JULV 17, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



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and if fumigation is regularly done 

 twice a month, green fly, black fly or 

 white fly will be entirely checked. The 

 foliage should be dry. 



Choose a cool, quiet night for fumi- 

 gating, to get the best results. Of 

 course, owing to the deadly nature of 

 the cyanide, great care must be exer- 

 cised in its use. Mix the acid and 

 water, putting them in earthen bowls 

 and placing these in the house; then, 

 after the house has been closed, drop in 

 the cyanide, get out as quickly as pos- 

 sible and lock the house. If this is done 

 late in the evening, the house can be 

 left closed till morning. 



A. J. Loveless. 



THE PHONE AND THE AUTO. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 the motor truck recently added to the 

 equipment of the H. A. Fisher Co., 

 Kalamazoo, Mich. The combination of 

 the telephone and automobile services 

 tremendously enlarges the scope of the 

 retailer's business. Today the customer 

 need never enter the florist's place of 

 business. He places his orders by tele- 

 phone and pays his bills by mail. 

 Though he be on the outskirts of town, 

 the automobile delivery car will bring 

 the flowers promptly and in good con- 

 dition. The florist, on his side, is saved 

 the trouble of showing and handling 

 the flowers in his show room. His show 

 room force is small, although the rest 

 of his staff is proportionately larger, 

 and the amount of business greater 

 than before. 



HAIL STORM AT COLUMBUS. 



Columbus, O., was visited July 9 by 

 what is believed to have been the most 

 disastrous hail storm in the history of 

 the city. South side florists alone re- 

 port losses of approximately |50,000, 

 and the total damage to crops ana build- 

 ings in the city and vicinity has been 

 estimated at $150,000. The hailstones 

 are described, in a cautious, noncom- 

 mittal sort of way, as being ' * of almost 

 unbelievable size, ' ' and they struck with 

 great force, being driven, it is said, 

 by a 45-mile-an-hour gale. It is re- 

 lated that William Bernard, employed 

 by the Columbus Floral Co., was in a 

 greenhouse when a huge hailstone 

 broke the glass above him and drove a 

 sliver of glass entirely through his right 

 forearm. 



Of the florists and nurserymen the 

 largest loss was suffered by the Colum- 

 bus Floral Co. Loss on its seven green- 

 houses, each 40x400 feet, on the Grove- 

 port pike, is believed to be eighty to 

 ninety per cent, despite the fact that 

 the glass was of double strength. Frank 

 S. Miller, of the company, estimated 

 the damage at $20,000, which includes 

 the loss to flowers and vegetables. 



About half a mile to the south of the 

 <^olumbus Floral Co. are the green- 

 houses of U. GJ. Swingle, in which not 

 a pane of glass was broken. 



I'eter Fornof, whose greenhouses are 

 '^t High street and Fornof lane, sus- 

 t:>ined a loss of about $8,000 to glass 

 ami vegetables. In eight houses prac- 

 tically every pane was shattered. His 

 tomato crop was destroyed. 



Other florists who suffered heavily, 

 •'"id their losses, are as follows: Her- 

 nian W. Kropp, 1265 South High street, 

 I'i.OOO in glass; Emil Metzmaier, 1382' 

 Srmth Fourth street, $2,000 in glass and 

 '''■'^P; J. R. Hellenthal, 32 East Moler 



Motor Truck Used by H. A. Fisher Ca, Kalamazoo, Mich. 



street, $35,000 in glass and crop; C. A. 

 Both, 180 East Morrel avenue, $5,000, 

 and Theodore Olpp, on Parsons avenue, 

 $2,000. Mr. Kropp had recently com- 

 pleted four new greenhouses in connec- 

 tion with the Cottage Rose Garden and 

 scarcely a light of glass remained un- 

 broken. 



At the farms of the Livingston Seed 

 Co., four miles west of Columbus, the 

 crops escaped damage entirely and 

 there was not enough rain there to drive 

 persons to shelter, though rain fell 

 heavily in the center of the city, both 

 in the early and late afternoon. One 

 of the remarkable features of the storm 

 was its limited area. 



