June 30, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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READERS ARE INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE ITEMS FOR THIS DEPARTMENT. 



Woodstock, Vt. — F. S. Mackenzie and 

 his greenhouse man, John Morris, at- 

 tended the great orchid show at Boston. 



Southington, Conn. — Olson & Lunden 

 have sold their Buckland street green- 

 houses to William Fischer. 



Fulton, 111. — The greenhouses now 

 conducted here by Hills Bros. & Kir- 

 man are among the largest in this 

 vicinity. 



Dows, la. — Shaffer & Larson, who 

 have been handling plants and nursery 

 stock for some years, are now build- 

 ing ^ greenhouse. 



North Abington, Mass. — Wm. H. Kec- 

 ords, foreman at the Bay State Nurs- 

 eries, and Miss Eosalie Hastings were 

 married recently at the home of the 

 bride, in Berlin, Md. 



North Adams, Mass. — August Schmutz 

 is a specialist on standard grown gera- 

 niums, fuchsias, heliotropes and Ian- 

 tanas. Many specimens find their way 

 to the fine Lenox gardens, at from 

 $3.50 to $5 each. 



Salt Lake City, Utah.— William Wil- 

 son and D. E. Law, who for some months 

 have been the owners and managers of 

 the Salt Lake Floral Co., at 1950 State 

 street, have dissolved partnership. The 

 business will be continued by Mr. Wil- 

 son. 



Indianapolis, Ind. — Much good work 

 was done by Baur & Smith and by E. A. 

 Nelson in preparing the grounds for 

 this season's opening of the Summer 

 Mission for Sick Children. Numerous 

 flower boxes were placed and filled and 

 the grounds were completely trans- 

 formed. Both firms contributed their 

 services and the plants used. 



Missoula, Mont. — Chas. F. Dallman, 

 of the Missoula Nursery Co., is erect- 

 ing greenhouses which will double 

 his area of glass. The additions in- 

 clude a rose house. New boilers have 

 been installed and the work of con- 

 struction is of a most substantial na- 

 ture, including concrete benches. Mr. 

 Dallman expresses the hope that these 

 enlarged facilities will enable him to 

 meet the increasing demand. 



Oreat Neck, N. Y. — Warren H. Man- 

 ning, Boston landscape gardener, has 

 been engaged by G. L. Stone, also of 

 that city, to lay out Mr. Stone's newly 

 acquired estate out here. Mr. Stone is 

 a banker and broker, and a member of 

 the firm of Hayden & Stone. His plans 

 for the improvement of the Great Neck 

 property are magnificent in their scope. 

 H. C. Flint has been appointed super- 

 intendent of the estate and charged 

 with the responsibility of carrying out 

 Mr. Manning's plans. 



South Braintree, Mass. — Edward T. 

 Newcomb has had first-class business 

 so far this season. 



Allentown, Pa. — John H. Sykes, at 

 Tenth and Wyoming streets, is plan- 

 ning to build another greenhouse. 



Benton Harbor, Mich. — F. L. Torn- 

 quist has had an excellent spring season 

 and is figuring on adding to his glass 

 during the summer. 



Bome, N. Y. — Mothers ' day was quite 

 generally observed in this city, and 

 there was a large increase in the sale 

 of flowers, especially white carnations. 



Dubuque, la. — W. A. Harkett, at 

 Ninth and Main streets, has one of the 

 best arranged and furnished stores to 

 be found in cities of equal size and has 

 had a fine spring business. June has 

 been especially good. 



WalUngford, Conn.— The Rowden & 

 Mitchell Co. has invested in a horse- 

 less machine and claims that, as an 

 advertisement alone, it has already 

 paid for itself. They are spreading out, 

 but do not expect to put up more glass 

 this season. 



