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Auburn, N. Y.— Dobbs & Son report 

 a business that cleaned up everything 

 salable. They are heading for the con- 

 vention. 



Grand Eaplds, Mich.— Freyling & 

 Mendels, proprietors of the Wealthy 

 Avenue Floral Co., are building another 

 greenhouse, with concrete walls. 



Fulton, 111. — John Aggen is erecting 

 two additional greenhouses, each 21x100. 

 He has been in business here about nine 

 years and has met with marked success. 

 He grows both flowers and vegetables. 



Oneonta, N. Y.— C. W. Peck, of the 

 Oneonta greenhouses, on Grove street, 

 has torn down two .old greenhouses and 

 erected in their place two iron-frame 

 houses, furnished by the King Construc- 

 tion Co. 



Skaneateles, N. Y.— J. G. White has 

 a novel method of keeping his chrys- 

 anthemum stock true, by drawing a 

 plan and planting each variety by 

 number, the numbers on the plants cor- 

 responding with the numbers on the 

 map. 



Elmira, N. Y.— H. N. Hoffman says 

 the report thrtt he intended to give up 

 the nursery branch of his business is 

 not correct, but rather he intends to 

 devote more time to it. Of the many 

 varieties of conifers, he finds the blue 

 spruce to be the hardiest and the best 

 drought resister. 



Geneva, N. Y. — W. & T. Cass gave up 

 the idea of a downtown store and in- 

 vested, instead, in an auto delivery, 

 which they think is a splendid ad and 

 the most profitable investment they 

 have made for some time. They expect 

 to make up a party, together with 'a 

 crowd from the experimental station, to 

 attend the convention at Baltimore. 



Albert Lea, Minn.— When A. Miller, 

 traveling representative of the new Chi- 

 cago firm of A. Henderson & Co., ar- 

 rived here, a little surprise party had 

 been arranged for him by G. A. Clau- 

 sen, of this city. Mr. Clausen and a 

 few Elk friends met the Chicago man 

 and took him out in an automobile to a 

 lake fifteen miles from town, where a 

 day and night were spent in fishing. A 

 good catch was reported. 



Des Moines, la. — Mr. and Mrs. J. S.' 

 WilsoH left Friday, July 28, for Bos- 

 ton, Mass., on the Iowa Admen's special 

 train to the National Admen's Conven- 

 tion, in session August 1 to 4. Mr. 

 Wilson is one of the officers of this 

 association and also chairman of the 

 House committee, and went as one of 

 the five elected delegates. It is his in- 

 tention to visit New York and Phila- 

 delphia and then slop at the S. A. F. 

 convention at Baltimore on his home- 

 ward journey. 



Manistee, Mich. — J. F. Harrell, of the 

 Manistee Floral Co., has been visiting 

 the trade at Milwaukee, keeping up to 

 date. 



Shenandoah, la. — The dry weather 

 has hurt the gladiolus crop. The 

 Henry Field Seed Co., which usually 

 has a large crop of flowers, will have 

 few marketable blooms this year. 



Middletown, N. Y.— F. X. Dienst is 

 considering an offer of a fine farm and 

 greenhouse property, as his own ex- 

 tensive plant is inadequate to supply* 

 his increasing business. 



Litchfield, 111.— Mr. and Mrs. E. A. 

 McPheron have returned from a vaca- 

 tion trip to Atlantic City, Philadelphia 

 and other eastern points. They spent a 

 day at Riverton and report everything 

 in the usual first-class shape at Dreer's. 



Wellesley Hills, Mass.— A. G. Lake, 

 on Woodlawn avenue, was thrown from 

 liis carriage a few weeks ago and re- 

 ceived injuries which disabled him for 

 a time. Trade has been heavy, espe- 

 cially in the shipment of ferns, and he 

 has had great diflBculty in filling his 

 orders promptly. 



