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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



APitiL 25, 1911'. 



Meadville, Pa. — Alfred E. lleiideisoii 

 has purchased the business or Kojiers 

 & MeKelvey, Horists and gardeners. 



Lacon, 111.— William Metzger, of 

 Wenona, 111., was recently in this town 

 and made arrangements to have his 

 stock handled here by R. Ij. Anske. 



Pen Argyl, Pa.— S. Si Stone, of 

 Bangor, lias opened a branch flower 

 store in the Sonville building, on Main 

 street. 



Palm Beach, Fla. — It should be noted 

 by the trade that from Ajiril 1 to some 

 time in December orders for Palm 

 Beach cannot be filled except by ship- 

 ping, as during that part of the year 

 no commercial florist resides here. 



Marshfleld, Wis.— Theo. Hefko, Mer- 

 rill, AVis., has ])urchased the K. J. Mack- 

 lin greenhouse and will take possession 

 June 1. Mr. Hefko has been employed 

 for the last few years at the M. 

 Greivelding greenhouses at Merrill. 



Pittsburg, Kan.— Miss Nellie Galla- 

 gher, who for six years was bookkeeper 

 for the Steinhauser Florist & Nursery 

 Co., in this city, has received a promo- 

 tion, having been sent to Muskogee, 

 Okla., as manager of the firm's branch 

 5tore there. 



Bloomington, 111. — Mrs. Delia Mc- 

 Donnell, who tor the last six months 

 has been manager of the flower store 

 of the Phoenix Nursery ('o., has re- 

 signed her position, with the intention 

 of removing to Indianapolis, Jnd., and 

 going into business there on her own 

 account. 



Beaver, Pa.--,1. K. Hutchison, for 

 twenty-six years a gardener for the 

 Pennsylvania railroad, has become land- 

 scajie man for the Pittsburg & Lake 

 Erie and is pre])aring to take the field 

 with a large force of men to improve 

 the station grounds and the right of 

 way. 



Woodbine, Md.— ("has. :\rilburn has 

 resigned his position with .1. II. Small 

 & Sons, Washington, D. C, and has 

 accepted a position as superintendent 

 at Oakdale, the country home of ex- 

 Governor Warfield, Woodbine, Md., 

 which is considered the finest estate in 

 the state of Maryland. 



Pittston, Pa. — B. B. Carpenter, the 

 West Pittston florist, is erecting three 

 greenhouses on Susquehanna avenue, in 

 the block between Washington and Ma- 

 ple streets. One of the houses is S.lxlBO 

 and the other two are eacii 24x12.3. 

 The materials are furnished by the King 

 Construction Co. An office building 

 and a large steam plant are also in- 

 cluded in the plans. 



Baker City, Ore. — The ('enter Street 

 Greenhouses, now owned by W. A. Sis- 

 son & Co., recently suffered from the 

 depredations of four boys, ranging in 

 age from 12 to 14 years. They entered 

 at a back door, destroyed some benches 

 of flowers and picked several armfuls 

 of carnations for their own use. The 

 youths were arrested, but Mr. Sisson 

 permitted their release on the promise 

 of their ]>areuts to make reasonal)le re- 

 muneration for the loss. 



Braddock, Pa.— H. C. Bucheler, for- 

 merly of I'airhaven, has purchased the 

 Arthur .lames store, at 641 Braddock 

 avenue. 



New Haven, Conn. — Allan ,1. Bart- 

 lett, who has been employed as a gar- 

 dener at Smith College, has become 

 foreman at Edgewood park here. 



Richmond, Va. — Jas. D. Hooper re- 

 ports a heavy hail storm for six min- 

 utes April 18, but, fortunately, the 

 stones were not heavy enough to lareak 

 much double-thick glass. 



Waterloo, la. — N. H. Loomis is open- 

 ing a new flower store May 1, in the 

 same building as the Paul Davis Dry 

 Goods C'o., but has no connection with 

 them. Mr. Loomis is from Rochester, 

 N. Y. 



Bloomington, 111. — F. A. Bailer re- 

 ported, under date of April 14: "Have 

 been having a serious time here on 

 account of a cloudburst. Bridges gone; 

 three or four feet of water in the 

 greenhouses. Mud - — mud — mud, all 

 over everything." 



Fond dn Lac, Wis.— The Haentze Co. 

 has starte<l the construction of an addi- 

 tion of six greenhouses and a new heat- 

 ing plant. The expenditure for these 

 improvements will be about $12,000. 

 With this enlargement, the firm's 

 range will include a total of .■)4,000 

 square feet of glass. 



St. Cloud, Minn.— The Kindler Floral 

 Co. has completed its plans for the re- 

 modeling and enlarging of its green- 

 houses and has ordered the materials 

 from the .lohn C. Moninger Co. The 

 addition will extend from the i)resent 

 houses to the sidewalk and will in- 

 ( hnle a handsome show house and office. 



