January 8, 1910 



HORTICULTURf: 



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OBITUARY. 

 August H. Boseck. 

 August H. Boseck, for twenty years 

 superintendent of Wunder's Cemetery, 

 Chicago, died Tuesday, December 28, at 

 his residence, 3953 North Clarli street, 

 at the age of 60 years. He is survived 

 by a widow and three children. 



August Pierson. 

 August Pierson, superintendent of 

 Oak Hill Cemetery, Chicago, for seven 

 years, died December 28 at the home 

 of his daughter, Mrs. A. C. Jackson, 

 Kimbark avenue, following an opera- 

 tion. 



George H. Serviss. 



Death came to George H. Serviss, 

 florist of Batavia, 111., on the night of 

 December 23, following an ilness of 

 many months at his home at 75 Harri- 

 son street. The deceased had lived in 

 Batavia for the past twenty-five years. 

 He leaves a widow and two children. 



Martha F. Frauenfelder. 



Martha Proboese Frauenfelder, wife 

 of Conrad Frauenfelder of Chicago, 

 died January 1st after a long illness. 

 The funeral was from the home Jan- 

 uary 4th, at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Frauen- 

 felder leaves two children, Edna and 

 Hazel, and a husband, who is a well- 

 known florist on West Madison street 

 and who is now very ill with pneu- 

 monia. Tlie sympathy of the trade is 

 with Mr. Frauenfelder and his family 

 in their affliction. 



John P. Sorenson. 



John P. Sorenson, for fourteen years 

 horticultural inspector in Salt Lake 

 County, Utah, died at Latter-Day 

 Saints hospital on December 20. Mr. 

 Sorenson was born in Denmark in 

 1837 and emigrated to Utah in 1871. 

 He was a very efficient official. For 

 years he had charge of the horticul- 

 tural exhibits at the Utah State fairs, 

 and it was due to his energy and abil- 

 ity that the exhibits were so uniformly 

 creditable He leaves a widow and 

 ten children. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



Washington, la. — Joseph Melinsky 

 has bought out the Keck Floral Com- 

 pany. 



Albany, N. Y.— P. W. Eberle has pur- 

 chased the interest of P. A. Sherman 

 in the seed business of Sherman & 

 Eberle. 



Davenport, la.— The Bills Floral 

 Company was dissolved on Dec. 15, 

 1909, and the business has been 

 taken by H. M. Bills from this date. 

 The plant comprises 18 houses, ag- 

 gregating between 30,000 and 35.000 

 square feet of glass, heated by steam, 

 275 h. p. boilers. A large retail busi- 

 ness is done at this place. 



Salem, O.— V. A. Cowgill has leased 

 the J. E. Bonsall place for the coming 

 year and will run it in connection with 

 his retail trade already established. 

 There are five houses. 16x330, filled 

 with Kaiserin roses, the crop from 

 which Mr. Bonsall has been selling 

 through the McCallum Co., Pittsburgh. 

 The place which Mr. Cowgill has been 

 running for the past three years was 

 bought from Mr. Bonsall originally, 

 hut has been almost entirely rebuilt. 

 Six houses have Just been completed, 

 three 81x130 each, one 16x65, one 25x65, 



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FIRE RECORD. 



Lima, O. — The greenhouses and 

 contents of E. N. Zetlitz were dam- 

 aged by fire on the night of Dec. 20. 



Beardstown, III.— Frank Bros., flor- 

 ists, suffered a small loss from a 

 blaze which started in their office on 

 Dec. 29. 



South Portland, Me. — The store and 

 greenhouses of Frank W. Dyer, were 

 entirely consumed early on the morn- 

 ing of December 27. The fire started 

 in an adjoining grocery store. Mr. 

 Dyer's loss amounts to several thous- 

 and dollars. 



Kansas City, Mo. — The George M. 

 Kellogg Flower Company's store at 9th 

 street and Grande avenue, was com- 

 pletely destroyed, together with the 

 Rialto Building in which it was lo- 

 cated, early on the morning of Dec. 

 23. The fire is supposed to have been 

 started by escaping gas. The loss 

 was heavy. 



Peoria, III. — Spontaneous combus- 

 tion caused a fire in the second story 

 of the building occupied by the Stock- 

 er Seed Company, in the heart of the 

 wholesale district, on the night of 

 Jan. 1. The blaze was discovered by 

 a watchman, but extinguished by the 

 firemen before the building was de- 

 stroyed. Several thousand dollars' 

 worth of seeds were lost. The prop- 

 erty loss was not heavy. 



Hartford, Conn. — An overdose of 

 fumigating with hydro-cyanic acid 

 ruined 10,000 carnation plants in the 

 greenhouse of John Coombs a few 

 days before Christmas. The loss in- 

 cluding flowers in bloom for the holi- 

 days is 'estimated at $3000. In the 

 issue of HORTICULTURE for Janu- 

 ary 30, 1909, page 143, appeared a 

 valuable contribution on the use of 

 this fumigating agent by A. J. Love- 

 less of Lenox, Mass., and the direc- 

 tions there given, had they been care- 

 fully followed, would undoubtedly 

 have saved this $3000 as well as a 

 good many other dollars lost in a 

 similar manner elsewhere. 



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