October 22, 1910 



HORTI CULTURE 



509 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



A subscription testimonial is being 

 arranged for Jolm Crawford, an old 

 and well known florist who has been 

 in the hospital for nearly six months 

 suffering with inflammatory rheuma- 

 tism. Those who wish to subscribe to 

 this laudable object may send their 

 contributions to Paul Klingsporn, care 

 of Berger Bros., 13th and Filbert 

 streets. "He gives twice who gives 

 quickly." 



The Henry F. Michell Co. will move 

 from 1018 Market street to their mam- 

 moth new store 51S Market street, 

 Nov. 1st. Preparations for this event 

 are now actively under way. As the 

 new store has been already running for 

 nearly two years no friction or inter- 

 ruption to business will be experienced, 

 usually the case with old and import- 

 ant houses when they change their 

 headquarters. 



Visitors: .Joseph Pennypacker, Phoen- 

 ixville. Pa.; Mrs. W. A. Hansen, Gal- 

 veston, Texas; Mrs. M. Weir, Scranton, 

 Pa.; John Cook, Beverly, N. J.; Jno. 

 N. May, Pummit, N. J.; A. Emerich, 

 reptesenting Vilmorin-Andrieux & Co., 

 Paris, France; Benjamin Smith, super- 

 intendent for Levi Meyer, Manomet, 

 Mass.; Harry Scheath, representing 

 Mrs. Williams, Pittsburgh. Pa.; Mr. 

 Brown, of Mann & Brown, Richmond, 

 Virginia; J. W. Edmunson, represent- 

 ing Braslan Seed Growers' Co., Cali- 

 fornia; John Fallon, Staunton, Va., 

 who was the recipient of marked cour- 

 tesy by the trade of the city, including 

 an automobile ride to Jenkintown in 

 Edward Reid's flyer, is to visit the 

 palm nuresries of the Joseph Heacock 

 Co. at Wyncote. 



NEW YORK NOTES. 



Pullman, the Columbus avenue flor- 

 ist, has arrived from Europe after an 

 extended visit, 



E. J. Van Reyper, who has been 

 with the Growers' Cut Flower Co., has 

 taken a position as salesman with P. 

 J. Smith, 49 W. 28th street. 



Kostus Sakelos, the "Colonial Flor- 

 ist' of 125th street and 8th avenue, 

 has bought out Hoffman's store on 

 975 2nd avenue. Excellent business is 

 reported for the first three days. 



A tew years ago nobody could have 

 dreamed of the dignity and impor- 

 tance the "greens" business would at- 

 tain to. Here is Gustave C. C. Schra- 

 der coming to market every morning 

 with his load of greens on a new Brush 

 car. It pays to be a real specialist. 



Wm. H. Siebrecht's delivery horse 

 ran away last Monday forenoon, 

 being frightened by an American 

 Express Company auto. It was 

 stopped by a policeman on the corner 

 of 6th avenue and 2Gth street. For- 

 tunately very little damage was done. 



The big auction Rale of The Weir 

 business and property at Brooklyn 

 brought out a very large and inter- 

 ested attendance of the trade and 

 others, Brooklyn trade being particu- 

 larly well represented in the crowd 

 and in the buying. Prices reached 

 were very fair considering the times. 

 The horses brought the best figure. 

 Auctioneer Elliott is well pleased with 

 the results. 



PERSONAL. 



E. Haentze, of Fond du Lac, Wis., 

 was married on October 10, at Chicago, 

 to Miss Louisa Klempnecht. 



Court Roehrs and his younger broth- 

 er have located on a 40-acre farm in 

 Texas and will grow apples and alfalfa. 



Wallace R. Pierson, of Cromwell, 

 Conn., and H. C. Wendland, of Chi- 

 cago, started for a hunting tri|> in 

 Maine on Friday, Oct, 14. 



Herman Klagge, for 28 years with 

 John Breitmeyer's Sons, Detroit, 

 mourns the loss of his wife, who has 

 been an invalid for several years. 



Mr. William Atkinson, of Fisher, Son 

 & Sibray, Handsworth, England, has 

 been inspecting the Boston park sys- 

 tem, as guest of Superintendent Petti- 

 grew. 



John Dunbar, of Rochester parks, 

 spent a few days last week at the Ar- 

 nold Arboretum selecting plants from 

 the Wilson collections for planting in 

 the Rochester parks. 



Prof. C. S. Sargent, of the Arnold 

 Arboretum, has gone on an auto trip 

 around the lakes in western New York, 

 in quest of new plants, as the guest of 

 C. C. Laney, of Rochester. 



Andrew Christensen of Stoneham, 

 Mass., returned Friday on the Lusi- 

 tania after a two months' tour of Eng- 

 land. Prance, Germany, Sweden and 

 his native home, Denmark. 



