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The Weekly Florists' Review; 



October 13, 1904. 



me a bench of American Beauty cut- 

 tings, where there was by test not an 

 unrooted one nor a yellow leaf, not a 

 black spot, nor a red spider; simply per- 

 fection. It was the same with carna- 

 tion cuttings. I wish we could get Mr. 

 Dunlop to write ns an article on propa- 

 gating. I was so impressed with his 

 quality of cuttings that upon returning 

 home I sent him an order for Beauties 

 and carnations. The result is that at 

 this writing we have a magnificent lot 

 of Beauties from his stock and his car- 

 nation plants can be picked out by the 

 lustre on their foliage; they are as glis- 

 tening as an onion patch. 



Fred Windmiller. 



A PACIFIC COAST FIRM. 



One of the most enterprising of the 

 many progressive firms on the Pacific 

 coast is Clarke Bros., of Portland, Ore. 

 They havp long had a thriving business 

 in their ^ome town, but six years ago 

 came to the conclusion that conditions 

 were more favorable for cut flower grow- 

 ing at Fruitvale, Gal., in Alameda coun- 

 ty, several hundred miles tp the south, 

 where they also had the advantage of a 

 contiguous market for whatever they 

 could produce beyond the requirements 

 of their own trade. The Southern Pa- 

 cific gives them a direct line of com- 

 munication between the two ranges, for 

 they built at Fruitvale, one of the broth- 

 ers, Ealph, being in charge there. This 

 summer he visited the home plant for the 

 first time in six years. 



In this issue of the Review we repro- 

 duce photographs of each range and re- 

 gret that no picture of the retail store 

 in Portland was available, for it is one 

 of the most attractive in the west. The 

 Portland plant now consists of eleven 

 houses, five of them 26x200 and six 

 22x125, running at right angles. A part 

 of this glass was put up this summer. 

 There is in all about 42,000 square feet 

 of glass. This fall about 20,000 carna- 

 tion plants will be on the benches, with 

 about 10,000 chrysanthemums grown to 

 single stem, together with large quanti- 

 ties of miscelleanous stock raised for the 

 retail store and for a catalogue trade 

 which covers the whole northwest corner 

 of the country. The range is heated 

 by one Kroeschell hot water boiler and 

 one sixty horse-power steam boiler. Wood 

 is used as fuel. 



The California plant consists of three 

 houses 26x175, three 16x175 and four 

 26x140, with a propagating house 12x100. 

 This makes a total of about 38,000 

 square feet of ground covered. Seven 

 houses are devoted to carnations, 26,000 

 being housed. The varieties are equally 

 Estelle, Lawson, Hill, Prosperity, En- 

 chantress and Scott, the latter being 

 grown on account of its unequaled ship- 

 ping and producing qualities. There are 

 three houses of Brides and Bridesmaids. 

 There is also a lath house, 40x40, devoted 

 to smilax and asparagus, producing an- 

 nually 6,000 strings. Nearly all the 

 product from this place is shipped to the 

 retail store at Portland. The plant is 

 heated by two thirty horse-power steam 

 boilers, with crude oil for fuel, it being 

 much cheaper than coal, besides making 

 little or no smoke or soot to obscure the 

 glass. 



A NEW ENGLAND ESTATE. 



One of the finest of the many and ever 

 increasing number of private estates in 

 New England is that of Senator T. B, 

 Aldrich, at Warwick Neck, E. I. This 

 is about an hour's sail from Providence 

 and close to Rocky Point, one of the 

 most popular shore resorts on the Provi- 

 dence river, a place noted for clam bakes, 

 blue point oysters and sundry other at- 

 tractions of a fashionable nature. The 

 estate at Warwick Neck is of compara- 

 tively new formation, only some half 

 dozen years having elapsed since it was 

 taken in hand. In that time an immense 

 amount of building, planting, road mak- 

 ing and grading has been done under the 

 superintendence of Fred C. Green, who 

 has charge of this beautiful estate. The 

 grounds cover an area of 125 acres, of 

 which 100 acres are in lawns, necessitat- 

 ing a great deal of mowing. 



The grounds are well wooded and in- 

 clude some fine specimen trees, selections 

 from those on the several old estates 

 which were merged into the present one. 

 An immense amount of planting has been 

 done, including thousands of maximum 

 and hybrid rhododendrons and an ex- 

 tensive assortment of taxus, thuya, retino- 

 spora, ilex, thuyopsis, picea and other 

 evergreens and a large collection of de- 

 ciduous trees and shrubs. Much of the 

 stock was imported from Europe and it 

 is all in fine shape. 



In the extensive kitchen garden ad- 

 joining Mr. Green's residence pleasing 

 features are the broad grass walks bor- 

 dered with choice perennials and annuals, 

 which divide the various quarters, and 

 espalier-trained apples, pears, plums and 

 other fruits lined on one or two walks. 

 Storage pits for tender evergreens, hy- 

 drangeas, etc., are located here and a 

 block of houses will later be erected 

 on land being reserved for that purpose. 



A good many interesting memorial 

 trees are dotted about the grounds. A 

 thrifty elm taken from George Washing- 

 ton 's old elm in Cambridge, Mass., was 

 planted by President Roosevelt in 1902 

 and there are many senatorial trees. 



The buildings are practically all of 

 stone blasted from ledges on the estate. 

 They comprise handsome stone lodges at 

 the entrance gates, a magnificent boat 

 house, bow'ling alley, stables, etc. A 

 fine sea wall runs the whole length of 

 the water's edge. The views from all 

 points of the estate are magnificent, but 

 the best outlook is from the top of the 

 lofty water tower, where the panorama 

 over Narragansett bay is superb. The 

 water supply is from driven wells, the 

 water being pumped into a 50,000 gallon 

 tank. 



Those who would like to see a really 

 princely New England estate should vis- 

 it Senator Aldrich 's beautiful Rhode 

 Island home and they cannot fail to be 

 delighted with what they see. In Mr. 

 Green the estate has undoubtedly the 

 right manager and he has many im- 

 provements still to make. We do not 

 wonder that the senator, his unassuming 

 son-in-law, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and 

 other members of his family find a de- 

 lightful retirement from political and 

 other cares at Warwick Neck. 



W, N. Craig. 



Cleveland, O. — C S. Fitz Simons, 

 formerly of Lansing, Mich., is vice-pres- 

 ident and manager of the Cleveland 

 Floral Co., the concern organized by C. 

 W. Fuller to take over the business of 

 the insolvent Grant-Wilson Floral Co. 



HOBART, Okla. — R. W. Aldrich has 

 bought out Jones Bros, and will continue 

 the greenhouse business. He is assist- 

 ant cashier of the Hobart National 

 Bank. 



Establishment at Fruitvale, CaL, Operated by Clarke Bros., Portland, Ore. 



