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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



JANUABI 11, 1912. 



well. Keep the case darkened in the 

 early stages of growth and water once 

 a day. Stop watering as the flowers 

 open, or damping may ensue. Give light 

 and air more freely as the growth ad- 

 vances, especially if some foliage is 

 wanted. 



Lilacs. 

 The earliest forcings of lilacs are 

 better done in the dark, but from now 

 on they will start readily in any warm, 

 moist house. There is considerable call 

 for nice pot lilacs in winter and, of 

 course, such must be grown in full 

 light all the time. Syringe them freely 

 and they will soon break. As the flow- 

 ers expand, a slightly lower tempera- 

 ture is better and gives the flowers 

 more substance for withstanding the 

 rather trying conditions of the aver- 

 age store, where there is usually con- 

 siderable draft, and a plant that has 

 been hard forced to the last will soon 

 wilt down when exposed to cold air 

 currents. 



VANCOUVER'S LABGEST PLACE. 



Few people in the trade whose 

 travels have not recently taken them 

 to the Pacific northwest realize the 

 rapidity with which the greenhouse 

 business is growing there. Brown 

 Bros. & Co., Ltd., is the largest as well 

 as one of the oldest concerns north of 

 the Canadian line. The original loca- 

 tion was at Vancouver, but a place was 

 later taken over at Port Hammond 

 and still later one at Victoria. 



The accompanying illustration is re- 

 produced from a photograph which was 

 taken December 18, one week before 



asters, dahlias, sweet peas, etc., for the 

 store in Vancouver, which is twenty- 

 four miles away. Port Hammond is on 

 the main line of the C. P. E. The place 

 in Vancouver covers one block, or 

 fourteen houses, 30 x 200, which are 

 used for bedding and all kinds of pot 

 plants, palms, etc. There are five houses 

 of chrysanthemums and four houses of 

 roses, of which they had a fine lot for 

 Christmas, Killarneys, Richmonds and 

 Beauties, also thousands of mums. The 

 concern has two stores in Vancouver. 

 The main store, on Hastings street, 

 which was packed with customers all 

 Christmas week, had twenty men and 

 women to wait on customers. It took 

 six wagons to deliver the goods Decem- 

 ber 25 and four wagons delivered all 

 day Sunday. The other store, at Gran- 

 ville and Hastings streets, also did ex- 

 ceptionally well, being opened only two 

 months, and the Victoria store did finely 

 for Christmas. It had just been bought 

 by the company, as had the Fairview- 

 Esquimalt Nurseries, also of Victoria. 

 The latter contains seven and one-half 

 acres of land, with twelve greenhouses, 

 which contain roses, carnations, jpums 

 and pot plants. The nursery is only 

 about two miles from the center of 

 Victoria. 



The company consists of Jos. F., Wm. 

 H., Alfred C. and Edw. Brown, being 

 four brothers, and the father, Joseph 

 Brown. Joseph Brown is president 

 and manager; Alfred C, head of nur- 

 sery and shipping and Vancouver green- 

 houses; Edw. Brown, manager of stores 

 and buyer; Jos, F. Brown, manager of 

 Port Hammond greenhouses; Wm. H. 





In a Carnation House of Brown Bros. & Co. 



Christmas, in one of their eleven houses 

 of carnations, each 30x200, from which 

 they cut 18,000 blooms in the week fol- 

 lowing. This is at the Port Hammond 

 place, where there also is one house of 

 calla lilies, one house of plumosus, and 

 one house just being planted to young 

 carnation stock. They have twenty 

 acres of land at this place, which has 

 just been cleared of stumps and 

 plowed, and which will be planted to 

 nursery stock of all descriptions, except 

 that land which will be kept to grow 

 the carnation stock and for growing 



Brown, manager of the Victoria green- 

 houses. 



Catlin, HI. — Mrs. Theodore Terpen- 

 ing has purchased the greenhouses of 

 Scott Harris. The business will be con- 

 ducted at the present location, in the 

 north part of town, until about the 

 middle of July, when the greenhouses 

 will be removed to one of the vacant 

 lots belonging to Mrs. Terpening in the 

 southwest part of town, near her home. 

 The business was started about four 

 years ago 



OBITUABY. 



Mis. Ella Meinhardt. 



Mrs. Ella Meinhardt, wife of Fred H. 

 Meinhardt, one of the well known flo- 

 rists of St. Louis, Mo., died Thursday, 

 January 4, after an illness of several 

 weeks. Her death will be a great shock 

 to her many friends in the trade, as she 

 was well known among the ladies of 

 the S. A. F., having attended all the 

 late conventions. Mrs. Meinhardt died 

 of blood poisoning following an opera- 

 tion at a St. Louis hospital. She was a 

 member of the Ladies' Home Circle of 

 St. Louis, practically all of whom at- 

 tended the funeral, which was held Sat- 

 urday afternoon from her late resi- 

 dence, 7041 Florissant avenue, burial 

 being at Bellefontaine cemetery. A 

 large number of local florists paid their 

 last respects and extended their sym- 

 pathy to the bereaved husband. 



The pallbearers were Fred C. Weber, 

 C. C. Sanders, Harry Young and Theo- 

 dore Miller. Many beautiful floral de- 

 signs gave silent testimony to the high 

 regard in which Mrs. Meinhardt was 

 held. 



Mrs. Agnes C. Ludemann. 



Mrs. Agnes C. Ludemann, wife of 

 San Francisco's pioneer nurseryman, 

 J. F. Ludemann, died at the family 

 residence December 29. She was the 

 mother of Adolph Ludemann, the well 

 known Millbrae nurseryman; of Mrs. 

 H. L. Kuster, and foster mother of 

 Frederick Buss, of the California Seed 

 Co. A resident of San Francisco for 

 over forty years, and the wife of its 

 best known horticulturist, Mrs. Lude- 

 mann was known to all the trade, as 

 well as to a large circle of friends in 

 religious and fraternal organizations. 

 The home was for many years near the 

 Presidio gate and was only given up 

 when ill health caused Mr. Ludemann 

 to dispose of his large nursery interests 

 to other parties. Mrs. Ludemann was 

 a native of Hanover, Germany, and 

 was buried from the St. Markus Evan- 

 gelical Lutheran church, the interment 

 being at Mt. Olivet cemetery Decem- 

 ber 31. A large number of the trade 

 from the bay cities attended and many 

 beautiful floral designs testified to the 

 esteem in which Mrs. Ludemann was 

 held. 



Mickael Murphy. 



Michael Murphy, Newport, R. I., the 

 last of the old-time gardeners of Belle- 

 vue avenue, died on New Year's day, 

 aged 73 years. December 29 he was 

 stricken in the afternoon with apoplexy 

 and never regained consciousness. For 

 forty-six years he was in charge of 

 one estate, remaining through several 

 changes in ownership. It is at present 

 the summer home of H. P. Whitney. 

 Mr. Murphy was a native of Queens- 

 town, Ireland, and arrived in this coun- 

 try fifty-nine years ago, going directly 

 to Newport. With his wife and two 

 daughters he lived in the gardener's 

 lodge and looked after the welfare of 

 the house as well as the grounds when 

 the family was absent. He also leaves 

 four sons. 



Slingerlands, N. Y. — Fred Goldring 

 now grows a continuous crop of lilacs 

 the year around. 



Huntington, Ind. — Bieberich & Web- 

 er's holiday trade was the best they 

 have known in their three years of busi- 

 ness. 



