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HORTICULTUKE 



August 30, 1913 



Obituary 



Charles M. Hooker. 



Charles M. Hooker, a well-known 

 horticulturist of Rochester, N. Y., died 

 August 18, aged 80 years. He leaves 

 three sons and three daughters. 

 Charles Krombach. 



Charles Krombach, for 30 years a 

 florist at 25th street and 4th avenue, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., died at his home, Au- 

 gust 18, aged 56 years. His wife, two 

 daughters and one son survive him. 

 Charles Crawford. 



Charles Crawford, a retail florist of 

 Philadelphia, well-known to a former 

 generation of the trade, died on the 

 24th inst.. aged 70, at the home of a 

 friend. Mr. McReynolds. on North 

 Tenth street, and was buried at Mt. 

 Moriah on the 27th. Mr. Crawford 

 was not a member of the Florists' 

 Club and was therefore known only to 

 a few of the present day florists. He 

 is said to have been instrumental in 

 introducing the late W. K. Harris to 

 the Harrisi lily, but so many con- 

 flicting stories have been told of that 

 interesting event that there may not 

 be much to this one. 



STARTING VEGETABLES IN COLD 

 FRAMES. 



Horticulture Publishing Co. 



One of your readers desires to linow if 

 their is much benetit to be derived from 

 starting encumbers, melons, beets and 

 simil.ir vegetables in eold frames under 

 cloth, with a view of gaining six to eight 

 weeks, as compared with planting seed out 

 of doors. 



It would be our opinion that the 

 seeds of cucumbers, melons and such 

 vegetables would make a gain by be- 

 ing sown under cloth in cold frames, 

 but there would not be a gain of from 

 six to eight weeks. The fain would 

 not be over two. The method of grow- 

 ing cucumbers and melons especially 

 in cold frames, and never taking the 

 glass off. but raising the frames per- 

 manently after the weather begins to 

 get very warm, has been practiced 

 here. 



HiTTiNGER Fruit Company. 



Belmont, Mass. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR CON- 

 TEMPLATED. 



Baltimore, Md. — Edward Van Reuth, 

 Jr., one house. 



Smith's Ferry, Mass. — Gallivan Bros., 

 house 28 x 150. 



Lebanon, Pa. — Joseph F. Vavrous, 

 addition 16 x 30. 



Wheeling. W. Va. — Cameron Green- 

 house Co., tliree houses. 



Natchez, Miss. — Chris. Maier & Bro., 

 two houses, each 20 x 50. 



Northampton, Mass. — Alexander 

 Parks, Jewett street, addition 25 x 45. 



Logansport, Ind. — J. A. Newby, Mon- 

 inger house 27 x 200; Northern In- 

 diana Hospital for the Insane, house 

 20 X 100. 



Lansing, Mich. — Gurdon B. Smith, 

 six houses, each 30 x 165. Moninger 

 construction; J. A. Bissenger, re- 

 building, Moninger material. 



Stoneham, Mass. — Fire in the boiler 

 room of A. Christenson's greenhouse 

 caused a damage of about $1,000 on 

 the evening of August 27th. 



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DURING RECESS. 



The fall outing of the New York and 

 New Jersey Association of Plant 

 Growers will take place on Thursday. 

 September 4, 1913. The party will 

 board the specially chartered steamer. 

 "Commander," at Battery Landing, .\. 

 Y.. at 10 A. M., and sail up the his- 

 toric Hudson. Luncheon and dinner 

 will be served on board and a band 

 will furnish music for dancing, etc. A 

 landing will be made at Bear Mountain 

 to afford an opportunity to visit the 

 new Harriman Inter-State Park. A. L. 

 Miller, Gerard Dreyer and Wm. H. 

 Siebrecht, .Jr., are the committee in 

 charge. 



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