June 18, 1914. 



The Florists'" Review 



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ing up well; the bloOms are larger than 

 last year at this time and they are in 

 fair condition. Gladioli are plentiful; 

 it is estimated that there will be twice 

 as many this year as last. 



Damage by Storm. 



A hail storm visited this city and 

 vicinity June 11, doing a great deal of 

 damage in the suburbs and agricultural 

 districts. A 40-mile gale went through 

 the northern part of Kansas City and 

 Independence. The hailstones varied 

 from the size of a pea to as large as an 

 egg and did a great deal of damage in 

 the business section of the town. 



E. H. Frandsen & Co. suffered a heavy 

 loss. The hail storm broke all the glass 

 on his place and also destroyed prac- 

 tically all of his stock. The trade sym- 

 pathizes with him, for he has had a 

 great deal of misfortune since he has 

 been at his present place. 



B. S. Brown & Son's loss was about 

 1,500 square feet of glass. They were 

 just on the edge of the storm, getting 

 only a little of the large hail. 



B. A. Bunyar's place was a total 

 wreck; there were only a few lights of 

 glass left, but, fortunately, he did not 

 have any stock left for the falling glass 

 to hurt. 



The S. Bryson Ayres Co. was not 

 troubled by any of the hail, but the 

 damage in the field from the wind was 

 heavy, including the loss of all of his 

 gladioli and sweet peas. 



Various Notes. ^ 



T. J. Noll & Co. report that many 

 of the cut flowers coming to their place 

 are soft and will not ship well. 



Adolph D. Mohr has a fine lot of 

 seedling ferns in flats, for dishes. He 

 is making a specialty of this work. 



Samuel Murray reports that business 

 is good and that the orders for gradua- 

 ting exercises this year were about the 

 same as last year, but business would 

 have been better if the pupils had been 

 allowed to carry more than one flower. 

 This is the first year when the pupils 

 were limited in the quantity of flowers. 



The W. L. Eock Flower Co. has its 

 bench mums going in good shape. The 

 firm also has a fine lot of pot mums. 

 Work has been begun in cleaning out 

 the carnation houses and getting them 

 ready for replanting. 



The Geo. M. Kellogg Flower & Plant 

 Co. reports that there is a good market 

 for this month in decorations. Funeral 

 work has been heavy. W. J. B. 



Norfolk, Neb. — The greenhouses of L. 

 Buckendorf, the first ones erected here, 

 will be razed soon and a Chicago green- 

 house builder will put up two large 

 houses to replace the old ones. 



Berlin, Conn. — A. A. Weldon left June 

 6 for Bondsville, Mass., where he will 

 erect a large greenhouse. Mr. Weldon 

 has spent in Berlin seventeen of the 

 fifty years he has been in this business. 

 He will be home occasionally during the 

 summer, but will spend most of his 

 time at Bondsville. 



Aberdeen, S. D. — Miss Beth Youre- 

 man and Mrs. Minnidelle Kronenberger 

 have purchased the R. Strohmeier flower 

 store on Main street and will continue 

 the business in the same location. They 

 will change the name to the Strohmeier 

 Florist Shop. Miss Youreman has been 

 in charge of the Strohmeier storp for 

 several years. Mr. Strohmeier has not 

 determined on his future course. 



OBITUARY 



Charles H. Sieck. 



Charles H. Sieck, proprietor of 

 Charles E. Smith & Co., of Baltimore, 

 Md., died June 10 at his residence, 216 

 Warren avenue, after a short illness. 

 He was 49 years of age. He was for- 

 merly employed by Charles E. Smith, 

 but afterward took over the business, 

 continuing it under the old name. He 

 was a member of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists ' .Club of Baltimore. The inter- 

 ment was at Cedar Hill cemetery, June 

 13. The funeral was largely attended 

 and many handsome floral emblems were 

 in evidence. He is survived by his 

 wife, W. F. E. 



Mrs. Elizabeth Young. 



The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Young, 

 aged 70 years, a well known florist of 

 Dayton, O., who assisted her husband in 

 business at 37 East Fifth street, oc- 

 curred June 8 at her residence, 105 Holt 

 street. She was stricken .with paraly- 

 sis in November, 1912, and has been in 

 ■f)oor health ever since. 



