August 25, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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Groton, Mass. — H. Huebner was con- 

 fined to his home for several weeks 

 with rheumatism. 



Superior, Wis. — F. H. Eockwood is 

 adding one more house to his range at 

 2419 Elmira avenue. 



Bar Harbor, Me. — Frederick H. Moses 

 was recently reported to be seriously ill 

 and under the constant care of a physi- 

 cian. 



Independence, Kan. — Chris Schmidt 

 has begun business here as a florist, 

 at the corner of Eighth and Sycamore 

 streets. 



Tyler, Tex. — This year has been a 

 prosperous one for James Whitten, in 

 spite of the backward spring. Trade 

 has been so good that it has almost 

 cleaned out his stock of plants. 



Portsmouth, O. — The store of the 

 Herms Floral Co., at the Majestic The- 

 ater corner, was recently entered by 

 burglars and robbed of $55. The thieves 

 gained an entrance through the roof, 

 which they reached from the theater, 



Evansville, Ind. — Part of the green- . 

 houses of Julius Niednagel & Sons are 

 directly in the path of a proposed ex- 

 tension of Bell street, and a member of 

 the firm recently appeared before the 

 Board of Works to plead for delay in 

 the opening of the street, as the moving 

 of the greenhouses just at present would 

 be attended with great expense. 



Charlevoix, Mich. — B. B. Blair now 

 has his hands full in taking care of the 

 summer trade in this favorite holiday 

 resort. His spring plant trade was a 

 record-breaker. Field carnations, he 

 says, suffered from the drought in July, 

 but made rapid growth later. Sweet 

 peas were not up to the usual northern 

 Michigan standard, but asters are fine. 



Lake Linden, Mich. — The three green- 

 houses which are being erected here for 

 the Pearce Hardware & Furniture Co. 

 are nearly completed. The boiler house 

 has been finished and the boiler has 

 been installed. Owing to the large 

 flower trade which the Pearce company 

 has already established here, there will 

 be a ready sale for the output of the 

 new houses. 



New Castle, Ind. — William Dittmann 

 recently returned from three weeks' 

 fishing at Lake Manitou and has 

 brought with him a big bucket of bass. 

 He says he had the best time of his 

 life. His Beauties are in extra fine 

 condition, with prospects for the best 

 year since he has been in business. He 

 has all two-year-old stock planted over 

 and will begin cutting in about ten 

 days or two weeks/ with good stems. 

 Mr. Dittmann and wife plan to m^ke 

 a trip to Cuba and Porto Rica late this 

 fall. 



Independence, Mo. — S. B. Ayres finds 

 business ahead of his facilities and re- 

 cently has been at Chicago buying ma- 

 terial for another house. 



Morrison, 111. — The directors of the 

 B. E. Davis Co., recently incorporated, 

 have elected the following officers : 

 Presidfent, E. R. Davis; vice-president 

 and treasurer, J. W. Steinerj secretary, 

 Frank Davis. 



Kalamazoo, Mich. — The office of 

 James Fraser, proprietor of the green- 

 houses at the Mountain Home ceme- 

 tery, was recently burglarized twice 

 within the same week. The thieves se- 

 cured $40 in cash, besides some small 

 articles. 



Kennett Square, Pa — A greenhouse, 

 60x200, of the King materials, was 

 recently built here for Yeatman & 

 Way, and will be used for tomatoes and 

 mushrooms. Henry G. Miller, repre- 

 senting the King Construction Co., had 

 charge of the erection of the house. 



Farmington, Utah — The Miller Floral 

 Co. has completed its first rose 

 house, 45x300 feet, and expects soon 

 to build a house of similar dimensions 

 for carnations. The firm has already 

 planted 6,000 roses, which promise to 

 be in shape for producing a good fall 

 crop. 



South Bend, Ind. — Three tracts of 

 land, formerly the property of the South 

 Bend Floral Co., were recently sold at 

 public auction for a total consideration 

 of $3,780. This transaction practically 

 ended the affairs of the receivership of 

 the concern. Charles E. Campbell was 

 the receiver. 



