May 21, 1914. 



The Florists^ Review 



39 



La Fayette, Ind. — Frank Brodhecker 

 has taken a position as florist at the 

 State Soldiers' Home. 



Malta, O. — W. C. Seovell says busi- 

 ness so far this spring has been away 

 ahead of any previous year, with the 

 outlook indicating an exceptionally 

 heavy trade for the next few weeks. 



Georgetown, Ont. — C. W. Papst started 

 in the business in a smaH way last year, 

 with one house, but has done so well 

 that he is planning expansion. He con- 

 templates making something of a spe- 

 cialty of ferns. 



Danville, 111.— At the Florists' Club 

 meeting May 12 at the establishment 

 of Smiths, the Florists, a resolution 

 was submitted favoring the closing of 

 all greenhouses and flower stores on 

 Sunday. It was tabled until the next 

 meeting. 



Millbury, Mass. — Miss Winifred Dal- 

 la(!hie, daughter of A. G. Dallachie, has 

 been appointed supervisor of the public 

 school children's garden work for the 

 coming year. Miss Dallachie 's work in 

 her father's establishment well rfits her 

 for the position. 



Houston, Tex. — The state flower show, 

 which was decided upon at the State 

 Florists' Association meeting at Waco, 

 will be held here about the middle of 

 November, according to President Rob- 

 ert C. Kerr. The show will last three 

 days and will be held after the No- 

 Tsu-Oh week. 



Kenton, O. — After the remodeling of 

 the store, the addition of a design room 

 and the installation of a new refriger- 

 ator, the Kenton Floral Nursery held its 

 spring opening April 25. An orchestra 

 and the presentation of a carnation to 

 each visitor attracted a large attend- 

 ance. John Sabransky, the proprietor, 

 estimated it,, from the flowel-s given out, 

 at 2,500. 



Richmond, Ind.— John Evans, of the 

 Quaker City Machine Co., was pleased 

 this week to receive an order for Chal- 

 lenge ventilating machines for the 

 greenhouses at the Panama-California 

 Exposition, to be held at San Diego in 

 1915. He says he has supplied ventil- 

 ating apparatus for every exposition 

 from that held at Cincinnati up to the 

 present time. 



Fort Wayne, Ind.— W. J. & M. S. 

 "Vesey have purchased the 58-acre tract 

 of land belonging to A. S. Elzey, at the 

 junction of the Huntington road and 

 the Wabash Valley Traction Co. lines. 

 According to present plans, the firm 

 will erect a range of over 400,000 feet 

 of glass on the new property. The 

 houses, it is said, will be larger than 

 any of fhose in the present establish- 

 ment and the completed range the larg- 

 est in northern Indiana. 



Princeton, 111. — A number of green- 

 housemen of the vicinity visited the 

 W. E. Trimble Greenhouse Co. last 

 week, to see the effects of the hail storm 

 of May 5. Twenty-five glaziers were 

 at work under the supervision of Max- 

 well & Muno, of Chicago. The sale of 

 cut flowers and pot plants is going on 

 as rapidly as ever. George H, Jennings, 

 the foreman, is looking for a big cut 

 of roses and carnations for Memorial 

 da v. 



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NEWS NOTES 



— 



UNDJSR THE 

 SPREADING CHESTNUT TREE* 



Wilson Once Trimmed Taft. 



The shepherds' crooks carried at the 

 latest wedding of a daughter of Presi- 

 dent Wilson were trimmed with Taft 

 roses. Now, was that getting any- 

 body's goatf 



Why Is a Florist? 



A shy young man had been calling on 

 the sweetest girl in the world for many 

 moons, but, as he was bashful, his suit 

 progressed slowly. Finally she decided 

 it was up to her to start something; so 

 the next time he called she pointed to 

 the rose in his buttonhole and said: 

 " I '11 give you a kiss for that rose. ' ' 



A crimson flush overspread his coun- 

 tenance, but the exchange was made 

 after some hesitation on his part. Then 

 he grabbed his hat and started to leave 

 the room. 



"Why, where are you^going?" ste 

 asked in surprise. 



' ' To the — er — florist for more roses, ' ' 

 he called from the front door. — San An- 

 tonio Express. 



Hoaxisultural Notes. 



[From the Chicago Examiner.] 



Orchids should be grown in a spe- 

 cially built orchid house, but asters need 

 not be grown in the Astor House. 



If you want to avoid being annoyed 

 by cattleya flies in your house, keep 

 them outside. 



Flowers are excellent things for deco- 

 rating a garden. 



To make a hothouse, turn on the 

 steam. 



Where Was Eve? 



