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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Sei'tembku 8, 1910. 



RliADERS AHi: INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE ITEMS FOR THIS DEPARTMENT. 



Brooklyn, N. Y. — J. DietVnhaclior has 

 sdlil liis liii.siiH'ss !it l'S4 Giali.'iin ;i\'iMiiie 

 t(i .\ii;;ustus ()si('r, t'oiiiicily of Jiiiiji- 

 liiiiutoii, X. V. 



Sycamore, 111. l"rc(l \l. Kiainor. lor- 

 iin'ily of Aurora, Jll.. is now iMiiployi'd 

 at t lie (;i('('iilioiis('s ot' Win. Swi nlianlv, 

 in fills cify. 



Marion, Ind. - I'. \V. Ilorlcinan has 

 iliscont in\i('<| husincss at Twenty n infh 

 and lioots streets and expects to locafe 

 olsewluM'e ill tlie near future. 



Baker City, Ore. — W. A. 8issoii & Co. 

 are now |iro|irietoi s of t in^ <'eiit(M' .Street 

 ( ireenlionses, formerly owned by Ira li. 

 iStiiryts and located at I'loL* Center 

 street. 



Bessemer, Ala. — Mrs. \V. D. Brown 

 says trade is yood aiol tlieic is a fine 

 lot of inuiiis coininjf on for fall hloonis. 

 Siie s;iys asters wer(> yood duriiii; .\u- 

 yust . 



Logansport, Ind. — :Mrs. (). (i. ;Mc<'or- 

 iiiick, wliose greenhouses are at 7U0 

 lleliri street, now iiiaintains a down- 

 town ohice in 'J'ritt 's driiy store, 'Jll 

 I-"onrtli street. 



Ansonia, Conn. -At a recent meeting; 

 of the Inlertown Dahlia Association, it 

 was decid<'d to l'(dd a daiilia exhilii 

 tioii in the asseiiihly room at the city 

 hall. Septeiiiher 17. 



Du Bois, Pa. — Tlie (inn of llayward 

 \ .lones has heen ciis--ol\ed li\- mutual 

 consent. Win. <i. .lones is cunliinnii;^ 

 till- l.n-iiie-s. C. ]'. 11,-iyward. the oilier 

 partner, i^ ;it prevent at I'ariier. ( Olo. 



Hillsboro, Ore. W. 11. ?il(jit(iii, oi' 

 till- llill-l.i,rii I'lant \ I'luwci- Oaideiis, 

 rei-ciit l_\- was liiiil ii|, with ;i l.rMken 

 foot. IpiiI -ay< it i- |!m\\ nM.'-h licttci-, 

 l'.ll-ilie-~ wa- ^ood with llii- 111 in ;ill 



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in;: duly 1. I'.il 1. It i- ^aid that, w hen 

 '■oiNplelid. these will le 1 hi' laii^ot '.nd 

 lie^I eipiippeil ;^reeli lioii^e^ fcir whole 

 -ale ;iii(| ret;iil trade in l\aii-;i'~. 



Sewickley, Pa. — Wni. 11. Koscnbauer, 

 who owned the j^rcenhoiises at 401 

 Heaver street, has discontinued husi- 

 ness. 



York Village, Me.— W. C. :\!oulton & 

 Son are liuildiny a !h) foot ;iilditiou to 

 tlndr j^reenhouses, with concrete foiin- 

 dat ions. 



San Antonio, Tex. — Mr. Ihdier, for 

 merly of Stevens & Heller, Alviii, Tex., 

 is now a nieinix'r id' the linn o( Jleller 

 it Loinavity. in this city. 



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

 iiifi a Kinj; iron frame greenhouse at 

 .") Nortli street and will yrow carnations 

 for the I'.oston market. 



Denver, Colo. — Daniels & Fisher, the 

 department store which does a large 

 cut flower Inisiness here, is estahlisldni^ 

 agents in the smaller towns through the 

 state where tliere are no regular llorists. 



Lawrence, Mass. — Thornton Bros, re- 

 cently held an aster j)ri/.o contest for 

 blooms raised from seed juirchased in 

 their store. Siher loving cups wore 

 won by the three best displays, not 

 more than twenty five Ijlooins being al- 

 lowed in one bnmdi. 



