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HOKTICIILTURE 



December 14, 1918- 



NEW YORK. 



Charles Millang has been on the 

 sick list and is still unable to attend 

 to business. 



W. H. Long, the veteran florist, ob- 

 served his seventy-fifth birthday anni- 

 versary last Friday, December 6. 



The Wholesale Protective Associa- 

 tion held its meeting on Friday, Dec, 

 6. and re-elected all the old officers. 



Fire in the greenhouse of Col. Trex- 

 ter at Setronia, on Friday, Dec. 6, de- 

 stroyed about half the structure and 

 ruined the contents. 



Lieut. Gilmore D. Clarke, son of 

 Gilmore Clarke, of David Clarke's 

 Sons. New York, who is with the 

 Army of Occupation, has been pro- 

 moted to a captaincy. 



We call attention to the announce- 

 ment in another column of the new 

 iirm of Muller & Sealey, which has 

 been established with headquarters in 

 New York. These gentlemen, after 

 eight and ten years' efficient service 

 with the Julius Roehrs Company, 

 have severed their connection with 

 that house, but in an amicable way, 

 and will now act as growers' agents, 

 including the Roehrs agency, but in a 

 retail way only, and not touching the 

 wholesale trade. Both gentlemen com- 

 posing the firm have a wide acquaint- 

 ance and repute among gardeners and 

 owners of private estates and have a 

 bright future in prospect. 



C. C. Trepel has given another dem- 

 onstration of his far seeing enterprise 

 in the new quarters just erected and 

 now opened in connection with the 

 Bloomingdale establishment on Lex- 

 ington avenue at 59th street. The 

 addition is an entirely new and spa- 

 cious structure, two stories in open 

 height of store with span roof light 

 overhea.d, and the equipment of furni- 

 ture, mirrors, etc., is rich and up-to- 

 date. The addition of Ed. Warendorff 

 as manager of the flower and plant 

 department is a good augury and when 

 entirely completed and put in order 

 the store will, under his direction, take 

 Its place as one of the most elegant 

 and artistic establishments in the city. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Mrs. Smith has entered the employ- 

 ment of Rochester Floral Company. 



Mrs. Anna Meals has been under the 

 doctor's care for two months in Cleve- 

 land. 



Charles Ward, Peter Mitzki and 

 Ernest Steel of J. B. Keller Sons are 

 all on the sick list. 



Morrisville, N. Y.— T. H. Townsend, 

 formerly in charge of the greenhouses 

 of Forrest F. Dryden, on his country 

 estate at Bernardsville, N. ,T., has ac- 

 cepted the position as horticulturist at 

 the State School of Agriculture at 

 Morrisville, N. Y. Mr. Townsend teach- 

 es all the Horticulture courses and has 

 charge of greenhouses, orchards and 

 vegetable gardens. 



CINCINNATI. 



C. E. Crltchell has been confined to 

 his house with a mild attack of in- 

 fluenza. 



Edward Ellison, one of the pioneer 

 florists of this city, passed away the 

 first of this month. He had green- 

 houses in Clifton for many years. 



Lawrence Kresken was returned a 

 victor in the recent election of the 

 Young Men's Blaine Club, having been 

 elected a director of that organization. 



The Paradise Floral Shop has opened 

 a retail store at No. 5 Seventh street. 

 The proprietors are Mike Hanks, who 

 was with Julius Baer for a long time, 

 and Harry 0. Roth. 



H. W. Sheppard bought the Hill 

 Floral Co. store in this city and took 

 possession on Monday of this week. 

 He is conducting the business under 

 the name of H. W. Sheppard, succes- 

 sor to the Hill Floral Co. 



CHICAGO. 



Mrs. Chas. W. McKellar, who was 

 seriously ill with influenza, is still con- 

 fined to the house, but her friends are 

 glad to know that she is regaining her 

 health. 



The wheels are again moving, slow- 

 ly and not at all in the old-time way, 

 at the Foley Greenhouse manufactur- 

 ing plant, but it indicates that the 

 war is in the past and business is 

 picking up. James Foley and Philip, 

 Jr., are both in the service, and while 

 they were not called upon to leave 

 this country, they are missed and will 

 be welcomed back when the release 

 comes. Both are members of the 

 company and Philip is further 

 equipped for a business life by a 

 knowledge of law, having graduated 

 from the Kent Law School in Chicago 

 the same week that he enlisted. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Harry T. Payne has moved from 

 1303 F street to 1224 F street. He 

 operates The Flower Shop. 



Sergeant Sam Everett, Q. M. C, 

 has been in command of the Dupont 

 Flower Shop during the illness of 

 Elmer C. Mayberry. Mr. Everett se- 

 cured a furlough in order to, be able 

 to keep the store open. 



R. Lloyd Jenkins, former president 

 of the Florists' Club of Washington, 

 D. C, has just learned that his broth- 

 er Clifford, also a member of the 

 club, has been commissioned a sec- 

 ond lieutenant. The latter is in Prance, 

 as is another brother, Henry T. Jen- 

 kins. Upon their arrival separately on 

 the other side they were ordered to a 

 training camp and here they met 

 again for the first time in nine months. 

 Whether or not Henry also received 

 a commission is not known, as noth- 

 ing has been heard from him since 

 October 16. 



Damage to the extent of about 

 $3,500 occurred last week from fire in 

 the boiler room of D. G. Grillbortzer, 

 Alexandria, Va. Boiler room, offices 

 and workshop were destroyed and five 

 houses were more or less damaged. 

 To save the place from a complete 

 freeze-out, Mr. Grillbortzer ran tem- 

 porary piping from the Loose range of 

 greenhouses, which he also operates, 

 fortunately located just across the 

 street from his other property. Mr. 

 Grillbortzer carried no insurance. 

 Later in the week his house was 

 threatened when children set fire to 

 a shed on the premises. 



Southampton, N. Y.' — Forest Sa'yer 

 has secured employment with G. E. 

 M. Stunipp, in New York, and he and 

 Mrs. Sawyer are now in the city for 

 the winter. 



Westerly, R. I. — Conrad Schultz an- 

 nounces the removal of his flower 

 shop from the Rhode Island block to 

 the Welch Block in the store recently 

 occupied by Ward Sherman. 



