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The Florists' Review 



liAT «. 1916. 



HAIL STORMS OF A WEEK. 



Fredonia, Kan. — The first hail storm 

 to break glass for several years oc- 

 curred on the night of April 27. Loyd 

 C. Bunch lost about one-fourth of the 

 glass on the south side of his houses. 

 J. E. Glass lost in about the same pro- 

 portion. The storm covered a consider- 

 able area, and wheat and alfalfa were 

 damaged greatly. 



Utica, N. Y. — The worst hail storm 

 in years visited this town April 28 and 

 broke many panes of glass in the 

 greenhouses. William Mathews, 19 

 York street, lost 150 lights; Samuel 

 Whitton, 242 Churchill avenue, 500 

 lights, and William P. Pfeiffex, Whites- 

 boro street, 300 lights. Charles 

 Whitton, York street; Stephen Whitton, 

 49 Green street; Samuel Pinkstone, 61 

 Hickory street; E. T. Hermant & Son, 

 North Genesee street, and William 

 Pfleeger, of Deerfield, lost some glass, 

 but not a great deal. 



MOTT-LY MUSINQS. 



A. L. Miller, Jamaica, N. Y., ex- 

 presses the unanimous opinion of the 

 plantsmen that the sudden advent of 

 spring is making them all hustle and 

 forget their past misfortunes. Indica- 

 tions point to an exceptionally good 

 season. Mr. Miller is rapidly trans- 

 forming his recent acquisition of twen- 

 ty-five acres into a model nursery. 



Fred Marquardt, Middle Village, N. 

 Y., sees a rift in the cloud, predicting 

 good sales and at usual figures. His com- 

 bined plant and cut flower trade affords 

 him abundant scope for observation; it 

 is possibly the largest on Long Island. 



Philip Haas' Sons, College Point, N. 

 Y., say that a possible additional White 

 car expresses their views of the situa- 

 tion. 



Anton Schultheis, College Point, has 

 "Nil desperandum" as his motto and 

 is adding to his holdings as opportunity 

 offers. 



G. Golsner'a Sons, College Point, 

 came out on top in their suit against 

 the gas company, but would much 

 rather the accident had never happened. 



Louis Enne, Flushing, N. Y., has a 

 most attractive place, a splendid ad. 



The Knight & Struck Co., Flushing, 

 features heather as a specialty, but gen- 

 eralizes in nursery stock to meet the 

 ever increasing demand. "Fine time 

 for our own planting," remarked Man- 

 ager Darlington. 



Louis Dupuy, Whitestone, N. Y., is 

 decidedly continental in both the con- 

 struction and management of his model 

 establishment. There is always some- 

 thing interesting to be seen here. 



Jasper McMullen, Whitestone, had 

 the whole family working on some fine 

 floral pieces at the time of my visit. 



Dreyer Bros, will shortly have their 

 range of glass transferred frona Wood- 

 side to the place already established at 

 Whitestone, giving them a large area. 



Victor Dorval Sons, Woodside, N. J., 

 view with great satisfaction the change 

 to electric power in the locomotives 

 which pass them on both sides and 

 which threatened to annihilate them 

 with the effects of the smoke. While 

 not entirely victorious, they are much 

 better off than formerly. 



Satow & Suzuki, Woodside, form a 

 duet of oriental artists who delight the 

 eyes of those fortunate enough to in- 

 spect their creations, both at the green- 

 houses and at their New York store. 



The John Scott Co., Flatbush, N. Y., 



John F. Cowell. 



always understood that lightning, or 

 other "great catastrophe, never struck 

 twice in the same place, but fire last 

 winter following flood of the previous 

 one has caused them to waver in their 

 opinion. By strenuous efforts a calam- 

 ity was averted. and their ferns never 

 were in better shape. 



Louis Schmutz, Jr., Flatbush, says 

 there is a limit to all things. Not to 

 his resourcefulness. 



Gus Messeberg, Flatbush, says he did 

 not make a fortune this seaso^i, but 

 expects to get there just the same. 



The Cottage Gardens Co., Queens, N. 

 Y., is ahead of last year in the nursery 

 department, according to Manager E. 

 Brown, and thus the dull fall season 

 will be made up. A good rain is badly 

 needed. The carnation houses are now 

 in charge of Mr. Ward, Jr. The stock 

 is in grand shape, showing evidence of 

 high cultivation. 



John Lewis Childs, Queens, believes 

 the season will average about as usual. 

 It started slowly, but is now taxing the 

 capacity of the establishment. 



Henry Weston, Hempstead, N. Y., fig- 

 ures he could easily have spared the 

 big house erected last summer, but 

 thinks this will be a profitable year. 



J. Hick & Son, Auburn, suffered an 

 affliction at Easter in the death of the 

 wife of the senior member, who has 

 the sincere sympathy of their many 

 friends. 



Dobbs & Son, Auburn, find their busi- 

 ness warrants an additional auto car. 

 A unique sign, conspicuously placed, 

 announces the fact, in Polish, that they 

 furnish wedding bouquets to pretty 

 brides. The idea originated with a 

 Polish friend and has caught on. 



Eastwood & Tincknell, Auburn, have 

 leased the houses formerly run by 

 Dobbs & Son, who are located directly 

 opposite in a thoroughly up-to-date es- 

 tablishment of their own construction. 



OBITUARY 



John F. Cowell. 



Prof. John F. Cowell, director of the 

 South Park Botanical Gardens, Buffalo, 

 N. Y., died suddenly from heart dis- 

 ease Saturday afternoon. May 1, while 

 returning to Buffalo in an automobile 

 from East Aurora. The. funeral was 

 held May 4 at his home in the park 

 near Eidge road. The 'park commis- 

 sioners acted as honorary pallbearers, 

 while the active pallbearers were W. J. 

 Palmer, Dr. Leo Smith, Charles Huson, 

 William Bott, Frederick Busch and 

 David A. Seymour. 



Dr. Cowell spent May 1 tramping 

 in the woods near East Aurora, collect- 

 ing botanical specimens, accompanied 

 by his son-in-law, Charles B. Moul- 

 throp, and L. C. Jackson. When they 

 started home a tire blew out. All 

 three got out of the machine to change 

 the tire. Dr. Cowell had one hand 

 on the wheel to steady it when he 

 suddenly exclaimed, "My, I'm going!" 

 His companions did not know what he 

 meant until he sank back into Mr. 

 Jackson's arms. Even then they 

 thought he had only fainted, and 

 brought him to a nearby farmhouse, 

 where Dr. Lawrence Smith, of East 

 Aurora, was summoned. 



Dr. Smith said that death had been 

 instant and attributed the cause to 

 heart disease. Dr. Cowell had never 

 shown any symptoms of heart trouble 

 and was apparently in the best of 

 health and spirits. He was 63 years 

 old. 



Dr. Cowell was an authority in bot- 

 any, particularly on the orchid, which 

 was his hobby. He had also made an 

 exhaustive study of the chrysanthe- 

 mum. 



