Mat 13. 1915. 



The Florists* Review 





HAIL STORMS 



Salem, O. — About 100 lights were 

 broken in the greenhouses of William 

 Mundy,' west of the city, by the hail 

 storm Monday evening, May 3. The 

 loss in glass and damaged plants is 

 estimated at $150. Other ranges were 

 not damaged so much. 



Sedalia, Mo. — The hail storm of Sun- 

 day, May 2, caused a loss of over 10,000 

 panes of glass at the range of the 

 Archias Floral Co. The company con- 

 siders itself lucky that- its range was 

 only on the edge of the^orm; the dam- 

 age elsewhere was gre^, to orchards, 

 crops and buildings^ -^> 



HAIL AT NEW AmUiNY, IND. 



A severe hail storm' "passed over New 

 Albany, Ind., and part of Louisville, 

 Ky., Sunday, May 2, at 4 p. m,, break- 

 ing considerable glass and doing dan- 

 age to outdoor stock. 



At New Albany, J. G. Bettman & 

 Sons lost about 600 square feet of 

 glass, J. D. Bettman about 800, Swift 

 Bros, about 400, Louis Gueltig 300 and 

 A. Easmussen 5,800. The C. H. Kunz- 

 man Estate, in Louisville, lost about 

 1,450 square feet. The storm came in 

 two distinct showers, about an hour 

 apart. The first storm did the damage 

 in Louisville, and the second in New 

 Albany. After the first storm, Mr. 

 Rasmussen, who is a director of the 

 Florists' Hail Association, was called 

 over the phone to come to the Kunz- 

 man Estate, in Louisville, to ascertain 

 the loss there, and while he was there 

 the second storm broke, which dam- 

 aged the glass in New Albany. The 

 Kunzman Estate and Mr. Easmussen *s 

 place are about two miles apart. 



The storm seems to have been most 

 severe in Louisville, as the glass there 

 had nearly all broken through, while 

 in New Albany the largest part of the 

 damage was in cracked lights, which, 

 while bad, at least did no considerable 

 damage to the stock in the houses. 



PROVIDENOE, R. I. 



The Market. 



Mothers' day was more generally 

 observed in this city and vicinity than 

 ever before. As a consequence, carna- 

 tions were at a premium and all other 

 flowers sold well. The demand was ac- 

 tive and the well-dressed man, woman 

 or child without a flower Sunday was 

 the noticeable exception. Design work 

 continues brisk and plants and shrubs 

 for outdoor planting are in great de- 

 mand. Indications are favorable and 

 promising for Memorial day. 



Various Notes. 



The son of Joseph Koppelman, aged 

 4, fell from a haymow and fractured 

 his skull a few days ago, but is im- 

 proving at his home in East Provi- 

 dence. 



The monthly meeting of the Flo- 

 rists' and Gardeners' Club of Ehode 

 Island will be held at the rooms in 

 Swarts hall, 96 Westminster street. 

 May 24. 



Olney Williams, whose Easter plants 

 were late, is cutting thousands of 

 Easter lilies, which are mainly shipped 

 to Boston. He also is supplying the 



market with other stock of excellent 

 quality. 



Joseph Norris, of Little Compton, is 

 receiving congratulations on the recent 

 arrival of a son. Mr. Norris is super- 

 intendent of the Watch House estate. 



A large importation of boxwoods and 

 evergreens from Holland was received 

 last week by Macnair, of the Sunshine 

 Shop. 



Henry Groth, landscape gardener at 

 Warren's Point, Little Compton, with 

 his assistants, is engaged in setting out 

 thousands of plants on the various es- 

 tates in his charge. 



Thomas Kennedy, of Pascoag, who 

 has been confined to his house by an 

 attack of grip, is out again. 



George E. Lindeman, formerly with 

 Cob, Bates & Yerxa Co., was in the 

 city last week. He has started in the 

 retail business for himself at 1137 

 Pleasant street. Fall Eiver. 



H. A. Burlingame has two large 

 houses off Fruit Hill avenue, from 

 which he has been cutting large quan- 

 tities of sweet peas, now planted to 

 cucumbers. 



William H. Tarbox, of West Green- 

 wich, has just received a large assort- 

 ment of new varieties of dahlias, 

 mostly cactus, from Europe. He says 

 it is the largest importation he has 

 made during his thirty years of dahlia 

 growing. W. H. M. 



MOTT-LY MUSINGS. 



John T. Ingram, Oyster Bay, L. I., 

 has added four superintendents of 

 estates to his executive force, owing to 

 the big increase in his landscapeV de- 

 partment. His new place at Syosset is 

 gradually getting into shape and will 

 be quite an important branch. 



William Eccles, of the Mortimer L. 

