April 30, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



21 



Portsmouth, O. — W. C. Nolan, one of 

 the force of the Harms Floral Co., has 

 moved to Wilkinsburg, Pa. 



Bowling areen, Mo.— fred A. Hal- 

 lows had a fine lot of blooming plants 

 for Easter, and has a good line of bed- 

 ding stock. 



La Crosse, Wis. — The La Crosse Floral 

 Co. has filed an amendment to its char- 

 ter, increasing its capital from $25,000 

 to $50,000. 



Blue Eapids, Kan.— S. E. Craft ia 

 building a greenhouse, and upon its 

 completion will engage in the florists' 

 business here. 



Nebraska City, Neb. — George Ber- 

 thold has begun work on his new green- 

 house, which will increase the size of 

 his plant about twenty-five per cent. 



Houston, Tex. — With the end of April 

 Henry Palmer retired from the florists' 

 business. Mr. Palmer started as the 

 successor of Dickerson Bros, in 1907. 



Schenectady, N. Y. — The Schenectady 

 Seed Co. reports a busy counter trade. 

 The company succeeds Chas. Witbeck, 

 now manager for the Isbell Seed Co., 

 Jackson, Mich. 



Elba, Ala — Mrs. W. P. Boyd is an en- 

 thusiastic beginner in the trade. She 

 has recently completed a greenhouse, 

 finds business good, and the work thor- 

 oughly enjoyable. 



Memphis, Tenn. — The Flower Shop 

 has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $3,000 by Mary E. Irby, Kate 

 Harris, J. W. Turbeville, Susie Dickens 

 and P. M. Canale. 



Maquoketa, la. — H. L. Hill has pur- 

 chased Mrs. J. Odgers' plant and will 

 conduct both establishments until next 

 summer, when he will consolidate them 

 at his downtown site. 



Logansport, Ind. — J. A. Newby re- 

 ports a general dullness in trade. Fu- 

 neral work has used up a great deal 

 of stock, but the call for spring stock 

 is expected to be limited. 



New London, O.— The Elder Floral 

 Co., B. H. Starbird & Co., proprietors, 

 is the successor to the Chase Floral Co. 

 B. H. Starbird and Mrs. E. C. Elder are 

 the members of the new firm. 



Austin, Tex. — Greenhouse stock is 

 past its best, now that the warm 

 weather has come on. H. B. Beck re- 

 ports that outdoor roses, sweet peas, iris 

 and honeysuckle are coming in. 



Lewiston, Me. — Ernest Saunders finds 

 the results in carnations grown on the 

 ground and on the bench average up at 

 the end of the season about the same. 

 For appearance, benches are preferred. 



Topeka, Kan. — The decoration of the 

 new Orpheum theater by W. A. Bol- 

 inger, proprietor of the Eosery, was a 

 large undertaking and won much praise 

 for the skill with which it was carried 

 out. 



New Castle, Ind. — Peter Weiland is 

 preparing to increase his production of 

 outdoor flowers. He has four acres of 

 peonies and has planted about six acr«>s 

 of gladioli. Enough aster plants for 

 about five acres are awaiting favorable 

 ■conditions to go into the field. He also 

 ■will plant out about 2,000 .dahlias. 



A SMOKY CITY VIOLET VENDEE. 



In the marketing of some of the 

 higher-priced flowers, at least in most 

 parts of the United States, there are 

 few opportunities for the street sales- 

 man. In the disposal of such expensive 

 stock his aid is seldom wanted. Only 

 when such blooms accumulate until thoy 

 become a formidable, unmanageable, 

 dismaying surplus — only then are the 

 services of the sidewalk salesman ac- 

 ceptable, and even then his assistance 

 is not always received with great dem- 

 onstrations of gratitude or appreciation. 

 In such cases the street merchant is re- 

 garded by the majority of florists as, at 



The Violet Merchant. 



best, one of the oft-mentioned "nec- 

 essary evils" which abound in this im- 

 perfect world and which must be en- 

 dured as patiently as possible until a 

 better era arrives. 



In the violet market, however, the 

 conditions are different. Though the 

 selling of violets is not permitted in the 

 streets of some American cities, yet in 

 many other cities and towns of this 

 country, not to speak of foreign lands, 

 the street salesmen are the principal 

 agents for the retailing of violets. "With- 

 out these regular outdoor retailers the 

 violet market in many localities would, 

 for a time, be seriously disorganized. 



