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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Jdne 24, 1909. 



inches of soil for your carnations and 

 let it all be new, A. F. J. B. 



EUROPEAN NOTES. 



Established for nearly a century and 

 held in good repute at home and abroad, 

 the name of Hugh Low & Co. is non est, 

 but the firm goes on as before, under the 

 title of Stuart Low & Co., Bush Hill 

 Park, England. Stuart Low and his 

 brother, E. V. Low, have dissolved part- 

 nership; hence the new title. Stuart 

 Low is well known throughout Europe 

 as a progressive horticulturist. He has 

 been on the jury of many of the leading 

 international exhibitions and a few years 

 ago he was president of the Horticul- 

 tural Trades Association of Great Brit- 

 ain and Ireland, Orchids, palms, carna- 

 tions and roses are special fines with the 

 firm. 



John Waterer & Sons, Ltd., Bagshot, 

 are running their annual rhododendron 

 show at the Eoyal Botanic Gardens, 

 London. Nearly 200 varieties are on 

 view, arranged in 10-foot-high banks of 

 bloom, in masses of gorgeous colors, the 

 centerpiece a great pile of Pink Pearl. 



A movement is on foot to present 

 Harry J. Veitch, V. M. H., of James 

 Veitch & Sons, Ltd., London, with his 

 portrait, painted by on^ of the leading 

 artists. The sum of 600 guineas will 

 be required and a considerable part of 

 this has already been subscribed. 



The Dutch bulb growers continue to 

 give good accounts of the crops, particu- 

 larly of hyacinths and tulips, and orders 

 booked for the latter, especially market 

 varieties, are up to the average. Nar- 

 cissi promise well. Crocuses may turn 

 out to be scarce, as there is a brisk 

 demand, 



Hubert & Co., the largest growers and 

 exporters of narcissi in the Channel 

 Islands, who turned their attention to 

 narcissus growing in America a few 

 years ago, are now prospecting with a 

 view to growing tulips on their American 

 farms. The manager, J, Guille, has been 

 over here on a visit and, in company 

 with F. J. Hubert, inspected large areas 

 of the tulip cultures in Holland, with the 

 purpose of purchasing bulbs to grow on 

 for sale in America, Bee. 



ROOF LADDERS. 



I would like to inquire as to what are 

 the usual methods of getting onto the 

 roofs of greenhouses when repairing 

 them. I have been using a 1x12 board 

 sixteen feet long with cleats nailed 

 crossways, but find it unhandy. My 

 greenhouses have sashbars eighteen feet 

 long. P. H. 



Most growers use a contrivance similar 

 to your own, except that a number of 

 crosspieces are nailed on the under side, 

 long enough to extend over the sashbars 

 on each side; these hold the ladder away 

 from the glass. The ladder should be 

 long enough to reach over the ridge and 

 should have a cleat on the under side at 

 the end large enough to hook over the 

 ridge and keep the ladder from slipping 

 down. H. O. 



CORRECT ADDRESS. 



There is considerable mail coming to 

 Arcade, 111., addressed to Thomas J. 

 Tenny. No doubt this address is in- 

 tended for mine, as there is no one else 

 living here whose name resembles Tenny. 

 Let the trade know the mail lists are 

 ^vrong. Thos. J. Denny. 



KoKOMO, Ind. — W. W. Coles is at 

 Oden, Mich., on his annual trip for re- 

 cuperation after the busy season. 



Leetonia, 0. — Harry G, Wolfgang has 

 had an exceptionally good trade this 

 spring and has cleaned out everything 

 salable in the line of bedding plants. 



Eureka Springs, Ark. — Clayton I. 

 Poor, formerly of Jonesville, Mich., is 

 now located at this fine summer resort, 

 and is building a range of glass and a 

 store, 



Elgin, III. — Fire in the barn of 

 George Souster did $200 damage June 

 16. The local papers make much of the 

 rescue of the horses by Mr, Souster 's 

 two daughters. 



Waynesboro, Pa. — Henry Eichholz is 

 doing a big business in bedding out. He 

 has done a great deal of this work in the 

 vicinity of Pen-Mar, where there is a 

 colony of summer cottages, 



Adams, Mass. — A. J. Boothman has 

 begun work on his new iron-frame green- 

 house, 18x75 feet, and will hurry opera- 

 tions as much as possible, as he is greatly 

 in need of the additional space. 



Bluepield, W. Va. — This city is to 

 have a much-needed enterprise. Edward 

 Schneider is here for the purpose of 

 starting a greenhouse. It has not yet 

 been decided where it will be located. 