Plainview, Tex. — Brown & Jeffries, 

 who have been operating greenhouses 

 on the Jefl'ries farm, a mile and a half 

 northwest of town, have received mate- 

 rials for another house, to be erected 

 on the west side of Pacific street, one 

 block south of the depot. The location 

 is said to be a particularly favorable 

 one. 



Clinton, Mo. — A. Woemer has sold his 

 establishment to W. C. Lemon, who will 

 conduct it under the name of the Clin- 

 ton (iroen houses. Mr. Woemer recently 

 returned from soutliern f'alifornia, 

 wlier(> he had been so.iourning since 

 last October for the jmrpose of getting 

 rid of an attack of rheumatism. D. W. 

 Dumser, who took charge of the busi- 

 ness here during Mr. Woemer 's absence, 

 and maile a fine record for himself, will 

 remain with the new owner. 



Decatur, 111. — A. Bommersbach, on 

 Spring avenue, has begun the erection 

 of three additional greenhouses, with 

 concrete foundations. One of the houses 

 will be 18x100 and the other two will 

 be each ;<Oxl00. The half dozen houses 

 now in use are heated with hot water, 

 but the present heating system will be 

 torn out and the entire range will be 

 equipped with steam heat. A boiler 

 house, 18x40, will be built and two new 

 boilers will be installed. The total cost 

 of these improxements will be close to 

 .+ 1(1,00(1. 



OBITUAEY. 



P. O. HaUberg. 



P. G. Hallberg, for many years a 

 nurseryman at Emporia, Kan., died ;it 

 his home in that city April 11, after m, 

 illness of several months. He was boiu 

 in Stockholm, Sweden, June 4, 18;;i. 

 He came west with his wife and livid 

 for a time in Illinois, removing to Em- 

 poria in 18.)8. He started a bakery and 

 later ran a general merchandise store, 

 in both of which he was highly skilh ,1, 

 and in 1873 he went into the nurseiv 

 business just outside of Emporia. Tlie 

 Hallberg nursery ma<le much money for 

 its owner and he became one of tlie 

 wealthy men of the town. He had be( u 

 a director of the Emporia National 

 Bank since 1887, and was its oldest 

 official. He was a Mason and an Odd 

 Fellow an<l a Mystic Shriner. He leavos 

 a wife and one son, Chas. G. Hallberg', 

 a florist in Emporia. 



Mrs. Byron H. Ives. 



After suffering nearly four years 

 from a complication of diseases, Mrs. 

 Julia Ives, 52 years old, wife of Byron 

 Henry Ives, a well known florist of Al 

 buquerque, N. M., died April 11, at the 

 family home. Fourth street and Santa 

 Fe avenue. It had been known for 

 some weeks that Mrs. Ives could not 

 live long, but the news of her death 

 came, nevertheless, as a severe shock 

 to her numerous friends in Albuquerque, 

 where she was a pioneer resident, hav- 

 ing come to that city with Mr. Ives, 

 a bride from New York, more than 

 twenty years ago. Mrs. Ives was 

 stricken with typhoid fever some four 

 years ago and this disease was fol- 

 lowed by an attack of diabetes, which 

 brought on the complications that cul 

 minated in her death. 



She was a lover of art and of flowers, 

 and to her belonged much of the credit 

 for the planning of the Ives flower 

 establishment, one of the most pros 

 l)erous in the southwest. She was a 

 devout member of the Lead Avenue 

 Methodist church. Besides her church 

 and charity work, she took a prominent 

 part in the work of the Woman's Club, 

 and was one of those most active in 

 causing the club building to be built. 



John Smith. 



Cleveland, O., has lost one of it^ 

 pioneer florists in the death of John 

 Smith, whose demise occurred' Sunday 

 April 21. He was well known among 

 the craft throughout the country, hav 

 ing been in business in Cleveland over 

 fifty years. He retired from active 

 connection with the trade in 1901. He 

 was an old soldier, having served 

 through the Civil war in the Fourth 

 Ohio cavalry. His wife and four chil 

 dren survive him. One of his sons, Geo. 

 W. Smith, is manager of the Cleveland 

 Florists ' Exchange. Interment was at 

 Lakeview cemetery. F. A. F. 



James Borden. 

 .Tames Borden, who was in business 

 as a florist in Boston for a number of 

 years, but had lately been living with 

 his sister, Mrs. Cassie B. Gilmore, at 

 209 College avenue, Somerville, Mass., 

 died of pernicious ana'mia at the Mas- 

 sachusetts General Hospital, April 11. 

 He had been an invalid over a year. 

 He was born at Avonport, N. S., sixty- 

 three years ago. For the last thirty 

 years he had lived in Boston and Brook- 

 line with Mrs. Gilmore; his wife died 



