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The Flor Review mavs, ms 



OINOINNATI. 



The Gateway to the South. 



The market underwent a sudden 

 change last week, being dull one dajr 

 and fairly good the next morning. Busi- 

 ness started slowly April 28. The next 

 day it picked up considerably and by 

 the middle of the week it was good. 

 This increased demand comes both 

 from local retailers and out-of-town 

 buyers. Carnations were principally 

 affected by the change. The supply has 

 decreased considerably, partly on ac- 

 count of natural changes, but probably 

 due also to a holding back of the stock 

 for Mothers' day. The prices are 

 again back to a high point. The rose 

 supply is still a trifle larger than is 

 necessary for requirements. This is 

 true even of American Beauties; now 

 and then some of the stock must be sac- 

 rificed in order to move it. The great 

 bulk of it, however, yields a fair re- 

 turn when it is in first-class condition. 



The supply of callas and Easter lil- 

 ies continues large. The latter are sell- 

 ing better than a week ago. Some fine 

 outdoor tulips are coming in. Only a 

 little forced valley is being cut these 

 days, but the supply of outdoor valley 

 is large and includes some good oflEer- 

 ings. Sweet peas are in fairly good 

 supply. The good ones, particularly the 

 home-grown ones, find a ready call. 

 Snapdragons, too, sell nicely. Other 

 offerings include stocks, alyssum, iris, 

 miniature gladioli, etc. There is an 

 adequate supply of green goods. 



Various Notes. 



After C. E. Critchell returned from 

 Minneapolis last week he stated that 

 the committees there had all conven- 

 tion affairs so well in hand that if the 

 meeting were to open tomorrow they 

 would be ready. -fMr. Critchell 's en- 

 thusiasm is 80 great that he declares 

 the convention will be one of the best 

 the organization has ever had. 



Joseph Goldman, of Middletown, was 

 a heavy buyer of choice stock last week 

 for use at the Sorg funeral at that 

 place. 



George Klotter has been cutting 

 some fine parrot tulips. 



W. Frank & Sons, of Portland, Ind., 

 have been sending some extraordinarily 

 fine Kaiserin roses to L. H. Kyrk. 



E. G. Gillett says this season has 

 been absolutely the best he has ever 

 had in wirework. The demand has been 

 especially strong for baskets and 

 wreaths. 



A. C. Heckman, Jr., and Alex. Osten- 

 darp, of the Cincinnati Cut Flower Ex- 

 change, are enthusiastic over the excel- 

 lent quality of a lot of eastern sphag- 

 num they received last week. 



Frank Farney, representing the M. 

 Rice Co., and Milton Alexander, repre- 

 senting Lion & Co., were in the city re- 



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Mrs! W. H. Guadinger, of Cynthiana, 

 Ky., was in the city last week, buying 

 bedding stock. 



C. E. Critchell has been getting in 

 fine outdoor tulips and German iris 

 from Tom Windram. 



The Hill-Heller Co. cleaned up a lot 

 of about 1,200 rose plants at a special 

 sale on Saturday, May 3. 



A. Sunderbruch 's Sons had the 50- 

 year anniversary decoration at the 

 Pogue stores. . — -^ 



John Evans, of Richmond, Ind., was 

 in the city recently. C. H. H. 



- ,-' , How the'^ ^ ■; ; ^^^;^^ 

 Irondequoit Growers Came 



to Build 

 L & B Iron Frame Houses 



AN INTERESTING BIT OF 

 DEVELOPMENT HISTORY 



THE other day several of our 

 salesmen were lunching to- 

 gether with the Sales Manager. 

 I came in late, but just in time to 

 catch some most interesting facts 

 about how the leading growers in 

 Irondequoit jumped from our Pipe 

 Frame to the 40-foot Iron Frame 

 construction. 



It seems that Del Titus first 

 started buying our Pipe Frame 

 houses a good many years ago. 



J. H. West & Sons, who had five 

 of the same construction, started 

 the Iron Frame ball rolling when 

 they jumped from Pipe Frame 

 houses 28 feet wide to a 72-foot 

 Iron Framer 125 feet long, divided 

 into three compartments. 



Fred Metcalfe and P. B. Pengally 

 were the first to build the 40-foot 

 Iron Framers. 



The interesting thing about Mr. 

 Pengally's order was that he bad 

 already signed up for a Pipe Frame 

 house, but on visiting, with Mr. 

 Metcalfe, the Burt Olney Canning 

 Co.'s range at Albion, N. Y., he 

 promptly changed his mind in favor 

 of the Iron Frame. 



A similar case was C. H. Metcalfe 

 and his brother Fred. C. H. had or- 

 dered a Pipe Frame house, but when 

 the materials for his brother's Iron 

 Frame began to arrive he was so 



thoroughly convinced of its superi- 

 ority that he promptly canceled the 

 Pipe Frame order and contracted 

 for an Iron Framer 40 x 133 feet. 



And then there is Anderson & 

 Merrill. They were entirely satis- 

 fled with their L & B Pipe Frame 

 house and bad made up their minds 

 to order a dup]^ate ; but, after see- 

 ing J. H. West & Sons' and several 

 others, they flopped over to the Iron 

 Frame construction. 



The same day that Anderson & 

 Merrill changed their minds, our 

 friend C. W. Cole also "saw the 

 great light " and signed up for one 

 40x141 feet. 



After the lunch was over and we 

 were walking back to the office, our 

 Boston man said he felt confident 

 that " in five years' time the market 

 growers wouldn't think of building 

 anything but the best Iron Frame 

 construction money could buy. The 

 ice in the Eastern section," he said, 

 " was broken when Alexander Por- 

 ter put up his big Iron Framer, 

 50 X 450 feet, for growing tomatoes." 



We have just issued a supplement 

 to our Iron Frame Catalogue, show- 

 ing half a dozen or more splendid, 

 big double -page illustrations of 

 some of these houses. 



Send for it. Get posted on what 

 your brother grower is doing. 



view of Alex. Porter'8 big houaes at Woburn, Blase. 

 The one this way !■ the new L & B Iron Framer, 6Ux 4S0. 



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