Apml 16, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



19 



Wakefield, Mass.— Minot H. Carter, 

 for five years with C. C. Ball, will 

 open a store at 376 Main street. 



Sharon, Pa.— M. I. O'Brien has been 

 spending -the winter in Florida and ex- 

 pects to return about the middle of 

 this month. 



Pittsfield, Mass. — Max Engelmann, 



proprietor of the Drake greenhouses, 



has added an automobile delivery car 

 to his service. 



Alton, 111. — ^F. W. Doepke, who has 

 been laid up with rheumatism the last 

 two years, has sold his business and re- 

 tired altogether. 



Southington, Conn. — The firm of 

 Olson & Lunden, which went into bank- 

 , ruptcy a short time ago, is succeeded 

 by the Olson & Mitchell Co. 



Marlboro, Mas& — ^John P. Brown has 

 purchased the Lewis property on Pleas- 

 ant street. The price paid was $6,675. 

 He will dispose of the greenhouses. 



Albert Lea, Minn. — Mrs. Margaret 

 Ryan is opening an up-to-date store on 

 West Clark street, where complete lines 

 of cut flowers and pot plants will be 

 carried. 



Macon, Ga. — D, C. Horgan, proprietor 

 of the Idle Hour Nurseries, has been 

 selected as judge of the department of 

 horticulture and floriculture of the 

 Georgia state fair, to be held here this 

 year. 



Tionesta, Pa. — C. A. Anderson has 

 built another greenhouse, 18x75 feet, 

 and enlarged his store. He expects to 

 do a large business this season, under 

 the firm name of the C. A. Anderson 

 Greenhouse Co. 



Camden, N. J. — C. H. Weidenbacher, 

 who has been in business here for over 

 nine years, has bought the business of 

 John N. Kulp, at Philadelphia. Mr. 

 Weidenbacher is now located at 4516 

 Germantown avenue, Philadelphia. 



McLeansboro, HI. — C. E. Jennings 

 has purchased a greenhouse plant at 

 Mt. Vernon and is making prepara- 

 tions to move it here. When it is 

 established Mr. Jennings will grow 

 flowers and plants for the local trade. 



Ashtabula, O. — ^Faust & Lockwood 

 opened their store April 7 and, in spite 

 of the rainy weather, received a large 

 number of visitors. The furnishings of 

 the new store are quite complete and 

 up-to-date, and the young men expect a 

 good business. 



Dixon, HI. — The Rosery Flower Co. is 

 to open a shop in the Opera House 

 block, under the management of 

 Charles O. Engel and Miss Blanche 

 Schmucker. The store will receive daily 

 shipments from Chicago and will spe- 

 cialize in decorative work. 



Terre Haute, Ind. — At the April 

 meeting of the Terre Haute Florists' 

 Association, held in the Chamber of 

 Commerce building, last year's officers 

 were reelected. They are: President, 

 Fred Heinl; vice-president, Henry Gra- 

 ham; secretary, N. B. Stover, and treas- 

 urer, Fred Walker. 



Qreensboro, N. C. — The Greensboro 

 Floral Co. has moved from 214 West 

 Market street to the new store at 211 

 South Elm street. 



Burlington, Wis. — A. Helfrich, who 

 recently sold his interest in the Burling- 

 ton Floral Co., of which he was presi- 

 dent, has gone on a trip to Europe. 



Westboro, Mass. — Herbert J. Stone 

 has given up his business at Shrews- 

 bury and come here to take charge of 

 the Westboro Conseirvatories, which 

 Paul F. Brigham leased January 1 from 

 Midgley & Draper. The plant, which 

 contains about 40,000 square feet of 

 glass, is planted to carnations and roses, 

 but another season will be devoted to 

 roses entirely. 



Hoffmans, N. Y.— John C. Hatcher, 

 who has stores at Amsterdam and 

 Schenectady and an immense plant here, 

 has come into the ownership of nearly 

 all this village, through closing options 

 on several small plots and purchasing 

 the entire Ludden estate. The tracts 

 along the trolley lines and the New 

 York Central railroad will probably be 

 remodeled on definite landscape lines, 

 and later part of the land be divided 

 into building sites. 



Glens FaUs, N. T.— J. L. Watkins & 

 Son have leased the store at 125 Main 

 street, where they will open a retail 

 store. 