Princeton, 111. — The Trimble Green- 

 house Co. is building two more houses 

 and an office on its property in the 

 east part of town. A store will also be 

 opened in connection with the new 

 office, and on this account the down- 

 town store on South Main street will 

 be closed. There is a steady increase of 

 business, especially in the wholesale 

 department. 



Austin, Minn. — A. N. Kinsman, in 

 company with his wife, left recently on 

 an automobile trip to Colorado Springs, 

 where they will visit his brother. The 

 trip covers 900 miles, and if he en- 

 joys it he will venture on a trip to 

 Florida next winter; no telling where 

 he will go next. When the bicycle was 

 in its prime, Mr. Kinsman made a trip 

 to Milwaukee, over 300 miles. His firm 

 is now completing a new house, 30x120, 

 for carnations. 



Miles City, Mont. — As reported in 

 The Review at the time, a branch store 

 was opened here some months ago by 

 T. D. Smedley, proprietor of the Fargo 

 Floral Co., of Fargo, N. D. A corpora- 

 tion has now been formed, under the 

 name of Smedley & Co., to develop and 

 conduct the business here. The capital 

 stock is $25,000. The directors are T. 

 D. Smedley, H. B. Wiley and Mary E. 

 Macy. The company will also build 

 greenhouses here. For that purpose 

 twenty lots of ground have been secured 

 on the Tongue river, just south of the 

 city, and work will be started at once 

 in the erection of two liouses, each 

 .34x100. 



Dover, N. H.— C. L. Howe has pur- 

 chased an automobile, so constructed 

 that it will be a most convenient vehicle 

 for use both in business and recreation. 



Ipswich, Mass. — Wu M. Davey, of Lo- 

 cust street, who has been carrying on a 

 successful business here as a landscape 

 gardener, has decided to erect some 

 greenhouses and grow flowers for the 

 local trade. 



Glean, N. Y. — Dana E. Herron made 

 a hit when he added a soda fountain. 

 It is a handsome addition to the store 

 and keeps his clerks busy during the 

 summer season. The stock at his 

 greenhouses looks fine. 



Fishkill, N. Y.— Wood Bros, have 

 most of the new introductions in roses 

 planted for stock and blooms, giv- 

 ing an excellent opportunity to study 

 the merits of each. Double Pink Kil- 

 larney is highly thought of; so, also, 

 are Prince de Bulgarie and Lady Hil- 

 lingdon. The demand for pot stock of 

 all kinds has been good. 



La Park, Pa. — A bundle of 150 let- 

 ters, addressed to George W. Park, the 

 florist and seedsman of this place, was 

 recently found floating in Conestoga 

 creek. The letters had all been opened 

 and each one of them still contained 

 postage stamps or postoffice orders for 

 different sums. The belief is that a 

 pouch of mail matter for Mr. Park, who 

 lias his own postoffice, had been stolen 

 from one of the mail trains. The thief 

 had opened the letters and removed all 

 the cash in them; he was unable to 

 have the money orders cashed and did 

 not want the stamps. This is the sec- 

 ond time that Mr. Park has suffered 

 loss in this manner. 



Madison, Wis.— The Capital City 

 Greenhouse Co. is now incorporated. 

 The members of the company are: Fred 

 Rentschler, George Rcntschlor. Albert 

 Meyer and Jacob Kolb. The name be- 

 fore the incorporation was the Capital 

 City Greenhouse, with Fred Rentsch- 

 ler as proprietor. They are now com- 

 pleting the construction of eight houses, 

 each 21x150, which will be used for 

 growing roses and carnations. The 

 Moninger Co. furnished the material. 

 They have installed a Kroeschell boiler. 

 No. 15, with capacity to heat 56,000 

 square feet of glass. The store in town 

 is also being remodeled. Formerly the 

 second floor of the store was rented for 

 office rooms, but the firm has now leased 

 the second floor and is using the space 

 as a storeroom. The building will be 

 increased in length, so as to make room 

 for a conservatory, which will be an 

 excellent place for handling plants. 

 The place on Williamson street, com- 

 prising six houses, will be used for 

 ])lant culture. 



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