September i, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



349 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



Renumbering the Streets. 

 The reuurubering of the streets of 

 Chicago will be of interest to many 

 readers. The work is finished and goes 

 into effect September 1st. Madison and 

 State streets are taken as a base and 

 the numbers east, west, north and 

 south radiate from this point. The 

 west and north sides will be changed 

 most, and after the new plan becomes 

 familiar it will be a great improve- 

 ment, for the old system or lack of 

 -System was very confusing. The dis- 

 trict of the wholesale florists is prac- 

 tically unchanged, but many of the 

 retailers and growers will now be 

 known by another address. 



Hughes' Window. 



H. R. Hughes, the florist who talks 

 to the people by means of his window, 

 now has an attractive bathing beach 

 scene as a drawing" card and with it 

 shows how the lake front should be 

 open to the people. 



The lesson is a live one, for the ques- 

 tion of the right of the Cliicago people 

 .to the lake front is one that is just 

 now being strongly agitated. Mr. 

 Hughes has never had a window dis- 

 play that appealed more directly to the 

 people. 



Personal. 



Frank Oechslin, a well-known plant 

 grower, is taking hi.s annual overhaul- 

 ing for rheumatism at St. Joseph, Mich. 



W. P. Kyle, formerly of the J. B. 

 Deamud Co., and Joseph Foerster, for 

 many years with George Reinberg, will 

 .start in the wholesale commission cut 

 flower business in the Atlas Block. 

 Kyle & Foerster will be the firm name. 



Visitors: H. H. Kuhman, Houston, 

 Texas; L. P. Thomson of C. A. Dahl 

 Floral Co., Atlanta, Ga.; \V. L. Rock, 

 .Kansas City; A. L. Blaser, Dubuque, 

 Iowa; Martin Reukauf, representing H. 

 Bayersdorfer & Co., and J. J. Karins, 

 representing H. A. Dreer, Philadelphia. 



The beautiful silver cup won by the 

 Chicago Bowling Team at Cincinnati is 

 on exhibition at Zeck & Mann's and is 

 attracting much attention. 



NEW FIRMS. 



Messrs. Cirny & Rowe have started 

 the Woodbine Floral Co. at Kirkwood, 

 Mo. This new firm has four houses 

 -filled with carnations, violets and sweet 

 peas and will grow this stock for the 

 St. Louis market. 



It has been reported that our old 

 -friend. Max Herzog, will again enter 

 into the florist business on South Jef- 

 ferson avenue, St. Louis, but this time 

 in the retail business. He will erect 

 his own building. 



Albert T. Hey, who went from 

 Springfield, 111., one year ago to take 

 the management of Vaughan's green- 

 house at Western Spring.s. has severed 

 his connection with that firm and rent- 

 ed the Hill greenhouses at Maywood. 

 It is rumored that Albert Brickson, 

 foreman, and who assisted in erecting 

 the first greenhouse and was in the 

 •firm's employ ever since, is to be a 

 partner with Mr. Hey. 



OBITUA 



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Professor Emile Christian Hansen. 



Professor Emile Christian Hansen, 

 the renowned botanist, died August 27 

 at Copenhagen, Denmark. He was 

 born on Jlay S, lhi2, at Ribe, in the 

 province of Jutland, Denmark, and as 

 a young man learned the trade of house 

 painter. His ambition led him to at- 

 tend the art school at Copenhagen, but 

 he soon turned his attention to the 

 natural sciences. For three years he 

 supported himself by giving private 

 tuition, until in 1866 he received a 

 scholarship from the Minister of Edu- 

 cation which enabled him to study 

 mathematics and science at the Copen- 

 hagen University. He then became an 

 instructor in the gymnasium there, and 

 soon devoted himself to the study of 

 chemistry and botany, especially with 

 regard to the physiology of plants. In 

 recent j'ears he has been recognized as 

 one of the leading authorities on the 

 latter science. 



In the physiological laboratory at 

 Carlsberg Hansen made a study of the 

 lower order of plants, and especially of 

 the fungi. Later he was appointed 

 head of the physiological laboratory. 

