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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Sl^TBMBBB 8, 1910. 



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READERS ARE INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE ITEMS FOR THIS DEPARTMENT. 



Brooklyn, N. Y. — J. Diefenbacher has 

 sold his business at 284 Graham avenue 

 to Augustus Osier, formerly of Bing- 

 hamton, N. Y. 



Sycamore, 111. — Fred E. Kramer, for- 

 merly of Aurora, 111., is now employed 

 at the greenhouses of Wm. Swinbank, 

 in this city. 



Marion, Ind. — F. W. Herleman has 

 discontinued business at Twenty-ninth 

 and Boots streets and expects to locate 

 elsewhere in the near future. 



Baker City, Ore. — W. A. Sisson & Co. 

 are now proprietors of the Center Street 

 Greenhouses, formerly owned by Ira B, 

 Sturges and located at 2432 Center 

 street. 



Bessemer, Ala. — Mrs. W. D. Brown 

 says trade is good and there is a fine 

 lot of mums coming on for fall blooms. 

 She says asters were good during Au- 

 gust. 



Logansport, Ind. — Mrs. O. G. McCor- 

 mick, whose greenhouses are at 700 

 Helm street, now maintains a down- 

 town oflSce in Tritt's drug store, 311 

 Fourth street. 



Ansouia, Conn. — At a recent meeting 

 of the Intertown Dahlia Association, it 

 was decided to hold a dahlia exhibi- 

 tion in the assembly room at the city 

 hall, September 17. 



Du Bois, Pa.— Tlie firm of Hay ward 

 & Jones has been dissolved by mutual 

 consent. Wm. G. Jones is continuing 

 the business. C. P. Hayward, the other 

 partner, is at present at Parker, Colo. 



Hillsboro, Ore.— W. H. Morton, of 

 the Hillsboro Plant & Flower Gardens, 

 recently was laid up with a broken 

 foot, but says it is now much better. 

 Business was good with this firm all 

 last season. 



Seattle, Wash.— Geo. F. Buchanan has 

 six acres near here devoted to garden 

 truck, fruit and flowers. He has a 

 Marechal Niel rose bush, planted twelve 

 years ago, that now stands thirteen 

 feet high. The main stalk is two and 

 one-half inches in diameter. 



Greene, R. I.— John R. Perkins has 

 just returned from a two weeks' trip 

 to Milwaukee, Wis., where he attended 

 the encampment of the Knights of 

 Pythias. On his way home he visited 

 some of the trade in the vicinity of 

 Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo and Montreal. 



Topeka, Kan.— Edward G. Bass, 

 owner of the Highland Park Conserva- 

 tory, reports that excavating is now 

 in progress for a large range on South 

 Fifteenth street, to be ready for plant- 

 ing July 1, 1911. It is said that, when 

 completed, these will be the largest and 

 best equipped greenhouses for whole- 

 sale and retail trade in Kansas. 



Sewickley, Pa. — Wm. H. Rosenbauer, 

 who owned the greenhouses at 404 

 Beaver street, has discontinued busi- 

 ness. 



York ViUage, Me.— W. G. Moulton & 

 Son are building a 90-foot addition to 

 their greenhouses, with concrete foun- 

 dations. 



San Antonio, Tex. — Mr. Heller, for- 

 merly of Stevens & Heller, Alvin, Tex., 

 is now a member of the firm of Helier 

 & Lomavity, in this city. 



Stoneham, Mass. — E. K. Farr is erect- 

 ing a King iron frame greenhouse at 

 5 North street and will grow carnations 

 for the Boston market. 



Denver, Colo. — Daniels & Fisher, the 

 department store which does a large 

 cut flower business here, is establishing 

 agents in the smaller towns through the 

 state where there are no regular florists. 



Lawrence, Mass. — Thornton Bros, re- 

 cently held an aster prize contest for 

 blooms raised from seed purchased in 

 their store. Silver loving cups were 

 won by the three best displays, not 

 more than twenty-five blooms being al- 

 lowed in one bunch. 