Petersburg, Va. — The Arrowfield Nur- 

 sery Co. has been incorporated, with a 

 capital of $2,500 to $25,000, for the 

 purpose of carrying on a florists' busi- 

 ness. W. N. Roper is president; Editli 

 M. Hutt, vice-president; W. N. Hutt, 

 secretary and treasurer. 



Orange, N. J. — The New Jersey Flori- 

 cultural Society has issued the premium 

 list for its fifth annual dahlia show, to 

 be held at Lindsley ban, on Main street, 

 in this city, October 1. The officers of 

 the society are: President, Albert F. 

 Larson; vice-president, Dietrich Kinds- 

 gral; secretary, Wm. Reid, 363 Center 

 street, Orange, N. J.; treasurer, Walter 

 Gray. 



Albion, Mich.— H. F. Dew has de- 

 veloped and placed on the market a 

 strawberry which he believes to be the 

 largest, most luscious, and in every 

 way the nearest to perfection in the 

 whole strawberry list, and he has ap 

 propriately named it the Dewdrop. In 

 his efforts to evolve this ideal product 

 his first encouraging result, he says, 

 was a fruit which had the desirable 

 size but lacked the requisite fragrance 

 and flavor. In order to obtain these 

 qualities, he found a wild berry which 

 undoubtedly possessed them, and with 

 this wild fruit he fertilized the old 

 stock. Then, after a series of care- 

 ful annual selections during a period 

 of seven years, his experiments culmi- 

 nated in the Dewdrop, concerning 

 which, it is said, he has just reason 

 to be enthusiastic. 



Seattle, Wash. — Sam Graff is visiting 

 at his former home in Chicago. 



Fort Wayne, Ind.— W. J. & M. S. 



Vescy are planning to go rather ex- 

 tensively into the growing of orchids 

 for cutting. 



Chicopee Falls, Mass. — Frank Burfitt 

 has put in a busy time planting by day 

 tind making design work at night. His 

 side partner is a clever artist. 



Tjrrone, Pa. — Wm. H. Brause is build- 

 ing another greenhouse this summer. He 

 had a heavy spring trade, which cleaned 

 out all available stock. 



Kensington, P. E. I. — A. W. Gardiner, 

 formerly in business as a grower and 

 importer at Springfield, Mass., has re- 

 moved to this place. 



Buffalo, N. Y.— The Buffalo Cement 

 Co. will add one iron-frame house, 

 30x120 feet, to its present range at 

 Main and Amherst streets. The King 

 Construction Co. will furnish the ma- 

 terial. 



Eochester, N. Y. — Ellwanger & Barry 

 invited the public to inspect their 

 grounds during the peony season and 

 again while the roses were in bloom, 

 with the result that they had large 

 numbers of visitors and received a fine 

 write-up in one of the local papers. 



Hartford, Conn. — John Coombs says 

 the demand for bedding stock was phe- 

 nomenal this season. S. A. Nutt is the 

 most popular geranium; everyone want- 

 ed red. His stock looks fine. That $10,- 

 000 carnation house has paid a big in- 

 terest, although the first crop was 

 ruined by gas. Aphine will be used ^h£ 

 its place. V^ 



Melrose, Mass. — The annual rose 

 show of the Melrose Horticultural and 

 Improvement Society, which was held 

 June 19 in Hawthorne hall, proved so 

 great a success that it was decided to 

 continue it on the following day and 

 to throw the doors open to the public. 

 This was done and the attendance sur- 

 passed anything in the history of the 

 organization. All of the exhibitors 

 were amateurs. 



Salt Lake City, Utah.— The Salt 

 Lake Floral Co. has been sending in 

 unusually heavy cuts of roses, carna- 

 tions and peonies and the quality has 

 been fine. Judging from the number 

 of houses now being built and pro- 

 jected here, it seems quite likely that 

 this city will soon be shipping roses to 

 Denver and even to more distant mar- 

 kets. The demand for flowers here 

 and in neighboring towns, for school 

 graduations and other purposes, has 

 been heavy and the retailers are well 

 satisfied with results. 



