November 21, 1912. 



The Florists^ Review 



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NOTE&iWftrC- 



Walpole, Mass. — W. E. May has closed 

 his greenhouses and gone to Daytona, 

 Ela. 



Flattsmouth, Neb. — Thomas L. Mc- 

 Donald is starting in the greenhouse 

 business here. 



Worcester, Mass. — The Ross Bros, Co. 

 will erect a greenhouse, 28x100, at 84 

 West Boylston street. The materials 

 will be furnished by the King Construc- 

 tion Co. 



Austin, Minn. — A, N. Kinsman and 

 family are in Florida, having made the 

 trip by motor. They will return the 

 same way and expect to reach home 

 about December 10. 



Boyertown, Pa. — Abraham Bros, have 

 erected a greenhouse at Fourth and 

 Berks street sand have stocked it with a 

 general line of plants, intending to 

 <;ater chiefly to the Beading market. 



Tampa, Fla. — W. T. Knull, proprietor 

 of the Knull Floral Co., who has been 

 spending the summer in the mountains 

 of North Carolina, has returned. He 

 made the trip both ways by automobile. 



Fredonia, N. Y. — A barn owned by 

 the Larder Floral Co., on Free street, 

 was recently destroyed by fire. A 

 horse and some carriages were saved, 

 but several tons of hay were burned. 

 The loss was $2,500, partly covered by 

 insurance. 



Bad Axe, Mich. — Alfred Deady, it is 

 said, has been taking a course of prac- 

 tical instruction in floriculture, pre- 

 paratory to engaging in the trade. 

 Next spring he, in company with his 

 father, G. M. Deady, will erect green- 

 houses near the new Grand Trunk 

 station. 



Allentown, Pa. — Marcus De Long, 

 who resides in the suburb known as 

 Sterlingworth, is making preparations 

 to start in the florists' business. He 

 owns five lots at Thirty-eighth and 

 Linden streets, and to this property he 

 has removed the houses which formerly 

 belonged to A. B. Ellsworth and were 

 located at Fourth and Tilghman streets. 

 Mr. De Long expects to have the houses 

 rebuilt and ready for use in time for 

 the spring business. 



New Haven, Conn. — It is reported 

 that Charles Conte, the florist on South 

 End road, was recently obliged to sell 

 the entire stock of his greenhouses at 

 a great sacrifice, owing to the fact that 

 the gas company, while blasting 

 through the road to lay a main, had 

 cracked and disjointed some of the 

 heating pipes in the houses. This con- 

 dition of the pipes, it is said, was not 

 discovered by Mr. Conte until he was 

 starting the boiler for the winter, when 

 the damage could not be repaired in 

 time to save the plants. 



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Bocbester, N. Y. — Lord & Burnham 

 Co., New York, has opened a branch 

 office here, in the Granite building, 

 Main and St. Paul streets, in charge of 

 H. E. Bates. The company now has 

 branches at Boston, Philadelphia, Chi- 

 cago and Eochester. 



Easthampton, Mass. — Thomas Cop- 

 son has purchased the greenhouses on 

 School street, which were conducted 

 during the summer by S. S. Hitchcock. 

 Mr. Copson will move the houses to his 

 property on Chapman avenue and will 

 grow flowers there for the market. 



Newport, B. I. — Several greenhouses, 

 of Hitchings construction, are being 

 erected on the estate of Henry A. C. 

 Taylor, on Parker avenue. The plans 

 include two grape houses, two peach 

 houses, one rose house and three houses 

 for gardenias and carnations, besides 

 two propagating houses. 



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Wheeling, W. Va. — Arthur Langhans 

 has been awarded the contract to deco- 

 rate the booth of the West Virginia 

 State Board of Trade at the indoor 

 carnival and exposition of the Scottish 

 Eite Guard, to be held in the Wheeling 

 temple in the last part of November. 



Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. — Adolph Don- 

 art, proprietor of the Coeur d'Alene 

 Greenhouses, has sold a half interest 

 in the business to M. C. Louis, of 

 Aberdeen, Wash. The new firm has 

 secured Miss Mary Mitchell, an expert 

 florist of Seattle, to take charge of the 

 downtown store. Mr. Louis has for 

 the last six years conducted green- 

 houses at Aberdeen. 



Angola, Ind. — E. Ford Carpenter has 

 installed a large new boiler and is mak- 

 ing preparations to build another green- 

 house for carnations. Business is first- 

 class. 



Zanesville, O. — G. L. Humphrey had 

 the work for all the Masonic bodies at 

 the funeral of Dr. C. C. Knapp, making 

 one of the largest orders for funeral 

 work ever given here. 



Waterbury, Conn. — Alexander Dallas, 

 of A. Dallas & Son., was so unfortunate 

 recently as to shoot off two of his fin- 

 gers while hunting. The charge struck 

 his left hand, tearing off the second and 

 third fingers. 



Biclunond, Va. — A company has been 

 incorporated, with $25,000 capital stock, 

 to continue the business of John L. 

 Eatcliffe. Mr. Batcliffe is president; 

 William Catlin, vice-president, and A. 

 C. Woolridge, secretary-treasurer. 



Nampa, Idaho. — H. M. Bouser, for- 

 merly with the Boise Floral Co., has 

 purchased a block of ground here and 

 will build greenhouses. He expects to 

 grow vegetables for the local market 

 this winter, and if the business proves 

 successful he will branch out into the 

 handling of cut flowers and plants next 

 year. 



Pensacola, Fla.— Andrew Hauge, who 

 for some years has had charge of the 

 greenhouses of John L. Parker, at 

 Birmingham, Ala., has secured a tract 

 of land in this city and has begun the 

 erection of a range of greenhouses. He 

 will also open a retail store in the San 

 Carlos hotel. The store will be under 

 the personal management of Mrs. 

 Hauge. 



Jacksonville, Fla. — The Tomlinson- 

 Key Floral Co., formerly at the corner 

 of Ocean and Forsyth streets, has re- 

 moved to its new store at 203 Main 

 street, which is much more commodious 

 and suitable than the old quarters. 

 Though the company has been in busi- 

 ness only a little over a year, the in- 

 crease in trade had already made this 

 enlarged space a necessity. In addition 

 to the store, the firm has greenhouses 

 and grounds at 18 West Eighteenth 

 street. 



Houston, Tex. — The Henk Dirken 

 Floral Co. was recently organized here, 

 with headquarters at Bell and Caroline 

 streets. Dr. E. P. Daviss is president 

 of the company and H. Dirken is sales 

 manager. Though they handle a gen- 

 eral line of florists' stock, they make 

 a specialty of bulbs and ornamental 

 trees. They have already imported con- 

 siderable quantities of bulbs from Hol- 

 land and France, and fancy trees and 

 plants from Belgium and Japan. They 

 have made some large contracts for the 

 sale of their stock and the prospects 

 are encouraging. 