Indianapolis, Ind. — L. F. P.enson 

 furnished .a large number of b.ay trees 

 to be used in decorating the dining iiall 

 at the county fair, held in Wonderland 

 jiark. The trees were convexi'd to the 

 park in a hi-toii motor triud;, whicdi 

 bore .-I huge sign inscribed with Mr. 

 lienson "s name. 



Highland, 111. — Maurice I'. ^Vidmer 

 has built .an addition, L'tlx-'iH, for smilax. 

 His greenhouses now com|irise about 

 lii.diKi >(pi;ire feet of glass and are 

 -locked with c;i rnat ions, roses, mnins, 

 smilax and a general line (d' ]i(d plants. 

 The houses .and tludr i-ontents ari' all in 

 i'Nc(dlent condition. 



Atlantic, la. — .\ foreclosure suit 

 against the jiroperty of the Atlantic 

 < ireenhoiise ( o. h;is been filed bv Mrs. 

 Mary .M . \i(diols. She sues on i' )ur 

 iiiort^!i;ies. aggiegating .-fJl.ll (i.d."), which 

 -he .illegcs wert( given to <'harlotte 

 ScMtt, who. she sa,\s, hits assigned her 

 ii;jhts to her. The suit is S(d. for the 

 ■-cpteniber teiin. 



Pittsfield, Mass.— lion. I'hilip Hreit 

 'iii\ii. the liorist mayor of Detroit, was 

 a jcceiit \isitor in tills city. He was 

 accompanied by Mrs. Breitmeyer ;iii<l 

 Mr. and .Mrs. .bdiii (iillispie. Mr. (lib 

 li-pie is the Detroit agent iif the 

 Thomas a iitoinidd le, and the motor trip 

 is being m.ade in a fine lltll ninety 

 horse-power Thomas, with Mr. (iillispie 

 driving. Mr. D>reitiiieyer was inter- 

 viewed at length by a newspaper re- 

 porter in reg.ard to ci\ic conditions in 

 Di'troit and elsewhere. 



Taunton, Mass. — Clinton Macoinber 

 is building a greenhouse, li.lxloO, at the 

 roar of his home on W^'st Britannia 

 street. 



CarroUton, Mo. — 11. L. Kennedy, of 

 K'ennedy & Faniham, recently made a 

 three weeks' bicycle trip through parts 

 of ^Missouri and southeastern Kansas. 



Huntingdon, Pa. — Samuel A. Hani- 

 linton acted as judge at the annual flow- 

 er carnival recently held in the ]Metliod- 

 ist Fjdscopai church of I'erry, N. Y. 



Leavenworth, Kan. — Knipe & Iliuz, 

 of the .Sunnyside Greenhouses, have 

 been making iin])roveinents in tlieir 

 store, including tlio 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 liU) acres of improved 

 grounds, five greenhouses, of Moninger 

 construction, planted with about 02,700 

 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 ilowers, and his product in both 

 lines is of the highest quality. At 

 present his houses are wtdl stocked with 

 carnations, chrysanthemums, roses, lilies, 

 geraniums and miscellaneous jilauts. In 

 spring about oOjOOO tomato and cabbage 

 )ilants are recpiired to siiiiply his trade. 



Cromwell, Conn. — It is stated in the 

 local news[ia|)ers that Andrew Benson, 

 a (,'oniie(diciit farmer, has .just returned 

 from a sevtMi months' ex[)e<lition to the 

 I'nitecl States of Colombia, with eiglity- 

 live crates of rare or(diids, which he 

 values ;it more than .i!:2.'i,O(»0. Among 

 his prizes are four sjieidmens of a jiure 

 wliit(> or(diid so rare that each plant, it 

 is said, commands a price of .$],000 in 

 this country. 



Pontiac, 111.— W. .1. Miller .S: Son 

 have completed the erection of three 

 modern griMMihoiises, eacdi jIO.xIOI). on 

 their |)roperty at the east end of Payson 

 strei't. The head of this firm, William 

 .1. Miller, has been a resident of this 

 city for many years. A numi)er of 

 .\ears ago he erected greenhouses iiere 

 and later disposed of them. Associated 

 with him now is his son, Orliu li, Milh'r, 

 Avho for some years has been connected 

 with the trade at Williaiiis|)ort. Da., 

 and Terre Haute, ind. 



