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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



April 2T, 1905. 



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I LONGIFLORUMS 



We have a few VERY FINE FLOWERS tiiat were late for Easter, 



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f SPRENGERI, PLUMOSUS, ADIANTUM. Any amount on short notice. LILY OF THE VAL 



LEY. Extra nice stock, $3.00 to $4.00 per 100. SWEET PEAS. Fine bug stems, 75c to $1.00 pee 100. 



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DECORATION DAY is not far away. You wiU want stock in 1000 Igts 

 and it wilt pay you to get our Quotations on all kinds of stock. 



t A. L. RANDALL CO., 19 Randolph II CHICAGO, ILL. i 



Mackintosh 's second Easter in his new 

 store was double his first. 



Fleischman 's windows were artistic. 

 Golf stick vases and ducklings with char- 

 iots of orchids kept a crowd constantly 

 interested. Eibbon accompaniments were 

 handsomely utilized as usual. Individual 

 plants were used and the big store was 

 not large enough for the display. 



To describe the other retail stores 

 would be but to repeat what has been 

 indicated by the selection of those it 

 was possible to visit in a day. Even the 

 smaller stores are awake to the necessity 

 of cleanliness, artistic arrangement, nov- 

 elty and reasonable prices. It was an 

 Easter far in advance of any of its 

 predecessors and one that must have 

 brought joy and shekels to every partici- 

 pant. 



Various Notes. 



The sympathy of the wholesale sec- 

 tion is given to Miss Wollreich, book- 

 keeper at Alex. Guttman's, in the sud- 

 den death of her father, and to H. B. 

 McK night, of Jersey City, in the loss 

 of his son, William. 



Holt, the rubber man, has opened a 

 retail flower store at 284 Broadway, 

 Brooklyn, and report says he stretched 

 out a fine Easter business. He will not 

 give up his well established rubber trade, 

 however, and will doubtless be absorbed 

 by the Flatbush Bowling Club now that 

 he is a resident of the city of churches. 



Anton Schoch, of New Brighton, was 

 in town last week. He is the original 

 indoor grape expert of this section and 

 has a fine range of glass still devoted to 

 their culture. His place is well worth a 

 visit, especially when the delicious Black 

 Hamburgs are ripe and worth $2 a 

 pound. 



Bedding plant night at the New York 

 Florists' Club comes on May 8. John 

 Birnie is in charge of the exhibits. 

 Those who have something good to show 

 can forward it to Secretary Young. Any 

 novelty will be welcome. The exhibit 

 is not confined to bedding plants only. 

 Chairman Nugent has something special 

 in culinary products, his own invention, 

 up his sleeve for the occasion and some 

 other entertainment also. 



The Clucas & Boddington Co. will 

 move May 1 to West Twenty-third street, 

 near Sixth avenue. J. Austin Shaw. 



RocKFORD, III. — J. E. Johnstone has 

 been at Crystal Lake for several 

 months recuperating from a serious ill- 

 ness. 



KALAMAZOO, MICH. 



The Van Bochove Place. 



The most pronounced advocate of the 

 value of an up-to-date greenhouse estab- 

 lishment could hardly ask for a better 

 plant than the Van Bochove & Bro. 's 

 new range of houses, now in course of 

 erection. No expense has been spared 

 to make the new range the best of its 

 kind built within recent years. The tract 

 of land secured for the purpose consists 

 of thirty acres and is admirably located 

 within the city limits, having all the ad- 

 vantages, so valuable to the grower, such 

 as city water, splendid trolley line and 

 railroad facilities, etc. The land itself, 

 I may /emark in passing, is rich and 

 loamy, possessing all the properties that 

 bid fair to make carnations, American 

 Beauties and other roses thrive to the 

 same degree at which the world famous 

 celery thrives in the black Kalamazoo 

 soil. This place will be devoted exclu- 

 sively to cut flowers. 



