Skptembeb 4, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



19 



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NEWS NOTES 



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Ada, O. — F, H. Hitz has taken over 

 the business of A. B. Cronbaugh. 



Buffalo, N. Y.— W. C. Stroh acted as 

 .judge at the ninth annual flower show 

 at Perry, 



Springfield, Mass. — The Edgewood 

 Gardens are undergoing alterations 

 while the dull season is on. 



Grand Ledge, Mich. — D. C. Huggett, 

 who was formerly at Beading, Fa., has 

 started in the greenhouse business here. 



Hagerstown, Md. — Henry A. Bester & 

 Sons have added gardenias to their 

 stock, engaging a specialist for the cul- 

 tivation of the plants. 



West Chester, Pa. — Charles Sheller, 

 whose greenhouses were considerably 

 <lamaged by the recent wind storm, is 

 busy making repairs. 



Davenport, la.— Theodore Ewoldt, of 

 Ewoldt Bros., vvas one of the judges in 

 the floricultural department of the Iowa 

 State Fair at Des Moines. 



Whftinsville, Mass. — George Mac- 

 Williams, gardener for the John C. 

 Whitin estate, is seriously ill in Bos- 

 ton, following a recent operation. 



Marshall, Tex.— Joseph Deckert has 

 just completed an up-to-date store and 

 greenhouse, which will be known as 

 the Washington Avenue Greenhouse, 

 and has secured W. C. Hawkins as man- 

 ager. 



Petoskey, Mich. — Sawyer & Methven 

 this season have had a large number 

 of sweet jieas with five blooms to the 

 stem, the first in their experience in 

 growing sweet peas in this country and 

 in England. 



Shenandoah, la. — Elmer O. Stevens 

 and his wife have moved here from 

 Philadelphia, so that he may take 

 charge of the Shenandoah Greenhouses, 

 which before were run by his father, 

 O. B. Stevens. 



Evanston, 111. — John Weiland has 

 been suffering from flower thieves, who 

 have not only taken his flowers but 

 have ruined many plants by trampling 

 on them. At his appeal the police are 

 now on a watch for the marauders. 



Lenox, Mass. — George H. Thompson, 

 gardener for Carlos de Heredia, and 

 S. R. Carlquist, gardener for Mrs. Rob- 

 <»rt Winthrop, were heavy prize-winners 

 at the flower show of the Lenox Horti- 

 cultural Society, August 20. 



Esmond, N. D. — Charles Nye, for- 

 merly jiroprietor of the Alexandria Flo- 

 ral Co., at Alexandria, Ind., is growing 

 wheat in this vicinity now, but expects 

 to reemljark in the florists' business 

 in Minnesota soon. 



Baltimore, Md. — About 200 members 

 and friends of the Florists' Club at- 

 tended the annual outing of the club 

 at Miller's park, Dundalk, August 20. 

 The day was a most enjoyable one, the 

 games and races adding a great deal to 

 the pleasure of the outing. 



Atlanta, Qa.— The store front at 97 

 Peachtree street is being altered, pre- 

 paratory to its occupancy by Borg & 

 f^rikson, successors to the Atlanta 

 Floral Co., who will move from their 

 present location as soon as the altera- 

 tions are completed. 



The alarm clock went off at 

 four o'clock in the morning. 



"I fooled you that toime," 

 said Mike with a grin, "for 

 I wasn't aslape at all." 



The florist fools himself who 

 thinks there is any way of 

 selling goods in the trade 

 more effective than adver- 

 tising in The Review. Also, 

 it's the most inexpensive way 

 in proportion to results. 



"We are completely sold out and have 

 had to send money bank. The Review 

 is, without doubt, the best advertising 

 medium In the trade."— J. C. Renni- 

 soN Co., Sioux City, la. 



Review readers are not 

 asleep. Note this: 



"Please tell us confidentially what you 



think of . Why doesn't he 



advertise in The Review if he is O. 

 K.?"— Miu.ER Floral Co., Farming- 

 ton, Utah. 



The alarm clock rings in The 

 Review office at 4 o'clock (p.m„ 

 not a.m.) every Tuesday. It is 

 to let everybody know adver- 

 tising forms close for that 

 week's issue in just sixty 

 minutes. 



