. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 290 The American Florist. Mar. IS, Scrantoo, Pa. WYOMING VALLEY FLOODED. — LARGE GROWEBS SUFFER KNOWN PLACES SUBMERGED.—WATERS REACH HIGHEST LEVEL EVER KNOWN. The florists in Wyoming valley in Penn- svlvania have suflered much loss by water during the recent floods. This beantiful valley has been one sheet of water. This historic ground is noted for its level stretches of land, dotted here and there with its little clusters of homes scattered in between the larger cities of Pittston and Wilkeabarre. O
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 290 The American Florist. Mar. IS, Scrantoo, Pa. WYOMING VALLEY FLOODED. — LARGE GROWEBS SUFFER KNOWN PLACES SUBMERGED.—WATERS REACH HIGHEST LEVEL EVER KNOWN. The florists in Wyoming valley in Penn- svlvania have suflered much loss by water during the recent floods. This beantiful valley has been one sheet of water. This historic ground is noted for its level stretches of land, dotted here and there with its little clusters of homes scattered in between the larger cities of Pittston and Wilkeabarre. On a bright, sunny day one can see, glistening like diamonds on the landscape, the various greenhouses, flourishing on the rich soil of the valley. Down upon all this came the waters of the Susquehanna, swollen to many times their natural volume by the tiny cascade, the larger streams and the melting snow and ice, which all along its way had been adding to it, and all this augmented by a severe rain storm. The whirling, rushing waters, with huge cakes of ice, brought destruction with them, as they descended upon the valley. The ice blocked below Wilkesbarre, caus- ing this immense amount of water to spread over all this level ground, reach- ing at some points a width of three miles. The average width of the river is about a quarter of a mile. The height reached was thirty-one feet above low water mark. Of the principal greenhouses In this sec- tion are E. E. Fancourt's, which are situ- ated on a little higher elevation, and so fortunately escaped the spread of the water. B. P. Dorrance was not so for- tunate, as his boilers are on a bank con- siderably below his greenhouses. The water got into these and prevented his firing for three days, and florists know what this means at this time of the year, so near Easter. Mr. Marvin has been the greatest sufierer of these three large places. He is on the opposite side of the river from Fancourt and Dorrance and on lower land. Some o
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