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NOVIDMBEB 23, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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READERS ARE INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE ITEMS FOR THIS DEPARTMENT. 



Qirard, O. — James Knapp ia building 

 a greenhouse, 26x100 feet, on the Sea- 

 t>urn farm. 



Framingham, Mass. — S. J. Goddard 

 is building an addition to bis green- 

 liouses, on Main street. 



CMUicothe, Mo. — E. L. Isherwood has 

 been holding an exceptionally success- 

 ful chrysanthemum show at his green- 

 ihouses. 



Concord, N. H.— G. J. Benedict has 

 installed a new heating system and 

 made other improvements in his green- 

 houses, at 25 South street. 



Brighton, Mass. — Chas. E. Holbrow's 

 new, up-to-date office is rapidly nearing 

 completion. He expects to do an ex- 

 tensive retail business this winter. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — The Lord Plant 

 Box Co., formerly known as Lord's 

 Frost-Proof Plant Box Co., has removed 

 to 524 Andrus building, in this city. 



Freeport, HI. — The damage done at 

 the John Bauscher plant when the 

 water tank fell has been repaired. The 

 new tank has a capacity of 260 barrels. 



Norristown, Pa. — A valuable horse 

 •owned by Wm. E. Yeager became un- 

 controllable recently, while Mr. Yeager 

 was driving it, and dashed into a sand 

 pile. One of the animal's fore legs 

 was broken. Mr. Yeager was thrown 

 to the brick-paved street and was con- 

 fliderably bruised, but was able to at- 

 tend to his duties as usual on the fol- 

 lowing day. 



Bloomsburg, Pa. — J. L. Dillon has in- 

 stalled a water tank, with a capacity 

 of 20,000 gallons, at his Fifth street 

 greenhouses. With the help of this 

 new tank, which is of steel construction 

 and stands on a 25-foot tower, Mr. Dil- 

 lon will have a sufficient water supply 

 for his entire range, when that part on 

 Normal Hill is moved to the Fifth 

 fltreet location. 



Mount Sterling, Ky. — John Corbett 

 has again taken possession of his green- 

 houses, which were leased for a time to 

 <jraser & Humphreys. He has remodeled 

 the place, making it one of the best 

 -establishments of its kind in this part 

 of the state, and will conduct a general 

 florists' business. His range contains 

 10,000 square feet of glass and he is 

 planning to increase that area. 



Atlanta, Qa.— The Atlanta Floral Co., 

 of which A. Borg and Ivar Erickson 

 are proprietors, has remodeled the store 

 at 41 Peachtree street, transforming it 

 into a most attractive and convenient 

 establishment. The firm's greenhouses, 

 on East Fair street, which are under 

 the management of Mr. Erickson, have 

 also been improved and enlarged. Mr. 

 Erickson ia an expert grower and has 

 received diplomas from botanical gar- 

 dens in Paris, Berlin and London. 



Wobum, Mass. — Edward Aylward, of 

 J. J. Aylward & Co., in this city, and 

 Miss Margaret J. Lynch, of Lowell, 

 were married November 12. 



Northboro, Mass. — E. E. Wadsworth 

 & Co. are installing two new boilers and 

 building a 65-foot chimney at their 

 greenhouses on Pleasant street. 



Benton Harbor, Mich. — Thomas 

 Heaven, of the Eiver View Green- 

 houses, has purchased the flower busi- 

 ness of Undertaker A. J. Youngs. 



Fort Wayne, Ind. — Judge William J. 

 Vesey has announced the marriage of 

 his daughter, Sarah Waterhouse Vesey, 

 and Cecil Alviere Max. 



Jamestown, N. Y. — At the Lake View 

 Greenhouses, where Lawrence Cotter 

 is superintendent, rapid progress has 

 been made in the work of rebuilding 

 the big boiler house destroyed in the 

 recent fire. 



Falls City, Neb. — Bert Simonton and 

 Harry Pence, proprietors of the Sunny- 

 side Greenhouses, gave an opening the 

 other day, providing a free bus be- 

 tween town and greenhouses and giving 

 each of 200 visitors a fern as a souve- 

 nir. 



