DsSniBBB 22, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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READERS ARE INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE ITEMS FOR THIS DEPARTMENT. 



Shenandoah, Pa. — The contract has 

 been awarded for the building of a 

 greenhouse at the city park, at a cost 

 of $960. 



Batavia, HI. — The Batavia Green- 

 house Co. expects soon to be provided 

 with the city light service at its new 

 plant on Garfield avenue. 



New Canaan, Conn. — Stephen Hoyt's 

 Sons Co. recently held a successful 

 chrysanthemum exhibition at its green- 

 houses. 



Lexington, 111. — A. L. Ambrose, of 

 the Lexington Greenhouses, visited 

 Chicago recently, to purchase plants 

 and supplies. 



Palestine, 111. — Miss Elsie May Wes- 

 ley, of Flat Eock, 111., and Ernest T. 

 Oldham, the florist of this town, were 

 married December 21 at Duncanville, 

 111. 



Fond du Lac, Wis. — Leon E. Sawicke, 

 manager of the Fourth Street Green- 

 house Co., went to Philadelphia, Pa., 

 to enjoy his Christmas vacation and to 

 spend a week in visiting relatives and 

 friends there. 



Bath, Me. — Paul M. 01m has a fine 

 stock for the holidays. A specialty is 

 scarlet geraniums and poinsettias 

 panned up with maidenhair ferns. His 

 <'arnations are in heavy crop, with large 

 blooms but a tendency toward weak 

 stems, owing to lack of sunshine. 



Pontiac, lU.— W. J. Miller & Son held 

 a formal opening of their new green- 

 houses, at 412 East Payson street, on 

 Saturday, December 10. The fine dis- 

 play' of stock, under the 12,000 square 

 feet of glass, was much admired by the 

 many visitors, including a party of 

 teachers who had come to town to at- 

 tend an institute. 



Marietta, O. — Under date of Decem- 

 ber 17, F. E. Thompson, superintendent 

 of the Marietta Greenhouses, reported 

 large orders booked ahead for Christ- 

 mas. Poinsettias were high, but selling 

 readily; ferns and small palms were go- 

 ing well and azaleas were fine. Carna- 

 tions were scarce, roses about as usual 

 and all stock cleaned up regularly, with 

 nothing left over. 



Red Bank, N. jr.— When Charles H. 

 Smith, with his son, Lester, and his 

 fireman, Frank Overton, went to his 

 greenhouses at Port Monmouth Decem- 

 ber 12, 8,000 carnation plants which 

 had begun to bloom were found frozen 

 stiflf. The recently installed heating 

 plant was found out of order and the 

 thermometer registered 10 degrees 

 above zero. Mr. Smith, who is a civil 

 war veteran, is one of the best known 

 fanners in Monmouth county, doing a 

 carnation business in the winter and 

 growing tomatoes and eggplants for the 

 farmers in the summer. 



Oriskany, N. Y. — Gilford's green- 

 houses were slightly damaged by fire 

 December 9. 



Lawrence, Mass. — A receat fire at the 

 greenhouses of Thornton thoa, 384 

 Broadway, caused a loss of about $300. 



a«neseo. 111. — The Hill Floral Co. is 

 erecting a 6-room residence near the 

 firm's greenhouses, just west of the 

 city. 



Hammonton, N. J. — .1. Murray Bas 

 sett, the grower of dahlias and l^ardy 

 stock, has opened a general flower store 

 in the Ballard building, on Bellevue 

 avenue. 



Haddonfield, N. J. — Mrs. Martha 

 Turnley, widow of the late Charles W. 

 Turnley, died December 12, after a 

 lingering illness. She w^as in her sev- 

 enty-second year. 



Covington, Ky. — Fire at the estab- 

 lishment of Thomas Jackson, December 

 13, destroyed one of his greenhouses 

 and an adjoining cottage, which also 

 belonged to Mr. Jackson. The loss was 

 about $1,000. 



Yankton, S. D. — George H. Whiting, 

 the nurseryman of this city, left for 

 Kansas City December 12, to attend the 

 meeting of the Western Nurserymen 's 

 Association. He had also been request- 

 ed by the program committee to prepare 

 one of the papers for the occasion. 



