Febbuasy 20, 1913. 



The Florists^ Review 



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New London, Conn. — E. W. Clark will 

 occupy a handsome downtown store as 

 soon as the building is completed. 



Dallas, Tex. — The Lang Floral & 

 Nursery Co. has certified to an increase 

 in capital stock from $46,000 to $70,000. 



Beverly, Mass. — Quiney A. Shaw has 

 secured a permit for the erection of an- 

 other greenhouse near Hale street. 

 Pride's Crossing. 



Chicopee Falls, Mass. — Frank Burfitt 

 finds his new location decidedly advan- 

 tageous and reports a good season. He 

 has a fine site and expects to put up 

 more glass in the near future. 



Mamaroneck, N. T. — Thomas S. Skin- 

 ner will inaugurate spring business by 

 opening a store in the village at Easter. 

 The trolley makes easy delivery from 

 the greenhouses, located some distance 

 out. 



(3reen Bay, Wis. — Joseph De Clerc, a 

 nephew of Charles De Clerc, fhe North 

 Adams street florist, arrived here re- 

 cently from Brussels, Belgium. The 

 young man expects to make his home in 

 this city and will be employed in his 

 uncle's business. 



Chattanooga, Tenn. — The Chattanooga 

 Landscape Co. has been ihcorporated, 

 with an authorized capital of $5,000, 

 for the purpose of doing a general land- 

 scape and gardening business. The in- 

 corporators are L. F. Lewis, J. C. Mc- 

 Whorter, A. M. Willard, J. N. McCutch- 

 eou and O. D. Lancaster. 



Westerly, R. I.— S. J. Renter & Son 

 have established a chain of retail stores 

 in two nearby towns and one at home, 

 and report the result as highly satisfac- 

 tory. Their shipping trade is as large 

 as ever. Great quantities of carnations 

 and chrysanthemums are being propa- 

 gated, in addition to a more general 

 line of stock required for store sales. 



Kane, Pa. — Mrs. Caroline V. Proper 

 is a busy business woman. In addition 

 to the greenhouse business she has start- 

 ed a company to develop an oil and gas 

 property. The latter promises so well 

 that she will sell her florists' business 

 at the first opportunity, to give her 

 whole time to the larger interests. The 

 florists' establishment consists of two 

 greenhouses fully equipped, with a mod- 

 ern residence. 



Elmira, N. Y.— The United States Cut 

 Flower Co. has awarded to the King 

 Construction Co. the contract for an- 

 other new greenhouse. The present 

 range comprises 250,000 square feet of 

 glass, including 25,000 square feet that 

 were added within the last two years. 

 The officers of the company are: Presi- 

 dent, Seymour Lowman; secretary and 

 treasurer, Frank Inksater; directors, 

 Hubert C. Mandeville, H. N. Hoffman 

 and J. S. Fassett. 



Birmingham, Ala. — The Hugh Seals 

 Floral Co. has filed articles of incorpo- 

 ration. Hugh Seals is president. 



Des Moines, la. — Frank Howell, an 

 employee in the greenhouses of the 

 Iowa Seed Co., is -preparing to start in 

 business for himself on Gray street. 



SayvUle, L. L — The greenhouse of 

 Seymour Burr at Oakdale was destroyed 

 by fire February 5. The loss includes 

 many thousands of choice plants, which 

 supplied wealthy residents of Oakdale 

 and elsewhere. 



Batavia, 111. — It is reported that the 

 residence of Henry Wenberg, head of 

 the Batavia Greenhouse Co., was de- 

 stroyed recently by a fire which also 

 demolished the Pythian building and 

 caused a total loss, in the block, of 

 $20,000. 



Des Moines, la. — The friends of Miss 

 Perle B. Fulmer will be pleased to learn 

 that she has received an appointment 

 from the government to the position 

 of supervisor of music in Sherman In- 

 stitute, Riverside, Cal. Miss Fulmer 

 left February 5 to assume her duties. 



Dalton, Mass. — James C. McMaster, 

 the dealer in Christmas trees, ferns and 

 decorative supplies, who was formerly 

 located at Hinsdale, Mass., now has his 

 headquarters here. Mr. Dresser, who 

 was Mr. McMaster 's partner for a time 

 at Hinsdale, has withdrawn from the 

 trade. 



