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Decbmbeb 8, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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READERS ARE INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE ITEMS FOR THIS DEPARTMENT. 



Bennington, Vt. — ^L. C. Holton is on 

 a flying trip to New York, purchasing 

 stock and getting the latest ideas for 

 holiday trade. The new house is pro- 

 ducing elegant stock. 



Indianapolis, Ind. — Benson's Flower 

 Store is being advertised by the dis- 

 tribution of a brightly colored post 

 card showing the establishment in 

 Easter attire. 



Pittsfield, Mass.— F. S. Folwell has 

 almost recovered from his tumble, 

 which cost him a broken rib or two; 

 he is glad it was not wo^se. He re- 

 ports a good season, with plenty - of 

 stock. 



Pittsfield, Mass.— John White still 

 grows CuUingfordii and considers it 

 the best of its class as a commercial 

 chrysanthemum. He is experimenting 

 with Darwin tulips for Decoration 

 day. 



Decatur, Tex. — Albert Spencer has a 

 red seedling geranium, which is a strong 

 grower and which he says stands the 

 hot, dry, windy weather in Texas better 

 than any other variety he ever has 

 grown. He has worked up quite a 

 stock. 



Madison, N. J. — The Model Stemmer 

 Co. has been licensed to do business; 

 capital, $10,000; incorporators, Edward 

 H. Behre, Anna Behre and Susan Simon- 

 son. The company is to manufacture 

 the metal stemmer exhibited at the 

 S. A. F. convention at Kochester, and 

 florists' supplies. 



Bloomsburg, Pa. — J. L, Dillon is send- 

 ing out a new verbena this season, 

 named Columbia. It is a seedling of 

 their own raising and is pink and white, 

 of unusual size. The firm annually 

 propagates several hundreds of thou- 

 sands of verbenas for the trade. The 

 shipping season has begun and will 

 continue until June. 



Oklahoma City, Okla.— The Stiles Co. 

 has been twelve years in the trade here 

 and has built up a large and substantial 

 business. Besides the store on West 

 Main street, the firm has a range of 

 ^eenhouses at 1100 West Twenty- 

 eighth street and was specially success- 

 ful in the growing of chrysanthemums 

 this season. 



Missoula, Mont. — The new flower 

 store of the Missoula Nursery Co., in 

 the Montana building, is elegantly fit- 

 ted up, well stocked and well patron- 

 ized, and Charles F. Dallman, the pro- 

 prietor, is well pleased with the pros- 

 pects. "It is not long," he says, 

 "since people laughed at the idea of 

 making a fiower store amount to much 

 in this city. We had a modest little 

 stall then, but we have been expand- 

 ing all the time since." 



Buffalo, N. T. — S. A. Anderson, the 

 Main street florist, acted as judge in 

 the flower department of the recent 

 exhibition of the Ontario Horticultural 

 Association, at Toronto. 



Forest City, la. — C. B. Simons, em- 

 ployed at the Hill City Greenhouses, 

 in this city, and Miss Lillian Hagge- 

 stad, of Dane Valley, Wis., were mar- 

 ried November 19. 



Council Bluffs, la. — J. F. Wilcox is 

 planning to put his business into the 

 form of a corporation. The glass was 

 added to materially during the last 

 summer. 



Waltham, Mass. — M. F. Euane, who 

 opened a flower store on Moody street 

 last September, has greenhouses at 

 Waverley. He conducted a party of 

 visitors through the greenhouses De- 

 cember 4. 



Alexandria, Va. — Since opening the 

 new store at 822 King street the Kra- 

 mer Floral Co. has secured a consider- 

 able increase in trade and is quite 

 pleased with the development of the 

 business. The firm has greenhouses on 

 North Fayette street. 



Tarentiun, Pa. — G. A. McWilliams, 

 formerly in business at Natrona, Pa., 

 has organized a stock company here, 

 to be known as the McWilliams Flo- 

 ral Co. The new organization has pur- 

 chased a farm one mile from the city 

 and is there operating about 56,000 

 square feet of glass. 



