ATHID8T 2i, 1911. 



The W^kly Florists' Review. 



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READERS ARE INVITED TQ CONTRIBUTE ITEMS FOR THIS DEPARTMENT. 



Joplin, Mo. — B. K. Troutman is suc- 

 cessor to Edward Teas, on North Wall 

 street. 



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Dalton, HI. — ^Franklin B. Sears is 

 building an addition to his greenhouses 

 on Depot street. 



Sheridan, Wyo.— Loucks & Caple will 

 build a greenhouse on the land which 

 they recently purchased on Badger 

 street. 



Mantorvllle, Minn. — ^W. E. Fryer, pro- 

 prietor' of the Dodge County Nursery, 

 has become an iris enthusiast and now 

 has over 500 varieties. _ 



Moberly, Mo.— Mrs. E. S. Estill's new 

 chrysanthemum house has been com- 

 pleted and stocked and there are pros- 

 pects of an excellent crop in the fall. 

 Her husband has now assumed the 

 management of the growing end of the^ 

 business, instead of Carl A. Claeson, 

 her former greenhouse man. 



Castorland, N. Y. — The Climax Manu- 

 facturing Co. has incorporated to manu- 

 facture and deal in florists' paper 

 boxes, etc. Capital stock, $15,000. In- 

 corporators: Saduel L. Hirschey, 

 Urban C. Hirschey and Henry A. Ein- 

 beck. During the last year the plant 

 has been materially enlarged and the 

 business increased. -i- 



Eureka Springs, Ark. — Clayton I. 

 Poor has removed his greenhouses to 

 higher ground. He believes that in a 

 hilly region, such as this, greenhouses 

 should be built on an elevation rather 

 than in a gulch, as the low places are 

 damp, chilly and unsuitable for rose 

 culture. He has added a vegetable house 

 this season and is now growing carna- 

 tions, roses, chrysanthemums and vege- 

 tables. 



Elmira, N. T. — Bichard King, super- 

 intendent of the United States Cut 

 Flower Co., has added two new carna- 

 tion houses, each 36x300, furnished by 

 the "King Construction Co. and designed 

 according to that firm's latest model, 

 which includes the ne«j.irontpipoj3ench, 

 with 1-ind^ uprightp jnt^T %-inch croMrr 

 pieces. With thes'd'riew houses, the 

 total glass area here is 200,000 square 

 feet and more building will probably be 

 done next year. 



Owego, N. Y. — A. J. Thomas & Sons 

 is the name of the newly organized 

 firm here, which consists of the two 

 sons of the veteran founder of this 

 flourishing business. Mr. Thomas, Sr., 

 feels he can safely resign and give the 

 boys a deserved chance. The boilers 

 gave out just at the time the change 

 was about to be made, so the first 

 job was to look around for a good 

 boiler, which is now being set up. The 

 mums here look well, especially the 

 early kinds. 



Lee, Mass. — A greenhouse is being 

 erected for C. S. Mellen, at CouncU 

 Grove. , ^ . • 



Ooshen, N. Y. — George F. Biehards 

 succeeds to the business established by 

 his father, and is preparing for a good 

 season. 



Waverley, Mass. — ^The W. W. Edgar 

 Co. grows Begonia Lorraine to perfec- 

 tion and in large numbers. This is one 

 of the up-to-date plant establishments. 



Barre, Vt.^ — ^A. Emslie, on the Mont- 

 pelier road, is renovating his green- 

 houses by tearing down the old walls 

 and putting in iron posts, set in con- 

 crete. 



Lincoln, Neb. — ^Work has been be- 

 gun on the new five-story building for 

 Chapin Bros. It will be a handsome 

 structure, faced with buflE-coloredl 

 pressed brick. 



Dalton, Mass. — Edward Dolby, gar- 

 dener to Zenas Crane, has a choice col- 

 lection of orchids, among which, it is 

 said, is a specimen of Coelogyne 

 cristata that measures six feet across, 

 grown oval in shape. 



