June 23, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



15 



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Martins Ferry, O.— Jack Beck has 

 o|ii'necl a branch store in the room ad- 

 i(jining Balston & Parker's drug store. 



Peoria, 111. — James C. Murray has re- 

 iiHived from his store on Main street 

 and is now well established at his new 

 liication, 302 Fulton street. 



Portland, Ore. — J. G. Bacher is man- 

 ager of the Swiss Floral Co. The land- 

 scape department is in charge of Charles 

 Welty and H. Graf. 



Monongahela, Pa. — The 1. Shelby 

 (rail Co. has let the contract for a 

 new Lord & Burnham semi-iron green- 

 house, 40x100 feet. 



St. Paul, Minn. — Holm & Olson have 

 l)i'gun the erection of eight greenhouses, 

 at Duke and Pleasant streets. Five 

 of the new houses will be 22x98, two of 

 them 17x97 and one 9x124. 



Ironwood, Mich. — B. Lutey, proprie- 

 tor of the Ironwood Greenhouses, says 

 business last season was the best ever, 

 aii(! is now busy building two more 

 greenhouses. 



Guanajay, Cuba. — Arthur Brant, who 

 has been superintendent of the plant 

 growing- department of the Cuba and U. 

 y. Fruit and Nursery Co., has returned 

 to the United States. 



The Dalles, Ore. — The first year's 

 liiisiness at the Jewell Greenhouses has 

 t!ir exceeded the expectations of the 

 I'ldprietor. Memorial day trade was es- 

 iHcially satisfactory, with the demand 

 t'liliy equal to the supply. 



Macomb, IlL — At Bonham's flower 

 xtore there recently was a display of 

 1' '1 varieties of peony blooms. The ex- 

 "liiitor was Charles Wettengel, of Em- 

 ii!i tt township, who has an extremely 

 l"tce collection. 



Ouyahoga Falls, O.— O. C. Barber, the 

 "iiMionaire match manufacturer, is 

 'ii^i tiding eleven greenhouses, each 30x 

 l''i. which are intended as the begin- 

 "I ij? of a range which may eventually 

 '•"'er about fifty acres of his model 

 f.'.nn. ^ 



Muskogee, Okla.— W. H. Mitchell, for- 

 "' ily connected with Shaw's Gardens, 

 ^^ ^t. Louis, Mo., has charge of the new 

 Ki'onhouse which has just been com- 

 I'l'ted at Hyde park and which is said 

 I'' be one of the largest houses of the 

 •^I'ld in eastern Oklahoma. 



Wilkesbarre, Pa. — Ira J. Marvin, who 

 "I'<'ned a branch wholesale store last 

 ^■'nter in Scranton, Pa., is now also 

 Prpeting a small greenhouse in that city, 

 iff is building the greenhouse at North 

 ^•firfield avenue and West Gibson street, 

 •'PI'osite the main entrance to Cathedral 

 •^^'-inetery. 



Pomfret, Conn. — A greenhouse is be- 

 ing built on Kathlin Farm, the estate of 

 Mrs. George Bradley. 



Lawrence, Mass. — E. W. Blair is erect 

 ing a greenhouse on Lowell street, be- 

 tween Warren and Milton streets. 



Fiqua, O. — Ira Carpenter has pur- 

 chased an interest in the business of 

 W. F. Frisch, and the firm name will 

 be Frisch & Carpenter. 



Dallas, Tex.— The Lang Floral & 

 Nursery Co. has been incorporated, with 

 a capital stock of $46,000, by Otto Lang, 

 W. W. Robinson and A. B. Mayhew. 



South Sudbury, Mass. — Howard C. 

 Burr has sold his greenhouses to Fred 

 N. Eaton, who will take them down and 

 rebuild them near his present houses. 



Pittsburg, Kan. — J. C. Steinhauser is 

 improving and enlarging his range, on 

 South Broadway. The new buildings 

 will include a rose house, two carnation 

 houses, a lettuce house and a brick 

 boiler room. 