Belvidere, 111.— B. Eldridge is making 

 extensive improvements at his green- 

 houses in Fairview. The changes in- 

 clude the erection of a concrete chim- 

 ney, fifty feet in height and thirty 

 inches in inside diameter. Mr. Eldridge 

 is planning, it is said, to grow large 

 quantities of roses and carnations for 

 the wholesale trade. 



Hartford, Conn. — At the funeral of F. 

 B. Edwards, a well-known druggist, one 

 of the most notable of the many floral 

 pieces was a large panel, made by Page 

 F. Potter, who has greenhouses at 232 

 Main street and a store at 653 Main 

 street. The panel was ordered by the 

 Druggists' Association of Hartford. 

 It was eight feet high and three and one- 

 half feet wide, and was mounted on an 

 easel. It was made of roses, sweet peas 

 •and carnations. At the top was a clock 

 dial, with the hands pointing to 9:40, the 

 hour at which Mr. Edwards died. Un- 

 derneath this was a druggist's pestle 

 and mortar. Surmounting al* was a long 

 silk ribbon hearing the inscription, 

 "The Sad Hour," 



Toledo, O. — The new range of Dietsch 

 construction, that is being built for 

 Miller Bros., is rapidly nearing comple- 

 tion. 



Rochester, N. Y.— B. S. Blake & Son 

 have been granted a patent on a new 

 lock ring clip which locks a string wire 

 to the plant stake. 



Cleveland, O. — A. A. Hart, the Lake 

 avenue florist, with his daughter Ger- 

 trude, sailed on the Cincinnati, July 16, 

 for Hamburg, for three months' travel 

 through Europe. 



Des Moines, la. — An awning on the 

 store of the Guthrie-Lorenz Co. was re- 

 cently torn from its fastenings by a 

 storm and hurled through the plate 

 glass show window. 



White Marsh, Md.— The fourth an- 

 nual dahlia show of R. Vincent, Jr., & 

 Sons Co., given in connection with the 

 harvest home festiv^ of Ebenezer 

 church, will be held September 26 to 29. 



Independence, Kan. — WUliam Hassel- 

 mann, formerly of the firm of Hasler &' 

 Hasselmann, at Newton, Kan., has re- 

 moved to this place and is erecting 

 three greenhouses, each 21x75, at Rail- 

 road and Tenth streets. He sold his 

 half interest in the Newton business 

 to his partner, F. Hasler. 



Nantucket, Mass. — H. H. Voorneveld, 

 proprietor of the Floralia Flower Store, 

 on Liberty street, is attracting atten- 

 tion here as a remarkably successful 

 grower of outdoor sweet peas, Canter- 

 bury bells and other flowers. His gar- 

 den contains a strikingly beautiful ar- 

 ray of sweet peas — whole hedges of 

 them, many of them over six feet high. 

 This town, Mr. Voorneveld says, is 

 steadily gaining in popularity as a sum- 

 mer resort and is becoming more at- 

 tractive each year, as the people give 

 increasing attention to horticulture. 



Faxton, HI. — In order to dispose of 

 a large stock of surplus carnations, 

 which otherwise would have been 

 dumped .on the rubbish heap, Addems, 

 Morgan & Co. recently advertised in a 

 local paper that on a certain day 

 they would give one-half dozen of those 

 flowers to each child that applied be- 

 tween 8 and 10 o'clock a. m,, limited, 

 however, one child to each family. In 

 this manner they brought smiles to the 

 faces of 203 children who came, giving 

 each one ten carnations, instead of the 

 six promised. This firm also reports 

 that business, both wholesale and re- 

 tail, has been better this year than ever 

 before, and they are unable to keep 

 pace with the orders for young stock. 

 They are putting a new plate glass win- 

 dow and vestibule entrance in the front 

 of their store, and at their establish- 

 ment at Loda they are building a new 

 propagating house, 100 feet long. 



