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The Rorists^ Review 



SaPTBiiBal2, 1912. 



SPBINQFIEIJ), O. 



Club Meeting. 



The regular September meeting of the 

 Springfield Florists' Club was held 

 Monday evening, September 9, on the 

 lawn in front of the offices of the 

 Good & Beese Co., under ample light 

 from the lamps of President Binning 's 

 touring car. A nominating committee 

 was appointed, which submitted a ticket 

 with two names for each office, to be 

 balloted upon at the October meeting 

 of the club. 



The entertainment committee was in- 

 structed to provide suitable festivities 

 for the evening of the annual election. 

 This committee will be in somewhat of 

 a quandary in choosing between three 

 invitations, one from Ward Welsh to 

 enjoy a watermelon feast at his peony 

 farm at Mud Bun, another from the 

 Beeser Plant Co. to hold a banquet in 

 its potting shed, and a third from C. 

 Pearl Berthard to share in his con- 

 templated celebration when the city 

 turns over to him the generous amount 

 of cash awarded him by the appraisers 

 in condemnation proceedings which 

 took his Ferncliff Floral Co. plant for 

 park purposes. 



Various Notes. 



In the course of a brief visit to the 

 southern group of greenhouses in our 

 city the customary amount of repairs 

 and enlargements were noticed, active 

 preparations being in progress to com- 

 bat the attacks of Jack Frost during 

 the coming fall and winter. 



Kriegbaum & Campbell, operating 

 what is known as the Dutch Green- 

 house, have extended their shed 20x63 

 feet and are now erecting two houses, 

 each 30x110 feet, conforming in style 

 to their present houses. This concern 

 grows for the local wholesale trade and 

 has practically completed propagating 

 roses for this season. 



Gustavo Schneider has razed the 

 older houses which were obtained in the 

 original purchase from P. J. Agnew 

 and is preparing to cover the space 

 with new houses. Excavation for a 

 new boiler cellar is now in progress and 

 a new boiler will be installed. It is 

 understood that Mr. Schneider will 

 sever his connection with the houses 

 near Cleveland which he has operated 

 for several years and will confine his 

 attention exclusively to his business in 

 Springfield. 



Four new houses, each 21x150, which 

 were started last season, have been 

 completed by the American Eose & 

 Plant Co. and are among the most mod* 

 em in this section. Solid benches with 

 i-ement walls have just been finished 

 and the piping system is being installed 

 in a most approved fashion. A new 

 cellar, 20x50 feet, has been substan- 

 tially walled with concrete and a No. 

 14 Kroeschell boiler will be installed. 

 Perns arc tho specialty of this com- 

 pany. 



Four houses, each 20x100 feet, are 

 being rebuilt by the Good & Beese Co., 

 after having served them for twenty 

 years. Frank E. Good, the grower for 

 this company, reports the cutting of 

 rose wood for propagating purposes now 

 completed, but a considerable amount 

 of potting is yet to be done. 



The group of Springfield florists who 

 regularly spend a number of weeks at 

 Grand Lake, Mich., have recently re- 

 turned from their annual outing. The 



party included John M. and Frank E. 

 Good, Opha Jackson and Harry Beeser, 

 with their families; also Boger Murphey 

 and William Beeser, of Urbana. Harry 

 F. Good visited the same place a little 

 too early in the season and was driven 

 back by mosquitoes; ask him to relate 

 a mosquito story and the proverbial 

 "fish story" will sink into utter in- 

 significance. Ge Dale. 



ODIPIMNATI. 



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The Gateway to the South. 



September 9 the market cleaned up 

 in jig time, and more stock might pos- 

 sibly have been used. Before the week 

 is over, however, it probably will be 

 the old story: Cleaned up Monday, 

 heavy receipts Tuesday and an over- 

 crowding Wednesday that lasts until 

 the close of the week. It is to be hoped 

 that this week will prove a welcome ex- 

 ception. 



Last week, while business was a 

 trifle ragged at times, it showed an im- 

 provement. White asters and Easter 

 lilies were on the short side. Beauties, 

 too, cleaned up from day to day. The 

 other flowers offered were easUy ade- 

 quate for all demands. This is particu- 

 larly true of white and red roses. Only 

 the best of them sold, while pink fared 

 only a little better. In asters the fine 

 large blooms from New York state have 

 just started to come in strongly. They 

 proved a welcome addition and sold on 

 sight. There is plenty of smaller stock 

 in the colored varieties. Gladioli have 

 let up to such an extent that now the 

 supply and demand seem about equal. 

 Carnation cuts are beginning to in- 

 crease. The greens supply is ample. 

 Wild smilax is ready. 



Varlons Notes. 



