Septkmber 1, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



17 



Somerville, Mass. — Frank J. Eeynolds 

 has filed a petition in bankruptcy. His 

 liabilities are $2,145; assets, $300. 



South Sudbury, Mass. — Solomon H. 

 Andejson has filed a petition in bank- 

 ruptcy. His liabilities are $2,001.44; as- 

 sets, $40.85. 



River Forest, 111. — Ernest Oechslin 

 says business is now picking up, al- 

 though he has no complaints to make 

 regarding summer trade. 



Lockport, N. Y.— Charles Mansfield 

 dropped in at the convention, fresh 

 from a trip to England, his first trip of 

 the kind in forty years. 



Sioux City, la. — The contract for the 

 erection of the greenhouse at the Main 

 street pumping station has been award- 

 ed to the King Construction Co. 



Colorado City, Colo. — The annual 

 flower show was held in Mack's hall, 

 August 24 and 25, under the auspices of 

 the Improvement Society, of which 

 John B. Stephen is president. 



Green Bay, Wis. — Carl Meier & Co. 

 have completed the erection of two ad- 

 ditional houses of iron-frame construc- 

 tion, covering a space 42x80 feet. They 

 have also installed a new boiler. 



Hammond, Ind. — H. F. Erlebach, the 

 plant tub manufacturer, has found it 

 necessary to increase the factory ca- 

 pacity by an addition, 50x100 feet. He 

 has also been making other improve- 

 ments to the buildings. 



Fairmount, Ind. — The greenhouses 

 owned by the Misses Addie Dare and 

 Mary Pearson, on South Mill street, will 

 be doubled in size at once. It is ex- 

 pected that the new houses will be com- 

 pleted in time for the winter season. 



Coming, N. Y. — A. H. Woeppel says 

 the trip to the Kochester convention did 

 him a world of good. He is now busy 

 planting a grand lot of carnations. He 

 demonstrates home decoration with sev- 

 eral handsome flower beds, facing the 

 entrance to his snug plant. 



Maywood, 111. — Ernst Eober, who is 

 growing poinsettias for shipping, re- 

 cently discovered a variegated strain 

 among the young stock. This new 

 plant shows great promise, and he has 

 isolated it so as to watch the develop- 

 ment closely. Mr. Eober hopes to get 

 an entirely new variety from it. 



Calgary, Alberta. — The same week 

 the S. A. F. was in session at Eochester 

 the farthest north flower show was in 

 progress at Calgary. It crowded the 

 Art building at Victoria park. The 

 exhibits were of great variety, but 

 largely amateur, but Calgary's half- 

 dozea florists did their share. The pub- 

 lic interest was large. 



Ogden, Utah. — B. Van Der Schuit is 

 building another greenhouse, 17x80, 

 with brick walls. 



Newton, Mass. — The Boston Garden- 

 ing Co. has been incorporated, with a 

 capital stock of $50,000, by Fitz-Henry 

 Smith, Jr., and Donald M. Hill. 



Iowa City, la. — A. G. Prince has 

 bought the Eanney greenhouse and is 

 removing it to his establishment on 

 Summit street, where it will be used as 

 a palm and display house. 



Fort Wayne, Ind. — It is reported that 

 Frank Gompf, who is connected with 

 the greenhouses of W. J. & M. S. Vesey, 

 has invented a soil carrier, but that the 

 machine is not yet quite ready to be 

 placed on the market. 



Thompsonville, Conn. — The cut flower 

 establishment of D. Wm. Brainard, 

 which was located on Pease street for 

 many years, has now been transferred 

 to the site of the Brainard Floral & 

 Nursery Co., on Springfield street, for 

 the purpose of concentrating the two 

 departments. 



Lancaster, N. Y. — William J. Palmer, 

 of W. J. Palmer & Son, the Buffalo firm 

 whose greenhouses are located here, has 

 purchased the Hummell property on 

 Central avenue, near the Erie railroad. 

 This will make a most desirable addi- 

 tion to Mr. Palmer's large interests 

 here. 



