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NOVEMBEB 9, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



21 



Beading, Pa. — Herman Stabenow, Jr., 

 is building a new house, 24x100. 



Sterling, 111. — Tlie Sterling Floral Co. 

 has completed the erection of its new 

 section, which covers a space 62 x 140 

 feet. 



Sf eriden, Oonn.-^John Bonell has 

 completed his new greenhouse and thus 

 has 2,000 square feet of additional 

 space under glass. i 



Wenona, HI. — "William Metzger, pro- 

 prietor of the Wenona Greenhouses, has 

 installed a new boiler and made other 

 improvements in preparation for the 

 winter trade. 



Pierre, S. D. — Herbert D. Enoe and 

 Boyd M. Barney, known in the trade 

 as Enoe & Barney, have dissolved part- 

 nership. Mr. Enoe will continue the 

 business, as manager and sole owner. 



Jackson, Tenn.— James & Nelson, the 

 druggists, have formed a partnership 

 with Murray Sands, an experienced 

 florist, and will conduct greenhouses on 

 North Highland avenue, with an up- 

 town office and flower stand in the drug 

 store. The flower business will be car- 

 ried on under the name of the James & 

 Nelson Floral Co. 



Kewanee, HI. — Hamilton & Plummer 

 gave away six ferns on a recent Satur- 

 day to a like number of persona who 

 had registered opposite lucky numbers 

 during the week, at the greenhouses. 

 All visitors were asked to register and 

 each name was numbered. The num- 

 bers were then shaken up and six were 

 drawn out, thus determining who were 

 the winners. 



Oraild Bapids, Mich. — Alfred Hannah 

 has built two houses, 30x100, for his son 

 to grow vegetables in. He will start 

 with a crop of radishes, followed later 

 with lettuce, and then cucumbers. The 

 vegetable growers in Grand Bapids did 

 well last year. The Grand Rapids 

 Greenhouse Co. has gone back to vege- 

 table culture in a part of its place and 

 ■ has given up the growing of roses and 

 carnations. 



Champaign, 111. — George B. Franks 

 and Miss Jeanett Styles were married 

 last week at St. Louis. Mr. Franks is 

 the son of Thomas Franks, with whom 

 he r& engaged in business as Thomas 

 Franks & Son. He is not only one of 

 the most widely known of the florists 

 of central Illinois, but, unlike the 

 prophet, has honor in his own home, for 

 t'} is alderman for the Third ward and 

 a member of the commission in charge 

 of the recently created township park 

 •district. 



Marietta, O. — The Marietta Floral 

 Co., organized last May, has been re- 

 modeling its greenhouses on Muskingum 

 Drivf, and the completion of the im- 

 provements was recently celebrated by 

 means of a formal opening. The open- 

 ing had been prominently announced 

 in the newspapers and was well at- 

 tendsd. The firm has also opened a 

 . downtown store at 121 Putnam street, 

 • which is in charge of Mrs. E. C. Holz. 

 The officers of the company are: Presi- 

 dent, O. Brent Gard; vice-president, 

 Charles Penrose; secretary, B. A. Plu- 

 mer. W. S. Plumer and J. A. Gallagher 

 jilso own stock in the conoern. 



Des Moines, la. — W. K. Fletcher, who 

 was confined to his home by rheuma- 

 tism and other ailments for several 

 weeks, has now recovered. 



Sharon, Pa. — The Idlewild Green- 

 houses, owned for a time by Chas. B. 

 Service, are now conducted, under a 

 lease, by Peter Olsen, formerly of the 

 Sea Cliff Nurseries, Sea Cliflf, N. Y. 



Dubuque, la. — G. A. Heyne reports 

 that he has withdrawn from the retail 

 florists' trade, as the greenhouses for- 

 merly conducted by him» have been 

 taken over by the park commissioners, 

 to be used for park purposes. 



Charleston, S. C. — Frank W. Kummer, 

 formerly with the Carolina Floral Co., 

 has opened a store at 303 King street 

 and has named it the Arcade Floral 

 Shop. It is just opposite the new 

 Arcade, in the heart of the retail sec- 

 tion. * 



Alton, HI.— The interests of J. F. 

 Ammann in the flower store on East 

 Fourth street have been sold to George 

 Madsen, of the Alton Floral Co. Mr. 

