OCTOBBB 2. 1918. 



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The Florists' Review 



28 



Murray Hill, N. J.— Alfred J. Nason, 

 of Nason & Sons, was married Septem- 

 ber 3 to Miss Bertha V. Eoberts. and 

 has left for a short honeymoon trip. 



Grand Baplds, Mich. — Alfred Hannah 

 & Sons have purchased seven and one- 

 half acres adjoining their property on 

 Eastern avenue, which will be added to 

 the plant. 



Montreal, Que. — The professionals 

 who had exhibits at the annual show of 

 the Montreal Horticultural Society were 

 Campbell's Florists, Hall & Eobinson, 

 P. McKenna & Sons, and C. A. Smith, 

 of Lachine. 



Baltimore, Md. — H. J. Quick is tear- 

 ing down his three small houses and 

 erecting two large and up-to-date ones 

 in their place. Mr. Quick uses Monin- 

 ger material throughout and speaks 

 highly of all his Moninger houses. 



Batavia, N. T. — Gustav Noack made 

 a strong showing of cut flowers, potted 

 plants and floral designs at the fair 

 here and won many first prizes. Nel- 

 son Bogue had a booth at which his 

 representatives did a good business, 

 booking orders for nursery stock. 



Tuscaloosa, Ala. — R. Heberling is in 

 charge of the new establishment being 

 opened by Mrs. Henry Alston. It is 

 proposed to handle cut flowers and 

 plants for the retail trade, carnations 

 and roses being a specialty. Mr. Heb- 

 erling is not only a grower but a deco- 

 rator and design-maker. 



St. Paul, Minn. — The estimate of the 

 park board for the Como park green- 

 houses was $60,000. As Lord & Burn- 

 ham's bid was $92,450 and that of the 

 John C. Moninger Co. $96,200, Superin- 

 tendent Nussbaumer is now endeavor- 

 ing to cut down the specifications so as 

 to come within the estimate. 



Willlamsport, Pa. — Paul A. Derr, a 

 member of the newly incorporated "Wil- 

 llamsport Floral Co., which purchased 

 the business of D. E. Gorman, will 

 merge his plant with that of the com- 

 pany. The store and salesroom of the 

 new firm will be at 137 West Fourth 

 street, in charge of Miss Eook. 



St. Catherine's, Ont. — At the tenth 

 annual autumn fruit and flower show 

 the judges of the plant and flower 

 sections were T. Manton and H. Sim- 

 mers, of Toronto, and H. J. Moore, of 

 Niagara Falls. Robert Walker and 

 W. H. C. Nicholson, of this city, judged 

 the asters exhibited by the school 

 children. 



Madison, Wis. — The Capital City 

 Greenhouse Co. has increased its capi- 

 tal stock from $50,000 to $60,000 and 

 changed the name to the Rentschler 

 Floral Co. The officers, who remain 

 the same, are: President and general 

 manager, Fred Rentschler; vice-presi- 

 dent, George Rentschler; secretary, Al- 

 bert Meier, and treasurer, Jacob Kolb. 



Hadley, Mass. — The Mon^om^ry 

 Rose Gardens supplied quantities of 

 roses for flower day at Holyoke, Mass., 

 September 20. 



Akron, O.— The Gilbo Floral Co. has 

 been incorporated with a capitalization 

 of $10,000. The incorporators are 

 M. J. Gilbo, D. Gilbo and L. H. Gilbo. 



Bed Bank, N. J. — Louis A. Plewka, 

 formerly in the employ of R. G. Wilson, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., has opened a store in 

 the new building at Broad and Front 



streets. 



Toledo, O. — At the meeting of the 

 Toledo Florists' Club, September 9, it 

 was decided to hold a chrysanthemum 

 show November 11, limited to mem- 

 bers only. 



Troy, Ala. — J. G. Watson and A. H. 

 Jackson, formerly of Montgomery, Ala., 

 have purchased the greenhouses owned 

 by the late Mrs. Fannie Starke, and 

 are conducting the business under the 

 name of the Troy Floral & Nursery Co. 



Tampico, 111. — Fred C. Shank is in- 

 stalling the heating plant and building 

 the office at his new greenhouses, and 

 expects to have everything completed 

 before cold weather comes. He has 

 already a large number of carnations 

 benched. 



