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Afbil 11, 1912. 



The Weekly Horists' Rcvkw. 



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Greens Farms, Conn. — George B. 

 Whitehead sent 800 pots of Easter lilies 

 to New Haven in one auto load April 1. 



Watertown, Wis.— The Stube Floral 

 Co. had especially good lilies this year 

 and did a big Easter trade at the store 

 on Main street. 



Cleveland, O. — The secretary of state 

 has licensed the incorporation of the 

 Wilson Florist Co., of Cleveland; capi- 

 tal stock, $30,000; incorporators, A. V. 

 Cannon, M. L. Parmenter, O. O. Vroo- 

 man, L. C. Spieth and P. A. White. 



Greens Farms, Conn. — George White- 

 head had the contract for the decora- 

 tions for fair week at D. M. Read's 

 store, in Bridgeport. The materials in- 

 cluded a large auto truck load of choice 

 palms and plants, besides many flow- 

 ers, and the work of arranging the dis- 

 play kept him busy for some days. 



Fitchburg, Mass. — C. A. Lesure, who 

 purchased the retail end of the Mans- 

 field flower business about a year ago, 

 is conducting the store under its for- 

 mer name, the Mansfield Flower Shop. 

 He carries an excellent stock and has 

 a prosperous trade. The store is in 

 the Johusonia building, at 5 Putnam 

 street. 



Atlanta, Ga. — It is said that the park 

 board, unable to secure money for the 

 rebuilding of the greenhouses at Grant 

 park, has decided to tear down the 

 present houses, which are old and un- 

 safe, and sell the stock of plants. At 

 last report, however, there was still a 

 slight hope that a strong appeal from 

 the citizens might induce the finance 

 committee of the council to make an 

 appropriation for the rebuilding of the 

 houses. 



Bridgeport, Conn. — G. C. Bouton & 

 Son, on Warren street, added one more 

 house to their range of glass last sea- 

 son and they expect to build another 

 greenhouse, an office and salesroom in 

 the coming spring. During the last few 

 years they have been experimenting 

 with seedling carnations, and they .be- 

 lieve that three varieties which they 

 have originated — a light pink, a light 

 red and a dark red — will prove to be 

 valuable commercially. 



New Hamburgh, N. Y.— Alex A. Laub 

 is enjoying the carnation growing busi- 

 ness, as he thinks there is nothing like 

 it. He has about all his stock potted 

 up for next season. The varieties 

 grown are Princess Charming, White 

 House, Enchantress, White Enchant- 

 ress, Rose-pink Enchantress, Winsor, 

 Prospector, which he says is the best 

 paying red he ever grew, even if it is 

 not so large a variety, and a bench of 

 a light pink seedling which is free and 

 a good color. 



Sheridan, Wyo.— The L. M. Best Flo- 

 ral Co. will add one rose house, 45x100, 

 this spring. Already the range of 

 greenhouses is one of the largest in the 

 state, but the firm expresses the de- 

 termination to double the glass area 

 within the next year or two. This is 

 only Mr. Best's second year in busi- 

 ness here. He came here from Ne- 

 braska, where he had operated green- 

 houses for seven years. He grows car- 

 nations and all kinds of potted plants 

 in connection with lettuce and radishes! 



Putnam, Conn. — More than 1,000 peo- 

 ple visited the East Side Greenhouses 

 on Palm Sunday. 



West Point, Neb.— J. F. Rosenfield 

 has this week completed the removal 

 of his peony farm and home to the new 

 address, Benson, Omaha, Neb. 



Maiden, Mass. — E. D. Kaulback & Son 

 had four houses of lilies for Easter, 

 about 25,000 pots giving 60,000 blooms. 

 They shipped all over New England and 

 were practically cleaned out. 



Franklin, N. H.— Elmer D. Kelley's 

 greenhouse, on Maplewood Farm, was 

 recently damaged by fire. The loss 

 was estimated at $300 to $400, with no 

 insurance. The stock included a quan- 

 tity of vegetables. 



Pittsburg, Kan. — J. C. Steinhauser, of 

 the Steinhauser Florist & Nursery Co., 

 just before Easter made a trip to Cher- 

 ryvale, Cofl^eyville, Bartlesville and 

 Muskogee. The company has branch 

 establishments at these places. 



Bridgeport, Conn. — John Reck & Son 

 again rented the central space in the 

 Post Office arcade for the Easter rush, 

 as in former seasons, and sold large 

 quantities of fine stock there, as well 

 as in their store at 985 Main street. 



Dayton, O. — W. G. Matthews secured 

 a vacant store on Third street for the 

 Easter overflow. Mr. Matthews has 

 leased for five years the new building 

 which is to be built at 32 South Main 

 street, where he will establish a per- 

 manent store, handsomely equipped. 



