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Fbbbuary 23, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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READERS ARE INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE ITEMS FOR THIS DEPARTMENT. 



Hudson, Mass. — Ernest Ross has re- 

 cently been confined to his home by 

 illness. 



Lockport, N. Y. — Thomas Mansfield 

 has some of the finest lilies in this lo- 

 cality. Design work is a specialty with 

 him; he is an expert in making frames. 



Toronto, Ont. — It was reported under 

 date of February 14 that John H. Dun- 

 lop had been suddenly stricken with 

 serious illness and might have to un- 

 dergo an operation. 



Kushtown, O. — H. Frank Shiveley, 

 who recently started in the florists' 

 business here, was so unfortunate as to 

 lose a large part of his stock by freez- 

 ing. 



Highfield, Md. — The greenhouses on 

 thie property of Frederick Happel, in 

 this town, have been destroyed by fire. 

 The loss amounted to several thousand 

 dollars. 



Qasport, N. Y. — White Bros, have 

 sold their greenhouses to Burton Smith 

 and will remove to Medina, where they 

 will open a first-class store and erect a 

 range of houses. 



Libertsrville, 111.— The Meredith 

 Flower & Vegetable Co. has been in- 

 corporated here, with a capital stock 

 of $10,000, by Joseph E. Meredith, 

 Charles W. Stout and Benjamin H. 

 Miller. 



Crestline, O. — The Crestline Floral 

 Co. uses natural gas as fuel for the 

 heating of the houses, which contain 

 10,000 square feet of glass. J. A. 

 Rosengren, the manager, says: "We 

 heat with steam and pay 20 cents per 

 thousand cubic feet for the gas. This, 

 in cold weather, runs our bill up to $80 

 a month, or about $400 for the entire 

 season. We have a thirty horse-power 

 tubular boiler and have experimented 

 with several kinds of gas burners in 

 order to economize, but have not found 

 much difference in the results. ' ' 



Poseyville, Ind. — It is said that Frank 

 B. Posey has been successful in the ex- 

 periment of growing flowers and veg- 

 etables in the dark chambers of an 

 abandoned coal mine, hundreds of feet 

 below the earth's surface. He fitted up 

 a sprinkling device in the subterranean 

 rooms, installed an electric fan to pro- 

 vide the necessary circulation of air, 

 and supplied a substitute for sunlight 

 by putting in an acetylene gas plant, 

 so adjusted that it would divide the 

 time into "days" and "nights" of the 

 same length as the natural days and 

 nights above ground. The soil appears 

 to be fertile and the plants have grown 

 with surprising rapidity. Now Mr. 

 Posey is planning, it is said, to increase 

 the size of his underground garden, so 

 as to be able to undertake marketing. 



Norwalk, Conn. — Howard V. Worden, 

 an experienced florist, has opened a 

 store at 19 Main street, in the central 

 part of town. 



Iowa City, la. — Mrs. H. J. Paasch, 

 wife of the nurseryman of this city, 

 died February 7, in her forty-seventh 

 year. She is survived by her husoaud 

 and an adopted daughter, Gertrude. 



Burlington, Mass. — A range of nine 

 greenhouses is being erected here for 

 Harvey C. Wheeler, who will use them 

 for the growing of grapes. Freu Boline, 

 a Woburn contractor, has charge of 

 the construction. 



McCook, Neb. — March & Johnson, of 

 the McCook Nurseries and Greenhouses, 

 have secured a $2,400 contract for the 

 landscaping of the courthouse grounds 

 at Sterling, Neb. The contract includes 

 the care of the trees and shrubbery for 

 a term of years. 



Columbiana, O. — Henry Weaver, 

 whose greenhouse was almost demol- 

 ished last summer by a hail storm, and 

 who purchased a tract of land near 

 town upon which to build another and 

 better one, now has the building erect- 

 ed and ready for use. It is located 

 near the north borough line. 



Beaumont, Tex. — The Southeast Texas 

 Floral Co., at present occupying prop- 

 erty near town, has taken a five-year 

 lease of the property at the northwest 

 corner of Spruce avenue and Collier's 

 Ferry road, adjacent to Magnolia ceme- 

 tery, and is erecting greenhouses there. 