St. Joseph, Mo. — Three new houses 

 were completed this year by the Stuppy 

 Floral Co. They are 27x200, two of 

 them being planted to mums while the 

 third is devoted to sweet peas. John 

 Stuppy says they will have to obtain 

 more land if more building is done, as 

 all of the available space is built up. 



Toledo, O. — At the last meeting of the 

 Florists' Club, in Kapp's hall, Septem- 

 ber 23, final arrangements were made 

 for a trip by special car to the Wonset- 

 ler Greenhouses, at Bryan, O. The car 

 will stop at Wauseon to allow an in- 

 spection of Charles Jordan's plant and 

 at Archbold for a sight of the houses 

 of Carl Baer, the carnation specialist. 



Battle Creek, Mich.— While S. W. 

 Coggan is in Detroit looking for a good 

 automobile to handle his increasing 

 trade, his employees are exercising their 

 brains over a mum which they found 

 on the place this year. It is the 

 shape and color of Chadwick, but is 

 seven inches across and was ready to 

 cut at the unusual date of Septem- 

 ber 15. 



New Bedford, Mass. — At the annual 

 dahlia show, September 19, Mrs. H. A. 

 Jahn had the largest display, compris- 

 ing 400 blooms on four tables. Walter 

 D. Hathaway, who won several prizes 

 at the Boston show, had his best 

 flowers displayed. James Garthley, 

 superintendent of the Rogers estate, 

 showed some fine gladioli and hybrid 

 tea roses, as well as dahlias. John P. 

 Rooney, gardener for Mrs. Frederick 

 Grinnell, aud John J. Gurney, of Lake- 

 ville, also had splendid exhibits. 



Quiijcy, Mass. — Walter M. Packard is 

 building a large greenhouse for ferns, 

 palms, etc. 



Pine Bluff, Ark. — A. A. Harper has 

 been exhibiting a fine stalk of seeded 

 Cuban ribbon cane nine feet tall. 



Hudson, Mich. — R. J. Peterson, pro- 

 prietor of the Hudson Greenhouses, is 

 adding two houses to his plant and 

 plans to erect a barn soon. 



Bowling Green, Ky. — The residence 

 of the late R. L. Brashear, together 

 with a lot of florists' supplies, was de- 

 stroyed by fire September 12. It 

 proved to be a total loss. 



Lynn, Mass. — At the annual flower 

 show here John Lewis Childs, of 

 Flowerfield, N. Y., and William Sim, of 

 Cliftondale, showed some choice gla- 

 dioli. E. F. Dwyerj of Lynn, had a 

 50-foot table of dahlias and perennials. 



Louisville, Ky. — The prizes in the 

 classes open to professionals in the 

 flower exhibit at the state fair were di- 

 vided among E. G. Reimers & Son 

 Co., F. Walker & Co. and G. Robert 

 Miller, with the first named in the 

 lead. 



Cleveiand, O.— The Wilson Florist 

 Co. has purchased four acres of land 

 adjoining its plant at 14113 Wood- 

 worth road. The price was $12,180. 

 Part of the land will be occupied by 

 additional greenhouses and the rest im- 

 proved and marketed for residence 

 property. 



Baltimore, Md.— A. Spath, Jr., & Son, 

 at Roland Park, have installed a fifty 

 horse-power Gem City return tubular 

 steam boiler. They have also rebuilt 

 one house, 20x75 feet, and have built 

 an office over their boiler pit, 12x23 

 feet, with a lean-to, 8x23 feet, which 

 much improves the appearance of their 

 place. 



Marion, Kan.— The Marion Plant & 

 Flower Co. is the name of a new firm 

 established here to conduct a general 

 business. At the downtown store all 

 lines of stock and supplies will be han- 

 dled, while greenhouses will be built 

 in the suburbs next spring. Fred 

 Gower, for twelve years at Peabody, 

 Kan., is manager of the new enterprise. 



Denver, Colo.— Because the Park Flo- 

 ral Co. has not paid the rent since a 

 contested new appraisement raised the 

 amount from $248 to $2,000 a year in 

 1911, the state land board is preparing 

 to order it to vacate the school land 

 which its greenhouses occupy. The 

 question delaying action is whether the 

 $35,000 worth of improvements, in the 

 shape of greenhouses, which is in ex- 

 cess of the limit of $600 fixed by the 

 state law, are to be confiscated if the 

 lease is declared forfeited, or a price 

 on the improvements is to be set by 

 the lessee, who in the latter case may 

 set a figure so high as to give the 

 lessee a practical monopoly on the land. 