Joe Brown, the Pittsburgh violet ven- 

 der who smiles at the reader from these 

 columns in the same manner in which 

 he smiles at a prospective customer, 

 looks as if he would carry on the busi- 

 ness gracefully as long as the business 

 suited him, and bow himself just as 

 gracefully from the scene when he con- 

 sidered the business no longer profit- 

 able. He is typical of the flower ped- 

 dlers who operate by hundreds in cities 

 east and w.est. * 



Northampton, Mass. — The trolley 

 waiting station in the new Connor block 

 will be in the charge of Alexander 

 Parks, who will use part of the room 

 for the sale of his flowers. 



Ashtabula, O. — The Ashtabula Lettuce 

 & Vegetable Co. has been incorpo- 

 rated bv E. R. McCune, F. E. Davenny, 

 G. H. Ford, H. D. Cook and A. J. Kain, 

 with a capitalization of $20,000. 



Chanute, Kan. — H. E. Eagen, for- 

 merly of Iowa City, la., has located 

 here. 



Marshfield, Wis.— T. D. Hefko is pre- 

 paring to enlarge his plant by the ad- 

 dition of a greenhouse, 36x70 feet. 



Middletown, N. Y. — Wm. Kestlow, 

 superintendent of the Wisner Green- 

 houses, is cutting some of the finest 

 Ward roses and snapdragon seen in this 

 section. 



Omaha, Neb. — John H. Bath, whose 

 store is in the Boyd Theater building, 

 made extensive preparations for Easter 

 and was not disappointed in the amount 

 of business done. 



Marysville, Kan. — H. R. Fisher is the 

 leader of a "gospel team" recently or- 

 ganized here, which is expected to do 

 some extraordinary things along the 

 line of church work. 



Pontiac, Mich. — Mrs. L. C. Lewis has 

 opened a store in the Waldo block, on ' 

 East Huron street, which will be sup- 

 plied with stock from her greenhouses 

 on North Saginaw street. 



Ashtabula, O. — The Pennsylvania rail- 

 road is installing a switch at the new 

 greenhouse plant of the Dunbar-Hop- 

 kins Co. The extension of the city 

 water main is nearly completed. 



Litchfield, m.— James W. McPheron, 

 who has been employed at Chicago and 

 at St. Louis, has returned home and will 

 assist his father^ R. A. McPheron, at the 

 Cottage Greenhouses, this season. 



Woonsocket, R. I. — W. H. Flye has 

 purchased a tract of 54,000 square feet 

 of land on South Main street, near 

 Alice avenue, which he will use in con- 

 nection with his greenhouse business, 



Manchester, N. H. — At the annual 

 meeting of the trustees of the Pine 

 Grove cemetery the erection of a green- 

 house and a potting shed was recom- 

 mended, as the present house is over- 

 taxed. 



Jersey City, N. J. — W. H. Lutton has 

 incorporated his greenhouse construc- 

 tion business under the name of the 

 William H. Lutton Co., with $50,000 cap- 

 ital. The other incorporators are F. L. 

 Young and J. A. Greene, of Ossining. 



Sac City, la. — The business of the Sac 

 City Greenhouses has increased to such 

 an extent that Mr. and Mrs. C, A. 

 Nokes have added to the force their son, 

 Leo H. Nokes, who has left his posi- 

 tion in the Big Ben clock factory at La 

 Salle, 111., to take up the greenhouse 

 work. 



Prescott, Ariz. — The flower and flo- 

 rists' supplies department of Acker's 

 Book Store is having a good run of 

 business at present. The Easter busi- 

 ness was much larger than last year's, 

 and a healthy growth is apparent in the 

 general trade. Orders from out of town 

 constitute a good part of the business. 



Albany, N. Y.— H. E. Van Wie, who 

 purchased the store of the late Amos 

 F. Balfoort, had an excellent Easter 

 trade. While this is Mr. Van Wie's 

 first Easter as a florist, he had no trou- 

 ble in disposing of the entire output of 

 the greenhouses at 252 Second street, 

 which are being operated by the estate 

 of A. F. Balfoort. 