Masalllon, O.— The body of Ernst 

 Woodtly, a gardener at the Massillon 

 State hospital, was found recently in 

 the Tuscarawas river. He had been 

 dead several days, while relatives sup- 

 posed he was spending a vacation in 

 Wooster. There were doubts as to 

 whether his death was accidental or due 

 to foul play. He was 30 years of age. 



Camden, N. J. — It ia reported that a 

 suit to recover $5,000 damages has been 

 instituted against Charles F. Wonder- 

 lin for alleged assault and battery on a 

 young man named Walter Beck. It is 

 alleged that Beck and another young 

 man were "skylarking" in Mr. Won- 

 derlin's greenhouses and he ordered 

 them off the premises, later throwing a 

 flower pot at Beck, striking him on the 

 head. 



Charleston, S. C. — C. M. Newman has 

 sold the greenhouses and nursery, which 

 he has conducted for eleven years, to 

 John Salmon, of Baltimore, for $20,000. 

 There are fifteen greenhouses in the 

 range. The business carried on by Mr. 

 Newman under the name of the Caro- 

 lina Floral Co. also is included in the 

 sale. The business will be continued 

 under the management of F. Aichele, 

 nephew of the new proprietor. Mr. 

 Newman and family have gone to 

 Florida, but will shortly return to their 

 old home in Germany. 



Middlebush, N. J.-— Edouard C. Mat- 

 thes, formerly located at Woodside, 

 Long Island, N. Y., is now in business 

 here. 



Denver, Pa. — W. M. Burd, who for 

 nine years has worked, for various 

 florists, has built a greenhouse and is 

 starting for himself. A second house 

 will be built in the spring. 



Marion, Mass.— David F. Roy, super- 

 intendent of the H. E. Converse estate, 

 was the leading speaker at the banquet 

 of the New Bedford Horticultural So- 

 ciety, in New Bedford, February 6. He 

 spoke on chrysanthemums, on which he 

 is regarded as a high authority. 



Nashville, Tenn. — During the recent 

 meeting of the state horticultural 

 bodies here the Atlas Powder Co; took 

 the visitors to the grounds of the Joy 

 Floral Co., to witness a demonstration 

 of the use of dynamite in ditching, sub- 

 soiling, stump extraction and orchard 

 planting. 



Kansas City, Mo. — Two boys, locked 

 by accident in the store of . the Alpha 

 floral Co., where they were employed, 

 the other night watched a burglar 

 working in a shoe store across the 

 street. They telephoned for the police, 

 who arrived in time to catch the 

 burglar. 



Madison, N. J. — The greenhouse on 

 Sampson avenue, formerly owned by 

 Ordonez Bros, and recently purchased 

 by Miss Mercedes D'Caycedo, was 

 partly destroyed by fire February 7. 

 The establishment was devoted to 

 orchids and much stock was destroyed. 

 The fire evidently started in the base- 

 ment of the potting shed. 



Winona, Minn. — On the evening of 

 February 4, when the temperature was 

 9 degrees below zero, fire broke out in 

 the boiler room of John Fuhlbruegge 's 

 greenhouses. The firemen made short 

 work of the blaze, and hard work 

 enabled the proprietor to close the 

 openings. Fortunately a second boiler 

 at another location was available to 

 maintain the temperature. What threat- 

 ened to be a total loss was thus held 

 down to $400. 



Lockport, N. Y.— Wm. H. Mansfield, 

 son of Thomas Mansfield, was painfully 

 injured in a wreck on an interurban 

 trolley line early in the morning of Jan- 

 uary 25. In company with a party of 

 the Eagles, he was returning from Buf- 

 falo. When within two blocks of the 

 Lockport station, the two special cars 

 occupied by the party ran into a freight 

 train that was standing on the main 

 track. About fifty-three men were in- 

 jured. One of young Mansfield's knees 

 was dislocated and fractured, and he 

 also suffered a compound fracture of 

 his left ankle. He was taken to th« 

 City hospital, where he was expected to 

 I remain for several weeks. 



