OCTOBBB 27, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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READERS ARE INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE ITEMS FOR THIS DEPARTMENT. 



Nowata, Okla. — F. M. Treat has 

 bought the greenhouses and business of 

 Cass Lanning. 



Rochester, N. H. — E. A. Corson has 

 torn down his smallest greenhouse, 

 which was the first one erected. 



Chatham, N. Y.— E. E. Shuphelt has 

 gone to Fruitland Park, Fla., where the 

 family has spent the winter for several 

 years. 



Louisiana, Mo. — After a two weeks' 

 vacation, J, G. Layton has resumed his 

 position as manager of M. S. Foreman 's 

 retail business. 



San Antonio, Tex. — The Lady of the 

 Lake Gardens Co. has been incorpo- 

 rated, with a capital of $10,000, by J. 

 A. Clopton, John W. Spencer, H. P. 

 Matthews and L. B. Randall. 



Green Farms, Conn. — Geo. B. White- 

 head is constructing another well, so as 

 to insure a sufficient supply of water in 

 dry seasons. Becent droughts in this 

 neighborhood have been a source of 

 great trouble. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — The local dailies 

 have been printing the portrait of Miss 

 H. B. Whitted as donor of prizes for a 

 vacant lot gardening contest recently 

 decided, and some of them mentioned 

 the street number of her flower store. 



Muncle, Ind. — Boosevelt day, October 

 13, was a busy day for the florists. 

 Considerable decorating was done. The 

 local press, in commenting on the deco- 

 rations, made special mention of the 

 window of the new store of the Muncie 

 Floral Co. as having the best decoration 

 for the occasion. 



Troy, III. — J. R. Ward, who recently 

 erected a greenhouse here, has an- 

 nounced that he is now fully prepared 

 for the transaction of a general florists' 

 business. He expects to build more 

 houses before long, and has installed a 

 boiler which has sufficient capacity to 

 take care of these additions. 



Burlington, Vt. — Mrs. Cora E. Gove, 

 who has conducted a large range of 

 greenhouses just outside this city for a 

 number of years, will soon open a store 

 in the room formerly occupied by W. E. 

 Peters, at 184 Main street. She is fully 

 determined to make the store one of 

 the most up-to-date establishments in 

 the state. 



Grand Island, Neb. — Williams The 

 Florist added about 8,500 square feet 

 of glass during the summer, making a 

 total of 20,000 square feet of glass in 

 his range. He has also installed a new 

 ninety horse-power boiler. Robert Fel- 

 by, formerly with Geo. M. Kellogg, at 

 Pleasant Hill, Mo., has been engaged 

 as foreman. Business throughout the 

 year has been excellent, and future 

 prospects are bright. 



Port Huron, Mich. — C. W. Asman has 

 erected a large addition to his green- 

 houses at Lakeside beach. 



Hot Springs, Ark. — Mrs. Mattie 

 Byrne has gone out of business, selling 

 out to the Johnson Floral Co. 



Radnor, Pa. — James F. Sullivan is 

 preparing to build a private green- 

 house 20x35 and a gardener's cottage. 



Iiarned, Kan. — Joel Smith, proprietor 

 of the Lamed Home Nursery, has added 

 a greenhouse for the supply of flowers 

 and plants. 



Loomis, Cal. — Fire at the greenhouses 

 of the California Carnation Co. recently 

 damaged those buildings and completely 

 destroyed the office fixtures and a dwell- 

 ing on the property. 



Albion, Mich. — M. & S. Dysinger have 

 a Lawson x Enchantress seedling that 

 they think highly of and may dis- 

 seminate. It has Lawson color with 

 Enchantress habit. The variety is in 

 its fourth year. 



Columbiana, O. — Henry E. Weaver 

 has purchased some property on North 

 Main street, north of the borough line, 

 and will remove his greenhouses to that 

 location, where he will have much bet- 

 ter facilities and conveniences than be- 

 fore. 