The Florists ' Club 's meeting was well 

 attended September 9. The question of 

 the price for geraniums was thoroughly^ 

 handled in papers by Henry Schwartz, 

 B. Witterstaetter and Frank Dollar, 

 while President Adrian took a promi- 

 nent part in the discussion that took 

 place afterward. The matter was then 

 referred to a committee for preparation 

 for future discussion. The sentiment 

 locally seemed to be that growers are 

 not realizing propfer returns on this 

 stock. A letter from the New York 

 Florists' Club relative to publicity was 

 referred to a committee. 



The Cincinnati Cut Flower Exchange 

 had been in existence just one year 

 September 9. The year's business has 

 exceeded the plans and hopes of Alex. 

 Ostendarp and A. C. Heckman, Jr. 



Frank Schumann, of Delhi, has been 

 sending good dahlias and cosmos to L. 

 H. Kyrk. 



Mr. and Mrs. Gus Adrian, Mr. and 

 Mrs. Max Budolph and Wm. Gear have 

 returned from the Chenaux Islands. Mr. 

 Budolph reports a warm day while 

 there, on which the temperature reached 

 almost to 70 degrees. 



Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Gillett and daugh- 

 ter have returned from Traverse City, 

 while C. J. Ohmer came back from 

 Dayton, O., about the same time. 



Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Critchell, who 

 took the trip up the Hudson and up the 

 St. Lawrence to the Thousand Islands, 

 cut short their trip and returned home 

 because of the cool weather. 



Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Kyrk's twenty- 

 seventh wedding anniversary was Sep- 

 tember 9. 



At Wm. Murphy 's it is said that Sep- 

 tember business has made a good start 

 in spite of the heat. 



P. J. Olinger went to Muncie and 

 New Castle, Ind., last week. 



Callers: Wm. Lodder. Hamilton, O.; 

 Jos. E. H. Morichard, or the 8. S. Peo- 

 nock-Meehan Co., Philadelphia; Wm. 

 Nolan, of Herms Floral Co., Porte 

 mouth, O. 0. H. H. 



GRAND BAPIDS, MIOH. 



, GreenhoTise Plants Sold. | 



Negotiations are practically clbsed 

 for the purchase of the properties of 

 the Grand Eapids Greenhouse Co. by 

 Beed & Cheney, who will organize a 

 company to continue the business. The 

 greenhouse company has been in the 

 hands of William H. Gilbert, as re- 

 ceiver, since early in the year and the 

 sale will be subject to the approval of 

 the Kent Circuit court. 



The Grand Bapids Greenhouse Co. 

 was organized in the 8prin|; of 1908 

 and represented a consolidation of the 

 successful greenhouses conducted by 

 Frank M. Strong, Samuel J. Perry, Ed- 

 ward E. Taylor and Frank J. Cook, and 

 later M. B. Stover put in his property. 

 The company was capitalized at $300,- 

 000 common stock, with $175,000 sub- 

 scribed and paid in in projwrty, and 

 $200,000 preferred stock with $125,000 

 subs-ribed and paid in in property. In 

 addition there was a bond issue of 

 $100,000 to provide working capital. 

 The financing was done by Edward M. 

 Deane & Co. The company rebuilt the 

 plants taken over and made many im- 

 provements. It specialized in lettuce, 

 radishes, tomatoes and cucumbers, with 

 some flowers, but a succession of un- 

 favorable seasons and other causes 

 stood in the way of sueeess. The re- 

 ceivership was created in January, to 

 conserve the interest of the creditors in 

 the crops then growing. 



The properties held by the company 

 and which will be taken over by Eeed 

 & Cheney include five acres on Burton 

 avenue, just inside the city limits; nine 

 acres on Madison, eight on Alger and 

 twenty on South Division, just south of 

 the city limits, a total of forty-two 

 acres. On each property are extensive 

 greenhouses, with a total spread of 

 about 225,000 square feet of glass, the 

 largest glass area under one control in 

 the state. The largest plant is on Mad- 

 ison, where a single greenhouse covers 

 more than an acre. 



Charles L. Beed and H. J. Cheney, the 

 prospective purchasers of the property, 

 are well known in commission circles, 

 with offices and warehouse on Market 

 avenue near the railroad. Mr. Beed for- 

 merly was of Maynard & Beed and has 

 been engaged all his life in the com- 

 mission business and has had a large 

 experience in the greenhouse business 

 as well. Mr. Cheney was with H. F. 

 Hastings for several years in the com- 

 mission business and later with the 

 Clark, Jewell & Wells Co., wholesale 

 grocers. Beed & Cheney began busi- 

 ness as partners five years ago and last 

 year incorporated. They have been 

 selling agents for the Grand Bapids 

 Growers' Association for three years 

 and have been successful in marketing 

 this city's extensive greenhouse winter 

 crops. 



Various Notes. 

 Gee! but it's "not; no rain for over 



