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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Jdnb 6, 1912. 



Save on Your Hose 



You can save money on your hose if you buy it by the reel and 

 couple it yourself. , 



Here's a continuous hose furnished in any length up to 500 feet on 

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 have but two couplings to apply, whether the hose is 10 feet or 100 feet. 

 This saves couplings and the cost of applyiAg them. 



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HAIL AT CEDAB BAPIDS. 



A heavy fall of hail which lasted for 

 about five minutes did much damage in 

 Cedar Eapids, la., and vicinity on the 

 evening of May 23. The most serious 

 damage was done to the property of 

 Wencil Bezdek, a veteran gardener. 

 Mr. Bezdek 's greenhouses on Johnson 

 avenue, about one mile west of the city 

 limits, were under the heaviest fall of 

 hailstones. About $600 worth of glass 

 was broken. Mr. Bezdek this season 

 has devoted special attention to the 

 growing of cucumbers in the green- 

 houses and had fine prospects for a 

 great crop. These plants were damaged, 

 but not ruined. The damage done to 

 plants will cause some financial loss. 

 The greenhouses were partly insured. 

 Mr. Bezdek will rebuild and enlarge 

 them. 



At the greenhouses of Grant, New- 

 port, southwest of Cedar Eapids, the 

 damage done amounted to about $150. 

 At the 'Krebs greenhouses, southwest of 

 the city, over 700 lights of glass were 

 broken. Gardeners like F. J. Goodrow, 

 John Krenek and J. Camburn also sus- 

 tained damage, because of much glass 

 above hotbeds being broken. In some 

 instances the damage amounted to $50 

 to one gardener. 



Fruit, it is Said, was not damaged 

 enough to attract notice. Cherries 

 were still too small to be shaken off 

 the trees easily, and were able to stand 

 the vigorous pelting from the big hail- 

 stones. 



St. Joseph, Mo.— The Stuppy Floral 

 Co. is rebuilding one of its green- 

 houses, on Mt. Mora street. 



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