Syracuse, N. Y. — A new firm of flo- 

 rists has been incorporated here, 

 under the name of the W. E. Day Co., 

 with a capital stock of $15,000, of 

 which $5,000 is preferred. The com- 

 pany begins business with a paid in 

 capital of $1,500. The directors are 

 William E. Day, Mary E. Day and 

 Fred W. Bannister. 



New Orleans, La. — Charles Eble 

 says he and other downtown florists 

 have been unusually busy lately with 

 an exceptionally large run of funeral 

 orders for prominent citizens. This 

 was in addition to the regular demand 

 for the French opera, weddings and 

 other social functions and necessitated 

 calling for stock from Chicago and 

 other flower markets. 



North Adams, Mass. — A. J. Schmutz 

 reports a thorough clean-up at Thanks- 

 giving. His carnations brought $1 per 

 dozen and he is keeping it up now. 

 He says it is easy to get it, and, judg- 

 ing by the stock, it is well worth the 

 price. Octoroon is his best crimson. 

 Pink Delight is not so popular as En- 

 chantress. A fine batch of cuttings is 

 in the sand. Mr. Schmutz is a nephew 

 of A. Demeusy, of Flatbush, and in- 

 herits his success in growing, especially 

 in growing carnations. 



Union, N. H. — Frank Varney has in- 

 stalled a steam heating system in his 

 greenhouses. 



Juneau, Wis. — Mrs. C. Neider is 

 growing chrysanthemums and other 

 flowers for the market and the stock 

 she offers is of excellent quality. 



Portland, Me. — Mrs. Goddard, wife of 

 L. C. Goddard, has recently been ill at 

 the Maine General hospital, following 

 a serious operation, but at last report 

 her condition was improving. 



London, England. — At the recent 

 date of the organization of the London 

 Florists' and Fruiterers' Association 

 it was stated there were in greater 

 London 2,500 florists and 4,500 fruit- 

 erers. 



New Orleans, La. — The recent dis- 

 plays of flowers and plants in the 

 greenhouses at City park have been 

 particularly attractive, and Frank E. 

 Brooker, the florist in charge, has been 

 receiving a great deal of well-deserved 

 credit for what he has accomplished. 



Springfield, Mo. — The Ozark Seed 

 Co., on Commercial street, has had 

 some remarkably fine displays of flow- 

 ers in its large show window during 

 the last few weeks, and E. L. Kline, 

 the manager, has received many com- 

 pliments on the artistic arrangement 

 of the stock. 



Lawrence, Kan. — George Ecke has 

 opened a store at 825% Massachusetts 

 street and has named it the Flower 

 Shop. The formal opening was held 

 November 17 and was highly success- 

 ful. He occupies his own building, in 

 the center of the business district, and 

 is quite pleased with the prospects for 

 business. 



Hiawatha, Kan. — Miss Susan Mar- 

 grave's new store and greenhouses, re- 

 cently completed, are tastefully and 

 substantially constructed and are re- 

 garded as an ornament to the town. 

 They contain 5,700 square feet of glass 

 and the walls are built of cement 

 blocks, partly of rustic design. Since 

 the death of her father, five years ago, 

 she has had the entire management of 

 the business and has been remarkably 

 successful. 



Lynn, Mass. — Edward Dwyer, the 

 florist at 34 Maple street, has sued the 

 Boston & Northern street railway for 

 damages to the amount of $1,000, on ac- 

 count of the loss of a large willow tree. 

 The willow stood near Floating Bridge 

 park, which is owned by the railway 

 company. During the summer, balloon 

 ascensions formed part of the attrac- 

 tions at the park, and Mr. Dwyer states 

 that the gas used to inflate the balloons 

 caused the death of the tree. The tree 

 was considered valuable on account of 

 its location and general associations. 



