. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. / 106 The Florists'Review May 22, i&13. ••• NEWS NOTES ••• Penn Yan, N. Y.—Peter Curran has moved his business from 109 Main street to 116 Elm street, the change be- ing necessitated by increased business and the need of larger quarters. Omaha, Neb.—The city council has voted to accept the Joslyn greenhouse and costly collection of plants, the gift of George A. Joslyn, and has made provision to furnish the $5,000 that will be necessary to remove and recon- struct the greenhouse at the city park. Mrs. Joslyn offered to give an addi- tional $1,00
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. / 106 The Florists'Review May 22, i&13. ••• NEWS NOTES ••• Penn Yan, N. Y.—Peter Curran has moved his business from 109 Main street to 116 Elm street, the change be- ing necessitated by increased business and the need of larger quarters. Omaha, Neb.—The city council has voted to accept the Joslyn greenhouse and costly collection of plants, the gift of George A. Joslyn, and has made provision to furnish the $5,000 that will be necessary to remove and recon- struct the greenhouse at the city park. Mrs. Joslyn offered to give an addi- tional $1,000 to make the transfer, in view of the fact that the city park commissioners had difficulty in securing the needed funds. Medina, N. Y.—White Bros, report good business in their retail store, which they opened in February. The Mothers' day sale of carnations was almost equal to that of Easter. They are now busy with Decoration day preparations, with 20,000 geraniums and all kinds of bedding plans. They have 90,000 young carnation plants, 60,000 already having seen set in the field. Their crop of carnations will hold good throughout the month. Carthage, Mo.—One of the four greenhouses of Stephen Hyde, operat- ing the Fairview Greenhouses, each 30x 300 feet, was demolished May 5 by a miniature cyclone. The damage amounted to between $3,000 and $4,000. The four houses were connected, with- out partition walls, and when the cy- clone struck, it ripped out one house from between the others and, in addi- tion to wrecking it and destroying the lettuce beds, also damaged the adjoin- ing houses. Worcester, Mass.—H. F. A. Lange took principal honors for cut flowers at the exhibition of the Worcester County Horticultural Society in Hor- ticultural hall, May 8. He won first prize for a t^ble decoration and four other first prizes, besides a special prize for a new variety of geranium, which he has named after his daugh- ter. Miss Helen Lange. Other prizes were won by
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