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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Pontiac, Mich. — A recent fire at the 

 greenhouses of Harry Tyre, 490 Auburn 

 avenue, caused a loss of over $700. 



Elmira, N. Y. — H. H. Hofifman was at 

 Syracuse March 12 to give the amateur 

 gardeners in the Syracuse Rose Society 

 a talk on rose growing. 



Martins Ferry, O. — Davidson Bros., 

 whose greenhouses are at this place, 

 opened a store at Wheeling, W. Va., 

 for the Easter rush. 



Buffalo, N. Y. — Rachel M. Rebstock 

 Co., with store at 614 Main street, has 

 a branch at 292 Connecticut street for 

 the Easter rush. 



Newburgh, N. Y. — Mrs. Max Push- 

 man found her husband, a florist, and 

 Michael Cavigan, a fireman, dead in a 

 greenhouse on the morning of March 

 23. They had been suffocated by gas 

 from a coal stove. 



Kansas City, Mo. — Two greenhouses 

 of the Rock Flower Co., Sixty-third 

 street and Troost avenue, were crushed 

 by the weight of the snow that fell 

 March 24. The glass was broken and 

 plants worth $2,000 were ruined. 



Hopkinsville, Ky. — Wm. F. Snyder, 

 formerly sole proprietor of the estab- 

 lishment at North Main and Fourth 

 streets, has taken Geo. D. Harned into 

 partnership and has added a grocery 

 department to the business. The store 

 has also been enlarged, so as to make 

 space for two more rooms. At the 

 greenhouses a large workroom has been 

 built and a new boiler has been in- 

 stalled. Two more greenhouses will be 

 erected this summer. The firm name 

 is now Snyder & Harned. 



Coming, N. Y. — A. H. Woeppel 'says 

 the begonia will continue to be a popu- 

 lar plant for holiday trade. When hard- 

 ened off previous to selling time, the 

 plant gives satisfaction. He will grow 

 Glory of Cincinnati extensively. His 

 carnations were never better; the old 

 favorite. Enchantress, seems hard to 

 beat, though Pink Delight and Mrs. C. 

 W. Ward are popular, being excellent 

 keepers. Mr. Woeppel is much inter- 

 ested in the new varieties being offered. 

 Rush of business kept him from being 

 at Detroit. 



Raleigh, N. C— J. L. O'Quinn & Co., 

 of this city, and H. C. Smith, of Golds- 

 boro, N. C, have leased their green- 

 houses at Goldsboro to S. A. Starr, for 

 a period of four and one-half years. 

 O'Quinn & Co. report business as ex- 

 ceedingly good. Though the winter has 

 been the coldest in twenty years, re- 

 quiring the consumption of almost 

 double the usual quantity of coal, yet 

 trade has been good enough to compen- 

 sate fully for this extra expense. The 

 firm will tear down two old greenhouses 

 and replace them with new ones, using 

 concrete for the walls and benches. 



Norristown, Pa. — Wm. H. Catanese 

 has opened a branch flower store in 

 Pottstown. It is located at 13 North 

 Hanover street and will be known as 

 the Century Floral Shop. 



Norristown, Pa. — William Yeager, 

 formerly in the florists' business here, 

 but for the last few months an inmate 

 of the State Hospital for the Insane, 

 escaped from that institution at a late 

 hour on Saturday night, March 23, in 

 company with three other patients. At 

 last report, he had not been found. 



Albion, Mich. — During the last year 

 M. & S. L. Dysinger have made such 

 improvements at their place as have 

 put it in first-class condition for busi- 

 ness. They have built additions to 

 their chrysanthemum and carnation 

 houses, repaired and painted the whole 

 range and installed a new steam 

 boiler. Their trade during the winter 

 was heavy. They have again secured 

 the contract for the cemetery work 

 and also the G. A. R. order for Memo- 

 rial day. 



East Walden, N. Y.— W. C. Hart, the 

 dahlia specialist at Sycamore Place, has 

 built a cellar, 32 x 56 feet, for the stor- 

 age of the clumps. The cellar is so ar- 

 ranged that a team and loaded wagon 

 can be driven through its entire length. 

