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The Weekly Florists' Review* 





progressiveness are already cleai'ly shown 

 in the management of the business. 



Their range of greenhouses, a part of 

 which is shown in the accompanying 

 illustration, now contains 40,000 square 

 feet of glass, including a carnation house 

 340 feet in length, and the proprietors 

 express their determination to make the 

 place in time one of the largest and 

 finest in the state. They grow a general 

 stock. The greenhouses are easily ac- 

 cessible, bein^ on the Lake line of the 

 electric road. 



A START IN VIOLETS. 



I should like to know which is the 

 best way to grow violets, by planting 

 them out like carnations or by making a 

 new bed and planting them in it in the 

 spring. I should also like to know 

 whether the heat in the summer would 

 hurt them if they had to stay inside all 

 Slimmer. I live in the state of Indiana. 



L. E. 



Single varieties, such as Princess of 

 Wales, Luxonne, Baron Bothschild and 

 Kaiser Wilhelm, should be planted out 

 and kept well cultivated all summer, re- 

 moving the runners when they begin to 

 f form in late summer. These succeed 

 much better if not housed until they 

 have had a moderate freezing, say 6 or 

 8 degrees below freezing point, on one or 

 two occasions. If lifted before they have 

 had any frost, they will make a tremen- 

 dous crop of leaves, while the flowers will 

 be few and of poor quality. The freez- 

 ing checks the growth of foliage, and 

 such plants, when housed, will at once 

 start to flower freely. The time to house 

 depends on the weather in your state. I 

 should say it would be best not to house 

 before October 15, and many growers 

 leave them out, to follow chrysanthe- 

 mums. 



Double violets, of which Campbell, 

 Marie Louise and Farquhar are well 

 known sorts, are much less vigorous and 

 more tender than the singles. They also 

 more easily fall a prey to leaf diseases. 

 Some growers plant these out and lift 

 during the latter part of August or early 

 in September, getting fairly good re- 

 sults. The best specialists, however, plant 

 them in late spring, in the houses where 

 they are to flower. In most cases these 

 houses have removable sashes. In all 

 cases they get a maximum of air on the 

 sides and at the ridge. Doubles are bet- 

 ter under glass by the last of August, 

 and if they can be grown in the beds 

 where they are to flower, all the better. 

 A thin shade can be given during the 

 hottest months. C. W. 



Aledo, III. — Chas. McChesney reports 

 that business has been so good that he 

 has had no time for recreation. 



Poi/ghkeepsie, N. Y. — William Bock 

 is hawng a greenhouse, 27x200, erected 

 bere^Xfor violets. Charles Mitchell has 

 the (contract. 



Carthage, Mo. — Stephen Hyde is 

 erecting two more greenhouses, each 

 28x390 feet, on East Thirteenth street. 



West De Pere, Wis. — A. Van Gemert 

 has decided to add this season a house 

 24x150, using concrete walls and benches. 



Cleveland, O. — G. M. Naumann is 

 building new houses this season and will 

 equip them with 4,200 square feet of tile 

 benches. 



Ballston Spa, N. Y. — The greenhouse 

 of William Kemp, on Division street, was 

 recently damaged by fire to the amount 

 of $300. ,. ■ 



Westerly, B. I. — A local newspaper 

 contains the report that George L. Still- 

 man recently sent a shipment of dahlias 

 to Africa. 



Muskogee, Okla. — Robert Bebb, for- 

 merly in the business at Des Moines, la., 

 has bought^he Muskogee Carnation Co., 

 of A. Z. English. 



Grand Island, Neb.— J. S. King, the 

 florist at the Home, has taken a thirty 

 days' furlough and is visiting his son 

 at Hornitos, Cal, 



Wheeung, W. Va. — Albeirt Lasch, the 

 South Warwood florist, furnished some 

 handsome decorations for the wedding of 

 Louis Eis and Miss Flora Lasch, at Love- 

 land, W. Va., April 21. ' 



Wakefield, Mass. — Otto B. Runge, 

 who carries on his business under tue 

 name of Runge The Florist, is doing some 

 effective advertising in the local papers. 

 He owns greenhouses at Pleasant and 

 Cordis streets and recently opened a store 

 at 101 Albion street. 



