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Afbil 21, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



15 



Milwaukee Florists' Club, is one of the 

 three judges who will officiate in that 

 capacity in the class for flower beds at 

 this year 's state fair. 



Manke Bros., of North Milwaukee, 

 have the material on hand for three 

 houses, each 27x180, plus a new heating 

 plant, thereby doubling their glass area, 

 but making two distinct ranges, the whole 

 !o be devoted to carnations exclusively. 

 E. O. 



POSTMASTER CROWELL. 



When the interests allied with the 

 Good & Eeese Co., Springfield, O., estab- 

 ished a Mississippi nursery for rose 

 ;^:rowing, the name of Eich seemed espe- 

 ially appropriate for the town — as typi- 

 ying the character of the soil required 

 Lor such an industry, not what its pro- 

 moters expected to become through the 

 :iusiness. But now the establishment of 

 (he United States Nursery Co. is to be 

 •inown as located at Roseacres and this 

 :.rief sketch introduces Postmaster S. 

 W. Crowell. Mr. Crowell has been man- 

 ager of the nursery ever since it was 

 started and has developed it from an 

 uncultivated tract to a position as the 

 leading establishment of its kind in the 

 country. He is a young man, full of the 

 progressive spirit which has made 

 Springfield so important a center in the 

 mailing plant trade, and when the United 

 States postoffice department agreed to 

 establish a postoffice on the nursery 

 grounds, as it did a few days ago, it was 

 natural that he should be selected as 

 postmaster at Roseacres. Was there ever 

 a better chosen name? 



PROVIDENCE. 



The Market. 



Following a record-breaking Easter, 

 the florists continue to report good busi- 

 ness, with little indication of falling off 

 for the present. Usually after Easter, 

 there is nothing doing until Memorial 

 day, and then the June graduations of 

 the schools. Funeral work remains brisk 

 and there have been an unusual number 

 of big, fashionable weddings, balls and 

 other social functions that have accel- 

 erated business. There is a plenteous 

 supply of carnations, roses and sweet 

 peas, although of the latter, in white, 

 there was a big call the last part of the 

 week, which found a dearth of blossoms. 



Various Notes. 



B. A. Bohluslar has leased three acres 

 of land at Newport for the propagation 

 of nursery stock. 



Fred B. Luther had the decorations 

 for the McKay-Kent wedding, April 11. 



A. Holscher is bringing in some fine 

 sweet peas and cut pansies. He also 

 lias excellent assortments of the latter in 

 ijaskets for planting. 



Joseph L. Reynolds, for many years as- 

 sociated with T. J. Johnston & Co., is 

 'apidly convalescing from the injuries 

 'le received last fall. 



E. O. Orpet, of South Lancaster, 



Mass., read an instructive and valuable 



caper on "Orchids" at the regular meet- 



"g of the Newport Horticultural Society 



iist week. The paper was generally dis- 



' ussed by the members. 



M. SAveeney had the decorations for 



^|ie Martin-Olsen wedding, April 12. 



^alms, ferns and hemlock boughs trans- 



ormed the entire house into a veritable 



i'alm garden, with a plethora of Killar- 



•'ey roses. 



The immense bed of tulips in the mid- 



S. W. CroweU. 



(Postmaster at Roseacres, Miss.) 



die of the plaza, fronting the Union 

 railroad depot in this city, is far hand- 

 somer this year than ever. It contains 

 nearly 5,000 plants and was set out by 

 the Hope Greenhouses, Miss Florence 

 Willard, proprietor. 



After May 1, Carl Jurgens, of New- 

 port, will dispose of his cut flowers 

 through his own salesman at the New 

 York Cut Flower Co. 's rooms at 55-57 

 West Twenty-sixth street. 



Johnston Bros, have added a hand- 

 some line of hammered brass vases, jar- 

 dinieres and similar goods. They are 

 doing a big business. 



There wag a large display of flowers 

 at the funeral of Robert W. Dean, at 

 Cranston, April 17, the orders being well 

 distributed. 



Stephen Toher is completing a new 

 house, 25x75, on Concord street, which 

 he will put to carnations and bedding 

 stock. 



Nathan D. Pierce, of the Norwood 

 Greenhouses, is driven hard with laying 

 out the new grounds at the Pomham 

 club, and other outdoor work. 



John D. Duly is now the gardener at 

 Mrs. F. W. Andrews' estate near New- 

 port. 



Samuel Kinder, of Bristol, has just 

 purchased a new automobile and makes 

 his deliveries in an eight horse-power 

 Oldsmobile runabout. 



William Miller, formerly an assistant, 

 has succeeded Andrew J. Pow as head 

 gardener for Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's 

 Newport residence. The Breakers. 



Mrs. G. H. H. Mercer was the deco- 

 rator for the Simmons-Pearce wedding, 

 April 14. 



John A. Schwartau, who has been em- 

 ployed for several seasons by S. J. Ren- 

 ter & Son, of Westerly, as a rose grower. 



has gone to Ohio, where he has accepted 

 a similar position. 



E. Kempenaar, of the firm of Bulk & 

 Kempenaar, of Boskoop, Holland, has 

 leased a large tract of land at Newport 

 and is to engage in the propagation and 

 culture of nursery stock. 



William Chappell is contemplating a 

 general overhauling and rearrangement 

 of his range of houses this spring. 



F. Macrae's Sons are busy in their 

 preliminary work for spring planting and 

 cleaning up. They report a good win- 

 ter's business. 



O'Connor had the decorations for the 

 ante - wedding reception tendered to 

 Miss Grosvenor at the Agawam Hunt, 

 April 15: 



Charles Newton, for several years gar- 

 dener for M. I. T. Burden at Newport, 

 is now in charge of the greenhouses of 

 the R. T. Wilson estate at Palmetto 

 Bluffs, S. C. 



William B. Hazard says he has more 

 than doubled his business since his re- 

 moval to the Mathewson street store. 



Joseph Kopelman is to begin the erec- 

 tion in a few days of another of the 

 houses that he purchased last year of the 

 Rhode Island Greenhouse range when it 

 was dismantled. It will go up on his 

 farm estate in Oaklawn. 



A. Brandt, of Newport, is offering 

 300,000 pansy plants from his own prop- 

 agating houses. They are of fine strain, 

 strong and healthy. They sold at $10 

 per 1,000. W. H. M. 



New Canaan, Conn. — S. B. Hoyt has 

 been improving the approach to his 

 greenhouses, on South Main street, by 

 filling the low places with soil, laying 

 out the grounds attractively and planting 

 flower beds. 



