Fkbbdabt 2Q, 1912. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



23 



busy season withi,iJbB new ;, boiler. Tbet 

 new offic/es of the company, ftt 131 East 

 Twenty-sixth street, are decidedly con- 

 venient. 



The latest branch enterprise, now so 

 popular a policy with some of the 

 wholesalers, is the firm of giebrecht 

 &, Siebrecht, this house having taken 

 space on the first floor of the Coogan 

 building. 



The ^orists' supply houses already 

 are rushed with Easter orders. Some 

 novel designs in baskets are note- 

 worthy. There has been no complaint 

 all the season by the supply houses, as 

 to any lack of business, the principal 

 anxiety being to meet the call for 

 prompt delivery. 



Geo. Cotsonas says his new enter- 

 j»rise has been a growing success from 

 the start. The Greek patronage is an 

 immense factor. 



The Growers' Cut Flower Co. finds 

 its branch in the Cooper building help- 

 ing to fill a long felt want — the want 

 of room. 



J. K. Allen has fully recovered from 

 Jiis tussle with bronchitis and says he 

 is ready and waiting for a bigger 

 Easter trade than ever. 



Everybody is glad to hear of Charles 

 Millang's rapid recovery. He was able 

 to leave the hospital for his home last 

 week, and hopes to return to the scene 

 of his many enterprises in time for the 

 rush of the Easter business. 



Gunther Bros, contemplate calling 

 their new carnation the American Asso- 

 ciation. 



Badgley, Riedel & Meyer say they 

 have no fault to find with any- 

 thing but the weather, atid that the 

 volume of the Easter trade will be a 

 big surprise to the street. 



Bobert Schultz, of Madison, is send- 

 ing in some especially fine Bichmonds. 

 M. C. Ford says the quality of Hes- 

 sion's carnations never was better than 

 now. J. Austin Shaw. 



OBITUARY. 



Mrs. Wm. 0. Barry. 



Mrs. William C. Barry, Sr., wife of 

 the well known nurseryman of the firm 

 of EUwanger & Barry, died suddenly 

 :it her home, 706 Mt. Hope avenue, 

 Rochester, N. Y., February 20. Mrs. 

 liarry had been ill for some time, but 

 the end came unexpectedly. She is 

 survived by four children, W. C. Barry, 

 ■Tr., Frederick Barry, Arthur A. Barry 

 and Mrs. Charles Stearns. 



B. F. Waitt. 



Benjamin F. Waitt, who had con- 

 ducted a greenhouse business in West 

 street, Wilmington, Mass., for a num- 

 ber of years, died of acute indigestion 

 February 20, at his home near the 

 greenhouses. He had been ill since 

 the preceding Friday night. He was 

 •36 years old and was born in Haver- 

 hill. He is survived by four sisters and 

 a daughter, the latter making her home 

 with one of her father's sisters in 

 Haverhill. Two of the sisters live iu 



kn(wn to n early all th^ growers nort^ , 

 of ' f^mi^fS. He was bom in Newburg, 

 Wis., March 20, 1859, and removed to 

 Chicago when a boy. He engaged in 

 the wagon manufacturing business with 

 his father before going into the lumber 

 business. He Was prominent in lumber 

 business circles and was a member of 

 the National Lumbermen's Association. 

 Mrs. Wildner survives him, with two 

 daughters, Mrs. Julia Seng and Mrs. 

 George Nicholas. 



Victor Sctarage. 



Victor Schrage, one of the pioneer 

 seedsmen in the central states, died at 

 his home in Cincinnati, February 18, 

 1912. He was born in Germany in 

 1834 and emigrated to this country in 

 1850, settling in Cincinnati shortly 

 afterward. His first employment was 

 as a machinist, which occupation he 

 followed for a number of years. At 

 the outbreak of the Civil war he took 

 an active interest in the recruiting of 

 the Ninth Ohio Regiment, which be- 

 came famous as Cincinnati's "Fight- 

 ing Germans," being composed almost 

 exclusively of German residents of that 

 city. Upon the close of the war Mr. 



Schrage engaged in commercial busi- 

 ness and in 1870 established a seed 

 store in Court street, where he was 

 actively engaged until his retire- 

 ment a year ago in favor of his 

 son, G. A. Schrage, who is still operat- 

 ing Schrage 's Seed Store. He became 

 a recognized authority not only on 

 seeds but on nursery stock, bulbs and 

 plants, and his death caused general 

 regret among the trade. 



