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The Florists^ Review 



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Store of the Bentzen Floral G)^ St. Louis, Mo. 



ANY STAMPS FOE ANY USE. 



A ruling that will do much to fur- 

 ther popularize the parcel post by re- 

 moving a restriction that has been a 

 source of much inconvenience to the 

 public has been made by Postmaster 

 General Burleson. Parcel post stamps 

 noware valid on all classes of mail mat- 

 ter and ordinary stamps, including com- 

 memorative issues, are good for postage 

 on parcel post packages. Parcel post 

 stamps will not be issued or used after 

 the stock now on hand is exhausted. 



STEVIA IN SOLID BEDS. 



When should stevia plants be brought 

 indoors, and how far aja^irt should they 

 be planted in solid be(||nf. R. E. M. 



Stevia should be brotiKht indoors just 

 before frost arrives, vjt is better to 

 leave it out as late a«^ possible, but a 

 little frost will blacken'tt and render it 

 valueless. The distance apart it should 

 be planted will depend on whether you 

 are growing the tall or dwarf variety 

 and on the size of your plants. Aver- 

 age-sized plants, such as would fit an 

 8-inch pot, should have fifteen to eight- 

 een inches each way to do them justice. 

 Stevia wants to be grown in a cool 

 house. C. W. 



BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. 



Portland, Ind.— W. A. Hart, of Jef- 

 ferson township, brought suit on a note 

 against the Portland Nursery Co. June 

 17, and asked that a receiver be ap- 

 pointed for the defendant concern. Suit 

 on a mechanic 's lien also was brought 

 by the firm of Yount & Ewry against 

 James M. T. and Mary A. Wright. Mr. 

 Wright is the general manager of the 

 nursery company. 



Painesville, O.— Though the Paines- 

 ville Garden & Greenhpuse Co. has been 

 in business only one season, the space 

 under glass has already been found in- 

 adequate and three more greenhouses 

 will be built this summer. The demand 

 for lettuce was so good that the stock 

 was soon exhausted. It is said that the 

 men who are back of this enterprise 

 have ample means for its development. 



GREENHOUSE INSURANCE. 



Since the Omaha cyclone, which, by 

 the way, swept several states, doing 

 widespread damage to greenhouses, 

 there has been much inquiry for wind 

 storm insurance on glass structures. It 

 has not been easy to find a company 

 of known responsibility that would take 

 greenhouse risks. Florian D. Wallace, 

 a broker in the Insurance Exchange 

 building, Chicago, thought he saw an 

 opportunity to establish a new line of 

 business and has devoted much of his 

 time to the subject the last few months. 



"I have prevailed upon a syndicate 

 of old and well known stock fire and 

 tornado insurance companies, with com- 

 bined assets of over $25,000,000, to write 

 greenhouse windstorm insurance," he 

 says. "This is an entirely new and 

 rather hazardous field for insurance 

 companies and we will proceed cau- 

 tiously for the present, covering, only 

 well built ranges in good repair, and 

 only those in northern Illinois. Later 

 in the year, however, when a better 



Ttnowletlge oi conditions and require- 

 ments is n^btained, the territory will be 

 extended to cover other states. 



* ' The policies will cover broadly 

 greenhouses, boiler houses, dwellings, 

 barns, live stock and all other property 

 of the assured, fixed and movable, on 

 his premises, except windmills, metal 

 stacks, hotbeds and growing plants, 

 shrubs and trees. There will be no 

 troublesome conditions in the policy 

 and no warranties except an agreement 

 to insure for at least fifty per cent 

 of the value of' the plant. The rates 

 will be surprisingly low for the hazard, 

 and it will be only with the most care- 

 ful inspections and selection that the 

 insurance can be written at present 

 prices. The writer is personally visiting 

 the various greenhouse centers near 

 Chicago, for the purpose of making 

 these inspections and explaining the 

 proposition generally. ' ' 



Many growers carry fire and liability 

 insurance as well as hail insurance and, 

 since the Wilcox loss, are anxious to 

 get fully covered by adding wind insur- 

 ance. It has become pretty well rec- 

 ognized in this trade that a business 

 not worth insurance is a pretty poor 

 business. 



Texarkana, Ark. — E. L. Kiley has 

 purchased the business of Mrs. E. 

 Aleon, who has moved to Evansville, 

 Ind. 



Sterling, HI. — Robert Lundstrom, 

 manager of the Sterling Floral Co., is 

 one of those most actively interested in 

 the plans for beautifying this city. 

 Through his efforts, City Forester Frost, 

 of Chicago, has lent his aid to the un- 

 dertaking. 



Toledo, O. — A wedding of more than 

 ordinary interest to the trade was that 

 of Mrs, J. B. Freeman and Walter H. 

 Crause, which took place June 30 in the 

 handsomely decorated Unitarian church, 

 in the presence of 150 guests. The 

 bride is widely known in the trade, 

 having for a long time been employed 

 by George A. Heinl and having suc- 

 ceeded him in business some years ago. 

 Mr. Crause is from Cincinnati. He 

 will go into the business with his wife, 

 but the name will not be changed. 



The Bentzen Store, with New Truck at the Door. 