Boswell, N. M. — The Alameda Green- 

 houses, which are owned by Mrs. J. P. 

 Church, have been leased for the last 

 five years to F. O. Santheson, on ac- 

 count of the feeble condition of Mrs. 

 Church's health. She has now fully 

 recovered, however, and will resume the 

 management of the place January 1, 

 1911. 



ColoradiO Springs, Colo. — The Pikes 

 Peak Floral Co. has announced that it 

 will open a store in the downtown dis- 

 trict this fall. The exhibit of this firm 

 at the annual flower show of the El 

 Paso County Horticultural Society, in 

 the Temple theater, occupied the entire 

 theater stage and was one of the most 

 tasteful displays ever seen here. C. E. 

 Mealy, the designer, received many 

 compliments on his work. 



Washington, la. — A hail storm in 

 this vicinity, August 20. did great dam 

 age to greenhouses and to outdoor 

 stock. Two hundred lights of g'ass 

 were broken at the greenhouses of Jos. 

 P. Malinskey and one of the houses was 

 flooded, as there was also a heavy fall 

 of rain. Mr. Malinskey 's range now 

 consists of four houses — a rose house 

 30x75, a mum house 23x100, a carna- 

 tion bouse 23x100, and a smilax house 

 16x50 — and he intends to build another 

 house, for lettuce. 



Missoula, Mont. — Charles F, Dallman 

 has just completed the erection of 

 greenhouses which will about double his 

 glass area. The addition includes a 

 large rose house. 



Sedalia, Mo. — The Archias Floral Co., 

 which purchased the greenhouses of 

 Gelven & Son last spring, will build two 

 more houses this fall, in order to meet 

 the rapidly increasing demand. 



New Haven, Conn. — L. Wolf has re- 

 moved from 180 to 158 Meadow street. 

 In spite of a recent accident which re- 

 sulted in breaking his arm, he has given 

 regular attention to business at the 

 store. 



Columbus, O. — H. W. Kropp has 

 leased the establishment known as the 

 Cottage Eose GardeUj conducted for 

 many years by the late G. Drobisch, 

 and will carry on the business in the 

 future. 



Rutland, Vt. — The Perry Seed House, 

 florists and seedsmen, on Park street, 

 will tear down two old greenhouses and 

 erect in their place one modern house, 

 40x100. This will provide a space 28x 

 40 feet larger than at present. 



Norwich, Conn. — Charles T. Beasley, 

 gardener for Mrs. William C. Lanman, 

 at Ghlanbouer, is experimenting with a 

 new white chrysanthemum which gives 

 promise of being quite valuable, if he 

 succeeds in perpetuating it. It is a 

 sport from a standard yellow variety. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — L. S. Donaldson, 

 proprietor of the department store that 

 does one of the largest florists' busi- 

 nesses in the Twin Cities, is one of the 

 board of managers of the National Con- 

 servation Congress, which meets at St. 

 Paul, September 5 to 9, and to which 

 the Society of American Florists has 

 accredited five delegates. 



Lockport, N. Y. — A feature of the 

 recent Old Home week was a parade 

 of decorated vehicles. While the float 

 of Charles L. Dole was not the largest 

 or most elaborate, he received many 

 compliments on it as the most artistic 

 in the line. A floral harp stood in the 

 center of the platform. It was five feet 

 high, made of Lilium rubrum with a 

 base of pink gladioli. Doves on the 

 corner posts of the float held garlands 

 of Asparagus plumosus and silver tinsel, 

 which was brilliant in the sunshine. The 

 garlands of smilax were caught up with 

 a bunch of Harrisii and a large bow 

 and streamers of pink tarlatan, chiffon 

 being too delicate for outdoor effect. 

 The driver wore a blue uniform with 

 white cap and gloves. Mr. Dole says 

 the expense and work involved were 

 well repaid by the favorable impression 

 made on the public, and its advertising 

 power has been far-reaching and bene- 

 I ficial. 



