October 16, 1913. 



The Florists^ Review 



13 



Robert Miller, the Mao who Put Farmiogtoo, Utah, on the Map. 



A GROWER OF THE FAR WEST. 



During the last year the Miller Floral 

 Co., of Farmington, Utah, has so ad- 

 vanced in its business as to verify 

 completely the prediction made by 

 Robert Miller, its manager, when he 

 went to Salt Lake City from New 

 England a few years ago and announced 

 that he believed that roses, carnations 

 and other flowers and plants could be 

 grown with profit in that vicinity, in 

 spite of the skeptical attitude of his 

 hearers. 



During the last year he has added 

 50,000 feet of glass to hia greenhouses, 

 making a total of 200,000 feet. In- 

 cluded in the Miller establishment are 

 now six rose houses, 38x100 feet, con- 

 taining 35,000 plants, two carnation 

 houses, 36x350 feet, containing 35,000 

 plants, and eight plant houses, includ- 

 ing a specially constructed retarding 

 house, 25x100 feet, for holding back 

 dormant stock such as roses, azaleas, 

 lilacs and rhododendrons. This has a 

 wooden roof with wooden ventilators, 

 glass sides and gables and one light of 

 glass every eight feet, running from sill 

 to ridge pole. The roof of this house is 

 insulated on the inside to keep out the 

 heat, the purpose being to keep the 

 temperature at an even coolness both 

 summer and winter. Another of the 

 plant houses is devoted to chrysanthe- 

 mums and contains 5,000 plants. 



During the year a 100-horsepower 

 boiler equipment has been purchased, 

 bringing the total to 350 horsepower. 

 A duplicate steam heating system is 

 now installed throughout the plant, giv- 

 ing perfect security against breaks, as 

 one half of the heating pipes are on 



one main and the other half on an- 

 other. But this is not aU. By means 

 of a series of artesian wells a water 

 system has been put in, with tanks and 

 steam pumpe, insuring safety in case 

 of the freezing or breaking of the city 

 water mains. A refrigerating plant for 

 keeping valley pips and Easter lily 

 bulbs the year around and for cooling 

 the flower rooms, is also being installed. 



Besides these improvements, four acres 

 of additional land have been purchased 

 and negotiations are now under way to 

 add nine acres more. It is the inten- 

 tion of the company to build a new 

 fire-proof office and install vaults in 

 the spring. 



Unquestionably Mr. Miller has made 

 a remarkably good showing in the three 

 and one-half years he has been in Salt 

 Lake City and the vicinity, for from a 

 comparatively small beginning his com- 

 pany now has one of the most complete 

 plants of the kind in the west. The 

 company is supplying a large per cent 

 of the roses and carnations used in 

 Salt Lake City and other important 

 points in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Mon- 

 tana and Nevada, besides many other 

 varieties of cut flowers and plants. 



One of the illustrations shows one 

 of the carnation houses of the Miller 

 Floral Co., as it looked just before 

 Mothers' day last May, and the other 

 the man who has brought the company 

 to its present successful position. 



TO BUIUJ CANADIAN BRANCH. 



The report that the Lord & Burnham 

 Co., of New York and elsewhere, is to 

 build a greenhouse material factory in 

 Canada apparently is confirmed by the 

 following press dispatch sent out from 

 St. Catharines, Ont., October 11: 



"A Canadian branch factory for the 

 manufacture of steel greenhouses and 

 equipment, including boilers, will be 

 established in St. Catharines by Lord & 

 Burnham Co., which now has factories 

 in Irvington-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., and 

 Des Flaines, 111. The company will pay 

 $10,000 for fifteen acres of land and 

 begin at once to construct plant and 

 buildings to cost $75,000." 



St. Catharines is on Lake Ontario, a 

 few miles west of Niagara Falls, where 

 both rail and water transportation are 

 excellent. 



Escanaba, Mich. — C. Peterson & Sons 

 are building another house, 20x100 feet, 

 giving them a total of 25,000 square 

 feet under glass. A feature of the new 

 house is the use of concrete benches 

 throughout. 



A Carnation House of the Miller Floral G)., Farmington, Utah. 



