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JuNi 16, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



17 



PSOVIDENOE. 



Tbe Market. 



The florists of this city and vicinity 

 are now resting on their laurels, wait- 

 ing for the closing of the public and 

 private schools of varied character, 

 which, with the weddings incidental to 

 June, will terminate a busy and pros- 

 perous season. The margin of profit 

 has been somewhat smaller than in pre- 

 vious years, but the volume of trade 

 has been sufficient to make up for such 

 deficiencies, with the result that every- 

 one is happy and well satisfied with 

 the aggregate showing. 



A majority of the growers are well 

 advanced in their field work and many 

 have commenced the overhauling of 

 their houses and benches and are mak- 

 ing preparations for the reception of 

 their new stocks. Funeral work holds 

 up well and moves about all the stock 

 that finds its way into town. 



Various Notes. 



The J. A. Budlong & Son Co., of 

 Auburn, is cutting a fine crop of e'x.- 

 cellent White Killarney roses. 



H. H. Pepper, of the Melrose Eose 

 Gardens, reports the best spring busi- 

 ness in the sale of rose bushes he has 

 ever experienced. 



Joshua Vose, the dahlia grower of 

 Pontiac, is confined to his house by a 

 severe illness. 



Joseph Kopelman reports an increas- 

 ing business in his new wire depart- 

 ment. During the last week he made 

 up more than a dozen special designs 

 of large size. 



The Highland Floral Co., of Paw- 

 tucket, has closed its retail store at 23 

 High street. 



M. Macnair has opened a handsome 

 new store at the corner of Chestnut and 

 Broad streets, a few doors above his 

 old store. Both places will be main- 

 tained. 



The monthly meeting of the Florists' 

 and Gardeners' Club of Rhode Island 

 will be held Monday evening, June 19, 

 at which time the special committee to 

 arrange for the annual outing will 

 make its report. 



Joseph Leikens, of New York city, 

 has opened his store on Bellevue ave- 

 nue, Newport, for the season. 



William Hoffman, of Pawtucket, has 

 just installed a new boiler with a dou- 

 ble steam trap. 



Oscar Schultz, of Newport, was a 

 visitor in New York and New Jersey 

 last week. 



W. B. King, of Apponaug, expects to 

 retire from active business in the near 

 future on account of his health. The 

 business will be conducted by his son. 



O. H. Williams, of Pocasset, has con- 

 tracted with Hitchings & Co. for the 

 erection of two new greenhouses, sixty 

 feet in length, to be ready in July. 



Miss Florence B. Schellinger, daugh- 

 ter of J. F. Schellinger, of Riverside, 

 was married Tuesday evening at her 

 parents' home. 



D. E. Newell, of Attleboro, has re- 

 tired from the florists' business and is 

 to spend some time in traveling. He 

 is succeeded by Martin Ockert. 



Nate Pierce, of Norwood, reports an 

 unusually busy spring in nursery de- 

 mands. He has had several large es- 

 tates to lay out. W. H. M. 



OBITUAEY. 



Ohauncey P. Coy. 



Chauncey P. Coy, pioneer Nebraska 

 seed grower and well known citizen, 

 died suddenly at his home in Water- 

 loo, Saturday evening, June 10, of 

 heart trouble, after a brief illness. He 

 was the senior member of the firm oi 

 Chauncey P. Coy & Son, wholesale seed 

 growers, and one of the best known 

 citizens of western Douglas county, 

 having lived there about thirty-five 

 years. He was a native of New York 

 state, a veteran of the civil war and a 

 member of the Masonic order. 



Charles H. Magoon. 



Dr. Charles H. Magoon, a pioneer 

 nuseryman of Iowa, died at his home 

 in Wakefield, la., June 1, at the age 

 of 70 years. His death was the re- 

 sult of an injury caused by a fall a 

 few days previously. He settled at 

 Algona, la., in 1857, and is said to have 

 started the first nursery in the state. 



Mrs. Mary Hanson. 



Mary Hanson, wife of Hubert Han- 

 son, for many years a grower on North 

 Clark street, died June 10 at 1250 

 Grace street, Chicago. She was 52 

 years of age. The funeral was held 

 June 13 from the residence to St. 

 Gregorius' church, interment being at 

 St. Henry's cemetery. She is sur- 

 vived by her husband and one son, 

 Henry. 



Mrs. A. Woemer. 



Mrs. A. Woerner, wife of August 

 Woemer, of Clinton, Mo., died May 26, 

 as the result of a stroke of apoplexy. 

 She was 52 years of age and is survived 

 by her husband and eight children. Mr. 