 He evolved a plan for a systematic re- 

 search of the alcoholic fermenting 

 yeasts and upon other micro-organisms 

 influencing them. This plan led to a 

 comprehensive study of the fungi 

 which established a new epoch in bot- 

 any. His studies also co\ered cell phy- 

 siology and the conditions of muta- 

 bility in micro-organisms. 



Professor Hansen tried to give prac- 

 tical effect to his discoveries by plac- 

 ing the utilization of yeast cultures on 

 a new basis, and in 1SS7 with Professor 

 Kuhle he devised an apparatus for pro- 

 ducing a pure ferment which is now- in 

 use in many breweries in Europe. H^ 

 wrote a work on micro-organisms 

 found in the atmosphere at various 

 seasons, a monograph on the "Mor- 

 phology of .\looholic Ferments" and 

 other papers on kindred topics. — Bos- 

 ton Transcript. 



Mrs. P. Scanlan. 



The young wife of Commissioner 

 Phil Scanlan, St. Louis, Mo., died the 

 past week. Mr. Scanlan was only mar- 

 ried a little over a year. Mrs. Scan- 

 lan's death followed the birth of a 

 child, which also died shortly after. 

 Mr. Scanlan has a great many friends 

 among the local florists who extend 

 their sympathy. 



Henry McDonald. 

 Henry McDonald died on August 25 

 at his home in Brockton, Mass., aged 

 38 years. He had been ill but a short 

 time. Mr. McDonald, a native of the 

 West Indies, was a resident of Brock- 

 ton for several years, being employed 

 as a gardener on several large estates. 

 Besides his wife, he is survived by 

 three small children. 



F. E. Rawlings. 

 Mr. F. E. Rawlings, secretary of the 

 Plant Seed Co., St. Louis, was drowned 

 the past week at Bourbon, Mo., where 

 he and his wife and son were spending 

 their vacation. The accident occurred 

 while Mr. Rawlings was in bathing. 

 The news came as a great shock to a 

 large eiifle of tiiends in the trade. 



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Leading Retail Florists Listed by 

 Towns for Ready Reference. 



Denver, Colo.— Park Floral Co., 1706 

 Broadway. 



Washington D. C— Gude Broe., 1214 F St. 



Cliicago — Hauswlrth, "The Florist," 239 

 Michigan Ave. 



Chicago— William J. Smyth, Michigan 

 Ave. and 3l8t St. 



Chicago— George WIttbold Co., 1657-S9 

 Buckingham Place. 



Louisville, Ky. — Jacob Schnlz, 550 Sooth 

 Fourth Ave. 



Boston— Thos. F. Galvln, 124 Tremont St. 



Boston — Edward MacMulkln, 194 B07I- 

 ston St. 



Boston — J. Newman & Sons, Inc., 24 Tre- 

 mont St. 



Boston— Julius A. Zlnn, 2 Beacon St. 



Welle,sley, Mass. — Tallby. 



Detroit, Mich. — J. Breltmeyer's Sona, 

 Ulaml and Gratiot Aves. 



Kansas City, Mo. — ^Samuel Murray, 1071 

 Broadway. 



Kansas City, Mo. — Wm. L. Rock Flower 

 Co., 1U6 Walnut St. 



Albany, N. Y.— H. G. Eyree, 11 N. Pearl 

 St. 



Albany, N. Y.— P. A. Danker, 40 Maiden 

 Lane. 



Nevv York — David Clarke's Sons, 2130- 

 2141 Broadway. 



New York— Alei. McConnell. 571 6th Ave. 



New York— Young & Nugent, 42 W. 28th 

 St. 



Brooklyn, N. Y.— Robert O. Wilson, Ful- 

 ton St. and Greene Ave. 



Buffalo. N. Y.— Palmer's, 304 Main St. 



Montreal, Can. — P. McKenna & Son, St. 

 Catherine and Gay Sts. 



Toronto, Can.— J. H. Dunlop, 96 Yonge M. 



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