APRIL 18, 1912. 



The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



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East Hadley, Mass. — The Montgomery 

 Rose Co. will begin the erection of an- 

 other greenhouse, 40x500, just north of 

 the present houses, early this spring. 



Great Neck, N. Y.— W. W. Matthews 

 and G. E, Lasher have enormous stocks 

 of Freesia Purity and supply much of 

 that received in the New York market. 



Huntingdon, Pa.— James M. Doggett, 

 formerly a landscape gardener at' Al- 

 toona. Pa., is now employed at the 

 greenhouses of the Pennsylvania In- 

 dustrial Eeformatory, in this town. 



Portsmouth, O.— The damage done by 

 the recent hail storm at the greenhouses 

 of the Herms Floral Co., on the Chil- 

 licothe pike, has been repaired. It 

 took 1,000 lights of glass to do the job. 



Bluffton, Jnd. — Myers & Co. will re- 

 build four of their seven greenhouses 

 this summer, employing the most mod- 

 ern construction. They are putting in 

 an irrigation system for their outdooi" 

 stock. 



Hartford, Conn. — The Hartford news- 

 papers this week contain an excellent 

 article by J. M. Adams on the history 

 and cultivation of the gladiolus. The 

 American Gladiolus Society comes in 

 for a good notice and the showing is 

 sure to do much to advance the popu- 

 larity of the flower. 



Monon, Ind. — S. H. Long, formerly 

 of Piano, 111., has purchased an in- 

 terest in the florist business of Mrs. 

 S. H. Myers, in this city, and will 

 assume active charge. Mrs. Myers' 

 greenhouses have been idle part of the 

 winter, as her health had failed and 

 she was unable to keep them up. 



Pittsburg, Kan. — Commenting on the 

 tall Formosa lily of C. Young & Sons 

 Co., recently illustrated in The Review, 

 J. C. Steinhauser, of the Steinhauser 

 Florist and Nursery Co., says he had 

 one that flowered at a height of seven 

 feet ten inches and had eight buds. 

 Like the Youngs ', this was from a bulb 

 supplied by A. Henderson & Co. 



Des Plaines, HI.— The Lord & Burn- 

 ham Co., which last season erected a 

 large greenhouse material factory at 

 this place, has just increased its capi- 

 tal stock from $50,000 to $250,000. The 

 company operating here is an Illinois 

 corporation, separate from the New 

 York corporation of the same name, 

 though the ownership and management 

 are identical. 



Champaign, HI. — J. E. Yates has had 

 the plans drawn for eight greenhouses, 

 to be erected in the south part of the 

 city, on Maple street, just west of 

 Mount Hope cemetery. An office will be 

 built on part of the site of the present 

 greenhouses owned by Mr. Yates, which 

 are at the corner of Third street and 

 Springfield avenue and are conducted 

 ^^y Gus Johnson. The present green- 

 houses will be torn down and residences 

 built on the remainder of the site. 



Cambridge, Mass. — John Kelley, of 

 the firm of Kelley Bros., florists, started 

 recently on a business tour of Massa- 

 chusetts, Maine and New Hampshire. 



Lawrence, Mass. — Geo. W, Thornton, 

 a brother of the members of the firm 

 of Thornton Bros., is reported to be 

 seriously ill on his farm at West Ken- 

 nebunk, Me. 



Jacksonville, 111. — O. B. Heinl has 

 been nominated for reelection to the 

 village board of South Jacksonville. 

 The board holds its meetings at the 

 Heinl greenhouses. 



Richmond, Ind.— The E. G. Hill Co. 

 reports being practically sold out on 

 Sunburst. It has been the company's 

 most successful introduction since the 

 Richmond rose was sent out. 



Orand Bagplds, Mich. — Henry Smith 

 and Eli Cross secured new automobile 

 delivery cars in time for the Easter 

 rush. The Crabb & Hunter Floral Co. 

 has also added a new delivery wagon. 



Mitchell, S. D.— William Dethlefs, of 

 the Davison County Greenhouses, in- 

 tends to erect two more houses, each 

 14x60, this season. The materials will 

 be furnished by the John C. Moninger 

 Co. Mr. Dethlefs' Easter trade was 

 twenty-five per cent better than last 

 year, in both plants and cut flowers. 



