April 21, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



523 



The Late 

 W, C, Langbridge 



Wm. Henry Maule, Inc. 

 Garden Seeds. 

 Philadelphia, April 13, 1917. 

 I am deeply grieved to learn of the 

 death of my old friend, Billy Lang- 

 bridge. I have known him for more 

 than thirty years, and there is no one 

 in the seed trade who was more wel- 

 come in my office than he; and I 

 have always looked forward with a 

 great deal of pleasure to his calls, 

 lour or five times a year. He always 

 was well posted on matters pertain- 

 ing to the seed trade, and there was 

 one good thing about him — he was 

 always willing to impart knowledge to 

 others. He certainly will be greatly 

 missed all over this country among 

 the seedsmen. 



E. C. DUNGAN. 



W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 

 Philadelphia, April 13, 1917. 



Wm. C. Langbridge, who died in a 

 New York hospital after a long illness. 

 on Thursday, the 12th instant, had 

 been a very close friend of mine for 

 more than a quarter of a century, and 

 not only did I see a great deal of him 

 during the seed selling season, but we 

 also traveled many miles together in- 

 specting crops and visiting growers, 

 therefore, I feel as if I knew him very 

 well indeed. 



Bill Langbridge. as we all loved to 

 call him. I considered one of the best, 

 if not the best salesman the seed 

 trade has ever had, and I dare say 

 this statement may be backed up fully 

 by the number and size of the orders 

 he annually turned in to Jerome B. 

 Rice Seed Company. One could al- 

 ways depend on any statements he 

 made, and as to supplies and proper 

 values of seed he was invariably well 

 posted, especially among the line of 

 canners' peas. 



Bill, during his travels around Phila- 

 delphia, almost invariably arranged to 

 give me a week-end at my home, and 

 in this way widened the number of his 

 friends and acquaintances, and I know 

 that his friends in my section of Bucks 

 County are going to miss his genial 

 calls and the delightful stories he 

 would from time to time tell of his ex- 

 periences on the ro^d. 



To me it seems that the loss of Bill 

 Langbridge makes a void in the seed 

 trade that will not be filled. 



Howard M. Eabl. 



thirty years ago, to the present he 

 kept on constantly endearing himself 

 to all of us. A tried, true-trusted and 

 genial friend was William C. Lang- 

 bridge. A man among men. 



George C. Watson. 



William C. Langbridge was a real 

 man. He sized up to the highest stan- 

 dards in every walk of lite. During 

 the thirty years I have known and as- 

 sociated with him I have had con- 

 stantly increasing reasons to admire 

 his high qualities both in mind and 

 heart. Staunch and true, honest and 

 steadfast was the flag he always kept 

 flowing to the breeze. He was a real 

 seedsman, an honor and a credit to a 

 profession, the highest exponent of 

 which consider high aims and honor- 

 able dealing far above the mere com- 

 mercial spirit of making money. 

 From the day of his Shaker Hat, 



MISSOURI COLLEGE OF AGRICUL- 

 TURE STUDENTS TO WORK 



ON FARMS. 

 Owing to the shortage of food and 

 the scarcity of labor, students in the 

 Missouri College of Agriculture will 

 be excused to work on farms. The 

 faculty of the college took this action 

 April 10. The faculty considers that 

 actual labor in food production is as 

 important and as much a patriotic 

 duty as enlistment for military serv- 

 ice. Only those students who have 

 definite employment in view will be 

 excused on the same basis as those 

 who enlist in the army. The grade for 

 work done in the college up to the 

 time the student is excused will be the 

 basis for awarding credit during his 

 enlistment in food production. 



Students will be placed on their 

 honor that they will work on farms. 

 In addition they will be required to 

 submit a statement from employers 

 that they are to be engaged in farm 

 work. They must work at least until 

 .July 1 and submit a report from their 

 employers to obtain credit for Uni- 

 versity work. The College of Agri- 

 culture recommended to the Univer- 

 sity faculty that students in other di- 

 visions be excused for farm work on 

 the same basis as those excused for 

 military service. 



It is expected that practically every 

 man in the College will take advan- 

 tage of this opportunity to enlist in 

 food production. Not more than 5 per 

 cent of 500 students, who attended a 

 mass meeting following the faculty's 

 action, failed to stand when the body 

 was asked if they desired to leave 

 school and work on farms. 



The women students enrolled in 

 agriculture are considering what they 

 can do to relieve the food shortage. 

 A number of plans have been sug- 

 gested and the women will meet to 

 discuss them. 



PROPER DEPTH TO PLANT BULBS. 



Editor HORTICTTLTTJRE: 



Dear Sir: A suliscriher wishes to learn 

 the proper depth to plant bulbs in border 

 of shrubbery and roek gardens. A. claims 

 thev ought to be set 8 inches in order to 

 get" good, strong stems and large blooms. 

 B, claims 4 inches is sufBcient. especially 

 as the land is late and cold. Kindly inform 

 me through HORTICULTCKE who is 

 nearest to be right. 



Yours verv truly, 



T. J. M. 



Our correspondent failed to specify 

 what particular class of bulbs he had 

 reference to, so our answer must be 

 generalized accordingly. The depth 

 recommended for various bulbs by 

 well-informed planters is as follows: 



Crocuses, Snowdrops and Squills, 

 3 inches. 



Tulips and Narcissi, 5 Inches. 



Hvacinths, 6 inches. 



Lilies— tigrinum. superbum, tenui- 

 folium, etc., 5 inches. 



Lilies— speciosum, regale, candidum, 

 6 inches. 



Lilies— auratum, Sargenta?, 8 in- 

 ches. 



Gladioli — 6 to 8 inches. 



ObiUiary 



D. Mclntyre 

 Daniel Mclntyre of the Mclntyre 

 Floral Co., Nashville, Tenn., died on 

 April 8. He was 43 years of age, born 

 in Nashville, the son of a prosperous 

 florist and had built up a successful 

 business. He is survived by a widow 

 and four children. 



A. L. Glaser 



A. L. Glaser, well known and highly 

 respected, first as a gardener and since 

 1901 as a florist in Dubuque, la., died 

 on April 5, aged 67 years. He wm a 

 native of Stein, Germany and came to 

 the United States when in his twenti- 

 eth year. He learned the florist busi- 

 ness in the employ of Peter Lambert 

 in Des Moines, la. He leaves a widow, 

 five sons and two daughters. 



Mrs. Frank H. Wilson. 

 Mrs. Gertrude C. Wilson, wife of 

 Frank H. Wilson, instructor in flori- 

 culture at the Independent Agricultur- 

 al School, Danvers, Mass., died at her 

 home, 53 Park St., April 13th, aged 

 29 years. Mrs. Wilson was formerly 

 a school teacher in Nahant. She is 

 survived by her husband and one son. 



W. D. Burt, of Dalton, N. Y., is to 

 erect two buildings, each five stories, 

 to accommodate his seed business. One 

 week recently he sent thirty-five tons 

 of seed by express. 



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