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HORTICULTURE, 



March 25, 1911 



WILLIAM KLEINHEINZ. 



The chief editor asks for a few re- 

 marks on William Kleinheinz — as his 

 picture is to adorn this issue. It 

 gives me great pleasure to say a word 

 or two on that subect. I have had 

 it in mind tor a long time, and — now 

 that the opportunity has come — Ge- 

 mutlicht heit! Here goes. 



Please do not expect me to throw 

 bouquets. If I am to paint a picture 

 it must be a true one. The spirit of 

 Oliver Cromwell — who told the artist 

 to paint him "warts and all" — per- 

 meates me in this effort. 



P. A. B. Widener is manv times a 

 millionaire and his tastes are of the 

 cultivated kind. He built a splendid 

 mansion in one of the loveliest rural 

 districts around Philadelphia and the 

 settings and surroundings are in keep- 

 ing with the generous and palatial 

 ideas of the founder. To get the right 

 man as superintendent of an estate or 



William Kleinheinz 



this character was not easy, and many 

 were discarded before the keen and 

 catholic shrewdness of Paul Huebner 

 suggested William Kleinheinz. 



William Kleinheinz rose to the op- 

 portunity and made good. Digging 

 into the lad's history we find that, 

 added to native ability, he had some 

 good training. Born in Stuttgart, Ger- 

 many, served apprenticeship in same 

 city in a commercial place. One year 

 as student at the Royal Gartenblau 

 School in Hohenhelm, Royal Garden. 

 Stuttgart. Head gardener three 

 years for Hungarian nobleman. Land- 

 ed in America, 1889. Worked in sev- 

 eral commercial places in Uniled 

 States and wound up as assistant to 

 Paul Huebner, superintendent of the 

 Reading R. R. landscape department, 

 from which he went to take charge of 

 the Widener place, June 15th,. 1899. 



Mr. Kleinheinz has been president 

 of the Gardeners' Association for two 

 terms, and has filled this exalted posi- 

 tion with great ability. He donates a 

 champion cup for competition at the 

 National Show, and will be on hand 

 on that great occasion to greet all his 

 old friends and extend the glad hand 

 to his fellow-craftsmen generally. 



G. C. W. 



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The Bay State Nurseries 



NORTH ABINGTON, MASS. 



See the Most Beautiful Display of Rambler 

 Roses Ever Shown, at the National Flower Show. 

 Among them will be gorgeous specimen plants of the fol- 

 lowing NEW varieties: Lady Blanche, double pure white; 

 Mrs. M. H. Walsh, pure white, large double flowers; Lu- 

 cille, beautiful flesh-pink double; Maid Marion, single light 

 pink; Winona, double dark rose; Summer Joy, double dark 

 rose; Troubadour, double crimson. Of the older varieties 

 there will be Hiawatha, Lady Gay, Minnehaha, Kalmia, 

 Coquina, Paradise, Milky Way, La Fiamma, Excelsa. 

 All the f above will be exhibited by the raiser, iM. H. 

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