Houston, Texas. — Edward Teas, whose 

 headquarters were formerly at Joplin, 

 Mo., has removed to the Scanlan build- 

 ing, in this city. His successor at Jop- 

 lin is B. K. Troutman. Besides the 

 Westmoreland Farms, near this city, 

 Mr. Teas has grounds at Joplin and at 

 Pasadena, Tex, 



Decatur, Ind. — E. S. Moses, of the 

 firm of Srnsberger Bros. & Moses, has 

 purchased the interest of his partners 

 in the business and is at present sole 

 owner and manager. It is stated, how-> 

 ever, that about September I he will 

 sell to his nephew, Dale Moses, a three- 

 fifths interest in the establishment. 



Belle vne, 0. — ^B. C. Arlin has erected 

 an iron-frame greenhouse, 24x125, with 

 concrete walls, at his property on 

 South West street, to take the place of 

 eeflS^ old houses that had been re- 

 m(y»ed. Both Mr. and Mrs. Arlin are 

 expert florists and they have built up 

 an excellent trade since coming to this 

 town. 



Sheridan, Wyo. — L. M. Best, propri- 

 etor of the Best Floral Co., has opened 

 a stor<eLpn East Loucks street, west of 

 the. H^itt^ building. He handles 

 flowers, frtlits and vegetables, besides 

 cigars, stationery and other side lines. 

 He already has three greenhouses, in- 

 cluding a radish house which was com- 

 pleted last spring, and the glass has 

 been ordered for five more vegetable 

 houses. Three of these will be used 

 for lettuce, one for cucumbers and one 

 for tomatoes. 



Sharon, Fa. — C. B. Service has retired 

 from the florists' trade and is now 

 engaged in the insurance business. 



Calumet, Mich. — ^Harper & Thomas, 

 the florists and undertakers, are well 

 equipped for business in both depart- 

 ments and their trade is increasing. 



Ohicopee Falls, Mass. — Frank Buifitt 

 has purchased a fine plot of land, with 

 the intention of erecting a range of 

 glass for retail purposes shortly. 



Feabody, Mass. — J. M.. Ward & Co. 

 are rebuilding and adding several 

 houses, one of them for cyclamens, 

 which are a specialty with this firm and 

 cleverly grown. 



Lincoln, HI. — Otto Heimbreiker has 

 built a 100-foot addition to his green- 

 houses, on West Tenth street. He is 

 pushing rapidly to the front in the lo- 

 cal field as a wholesale and retail dealer 

 in plants. 



Waynesboro, Fa. — Henry Eichholz 

 has sold a scarlet carnation seedling to 

 Philip B. Welsh, of Glen Morris, Md. 

 Mr. Welsh had grown the variety for 

 two years on his own place before pur- 

 chasing it. , . 



Champaign, m. — J. Landau, the land-' 

 scape gardener, is looking forward to 

 an especially busy fall season, as he al- 

 ready has contracts with the owners of i 

 various private estates, espeeially in 

 the vicinity of Edwardsville. 



Clinton, N. Y. — ^Kilboum & Williams 

 are adding to their plant a new green- 

 house, 30x150 feet, which will give 

 them a total of about one-half acre 

 under glass. The new house is to be de- 

 voted exclusively to the growing of 

 asparagus ferns. 



Quincy, HI. — F. W. Heckenkamp, Jr., 

 has purchased a tract of ground at the 

 corner of Fifth avenue and Jackson 

 street and will cover 20,000 square feet 

 of the space with glass. The necessary 

 grading of the site will be done this 

 fall and work on the buildings will be- 

 gin in February. The glass is already 

 on the ground. 



Coming, N. Y. — A. H. Woeppel, when 

 the writer called, was busy disbudding 

 early mums to one and two shoots, mak- 

 ing it the rule not to allow the center 

 bud to set until August. Stock here 

 is in excellent shape. The first cuttings 

 of gArtiniums were 'being taken oflE. It 

 is intended that a new house will be 

 ready for this stock before the snow 

 flies. Of roses, Bichmond is in its 

 fourth year and was breaking well; 

 this, with Killarney, White KiUarney 

 and My Maryland, forms his quartet. 

 With a 15-acre tract of choice fibrous 

 loam, the soil problem is settled for a 

 while. -,• 



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