Chester, Pa. — Edward Dickerson, an 

 ex-alderman of the First Ward, is 

 making preparations to engage in the 

 business of manufacturing concrete 

 flower boxes of rustic design. He will 

 erect a plant for the purpose at Twen- 

 ty-fourth and Potter streets. It is said 

 that he has received some large ad- 

 vance orders for the boxes. 



Washington, Pa. — Warrick Bros, and 

 the Washington Floral Co. recently 

 joined forces and have opened a store 

 in the Driver building. Earl J. Sedam, 

 formerly in charge of the flower stand 

 in the street car office, is manager of 

 the new store. Each of the two firms 

 owned a range of greenhouses, which 

 will be retained by the company as now 

 consolidated. 



San Antonio, Tex. — P. D. Hauser has 

 become the sole proprietor of the busi- 

 ness which formerly bore the name of 

 P. D. Hauser & Sons Floral Co. With 

 the change of ownership the name has 

 been changed to l^ D. Hauser Floral 

 Co. Besides buying his partners' in- 

 terest in the business, Mr. Hauser has 

 spent $16,000 in the purchase of six 

 lots of ground at 1214 to 1232 East 

 Commerce street. 



Buffalo, N. Y.— At ,1. J. Albright's 

 orchid houses, where Charles Sandford 

 is gardener, some fine specimens of 

 Odontoglossum crispum, grande and 

 Pescatorei were in flower when the 

 writer called; also Phalsenopsis Schil- 

 leriana and grandiflora. Odontoglots 

 are not nearly so extensively grown 

 here as in Europe, the two largest 

 American collections being in the pos- 

 session of Oliver Ames, North Easton, 

 Mass., and Mrs. W. S. Kimball, Roches- 

 ter, N. Y. 



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NEWS NOTES 



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Malta, O. — W. C. Scovell says trade 

 all season has been away in advance 

 of any other year, the Easter business 

 also breaking records. 



Ravenna, O. — Chappell & Son say 

 Easter trade was the best ever. They 

 are planning to put the proceeds into 

 a large new rose house. 



Astoria, N. Y. — Henry Pritchard was 

 in great luck when he sold five green- 

 houses and a part of his land to the 

 city March 11, for April 7 a heavy 

 storm did much damage to the place, 

 for which the city stands, leaving Mr. 

 Pritchard with three uninjured houses. 



Shelbyville, 111. — Adolph Reiss says 

 the Easter trade broke all records, 

 more and more flowers being used each 

 year. There were so many calls for 

 violets they could not be supplied. 

 Sweet peas also were in demand, and 

 "the boys love to send the girls red 

 roses, ' ' he says. 



Iron Mountain, Mich. — At 1 o'clock 

 on the morning of March 27 flames vis- 

 ited the Plowman Sunnyside Green- 

 house, and destroyed the roof of the 

 boiler shed, the dimensions of which 

 were 20x30. It is presumed that a 

 spark or sparks from the boiler ignited 

 the roof. The damage is covered by 

 insurance. 



Akron, N. Y. — James J. Bates reports 

 Easter trade more than double last 

 year's sales; plants at a church fair 

 April 4 seemed to wake the people 

 up and those who did not buy at the 

 fair called on the downtown florist, 

 thus cleaning up everything in the 

 bulb line. Mr. Bates has had a heavy 

 run of funeral work the last two 

 weeks. 



Grand Rapids, Mich.— Crabb & Hun 

 ter have opened a new store at 114 

 East Fulton street, in the Metz build 

 ing, just erected. In order that the 

 firm might take advantage of the Eas 

 ter season, the quarters of the florists 

 were rushed to completion ahead of the 

 remainder of the building. It is a 

 pretty white and green interior, with 

 up-to-date appointments. 



Bangor, Me. — Easter was an ideal 

 day and the florists seemed to surpass 

 themselves in their displays. J. Mar- 

 tin's new store was a handsome sight 

 and everybody in town seemed to try 

 to secure a few plants or cut flowers, 

 not only the better class, but also the 

 others, and flowers as part of the attire 

 predominated, and all florists report an 

 exceedingly good business. 



New London, Wis.- The Guelson Flo- 

 ral Co. gives an interesting account of 

 the way in which the stock in its green- 

 houses was saved during the cold wave 

 last January, when the boiler was sud- 

 denly put out of commission by an acci- 

 dent. "During three days and nights," 

 says a member of the firm, "until we 

 could get a traction engine out to our 

 houses, we kept our stock from freezing 

 by using charcoal fires in the houses and 

 we also used the charcoal fires during 

 five more days to aid the traction en- 

 gine, as it could not heat our 14,000 

 feet of glass unaided. The smilax, vio- 

 lets and sweet peas were affected by the 

 charcoal fumes, but the rest of the stock 

 seemed none the worse for this treat- 

 ment, beyond the check due to the low 

 temperature. ' ' 



