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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



35 



New Milford, Conn.— F. C. Hoyt has 

 reorganized his business, with Mrs. 

 Jloyt as his partner, and has adopted 

 the firm name of F. C. Hoyt & Co. 



SfTringfield, O. — Gustav Schneider has 

 <losed his store on South Limestone 

 .street and removed the stock to his 

 other store, on High street. 



Cincinnati, 0. — The greenhouses of 

 Thomas Burnett, at 313 Crestline ave- 

 nue. Price Hill, were recently entered 

 <luving the night and robbed of 1,000 

 tulip bulbs and 600 bedding plants. 



Westboro, Mass. — Wm. M. Gardner, 

 who recently sold his greenhouses and 

 other property at 50 High street to 

 Henry Perkins, is in Magnolia, Mass., 

 Avhcre he is engaged in 'landscape gar- 

 dening. 



Bruges, Belgium — The premium list 

 has been issued for the international 

 exposition of horticulture to be held 

 here August 11 to 18, 1912. Those in- 

 terested should address Ch. Steinmetz, 

 secretary, Bruges. 



Catskill, N. Y. — It is reported that 

 the ten or twelve helpers employed at 

 the greenhouses and gardens of Henry 

 Hansen went on a strike May $5, be- 

 <ause they believed their wages were 

 not commensurate with the increased 

 cost of living. 



Lancaster, N. Y.— The wife of Thomas 

 Prino, a night man for W. J. Palmer 

 & Son, who was found murdered in 

 the greenhouse boiler house April 11, 

 and a man named La Bara have been 

 nrrested charged with the crime. It 

 is said they have confessed. 



Sterling, Colo. — B. G. Johnson, pro- 

 prietor of the Sterling Greenhouses, has 

 bought an additional tract of ground, 

 Avith a frontage of fifty feet, and will 

 build a greenhouse there. Mr. Johnson 

 has prospered steadily since purchasing 

 the business a year or so ago. 



Geneva, C— On account of poor 

 health, W. W. Stocking has sold his in- 

 terest in the greenhouse business which 

 has been operated for some time under 

 the name of Stocking & Parker. Boy A. 

 Parker, junior member of the firm, will 

 continue the business, and associated 

 with him will be his father, J. W. Park- 

 <?r, and his two brothers, O. S. Parker 

 and F. B. Parker. 



Farmington, Utah.— The Miller Floral 

 ^0. is making large additions to its 

 glass. Two houses 40 x 300 and two 

 houses 40x200 will be erected just as 

 <^l«iekly as possible. The company al- 

 ready has in use, built a little over a 

 year ago, two houses 40x300 and one 

 house 40 X 200, beside grafting and prop- 

 agating houses. It is said that with the 

 <'ompletion of these new houses $100,000 

 "*vill have been invested in the enter- 

 l>riae. The principal crops are roses and 

 <'arnations. 



Dover, Me. — It is reported that the 

 greenhouse of Fred E. Norris, on Spring 

 street, has been destroyed by fire. The 

 stock of tomato and celery plants was 

 also entirely ruined. 



Savanna, HI. — The Savanna Green- 

 house Co. has received an order from 

 the superintendent of this division of 

 the St. Paul railroad to plant the 

 grounds surrounding the roundhouse and 

 the new depot. 



Battle Creek, Mich. — John Fisher and 

 Leo Aldrich have formed a partnership 

 and purchased the Fisher flower store, 

 in the Ward building, which was owned 

 by Mr. Fisher's father. Both young 

 men are experienced florists. 



North Kingsville, O. — M. A. Kose and 

 his son-in-law, Mr. Neely, have leased 

 the greenhouses of E. A. Van Slyke and 

 will commence business under the firm 

 name of M. A. Eose & Co. They will 

 grow both flowers and vegetables. 



Corry, Pa. — A. E. Pettit is adding two 

 new houses this spring, having last au- 

 tumn put in a Moninger-Furman boiler 

 of ample capacity to take care of the 

 extra glass, which will be used for a 

 general line of cut flowers and pot 

 plants. 



Kansas City, Mo. — The residence of 

 \Vm. J. Barnes, Jr., the florist at Sev- 

 enty-fifth and Mercier streets, has been 

 destroyed by fire. The family was not 

 at home at the time. It is thought that 

 the fire was probably caused by de- 

 fective wiring. 



