Mat 11, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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The scores made May 8 were: 



Player. Ist 2d 3d 



Scott 144 172 164 



DonaldRon 182 174 172 



Miesem 157 18S 1S9 



Elnsman 164 183 140 



SchultB ;..• 160 101 124 



Shaw 164 126 130 



Kakuda 119 128 184 



Manda 190 166 179 



Wednesday evening, May 10, the New 

 York club went to Tuxedo to play the 

 return match with the bowlers there 

 and May 20 the Madisons will come to 

 Thumm's alleys for their second trim- 

 ming. J. Austin Shaw. 



OBITUABY. 



Henry Lorenze. 



Henry Lorenze, of the Park Floral 

 Co., at Park and Mississippi avenues, 

 St. Louis, Mo., died May 6, after an ill- 

 ness which had continued for several 

 years. Many members of the trade were 

 present at the funeral and extended 

 their sympathy to the widow and chil- 

 dren. 



Mrs. Charles Beisig. 



Mrs. Charles Heisig died at her home 

 at Eiveraide, 111., May 6, aged 63 years, 

 and was buried May 8 at Forest Home 

 cemetery, near Chicago. She leaves two 

 sons, Charles and Paul, and two daugh- 

 ters, Rose and Lillie. Mrs. Eeisig was 

 the widow of one of Chicago's pioneer 

 florists and was herself for many years 

 active in her husband's business. The 

 first Beisig establishment was at the 

 corner of Sixteenth street and Prairie 

 avenue, when that section was the out- 

 skirts of Chicago. Later the green- 

 houses were removed to Biverside. Mr. 

 Beisig opened one of the first downtown 

 stores in Chicago, at 27 Washington 

 street, where Marshall Field's building 

 now stands. Later he removed to the 

 Auditorium building, on Wabash avenue, 

 at a time when that structure was so 

 far outside the business district that 

 many thought success would be impos- 

 sible. Charles Beisig took P. J. Haus- 

 wirth in boyhood as his protege and 

 later Mr. Hauswirth succeeded to the 

 Beisig business. 



John Dodds. 



John Dodds, florist at the Grand 

 Trunk shops in Battle Creek, Mich., 

 died suddenly of heart failure, April 28, 

 at his home, 1 Delano street. He was 

 54 years of age. He is survived by his 

 wife and three children. He was of 

 Scotch descent, came to Battle Creek 

 four years ago and had been employed 

 at the Grand Trunk shops since that 

 time. 



B. Latour-Marliac. 



The European horticultural press 

 records the demise of B. Latour- 

 Marliac, whose name will forever be 

 associated with the nymphseas. The 

 hybrids raised at his nursery in France 

 represent a work of forty years and 

 include some of the best known and 

 most valuable varieties. The hybridizer 

 was in his eightieth year at the time 

 of his death. The business will be car- 

 ried on by a son, who relinquishes the 

 position as postmaster at Bordeaux to 

 take up his father's work. 



Madison, Wis. — The firm of Mallory 

 & Bridge has become Mallory & Brown, 

 E. J. Brown having taken the interest 

 of H. H. Bridge, and its operations will 

 in future be conducted on property 

 near this city instead of at Lake Mills. 



Liverpool, O.— Chal. Peterson, the old- 

 est florist in this vicinity, is critically 



Ottawa, m. — Lohr Bros, have taken 

 charge of the greenhouses formerly con- 

 ducted by Mrs. Fred J. King, on Ottawa 

 avenue, and will grow carnations, chrys- 

 anthemums and a general line of pot 

 plants. 



Kingman, Ean. — Biggs & Johnson 

 have started business here as growers 

 of both flowers and vegetables. They 

 have one greenhouse, 25 x 100, already 

 in use, and are erecting another house, 

 16 X 100. 



Louisville, Ky. — The Jefferson County 

 Greenhouse Co. has been incorporated 

 here, for the purpose of growing flow- 

 ers. The capital stock is $12,000, divided 

 into shares of $100 each. The incorpo- 

 rators, each of whom holds forty shares, 

 are George Kopmeier, Charles Scholtz, 

 Jr., and A. J. Driesbach. 



Englewood, N. J. — T. W. Lydecker & 

 Co. .are making a considerable change 

 in their heating system. A number of 

 small boilers in various sections of the 

 range are being taken out and one large 

 Kroeschell boiler will be installed in a 

 central heating plant, to take care of all 

 the houses. 



Jefferson City, Mo. — Hugo Busch, 

 proprietor of the Capital City Green- 

 houses, is planning to put up 20,000 or 

 25,000 feet of glass at a new establish- 

 ment outside the town. His present 

 place is at the corner of Madison and 

 Dunklin streets and the demand is be- 

 yond his facilities. 



