Makcu 5, 1914. 



Thl-FIorists' Review 



15 



size, making a total glass area of 20,000 

 square feet. Tlie two stores, a down- 

 town branch at 102 West Houston street 

 and the main store at 508 Main avenue, 

 which is shown in one of the illustra- 

 tions, require at present more stock than 

 the greenhouses can supply and an en- 

 largement of the plant is being planned. 

 For the month of December the sales 

 amounted to $2,000, a good showing for 

 a new concern in a town of this size. 



Mr. Ilerzog, who is manager of tho 

 concern, may be seen in the illustration 

 showing his house of chrysanthemums. 

 The height of the mums may be esti- 

 mated it one knows that Mr. Ilerzbg 

 is tall and that the plants are in 

 ground-beds. First-class carnations, not 

 commonly grown in this part of the 

 country, are one of the specialties of 

 these greenhouses. Here also are grown 

 about 40,000 bulbous flowers and a 

 strong line of other flowers and plants. 



Mr. ilerzog has a tract of 178 acres 

 near Columbus, Tex., on which he ex- 

 pects to start a nursery. Besides nursery 

 stock he will grow bulbs and cut flowers 

 here, as the soil and climate are more 

 /^^itable for the successful growing of 

 outdoor stock. 



BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. 



Pittsburgh, Pa.— Samuel W. Church 

 was appointed receiver for A. T. Lorcli 

 <fc Co. after a bill in ecjuity alleging the 

 insolvency of the partnership was filed 

 by J. 11. Johnston, a creditor. 



Cinciimati, 0.— William J. Niehaus, 

 who has conducted a retail store at 

 1332 Main street for the last year, 

 made an assignment to Attorney C. 

 Koudebush, February 19. The assets 

 are estimated at $200 and the liabilities 

 at $600. "Slow business" is given as 

 the cause of the failure. Mr. Niehaus 

 was the manager of Fred Gear's store 

 until he set up in business for himself 

 about a year ago. 



NEW YORK'S SPRING SHOW. 



The perfecting of arrangements for 

 the big flower sliow in New York, 

 March 21 to 28, in the new Grand Cen- 

 tral Palace proceeds apace, and the 

 prospect is that the show will be, like 

 its predecessor, an immense success. At 

 the last meeting of the committee in 

 charge contributions of several special 

 prizes were reported. Silver cups valued 

 at $75 each have been offered by the 

 following hotels in New York: Eitz- 

 Carlton, McAlpin, Biltmoro, Vandcrbilt, 

 Plaza, Waldorf-Astoria, St. Kegis and 

 Sherry's.^ Mrs. H. Clay Frick and Mrs. 

 C. P. Scuff have contributed cups 

 valued at $100 each. Mrs. Stuyvesant 

 Fish and Mrs. C. F. Hoffman have of- 

 fered cups valued at $50 each. The lat- 

 ter four cups were donated through the 

 solicitation of Mrs. Hoffman and the 

 Tntefnational Garden Club, Samuel 

 Thorne offers a cup valued at $50 and 

 W. T. Carrington a cup valued at $75. 

 An anonymous member of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of New York offers a 

 cup valued at $25 and H. II. Charles 

 offers a cup valued at $50. 



Joseph A, Manda, of West Orange, 

 N. ,T., has been appointed manager of 

 tlie show. George V. Nash, C. H. Tottv 

 and W. A. Manda have been appointed 

 a committee on lectures. Among the 

 important features of the show will be 

 an orange grove in fruit and a com- 

 ]dete Japani^so garden, both staged bv 

 retailers. The ladies' orchestra, which 



ROMAN J. IRWIN. 



TO his friends, "the noblest Koman of them all," R. J. Irwin has decorated 

 his office in New York with the trophies of the cliaso, including the head of 

 a big bull moose shot in 1913. i\Ir. Irwin's first ])iisincss connection was 

 with Pitcher & Manda, in 1891, at the age of 15. In 189:? he entered the service 

 of J. M. Thorburn & Co., where lie remained seven years, spending another equat 

 term with another New York seed house before, in 1907, lie formed a partnershi]» 

 witli S. S. Skidelsky, under the name of Skidelsky & Irwin Co. Tt was in 1911 

 that Mr. Irwin decided to paddle his own canoe and launched his craft on tho 

 rushing business stream of New York. Although he finds time for the pursuits 

 of Nimrod, he is a hard worker and his business has grown beyond his 

 expectations. 



was a feature of last year's show, has 

 been engaged for the show this vear. 



To date, upward of $12,000 worth of 

 exhibition space has been sold, and 

 about $3,000 worth of space has been 

 taken up in the souvenir program. In- 

 tending exhibitors should lose no time 

 in taking up locations, as there are still 

 a few choice positions available. 



J. H. Pepper, 

 Chairman Publicitv Committee. 



DUTCH BULBS COME BLIND. 



In the issue of The Review for Feb- 

 ruary 19, there appeared an inquiry, 

 signed J. G. S., about Narcissus Golden 

 Spur coming blind, I was much in- 

 terested in this inquiry, for we have 

 had and are having the same unfortu- 

 nate experience with our Dutch bulbs, 

 not only with Golden Spurs, of which 

 ninety-five per cent were blind, but 

 also with our early tulips. Jjif La Reine, 

 seventy-five per cent; of rcllow Prince, 

 ninety per cent, and of Keizerskroon, 

 fifty per cent were blind. 



The wrong treatment which C. W, 



mentioned in his reply to this inquiry 

 would undoubtedly destroy the bu(ls of 

 Golden Spur. But we found that our 

 bulbous stock, as mentioned above, 

 came blind in spite of our bringing 

 them out of the cool root cellar iii 

 January and even in February, as 

 usual, and placing them in the greerr- 

 house, some in a temperature of 70 to 

 SO degrees, some in CO degrees and 

 some in 50 degrees. Our late varieties 

 of tulips and daffoilils are not affected. 

 In the early varieties wc find the bud 

 cooked inside ti.e bulbs. We assume 

 that tho bulbs must have been over- 

 heated while they were on board ship. 

 Wm. Van Langendonk. 



Elkhart, Ind,— :\Irs. F. M. Bullock 

 suffered a loss of between $3,000 and 

 $1,000 February 21 as the result of the 

 breaking of a flue plate on one of the 

 boilers. Although every effort was 

 made to save the plants after the break 

 was discovered, early in the afternoon, 

 the extreme cold outside and the un- 

 even heat inside worked havoc with tho 

 stock. 



