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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



January 11, 190«. 



BUSINESS Z.. NOTES..,.. 



Melrose, Mass. — T. IT. Kingston has 

 gone out of the florists '■ business. 



New Bedfokd, Mass.— Josepli S. Silva 

 has taken out a building permit for a 

 greenhouse. 



Erie, Pa. — S. Alfred Baur, for some 

 years in business here, is now located at 

 Atlanta, Ga. 



Lynchburg, Ya.— Miss Annie McC'ar- 

 ron has opened a very neat flower store 

 at 1017 Main street. 



OwENSBORO, Ky. — Miss Katherino 

 Nanz has taken charge of the business 

 of her father, the late C. (I. Nanz. 



Aurora, III. — The Aurora Greenhouse 

 Co. will add two rose houses 22x100 

 early in the spring, using concrete foun- 

 dations and iron posts and gutters. 



Pontiac, Mich. — A. B. Lewis has a 

 lemon tree whicii serves to attract much 

 attention to his place. It is ten feet 

 high and the lemons are larger than 

 grapefruit. 



Paxtox, III. — E. B. Morgan & Co., 

 are building a new house 14x130 on the 

 south side of their range and in the 

 spring will add several liouses on the 

 north side. 



Carthage, III. — Samuel Stone died 

 December 27 of typhoid fever, with 

 which Mrs. Stone also was ill at the same 

 time. She is left Avith seven children and 

 the management of the greenhouse busi- 

 ness. 



LiNDENWOLD, N. J. — S. E. & H, D. 

 Moore have added a boiler house and 

 show room to their plant the past sea- 

 son. They handle nursery stock of all 

 kinds, as well as miscellaneous green- 

 house stock. 



Lake Geneva, "Wis. — At the St. Louis 

 World 's Fair flower show C. H. Geb- 

 hardt won a gold medal for his employer, 

 H. G. Selfridge, and for himself a silver 

 medal, the diplomas representing which 

 were received January 4, 1906. 



Montgomery, Ala. — Mrs. O. A. Clapp, 

 who went out of business some time ago 

 because of inability to secure water, has 

 obtained connection with the city water 

 supply and now has every prospect of 

 building up a fine business. 



KosEDVLE, Kan. — Chas. H. Acker- 

 man has removed here from Kansas City 

 and engage<l in market gardening. He 

 has two houses, about 4,000 feet of glass, 

 which will be devoted to vegetables. Next 

 summer additional houses will be built 

 for cut flowers. 



Clarinda. Ia. — J. V. Pfander, of this 

 city, and Wm. Pierce, of Nebraska City, 

 Neb., have bought of Claude Welch the 

 property known as the Clarinda Green- 

 iiouses, and are now conducting the busi- 

 ness. Mr. Pierce owns greenhouses at 

 Nebraska City, which will for a time be 

 managed by his wife, but he hopes to sell 

 out there and remove his family to this 

 citv. 



LxDEPENDENCE, Kan. — W. E. Mattock 

 is building a house 18x60 for carnations. 



COATESVILLE, Pa. — Jas. Brown, Jr., is 

 building a house 28x104 feet for carna- 

 tions. 



Waverly, Ia. — Elmer Beeves has been 

 appointed director of the new depart- 

 ment of floriculture at the state fair. 



East Tawas, Mich. — L. Allison is 

 -closing out his florists' business here, in- 

 tending to seek a new location. 



Rockford, III. — The F. M. Johnson 

 greenhouses have been sold to D. C. 

 Lorimer, who, associated with O. H. 

 Hall, will conduct them under the name 

 of Lorijner & Hall. 



Des Moines, Ia. — Two Greeks, who 

 recently started a flower store here, quar- 

 reled January 2 and one attacked the 

 other with a pair of shears, at least so 

 Louis Fischer complained of Tony Mara- 

 polos. 



Seu)alia, Mo. — Gelveu & Son report 

 Christmas trade, both local and shipping, 

 as up to the average. The supply of 

 carnations was away ahead of any pre- 

 vious year but the rose crop was about 

 a week late. 



Helena, Mont. — Chas. Otto Horn, of 

 the Grandon Greenhouses, reports the 

 holiday business as excellent, prices if 

 anything a little lower than in 1904. 

 There has been a large increase in the 

 sale of blooming plants and bulbous 

 stock in pans. 



