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January 19, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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RSADERS ARE INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE ITEMS FOR THIS DEPARTMENT-, 



St. Johns, Nfd. — J. McNiel is putting 

 up a new house to add to his plant. 

 This is 22x100 feet. Business is boom- 

 ing. 



Kingston, N. Y. — Valentine Bur- 

 gevin's Sons are having an excellent 

 bulb season. Holiday business showed 

 a considerable/ increase. 



Ilion, Nj^— E. C. Baker says the 

 call for floral designs has used up all 

 the stock he could lay his hands on ever 

 since the holidays. 



Herkimer, N. Y.— W. D. Snell found 

 his branch plant at Mohawk quite 

 handy during the holiday season. The 

 extra output was sold at sight. 



Syracuse, N. Y. — Gustave Bartholme 

 made up an extra number of baskets of 

 plants for the holidays and found the 

 bright colors sold at sight. The new 

 show house was filled and emptied on 

 short notice. 



Augusta, Ga. — Balk's Nursery reports 

 that the two big resort hotels have 

 opened for the season and that this al- 

 ways means an increase in business, 

 frequent orders coming from out of 

 town for local delivery. 



Calais, Me.— Ernest G. Young has 

 purchased a half interest in the busi- 

 ness of J. E. Sederquest, who has been 

 conducting a flower store and under- 

 taking establishment at 172 Main 

 street. The new firm will be known as 

 the Ernest G. Young Co. 



Dallas, Tex. — Charles C. Chollar, well 

 known to the trade in the southwest, 

 who recently took charga of the cut 

 flower department of the Texas Seed & 

 Floral Co., has had some excellent or- 

 ders for decorations and the firm is well 

 pleased with the business that is being 

 (lone. 



Middletown, N. Y.— The stork paid 

 the home of F. X. Dienst a visit recent- 

 ly and left a New Year's gift. The 

 visitor was thoroughly welcome, as Mr. 

 Dienst says there is nothing like hav- 

 ing one's own help to rely on. The re- 

 port that Mr. Dienst took all the pre- 

 miums at the county fair recently was 

 incorrect; the honor belongs to E. A. 

 Lorentz, who staged a fine collection 

 of stock. 



Newburgh, N. Y.— That holiday trade 

 beat all previous records is the general 

 report. Caldwell & Jesperson cut an 

 enormous quantity of narcissi and a 

 good crop of carnations, the bulk of 

 which were shipped away at wholesale. 

 Schaefer's did a big business in greens 

 and cut flowers. George Chadborn said 

 it was their best season all around. The 

 Yuess Gardens Co. taxed the whole 

 building to carry the stock sold during 

 the holidays. They are now busy with 

 seed stocks that are now in, and are 

 working overtime with early mail 

 orders. 



Johnstown, N. Y. — Thomas Barson 

 reports a most satisfactory holiday 

 business. The demand for pot plants 

 showed a decided incre^e. 



Beaumont, Tex. — The Beaumont Floral 

 Co., of which Mrs. Bessie O. Weissinger 

 is proprietor, has an attractive store at 

 319 Orleans street and greenhouses at 

 426 Sabine Pass avenue. 



Burlington, Vt.— W. E. Peters, for 

 many years identified with the flower 

 trade in this city, recently opened one 

 of the handsomest flower stores in New 

 England in the Walker block on St. 

 Paul street. Everything is strictly mod- 

 ern and up-to-date. 



Salt Lake City, Utah.— H. F. F. 



Thorup, proprietor of the Southeastern 

 Nursery & Floral Co., says that florists 

 here had a broad smile on their faces 

 when the holiday rush was over, for 

 nearly all available stock was sold out 

 early. The weather was excellent. 

 Holly, he says, was fine this season and 

 was all sold. 



Fadueah, Ky. — Schmaus Bros., who 

 are favorably located opposite Wallace 

 park, have built up a prosperous, high- 

 class business during the ten years that 

 have passed since the organization of 

 their firm. They grow all the stock 

 that is needed for their own local trade 

 and also send considerable shipments 

 to other towns. 