Indianapolis, Ind. — L. F. Benson 

 furnished a large number of bay trees 

 to be used in decorating the dining hall 

 at the county fair, held in Wonderland 

 park. The trees were conveyed to the 

 park in a 10-ton motor truck, which 

 bore a huge sign inscribed with Mr. 

 Benson's name. 



Highland, 111. — Maurice F. Widmer 

 has built an addition, 20x50, for smilax. 

 His greenhouses now comprise about 

 10,000 square feet of glass and are 

 stocked with carnations, roses, mums, 

 smilax and a general lino of pot plants. 

 The houses and their contents are all in 

 excellent condition. 



Atlantic, la. — A foreclosure suit 

 against the property of the Atlantic 

 Greenhouse Co. has been filed by Mrs. 

 Mary M. Nichols. She sues on four 

 mortgages, aggregating $1,110.65, which 

 she alleges were given to Charlotte 

 Scott, who, she says, has assigned her 

 rights to her. The suit is set for the 

 September term. 



Pittsfield, Mass, — Hon. Philip Breit- 

 meyer, the florist-mayor of Detroit, was 

 a recent visitor in this city. He was 

 accompanied by Mrs. Breitmeyer and 

 Mr. and Mrs. John Gillispie. Mr. Gil- 

 lispie is the Detroit agent of the 

 Thomas automobile, and the motor trip 

 is being made in a fine 1911 ninety 

 horse-power Thomas, with Mr. Gillispie 

 driving. Mr. Breitmeyer was inter- 

 viewed at length by a newspaper re- 

 porter in regard to civic conditions in 

 Detroit and elsewhere. 



Taunton, Mass. — Clinton Macomber 

 is building a greenhouse, 25x150, at the 

 rear of his home on West Britannia 

 street. 



CarroUton, Mo. — H. L. Kennedy, of 

 Kennedy & Farnham, recently made a 

 three weeks' bicycle trip through parts 

 of Missouri and southeastern Kansas. 



Huntingdon, Pa. — Samuel A. Ham- 

 linton acted as judge at the annual flow- 

 er carnival recently held in the Method- 

 ist Episcopal church of Perry, N. Y. 



Leavenworth, Kan. — Knipe & Hinz, 

 of the Sunnyside Greenhouses, have 

 been making improvements in their 

 store, including the construction of a 

 new show window. 



Black Hall, Conn.— Edgar H. Steele, 

 manager of the Black Hall Green- 

 houses, has closed a most successful 

 cucumber season, and since then has 

 been busy changing soil and getting in 

 his mums. 



Soldiers Home, Mich. — C. B. Bow- 

 ditch, of the Michigan Soldiers' Home, 

 states they have 130 acres of improved 

 grounds, five greenhouses, of Moninger 

 construction, planted with about 62,700 

 bedding plants, and two tracts where 

 they grow all their nursery stock, em- 

 ploying a total of about twenty men on 

 the grounds. 



Sycamore, 111. — William Swinbank 's 

 business . is increasing steadily from 

 year to year. He grows both vegetables 

 and cut'flowers, and his product in both 

 lines is of the highest quality. At 

 present his houses are well stocked with 

 carnations, chrysanthemums, roses, lilies, 

 geraniums and miscellaneous plants. In 

 spring about 50,000 tomato and cabbage 

 plants are required to supply his trade. 



Cromwell, Conn. — It is stated in the 

 local newspapers that Andrew Benson, 

 a Connecticut farmer, has just returned 

 from a seven months' expedition to the 

 United States of Colombia, with eighty- 

 five crates of rare orchids, which he 

 values at more than $25,000. Among 

 his prizes are four specimens of a pure 

 white orchid so rare that each plant, it 

 is said, commands a price of $1,000 in 

 this country. 



Pontiac, 111.— W. J. Miller & Son 

 have completed the erection of three 

 modern greenhouses, each 50x100, on 

 their property at the east end of Paysori 

 street. The head of this firm, William 

 J. Miller, has been a resident of this 

 city for many years. A number of 

 years ago he erected greenhouses here 

 and later disposed of them. Associated 

 with him now is his son, Orlin B. Miller, 

 who for some years has been connected 

 with the trade at Williamsport, Pa., 

 and Terre Haute, Ind. 



