AVQVBT 15, 1912. 



The Florists' Review 



47 



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Wyalusing, Pa. — B. S. Howard has 

 begun business here as a florist. Part 

 of his greenhouse space will be used 

 for the growing of vegetables. 



Yonkers, N. Y. — ^Victor Kozubofif, for- 

 merly in business at Ogdensburg, N. Y., 

 has entered into partnership with Emil 

 Yedowitz, at Mile Square road and 

 Trenchard street, is this city. 



Springfield, N. J. — Greenhouses are 

 being erected by the Dod Contracting 

 Co, in the rear of the property of Dr. 

 Henry P. Dengler, on Morris avenue. 

 The houses t»«iH be used by J. L. Adams, 

 of Newark, who will grow stock for the 

 market. It will be two or three months, 

 however, before the buildings will be 

 completed. 



New Bedford, Mass. — "Wm. E. Mosher 

 has offered the New Bedford Horti- 

 cultural Society 1,500 to 1,800 flower 

 plants of various kinds for the school 

 children who are interested in the home 

 garden work. The children were di- 

 rected to call at the greenhouses on 

 Hillman street and receive the plants. 

 Mr. Mosher also gave away about 800 

 plants for the same purpose last year. 



Lewiston, Me. — Adelard Provencher, 

 employed by Ernest Saunders on a 

 farm at Greene, is reported to have com- 

 mitted suicide. His body was found 

 hanging in a w«edshed on the morning 

 of July 24. It is supposed that he had 

 become insane as the result of two 

 years of despondency, following the 

 loss of his home and the death of his 

 wife. Mr. Saunders had recently pur- 

 chased the farm and had placed the 

 Provencher family on it for the sum- 

 mer. 



Junction City, Kan. — E. F. Walter & 

 Son say that business this year has 

 been good, showing a highly satisfac- 

 tory increase. They report that a hail 

 storm in the first part of June smashed 

 nearly all of their glass, leaving not 

 more than about twenty square feet 

 unbroken in a total area of nearly 13,- 

 000 square feet. A fine crop of toma- 

 toes and other stock were also de- 

 stroyed. Thomas Keeshan & Son, of 

 the Junction City Floral Co., also lost 

 nearly all of their glass. The glass of 

 both firms, however, was fully insured. 



Oalion, O. — Charles J. Tracht reports 

 that late in the afternoon of July 30 the 

 vegetation in this vicinity was seri- 

 ously damaged by a hail storm. Though 

 the hail stones were not enormously 

 large, they fell with such force that 

 most of the field plants, except the car- 

 nations, were either stripped of their 

 leaves or beaten to the earth, and even 

 the carnations were badly battered. Mr. 

 Tracht lost about two-thirds of his glass. 

 The greenhouses of J. A. Farnworth & 

 Son, not being so directly in the path 

 of the storm, escaped with leas damage. 



Bloomington, HI. — Arthur J. Graves, 

 of the Maplewood Greenhouses, which 

 are located at the entrance of the 

 Bloomington cemetery, is erecting an- 

 other house. 



Oshkosh, Wis. — Miss Alma Schultz, 

 employed at the greenhouses of William 

 Otto, was painfully injured recently 

 while attempting to step from a rap- 

 idly moving interurban car. 



Cleveland, O. — The peony farm of 

 Frank S. Seither, on Bosworth road, 

 was visited recently by a party con- 

 sisting of Public Service Director 

 Spiingbbrn, City Forester Boddy, Su- 

 perintendent Alber of the park depart- 

 ment, and members of the city council. 

 The park commissioners are planning 

 to make a peony farm a feature of the 

 city park system next spring. 



Aberdeen, Miss. — The Aberdeen 

 Floral Co. has been in business here for 

 only a few months, but has already 

 established a good trade and is now 

 building three large greenhouses, with 

 the intention of growing stock for the 

 wholesale market. George F. Grennor, 

 of Cincinnati, has been engaged as 

 grower and will have charge of the 

 greenhouses. J. R. Young is proprietor. 



