AntiL 22. 1815. 



The Florists' Review 



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Rochester, N. Y. — ^Fire in the boiler 

 room of •the greenhouses of Spencer 

 Heflfer, on Kidge road, April 6, did $500 

 damage. 



Harbor Springs, Mich. — The green- 

 house of John P. Southard and its con- 

 tents were destroyed by fire April 11. 

 This was the only property on which 

 he carried no insurance. The loss is 

 estimated at $2,000. 



Easton, Pa. — Fire destroyed the boiler 

 house at the greenhouses of Henry H. 

 Weiskopf, April 8. The loss was $500, 

 partly covered by insurance. Fortu- 

 nately, Mr. Weiakopf's delivery auto- 

 mobile was rescued from the building. 



NOTES FROM UTAH. 



The Market. 



Utah is fast developing into a large 

 flower-producing district and never be- 

 fore have the growers experienced such 

 good conditions as during the last few 

 weeks of clear weather. 



The crops of roses and carnations are 

 exceptionally large. The market is 

 flooded with carnations, but the price 

 is held at $3 per hundred. A large 

 quantity of this stock is disposed of 

 by making special rates to retailers 

 who take 1,000 lots or more and also 

 by selling large quantities to dry goods 

 stores, who give one earnation free to 

 each lady patron. This is found to be 

 a profitable method of disposing of the 

 glut without injuring the retail trade, • 

 and promotes a tendency to increase 

 the demand for flowers. There has been 

 a large demand for roses, especially the 

 better grade. Killarney, White Killar- 

 ney, (^een Beatrice, Richmond and 

 Hillingdon are selling for $4 to $10 per 

 hundred. Shawyer, a rose which has 

 obtained much popularity in Salt Lake 

 City, sells at $5 to $12 per hundred. 

 There has been a large demand for long- 

 stemmed American Beauties, while the 

 supply has been small. Sweet peas 

 seem to be popular in corsage bouquets 

 and also for funeral work and the de- 

 mand for them this season is fine. 



Most of the bulbous plants were dis- 

 posed of at a good price. Geraniums 

 and other bedding plants are now on 

 the market and being sold readily. 



Salt Lake City. 



E. A. Lamboume had the decorations 

 of the Rotary Club of Salt Lake, which 

 gave a dinner in honor of the biggest 

 booster, Samuel Newhouse, in the New- 

 house hotel, April 13. Mr. Lamboume 

 reports an increase of twenty per cent 

 in his business over last year and says 

 his best sellers are the Shawyer and 

 Richmond roses. 



The Evans Floral Co. reports that 

 funeral work has been heavy. 



The Huddart Floral Co. says there 

 has been a ^ood demand for sweet peas 

 and valley in corsage work, and fancy 

 snaps are selling well. 



Cf. Cramer has a well decorated store, 

 with a line of mirrors along the wall of 

 the entire store, and handles a large 

 stock of pot plants. 



W. W. King had the deeorations of 

 the Newhouse hotel on the opening day, 

 furnishing 4,000 bunches of violets, ten 

 dozen long-stemmed American Beauties, 



700 Killarneys, 300 strings of smilax 

 and other greens. 



The Porter-Walton Co. has opened a 

 store front on Broadway in addition to 

 the one on State street and is handling 

 a large quantity of cut flowers and 

 plants, also ornamental shrubs. 



George May, of Keith O'Brien de- 

 partment store, finds spring business 

 rushing. 



Charles Soter handles an immense 

 stock of roses, carnations and other 

 cut flowers and pot plants. His re- 

 frigerator is always filled with flowers 

 and the sidewalk is lined with plants, 

 etc. On account of the large stock 

 and the small space allotted him, our 

 tiny 300-pound Soter is obliged to go 

 out of the store to make room when 

 a customer enters. Soter contributed a 

 beautiful heart of 500 short-stemmed 

 Beauties, standing seven feet high, to 

 • the Newhouse hotel on the opening 

 day. 



Ogden. 



B. Van der Schuit, who operated a 

 flower store in Ogden, has moved to 



Pocatello to take up business as an 

 undertaker and also to conduct a flower 

 business in a small way. Mrs. Van der 

 Schuit and G. Van Hoist conduct the 

 former business of Mr. Van der Schuit. 



H. F. Hendersbot has opened a store 

 in the front of the McBride drug store. 



William L. Porter and C. Close are 

 opening a store between Twenty-sixth 

 and Twenty-seventh streets. 



