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Establishment of Henry E. Reimers, Spokane, Wash. 



A SPOKANE ESTABLISHMENT. 



About five years ago Henry E. Eeimers 

 started what is today one of the most 

 up-to-date greenhouse establishments in 

 Ihe Pacific northwest, at Spokane, Wash. 

 The present range of glass consists of 

 one house 30x240, one 26x2'40, two 16x 

 100 and one 10x100. The accompanying 

 illustration is from snapshots recently 

 taken at the place. One view shows the 

 admirable location, on a side hill with 

 southern exposure, just outside of town 

 — they call it Sunny Slope addition. 



Mr. Reimers does an exclusively whole- 

 sale cut flower business in his well 

 equipped plant. The crops grown are 

 principally roses, carnations and chrys- 

 anthemums, with lilies taking the places 

 made vacant by the cutting of the mums. 

 A general line of pot plants also is 

 grown. 



Not many eastern members of the craft 

 appreciate how fast the Pacific north- 

 west is growing, floriculturally as well as 

 otherwise. 



EUROPEAN NOTES. 



International Visits and Shows. 



A large party of French horticulturists 

 have been touring in Germany, visiting 

 many of the leading nurseries. They re- 



THE OLDEST POTTER. 



Christian F. Keller established in Nor- 

 ristown, nearly fifty years ago, the pot- 

 tery business which is carried on so suc- 

 cessfully by his sons today. When Mr. 

 Keller first started in business glas3 and 

 chinaware were so expensive that pottery 

 was much in vogue for general purposes. 

 After the war was over the prices on 

 glass and china were reduced. Gradu- 

 ally the sale of pottery became re- 

 stricted. 



Mr. Keller's three sons, Edward, 

 Charles and William, were admitted to 

 the business when they reached manhood. 

 It was decided a few years later to 

 specialize on flower pots and pans, and 

 on these lines a splendid business has 

 been built up. The factory has been 

 enlarged; new machinery has been in- 

 stalled; the business in all departments 

 has kept abreast of the times. 



Mr. Keller, hale and hearty, sometimes 

 drops in at his sons' establishment, 

 adding to the pleasure of visitors by his 

 kindly greeting. Phil. 



South RoYAijiTON, Mass. — A con- 

 tractor with a gang of eight men is ex- 

 cavating for two greenhouses to be built 

 by E. B. Hanson at this place. 



Christian F. Keller. 



turned to their respective homes early in 

 August, in time to receive British horti- 

 culturists, who traveled in France from 

 August 7 to 17, visiting all the principal 

 nurseries in Caen, Ussy, Angers and Or- 

 leans, as well as places of interest in 

 and around Paris. These international 

 visits may be summed up in the words 

 of the couplet: 



"Behold In these what leisure hours demand. 

 Amusement and Instruction band in band." 



Among important international exhibi- 

 tions, visitors to Europe should make a 

 note of the exhibition now being held at 

 Nancy, France, which runs until the end 

 of September; the Zeist, Holland, exhi- 

 bition, from August 25 to September 16; 

 Haarlem, Holland, in March and April, 

 1910; Brussels, Belgium, which will be 

 opened in May, 1910, and run on a gi- 

 gantic scale. Then, for 1911, the Royal 

 Horticultural Society of England has a 

 movement on foot to hold an interna- 

 tional exhibition in London, and prepara- 

 tions are being made at Florence, Italy, 

 for 1911 also, including the following 

 sections: Ornamental plants of recent 

 introduction, colonial plants, landscape 

 gardening, history of gardening, packing 

 fruits, flowers, vegetables, seeds, etc., for 

 transport. 



After thirty years of active work, Paul 

 Mann, a brother of the founder of the 

 firm of Otto Mann, Leipzig, Germany, 

 well known in the lily of the valley ex- 

 port trade, retires from the business on 

 account of ill health, and Rudolf Mann, 

 a son of the founder, becomes a partner. 



Ernst Heupel has joined the firm of 

 Herr Sievers, at Halstenbek, Germany, 

 and the title of the firm is now altered to 

 Sievers & Heupel, Halstenbek. 



Among the Recent Introductions. 



At a congress of German rose growers 

 recently held at Sangerhausen, a diploma 

 was awarded to Hermann Kiesse for Rose 

 Leuchtfeur, a hybrid from Gruss an Tep- 

 litz, and on the proposition of H. Pfitzer, 

 of Stuttgart, Lambert 's rose, Frau Karl 

 Drusehki, was awarded a silver gilt 

 medal. This award comes somewhat late 

 in the day, but H. Pfitzer, in referring 

 to the popularity of the variety, stated 

 that its merits were not observed when 

 it first came before the society. It was 

 stated that the new Rosa canina hybrids 

 obtained by crossing R. canina with R. 

 Wichuraiana and other hardy species are 

 expected to give splendid results. 



The new nephrolepis which has been 

 put into commerce by Herman Scholzel, 

 namely, Nephrolepis Scholzeli, is a 

 fringed sport from N. Scottii and is of 

 erect, compact habit. On account of its 

 many good qualities, it should become 

 popular in Europe. 



