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The Weekly Florists' Revfew* 



Apbil 0, 1908. 



care for the plants up to exhibition time. 

 As these accommodations are all fur- 

 nished without expense to the society, it 

 would seem that the financial results of 

 the convention at Niagara Falls must 

 necessarily be better than ever before. 



Following the custom of some years 

 past, the accrued interest on both the 

 permanent and general funds was or- 

 dered added to the reserve fund. 



George W. McClure was appointed 

 chairman of the committee on sports, 

 and J. R. Cloudsley was appointed as a 

 member of that committee, the third 

 member to be announced later. Mr. 

 Ewing and Mr. Philpott, of the Cana- 

 dian Horticultural Association, met with 

 the committee on the last day and ar- 

 rangements were partially completed for 

 joint sessions of the S. A. F. and the 

 Canadian Horticultural Society, details 

 being left to be settled at a later date. 

 The question of international games was 

 left to the sports committee. It was de- 

 cided that the bowling games should be 

 held at Buffalo during the last day and 

 evening. 



The final resolutions, which were 

 adopted with enthusiasm, expressed the 

 appreciation of the board for the ' ' many 

 courtesies shown us by everybody we 

 came in contact with during our visit." 

 Ex-Mayor Cutler; Mr. Isaacs, of the In- 

 ternational Hotel Co.; Major Butler, of 

 the Natural Food Co., and President and 

 Mrs. Kasting were personally thanked in 

 the final resolutions, both for assistance 

 offered and hospitalities extended, and 

 the board adjourned more than pleased 

 with the kindness and courtesies shown 

 and with the highest anticipations for a 

 successful and enjoyable convention. 



It should be noted by the members of 

 the S. A. F. that Mr. Isaacs offered, in 

 case enough early reservations of rooms 

 were made at the Cataract house, to re- 

 8er\'e the entire hotel accommodations of 





THE MOSBAEK ESTABLISHMENT. 



Onarga is 'situated on the main line of 

 the Illinois Central railroad, eighty-five 

 miles south of Chicago, and is in the 

 heart of the best farming land in the 

 state of Illinois. The season there is 

 some two weeks earlier than in Chicago. 

 Here is located the Iroquois Canning 

 Co., operating one of the largest 

 corn canneries in the world, where the 

 product of 3,500 acres of sweet corn is 

 canned annually. The Mosbaek Green-^ 

 house Co. is one of the branches of this* 

 immense business. 



Begun in a small way, the company 

 now has eight greenhouses, seven of 

 which measure 26x100 feet, and one 14x 

 100 feet, which were constructed by the 

 John C. Moninger Co., Chicago. The Bos- 

 ton fern and its sports are a specialty, 

 being grown in such quantity that ear- 

 load shipments are not unknown. Bos- 

 ton, Piersoni, Anna Foster, Scottii, Whit- 

 mani and Elegantissima from runners to 

 plants in 14-inch pots are seen. Aspara- 

 gus plumosus and Sprengeri are in such 

 good demand that Axel Aggerholm says 

 it is hard to keep up the supply. 



In bedding plants, geraniums naturally 

 take the lead, with such old favorites as 

 S. A. Nutt, Jean Viaud, La Favorite, 

 Trego, Alphonse Ricard and Beaute 

 Poitevine, yet such plants as alyssum, 

 alternanthera, ageratum, dracsena, salvia 

 and vinca are grown in immense quanti- 

 ties, the houses being filled to their ut- 

 most capacity. 



Outdoors there are 15,000 square feet 

 of sash used for bedding stock and ferns 

 also, while as much more is used for 

 starting hardy perennials, of which fif- 

 teen acres are grown. The soil here is 

 especially adapted to the raising of can- 

 nas and the company devotes twenty 

 acres to them. Among the best varieties 

 are King Humbert, Black Beauty, Chas. 