James Sharkey has succeeded John 

 P. Hammond as gardener for Mrs. E. 

 H. G. Slater at Newport, R. L Mr. 

 Sharkey was in charge there for sev- 

 eral years previous to Mr. Hammond. 



Wm. Dilger of Detroit, for several 

 years superintendent of Belle Isle, has 

 been asked to resign by Nov. 1 and 

 Mr. Hollister, for many years superin- 

 tendent at Palmer Park, will take his 

 place. Mr. Dilger was rather sorely 

 aggrieved when about a year ago he 

 was denied the appointment of park 

 commissioner. The consequence was 

 a lack of necessary harmony and his 

 resignation was no surprise to the lo- 

 cal florists. 



Mr. Ed. Welch, of Welch Bros., Bos- 

 ton, has returned, together with Wm. 

 F. Molloy, Budlong's Boston salesman, 

 from a very enjoyable European tour 

 Mr. Welch has some very complimen- 

 tary things to say of the florist estab- 

 lishments he saw in his travels, espe- 

 cially those of Italy, and the taste dis- 

 played in the adornment of stores and 

 windows. He was much impressed 

 with the effectiveness of single-flow- 

 ered dahlias made up into wreaths in 

 association with fine ferns. These 

 wreaths are made up and placed in the 

 windows for sale. 



Martinsburg, W. Va.— The Hart- 

 Clohan Co. will put in irrigation equip- 

 ment to cover five acres of truck for 

 next season; will expand from that If 

 successful; also planting 100 acres in 

 fruit trees. 



OBITUARY. 



Ernest J. Close. 

 Ernest J. Close, a clerk employed 

 by L, L. May & Co., florists, St, Paul, 

 Minn., was killed recently by falling 

 through a plate glass window. 



John Marback. 

 John Marback, florist at 4809 John 

 street, Cincinnati, Ohio, committed 

 suicide Monday night, Oct. 10th. 

 Despondency over his physical condi- 

 tion caused the act. 



Charles Charvat. 



Charles Charvat, florist at 264 

 Rowena street, Detroit, Mich., died 

 Oct. 10th, Mr. Charvat came to De- 

 troit from Bohemia thirty-eight years 

 ago. He is survived by his widow, 

 two daughters and four sons. 



Peter Knapp. 



Peter Knapp, for seventeen years 

 employed at Peter Reinberg's green- 

 houses, Chicago, lost his life Saturday 

 while at work opposite the green- 

 houses A carload of stone was 

 standing on a nearby ti-ack and Mr. 

 Knaiip was adjusting something under 

 the car when in some manner the 

 slide was opened and the coal was 

 discharged upon him. He was dead 

 when taken out. He leaves a wife 

 and five children. 



Joseph M. Ahearn. 



Joseph M. Ahearn. gardener at the 

 Henry Clews place, Newport, R. I., 

 died there suddenly on the morning of 

 Oct. 18th. He had been in his usual 

 good health until within a few hours 

 of his death, when he was attacked 

 with a stomach trouble which result- 

 ed in the sad occurrence. He was 31 

 years of age and had been in charge 

 bf the Clews estate about four years 

 and previouslv worked under Mr. Her- 

 rington at the H. McK. Twombly es- 

 tate, Madison, N. J. He is survived 

 by a widow and three children, who 

 will sadly miss his kind and genial 

 companionship. J- R- 



ST. LOUIS NOTES. 



Guv Reyburn of Vaughan's and B. 

 Eschner of M. Rice & Co., Philadel- 

 phia, are in St. Louis this week. 



H. V. Hunkel of Holton & Hunkel, 

 Milwaukee, spent a day here last week 

 with his brother-in-law, W. C. Smith. 



The Retail Florists' Association, at 

 its last meeting, adopted a credit sys- 

 tem and will put same in force at its 

 meeting, Monday, Nov. 7th. 



Mr. Chas. A. Kuehn has been very 

 sick the past week but from reports 

 this Monday forenoon is much im- 

 proved, but will be kept indoors for 

 some time yet. 



Flower show matters are reported as 

 being all arranged tor next month, 

 and the Executive Committee says it 

 will be a great show— the best St. 

 Louis has yet had. 



Auburndale, Mass.— W. A. Riggs 

 has bought the greenhouse establish- 

 ment of John Forbes and on Novem- 

 ber 1 will forsake the domain of the 

 private gardener and go into commer- 

 cial life. 