 Woerner and family have been thirteen 

 years in the florists' business at Clin- 

 ton and are highly respected there, 

 where they built up a trade covering 

 several near-by towns. 



Mrs. A. B. Packard. 



The death is reported of Mrs. A. B. 

 Packard, who was 72 years of age and 

 had for forty years been a florist at 

 Quincy, Mass. Her greenhouses were 

 among the first in New England, her 

 •first structure having been built as an 

 amusement, but, like so many others 

 who began flower growing for recrea- 

 tion, she soon made it a matter of busi- 

 ness. She continued actively at work 

 until a few weeks before her death. 



Concord, N. H.— Athole G. Hoit has 

 taken a position with Gilbert J. 

 Benedict. 



Bochester, N. Y. — The plans have 

 been completed for the erection of the 

 Lamberton Memorial Conservatory, at 

 the entrance to Highland park. This 

 addition to the park system was made 

 possible through a bequest of $20,000 

 by the late Miss Mary A. Starbuck, as 

 a memorial to President A. B. Lamber- 

 ton, of the park board. The building 

 will be opened to the public about Sep- 

 tember 1. 



Nashua, N. H.— Geo. W. Coburn, of 

 the East Hollis Greenhouses, has taken 

 his son into partnership and the busi- 

 ness is now conducted under the name 

 of Geo. W. Coburn & Son. They have 

 added one greenhouse, 18x60, and in- 

 tend to do more building this summer. 

 They had a fine stock of bedding 

 plants, which sold rapidly. Their car- 

 nations in the field have been doing 

 well, especially since the coming of the 

 recent showers. 



JVEWS Ngiis^.1 



Bangor, Me. — A recent fire at the 

 residence of John Martin, the Center • 

 street florist, caused a loss of $300 or 

 $400. 



Warren, O. — John Adgate has the 

 sympathy of the trade in the loss of 

 his wife, who died June 2, at the age 

 of 83 years. 



Astoria, L. I. — Mrs. H. Pritchard, who 

 is 67 years of age, recently was injured 

 by a fall on the stairs, but now is about 

 again. 



Polo, 111. — Miss Marjorie Wilkes has 

 charge of H. Davis' flower business in 

 Chadwick during the illness of Rev. 

 Knapp, who is agent there. 



Marietta, O. — Nerval Kiger, the 

 Fairview Heights florist, has purchased 

 four lots on High street and will buUd 

 additional greenhouses there. 



Baspeburg, Md. — John G. Kilian has 

 the material on the place for another 

 house, 32x118. Another recent addition 

 to his facilities is a C. & P. phono. 



Warren, O. — E. C. Waterman has 

 completed his greenhouse at 418 South 

 Main street, at the corner of Fulton 

 street, and has it well stocked and 

 ready for business. 



Kankakee, HI. — A little son and 

 daughter arrived June 3 at the home 

 of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schafer. 

 "The mother and twins," says the re- 

 port, "are doing nicely." 



St. Louis, Mich. — Kleinhans Bros, 

 lost heavily by a hail storm that passed 

 over this place June 4. They are said 

 to have found only three unbroken 

 lights after the storm, and were with- 

 out insurance. The stock, of course, 

 was badly cut up. 



Somersworth, N. H. — G. S. Ramsburg 

 has completed his new chrysanthemum 

 house. He was particularly success- 

 ful this year in timing his stock for 

 Memorial day and had plenty of 

 flowers ready for the market just when 

 the demand was heaviest. 



Findlay, O. — The City Greenhouse 

 Co., which recently purchased the busi- 

 ness of Samuel J. McMichael, on Lark- 

 ins street, has now been incorporated. 

 The incorporators are John B. Heim- 

 hofer, J. O. Reed, Dr. N. L. MacLach- 

 lan, A. H. Marshall, C. J. Oiler and 

 C. H. Bigelow. 



Amesbury, Mass. — Among the local 

 florists who have decided to place some 

 of their stock on exhibition at the 

 flower and strawberry show, to be held 

 here in the first part of July, are Her- 

 bert G. Leslie and H. G. Hudson. A 

 large amount of space at the show has 

 also been ordered by E. W. Thurlow, of 

 West Newbury. 



Gretna, La. — B. M. Wichers has won 

 his case in the State Supreme Court 

 against the New Orleans Acid & Fer- 

 tilizer Co., which was decided in his 

 favor in the Civil District Court and ap- 

 pealed by the defendant concern. He 

 gets a judgment of $1,000 damages on 

 the ground that plants and flowers in 

 his gardens were killed by fumes from 

 the company's plant. 