Pottins; Shed at the Mosbaek Establishment, Onarga, IIL 



the building for the members of the 

 S. A. F. If this offer be taken advan- 

 tage of, it will result in an ideal and 

 unique situation in the experience of the 

 society — trade exhibition, meeting hall 

 and hotel accommodations all under one 

 roof. The rates are from $3 to $5 per 

 day, American plan; that is, meals in- 

 cluded. W. N. RuDD, Sec 'y. 



Auburn, Ind. — Perry Feagler is con- 

 structing a greenhouse on his lot on 

 South Cedar street. 



to pieplant, asparagus and horseradish, 

 for which they find a ready market in 

 Chicago. 



The company occupies fine offices down- 

 town, as the business is almost entirely 

 through the mails. Started in a small 

 way to supply a local trade, the business 

 has developed, through systematic or- 

 ganization, advertising and careful at- 

 tention to details, to be a large and 

 prosperous one, with wholesale dealings 

 from Maine to California and from Can- 

 ada to distant Texas points. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



Henderson, David Harum, Coronet and 

 Alsace, for all of which there is good 

 demand. They have a new canna which 

 Mr. Aggerholm thinks bids fair to com- 

 pete with King Humbert and which he 

 expects to exhibit at the convention in 

 Augnist. 



Pansies have been a specialty from 

 the start. The seed is imported direct 

 from Germany and the number of thou- 

 sands of plants sold annually, as shown 

 by the records, is enormous. 

 ' Over thirty acres of land are devoted 



Laurence J. Stuppy. 



Suffering a stroke of paralysis at his 

 home in St. Joseph, Mo., March 30, just 

 one week after he had returned from a 

 trip to the Pacific coast, Laurence J. 

 Stuppy died at 8:30 o'clock in the even- 

 ing of the same day. 



Mr. Stuppy had been visiting in Los 

 Angeles and other towns on the coast 

 until a Week previously, when he re- 

 turned home. When stricken with paral- 

 ysis, fatal results were feared, and all 

 the children who were in the city were at 

 his bedside when the end came. 



Born in Ste. Genevieve, Mo., in 1850, 

 Mr. Stuppy moved to St. Joseph with 

 his parents one year later, and had been 

 a resident there since that time. In 1873 

 he started a flower shop, which has been 

 in existence since. He is survived by 

 a widow and six children. The sons are 

 Frank X. and John, of St. Joseph. The 

 daughters are Mrs. B. W. Murphy and 

 Miss Dorothy Stuppy of St. Joseph; Miss 

 Helen Stuppy, of Albany, N. Y., and 

 Miss Marie, of Seattle, Wash. 



Warren S. EwelL 



In the death of Warren S. Ewell, 

 April 2, after a long illness, Boston lost 

 one who a decade ago was well known 

 as a grower and exhibitor of Dutch bulb- 

 ous stock. Born in Roxbury in 1851, 

 the deceased succeeded to the florists' 

 business of his father and carried on the 

 same until his death, his specialty always 

 being bulbous stock. Of this he was 

 for many years the best grower around 

 Boston and he won many prizes for his 

 products at the shows of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society. He early 

 became identified with the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club, serving on the ex- 

 ecutive committee in 1895 and being 

 elected to the office of president for the 

 year 1907. He was a life member of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Funeral services were held from his 

 late residence, 218 Quincy street, Dor- 

 chester, April 5, when many of his old 

 confreres attended to pay their last 

 tribute of respect. W. N. Chaig. 



John Qeary. 



The death is announced of John 

 Cleary, New York, father of John P. 

 Cleary and Ambrose Cleary, both of 

 whom are widely known in the trade, 

 having been connected with the plant 

 sales at auction in New York for many 

 years. 



Charles Ingtasn* 



Charles Ingram, gardener for W. J. 

 Dana, at Wellesley, Mass., died sud- 

 denly, Sunday, April 5. He was 50 

 years of age and a native of Scotland. 

 He arrived at Boston twenty-five years 

 ago and in the early part of his career 

 in New England floriculture was with 

 S. J. Renter, of Westerly, R. I., and also 

 with Welch Bros., the Boston wholesale 

 florists. At one time he was in business 