Poughkeepsie, N. Y.— The Saltford 

 Flower Shop has a Ford motor wagon 

 for rapid delivery and adds to the ad- 

 vertising value of the car by distrib- 

 uting post cards that carry a cut of 

 the auto and uniformed messengers, 

 with the inscription, "At your serv- 

 ice. ' ' 



Sterling, 111. — A recent hail storm 

 broke a considerable amount of glass in 

 the greenhouses of the Sterling Floral 

 Co. and J. A. Swartley & Sons. As the 

 weather was rapidly becoming cooler at 

 the time,' there were fears that the 

 plants would be greatly damaged by 

 the exposure before the repairs could 

 be completed. Swartley & Sons have 

 finished a new greenhouse. 



Brookline, Mass. — F. E. Palmer has 

 bought a fine tract of land consisting of 

 twenty-five acres within easy access of 

 town and expects to remove the green- 

 houses there eventually. He is making 

 a nursery to supply his landscape depart- 

 ment. Stephen Quinn will soon cele- 

 brate the fiftieth anniversary of James 

 Quinn 's establishment, which is being 

 well kept up by him. 



Salem, Mass.— H. T. Conant & Co., 

 the Essex street florists, will be obliged 

 to remove from their present location, 

 on account of a change of ownership. 

 They have therefore secured a 10-year 

 lease on a piece of ground a few doors 

 away, and are building a store there. 

 Behind the new store is some vacant 

 space which will be covered by the 

 Conant greenhouses, and a barn in the 

 rear will be transformed into a boiler 

 house. 



Fessenden, N. D. — Eichard Olson has 

 erected a greenhouse here and is in 

 business as a florist. 



Greenfield, Mass. — Frank J. Yetter, 

 the Main street * florist, is building a 

 large greenhouse on the site of the old 

 Temple house, on Davis street. 



Oreen Bay, Wis. — William Van Lan- 

 genduck, a florist employed by Charles 

 De Clerc, was operated upon for appen- 

 dicitis a few days ago at the St. Vin- 

 cent hospital. His condition shows im- 

 provement daily. 



. Paxton, 111. — The Addems-Morgan 

 greenhouses have lost glass by hail 

 several times this season. November 

 11 the breakage was small, but the tem- 

 perature was far below freezing at 

 the time the hail fell. 



Sharon, Pa. — The boiler house at the 

 greenhouses of John Murchie, on South 

 Irvine avenue, has been destroyed by 

 fire. The loss was between $1,300 and 

 $1,500, with no insurance. Preparations 

 were made for rebuilding at once. 



Kansas City, Mo. — Charles E. Fuhl- 

 bruegge, formerly of Winona, Minn., 

 and later of Minneapolis, is now a mem- 

 ber of the firm of Henry Kusik & Co., 

 which has started in the wholesale cut 

 flower and supply business here. 



Atlantic, la. — The Atlantic Green- 

 house Co., which removed its range a 

 few months ago to Ninth and Linn 

 streets, has completed the work of re- 

 building and has also added some new 

 houses. Manager C. Olson and his 

 assistant, J. W. Camblin, deserve great 

 credit for the present fine condition of 

 the establishment. Mr. Olson is figur- 

 ing, also, on the erection of one paore 

 house, for violets. 



Florence, S. 0. — DeWitt House, pro- 

 prietor of the Florence Nursery, which 

 is located on the east side of South 

 Dargan street, directly across the road 

 from Mount Hope cemetery, has just 

 completed a new iron-frame green- 

 house, 65x150, and will handle a com- 

 plete line of flowers as well as nursery 

 stock. He has also opened an uptown 

 flower store in the Central hotel build- 

 ing. 



Carthage, HI. — Professor Eobert C. 

 Crum, formerly connected with the pub- 

 lic schools here, but now principal of 

 the high school of Eaton, N. M., has 

 purchased the greenhouses of S. T. 

 Stone and will return here to take 

 charge of them. The greenhouses are 

 being removed to Mr. Crum's property 

 on West Locust street, where he will 

 conduct them on a commercial basis. 

 He is not only an expert botanist, but 

 also has some practical knowledge of 

 flowers. His family have already ar- 

 rived here and will reside during the 

 winter at the home of Mrs. Crum's 

 mother. 