Council Bluffs, la. — Good progress is 

 being made in the erection of the new 

 range of greenhouses for J. F. Wilcox 

 & Sons, near Manawa. About fifty men 

 are engaged in the work. The big con- 

 crete chimney, which is to be on the 

 same order as the one at the Broadway 

 pumping station, although some twenty 

 feet higher, is fast nearing completion. 

 The manager's cottage is being erected 

 near the street car tracks and will be 

 quite an attractive residence. 



Lewiston, Me. — During the last win- 

 ter J. E. Taylor built a greenhouse at 

 his home in South Lewiston, and he was 

 quite successful in the growing and 

 marketing of early vegetables. Then 

 he tried his skill in aster growing, with 

 equally satisfactory results. Now he is 

 Xtlanning to improve and enlarge his 

 greenhouse and increase the scope of 

 his business. He is a conductor on a 

 local railway line, and the florists' 

 business, so far, is only one of several 

 side lines in which he expends his sur- 

 plus energies. 



Young8to\ra, O. — Fisher & Bjurklund, 

 on the Boardman road near the town- 

 ship line, are preparing to make ex- 

 tensive additions to their range. The 

 foundations are being constructed for 

 one new greenhouse, 30x300. When this 

 is finished, the present houses, each 150 

 feet long, will be extended to the same 

 length as the new house. A packing 

 cellar, where flowers may be held for 

 shipment, is also included in the plans. 

 With these enlargements, this firm's 

 range will be one of the biggest and 

 best in this part of the state. 



Saginaw, Mich. — Desner & Fisher 

 have placed an order with the John C. 

 Moninger Co., Chicago, for the mate- 

 rials for another greenhouse. 



Johnson C|ty, Tenn. — Gunnar Teil- 

 mann, proprietor of the Johnson City 

 Floral Co., who made a reputation as a 

 grower of early Monrovia, says that 

 this year he cut Golden Glow five to 

 six inches across August 1. All mums 

 are early with him this year. 



Chillicothe, O. — The property of the 

 Chillicothe Floral Co., as a goiag con- 

 cern, will be sold at public auction 

 Tuesday, August 20. There are seven 

 greenhouses in the range. Chas. A. John- 

 son, the proprietor, hae been highly 

 successful, but wishes *• remove to the 

 west on account of his wife's health. 



Evansville, Ind. — Julius Niednagel is 

 constructing, on his property at 927 

 Lincoln avenue, a home that will be a 

 credit to the florists' trade and a fine 

 object lesson to other prosperous resi- 

 dents of the town. The ten-room white 

 stucco house that he is erecting, in the 

 German renaissance style of architec- 

 ture, will cost $7,000, but the lawns and 

 gardens will represent a much larger 

 investment and will, it is said, be easily 

 the prettiest home grounds in the city. 

 The lot is 600 feet square and Mr. Nied- 

 nagel himself will superintend the park- 

 ing of it. A few greenhouses will be 

 grouped in the rear. 



Miami, Fla. — J. W. Warner, manager 

 of the Miami Floral Co., reports that 

 the firm has just installed a Skinner 

 system of irrigation throughout the 

 grounds. An order has also been placed 

 for the materials for one greenhouse. 

 It will be an iron-frame house, with 

 concrete foundations, and another house 

 of the same constructiom will also be 

 erected before long. Mr. Warner be- 

 lieves that these will be the first houses 

 of that type south of Jacksonville. 

 The firm has also contracted for ten 

 acres of additional land, to be used not 

 only for flowers, but also for nursery 

 stock. The nursery department has 

 recently been added. 



MUford, N. H.— Eev. Francis W. 

 Holden, pastor of a church here, has » 

 greenhouse at his home just outside of 

 the village, and grows vegetables and 

 flowering plants for the market. This 

 work in the florists* line, however, is 

 only one of his many activities. He is 

 a member of the local Grange and par- 

 ticipates helpfully in the discussion of 

 issues connected with that body; he 

 was chiefly instrumental in organizing 

 a company of farmers who built an 

 $8,000 creamery and elected him as 

 president; he is prominent in educa- 

 tional work and in benevolent work of 

 a really practical character. He is re- 

 ferred to as "the minister who does 

 things. ' ' 



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