March 17, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



47 



Spaeta, Mich. — N. R. Hulbert is pre- 

 paring to engage in the business here 

 and will erect two greenhouses this 

 spring. 



Milwaukee, Wis. — John. I. Beggs has 

 purchased the Thomas Weaver & Sons 

 greenhouses and fruit farms in Wauke- 

 sha county. 



Greens Farms, Conn. — E. B. Jen- 

 nings, who is far advanced in years, has 

 been seriously ill, but is now consider- 

 ably improved. 



Greenwich, Conn. — The greenhouses 

 and several other buildings at the villa 

 of H. Durant Cheever were destroyed 

 recently by fire. 



Washington, Pa. — C. A. Dunn is now 

 proprietor of the flower store formerly 

 owned by Jos. It. Seaman & Co., at 60 

 South Main street. 



Jacksonville, Fla. — Mills The Florist 

 recently received a fine shipment of 

 orange blossoms, which attracted much 

 attention and sold readUy. 



, Secaucus, N. J. — The Meerbott Floral 

 Co. will erect two iron-frame greenhouses, 

 21x125, using material contracted for 

 with the King Construction Co. 



Lincoln, Neb. — Mrs. Frey, wife of H. 

 H. Frey, of Frey & Frey, and mother of 

 C. H. Frey, passed away at one o'clock 

 Saturday, March 12, aged 70 years. 



Alvin, Tex.— Mrs. P. E. Nelson has 

 sold her home and business to H. G. 

 Woodward & Son, who are carrying on 

 the business in an energetic manner. 



St. Paul, Minn. — H. W. Raasch is 

 now proprietor of the business at the 

 corner of Hazel and Jessamine streets, 

 formerly conducted by W. J. McWhinney. 



La Grange, Ky. — M. Koehnlein, for- 

 merly of Louisville, Ky., is now in the 

 florists' business here, having organized 

 a firm which wUl bear the name of 

 Koehnlein & Hoffman. 



Alliance, O. — The Lambom Floral 

 Co., which has extensive greenhouses on 

 Hartshorn street, has under consideration 

 the enlargement of its plant and some 

 other extensive improvements. 



Clinton, Mo. — A. Woerner says that 

 business has been excellent this season, 

 much better than ever before, and that 

 he has had to buy large quantities of 

 stock from wholesale sources, not being 

 able to grow nearly all that he needs. 



Cincinnati, 0. — Hobert P. Dowling 

 has been appointed by Judge Bromwell as 

 receiver of the greenhouses and florists' 

 business of Brian P. Critchell. The ap- 

 pointment was made in a suit filed by the 

 Second National Bank, which foreclosed 

 upon a $1,500 note, secured by mortgage 

 on the property. 



Middletown, N. Y. — F. X. Dienst is 

 an ardent Nimrod, and is content if he 

 does start out for bear and returns with 

 a jack rabbit. His stock seems to be in 

 first-class shape. 



Melrose, Mass. — A. M. Tuttle recent- 

 ly advertised his fine stock of azaleas 

 quite effectively by causing specimens 

 of them to be placed in, many of the 

 store windows about the city. 



Fremont, Neb. — G. L. Welch & Co., 

 of the Plumfield Nurseries, will grow 

 twenty acres of nursery stock across the 

 river in Saunders county this season for 

 their out-of-town trade. 



Hammond, Ind. — Arthur Schutz has 

 been having an exceedingly heavy run 

 of funeral work, making as many as six- 

 ty-three designs in one day. He is a 

 member of the city council. 



Wilmington, Del. — The Southern Flo- 

 ral & Nursery Co. has been incorporated 

 under the laws of this state, with $150,- 

 000 authorized capital, by E. J. Forhan, 

 .T. J. Harper and C. F. Martin, of New 

 York city. 



Richmond, Ind. — The South Side Im- 

 provement Association is urging the ap- 

 pointment of Christian Behring as cus- 

 todian of the South Seventh and South 

 Tenth street parks. Mr. Behring has 

 had wide experience as a florist. 