Marion, Ia. — George Button says 

 that he has educated his people to expect 

 good Enchantress, Lawson, Estelle and 

 such carnations at moderate prices and 

 that when prices are as high as they 

 were at the holidays it almost wholly 

 shuts off the trade. 



Napoleon, O. — K. W. Hartman says 

 that his business in 1905 was about one- 

 third larger than in 1904. He has about 

 10,000 feet of glass and grows carna- 

 tions and general stock. He has just 

 rebuilt one house, 14x100, and from the 

 way the demand is increasing expects 

 1906 to show still better results. 



Titusville. Pa. — Christmas trade was 

 very good. Quality of stock was good 

 and good prices prevailed, but supply was 

 short in holly, carnations and roses. In 

 potted plants, palms, ferns, poinsettias 

 and primroses sold well. W. B. Bay says 

 the new year is coming in with a number 

 of weddings and good stock is still short 

 of the demand. The weather is excel- 

 lent. 



East ]Maucii Chunk, Pa. — Robert B. 

 Williams is getting on his feet again, 

 both literally and financially. A year 

 ago he fell through the floor of his green- 

 house and sustained injuries which laid 

 him up for several months. While he 

 was unable to attend to business his boy 

 neglected the fires one night and the 

 place froze up. He is a hard worker and 

 since getting about again slowly has been 

 restocking as fast as a latk of capital 

 would ])ormit. 



NOTICE 



Because of the new wage scale which 

 the iPrinters* Union has enforced upon 

 those employers not willing to suffer 

 interruption of their business, especially 

 because of that part of the scale which 

 makes overtime practically prohibitive, 

 it is of first importance that the Review 

 obtain its advertising **copy" earlier. 



It is therefore earnestly requested 

 that all advertisers mail their **copy^ 

 to reach us by Monday or Tuesday 

 morning, instead of Wednesday morn- 

 ing, as many have done in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



Society of American Kiorists 48S 



— I'reslcieut's Appointments 48;{ 



— William F. Kastlng (portrait) 483 



--Philip J. Hauswirth (portrait) 483 



— Franlv II. Traendly (portrait) 484 



— H. II. Kltter (portrait) 484 



(old Storage Valley 484 



Hoses— Soft Growth 48B 



— lu a Poor House 486 



— Average Production 486 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 480 



— Bouvardia 486 



— Lilies for Easter and Later 487 



— Verbenas 487 



— Euphorbias 487 



— Fuchsias 487 



Carnations 487 



— Kuyiiig New Varieties 487 



— No Blooms 488 



McKlnley Day 48J> 



American Carnation Society 485) 



A Michigan Plant (illus.) 489 



Mr. llartshorne's Views 489 



Kble Designs (illus.) 490 



John Scott's Address 4S)o 



Vegetable Forcing — The Markets 491 



— Iladislies 491 



Publications Received 491 



Obituary— Death of Jos. Kift (portrait) 492 



Philadelphia 492 



Twin Cities 492 



Boston 493 



Business and Other Notes 4!M 



Chicago 495 



Pittsburg 496 



Detroit 497 



St. Louis 498 



Cleveland 499 



New York 499 



Want Advertisements 503 



Seed Trade News 504 



— California Uojected 506 



— Celer.v Seeding Prematurely 505 



— Catalogues Received 506 



Orange, N. J 508 



Lenox. Mass 515 



Cincinnati 516 



Northern Texas 616 



Pacific Coast '. 517 



— Public Tree-Planting 517 



— San Francisco 517 



Nursery News 618 



— Form Oklahoma Association 618 



Sweet Peas and .\sters 520 



Washington 622 



Kansas City 524 



Tarry town, N. V 526 



Christmas PepiHM-s 526 



Taunton. Mass 6.^6 



Advertising Hates 63.S 



LlBKRTV. Mo. — Paul Stark says his 

 holiday trade was good, especially plant 

 sales. 



BowLiN(; Green, Kv. — R. L. Brashear 

 opened a down-town store for the holi- 

 days and did a very satisfactory busi- 

 ness. 



Atlantic. Ia.— Chas. Olson says that 

 holiday trade was all he could take care 

 of and ])rices were better than in 1904. 

 Plants sold well and so did holly and 

 greens. The weather was fine. 



Ithaca. Mich.— F. W. Brooke says the 

 holiday trade was good, with better 

 prices than a year ago. Carnations were 

 in great demand and scarce. Primroses, 

 nnrcissi and hyacinths sold very well. 

 The busiiies.s in this vicinity is growing 

 vei\' niceiv. 



