AUGUST 1, 1912. 



The Florists^ Review 



17 



F( vgus Falls, Minn. — A tornado July 

 ,|, t roved S,OOU I'cot of glass at the 

 liouscs of !S. N. Mehliii. 



kson, Miss. — It is announccil tliat 

 i. Dowiics has sevcrtMl his coiiiiec'- 

 vith the Mississippi Floral Co. 



ict, 111. — Mrs. Joseph Labo i)lans 



.t;timie the business founded and 



rtod so successfully by her late 



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Di ath, Minn. — William Jaaj. has 



coin; ■tod tlie plans for the erection of 



a - .ii' building and an additional 

 jric. Jiouso at Lester Parle. 



W.iren, Ohio.— 11. W. Ward, on North 



M;ili.Miiiig avenue, is planning the 

 ■iV'i on of an additional greenhouse, 

 ;ilxl ■". to be used for growing lettuce. 



Boonville, Mo— K. ('. Stammer john, 

 of St.mmierjohn Bros., suffered recently 

 from :i severe malarial attack, which 

 eoiiiiiii'.l him to his home for about two 



Week-. 



W;iterbury, Conn.— Saxe & Floto have 

 let 111'' lontract for the erection of a 

 ,';ii"iL:i oil Hamilton street. The build- 

 in;: uill Ik' LTtxGO feet, with a Proslate 

 roni mid walls of lield stone. It will 

 aci iMiiniodate four machines. 



Norristown, Pa. — The Wayside 

 Flower Store, at 57 East Main street, 

 is now conducted by Devine & Craw- 

 ler. 1. -u(i-t>ssors to Devine & Fcrtsch. 

 flic nifinbers of the new firm are James 

 Di'vinc and Russell Crawford. 



Brattleboro, Vt. — C. S. Hopkins is 

 buiMiii^ an additional greenhouse, 

 32\liMi, to be used for carnations and 

 other slock for the retail trade. It is 

 an iroiifranie house and will probably 

 I'' 'niiiiiloted by September 1. 



Stoughton, Mass. — Fred 1j. Slye is 

 iMiiMiiij. a greenhouse, with an ollice 

 an.l I, oiler room, at Park and Ash 

 ^'ieet>. and will probably make a 

 '-h'liiilty of the growing of violets. lie 

 ^yiis iormerly violet grower for W. B. 

 "ooci.'iiow, o^f this city. 



Paris, Tex.— E. L. Kiley, known as 

 '' I'ee doctor and florist, is building 

 '"'li tiiiuses and making other improve- 

 |'"'ii- on his flower farm, between the 

 ' -M. P. depot and the cemetery. He 

 's to grow about 10,000 chrysau- 



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"i«;iniiiiis this season. The farm is well 

 iTi-at..,! and the soil is rich and black. 



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Ohio.— X. R. Swan has secured 



"otract for the landscape work on 



-loiuids of the new Lima State 



'■il- Several years have been oc- 



in constructing the building, 



'-^ now nearly finished. The 



■^ will conjprise at least a half 



;"'res, and the landscajie work 



elaborate, requiring some years 



' ' oinpletion. 



* Wayne, Ind.— W. J. & M. S. 



'I'Tve sold their downtown store, 



' =>lhoun street, to Mrs. Clara M. 



• formerly of Chicago, 111. After 



' 'Ts of successful business in the 

 "^ro, the Vcseys have decided to 

 'beir attention to the wholesale 

 Mrs. Bradley is a thoroughly 

 '"'•"d florist. For the present 

 " ''onduct the store under its 

 "ame. 



Lieut. A. A. LaVaque. 



ON DRESS PARADE. 



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^'ouiig America is not alone in its 

 interest in tilings military; we all feel 

 the thrill of martial music, hold tlie 

 soldier in I'steem a little aiiove the 

 civilian, and like to play at soldiering 

 once in a while ourselves. The Masonic 

 t'raternity is the aristo(?racy of the 

 semi-military bodies of the country; the 

 drill teams are the acme of military 

 jirecision. 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 

 llorist in Chicago, as well as to hun- 

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

 I of the Pittsburgh Plate Class Co. 

 j The ])ortrait of Lieut. La Vaque is 

 one made at Detroit June 5 of this year, 

 where Knglewood ' ommandery was 

 drilling at the time. The subject prob- 

 ablv is not aware of its existence. 



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NEWS NOTES 



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Holyoke, Mass. — P. .1. Gal li van and 

 wife are vacationing at New York and 

 Atlaiitit, City. 



Clarence, N. Y. — K. A. ]\liu'liow has 

 been seriously ill during the last six 

 months with neuralgia and enlargement 

 of the heart, and is still confined to his 

 home. 



Cleveland, O. — F. W. Ziecliman, Jr., 

 who is associated with his father in 

 the florists' business, sailed for Europe 

 July IS, with a brother, who is an 

 electrical engineer. It is his second 

 tri]» in two years. 



Everett, Mass. — Osgood P.ros., on Elm 

 street, op[)osite Woodlawn conu'tery, 

 have purchased one more acre of land 

 and aio planning to erect another green- 

 house next spring. The new house; will 

 be iiOxl.lO and will be used for carna- 

 tions. 



Aberdeen, Miss. — .1. P. 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 kimls of flo- 

 rists' sup]ilies. Tli(> two concerns will 

 be entindy separate, although con- 

 ducted by the same interests. 



Hiawatha, Kan. — Miss Susan Mar- 

 grave, of the Hiawatha Greenhouses, 

 has found business highly satisfactory 

 during the last year, with an unusually 

 larg(! increase of trade at I'^aster, 

 Mothers' day and Memorial day. Her 

 chief trouble has been to find enough 

 good stock to supply the demand. 



Montgomery, Ala. — ^W. B. Paterson 

 warns against a German whom he em- 

 ployed for two weeks as foreman in 

 the pot jilant department and who, he 

 says, cashed $<)3 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 con\ention. 



Hutchinson, Kan. C M. Sehurr 

 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. Ill health in the family is his 

 reason for wishing to be free from 

 business cares. 



North Judson, Ind. — C. C. xVrnold, 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 impossilile to get them 

 out of the ground. In the s[iring the 

 rain again interfered with the work, 

 making planting dillicult, and the rain- 

 fall is still excessive. 



Fort Sill, Okla.— John M. Morris, 

 formerly assistant landscape gardener 

 at the Soldiers' Homo at Dayton, O., 

 Init 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 of the extensive land- 

 scape work which the government has 

 undertaken on its reserv.ation here, 

 which C(>mi>rises ISO square miles. 



