Excerpt from The American Florist, Vol. 15: A Weekly Journal for the Trade; August 5, 1899 January 28, 1900 Bate Bros., who for two years have operated the place built by G. W. Heiser, have bought the houses and stock. It is understood that they have a year to get the houses off the grounds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.