Lebanon, Pa. — A recent fire at the 

 greenhouse of S. K. Snyder, a florist 

 and truck gardener at Second street 

 and Schaefferstown road, in South Leb- 

 anon township, destroyed the house and 

 its contents, including some thousands 

 of vegetable plants, geraniums, etc. He 

 expects to rebuild, but probably not till 

 next fall. He has a stand in the Eighth 

 street market. 



Ottawa, ni. — Some unusually fine calla 

 lilies and carnations, grown by Lohr 

 Bros, in their greenhouses on Ottawa 

 street, were recently on exhibition in 

 the windows of Charles Geiger's gro- 

 cery store. The callas, it is said, were 

 probably the largest ever seen in this 

 city; the stems were four feet six inches 

 in length and the flowers were six and 

 five-eighths inches in diameter. The 

 carnations were also large and of splen- 

 did quality. 



Marysville, O. — C. O. Coder, manager 

 of the Marysville Floral Co., has pur- 

 chased a building in South Main street. 

 It is the purpose of Mr. Coder to use 

 the property as an uptown headquar- 

 ters and retail store for seeds, bulbs and 

 all kinds of garden supplies. In the 

 rear a greenhouse will be erected, ex- 

 tending from the store building to the 

 alley. The company will continue to 

 operate the greenhouses and gardens at 

 the south end of Plum street. The 

 work of rebuilding the section that was 

 recently crushed by snow will be started 

 as soon as weather conditions are fa- 

 vorable. 



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Meadville, Pa. — Eoger Ward Haas, 

 of George W. Haas & Son, and Miss 

 Eva Angeline McMillen, of this city, 

 were married April 11. 



Waterville, Me.— Mitchell & Co. held 

 their annual opening, iat Easter, as 

 usual, and the attendance was large. 

 Nearly 1,000 jardinieres were presented 

 to the ladies as souvenirs. 



South Orange, N. J.— W. A. Manda, 

 Inc., is entered as an exhibitor in the 

 International Horticultural Exhibition 

 that opens in London, England, May 

 22. 



Ooldsboro, N. C. — At the funeral of 

 the late ex-Governor Aycock, at Eal- 

 eigh, N. C, the offerings of flowers 

 were declared to be the most elaborate 

 and beautiful ever seen in the capital 

 city, and among the best of them 

 were two designs made by S. A. Starr, 

 proprietor of the Goldsboro Floral Co. 



Louisville, Ky. — Accused of entering 

 the florist shop of Miss Alice J. Miller, 

 225 West Jefferson street, and attempt- 

 ing to steal a purse, J. Bennett Jones 

 was arrested April 5. Jones, it is said, 

 would have succeeded in securing the 

 purse but for the action of T. O. Miller, 

 brother of Miss Miller, and a negro 

 porter, who held the prisoner until the 

 arrival of the police. 



New Castle, Ind. — Otto L. Benthey, 

 who purchased two lots on South Four- 

 teenth street with the intention of 

 building greenhouses there, is said to 

 have abandoned the project on account 

 of the objections of residents on the ad- 

 jacent property. He has sold the lots 

 and canceled the contracts for the erec- 

 tion of three greenhouses. His purpose 

 now is to open a large retail flower 

 store in the Union block. 



Ottawa, Ont. — It is reported that 

 Charles J. Wright and Miss E. Louise 

 Wright surprised their friends by get- 

 ting married, April 8, in New York 

 city, where they were spending a few 

 days as members of a large excursion 

 party. A facetious newspaper corre- 

 spondent heads his report "Miss 

 Wright Mrs. Because He Mr.," and 

 says that it is a case where two 

 "Wrights" make a happy married 

 couple. 



Marysville, Kan. — Alderman Fisher, 

 or Councilman Fisher — such is now H. 

 R. Fisher's official title. He has been 

 elected councilman of his ward by al- 

 most unanimous choice, receiving all 

 but three votes. And, as if that were 

 not honor enough for one florist, his 

 fellow aldermen have chosen him as 

 president of the council, a dignity 

 which is generally conferred on the 

 oldest member of the body. In the re- 

 organization of the council, Mr. Fisher 

 was also appointed chairman of the 

 building committee, and a member of 

 the improvement committee and the 

 board of health. 



