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SBPTBltBBB 12, 1912. 



The Florists' Review 



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New Houses 60x1000 Feet Built for J. F. Wilcox & Sons, Council Bluffs, lowa. 



THOUSAin) FOOT HOUSES. 



Among the largest greenhouses ever 

 "built are thdse recently completed for 

 J. F. Wilcox & Sons, at Council Bluffs, 

 la. There are two houses, each 60x1,000 

 feet, covering an area of 120,000 square 

 feet of ground. These houses rival in 

 flize the big ranges built by the same 

 Hconcern, the King Construction Co., for 

 Henry A. Dreer, Inc., at Riverton, N. J., 

 ■comprising twenty houses 21x203 feet, 

 and the Florex Gardens, at North 

 Wales, Pa., covering 120,400 square feet. 

 A feature of special interest is the fact 

 that while the house shown in the fore- 

 ground in the accompanying illustra- 

 tion was blown down by a hurricane, 

 the adjoining house, only twenty-five 

 feet away, was not harmed. The acci- 

 dent occurred at 6 p. m. July 31 and 

 this photograph was taken August 13, 

 just ten working days later. 



PBOVIDENOE. 



Tlie Market. 



There has been no change in the mar- 

 ket situation during the last week, and 

 no improvement is to be expected until 

 the frost completely kills all outdoor 

 blooms. There is an abundance of as- 

 ters and roses, but the call is so small 

 that prices are below normal. Funeral 

 work continues to be the only feature 

 that maintains any standing whatever. 

 All of the growers are now busy bench- 

 ing their stock and, generally speaking, 

 "the stock is looking better than in sev- 

 eral years. Good crops are expected 

 during the coming months. 



Various Notes. 



Included in the appropriations recom- 

 mended by the city council committee 

 ■on finance for the maintenance of the 

 various municipal departments of Prov- 

 idence for the year 1913 are the follow- 

 ing: Public parks, general account, 

 $23,000; Roger Williams park, $64,500; 

 payment on park loans, $53,990, and 

 for museum at Roger Williams park, 

 $6,200; office of public parks, $4,500. 

 The forestry department has an appro- 

 priation of $15,000. 



Giles 8. Congdon furnished the dec- 

 orations for the church and house at 

 the Rishe-Macauley wedding at Bristol. 



Peter 8. Byrnes, of Wickford, had 

 several large wedding and reception 

 decorations at Narragansett Pier and 



Watch Hill during the closing week of 

 the season. 



L. J. O'Connor, son of Timothy 

 O'Connor, has been given $100,000 by 

 the will of his grandfather, James Han- 

 ley, the wealthy brewer of this city, 

 who died last week. 



John W. Gibson, of Gibson Bros., 

 Newport, has been confined to his house 

 for more than a fortnight by a severe 

 attack of bronchial trouble, but is re- 

 ported as improving. 



George A. Stillman, of Westerly, was 

 one of the largest exhibitors of dahlias 

 at the Connecticut State Fair at Hart- 

 ford last week. 



Charles Johnston, of Rochambeau 

 avenue, is reported as having slightly 

 recovered from his recent serious at- 

 tack of rheumatism. 



Albert Holscher is bringing in the 

 first white chrysanthemums, Sniiith's 

 Advance, which find ready sale at $3 

 per dozen retail. He is also cutting 

 grand pink and white asters. 



E. B. Hopkins, with W. S. Pino, has 

 returned from a six weeks' vacation, 

 which he spent down in Maine. H. C. 

 Neubrand, with the same firm, has also 

 returned from a vacation trip to his 

 old home in western New York. 



Henry M. Wilson, the Newport nur- 

 seryman, who has been ill since last 

 spring, is showing a slight improve- 

 ment. 



Charles Smith, with Joseph Kopel- 

 man, had a narrow escape from serious 

 injury a few days ago. He was doing 

 some work at Mr. Kopelman 's farm in 

 Oaklawn, when he fell a distance of 

 about twenty-five feet, shaking himself 

 up badly, but, fortunately, without 

 breaking any bones. 



The Florists' and Gardeners' Club 

 of Rhode Island will hold its first meet- 

 ing since the summer adjournment on 

 Monday evening, September 16. 



Mrs. L. Foster, of Woonsooket, who 

 has been ill of pneumonia for several 

 weeks, is convalescing. 



Frank Jancek is erecting another 

 greenhouse, 16x85, at his place in 

 Jamestown, for violets and early veg- 

 etables. 



The Foley Mfg. Co., of Chicago, is 

 putting up the new house for Joseph 

 Kopelman at his range at Oaklawn, in- 

 stead of the King Construction Co., as 

 previously announced. It is 30x200. 



The funeral of James Hanley, one 

 of the principal brewers of this city, 

 called for an unusually large number 



of floral pieces. The work was well 

 distributed. T. J. Johnston & Co., .Jo- 

 seph Kopelman, Thomas Curley, M. 

 Macnair, Lawrence Hay, J. B. Canning, 

 Eugene McCarron and the Shepard Co. 

 furnished several pieces leach. The 

 bulk of the work was by T. O'Connor 

 and Johnston Bros. 



Mrs. William Butcher, of 38 Pitman 

 street, arrived home a few days ago 

 from a visit to England, France, Bel- 

 gium and Holland. 



Miss Annie O'Connor, with Johnston 

 Bros., on Dorrance street, was in New 

 York last week on her vacation. 



Richard Higgins is putting up an- 

 other house, 30x120, on his premises on 

 Academy avenue. 



Frederick C. Covill, manager of the 

 flower department of the Shepard Co., 

 has returned from a two weeks' vaca- 

 tion at Boston and Cape Cod. 



Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape 

 architect of Boston, was in Newport 

 September 5, on invitation of the New- 

 port Improvement Society, to make rec- 

 ommendations for the possible improve- 

 ment of the city. 



Charles Hunt, of Burnside street, 

 was one of the party that went on the 

 ten days' excursion of the Providence 

 Veteran Firemen 's Association, Septem- 

 ber 5, to Buffalo, N. Y., and Wilkes- 

 barre, Allentown and Reading, Pa. 



Eric Bonevier, manager for Mrs. 

 Butcher, has returned from an auto- 

 mobile trip to Cape Cod and southeast- 

 ern Massachusetts. 



Samuel Resnick, with J. Kopelman, 

 has been off duty for several days on 

 account of blood poisoning resulting 

 from a rose thorn in the ball of his 

 right thumb. W. H. M. 



Middletown, O.— N. O. Selby, suc- 

 cessor to H. Behrens, Sr., has installed 

 a new boiler and is making other im- 

 provements. Business is increasing 

 steadily, both wholesale and retail. He 

 notes that much mail goes astray, being 

 addressed to Middletown, Conn., instead 

 of Middletown, O. 



Saginaw, Mich.— The Wm. Roethke 

 Floral Co. has torn down the old show 

 house, at South Washington avenue and 

 Hayden street, and will erect in its 

 place a modern iron-frame house, with 

 first-class facilities for the display of 

 stock. The firm 's range of greenhouses 

 on Gratiot avenue is said to be the 

 largest in the state. 



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