Bar Harbor, Me.— John H. Stalford 

 has purchased some ground at the rear 

 of the Malvern hotel, off Mount Desert 

 street, and has erected there a fine, 

 modern greenhouse, 200 feet long, with 

 concrete walls. The houses Mr. Stal- 

 ford has been using belonged to the 

 Malvern property and have for a long 

 time been inadequate. 



Norwich, Conn. — Otto Geduldig had, 

 as a caller, Conrad S. Schultz, of 

 Westerly, R. I., who brought samples 

 of carnations Dorothy Gordon and 

 Ruby. It was agreed they were the 

 finest yet seen, and, to convince his 

 friends he had as good at home, he 

 produced a sales slip just received from 

 his commission man, containing a state- 

 ment of a big shipment that made the 

 boys' eyes bulge, especially at this 

 time, when good stock is scarce. 



Rochester, N. Y. — Colin Ogston, su- 

 perintendent of the Kimball conserva- 

 tories, has perfected a nozzle that is 

 called the Automatic and Positive noz- 

 zle. He has been experimenting with 

 this for some time and is positive he 

 has the most perfect nozzle yet in- 

 vented. It can easily be adapted, he 

 says, to anj spray, from the heaviest 

 to the finest. Samples have been sent 

 to several leading growers for demon- 

 stration and opinions. It will shortly 

 be^jlaced upon the market. 



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Summit, N. J. — Fire at the green- 

 houses of Valentine Hamann, January 

 11, caused a loss which was estimated 

 at $12,000. 



Lee, Mass. — A greenhouse containing 

 4,000 feet of glass was recently erected 

 by the King Construction Co. at High- 

 lawn, the estate of W. B. O. Field. 



Elm Grove, W. Va. — John Dieckmann 

 & Co. are making extensive improve- 

 ments about their greenhouses, includ- 

 itig the erection of an addition, 40x200 

 feet. 



Hinckley, 111. — F. E. Graves recently 

 suffered a loss of several hundred dol- 

 lars in frozen stock, owing to the burst- 

 ing of a pipe, which put out the fire in* 

 his boiler. 



Haverhill, Mass.— W. F. Eaton, of the 

 firm of Tabor & Eaton, at North Parish, 

 has purchased his partner's interest in 

 the establishment, and Mr. Tabor has 

 gone into other business. 



Penn Yan, N. Y. — The Comings green 

 house property, on Head street, has been 

 sold at public auction. It was fore- 

 closed by the Rochester Trust & Safe 

 Deposit Co. and was bid in by George 

 li. Barden, of this village. 



Bapid City, S. D.— Reimers Bros, 

 have begun business here as growers of 

 greenhouse vegetables and have named 

 their establishment the Sunnyside 

 Nursery and Gardens. The members 

 of the firm are Aug. F. and Charles 

 Reimers. 



Rome, N. Y. — Edward Kipp had a 

 Jiouse of poinsettias just right for the 

 holidays and sold every plant at a good 

 figure. The prices ruled higher than 

 usual. W. Rogers is the able plant 

 grower; James Watkins, formerly of 

 the Dale estate, is the carnationist. 



South Hadley Falls, Mass. — The 

 greenhouse of O. A. Judd & Son, market 

 gardeners, was damaged by fire early 

 in the morning of January 11. As the 

 firm has a strong water supply on the 

 premises, the flames were extinguished 

 without the aid of the fire department. 



NorfolK, Va. — Frank Brunton, mana- 

 ger of the Fox-Hall Farm, reports that 

 the firm is now building a Lord & Burn- 

 ham greenhouse, 25x300, for vegetable 

 forcing. He also states: "We culti- 

 vate a truck farm of 300 acres, grow- 

 ing strawberries, melons, lettuce and 

 other vegetables, peonies, iris and 

 phlox, besides gladioli for wholesale cut 

 flowers. We are also building a model 

 concrete dairy for fifty cows, largely 

 for the purpose of supplying us with 

 fertilizer. We intend to select and im- 

 prove types in the vegetable line suit- 

 able for this locality." Mr. Brunton 

 was formerly manager of T. W. Wood 

 & Sons' Kenbrook Seed Farm. ... 



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