Vincennes, Ind. — Paul C. Schultz is 

 quite pleased with the business for 

 Mothers' day, as the advance orders 

 for carnations for that day were nu- 

 merous. There has also been a heavy 

 demand for bedding plants. The gla- 

 diolus crop is good. 



New York, N. Y. — A recent decision 

 handed down by the judges of the 

 United States Circuit Court, the court 

 of last resort in patent cases, sustains 

 the right of Lord & Burnham Co. to the 

 exclusive use in greenhouses of the 

 galvanized ice clearing eave plate. 

 This decision, it is stated, applies alike 

 to the regular angle plate, the Z-bar 

 plate, or any modification of the origi- 

 nal plate now licensed to be used by the 

 Lord & Burnham Co. 



New Haven, Conn. — J. J. Sokol has a 

 new auto delivery car and the fact is 

 thus announced in one of this city's 

 newspapers: "Someone will sit up and 

 take notice when Joseph J. Sokol, West- 

 ville's florist, puts his new delivery 

 wagon onto the streets. The car is re- 

 ceiving finishing touches in a local store 

 and even there it is attracting more 

 than a little attention. It is the first 

 real florist's delivery machine in town. 

 It is a White of 1,500 pounds capacity, 

 equipped with a panel delivery body 

 with brilliant lettering on each side." 



Kansas City, Mo. — James A. Biggam 

 has opened a flower store under the 

 name of the Coates House Conserva- 

 tory, at 1017 Broadway. 



Wauwatosa, Wis. — The Wauwatosa 

 Floral Co. has been incorporated, with a 

 capital of $20,000, by F. C. Bunck, 

 Charles A. Koch and Fred A. Pretzlaff. 



Pittsfield, Mass. — Thomas L. Lowden, 

 senior member of the firm of T. L. 

 Lowden & Sons, and Miss Grace O. 

 Giddings, of Enosburg Falls, Vt., were 

 recently married. 



Guilford, Conn. — The greenhouse for- 

 merly owned by E. E. Kelsey, on South 

 Fair street, has been purchased by the 

 Knowles-Lombard Co. and removed to 

 that firm 's factory, to be used in grow- 

 ing tomato plants. 



Helena, Mont. — The third annual 

 flower show of the Helena Flower Show 

 Association will be held at the Audi- 

 torium, in this city, August 29 and 30, 

 The list of prizes, which has just been 

 issued, is said to be much more exten- 

 sive than ever before. 



Hillsboro, 111.— F, C. Winkelmann, 

 who makes a specialty of growing veg- 

 etable plants and privet plants for the 

 market, is having an unusually busy 

 season, partly on account of the late 

 arrival of spring. As a side line, he 

 raises some fancy breeds of chickens. 



Penn Yan, N. Y.— The Lake Keuka 

 Floral Co. has purchased the Geo. A. 

 Cummings greenhouse property on Head 

 street and will use the same in con- 

 nection with the new range soon to be 

 erected on Main street. This purchase 

 gives the company three acres of good 

 soil for outdoor growing, as well as the 

 additional 5,000 feet of glass. 



Bar Harbor, Me. — Frederick H. Moses 

 wishes to correct an impression which 

 seems to be more or less general in this 

 vicinity, to the effect that he has sold 

 his business to William H. Miller, for 

 many years the manager of the Mount 

 Desert Nurseries. Mr. Moses has leased 

 his greenhouses on Mount Desert street 

 to Mr. Miller for the season, but has 

 not sold his business and will continue 

 to conduct his flower store on Main 

 street. 



Wenham, Mass. — Among those sail- 

 ing from New York, May 14, on the 

 Kron])rinzessin Cecilie, were Mr, and 

 Mrs. B. Hammond Tracy. They went 

 over for the international flower show 

 in London. At the close of the show 

 they will make a short tour of the con- 

 tinent, visiting Hamburg, Ghent, Er- 

 furt, Paris and Nancy. The Irtter place, 

 holds particular interest for them, as 

 it is the home of the late Victor Le- 

 moine, who brought out the Nanceanus 

 type of gladiolus, in the culture of 

 which Mr. Tracy has been so successful 

 at Cedar Acres. 



