APBII. 29, 1915. 



The Florists^ Review 



17 



Views of the Greenhouses and Store of Charles Keller, Who is Coming to the Front at Detroit. 



BUSINESS EMBABHASSMENTS. 



Wobum, Mass. — Carl O. Everberg 

 has filed a petition in bankruptcy. His 

 liabilities are $10,255.76 and his assets 

 $1,890.14. 



Saratoga Springs, N. Y.— A volun- 

 tary petition in bankruptcy has been 

 filed by T. J. Totten, Inc. Liabilities 

 are listed as $11,152 and assets as 

 *9,814-. 



Dansvllle, N. Y. — Eeilly Bros., whole- 

 sale and retail nurserymen, filed a vol- 

 untary petition in bankruptcy in the 

 United States District court at Buffalo 

 April 20, showing liabilities of $31,- 

 535.42 and assets of $71,060. Edward 

 Bacon, of Dansville, was appointed re- 

 ceiver. Counsel for Reilly Bros, said 

 the action was taken not because the 

 firm was insolvent, but to effect an 

 adjustment with creditors. 



Fulton, N. Y.— Theodore Foederer, 

 against whom Gustav Bartolme and 

 other creditors filed a petition in bank- 

 ruptcy January 13, filed a schedule of 

 his liabilities and assets in the United 

 States court April 20, and it has been 

 referred to Referee Wright, at Oswe- 

 go, before whom a meeting of credit- 

 ors will be held. Mr. Foederer con- 

 ducted the Fulton Flower Shop. H. L. 

 Oilman, of Fulton, is his attorney. The 

 bankrupt's liabilities total $1,525, dis- 

 tributed among twenty-seven creditors, 

 and the value of the assets is placed at 

 $400. Mr. Foederer 's creditors include 

 Gustav Bartolme, $100; Emma Bar- 

 tolme, $250; Helen Hastings, $100, and 

 Baker Floral Co., $45, all of Syracuse; 

 Henderson & Thomson Co., $45; Whit- 

 aker & Bogardus, Inc., $45; George O. 

 Dumas, $252, and Rosa Foederer, $250, 

 all of Fulton. 



Grand Bapids, Mich.— The Grand 

 Rapids Trust Co. has sent the following 

 letter to creditors of Crabb & Hunter 

 Floral Co.: "The Crabb & Hunter 

 Floral Co., of this city, finding them- 

 selves embarrassed financially, have 

 turned over to us under trust mortgage 

 and trust deeds for the benefit of credi- 

 tors, all of their property. We have 

 caused an inventory to be made of both 

 real and personal property. The real 

 estate consists principally of vacant 

 lots in the suburbs of Grand Rapids. 

 IMS OS high class property and valuable 

 but of necessity a very slow asset. It 

 18 inventoried at $36,357. We find this 

 to be incumbered with mortgages 

 amounting to $18,300. The store and 

 greenhouses with their contents have 

 been inventoried at $7,800. The ac- 

 counts receivable amount to $3,400, 

 about one-third of which is more than 

 a year old and of doubtful value. We 

 find notes payable of $2,700 and ac- 



counts payable of approximately $5,000. 

 Under our direction they are operating 

 both store and greenhouses with a pros- 

 pect of at least three months of good 

 business. At the expiration of this 

 time we will doubtless be in position to 

 know whether their business can be 

 conducted profitably or not. In the 

 meantime we are conserving their as- 

 sets to the best of our ability, paying 

 the taxes, etc." 



LIFE HISTORY OF GREEN FLY. 



What deposits the egg from which 

 the green aphis hatches? I have no- 

 ticed that as the small leaves open 

 on the new growths of my rose bushes 

 the young aphides appear to be thick 

 on the inside of these leaves, and I 

 have never discovered where these 

 eggs come from. 



J. R. D.— Okla. 



and scientists estimate that a single 

 aphis will, in its short lifetime, raise 

 a progeny computable only in billions. 

 However, storms, sudden climatic 

 changes, the voracity of birds and 

 other insects, in addition to the ef- 

 forts of man himself, keep them in 

 subjection in large measure. C. W. 



The eggs are deposited on some por- 

 tion of the wood by the female aphis. 

 These eggs are, of course, so small as 

 to be hardly distinguishable by the 

 naked eye. The eggs first develop into 

 active six-footed larvae, which molt 

 several times. These give rise to six- 

 footed pupae and later to the winged 

 aphides. The aphis family breeds with 

 incredible rapidity. It takes, under 

 suitable weather conditions, but a few 

 days for the full life history to be 

 run. The young aphides themselves 

 rear new families in a day or two 



TTETJ.EB KEEPS CLIMBING. 



There are various Kellers in the flo- 

 rists' trade, a dozen or so. The one 

 to which the caption particularly refers, 

 though it is not unlikely that it might 

 truthfully be applied to the others, is 

 Charles Keller, of Detroit. Accompa- 

 nying are views of Mr. Keller's estab- 

 lishment, which is located at 2517 to 

 2521 Fort street, west. Although these 

 give an adequate idea of his store, they 

 do not show the extent of his range. 

 And it is in regard to this that Mr. 

 Keller has within the last year made 

 the greatest advance up the ladder. 

 To his old range of 14,000 feet of glass, 

 Mr. Keller added 18,000 feet, consid- 

 erably more than doubling his green- 

 house capacity. Perhaps Mr, Keller 

 made the addition of 18,000 feet as 

 a kind of tally-mark, for it is eighteen 

 years since he began business there. 

 His location is near a cemetery, which 

 supplies one source of l^rge income. 

 That it does not account for it all is 

 clearly shown by his store and the 

 delivery automobile. 



Interior of the Store of Charles Keller, Detroit, Mich. 