 Evans, who has had <^arge of the Am- 

 mann store, will remain with the new 

 owners temporarily. 



Morris, HI. — H. Yepsen, who came 

 here to take charge of the greenhouses 

 of the Morris Floral Co. during the ill- 

 ness of the proprietor, I. Krohn, has 

 leased a store downtown and will open 

 in first-class style in time to get the 

 Thanksgiving trade. 



Laramie, Wsro. — Bert Clippinger is 

 planning the erection of greenhouses 

 here, for commercial purposes. He pur- 

 poses to build two houses, each 22 x 50, 

 at once, and three more houses of the 

 same size a little later. He will use 

 one house for roses and the others for 

 carnations and general stock. 



Cromwell, Conn. — It apparently has 

 thus far escaped comment, but should 

 be a matter of record, that a son came 

 a few months ago to the home of "Wal- 

 lace R. Pierson. It is said that the boy 

 will in the course of time adopt his 

 father's profession, taking up the de- 

 tail in the establishment of A. N. 

 Pierson, Inc., just as his own father 

 came to the assistance of the grand- 

 father. 



New Castle, Ind. — "Wm. Dittman is 

 in a sanitarium taking treatment for a 

 nervous breakdown. 



Le Boy, N. Y. — Geo. C. Richmond is 

 successor to Elijah Huftelen as a 

 grower of hardy lilies. Mr. Huftelen 

 died October 26, at the age of 73 

 years. 



Irondequoit, N. Y. — Edward Brock- 

 man, who added a Lord & Burnham 

 house to his range during the summer 

 and grew an excellent crop of carna- 

 tions in it, has now placed an order 

 with the same firm for another house. 



Passaic, N. J. — Mrs. May McAllister 

 will shortly vacate the premises she has 

 occupied for twenty years, to occupy a 

 new store, with a conservatory at- 

 tached, to be located in the center of 

 the city. The King Construction Co. 

 will furnish the material for the green- 

 house, and everything will be strictly 

 up-to-date. 



Merriam, Kan. — E. T. Heite has an- 

 nounced his retirement from the firm 

 of E. T. Heite & Son. The son, "W. R. 

 Heite, will continue the business. The 

 young man is making extensive altera- 

 tions in the greenhouses, tearing down 

 and rebuilding some of the oldest 

 houses and considerably increasing the 

 total area of glass. 



Morrison, 111. — The new cucumber 

 house of the R. R. Davis Co. has been 

 completed and planted. The house is 

 40x411 feet, with concrete construction 

 in the foundations, walks and beds. A 

 new eighty horse-power boiler has also 

 been installed. This town ranks high 

 in the extent of space under glass. In- 

 cluding the new cucumber house, the 

 Davis Co. has 150,000 square feet of 

 ground under glass, and the C. D. Gal- 

 lentine Co., also of this town, has a 

 glass area of 130,000 square feet. 



Fond du Lac, Wis. — Haentze Co. has 

 repaired the damage sustained as a re- 

 sult of the boiler explosion October 30. 

 The loss will amount to about $1,500 

 on boilers and buildings. The loss on 

 stock will be the check on five benches 

 of roses. After a careful investigation 

 it was found that the boiler next to the 

 one that exploded had cracked first and 

 let the water out of the system, causing 

 it to raise steam, causing the explosion. 

 They say this has been the fourth time 

 that one of these boilers has cracked in 

 the same place. They have plans for an 

 addition to the plant, three houses 21x 

 274, all iron construction with concrete 

 walls. 



Mason City, la. — Kemble & Goodman, 

 who already have prosperous establish- 

 ments at Marshalltown and Oskaloosa 

 as well as here, are now starting a 

 branch, also, at Bogse. The business 

 here is under the personal management 

 of F. C. Goodman and is ideally located 

 on the commanding site of Lyon's park, 

 on South Main street, with ample acre- 

 age for all needs. Two new greenhouses 

 have been added to the local plant dur- 

 ing the present year. A downtown 

 agency is also maintained at the Da- 

 mon-IjfDu store. Mr. Goodman is now 

 building a residence, of handsome archi- 

 tectural design, west of the greenhouses 

 and facing Main street. 



