Dbcbmbbe 10, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



55 



NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS 



Sweet Springs, Mo. — A. Widder has 

 sold bis business and retired from the 

 florists' trade for the present. 



Alton, HI. — George Madsen, proprie- 

 tor of the Alton Floral Co., has bought 

 from O. B. Kynders the 10-acre tract 

 on which his greenhouses and dwelling 

 are situated. Mr. Madsen intends 

 building another greenhouse shortly. 



Asheville, N. C. — Allison's flower 

 store, adjoining Allison's drug store, 

 was opened November 24 to the public, 

 with music, floral souvenirs, etc. 

 Allison's drug store has had a flower 

 department for several years, and the 

 business has grown to such an extent 

 that now a separate store is required 

 to handle it. 



Bochester, Minn. — The recently in- 

 corporated E. Bragg Co. has purchased 

 the business, supplies and fixtures of 

 the E. L. Lyman Co. The new retail 

 store in the west end, opposite St. 

 Mary's hospital, will be opened before 

 Christmas. The addition of this store 

 and the enlarging of the company's 

 greenhouses make the facilities of this 

 concern for handling the hospital trade 

 better than ever. 



Chlttenango, N. Y.— A. R. Ellis has 

 just built a range of three houses, 

 which are twice as large as his other 

 two houses. Business, he reports, is 

 better than ever this year. He recently 

 executed a "gates ajar" design which 

 was the largest piece he ever made, 

 being nearly as high as himself. As 

 superintendent of Oakwoods cemetery, 

 which his houses adjoin, Mr. Ellis is 

 in a position to gather in a large trade. 



Springfield, lU. — Since Wm. Hem- 

 breiker and lies Cole bought the A. C. 

 Canfield place they have made many 

 improvements. A new heating system 

 has been put in, beginning with a new 

 boiler shed and three new eighty-five 

 horse-power boilers. An up-to-date of- 

 fice and salesroom has been opened in 

 connection with the greenhouses, Dora 

 F. Meredith being in charge. Trade 

 has responded promptly and a good 

 business is being done. 



Princeton, HI. — George H. Jennings, 

 foreman of the W. E. Trimble Green- 

 house Co., reports that as the mums 

 are off crop now, the rooted cutting 

 department is going ahead with a full 

 force of men, specializing on coleus, 

 alternantheras and English ivy this 

 season. In the cut flower department, 

 business is getting better every day. 

 Roses and carnations are coming in full 

 crop for Christmas trade, especially red 

 roses and red carnations. The night 

 fireman, Chas. Brown, while coming to 

 work two weeks ago, was knocked 

 down by an automobile and badly 

 bruised, but he is doing nicely and will 

 soon be able to resume his duties again. 



Galena, 111. — B. F. Vandervate will 

 shortly open a flower store on Main 

 street, which he will conduct until 

 Christmas. 



Austin, Tex. — The business of Olof 

 Olsson, whose obituary appeared in The 

 Review for December 3, is being con- 

 tinued under Mrs. Olsson 's manage- 

 ment. 



Fort Worth, Tex. — George Kennedy, 

 for ten years a wholesale grower here, 

 has opened a store at 703 Houston 

 street, with a full line of cut flowers 

 and plants. ^ 



ffajVERY now and then a wdl- 

 ■S pleased reader speaks the 'word 

 which is the means of bringing a 

 new advertiser to 



Such friendly assistance is thoroughly 

 appreciated. 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are buying, not an adver- 

 tiser. "Wc especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florist's use 

 not at present advertised. 



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Bradford, Pa. — G. L. Graham has in- 

 stalled a 100-horse-power boiler in addi- 

 tion to the battery already in use at 

 his greenhouse establishment on Sea- 

 ward avenue. 



Fremont, Neb. — Andreason Bros, are 

 tearing out their old boiler house and 

 packing sheds and will build new ones, 

 40x70 feet. An 80-horse-power boiler is 

 being added to the heating plant. 



Negaunee, Mich. — Frank Ashleman, 

 who conducts the City Flower Store, 

 on Iron street, has erected a green- 

 house, 28x86, in the rear of his 

 residence, at Merry and Iron streets. 



Zanesville, O. — C. L. Humphrey has 

 found that Saturday sales well adver- 

 tised in the local papers are excellent 

 for moving large quantities of stock. 

 A quarter-page advertisement, Novem- 

 ber 14, was the principal means of 

 moving 35,000 chrysanthemum blooms, 

 and another November 28 made the 

 Saturday after Thanksgiving a big day, 

 although it is ordinarily an exceedingly 

 bad one for the flower business. 



Logan, Utah. — Anthon Pehrson has 

 just finished a greenhouse, 20x100 feet, 

 to be used principally for carnations. 

 Heretofore his energies have been de- 

 voted to poultry, fruits and vegetables. 



Plattsmouth, Neb. — The addition 

 erected by Stenner Bros, at their 

 greenhouse establishment is completed 

 and being filled with stock. Many im- 

 provements have been made in the 

 range during the last summer. 



Hutchinson, Kan. — J. G. Lamont, who 

 purchased the property at the corner 

 of Eleventh and Monroe streets some 

 time ago, with the view of erecting 

 greenhouses there, has sold the place 

 to Arthur G. Schroll, for $2,200. 



Plymouth, Wis. — Dr. Frank Deer- 

 waldt, proprietor of the Hub City 

 Greenhouses, who a few months ago 

 opened a store in the May building, 

 has closed it, and will conduct the 

 business from the greenhouses as be- 

 fore. 



Washington, la. — The interest of E. 

 C. Keck in the Keck-Wolf Floral Co. 

 has been purchased by Preston Wolf, 

 son of the present member of the com- 

 pany, Frank T. Wolf. Mr. Keck will 

 remain with the concern for a time. 

 The name of the business will be 

 changed to that of the Wolf Floral Co. 



Marshall, Tex. — The Rainbow Floral 

 Co. is preparing to distribute a Christ- 

 mas folder, the greater part of which 

 is devoted to a little "heart interest" 

 story entitled "It's a Girl," said to 

 have been prepared from a happening at 

 the company's greenhouses last year. 

 The Rainbow concern is one of the 

 largest greenhouse establishments in 

 east Texas. It has 15,000 square feet 

 under glass. The officers are: President, 

 Homer M. Price; vice-president, W. H. 

 Lane; treasurer, W. H. Lane, Jr. 



South Orange, N. J. — Dissatisfied 

 with the condemnation commission's 

 award of $25,000 for a strip of its 

 property condemned by the Lacka- 

 wanna railroad, W. A. Manda, Inc., 

 appealed to the Circuit court at New- 

 ark. The jury, which, according to 

 custom, was not informed of the amount 

 of the original award, named the prop- 

 er sum $17,000 in its verdict. Attor- 

 neys for W. A. Manda, Inc., say the 

 case will be carried to a higher court. 

 The land was a strip about 1,000 feet 

 long, varying in width from twenty to 

 sixty-seven feet and comprising a little 

 less than an acre. The railroad ex- 

 pressed its willingness to pay the com- 

 mission 's award, but W. A. Manda, 

 Inc., did not think it a sufficient price 

 for the land, the shutting off of sun- 

 light from some of the greenhouses by 

 the railroad embankment, and the harm 

 done to plants by smoke and gases from 

 passing locomotives. 