Mrs. Young was born in Earls Barton, 

 London, England, February 27, 1844, 

 and came to this country with her par- 

 ents when she was 6 years old. Novem- 

 ber 12, 1868, she was united in mar- 

 riage to John F. Young. After their 

 marriage they started in the florists' 

 business in Dayton, at that time having 

 only a small greenhouse. Ten years 

 later they opened a store in town and 

 have been at the present location, at 

 .37 East Fifth street, for the last twenty 

 years. Mrs. Young was prominent in 



lodge circles, being a member of the 

 Pythian Sisters, the Ladies of Macca- 

 bees and the auxiliary of the Ancient 

 Order of United Workmen. She served 

 as state officer in the last named organi- 

 zation. 



Besides her husband, she is survived., 

 by four sons, C. F. Young, George H., 

 and Harry, of Dayton, and Frank, of 

 Vicksburg, Miss., and two daughters, 

 Mrs, David Pickerel, of Dayton, and 

 Miss Katherine Young, who has taken 

 her mother's place at the store. Six- 

 teen grandchildren also survive her. 



Funeral services were held Thursday 

 aft&rnoon, June 11, at the residence and 

 burial was in Woodland cemetery. 



R. A. L. 



Ogden, Utah.— The Ogden Wholesale 

 Florists, of which John F. Dumke, Jr., 

 is manager, have taken over the green- 

 houses of R. W. Altman and will do a 

 wholesale business. 



Louisville, Ky. — While excavating for 

 a reservoir on the tract of land of F. 

 Walker & Co. on the Preston street road, 

 outside the city, H. G. Walker June 5 

 discovered a limestone cave, in which 

 there was found to be an abundant sup- 

 ply of good water. 



Troy, N. Y.— The range of John Pick- 

 ering's Sons is being enlarged and a 150 

 horse-power return flue steam boiler is 

 being installed to take care of the en- 

 tire 40,000 feet of glass. The boiler 

 room is being enlarged to accommodate 

 another boiler of the same size. R, J. 

 Pickering says the range will be de- 

 voted to roses, carnations, chrysanthe- 

 mums and greens for wholesale. Some 

 glass will be given to growing young 

 stock of the above kinds for home use 

 and for the trade. 



Convention City Hotels 



|HE hotel committee for the Boston convention has sent out a circular 

 letter containing the list of hotels which is here appended, with prices 

 and other particulars. The committee has made comprehensive arrange- 

 ments and in most cases can hold reservations until August 15. It 

 will be best to write direct to the hotel for reservations, but the 

 committee suggests that intending visitors send duplicate announce- 

 ments to the office of the general secretary, 120 Boylston street, Boston, 

 Room 702, as a record, as it is the desire to help members in every way. Besides 

 the hotels below, there are a number of other excellent family Jiotels in the 

 vicinity of the garden and hall and innumerable first-class furnished rooming 

 houses and reasonably priced restaurants. 



P<-ople intending to stay at Back Bay hotels, the Somerset, Nottingham, 

 Thorndike, Westminster, Lenox, Victoria, Canterbury, Hemingway, Vendome or 

 Carleton, or to look for furnished rooms, should leave trains via N. Y., N. H. & H. 

 R. R. and Boston & Albany R, B, at the Back Bay stations of the roads, all 

 others at the South Station terminal, Patrick Welch, 226 Devonshire street 

 Boston, is chairman of the hotel committee. 



The Copley Plaza hotel, in Copley Square, has been chosen as official head- 

 quarters of the convention. It is one block from the Back Bay and Huntington 

 avenue railroad stations. To reach this hotel, leave the train at the Back Bay 

 station. Check your baggage to the Back Bay and Huntington avenue stations, 

 as it will be transferred to and from the hotel without charge. 



Rates per day Rates per day 

 Hotel Location without bath with bath 



Copley Plaza Copley Square $3.00 to $8.00 



Copley Square 40 Huntington Ave. 



Lenox Boylston and Exeter . . 



.$1.50 to $3.00 



Nottingham 25 Huntington Ave 2.00 to 3.50 



Young's. Court Square 1.50 to 4.50 



Bellevue 21 Beacon St 2.00 to 3.50 



New American Hanover St 1.00 to 2.50 



Somerset Commonwealth Ave 2.50 to 3.50 



Thorndike Boylston St 1.50 to 4.00 



Touralne Trcmont and Boylston. .. 2.50 to 5.50 



Adams 553 Washington l.-V) to 4.00 



Parkpr School and Tremont 1.50 to 4.50 



Kssex Near South Sta 1.50 to 3.00 



Brunswick 1.50 to 2.50 



Hurlburfs Washington St 1.00 to 2.50 



Westminster Copley Square 



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