Indian Orchard, Mass. — A greenhouse 

 belonging to Mrs. Isabella Lindsey, on 

 the Boston road, was slightly damaged 

 recently by fire, supposed to be of in- 

 cendiary origin. A man named William 

 Cochrane was arrested on the charge of 

 starting the flames. 



Oskaloosa, la. — The Kemble Floral Co. 

 is making extensive improvements in 

 the way of new walks and drives at its 

 property on C avenue, east. The im- 

 provements include a cement driveway 

 on the west side of the greenhouses, 

 besides some other cement construction. 



Battle Creek, Mich. — C. C. Warbur- 

 ton, who formerly conducted a store at 

 Monument Square, has now opened a 

 large store at 52 East Main street, 

 where he will have better facilities for 

 the care of his increasing business. At 

 his greenhouses, at the corner of North 

 Union and Emmett streets, many im- 

 provements were made during the sum- 

 mer. 



Moberly, Mo.— Mrs. R. S. Estill has 

 just completed two new houses and is 

 repainting the older greenhouses. These, 

 together with her magnificent residence, 

 make a ^ne sight. C. A. Claison, the 

 foreman, says that local trade is good, 

 especially in design work, and the de- 

 mand always exceeds the supply. Mrs. 

 Estill, therefore, will build more houses 

 as soon as possible, and is already in 

 possession of the ground for the pur- 

 pose. 



North Scituate, Mass. — It is reported 

 that the greenhouses owned by Mrs. 

 Eban S. Bowen have been sold. 



Victoria, B. C. — Fred Bennett, for- 

 merly of Montreal, now has charge of 

 the Woodward here. The range con- 

 sists of 300,000 feet of modern glass. 



Gibson City, 111. — Swan Peterson 

 Floral Co. is making good use of a pic- 

 ture postcard for advertising purposes. 

 The card shows the greenhouses in 

 colors. 



Springfield, N. J.— Wm. Henshaw, for- 

 merly manager of Henshaw Bros., Inc., 

 is no longer connected with the com- 

 pany. J. Niel Jakobsen is managing 

 director. 



Newark, O. — Kent Bros, reported, un- 

 der date of October 17, that the warm 

 weather was bringing on the mums fast, 

 and there were plenty of Pacific Su- 

 preme, Virginia Poehlmann, October 

 Frost and Golden Glow on the market. 



Findlay, O.— S. J. McMichael has 

 been putting up horse radish for mar- 

 ket for twenty-four years. Another 

 branch of his business is growing vege- 

 table plants for the trade and of late 

 years this has been increasing rapidly. 

 He has just added considerable hotbed 

 space and has saved the seed from fifty 

 bushels of selected tomatoes of his own 

 growing for his 1911 crop. 



Anglum, Mo. — Wensel & Hecht have 

 just completed three new greenhouses, 

 besides a new boiler house, coal pit and 

 office, 20x66. Their range now consists 

 of four greenhouses, each 27x100, and a 

 propagating and potting house, 12x100. 

 They are heated by Kroeschell boilers, 

 and the greenhouse material was all 

 furnished by the John C. Moninger Co. 

 The houses are all well stocked, and 

 everything about the place is in fine 

 condition for the winter business. 



Southwick, Mass.— Edward Qillett, 

 who in 1878 established his gardens 

 here for the growing of hardy outdoor 

 plants, has increased his stock and im- 

 proved its quality until now. it is said, 

 there are few of the great botanical 

 gardens that have not procured speci- 

 mens from his fields. One of his special- 

 ties is ferns, of which he has fifty-three 

 different kinds, which he cultivates un- 

 der the most approved conditions of 

 soil and shade, but he also grows peo- 

 nies, some of the hardiest roses and a 

 large assortment of perennials, besides 

 shrubs and trees. He has a greenhouse 

 for the starting of his more delicate 

 stock. One of the interesting features 

 of his place is the bog garden, where he 

 grows plants for the beaut iflcation of 

 swampy ground. He is now assisted in 

 his work by his son, Kenneth Gillett, 

 a graduate of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College. 