Pocatello, Idaho. — A. H. Lindquist, 

 who for a number of years conducted a 

 flower store in connection with his un- 

 dertaking establishment, in the Wrensted 

 building, has moved his flower depart- 

 ment to the store of the Independent 

 Electric Supply Co., on North Main 

 street, where a fine display window has 

 been fitted up for his use. He handles 

 part of the output of W. A. Staley's 

 greenhouses. 



Farmington, Utah. — The Miller 

 Floral Co. has purchased ten acres of 

 land in Davis county from Nathan Clark, 

 and the construction of two greenhouses 

 is under way. The company is capitalized 

 at $100,000 and will grow roses and car- 

 nations during the first year, rapidly 

 branching out into other lines. The of- 

 ficers of the company are : Robert Miller, 

 president; W. E. Tarbell, vice-president; 

 Louis L. Barton, secretary and treasurer. 



Sarcoxie, Mo.— Gilbert H. Wild, as 

 already reported in the Review, expressed 

 the opinion that peonies in this vicinity 

 were not injured by the recent frosts and 

 storms. At a later date — April 27 — Mr. 

 Wild said again: "The frost damaged 

 strawberries and bit potatoes to the 

 ground, but left peonies unharmed, as 

 already stated. Our coldest mornings 

 were windy and cloudy, and that helped 

 us wonderfully. Of strawberries in bloom, 

 not more than one-third were killed, and 

 a good many had not begun blooming. So 

 you see we are lucky." 



Dayton, O. — The Heiss Co. has se- 

 cured the contract for supplying the 

 plants for the use of the city parks dur- 

 ing this season. 



Gloversville, N. Y. — G. W. Pool will 

 erect another greenhouse on the property 

 between Summit and Spring streets. His 

 office is now at 11 Carpenter street. 



Carthage, AIo. — Stephen Hyde, pro- 

 prietor of the Fairview Greenhouses, is 

 building two more houses, each 28x390, 

 to be used almost entirely for lettuce. 

 One of the houses will be completed in a 

 month and the other later in the summer. 

 Including this new addition, Mr. Hyde 

 will have 110,000 square feet under glass. 



Moberly, Mo. — Carl A. Claeson, grower 

 for Mrs. E. S. Estill, says trade is good, 

 especially in the line of design work. 

 Mrs. Estill, he says, has plenty of bedding 

 stock, and the recent frosts did not cause 

 her much trouble. She intends to build 

 a violet house next fall, and two large 

 houses, for roses and carnations, next 

 year. 



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Newton, Kan. — The greenhouse for- 

 merly owned by C. L. Shanks, but which 

 lias been closed since last November, has 

 been leased and opened by The Rosebud 

 Co. The .two ladies composing this com- 

 pany are novices at the florists' busi- 

 ness, but with the assistance of a compe- 

 tent florist hope to be able to supply the 

 demands of the people of the vicinity. 



Atlanta, Ga. — The business of the 

 Atlanta Floral Co. was recently pur- 

 chased by A. Borg and Ivar Erikson, and 

 the new proprietors are planning to im- 

 prove their facilities and increase the 

 scope of their trade. It is said that their 

 store window has lately been a veritable 

 symphony in carnations, with every tone 

 from white through all the pinks to the 

 vivid scarlets. The flowers were all 

 grown in the firm 's own greenhouses. 



Worcester, Mass. — The estate of the 

 late H. F. A. Lange, according to an 

 inventory recently filed in the probate 

 court by his executors, Albert H. and 

 Carl C. Lange, is valued at $98,248.87. Of 

 this, $64,886.37 is personal property, con- 

 sisting of bank accounts, stocks, bonds 

 and mortgages. The real estate amounts 

 to $33,362.50, and includes the green- 

 houses, land and houses on Mt. Vernon 

 and Channing streets. The appraisers of 

 the estate were Sanford C. Kendall, Carl 

 Bonney and Bertrand W. Stone. 



Lexington, Ky. — H. F. Hillenmeyer, 

 the veteran nurseryman, says the frost 

 of Saturday night, April 23, was one of 

 the most disastrous within his recollec- 

 tion and the fruit crop was badly 

 blighted throughout the state. The crop, 

 as a consequence, will be small in quanti- 

 ty and inferior in quality. Early garden 

 products of nearly all kinds, he says, 

 have been almost wiped out, and there 

 will therefore be almost a total dearth 

 of early vegetables grown in Kentucky, 

 although there is yet ample time to re- 

 plant such things for a later crop. Peas, 

 beans, tomatoes and similar vegetables 

 were practically cut down- to the earth 

 by the frost. 





