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READERS ARE INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE ITEMS FOR THIS DEPARTMENT. 



Lead, S. D.— Phil Ryan, formerly of 

 New Castle, Pa., is now with T. W. Mc- 

 Donald, in this city. 



Waterford Works, N. J.— Charles H. 

 Ballier has purchased the greenhouses 

 of Frank Thomas and will continue 

 the business. 



La Porte, Ind.— W. C. Kaber states 

 that he is no longer connected with the 

 Kaber Co., and is contemplating remov- 

 ing to the south. 



Builington, la. — The Burlington 

 Floral Co. has opened a retail store at 

 216 North Fourth street. The store will 

 'be under the management of John G. 

 Hamelman. 



Kansas City, Kan. — Two negroes re- 

 cently made an unsuccessful attempt to 

 rob T. A. Moseley, the florist at 848 

 Barnett avenue, but Mr. Moseley ran 

 away from them. 



Elm Qrove, W. Va. — At Cumberland, 

 Md., December 12, occurred the wed- 

 •ding of Leon S. Hines and Miss Mary 

 La Velle. The groom is with the John 

 Dieckman Co., of this place. 



Shelbina, Mo. — Mrs. Kathryn H. 

 Brenneman, formerly of Broadway, Va., 

 recently made a visit to Virginia and 

 reports a most enjoyable time there 

 •climbing the mountains, and says they 

 were snow-capped when she left there, 

 December 2. 



Savenna, O.-^Chappell & Son, of 

 •Garrettsville, have purchased seven 

 acres of land adjoining the Bavenna 

 fair grounds. The coming summer they 

 will remove their entire establishment 

 'here. They will add new houses as 

 •occasion requires. 



Marshalltown, la. — The Western Gro- 

 cer Co. Mills is building a greenhouee 

 and coldframes, in which to grow its 

 •own stock of tomato and cabbage 

 plants. The company has also leased 

 •some farm land, which will be partly 

 used for the outdoor culture of the 

 same crops. 



Green Bay, Wis. — Martin Goerger, 

 •foreman for Charles De Clerc, sailed 

 December 10 on the steamer New Am- 

 sterdam, to visit his home at Alsace- 

 Lorraine, Germany. He expected to 

 spend Christmas with his parents, and 

 later to call at various places of inter- 

 est in the country. 



Piqua, O. — William Gerlach has pur- 

 chased the interest of William Frisch 

 in the business of Frisch & Carpenter, 

 ■on Washington avenue, and the firm 

 will hereafter be known as Gerlach & 

 Carpenter. For the last six years Mr. 

 •Gerlach has been with Honaker the 

 Florist, in Lexington, Ky., as carnation 

 and violet specialist. 



Alamosa, Colo. — D. W. Watson is 

 starting in the florists' business here. 



Sycamore, 111. — ^William Swinbank 

 furnished several handsome floral pieces 

 for the funeral of Carl Gorgensen. 



Overbrook, Pa. — Richard Edmondson, 

 whose partnership in Edmondson & Fen- 

 ton, at Darby, has been dissolved, is 

 moving the greenhouses to this place. 



Cleveland, O. — The Floral Homestead 

 Cooperative Co. has been incorporated, 

 with a capital of $30,000, by C. H. 

 Knight and others. 



Clinton, Mass. — Robert Brydon, for- 

 merly with E. W. Breed, in this city, 

 has gone to Orlando, Fla., to enter the 

 employment of a florist there. 



Randolph, Vt. — H. M. Totman has 

 added to his greenhouses, on Elm street, 

 a storage shed, 20x50 feet, with coal 

 pockets and a subway connecting it 

 with the boiler room. 



Waynesboro, Pa. — Henry Eichholz 

 has distributed and is using a post card 

 which shows his new light pink carna- 

 tion, Princess Charming, as near the 

 natural color as the printing art can 

 get. 



Utica, N. Y. — The greenhouses of 

 William Mathews, at the corner of York 

 and Warren streets, were slightly dam- 

 aged by fire December 1, but the flames 

 were confined chiefly to the boiler room, 

 where they originated. 