Ironton, O. — Mrs. M. W. Therkildson 

 is the successor of Mrs. E. Miller and 

 will continue the business at 8 North 

 Third street. 



Little Bock, Ark. — White & Cunning- 

 ham is the name of a new firm just 

 commencing business here, at Four- 

 teenth and Johnson streets. The part- 

 ners are W. F. White and Roy L. Cun- 

 ningham. They plan to make a spe- 

 cialty of bedding and fancy pot plants. 



Salem, Mass. — Joseph R. Hamilton 

 has opened a store in North Salem"; 

 After working for several years in 

 greenhouse establishments in this sec- 

 tion, he built his first house here three 

 years ago and has added a larger one 

 each succeeding year. Now he believes 

 his business is large enough to warrant 

 his opening a store. 



Louisiana, Mo. — The Elmwood Floral 

 Co. has been organized, with Homer A. 

 Reed as. president, Henry Naber, treas- 

 urer, and T. A. Culp, secretary and 

 manager. Mr. Culp has been connected 

 with the Stark Bros, nurseries here and 

 was for a time manager of the Fore- 

 man greenhouses. The store will be at 

 503 Georgia street and the plant at 

 Elmwood. At the opening, April 6, 

 there was a large attendance and pros- 

 pects are good for the company's suc- 

 cess. 



Norfolk, Va.— J. W. Grandy, Jr., has 

 obtained a permit for a greenhouse at 

 Forty-ninth street, east of CoUey ave- 

 nue. 



Fulton, HI. — John Dykema, of Mor- 

 rison, and a Mr. Wiersema are going to 

 build a greenhouse plant here and grow 

 cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. 



Martins Ferry, O. — A large green- 

 house for roses and carnations is being 

 erected for Davison Bros, by Hitchings 

 & Co., at the plant on Laughlin Heights. 



Kinston, N. C. — Mrs. H. C. Edwards, 

 who has operated a small greenhouse for 

 five years, is planning to build a large 

 one, as her business is increasing right 

 along. 



Muskegon, Mich. — L. Wasserman is 

 planning to rebuild a portion of his 

 30,000 feet of glass this season. The 

 range to be renewed is 110 x 140, heated 

 by steam. 



Cleveland, O. — H. W. Clark, a livery- 

 man, has purchased three acres on the 

 Lorimer road and will build greenhouses 

 on one-third of the tract. He will grow 

 vegetables for the Cleveland market. 



Elm Grove, W. Va. — John Dieck- 

 man has ordered material from Chicago 

 for a new range of houses to be rushed 

 to early completion to permit the 

 benching of 10,000 rose plants, mainly 

 Killarney, White Killarney, Ward and 

 Hillingdon, but including a few of the 

 novelties for trial. The cut will be 

 sold in Wheeling, W. Va. 



Middletown, Conn. — A. N. Pierson, 

 Inc., is making plans to enlarge the 

 plant by adding several greenhouses on 

 the north side of the lower range. 



Joliet, HI. — Plans have been received 

 from the John C. Moninger Co., of Chi- 

 cago, for the greenhouse to be erected 

 in West park next spring. It will be 

 28x80 feet, of steel and concrete. 



Plymouth, Ind. — Miss Mary A. Res- 

 lar, who has done a successful retail 

 business here for some time, purchas- 

 ing all her supplies in wholesale mar- 

 kets, is considering the erection of 

 greenhouses. If she decides to go 

 ahead she probably will put up. two 

 houses 25x100. 



Newark, N. J.— H. C. Strobell & Co., 

 who have been located at 783 Broad 

 street tor about twenty years, will 

 move May 1 to their own building at 

 895-897 Broad street. Here they will 

 have a much larger store and they plan 

 to build a greenhouse, 30x60 feet, in 

 the rear, in which will be carried a 

 stock of blooming and foliage plants. 



Belleair, Fla. — Charles R. Hall has 

 plans laid for a range of houses on a 

 tract of thirty-five acres on West Cen- 

 tral avenue. He will form a stock com- 

 pany with a capital of $25,000. The 

 plant will be known as the Royal Poin- 

 ciana Nurseries. R. T. Wedding and 

 O. A. House, both for some years with 

 Reasoner Bros., of Oneco, Fla., will be 

 manager and assistant manager respect- 

 ively. 