The memorial services, held at the 

 residence in the evening of February 

 2P,. weYL'i largely jiMended. burial was 

 the follo^f^):;? urbrning. The fl6^ral trib 



that city and two in Lynn. , ^i^ 1 • ''^IS^|!^^f ^ numerous any mag- 

 ^ J- - , '^ ;?^ ni«!efrt/$>^^ta^ dor 



Christian Wildner. 



Christian Wildner, 53 y 

 retary of the Adam S 

 Co., Chicago, died Feb" 

 a long illness of BriKh 

 Wildner -.b^ b«en ' 

 company^f yrhT 

 was the found' 

 years, and war 



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donated to the city ios- 



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^ ,t),^SmiMS: Pa. — During a recenf cold 



'Jt;^ ^jj|fh^jgi)Out $6Q0 worth of plai^^vS were 



f> "V Qoi^ in the greenhouses of Arthur 



peinhans. The drp AOT^r of the 



ifer was thrown open by .^n explo- 



^l^ion of coal gas and thus 'ohe tempera- 



Mtnre was allowed to go f'lown. 



De Kalb, HI. — J. L. Johnson, of the 

 De Kalb Greenhouses, has removed from 

 the store on South Third street to 311 

 East Main street, where he will have 

 considerably more space and better fa- 

 cilities. Hereafter he will handle seeds 

 as well as flowers. 



Bloomington, Ind. — J. H. Cain has 

 sold a two-thirds interest in the Cain 

 Floral Co. to Sam Scheinuk and Arnold 

 Winkler, who have taken over the 

 active management and will conduct 

 the business under the name of the 

 Standard Floral Co. They are redec- 

 orating the retail store and plan a 

 number of changes in the growing de- 

 partment. 



Ashtabula, O. — Two new florists' es- 

 tablishments will be started here dur- 

 ing the coming summer. Charles Phelps 

 will build a plant north of Prospect, 

 between Benefit street and Woodman 

 avenue; and John Eegner will construct 

 one on the South Bidge, west of town. 

 Mr. Regner was formerly manager of 

 the Ashtabula Greenhouse Co.'s place, 

 on Bunker Hill. 



Des Moines, la.— The W. K. Fletcher 

 Bulb & Floral Co. has leased for a long 

 term a 40-acre tract of ground. Though 

 this property is inside the city limits 

 of Des Moines, yet it is so close to 

 Valley Junction that the firm intends 

 hereafter to have all its mail matter 

 addressed to the latter town. Des 

 Moines will be the shipping point, how- 

 ever, as formerly. 



New Carlisle, O. — The weight of the 

 snow February 20 caused the collapse 

 of about two-thirds of the greenhouse 

 establishment of W. M. Scharff, with 

 an estimated loss of something like 

 $3,500. The plant consisted of two 

 houses, each 65x200 feet, of iron frame 

 construction. The houses were filled 

 mainly with celery, much of which was 

 just ready for market. 



Trenton, N. J. — The Blackmon Floral 

 Co. has let the contracts for the erec- 

 tion of two greenhouses, 28x100 and 

 28x75. The houses will be located on 

 Center street, below Lalor. The firm 

 has also taken a lease on the entire 

 property where it conducts a store, on 

 North Broad street, and is remodeling 

 the building, putting in a new store 

 front and installing new fixtures. 



Streator, m.— Mrs. M. E. Finkler 

 has had an unusually busy season, with 

 a great deal of funeral work and a 

 good general trade. Besides using all 

 the flowers she could grow, she has 

 been obliged to buy a great many roses 

 and carnations. She has 24,000 square 

 feet of glass and grows the best market 

 varieties of roses, carnations and chrys- 

 anthemums, as well as bulbous stock 

 and bedding plants. 



Shawnee, Okla. — A. Schoepen, for- 

 merly manager for the Otto Schwill 

 Co., at Mempnis, Tenn., and C. E. 

 Franke, superintendent of parks at Ok- 

 lahoma City, have formed a partner- 

 ship and have leased the establishment 

 of the Brenner Floral Co., which some 

 time ago went into bMikruptcy. The 

 business will hereafter be colidacted un- 

 der the name of the C. E. Franke Flo- 

 ral Co. 



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