Logan. 



The Murdock Candy Co. has turned 

 its floral department over to Ola Liar- 

 son, who conducts that line of business 

 conjointly with them. 



O. G. Cardon has opened a flower 

 store under the name of The Blue Bird 

 and reports business as being good. 



Robert Miller, manager of the Miller 

 Floral Co., Farmington, has been con- 

 fined to the house for two weeks with 

 tonsillitis. 



Ant. C. Zvolanek, the sweet pea ex- 

 pert from California and New Jersey, 

 paid us a visit the other day on his 

 way to California from the east. 



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PraJrie Pick-ups^ 



Rock Island, IlL — The contract for 

 the planting of the court-house square 

 this spring has been let to Henry 

 Gaethje. 



St. Paul, Minn.— The G. A. Colberg 

 Co., 106 St. Paul arcade, has received 

 the contract to furnish several thou- 

 sand evergreen wreaths and bouquets 

 for grave decoration Memorial day by 

 the Memorial Day Association. 



Muskogee, Okla. — ^The Muskogee 

 Garden Plant Co. has been started by 

 John A. Timberlake, at 307 North 

 Callahan street. Garden plants and 

 shrubs will be sold, and expert garden- 

 ers will be sent out to work all over 

 the city. 



Independence, la. — John P. Murphy 

 has disposed of his greenhouse prop- 

 erty to C. A. Ibling, of Parkersburg, 

 and received in exchange 120 acres five 

 miles from Waterloo. Mr. Murphy has 

 also purchased forty acres adjoining 

 the farm. 



Sioux Falls, S. D. — Articles of in- 

 corporation have been filed for the 

 Minnehaha Floral Co., to engage in the 

 operation of a greenhouse, with a capi- 

 tal of $25,000. The incorporators are 

 Edward Heisel, Francis J. Connor and 

 John Liebe. 



Fulton, m. — It is reported that J. E. 

 Kirman, who makes a specialty of 

 greenhouse cucumbers, has sold his 

 buildings, fixtures and growing crops, 

 but the name of the purchaser is not 

 made public. Mr. Kirman remains in 

 charge of the business. 



Emporia, Kan. — J. Ralph Souder has 

 sold his half interest in the Emporia 

 Floral Co. to his partner, E. M. Robin- 

 son, who will continue the business. 

 Mr. Souder has purchased real estate 

 in Hutchinson, Kan., on which he will 

 erect a greenhouse range of IConinger 

 construction. He plans to open a down- 

 town store in Hutchinson when his 

 growing department is completed. 



' Kansas City, Mo. — An announcement 

 in the Star that 4,000 packets of seed, 

 furnished by the S. Bryson Ayres Co., 

 of Independence, Mo., would be given 

 away at the flower store of P. Larkin, 

 1130 Grand avenue, brought a crowd 

 before the doors at the opening hour 

 March 24. Only a few hundred pack- 

 ets remained at closing time. 



Des Moines, la. — The new U. L. 

 Crawford flower shop is open for busi- 

 ness. Expense has not been spared to 

 make it one of the finest in the west, 

 and a rich green carpet adds a touch 

 of distinction and refinement. The re- 

 frigerator and fixtures were built by 

 Buchbinder Bros., Chicago, Sidney Bach- 

 binder personally superintending their 

 installation. 



Carbondale, Dl.— Everette W. Plater 

 says the cold weather has delayed the 

 outdoor stock in this vicinity. The sea- 

 son for Narcissus poeticus and jonquils 

 will be from two to three weeks late 

 this year. Peonies are ten days late; 

 cultivation is being done, but some va- 

 rieties are not yet out of the ground. 

 Lilacs are fine and promise a large cut. 

 Easter trade was better than ever this 

 year. 



Tiflto, O.— April 1 the Ullrich Floral 

 Co., composed of Frank M. Schramm 

 and Edmund J. Ullrich, took over the 

 Ullrich greenhouses, flower store and 

 stock. The two former were purchased 

 by Frank M. Schramm, of Schramm 

 Bros., Toledo, at an administrator's sale 

 March 20. The latter was the property 

 of Edmund J. Ullrich. After the death 

 of his father, Lewis Ullrich, October 

 29, 1906, Edmund Ullrich conducted the 

 business for his mother. January 1 

 1910, he bought the stock and fixtures 

 from her and leased the greenhouses 

 and store. He will continue in charge 

 of the business as president of the 

 company and as manager. It is idanned 

 to extend th« business. 



