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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



August 24, 1005. 



The Establishment of George M. Kellogg, at Pleasant Hill, Mo.. 



counteuance that ' ' the worst is over. ' ' 

 Most of the merchants and their lieu- 

 tenants are back from summer outings 

 with the brown glow of health on their 

 cheeks and the light of ambition in their 

 eyes. 



Variotis Notes. 



J. Nash celebrated his return from his 

 three weeks' holiday by a trip with one 

 of his growers, C. T. Darling, of Stony 

 Brook, which was close to a tragedy. 

 The impact of an auto and the horse and 

 buggy was bad for both, but fortunately 

 the gentlemen escaped with only a bad 

 shaking up and a few bruises. These 

 close calls are nerve thrillers and Mr. 

 Nash siiakes a little when telling about 

 it. 



Mr. Moore, of Chatham, who was in 

 town Saturday, says that within four 

 miles of his plant are ninety shippers of 

 cut flowers to the New York market by 

 the wagon express, which he calls a great 

 success. But out of this list he also 

 stated only two were members of the 

 S. A. F., a significant endorsation of the 

 necessity of some special method where- 

 by the membership of the national so- 

 ciety should be tremendously increased. 



Thos. Young, Jr., is back from Europe 

 and in splendid health. 



Ed. Horan has been climbing the Cats- 

 kills and looks better for his experience. 



H. L. Ghormley arrived Monday from 

 a beneficial month 's stay in the Adiron- 

 dacks. 



Mr. Donigan, with Ford Bros., tempt- 

 ed the fickle goddess and imbibed two 

 weeks cl. Saratoga water as a recupera- 

 tor. 



Geo. M. Garrett and wife, of Alex. Mc- 

 Connell '? oflSce staff, are resting in the 

 Massachusetts hills and Myer Gottlieb, 

 the artist of the establishment, has 

 finished his coat of tan amid the coasts 

 of Maine. 



Mrs. Laugjahr has entertained the 

 stork iMul presented her husband with a 

 boy. 



Mr. and Mrs. Kreshover have had a 

 very huppy and successful two weeks at 

 Saratoga. Few of ua can pick five win- 

 ners ic a day. 



Mr. Kilpatrick, of Walter Sheridan's 

 office, loft Saturday for his Vermont an- 

 nual. 



Troy is back from Bar Harbor and 

 will soon start for Europe. Alfred Bun- 

 yard, formerly with Siebrecht & Son, has 

 been added to the Rosary staff. The 

 store when completed with its outside 

 and ins-ide white birch bark trimmings 

 will be one of the most unique and 

 striking in the city. 



Business at Newport is now in full 

 blast and all the available forces from 

 the New York stores of Leikens, Hodg- 

 son, Siebrecht, and Wadley & Smythe 

 have been transferred there for the an- 

 ticipated boom of the next four weeks. 



If RuFsia and Japan will get together 

 and tiicu fraternize there, as now expect- 

 ed, the society village by the sea will 

 have the gayest season on record. 



Much sj'mpathy is expressed for Harry 

 Bunyard in his fight with uis old enemy, 

 rheumatism. He was greatly missed at 

 the convention. So were many of the 

 old regulars, Walter Mott and J. F. Wil- 

 cox among them. Let us hope we may 

 all meet again in Dayton in 1906 with 

 not a vacant chair. J. Austin Shaw. 



A PRACTICAL HISTORY. 



With practically nothing but an old 

 horse to start with, and a large and 

 healthy family to support, just twelve 

 years ago Geo. M. Kellogg located at 

 Pleasant Hill, Mo. Procuring under 

 difficulties a small piece of l^nd, he 

 commenced gardening on a small scale, 

 selling his products through the neigh- 

 boring towns. He and his family being 

 ardent lovers of flowers, ho erected for 

 his own pleasure a small greenhouse at a 

 total cost of $75. He soon found that 

 he could easily dispose of his surplus 

 stock and, procuring as much money as 

 he possibly could, he added to his one 

 house two more. His neighbors gave 

 but little encouragement; in fact tried 

 to discourage his ambitions, telling him 

 that he was sinking his money and break- 

 ing his back for nothing but loss. Re- 

 gardless of his Job's comforters, and 

 with the tenacity of a born fighter he 

 worked along. Saving all he could with- 

 out denying himself the necessities of 

 life, he was soon able to add some more 

 houses. Having the facilities for hand- 

 ling ice, he added that to his increasing 

 business and made enough to purchase 

 more ground and conducted a much heav- 

 ier gardening business and by energetic 

 and untiring zeal was fairly started on 

 the road to success. 



As time passed tlie demand for his 



stock grew to such proportions that he 

 was forced to enlarge his plant to its 

 present capacity and today he practi- 

 cally stands alone in his section of the 

 country, having the largest establishment 

 west of the Mississippi river, with several 

 branches, all successful. To supply his 

 large shipping trade his men meet all 

 trains, day and night. 



Today his greenhouses cover over seven 

 and one-half acres of land and contain 

 300,000 square feet of glass and 100,000 

 more will be finished by fall. At present 

 there are thirty-six houses devoted to 

 roses, consisting of 25,000 American 

 Beauties and a total of 50,000 of other 

 varieties, including Bride, Maid, Golden 

 Gate, Ivory, Meteor, Uncle John, Chate- 

 nay, Kaiserin and Carnot. There are 

 fourteen carnation houses, containing 

 50,000 plants all benched by early Au- 

 gust. The varieties are Enchantress, 

 Queen Louise, Lawson, Gov. Wolcott, 

 Moofilight, Lady Bountiful, Joost, Guar- 

 dian Angel, Fiancee, Red Sport, Cru- 

 sader, Richmond Gem, Cardinal and Mrs. 

 Patten. There are five houses containing 

 Marie Louise and Lady Campbell violets, 

 with a few Princess of Wales and Cali- 

 fornia. Three houses of chrysanthe- 

 mums contain 7,000 of the leading 

 commercial varieties. There are two 

 large houses of Asparagus plumosus and 

 Sprengeri, one large house of smilax, 

 four houses of ferns, such as Boston, 

 Piersoni, Scottii and Tarrytown; one 

 house of adiantnm for cutting, one 

 house of orchids and two propagating 

 houses. He also handles about 100,000 

 bulbs each year. 



The packing department is .one of the 

 most complete and up-to-date adjuncts 

 to this modern establishment. The plant 

 is heated by thirteen large steam boil- 

 ers of 900 total horse-power and from 

 thirty to thirty-five tons of coal is used 

 each day and it keeps seven teams busy 

 hauling coal during the firing season. 



One of the Adjuncts to the Geo. M. Kellogg Place. 