Fall Eiver, Mass. — Paul de Nave is 

 cutting a good crop of Cattleya Mossise, 

 C. Gaskelliana and C. gigas Sanderiana. 

 He has a house 25x100 full of orchids, 

 containing chiefly cattleyas, dendrobiums 

 and oncidiums. 



Sandusky, O. — D. E. White, the Han- 

 cock street florist, has purchased the 

 Central Greenhouses, which have been suc- 

 cessfully conducted for a number of 

 years by Miss Mary Mackey. Miss 

 Mackey expects to leave before long for 

 Los Angeles, where she will join Mr, and 

 Mrs. Denver J. Mackey. 



Waverly, Ia. — Mrs. P. A. Case, whose 

 husband died in March, 1908, has since 

 conducted the business with the aid of 

 her daughter and son-in-law, H. B. 

 Mathews. The firm is now Case & 

 Mathews. Business has been excellent 

 this spring and during the summer three 

 houses now seventy feet long will be ex- 

 tended to 100 feet. 



Fort Dodge, Ia. — E. E. Nordwall, of 

 the North Floral Co., says that Decora- 

 tion day, this year, was the heaviest this 

 territory has ever known. This firm, 

 being located on the road to the three 

 cemeteries, was able to sell everything 

 that was in bud and showed color, and in 

 cut flowers it was impossible to get 

 enough to meet the demand. 



Princeton, Ind. — A, A. Smith, of W. 

 J. Eitterskamp 's, has^ sailed for his 

 former home in Christiana, Norway, 

 where he will spend several weeks with 

 his mother and other relatives. He will 

 also visit members of the trade in Hol- 

 land, and will there purchase a shipment 

 of bulbs for Mr. Eitterskamp. His trip 

 will occupy about two months. 



Hudson, Mass. — F. A. Morse has had 

 a large sale of plants and flowers from 

 the French Greenhouses, South Sudbury, 

 this spring. 



Bristol, Conn. — Terry & Peck re 

 cently completed their annual job of put 

 ting the park north of the local passen 

 ger station into condition for the summer 



Des Moines, Ia. — The Lozier Flora! 

 Co. will occupy a new, modern building 

 at 410 East Sixth street, next door to ite 

 present location, as soon as the new 

 structure can be erected. 



Fall Eiver, Mass. — William Byard, 

 who has been confined to his home by 

 illness for several weeks, was at last re- 

 port in so serious a condition that little 

 hope was entertained of his recovery. 



Malden, Mass. — E. D. Kaulback & 

 Son furnished the decorations for the 

 Merrill-Brackenbush wedding. The color 

 scheme of pink and green was carried 

 out with ferns, potted plants and roses. 



Wheeling, W. Va. — At the Vance- 

 Mendel wedding the house was elabo- 

 rately decorated by Max L, Hess. The 

 color scheme of pink and white was said 

 to be artistically carried out in every 

 detail. 



Denver, Colo. — Some handsome floral 

 pieces were sent by various labor or- 

 ganizations to the funeral of Max Mor- 

 ris, the labor leader. The designs were 

 executed by Mrs. L. A. Dunsmore, the 

 north side florist. 



Northampton, Mass. — Alexander 

 Parks had the contract this season for 

 planting the beds in the Main street 

 park, and the plan which he has followed 

 in the work is said to be particularly 

 pleasing and artistic. 



Andover, O. — Mrs. E. A. Pardee has 

 sold her greenhouses to Grant Chase and 

 expects to leave about August 1 for the 

 Isle of Pines. She will be accompanied 

 by her son. Max, and daughter, Claire. 

 Mr. Pardee has been located in the Isle 

 of Pines for several months, and is so 

 well pleased with the country that they 

 expect to make it their future home. 



Wayne Junction, Pa. — The florists of 

 the Philadelphia & Beading railway have 

 about completed their annual work of 

 distributing flowers and shrubbery to the 

 various stations. During the last few 

 years the Philadelphia & Beading has 

 been putting out over 200,000 plants of 

 various kinds, all of which have been 

 grown at the company's own greenhouses 

 at this place. Nearly 200 stations are 

 supplied annually. 



Lewiston, Me. — Ernest Saunders is 

 making extensive and substantial im- 

 provements at his greenhouses, on Main 

 street. The new building, the frame- 

 work of which is now up, will be 600 

 feet long. The old house and the office 

 are coming down and new ones and gar- 

 dens will take their place. The new 

 office will be a model affair of its kind 

 and will be located a little to the north 

 of the present one. The improvements 

 include, also, a new boiler-house, 36x40 

 feet, with a smokestack 100 feet high. 