 There is ample room for the sorting 

 and packing of shipments. The walls 

 are of cement, studded and wainscoted 

 inside, then papered and wainscoted 

 again with ship-lap lumber. The ceil- 

 ing is studded and lined in the same 

 way. A large cistern pipe supplies an 

 abundance of filtered rain water. 



Lake Forest, ni.— E. Bollinger, the 

 landscape gardener, has delivered some 

 unusually interesting illustrated lec- 

 tures at Evanston in connection with 

 the Y. M. C. A. gardening course. Mr. 

 Bollinger is a native of Switzerland, 

 and studied at the botanical. gardens at 

 Geneva. He has laid out the grounds 

 of several wealthy persons, and was 

 with Byron L. Smith, president of the 

 Northern Trust Co., for five years. He 

 organized the Lake Shore Horticultural 

 Society, and is a member and lecturer 

 of the Illinois State Horticultural 

 Society. 



Qreencastle, Ind. — John Eitel & Son 

 have purchased what are known as the 

 Troxell & Shake greenhouses, at the 

 corner of Vine and Franklin streets, and 

 have removed their offices and retail 

 department to the new location, where 

 they will make such alterations and 

 improvements as seem desirable. The 

 firm 's greenhouses on Melrose avenue 

 will be retained, but will be used only 

 for wholesale business in the future. 

 The Troxell & Shake place had been 

 conducted for a year by Geo. D. Reid, 

 who has bought the Howell establish- 

 ment, at Danville, Ind., and gone into 

 business there. 



Pekin, III. — George A. Kuhl, wlio has 

 been ill for a long time, is getting 

 along nicely at the Presbyterian hos- 

 pital in Chicago, but probably will be 

 there for several weeks longer. 



Marysville, O. — Snow drifted onto one 

 of the greenhouses of the Marysville 

 bloral Co., March 24, to the depth of 

 eighteen inches, the weight causing the 

 concrete walls to spread and the roof 

 to collapse. Manager C. O. Coder es- 

 timates the loss at $600. The house will 

 be rebuilt at once. 



Kansas City, Mo. — William L. Rock 

 and associates have this week been hold- 

 ing an opening reception at their new 

 store, 1106 Grand avenue, where they 

 have fitted up one of the handsomest 

 establishments in the west. Engraved 

 invitations were sent to those in the 

 social set and the store has been 

 thronged. A large Easter trade is 

 certain. 



Muscatine, la. — Fire that destroyed a 

 greenhouse and several small outbuild- 

 ings occurred on the property of Arthur 

 Kleist, a resident of the Island, March 

 24, causing a damage estimated at about 

 $200. A unique feature of the blaze 

 was that no inkling of the fire had 

 been received until the mass of debris 

 and smoking ruins met the owner's gaze 

 next morning. He had slept throughout. 

 No intimation that liis property was en- 

 dangered had been received by him dur- 

 ing the night. None of his neighbors 

 saw the flames. 



Council Bluffs, la. — The stock in the 

 greenhouses of Fred L. Lainson, on 

 Canning street, was seriously damaged 

 recently by gas that had been escaping 

 from one of the gas company's mains. 

 The plants had been suffering for sev- 

 eral weeks, and no explanation could 

 be given until experts from the State 

 Agricultural College at Ames looked 

 over the place and found the leak. 

 Later the gas company began work for 

 the purpose of discovering the exact 

 place of the leakage. The vegetable 

 section of the houses was the most 

 affected. The total damage was esti- 

 mated at $10,000. 



Duiliani, N. C— Fred Roll has built 

 another Lord & Burnham house, 20x75, 

 and has planted it with carnations, of 

 which he has a fine crop. He has tried 

 a few hundreds of Dorothy Gordon, 

 C. W. Ward and Alma Ward, and 

 thinks they have "made good." The 

 •January cold wave was the severest 

 here in fourteen years, with the tem- 

 perature as low as 6 degrees above 

 zero, but he succeeded in keeping all 

 his stock in good condition. He thinks 

 that southern growers have not so 

 much of an advantage over their 

 northern brethren in regard to heat- 

 ing as might be supposed, since fuel is 

 more expensive here; hard coal is $9.50 

 per ton. 