It was our first year in the new place, 

 the 16-foot sign, "Eden Nurseries," had 

 just been put in place on the roof, and 

 I was having the usual experience of 

 one who tries to take care of the crops, 

 answer the phone, wait on local cus- 

 tomers and attend to rush shipping or- 

 ders all at the same time, when a neigh- 

 bor's boy, who was cross-eyed and not 

 overly bright, came on the scene. 



"I guess I'll have to get a wife," I 

 said jokingly, wiping the sweat off my 

 brow, after a run of interruptions. 



' ' I see you 've got a sign up for one, ' ' 

 he replied. 



"How's that?" I asked. 



' ' Why, haven 't you got a sign up that 

 you need a nurse, or something?" 



J. C. G. 



"Various Notes." 



Henry Jones was cleaning his gun last 

 Saturday, when he shot himself in the 

 greenhouse. 



John Driver, who runs the motor 

 truck of the New Floral Co., was seri- 

 -ously injured yesterday in a collision 

 between Chicago and Milwaukee. 



Joseph Smith then gave a lecture on 

 the greenhouse gutter. 



Taking advantage of the present 

 Mexican situation, Edward Brown deco- 

 rated his window with a cannon this 

 week, thereby attracting much attention. 



H. F. White is redecorating his in- 

 terior and will put in a new front. His 

 opening will take place in two weeks. 



Maquoketa, la. — Mrs. Annie Odgers 

 Thomas has sold her business, operated 

 under the name of the Maquoketa 

 Greenhouse, and discontinued business. 



Fulton, 111. — Albert Wiersema and 

 George Dykema have installed the large 

 steam boiler which is to heat their 

 greenhouse, now in the course of erec- 

 tion. 



Aiken, S. C— E. E. Hite, of the Hite 

 Floral Co.; recently decorated the First 

 church more elaborately than for any 

 wedding in years and thereby added 

 greatly to his prestige. 



Brookljm, N. Y.— James E. Weir, of 

 149 Eighty-third street, Augustus M. 

 Dauernheim and Arthur W. Hawkins 

 have incorporated under the name of 

 J. E. Weir & Co., with a capitalization 

 of $60,000. 



Baltimore, Md. — The special sale of 

 rose bushes and pansy plants at the re- 

 tail store of J. Bolgiano & Son, May 11, 

 was a record-broker, according to mem- 

 bers of the firm^the sales, say they, ex- 

 ceeded those of any one day since the 

 fire of 1904. 



Sherman, N. Y.— Allen H. Wilcox has 

 Mrs. Wilcox as his chief assistant in 

 operating the Sherman Greenhouses. He 

 has a souvenir postcard, made at Easter, 

 that shows himself, Mrs. Wilcox and 

 their daughters, Erma and Clara, in one 

 of their houses of pot plants. 



Dayton, O.— Warren G. Matthews re- 

 ported the sale of 12,000 carnations the 

 Saturday before Mothers' day and of 

 about half that number Sunday. Be- 

 sides cleaning up carnations, the Moth- 

 ers ' day trade took many pot plants, 

 and lilac was a general favorite. 



Malta, O. — Three pods from a large 

 flowered cyclamen at W. C. Scovell's 

 each measured seven-eighths of an inch 

 in diameter. The seven pods on the 

 plant yielded, when cleaned recently, 

 over 500 seeds. The largest held 107 

 seeds. Mr. Seovell says this is the 

 largest he ever liad. His business 'for 

 the week ending with Mothers' day was 

 the heaviest in his experience. 



Chattanooga, Tenn.— The Cliattanoo- 

 ga Floral Co., which was recently in- 

 corporated by J. L. Lindsev, C. W.' Duf- 

 fy, Carl Burke, J. R. Huff and F. Gid- 

 dings, has bought out the George B. 

 Haeger Floral Co. and is erecting sev- 

 eral thousand feet of glass in addition. 

 Carl Burke is secretary and manager. 

 Flowers of all colors' sold well for 

 Mothers' day, as a result of advertis- 

 ing all varieties instead of white carna- 

 tions only. 



HopkinsviUe, Ky.— The Hopkinsville 

 Kentuckian of May 14 published a 

 sketch of over a column in length with 

 Thos. L. Metcalfe as the subject.' It 

 was the eighth in a series of biograph- 

 ical sketches on "Men in Mind in Hop- 

 kinsville," and told of Mr. Metcalfe's 

 success as a newspaper publisher, laun- 

 dryman and florist. He has now 

 branches in Madison, Ky., and Jackson, 

 Clarksville and Union City, Tenn., and 

 laundries also in some of these towns. 

 Mr. Metcalfe recently resigned as park 

 commissioner, only to receive the office 

 of public school trustee by two-thirds of 

 the votes. 



