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ADGOST 1, 1912. 



The Florists' Review 



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Fergus Falls, Minn. — A tornado July 

 5 destroyed 8,000 feet of glass at the 

 greenhouses of S. N. Mehlin. 



Jackson, Miss. — It is announced that 

 W, M. Downes has severed his connec- 

 tion with the Mississippi Floral Co. 



Joliet, HI. — Mrs. Joseph Labo plans 

 to continue the business founded and 

 conducted so successfully by her late 



husband. 



Duluth, Minn. — William Jaap has 

 completed the plans for the erection of 

 a store building and an additional 

 greenhouse at Lester Park. 



Warren, Ohio.— H. W. Ward, on North 

 Mahoning avenue, is planning the 

 «rection of an additional greenhouse, 

 32x150, to be used for growing lettuce. 



Boonville, Mo — E. C. Stammerjohn, 

 of Stammerjohn Bros., suffered recently 

 from a severe malarial attack, which 

 confined him to his home for about two 



weeks. 



Waterbury, Conn. — Saxe & Floto have 

 let the contract for the erection of a 

 garage on Hamilton street. The build- 

 ing will be 25x60 feet, with a Proslate 

 roof and walls of field stone. It will 

 accommodate four machines. 



Norristown, Pa. — The Wayside 

 Flower Store, at 57 East Main street, 

 is now conducted by Devine & Craw- 

 ford, successors to Devine & Fertsch. 

 The members of the new firm are James 

 Devine and Russell Crawford. 



Brattleboro, Vt.— C. S. Hopkins is 

 building an additional greenhouse, 

 32x100, to be used for carnations and 

 other stock for the retail trade. It is 

 an iron-frame house and will probably 

 be completed by September 1. 



Stoughton, Mass.— Fred L. Slye is 

 building a greenhouse, with an office 

 and boiler room, at Park and Ash 

 streets, and will probably make a 

 specialty of the growing of violets. He 

 was formerly violet grower for W. B. 

 Goodenow, of this city. 



Paris, Tex.— E. L. Kiley, known as 

 lue tree doctor and florist, is building 

 •ath houses and making other improve- 

 ments on his flower farm, between the 

 ^' & M. P. depot and the cemetery. He 

 expects to grow about 10,000 chrysan- 

 ynemums this season. The farm is well 

 "rigated and the soil is rich and black. 



Lima, Ohio.— N. E. Swan has secured 

 jne contract for the landscape work on 

 J^e grounds of the new Lima State 

 tiospital. Several years have been oc- 

 ^^Pied in constructing the building, 

 ^nich is now nearly finished. The 

 grounds will comprise at least a half 

 oozen acres, and the landscape work 



iiJ be elaborate, requiring some years 

 ^w Its completion. 



Port Wayne, Ind.— W. J. & M. S. 

 at fi^oo ^^® ^°^^ *^ei' downtown store, 

 fi»o 1, Calhoun street, to Mrs. Clara M. 

 fou ^^' formerly of Chicago, 111. After 

 , ij.y^^^s of successful business in the 

 corff ^*°''®' the Veseys have decided to 

 Xjua *°®^'' attention to the wholesale 

 €xn ■• •^"- Bradley is a thoroughly 

 gl,f^'^''''?nced florist. For the present 



fnL^^^^ conduct the store under its 

 cornier name. 



Lieut. A. A. LaVaque. 



ON DBESS FABADE. 



Young America is not alone in its 

 interest in things military; we all feel 

 the thrill of martial music, hold the 

 soldier in esteem a little above the 

 civilian, and like to play at soldiering 

 once in a while ourselves. The Masonic 

 fraiernity is the aristocracy of the 

 semi-military bodies of the country; the 

 drill teams are the acme of military 

 precision. Of the numerous Masonic 

 drill teams in Chicago, that of Engle- 

 wood Commandery stands at the head. 

 Florists will find this note of interest 

 because the second lieutenant is a mem- 

 ber, of the Chicago Florists' Club, who 

 is personally known to practically every 

 florist in Chicago, as well as to hun- 

 dreds outside. He is A. A. La Vaque, 

 of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. 

 The portrait of Lieut, La ' Vaque is 

 one made at Detroit June 5 of this year, 

 where Englewood Commandery was 

 drilling at the time. The subject prob- 

 ably is not aware of its existence. 



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NEWS NOTES 



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Holyoke, Mass. — D, J. Gallivan and 

 wife are vacationing at New York and 

 Atlantic City. 



Clarence, N. Y. — E. A. Muchow ilis 

 been seriously ill during the last six 

 months with neuralgia and enlargement 

 of the heart, and is still conflhed to his 

 home. 



Cleveland, O. — F. W. Ziechman, Jr., 

 who is associated with his father in 

 the florists* business, sailed for Europe 

 July 18, with a brother, who is an 

 electrical engineer. It is his s^ond 

 trip in two years. 



Everett, Mass. — Osgood Bros., on Elm 

 street, opposite Woodlawn cemetery, 

 have purchased one more acre of land 

 and are planning to erect another green- 

 house next spring. The new house will 

 be 30x150 and will be used for carna- 

 tions. 



Aberdeen, Miss. — J. E. Young, pro- 

 prietor of the Aberdeen Floral Co., has 

 formed a corporation under the name 

 of the Aberdeen Floral Supply Co., the 

 plan being to handle all kinds of flo- 

 rists' supplies. The two concerns will 

 be entirely separate, although con- 

 ducted by the same interests. 



Hiawatha, Kan. — Miss Susan Mar- 

 grave, of the Hiawatha Greenhouses, 

 has fitJund business highly satisfactory 

 during the last year, with an unusually 

 large increase of trade at Easter, 

 Mothers' day and Memorial day. Her 

 chief trouble has been to find enough 

 good stock to supply the demand. 



Montgomery, Ala. — 'W. B. Patersbn 

 warns against a German whom he em- 

 ployed for two weeks as foreman in 

 the pot plant department and who, he 

 says, cashed $63 in checks that the 

 bank dishonored when presented. The 

 man was well posted on trade matters. 

 He said he was going to Chicago to 

 the convention. 



HutcMnson, Kan. — G. M. Schurr 

 states that the report that he has sold 

 his store is premature. He has sold 

 the downtown store and has negotia- 

 tions under way for the sale of the 

 greenhouses, but has not yet closed a 

 deal, ni health in the family is his 

 reason for wishing to be free from 

 business cares. 



Nortb Judson, Ind. — C. C. Arnold, the 

 gladiolus specialist, reports that the 

 weather has been particularly unfavor- 

 able to gladioli during the last year. 

 Last fall there was so much rain that 

 it was almost impossible to get them 

 out of the ground. In the spring the 

 rain again interfered with the work, 

 making planting difficult, and the rain- 

 fall is still excessive. 



Fort Sill, Okla. — John M. Morris, 

 formerly assistant landscape gardener 

 at the Soldiers ' Home at Dayton, O., 

 but nOw connected with the army head- 

 quarters here, has returned to his duties 

 after a visit of several weeks with rela- 

 tives and friends in Dayton. Mr. Mor- 

 ris has charge 6f the extensive land- 

 scape work which the government has 

 undertaken on its reservation here, 

 which comprises 180 square miles. 