Shiremanstown, Pa. — John F. Rupp 

 has sold the greenhouse end of his busi- 

 ness to Mervin S, Etter, who will con- 

 tinue the growing of Chinese primroses 

 as his specialty. Mr. Rupp, however, 

 will retain the seed department as 

 heretofore. 



Bacine, Wis. — Fire almost completely 

 destroyed Clark E. Adams' greenhouse 

 at 3009 Washington avenue, Friday 

 night, December 9. The flames were 

 caused by overheated hot water pipes 

 and for a time the residence, which 

 stands in front of the greenhouse, was 

 threatened. No insurance was carried 

 and Mr. Adams will suffer a heavy loss, 

 as he was just getting in his Christmas 

 stock. 



El Campo, Tex. — Mrs. J. E. Wheeler, 

 whose greenhouses were wrecked in 

 July, 1909, has entirely rebuilt the 

 range, which now consists of four houses, 

 15x50 feet each. Mrs. Wheeler re- 

 ports having some mums recently that 

 compared favorably with those she re- 

 ceived from Chicago. She grows two 

 crops, spring and fall, of cosmos, 

 dahlias, etc., and says: "My dahlias 

 last May stood eight feet high, with 

 flowers nine inches and more across 

 and stems twelve to sixteen inches 

 long. ' ' 



Owatonna, Minn. — A. J. Skalicky is 

 planning to build three new rose houses 

 next summer, each 30x200 feet. 



Brookline, Mass. — James Quinn says 

 he has no kick coming, especially since 

 the advent of cold weather. His stock 

 looks good and there is plenty of it. 



Brookline, Mass.— F. E. Palmer says 

 Jack Frost caught him with a rush of 

 outside planting to be finished. The 

 landscape department has greatly in- 

 creased of late. He finds his early 

 training as a draftsman comes in handy 

 now. 



Lockport, N. Y.— Charles L. Dole re- 

 cently opened his new store at 88 Main 

 street and large crowds were attracted 

 by the fine display made. The entire 

 store was arranged to give the appear- 

 ance of a garden and was well stocked 

 with all the up-to-date novelties in 

 baskets, plants, cut flowers, ribbons, 

 chiffons, etc. 



Cambridge, Mass.— John McKenzie 

 has fully recovered from his long spell 

 of sickness and is back again at the 

 old stand. He has a grand batch of 

 Lorraine begonias and also of J. A. 

 Peterson's variety. Glory of Cincinnati. 

 The latter is a fine plant and looks 

 hardy; it has large flowers and foliage 

 and will prove a good seller. 



Garrettsville, O.— H. J. Alford is 

 planning to build a greenhouse. Last 

 summer he shipped large quantities of 

 gladiolus spikes and found them the 

 most profitable crop on his farm. He 

 expects to cut at least 30,000 next sea- 

 son, besides having quantities of bulbs 

 for sale. He is a recruit from the ranks 

 of the commercial travelers, set on the 

 right road by M. Crawford. 



Ehinelander, Wis.— The greenhouses of 

 Peter Philipp, on North Brown street, 

 were partly destroyed by fire December 

 1. The boiler room and the back part 

 of two houses were burned and a large 

 proportion of the stock was ruined. 

 At the time of this disaster Mrs. 

 Philipp was in St. Mary's hospital, to 

 which she had been taken a few weeks 

 previously on account of a serious at- 

 tack of pneumonia. At last report she 

 was convalescent. 



Portland, Ind.— W. Frank & Sons will 

 at once begin work on an addition of 

 three greenhouses, each 31x390. The 

 houses are to be of modern cypress con- 

 struction. One thousand boxes of glass 

 will be needed to glaze the houses; 40,- 

 000 feet of pecky cypress will be used 

 for the benches; 2,000 18-foot sash bars 

 will be used for the roof, and there will 

 be 300 ventilator sashes for roof ven- 

 tilation on the three houses. The John 

 C. Moninger Co., of Chicago, will fur- 

 nish the material. 