West Point, Neb. — J. F. Rosenfield, 

 of this place, who is famous as one of 

 the largest growers of peonies in the 

 United States, has been sojourning re- 

 cently on the Pacific coast and has also 

 visited Honolulu, in Hawaii. He is re- 

 moving his peony growing establishment 

 to a 25-acre tract near Omaha, bought 

 by him last summer for the purpose. 



Lynn, Mass. — The Farquhar brothers, 

 members of the firm of R. & J. Farquhar 

 & Co., of Boston, delivered a most inter- 

 esting lecture on "Gardens, Formal and 

 Natural," at the meeting of the Hough- 

 ton Horticultural Society, March 11. 

 The lecture was illustrated with some 

 beautiful colored lantern slides. This 

 meeting, being the final one of the win- 

 ter season, took the form of a turkey 

 supper, followed by the lecture. 



Goshen, Ind. — Miss Dora Brown, pro- 

 prietor of the Colonial Flower Shop, has 

 opened a store also at Gary. She has 

 leased a room in the new Gem building, 

 just completed, and has purchased fix- 

 tures and supplies in Chicago. The loca- 

 tion is a model one, in the heart of the 

 business district, directly across the street 

 from the American Express office and 

 public library. Miss Brown started in 

 Goshen three years ago and has succeeded 

 in building up a fine trade in Goshen 

 and vicinity. She will still control the 

 Colonial, leaving Miss Ruth Cripe in 

 charge. 



Rochester, N. Y. — George T. Boucher 

 recently removed his business from 343 

 Main street, east, to 345 Main street, 

 east, securing additional room and large- 

 ly increasing his assortment of flowers 

 and plants. 



Concord Junction, Mass. — ^Leonard 

 Cousins has received part of the material 

 for the construction of another green- 

 house, which will be much larger than any 

 of his present houses and will be used 

 for carnations. 



Mankato, Minn. — E. C. Willard's 

 greenhouse, at Baker and Moreland ave- 

 nues, with its stock of vegetables, has 

 been destroyed by fire. The building was 

 partly burned at the same season last 

 year, with a total loss of the plants. 



Ansonia, Conn.— Joseph W. Willis, 

 proprietor of the Cottage Avenue Green- 

 houses, has built up a prosperous trade 

 during the six years in which he has been 

 in business here. His greenhouses, at 25 

 Cottage avenue, cover about three acres 

 of ground. 



Tyler, Tex. — Mrs. Frank Hewitt, the 

 South Broadway street florist, reports that 

 business during last year was unusually 

 good and that there is every prospect of 

 a fine fruit crop. Mrs. Hewitt says this 

 has been the coldest winter ever known 

 in this part of Texas. 



Fargo, N. D. — Mr. and Mrs. C. D. 

 Porter, who have conducted a florists' 

 establishment here for many years, have 

 decided to go west. They will locate in 

 Oregon, with the Columbia Land Co. Mr. 

 Porter is to do landscape work for the 

 company, in addition to going into the 

 fruit business for himself. Mrs. Porter 

 will manage a new hotel that is being 

 located by the company. 



Augusta, Ga. — Charles C. Stulb, pro- 

 prietor of Stulb 's Nursery, has been in 

 business here for the last fifteen years. 

 His establishment is located at 302-306 

 Calhoun street, at the end of the street 

 car line and opposite the cemetery. He 

 has an acre under glass and about three 

 acres of ground which he uses for the 

 growing of outdoor stock. He also has 

 a branch store at 744 Broad street, with 

 the Cabaniss Drug Co. 



Derby, Conn. — H. M. Bradley's green- 

 houses and gardens are finely located on 

 a broad plateau, overlooking the Housa- 

 tonic river. He has twelve greenhouses 

 and 100 acres of ground, more than sixty 

 acres of which are under cultivation. He 

 has been engaged in this line of business, 

 as it is now conducted, since 1882. Pre- 

 vious to that time he had been associated 

 with and the successor to his father-in- 

 law, D. K. Croffut, who established the 

 farm and truck garden business at this 

 same address in 1855. He is assisted in 

 the business by his two sons, Louis H. 

 Bradley and H. M. Bradley, Jr. 