Framingham, Mass.— The City Flower 

 Shop, in Concord square, has been doing 

 a good business in funeral pieces lately. 



Adams, Mass. — A. .T. Boothman is 

 flpending the hot days making exten- 

 sive repairs and improvements upon his 

 greenhouses. 



White Marsh, Md. — The seventh an- 

 nual dahlia and canna show will be 

 held at the farm of R. Vincent, Jr., & 

 Sons Co., in connection with the har- 

 vest home festival and fair of Ebenezer 

 Church, September 30 to October 4. 



Duluth, Minn.— J. J. Le Borious spent 

 two days after the convention at Min- 

 neapolis closed, visiting the Jewell 

 Nursery Co., at Lake City, Minn. There 

 he looked over the condition of nursery- 

 stock for his landscape gardening busi- 

 ness this fall. 



Pekin, 111.— George A. Kuhl and wife 

 are enjoying their vacation at Asbury 

 Park, N. Y. 



Holyoke, Mass. — Gallivan Bros, are 

 adding a third greenhouse, 28x150 feet, 

 at their plant at Smith's Ferry. ' 



Tuscaloosa, Ala. — Mrs. Henry Alston 

 is just opening a store at Magnolia 

 Lodge, 2939 Eighteenth street. 



Cedar Rapids, la. — The Bancroft 

 Rose Co. has completed the new range 

 of greenhouses and is now installing 

 the heating plant. 



Madison, N. J. — Mrs. Ernest Wagner, 

 now on Prospect street, has rented a 

 store on King's road, which she opened 

 September 1. 



Waynesboro, Pa. — L. C. Happel, who 

 had a large spring traflte in bedding 

 plants, does a good dea)k^of Jandscape 

 work. (^_^ 



Marion, Ind. — J. E. Leslie & Son, who 

 bought the f. W. Herleman place, are 

 growing a general line of pot plants, 

 early vegetables, etc. 



Batavia, N. Y.— James J. Bates, of 

 Akron, N. Y., called on the trade here 

 recently and reported business as quite 

 .satisfactory. 



A.ndover, Mass.— J. H. Playdon is 

 chairman of the committee in charge 

 of the fruit, flower and vegetable show 

 to be held here September 5 and 6. 



Louisville, Ky.— The R. G. Reimers 

 & Son Co., with a capital stock of 

 $5,000, has filed articles of incorpora- 

 tion. The incorporators are Ida J. 

 Reimers, Milton Reimers and Georee 

 Stark. * 



Topeka, Kan.— W. A. Bolinger, for- 

 merly of Bethesda, Md., and Washing- 

 ton, D. C, will oiien an up-to-date re- 

 tail store under the name of The 

 Kosery at 103 West Eighth street Sep- 

 tomber 27. 



Utica, N. Y.— Brant Bros., of this 

 city, and George B. Hart, of Rochester, 

 furnished most of the roses sold by the 

 young ladies of the city for a benefit 

 flower day recently. Incidentally, most 

 of the other florists here were cleaned 

 out of their rose supply as well. 



Stoneham, Mass.— A fire in the boiler 

 room of Andrew Christensen 's plant, 

 August 27, inflicted a damage of $1,000, 

 including the total loss of some im- 

 ported plants. There was no insurance. 

 The fire was checked before it reached 

 the greenhouses to any extent. 



Springfield, m.— W. G. Newell, for 

 seven years manager of 'the Broad 

 Street Greenhouses, at Galesburg, has 

 taken the position of foreman at the 

 Bell Miller greenhouses here. For the 

 last eighteen months he has been fruit 

 growing at the foot of the Blue Ridge 

 mountains in Virginia. 



Madison, N. J.— The eighteenth an- 

 nual flower show of the Morris County 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Societv will 

 be held at Assembly hall, James' build- 

 ing, October 28 and 29. The exhibi- 

 tion committee consists of W. H. Duck- 

 ham, Charles H. Totty, Robert M. 

 Schultz and Arthur Herrington. Copies 

 of the premium list may be had by 

 addressing Edward Reagan, secretary. 