Somerville, Mass. — Bastiau C. M. 

 Boot, who recently opened a flower 

 store in the new l)lo('k at 680 Broad- 

 way, was married December 4 {o Miss 

 Henny Ter Avest. Mr. Boot had man- 

 aged greenhouses in Holland before 

 coming to America five years ago. 

 After his arrival in America he had 

 charge of different large estates. 



Portland, Conn. — Otto Keser finished 

 his colonial dwelling house in good sea- 

 son and will give a house warming to 

 a large circle of friends, to celebrate 

 the twentieth anniversary of Keser and 

 partner, just as soon as the holiday 

 rush is over. He says they will not 

 wait to see how much business has been 

 done, as there is a steady increase. 



Hartford, Conn. — John Coombs says 

 he feels younger than ever, though 

 rounding out the forty-second year in 

 the business at the same old stand. 

 Of late years he has seen land imme- 

 diately around him advance in value 

 by leaps and bounds, so that there is 

 not a plot that can be used for planting 

 out stock within quite a distance. He 

 has in mind a big farm located in the 

 Connecticut valley, not far from A. N. 

 Pierson's immense place, where they 

 would be neighbors and could swap 

 stories. He is now busy with boxwood 

 and pine wreaths, of which they sell 

 annually nearly 2,000. Holly is well 

 berried; growing pine is scarce. 



Butler, Tenn. — The Mountain Fern 

 Co. has gone out of the evergreen busi- 

 ness. 



Moline, 111. — A carload of shrubs for 

 use in the new Eiverside park was re- 

 ceived recently from Klehm's Nurs- 

 eries, of Arlington Heights, 111. 



Sandwich, 111. — Mrs. Frances Spicker- 

 luan, proprietor of the Sandwich Green- 

 houses, is exhibiting a banana tree 

 which is bearing fruit and which at- 

 tracts considerable attention. 



Binghamton, N. Y. — A. E. Fancher, of 

 the Riverside Gardens, uses several of 

 his houses for the growing of chrys- 

 anthemums. His stock, which includes 

 a good proportion of the newest and 

 best varieties, shows evidence of excel- 

 lent culture. 



St. John, N. B. — H. E. Goold, the nur- 

 seryman and florist, who has a store 

 here and also in several other towns, 

 was present at the recent meeting in 

 the Board of Trade rooms, for the or- 

 ganization of the Germain Street Im- 

 provement Association, and gave some 

 valuable information regarding the 

 [)lanting of trees. 



Northampton, Mass. — H. W. Field 

 says the report recently published, that 

 lie had donated a newly purchased plot 

 of land to the city, is incorrect — has 

 any grower too much land? He expects 

 to make quite an addition to his range 

 of glass and is tempted to take advan- 

 tage of the low price of glass and make 

 an early start. 



Leavenworth, £.an. — The Sunuyside 

 Floral Co., though organized only three 

 years ago, now has 2.5,000 square feet 

 of glass at Twelfth and Vilas streets 

 and a large, attractive store at Fifth 

 and Shawnee streets. Great credit for 

 the success of the business is due to 

 K. O. Hinz, who superintends the work 

 of growing the flowers, and also to Miss 

 prva Goodman, who is an expert deco- 

 rator. 



Beverly, Mass. — George W. Glines, a 

 former councilman, is said to be the 

 pioneer vegetable forcer of this city. 

 He built his first greenhouse twenty-one 

 years ago. Now he owns and operates 

 eleven honses, varying in length from 

 175 to 250 feet, on the east side of 

 Dodge street, near Conant street. He 

 also owns two houses — one of them 340 

 feet long — on the opposite side of the 

 street, but he has leased these to 

 Thomas Pembroke, who grows cut flow- 

 ers in them and ships his output to 

 Boston. Among the other vegetable 

 houses in Mr. Glines' ward, eleven 

 houses are conducted by Charles E. 

 Caldwell, five by Wildred E. Caldwell, 

 three by Arthur H. Kidder, three by 

 James F. Potter and two by Frank A. 

 Woodbury. 



