July 30, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



137 



THE CASTLE AUTOMATIC CIRCU- 

 LATOR CHANGES HANDS. 



Desirous of a relief from business 

 cares and seeking the enjoyment of a 

 more leisurely life. Col. W. W. Castle, 

 the original promoter of the first and 

 most reliable method of forced hot- 

 water circulation and originator of the 

 recently patented automatic improve- 

 ments on the original device, has dis- 

 posed of the business to a syndicate 

 consisting of parties connected with 

 one of the largest invested interests 

 in New England. 



It is not without extreme reluctance 

 that Col. Castle has thus parted from 

 a business which has made for him 

 some of the most prized affiliations and 



William W. Castle 



friendships which it has been his 

 privilege to enjoy and he wishes to 

 express through the medium of HOR- 

 TICULTURE his profound gratitude 

 for the many courtesies — social as well 

 as business — which he has received at 

 the hands of the craft and to assure 

 his many friends that although he is 

 now out of business life, it is still his 

 intention to keep in close touch with 

 all that tends to the betterment of 

 horticulture and those engaged in its 

 pursuits. We are sure that all those 

 to whom he thus addresses himself 

 will congratulate this magnetic and 

 big-hearted gentleman on his well- 



Col. Castle's Home at East Weymouth, 

 Ma.ss. 



earned leisure and wish him the full- 

 est enjoyment of many years of happy 

 life. 



One condition of the sale of the 

 property was that it should carry the 

 name of its founder and in this con- 

 nection it is pleasant to inform the 

 many friends and clients of the old 

 concern that Mr. Congdon. who has 

 been actively connected with the Cas- 

 tle Company for the past five years, 

 is to be retained as manager by the 

 new corporation. Those who have 

 known this gentleman's capability and 

 industry in the past will need no fur- 



ther assurance of the ability of the 

 new concern to serve them satisfac- 

 torily. That the business will be en- 

 ergetically pushed from now on is a 

 foregone conclusion. 



PERSONAL. 



H. G. Eyres and family of Albany, 

 X. Y., are summering at Lake George. 



Robert Renison is now in charge of 

 the nursery of Wadley & Smythe, 

 Yonkers, N. Y. 



John Moran, of Eyres, Albany, is 

 spending two weeks vacation at Bos- 

 ton and New Y'ork. 



Mrs. W. W. Edgar and family, of 

 Waverley, Mass., are enjoying the sea 

 breezes at York Beach, Me. 



Alex. Newitt is now connected with 

 the Stuppy Floral Co., St. Joseph, Mo. 

 He was formerly with J. B. Deamud 

 Co., Chicago. 



Lawrence Hussey, formerly in the 

 emjjloy of Olmsted Bros., at Seattle, 

 is now with the Eastern Nurseries, at 

 Holliston, Mass. 



Mr. Fauver, formerly employed by 

 the Elizabeth Nursery Co., has re- 

 signed and taken a position as fore- 

 man of a greenhouse in Nyack, N. Y. 



David Welch, of Welch Bros., is en- 

 joying himself on the other side of 

 the Atlantic. A card just received 

 locates him at the Lakes of Killarney. 



E. Allan Peirce and P. Welch were 

 expert witnesses in a suit at Green- 

 field, Mass., in which Paul R. Burt 

 seeks damages from the landlord for 

 damage to plants in Mr. Burt's store 

 through inadequate heat in the build- 

 ing last winter. 



P. Welch, of Boston, who is spend- 

 ing the summer vacation at Old Or- 

 chard, Me., is suffering from a 

 sprained ankle, and moves about with 

 much difficulty. It happened when he 

 was bathing in the surf, a big roller 

 having knocked him out in the first 

 round. 



Visitors in Boston — Charles W, Mc- 

 Kellar, Chicago; P. F. Kessler, New 

 York City. 



Among recent visitors in Cincinnati, 

 was Mr. Winters of the Charleston 

 Cut Flower Co., Charleston, W. Va. 



Recent visitors at Albany, N. Y. — 

 Mr. and Mrs. Raum. 'of Dards', New 

 York; J. J. Karins, representing H. A. 

 Dreer, Phila., Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. C. W. 

 McKellar, Chicago, 111. 



A SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY. 



This month the firm of August 

 Rolker & Sons celebrate the 75th an- 

 niversaiy of the arrival in America of 

 their senior, who laid the foundation 

 for the present firm, the active niem- 

 bers of which are Winfried and Joseph 

 E. Rolker, August Rolker, on arrival 

 in this country, July 6. 1835, at once 

 engaged in a general importing busi- 

 ness, with office on Pearl street. New 

 York City, which was later destro.ved 

 in the great fire. Afterwards the pui't- 

 nership of Rolker & Mollman was 

 formed and continued until 1860, when 

 Mr. Mollman died. The present style 

 of firm was formed in 1,S71. when 



August Rolker, Jr., and Winfried Rol- 

 ker, the two oldest sons, were taken 

 into partnership. Three days before 

 the partnership took effect the elder 

 Rolker died. Two younger brothers, 

 Jos. E. and Herman, were later ad- 

 mitted to the firm. 



Both August and Herman have 

 since died. Messrs. Rolker are well 

 known to florists and nurserymen in 

 this country and abroad. Their busi- 

 ness reputation stands very high, and 

 those who have a personal acquaint- 

 ance with these gentlemen esteem 

 them highly for their kindly person- 

 ality and delightful social traits. They 

 represent a number of prominent 

 English and Continental dealers in 

 nursery stocks and florists' forcing 

 plants and bulbs. 



We wish the house many more years 

 of prosperity. 



A NEW YORK FLOWER DEALER. 



The gentleman whose portrait ap- 

 pears here is familiar to all habitues 

 of the wholesale cut flower district of 



A. MOLTZ 



New York. Starting in a street spec- 

 ulator, simply, on such surpluses as 

 were to be found from day to day 

 in the wholesale markets. A. Moltz 

 finally reached the importance of a 

 regular headquarters in the market 

 building at 55 West 26 street, and now, 

 with an associate in business, an- 

 nounces the acquirement of quite an 

 addition to the floor space to be oc- 

 cupied by his firm for the coming sea- 

 son. His methods are quite distinct 

 from the other wholesale places as no 

 goods are received on commission or 

 by purchase from growers direct, all 

 stock being boi-ght from established 

 wholesale dealers exclusively. His 

 services in this respect are thus quite 

 useful to retailers requiring special 

 supplies and to wholesalers having 

 surpluses in any line. 



Chicago, III. — Fred Burmeister has 

 purchased the greenhouses of W^m. G. 

 Kruetz. 1716 Cemetery Drive. 



Louisville, Ky. — It was Geo. Thomp- 

 son's place that Mr. Kleinstarink pur- 

 chased and not the Anchorage Rose 

 Co. 'property, as was previously re- 

 ported. 