 The work is under the direction of C. J. 

 Axelson, manager, and the entire plant 

 will be transferred to the new location 

 this spring. 



Portland, Me.— The Portland Flower 

 Store, until recently at 629 Congress 

 street, is now located in the premises 

 formerly occupied by the city branch 

 of the Goddard Greenhouse Co. Charles 

 L. Howe, proprietor of the Portland 

 Flower Store, has purchased the down- 

 town business of the Goddard concern. 

 Miss Lougee, Mr. Howe's local man- 

 ager, has fitted up the new quarters in 

 handsome style. Mr. Howe has green- 

 houses at Dover, N. H., and stores in 

 different towns. 



Junction City, Kan. — Thomas Kee- 

 shan, Jr., of the firm of Keeshan & Son, 

 of this city, has purchased four acres 

 of ground three miles east of Topeka 

 and will build a range of greenhouses 

 there at one?, to be used in growing 

 stock for the wholesale market. The 

 firm's greenhouses here, which have 

 been conducted under the name of the 

 Junction City Floral Co., are not large 

 enough to meet the increasing demands 

 and the new Topeka establishment will 

 supply part of the trade. 



Jamestown, N. Y. — Lawrence Cotter 

 has filed a petition in bankruptcy. His 

 liabilities amount to $1,506.79; his as- 

 sets, $75. 



Orange, N. J. — The New Jersey Flori- 

 cultural Society will hold a dahlia show 

 here September 30. A premium list has 

 been issued, of which copies may be 

 had by addressing the secretary, Wm. 

 Reid. 



Wichita, Kan. — William H. Thomas, 

 sometimes referred to as the Kansas 

 rival of Burbank, died at his home in 

 this city February 3, after a week's 

 illness. He was noted for his rare skill 

 as an amateur grower of plants. 



South Albany, Vt.-^Mrs. Willard F. 

 Ames, who has about twenty acres de- 

 voted to dahlias, has met with con- 

 siderable success in the sale of dahlia 

 tubers and is now building up a general 

 florist business in the sale of begonias, 

 ferns, geraniums and other house plants. 



Marshalltown, la. — I. O. Kemble, who 

 has his headquarters here, with branches 

 in different towns, has now acquired 

 also the greenhouses heretofore con- 

 ducted by M. J. Lockard, at Boone, la. 

 Mr. Kemble expects to enlarge the 

 Boone establishment and will place it 

 in charge of A. H. Smith, a graduate of 

 the school at Shaw's Garden, St. Louis, 

 Mo. 



Union City, Pa. — Fire, of unknown 

 origin, destroyed the barn and ware- 

 house at the Union City Greenhouses, 

 Saturday night, February 11, including 

 all contents, consisting of one horse, 

 sleighs, wagons, implements, etc. One 

 small greenhouse, 12x54, adjacent to the 

 warehouse, was also destroyed, with con- 

 tents. The remainder of the establish- 

 ment escaped serious injury. The total 

 loss was about $1,500, with insurance of 

 $400. 



Fort Morgan, Colo. — It is now nearly 

 two years since The Review first an- 

 nounced that L. J. Reid was building a 

 greenhouse in this town. Since that 

 time work has steadily progressed, until 

 his greenhouses are now among the best 

 equipped in the northeast part of the 

 state. This is but one of the small 

 places which are springing up as a re- 

 sult of the prosperity which has come 

 to the irrigated valleys of Colorado, fol- 

 lowing intensive farming and sugar- 

 beet growing. The range is not a large 

 one, but is being steadily added to each 

 year. The houses are strictly modern 

 and a choice stock is being furnished. 

 Mr. Reid buys most of his flowers and 

 plants in Denver when his own stock 

 runs low, and Chicago frequently sup- 

 plies him with building material, seeds 

 and bulbs. He not only does a local re- 

 tail business, but also ships cut flowers 

 to the nearby towns in northeastern 

 Colorado and western Nebraska. 



