. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. George V. Wienhoeber. Manager of I-''s, Cliicugo. length can be arranged. A tally sheet is kept in each greenhouse on which the daily cut is recorded in the various grades. These sheets are compared with the packers' sheets and any culls or waste has to be accounted for. The flowers sent to New York are noted and the bookkeepers have to keep a daily sheet. F. R. Gillmann, Rhinebeck. N. Y. showina sales, balance on hand, etc. The accounts department at the greenhouse thu:; keeps a tab and knows what were
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. George V. Wienhoeber. Manager of I-''s, Cliicugo. length can be arranged. A tally sheet is kept in each greenhouse on which the daily cut is recorded in the various grades. These sheets are compared with the packers' sheets and any culls or waste has to be accounted for. The flowers sent to New York are noted and the bookkeepers have to keep a daily sheet. F. R. Gillmann, Rhinebeck. N. Y. showina sales, balance on hand, etc. The accounts department at the greenhouse thu:; keeps a tab and knows what were sold, returned and what the receipts should be; also what varieties are most salable, an excellent system throughout. Returning to the greenhouses we did not see, a single decayed leaf on the ground or a dirty walk throughout the whole place, and not a spot of mildew. The whole place is neat, up-to-date and a credit to all concerned. Kldwell & Ellsworth, Belmont, 111. WELLWOUTIt FARM GREENHOUSES. The Wellworth Farm Greenhouses is the designation chosen by the two youth- ful managers, Frank M. Kidwell and his cousin, Rudolph C. Ellsworth, for the es- tablishment just now getting under way at Belmont station, Du Page county, 111. .?ifter three years' search for an avail- able site for a greenhouse plant which would have the right soil, a good water supply, a railway frontage for ready ship- ping facilities and withal land large enough to feed cattle for the necessary supply of fertilizer, .1. P. Kidwell of J. P. Kidwell & Bro., of Chicago, found a the location having all of these re- quisites. It contains 222 acres of some of the richest land around Chicago, has five-eighths of a mile frontage on the main line of the C. B. & Q. R. R. The greenhouses themselves are located hardly 300 feet from the station. On the farm are kept 35 to 40 head of cattle which this past year have produced $400 worth of milk each month in addition to sup- plying the greenhouses with all the
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