticultural Board has 

 issued the following notice in regard 

 to adding to Quarantine 41, with re- 

 spect to prohibiting the importation 

 from Canada of plants likely to be in- 

 fested with the European corn borer: 



The Secretary' of ARriculture has information 

 tlint the European com borer, Pyrausta nubil- 

 alls Hubn.. a dangerous insect not heretofore 

 widely prevalent or distributed within and 

 throughout the United States, occurs in portions 

 of Canada. 



It appears necessary, therefore, to consider 

 the advisability of prohibiting the further impor- 

 tation from Cannda of celery, green beans in 

 the pods, beets with tops, spinach, rhubarb, oat 

 or rye straw, as such, or when used as packing, 

 cut flowers or entire plants of chrysanthemum, 

 aster, cosmos, zinnia, hollyhock and cut flowers 

 or entire plants of gladiolus and dahlia, except 

 the bulbs thereof, without stems, in addition to 

 the plants and plant products already prohibited 

 or restricted as to entry by notice of Quar- 

 antine 41. 



Notice is. therefore, hereby given that, in 

 compliance with the plant quarantine act, a 

 public hearing will be held at the Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, room 10, 

 Kntomology building, at 10 a. m., ,Tune 28, 1921. 

 in order that any person interested in the sub- 

 ject of the proposed amendment of this (juaran- 

 tine may appear and be heard, cither in person 

 or by attorney. 



Store of the Pueblo Floral Co. after the Flood Had Subsided. 



