January 16, 1913. 



The Florists^ Review 



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Berlin, Iilass. — Henry D. Pratt has 

 leased the greenhouses of Samuel 

 Wheeler and will continue the business. 



Holyoke, Mass. — Amelia S. Fraleigh 

 says she sold everything in stock for 

 Christmas and thinks every florist in 

 the city had a good trade. 



Guthrie, Okla. — ^John Furrow was a 

 member of the committee of three ap- 

 pointed by the Guthrie Chamber of 

 Commerce to nominate the directors of 

 the organization for the coming year. 



Warsaw, O. — Marion Shepard, who 

 owns and conducts the only green- 

 houses in this town, has just added 

 another house, to be used for vege- 

 tables. The present year has been a 

 favorable one and business is steadily 

 increasing. 



Concordia, Kan. — C. J. Lampe, pro- 

 prietor of the Concordia Greenhouses, 

 reports that his holiday trade sur- 

 passed anything in his former experi- 

 ence. "Carnation buds just opening 

 had to go," he says, "and anything 

 that looked like a flower was picked 

 up." 



Omaha, Neb. — Hess & Swoboda re- 

 port that the only fly in the ointment 

 is such occurrences as a department 

 store selling carnations at 15 cents per 

 dozen, which happened January 4. It 

 gives the public the impression that 

 the prices of the real florists are out 

 of line. 



Malta, O. — ^W. C. Scovell estimates 

 that his business in 1912 was fifty-three 

 per cent greater than in 1911 and twen- 

 ty-two per cent greater than in his 

 previous most successful year. His holi- 

 day trade was heavjr. His funeral work 

 is steadily increasing in quantity and 

 extending over more territory. 



Battle Creek, Mich. — Early in the 

 spring the Battle Creek Sanitarium 

 will begin the erection of four green- 

 bouses, each 34x125, as an addition to 

 the present range. The intention is, 

 it is said, to grow all of the vegetables 

 needed in the dining room of the insti- 

 tution, instead of having a considerable 

 part of them shipped in from the south, 

 as has heretofore been done. 



Danvers, Mass. — Percy S. Hooper is 

 a successful grower of asparagus, ber- 

 ries and celery who three years ago 

 branched out into cut flowers for the 

 summer market, growing asters and 

 sweet peas. Last season he had splen- 

 did results with Crego asters, some of 

 his blooms measuring seven inches in 

 diameter, and stems eighteen to twenty 

 inches long were the rule. From Balph 

 Huntington, Painesville, O., he secured 

 seed of a variety he calls Non-lateral 

 White, which he says gave him perfect 

 blooms, scarcely any showing yellow 

 centers, and stems twenty-six to thirty 

 inches long. 



Wayland, O. — ^A. H. Austin Co. 

 shipped a carload of gladiolus bulbs 

 January 13. 



Olrard, Ean. — A. M. Sourdry has 

 built one of the largest greenhouses in 

 the state for lettuce and parsley. It is 

 42x400 and has just been planted with 

 28,000 lettuce plants. 



South Paris, Me.— E. P. Crockett has 

 built an addition to his greenhouses and 

 now has an up-to-date establishment 

 of the most durable construction, in- 

 cluding cement benches. 



Shillington, Pa.— The greenhouses of 

 H. M. Shilling, on Philadelphia ave- 

 nue, were considerably damaged recent- 

 ly by a fire which originated from a 

 smoke flue that runs through a part of 

 the houses. The plants were badly 

 damaged. 



irnVERY now and then a well- 

 1*9 pleased reader speaks the word 

 which is the means of bringing; a 

 new advertiser to 



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Such friendly assistance is thoroughly 

 appreciated. 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are buying, not an adver- 

 tiser. "We especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florist's use 

 not at present advertised. 



FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 

 530-60 Caxton Bldg. Chicago 



Muncie, Ind. — The greenhouses for- 

 merly conducted under the name of 

 Mrs. Geo. F. Miller are now known 

 as Miller's Greenhouses, with Mrs. 

 Miller, now Mrs. A, P. Andrew, as 

 proprietor. Mrs. Miller became Mrs. 

 Andrew nearly a year ago. 



Williamson, W. Va.— A. T. Vaughan, 

 proprietor of the Fairview Greenhouses 

 and Truck Farm, has recently built a 

 large addition to his greenhouses, be- 

 sides installing a return steam trap 

 and making other important improve- 

 ments. When he came here from Rus- 

 sell, Ky., four years ago, he started 

 business with a small truck farm in the 

 west end of town, but since then he 

 has acquired more land and gradually 

 constructed a first-class establishment. 

 His houses are stocked with lettuce, 

 carnations, ferns and a good assort- 

 ment of pot and bedding plants. 



Princeton, HI. — Henry Dumke, a flo- 

 rist of this town, has leased some prop- 

 erty on Union street, Marseilles, 111., 

 and is erecting a greenhouse there. 



Battle Creek, Mich.— B. W. Kribs 

 built a greenhouse last summer at 236 

 Coldwater street and is growing carna- 

 tions for the local market. The house 

 is 34x125 and of Foley construction. 



Dayton, O. — Mrs. B. Haschke, who 

 does business as the College Park Green- 

 houses, says that 1912 was the most 

 successful year she has yet had. She 

 says Christmas trade was large, both in 

 cut flowers and plants, but that it looks 

 to her as though the plants would in 

 future have the lead over the cut stock. 



Saratoga Springs, N. Y.— Since the 

 death of the seniflr T. J. Totten, which 

 occurred February 6, 1912, the business 

 has been continued by members of the 

 family, including Thos. J. Totten, Jr. 

 Recently the family formed a corpora- 

 tion and the firm name is now T. J. 

 Totten, Inc. The establishment is lo- 

 cated at the corner of Lake and Nelson 

 avenues. 



Leominster, Mass. — The greenhouses 

 on Fairview street, North Leominster, 

 owned by Mrs. S. J. Proctor and re- 

 cently operated by C. W. Newell, were 

 blown down by a furious gale on the 

 night of January 3. The houses, which 

 covered a space 50x200 feet, were al- 

 most entirely destroyed. The storm 

 also broke a great quantity of glass in 

 George M. Kendall's greenhouses, on 

 North Main street. 



Cleveland, O. — In order to take care 

 of its expanding business, the Standard 

 Pump & Engine Co. has found it neces- 

 sary to increase its capitalization from 

 $25,000 to $100,000 and has opened a 

 retail sales department at 1406 West 

 Third street, in the center of the up^ 

 town section, where a complete display 

 of water supply systems operating by 

 gas and gasoline engines and electric 

 motors, and also hand water systems as 

 well as a complete line of gas engines 

 and pumps is made. 



Portsmouth, Va. — The new year looks 

 good to W. P. Cotton, who does business 

 as the W. P. Cotton Floral Co., and he 

 is making preparations on a larger scale 

 than ever before. He has about 30,000 

 bulbs planted under glass and about 

 200,000 bulbs planted in the open, hav- 

 ing always found ready sale for all that 

 could be grown. He expects to grow 

 100,000 asters during the summer. Last 

 autumn he had the largest crop of 

 chrysanthemums ever grown in this sec- 

 tion of the country and, while prices 

 were reasonable, he did well with them. 

 One house has been planted to sweet 

 peas, with nine pounds of seed sowed 

 outside. While the entire year of 1912 

 was good, the Christmas trade brought 

 it to a specially successful finish. 