 Schiff greenhouses. Oyster Bay, has one 

 house, 50x100 feet, devoted to nectar- 

 ines, the fruit of which has found a 

 ready sale at Manhattan hotels at 50 

 cents apiece. Some specimens sold for 

 $1 each. Oyster Bay is the home of 

 some wonderful products of nature. 



J. D. Cockcroft, Northport, L. I., 

 forces large numbers of Spanish iris, 

 for which his place is recognized as 

 headquarters, and he found them his 

 most profitable crop this season. 



Arthur Cockcroft, Northport, had a 

 fine crop of carnations for Mothers' 

 day. 



Theo. Polbos, Sea Cliff, and Henry 

 Matz, Glen Cove, L. I., have a large 

 share of north shore business, all they 

 can handle in the busy season. 



L. Krause, Mineola, L. I., will remove 

 as early as possible to Hempstead, L. I., 

 owing to the rapid rise in real estate at 

 Mineola, which makes it impossible to 

 continue the greenhouses there. 



J. A. Finger, Hicksville, L. I., reports 

 an extraordinary demand for the dahlia 

 and predicts success for. the society 

 just formed in its interests. 



Charles Weber, Lynbrook, L. I., has 

 returns showing that Carnation Laura 

 Weber has brought about the highest 

 figure in the wholesale market this 

 season. 



Superintendent Hendrickson, at Flow- 

 erfield, L. I., says they will keep open 

 house during the flowering season of 

 gladioli. Everybody welcome. 



C. F. Ankers, Eockville Center, N. Y., 

 has been appointed town assessor. 

 Meanwhile the business will be ably 

 managed by Mrs. Ankers, an acknowl- 

 edged floral artist. W. M. 



OBITUARY 



Joseph Walter Cragg. 



Joseph Walter Cragg, of Irondequoit, 

 N. Y., died Sunday, May 9, at the age 

 of 44. Born and educated in Clyde, 

 N. Y., he as a young man went west, 

 and after a while became engaged as 

 a glass cutter and eventually married. 

 Later, his health gave way, and he with 

 his wife came back east. He became 

 the partner of Frank A. Purrsell, doing 

 business under the name of the Purrsell ■ 

 & Cragg Co., and for about six years 

 he and his partner were quite success- 

 ful in rose growing. ^ 



Two years ago his health bl^n to 

 fail, and about three* weeks ago he was 

 obliged to take to his bed with a hard 

 case of progressive anemia. His end 

 came peaceably on Mothers' day. He 

 is survived by his wife, two daughters, 

 Virginia and Josephine; two sons, 

 Robert and James; his mother, and two 

 sisters, Mrs. Charles S. Owen and Mrs. 

 George B. Hart. 



The funeral took place Tuesday, May 

 11, many of the local florists attending. 

 Among the many beautiful floral em- 

 blems were those sent by the Eochestier 

 Lady Florists' Auxiliary, the Eochester 

 Florists' Association and several indi- 

 vidual florists. H. J. H. 



Charles E. Wadsworth. 



Charles E. Wadsworth, 46 years old, 

 who had been in the florists' business 

 on Bridge street, Brooklyn, N. Y., for 

 the last twenty years, died May 4 from 

 a complication of diseases, at his resi- 

 dence, 197 Bridge street. He was a 

 member of the Sewanaka Democratic 

 Club of the Second Assembly district, 

 and of St. Michael's P. E. church. The 

 funeral was at the residence May 6. 

 Interment was at Newburgh, N. Y., 

 where Mr. Wadsworth was born. 



Harry Bodenbaugh. 



Harry Eodenbaugh, for four years in 

 the employ of Mrs. M. A. Seaman, who 

 conducts a flower store in Merchants- 

 ville, Camden, N. J., committed suicide 

 by hanging himself in the shop May 6. 

 Norristown, Pa.j is given as his home 

 town. 



E. T. Cook. 



E. T. Cook, F. R. H. S., landsc^ape ar- 

 tist and prominent in Toronto, Can., 

 horticultural circles, died Thursday, 

 May 6, of heart failure. Mr. Cook's 

 books were well known in England, 

 from which country he came in 1913. 



East St. Louis, 111. — August Mirring 

 ha3 added a second delivery automobile. 

 He says he keeps one busy delivering 

 in St. Louis and the other in East St. 

 Louis. 



Chattanooga, Tenn. — The Higley Flo- 

 ral Co. was sold by the bankruptcy 

 court to H. W. Johnson and G. A. Kim- 

 mell, both at Chattanooga. Mr. John- 

 son has been conducting a flower storie 

 at 11 East Eighth street, and Mr. Kim- 

 mell has been manager of the green- 

 houses of the Forest Hills cemetery for 

 the last two years. The 'firm will be 

 known as the Johnson Floral Co. and 

 will continue the store at 11 East 

 Eighth street. In addition to carrying 

 cut flowers and plants, the concern 

 will engage in landscape work. 



