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The Florists' Review 



Dkcbubbb 3, 1914. 



REIMEBS' RECENT ADDITION. 



At the range of E. Or. Reimers & Son 

 Co., Louisville, Ky., known as the 

 Cemetery Greenhouses, a store and of- 

 fice has just been erected. The build- 

 ing is shown in the accompanying il- 

 lustration. This site is opposite the 

 widely known Cave Hill cemetery, in 

 the eastern part of Louisville, which 

 is rapidly becoming the preferred resi- 

 dential district. Here was established 

 the original business of E. G. Eeimers 

 in 1880, which was incorporated in 

 1913. The range now includes about 

 30,000 square feet of glass. The ex- 

 tension work going on at present is 

 under the personal supervision of Mil- 

 ton A. Eeimers, who is secretary and 

 treasurer of the company. 



MOTT-LT MUSINGS. 



A. C. Oelschig & Son, Savannah, Ga., 

 are much pleased with the Shawyer rose, 

 which will in future take the place of 

 the Killarney family. It produces good 

 flowering shoots without the necessity 

 of pinching back. Bessie Brown is their 

 choice for an outdoor variety. They 

 have a fine show of chrysanthemums, 

 especially pompons. Golden Star and 

 E. G. Hill's Mensa are leaders. There 

 are some promising kinds sent out from 

 Waphington through P. J. Berckmans 

 Co., of Augusta, Ga. Carnations are 

 doing well, considering that they are 

 planted in a black, sandy soil, the third 

 year in use. 



The GrifEng Bros. Co., Macclenny, 

 Fla., is offering inducements to the 

 farmer and fruit grower by taking 

 cotton and turpentine in exchange for 

 trees. This gives the opportunity for 

 diversification of crops, and is being 

 taken advantage of by many would-be 

 planters. 



Chas. T. Mcintosh & Son, Charleston, 

 S. C, are established in their new seed 

 store, rebuilt upon the site occupied 

 by the "founder, William Mcintosh, 

 father of the present owner. The new 

 building is double-fronted and arranged 

 for both wholesale and retail business. 

 It is thoroughly up-to-date in conven- 

 ience and decorations. A conservatory 

 in the rear is used for plants, for which 

 they have good sales, although they do 

 not handle cut flowers. There is ample 

 warehouse room and storage. Poultry 

 supplies occupy a large share of space 

 and are a valuable asset. Fall sales of 

 both seeds and bulbs are satisfactory. 

 Deliveries of peas are good and beans 

 are on the way. 



The managers of the Rose Hill Green- 

 houses, Columbia, S, C, are among the 

 large army of optimists, although calls 

 for their finely grown mums are some- 

 what slow. The mums are the product 

 of Mitsu Tokunaga, for several years 

 the grower here, and they demonstrate 

 his native skill. He is a constant 

 reader of The Review. 



The Heidtsch Seed Store and Ligon's 

 Seed Branch, at Spartanburg, report ex- 

 cellent business in seed, which brings 

 the cash the farmer is parting from 

 reluctantly. The merchants blame the 

 politicians for agitating the holding of 

 cotton at jO' cents a pound, as this has 

 given all anjexcuse for not paying their 

 bills. ' ' 



The Charlotte Cut Flower Co., Char- 

 lotte, N. C, ju&tly claims to have the 

 largest area of-^lass in the state. When 

 Robert Lockerbie came here several 

 years ago as grower, little else was 

 seen except cotton and a few hardy 



"scrubs." Now the best stock grown 

 is appreciated. Such chrysanthemums 

 as Bonnaffon, Golden Wedding, Eaton 

 and Jeanne jSonin are the favorites. It 

 does not pay here to grow earlier 

 kind's. Carnations do best in solid con- 

 crete raised beds, owing to the hot sum- 

 mers. Stem-rot is seen here in the En- 

 chantress family, while Beacon is per- 

 fectly free from it. Formalin has been 



used, but with little appreciable result. 

 Poinsettias with asparagus in pans are 

 attractive. I understand these are kept 

 mulched with manure and not allowed 

 to get dry; hence the handsome, deep 

 green foliage and not a lost leaf. Cyc- 

 lamens a la Craig, from whose well 

 known establishment Mr. Lockerbie is 

 a graduate, speak for themselves. 



W. M. 



Mews from 

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Liege, Belgium. — The once splendid 

 De Massanges establishment is now a 

 pile of ruins. Most of the other 

 ranges, however, have escaped destruc- 

 tion, according to latest report. 



Brussels, Belgium. — M. Gentil, of the 

 botanical garden of Brussels, is safe 

 and sound, and his establishment is in 

 good shape.' The same good report ap- 

 plies to the Peeters establishment and 

 its proprietor. 



Ohent, Belgium. — According to offers 

 being made, it looks as though there 

 will be plenty of azaleas for 1915 de- 

 livery. Prices have declined and many 

 growers are anxious to make sales even 

 this early. Few nurseries are injured 

 in any way and, as there is practically 

 no market elsewhere, America must 

 stand the surplus, whatever it may be. 

 The Germans occupy the city, but they 

 have not molested the nurseries in the 

 surrounding country. 



Yokohama, Japan. — The giganteum 

 crop is reported to be about twenty- 

 five per cent short, or about four mil- 

 lion bulbs. Shipments of bulbs via 

 Panama canal to New York are on the 

 way. It takes from thirty-five to forty 

 days en route to New York and the 

 cost is about 70 cents less per case in 

 freight. This difference is largely off- 

 set, however, because the bulbs must be 

 packed heavier to stand the climate — 

 more soil and less rice chaff and, in 

 some varieties, such as auratums, no 

 rice chaff at all. 



Vilvorde, Belgium. — Professor Am- 

 broise is reported to have been killed 

 at Waremme by a bullet. It is hoped 

 that this will prove to be untrue, al- 

 though it is feared that the fact is as 

 reported. 



Qhent, Belgium. — The establishments 

 in this vicinity, in common with those 

 about Brussels and Bruges, have for 

 the most part escaped damage at the 

 hands of the military forces. At Melle, 

 however, where most of the fighting 

 in this part was done, one of the gfreen- 

 houses of Bier & Anks^smit was de- 

 stroyed by a shell. At Meirelbeke, 

 ^ Jules de Cock has suffered no loss 

 whatever. No word has been received 

 from the son-in-law of Raphael de 

 Smet, who is an army surgeon; his fam- 

 ily has fled to Folkestone. 



Yokohama, Japan. — The British 

 steamer Troilus, of the Blue Funnel 

 line, from Yokohama, August 26, to 

 London, was sunk by the German 

 cruiser Emden in the Indian Ocean. This 

 steamer carried over 2,000 cases of 

 giganteum bulbs from Seitaro Aral, 

 Yokohama Nursery Co. and Boehmer & 

 Co. for the English market. The news 

 arrived too late to duplicate the ship- 

 ments via Suez and it is expected part 

 will be duplicated via New York. Con- 

 siderable loss has been sq&tained this 

 season by Yokohama bulb exporters, es- 

 pecially in the earlier shipments of 

 P^rmosa bulbs, not all of which was 

 covered by war insurance. 



Store of E. G. Reimers & Son G>., Louisville, Ky., at Cemetery Greenhouses. 



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