A FLORIST AT GETTYSBURG. 



I have just returned from Gettysburg, 

 where I was much pleased to see the 

 wearers of the blue and the gray walk- 

 ing and talking together, and I was 

 glad to realize so fully that the war 

 was over forever and that everyone 

 was on his good behavior. As one who 

 fought for the Union at Appomattox 

 April 9, 1865, I felt that it was a won- 

 derful thing to see the honest, hearty 

 welcome of Lee's men to Grant's and 

 of Grant's men to Lee's. 



I was surprised to see so little glass 

 while en route from Sayre, Pa., to 

 Gettysburg. I saw only one display 

 that was striking and attractive, and 

 that was at the railroad station at 

 Reading. At Gettysburg I averaged a 

 walk of ten to twelve miles per day, so 

 as to see any feature of interest that 

 might escape my observation if I used 

 a swifter means of travel. On Con- 

 federate avenue, near the seminary, I 

 saw a bed of J. J. Harrison geraniums 

 — not much over a dozen, I should say — 

 which was the largest display of bed- 

 ding I saw in Gettysburg. 



On arriving at Gettysburg, I found 

 General Sickles sitting on the porch of 

 the Rogers House. He plainly showed 

 the effects of his many years; he is 

 among the last survivors of the band 

 of men who stopped the rush of Lon^' 

 street's corps, July 2, 1863. Everyone 

 had a glad hand for us old veterans; 

 whether in the gray or the blue, and 



even our President spent forty-one min- 

 utes of his valuable time on the ground. 



Edward Snow. 



BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. 



Morgan Park, 111. — Following a judg- 

 ment secured in the Superior court by 

 Henry Brushaber, an employee, for 

 $1,500, Jacob Russler filed a voluntary 

 petition in bankruptcy July 7, in the 

 United States District court at Chicago. 

 The schedule shows the following fig- 

 ures: 



Stock, greenhouses, boilers, etc $5,155.00 



Personal holdings 737.60 



Accounts due 359.54 



Total assets $6,252.04 



Uabilities 6,187.28 



The schedule of the creditors shows 

 few members of the trade outside of 

 the following: 



S. J. Galloway, Eaton, Ohio $ 70.0» 



Good & Reese Co., Springtteld, Ohio 65.64 



A. L. Randall Co 59.03 



August F. Kohr 78.21 



L. B. Brague & Son, Hinsdale. Mass 15.00 



Wlnterson's Seed Store 6.66 



Wlnterson'8 Seed Store (note) 455.17 



Chris Landberg 30.0© 



Colin & Son, Vorhorut, Holland 140.00 



Goetz & Sons, Saginaw, Mich 12.50 



It was stated by Sidney B. Meyer, 

 attorney for Mr. Russler, that owing 

 to the judgment secured by Brushaber 

 in the Superior court, it will be neces- 

 sary for the receiver, Howard Hews, 

 to sell the property as soon as possible. 

 The receiver was appointed by Referee- 

 in-Bankruptcy Eastman, July 7, the day 

 of the filing of the petition. Records of 

 the Federal court show that Jacob Russ- 

 ler also filed papers as a bankrupt De- 

 cember 14, 1S98, and was discharged from 

 bankruptcy in March, 1899. 



Des Plaines, HI. — The sale of the 

 property of the George M. Garland 

 Co., in bankruptcy, consisting of plant, 

 machines, etc., for the manufacture of 

 greenhouse building material, took place 

 July 15, when Referee Eastman ac- 

 cepted the bid of $10,500 by Augusta 

 Garland. The latter is the wife of 

 George M. Garland and it is understood 

 that the business will be carried on by 

 those who formerly had charge, before 

 the voluntary petition in bankruptcy 

 was filed in the U. S. District court 

 at Chicago last March. The property 



