August 8, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



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PERSONAL. 



Thomas A. Culp, florist, Hannibal, 

 Mo., who has attained a good old age, 

 is critically ill. 



Lucien LeClerc has taken charge of 

 the greenhouses of the Western Ken- 

 tucky Lunatic Asvlum at Hopkinsville, 

 Ky. 



G. E. Bliss of Corning, Iowa, has 

 been placed at the head of the new 

 horticultural department of Ames State 

 School, Ames, la. 



Upon invitation of Supt. Theodore 

 Wirth of the Minneapolis Park Board, 

 members of the Minnesota Rose Socie- 

 ty visited the rose garden in Lyndale 

 Park on July 22. 



Mr. Dysinger, secretary for Holm & 

 Olsen, of St. Paul. Minn., is on his 

 way east to Loekport, X. V. whence 

 lie will go to the S. A. F. convention 

 at Niagara Falls. 



Gustav Schneider has resigned his 

 position as manager of the Springfield 

 Floral Co., Springfield, O.. and will 

 devote his entire time to his green- 

 houses on South Centre boulevard and 

 his recent purchase, the Agnew green- 

 houses, on Johnson avenue. 



Visitors in Boston: Hjalmar Hart- 

 mann, Copenhagen, Denmark; George 

 F. Struck, New York city; Andrew 

 Wilson, Summit, N. J.; Thos. Water- 

 worth, Panama; F. W. Rice, Rutland, 

 Vt.; R. A. Hannaford. Portsmouth. N. 

 II.; G. W. Pool, Gloversville. X. Y. 



OBITUARY. 



John C. W. Greening. 

 John C. W. Greening, a pioneer nur- 

 sery man. died at Hillsdale, Mich., on 

 July 21, at the age of S5. 



Justin A. Goodhue. 

 Justin A Goodhue, president of the 

 Utah Nursery Company, Salt Lake 

 City, died suddenly at the Alta club 

 on July 23. 



John A. McGann. 

 John A. McGann, who has been con- 

 nected with the Lischey Nursery at 

 Nashville, Tenn., since 1892, died on 

 July 22. while visiting his son in Ala- 

 bama. He was 58 years of age. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



W. H. Ritter, florist, of Fitchburg, 

 Mass., has leased the greenhouse of 

 G. J. Pethybridge. 



Julius Ledig is moving his green- 

 houses from Seventeenth to Nineteenth 

 street, Des Moines, la. 



The Bletcher Floral Co. has pur- 

 chased the retail business of G. E. 

 Tromey at Cincinnati, O. 



Mr. Smith, of Iowa, who has bought 

 the greenhouse of T. Kloss at St. Pe- 

 ter, Minn., will retain J. S. Jacobson 

 as manager. 



Mr. L. Schroeder has given up his 

 stand in the Chicago Flower Growers' 

 Market, and Mr. Driskey takes his 

 place, while Mrs. Frank Beu takes Mr. 

 Driskey's stand in addition to her own, 



COMING EVENTS. 



Gypsum, O., State Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Aug. 12. 



New York, N. Y.. Playgrounds Con- 

 gress, Sept. 8-12. 



Augusta, Ga., State Horticultural 

 Society, Aug. 12, 13. 



Niagara Falls. N. Y.. Society ot 

 American Florists, Aug. 18-22. 



Augusta, Ga., Southern Nursery- 

 men's Association, Aug. 19, 20. 



Sheboygan Falls, Wis., State Horti- 

 cultural Society, Aug. 26 and 27. 



Niagara Falls, Ont, Canadian Horti- 

 cultural Association. Aug. 19, 20 and 

 21. 



St. Louis, Mo., American Apple 

 Growers' Congress, Southern Hotel, 

 Aug. 11, 12. 



Minneapolis, Minn., American Asso- 

 ciation of Park Superintendents, Aug. 

 11, 12 and 13. 



New York, N. Y., American Institute 

 of New York, exhibition, Sept. 22, 23 

 and 24, Berkeley Lyceum Building. 



Hartford, Conn., Connecticut Horti- 

 cultural Society, fall show, Sept. 23; 

 chrysanthemum show, Nov. 3, 4 and 

 5, Unity Hall. 



NEWS NOTES. 



The Richey Floral Co., of Albia, la., 

 have added an office building to their 

 greenhouses. 



C. J. McCormack is manager of the 

 new nursery firm recently started in 

 Munroe, Mich. 



The stock in the store of Mrs. S. A. 

 Moir, Brockton, Mass., was sold at 

 auction on July 23. 



.lames Swan and Fred Thomas, re- 

 cently with L. L. May & Co., St. Paul, 

 .Minn., have started in business at 

 Hazel Park. 



Among other improvements Frank 



Oechslin of Chicago has laid over 4. 



lineal feet of cement walk through his 

 lange of houses. 



it is reported that Napoleon Lemay, 

 a florist of New Bedford, Mass., has 

 recently disappeared after having se- 

 cured $500 from his partner, W. Craw- 

 ford, for one-half the business. 



Edward H. H. Stanley, late of Peach- 

 land. B. C, and not W. S. Stanley, as 

 stated in our issue of July IS, is start- 

 ing nurseries at Paynes, B. C, to be 

 known as the Kootonia Nurseries. 



The annual meeting of the Florists' 

 Hail Association of America will be 

 held at the Cataract House, Niagara 

 Falls, at 4.30 P. M.. on Tuesday, Aug. 

 lSth, 1908. 



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