Dixon, 111.— C. H. Fallstrom, of the 

 Dixon Flower Shop, invited the public 

 to a special exhibit of flowers at his 

 store June 14. The display was a fine 

 one, especially in the line of peonies, 

 iris and oriental poppies. 



Springfield, HI. — The contract has 

 been let for the remodeling of the store 

 occupied by A. C. Brown, at 217 South 

 Fifth street. A new front and display 

 window will be constructed and other 

 improvements will be made. 



Webster City, la. — James Follett, in 

 the south part of the city, is building 

 another greenhouse, 30x60, and expects 

 to begin work on a second addition 

 soon. Still other improvements will be 

 made, at a total cost of several thou- 

 sands of dollars. His trade is steadily 

 increasing. 



Marysville, Cal. — The Marysville 

 Flower & Seed Store, conducted for sev- 

 eral months by J. W. Evans, has been 

 closed, at least for the summer season, 

 when the abundance of outdoor flowers 

 here makes business somewhat dull. Mr. 

 Evans decided to return to Sacramento 

 and all his stock has been shipped, but 

 it is possible that he may open a store 

 here again later in the year. 



Canon City, Colo. — J. T. Calvert, a 

 successful vegetable grower in the Hot 

 Springs district, has let a contract for 

 a $5,000 greenhouse. D. E. Goodnight, 

 in the same locality, is arranging to 

 cover an acre of ground with canvas, 

 in order to produce early vegetables. 

 Last year Mr. Calvert realized $1,000 

 an acre from celery grown in the open 

 and sold $8,500 worth of vegetables 

 from his ranch. 



Waverley, Mass. — Edgar Bros, are 

 building another greenhouse on their 

 farm. 



Highland Park, 111. — George Collins, 

 formerly of Eavinia, 111., has started 

 business here on his own account. 



Cleveland, O.— The Ohio Floral Co. 

 has reduced its capital stock from $50,- 

 000 to $10,000. 



Newton, Kan. — Fritz Hasler is now 

 thf^ sole owner of the business formerly 

 conducted under the name of Hasler & 

 Hasselmann. 



Glenside, Pa. — Victor Roekens, of the 

 Edgewood Greenhouses, is building an 

 addition which doubles the width of 

 one of his greenhouses. He will also 

 install a new horizontal boiler this sum- 

 mer. 



Dayton, O. — Harry Tredway is build- 

 ing another house. The spring of this 

 year, he says, has been a banner season 

 for him, and he sold everything out so 

 completely that he will be obliged to 

 buy most of his stock plants. 



Bockford, 111. — It was recently re 

 ported that Wm. (J. Rowley, a florist 

 whose mother lives here, had disap- 

 peared and his mother was anxious to 

 have him located. He left Fort Russell, 

 Wyo., March 31, and was later sup- 

 posed to be in Denver. 



Belay, Md. — J. A. Bryne, of this place, 

 began in the first part of June his an- 

 nual work of laying out and planting 

 the beds at various stations on the 

 Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He has 

 been attending to this work since 1898, 

 making yearly calls at about forty-five 

 different stations. 



Newton Falls, O.— C. E. Tinker, for- 

 merly of Garrettsville, O., has moved 

 his greenhouses to this place and is also 

 bulding another house, 28x100, of the 

 Lord & Burnham semi-iron construc- 

 tion. His trade this season has been 

 the best he has experienced since en- 

 tering the business. 



Halifax, Mass.— A field of rhubarb 

 belonging to the Halifax Garden Co. 

 was considerably damaged by a recent 

 storm. Superintendent W. E. Lenk says 

 he is glad to report, however, that only 

 a few panes of glass were broken in 

 the greenhouses. Business is good, with 

 a heavy demand for rhubarb and cu- 

 cumbers. 



North Abington, Mass. — Tt was stated 

 that the selectmen would ofifer a reward 

 for the arrest of the persons who de- 

 stroyed a large quantity of valuable 

 shrubs at the Bay State Nurseries, as re- 

 ported recently in The Review. Private 

 citizens also expressed their willingness 

 to add to the reward, in the hope that 

 the offenders might he caught. 