The range will consist of 60,000 feet 

 of glass, the houses each 27x300 and all 

 connected, running east and west, with 

 the short span to the south. Each house 

 will contain four benches. As a matter 

 of course the very latest and most ap- 

 prwed heating apparatus will be in- 

 stalled. The boiler room, 40x40, will 

 contain two boilers each of 125 horse- 

 power, with a 6-inch regulating valve on 

 the main line that will do the work to 

 perfection. The condensation will be re- 

 turned by means of a self-acting pump. 

 Briefly stated, each and every detail has 

 been well thought out and well planned 

 and the whole, when completed, will pre- 

 sent a model of its kind and one of the 

 finest greenhouse establishments to be 

 found in the country. 



The growth of the Van Bochove Bros, 

 may be described as one of gradual de- 

 velopment. Away back in the early 

 eighties, celery growing constituted their 

 main business, the few houses of ancient 

 pattern built for the purpose of supply- 

 ing a scant local demand for bedding 

 plants, being at the time nothing more 

 than a "side issue." Those were the 

 days when Boston supplied Chicago with 

 cut flowers. As years passed along 

 things began to assume a different as- 

 pect; the celery business, while profitable 

 to a degree, had its drawbacks in maily 

 other respects. Competition grew keener 

 and prices in consequence became weaker. 

 Like all progressive and far-seeing 

 business men, the Van Bochoves began 

 to look around for ' ' other fields and pas- 



tures new." The old houses were re- 

 built, more were added from time to 

 time, and in addition to bedding and mis- 

 cellaneous plants a few roses and ca:fna- 

 tions were tried. The experiment proved 

 a success from the very start. The local 

 demand for cut flowers continued to in- 

 crease and with the increased demand 

 there came an increase in facilities. 



What had been attempted as a mere 

 experiment soon culminated in a suc- 

 cess far beyond their own expectations. 

 The demand for cut flowers, both whole- 

 sale and retail, necessitated extensive 

 additions and improvements and a mam- 

 moth range of houses sprung up within 

 the past decade. The demand, however, 

 continued, surpassing the sources of sup- 

 ply, and the refusal of many large orders, 

 especially for American Beauties, neces- 

 sitated still further expansion, the result 

 being the additional new range of 

 houses. While American Beauties will 

 be practically doubled in quantity, there 

 will also be a corresponding increase in 

 the output of Brides, Maids, Golden 

 Gates, Ivory and Chatenay. Meteor still 

 holds first place as a red and aside from 

 its productive qualities, it is likewise 

 fine in other respects, such as color, stem, 

 etc. Richmond will be given a trial this 

 season and if it proves its merit here as 

 it seems to have demonstrated it at 

 the E. G. Hill place, the Meteor will be 

 relegated to a back seat. Although roses 

 invariably do well here on their own 

 roots, some grafted stock will be grown. 



About 50,000 carnations will be plant- 

 ed. Lawson will form a large part of 

 the varieties to be grown, with Enchan- 

 tress as a close second. Crane, Flam- 

 ingo and Cardinal will be the reds, while 

 Lady Bountiful, Fred Burki, White 

 Cloud, Glacier and Flora Hill will make 

 up the white varieties. Some of the 

 older varieties, the kind that make up in 

 quantity what they lack in quality, will 

 also be grown and these principally for 

 their retail trade. 



Calla lilies, which do exceptionally well 

 here, as well as bulbous stock in general, 

 will be grown in larger quantities on the 

 old place. This also holds true as regard 

 to chrysanthemums, asparagus strings, 

 smilax and plants of all sorts. X. 



AuKOEA, III. — The Aurora Greenhouse 

 Co. is rapidly working up a nice busi- 

 ness. They had a big Easter business. 



Hamilton, Ont. — Webster Bros, have 

 put the business into a corporation and 

 will do business as the Webster Floral Co. 

 The facilities will be considerably in- 

 creased. 



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