Clarksville, Tenn. — James Morton, of 

 the Evergreen Lodge Flower Garden, 

 was one of the heaviest losers in the 

 wind and hail storm which swept over 

 this vicinity on Saturday afternoon, 

 April 29. Over 800 lights of glass were 

 shattered in his greenhouses. The storm 

 was one of the worst in the history of 

 the county. 



Bettendorf, la.— The J. W. Davis Co. 

 has been incorporated here, with a 

 capital stock of $40,000, for the purpose 

 of growing both vegetables and flowers. 

 The officers are: President and treas- 

 urer, J. W. Davis; vice-president, Mary 

 E. Davis; secretary, Albert Ankeny. 

 Charles Grilk is also one of the incorpo- 

 rators. 



Pittsfield, Mass.— Rudolph Mauers- 

 berger, who recently leased the green- 

 houses and grounds connected with Miss 

 Hall's school, on the Holmes road, has 

 secured the contracts for the landscape 

 work on the estates of the Misses 

 Emma and Harriet Sheldon and also 

 the estate of William Stanley, in Great 

 Harrington. 



State CoUege, Pa.— C. G. McBride, 

 who is president of the Crab Apple 

 Club, the student organization, and also 

 editor of the Pcnn State Farmer, pub- 

 lished by the Agricultural Society, says 

 that Pennsylvania State College has a 

 larger enrollment of students in horti- 

 culture than any other college in the 

 country and that floriculture will be a 

 big feature there in future. 



Lake Charles, La. — J. Neuvander has 

 returned from a business trip to Cali- 

 fornia. 



Eugene, Ore. — Ruggles Bros, have 

 added a landscape department to their 

 business. 



Sault Ste. Marie, Mich ^F. A. Den- 

 man will erect a residence and green- 

 house on the south side of Albert street. 



Des Moines, la. — Business is so good 

 with the J. S. Wilson Floral Co, that an 

 order has been placed with Foley, Chi- 

 cago, for material for some new houses. 



Des Moines, la — Th^ Iowa Seed Co. 

 finds its mail-order plant tradB grow- 

 ing so rapidly that a range of new plant 

 houses is a necessity, and will be built 

 this summer. 



Maquoketa, la. — Mrs. J. Odgers, pro- 

 prietor of the Maquoketa Greenhouses, 

 has been in business here for nearly 

 twenty years and has built up a sub- 

 stantial trade. 



Bockland, Mass. — Clarence Wilson, 

 son of William T. Wilson, the Crescent 

 street florist, is making a reputation as 

 a writer of short stories. He is a con- 

 tributor to Everybody 's and Hampton 's 

 magazines. 



Lexington, Ky.— Miss Emma Bell, 

 who for the last five years has been 

 associated with her father, W. S. Bell, 

 in the management of his store here, 

 has accepted a position in a flower store 

 at Clarksville, Tenn. 



Newburyport, Mass. — Edwin W. Pear- 

 son had a magnificent display of plants 

 and cut flowers at the Industrial Ex- 

 position of Newburyport-made Products, 

 which was opened in City hall April 18. 

 The booth had a prominent position on 

 the stage of the hall and was in charge 

 of E. T. Goodwin. 



Bochester, Ind. — J. H. Shelton, the 

 plant grower at Eleventh street and 

 Fulton avenue, has added one green- 

 house and doubled his hotbed capacity 

 this season. He has a flne stock of 

 geraniums and vegetable plants. His 

 place is favorably located, only a few 

 squares from the courthouse. 



Columbia City, Ind. — Mr. and Mrs. 

 D. C. Noble, who for the last sixteen 

 years have conducted the establishment 

 known as the North Side Greenhouses, 

 have decided to take a much needed 

 rest and have leased the houses to Ben- 

 jamin Litman. Mr. Litman is a thor- 

 oughly experienced florist, having been 

 associated for many years with Heller 

 Bros., of New Castle, Ind. 



Charlotte, Mich.— J. H. Gibbons, a 

 florist of extensive experience, has 

 taken over the cut flower trade of W. E. 

 Garman. Mr. Garman has conducted 

 greenhouses on East Shaw street for 

 some time, but has made arrangements 

 to go out of the retail business and de- 

 vote his undivided attention to the 

 wholesale trade. He will have five 

 acres of asters this summer, the entire 

 season's output having been already 

 contracted for by one Chicago firm. 

 Next winter he expects to grow gera- 

 nium cuttings exclusively. 



