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HOETICULTUBE 



May 5, 1917 



Obituary 



Mrs. Robert Potter. 

 Mary Jane Potter, wife of Robert 

 Potter, a wholesale florist, died at her 

 home. West Fitty-fi£th street, New 

 York City, on April 26. 



Fred. Ponting. 

 Fred. Ponting, a well-known plant 

 grower of Cleveland, Ohio, making 

 specialty of geraniums, died on April 

 18, aged 53 years. He was a member 

 of the Cleveland Florists' Club. A 

 widow, four sons and one daughter 

 survive him. 



Augustus W. Boerner. 

 Augustus W. Boerner, an old-time 

 retail florist located for many years 

 at Broad and Fourth streets, Phila- 

 delphia, died on April 29th, aged 

 about 80 years. He worked for Pen- 

 nock Bros, in the seventies and after 

 retiring from business some years ago 

 lived at the Masonic Home at Eliza- 

 bethtown, N. J. Interment was at 

 Fernwood Cemetery, Delaware, Co., 

 Pa., May 3rd. 



John W. Fink. 

 John W. Fink of Chicago passed 

 away suddenly in New York City, 

 Thursday, April 26, where he had been 

 spending a few days. A telegram was 

 received by his brother Michael, who 

 immediately left for New York and re- 

 turned to Chicago with the body on 

 Tuesday. John W. Fink was born in 

 Pullman, 111., Jan. 6, 1886, and spent 

 all of his short life in Chicago and vi- 

 cinity. He assisted his father, the 

 late Joseph Fink, in the growing of 

 plants and cut flowers, and at his 

 death, eight years ago, succeeded to 

 the business, at 2632 Herndon street, 

 where he earned for himself the repu- 

 tation of an excellent grower. He is 

 survived by his widow, three small 

 children, a mother, two brothers and 

 two sisters. The funeral was held on 

 Wednesday and interment was at St. 

 Adalbert's cemetery. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Dover, Del. — The greenhouses of 

 William Shaeffer were purchased by 

 James H. Hughes at public auction. 



Westerly, R. I. — Mark H. Cassidy of 

 Providence has been engaged to super- 

 vise the school gardens of Westerly 

 this year. 



So. Norwalk, Conn.— The Crofut & 

 Knight Co., hat manufacturers, have 

 purchased the Comstock Dahlia Farm 

 for the use of its employes for vegeta- 

 ble growing. 



Northampton, Macs. — The green- 

 house property of Alexander and Annie 

 Parks has been sold to George E. Mc- 

 Intyre for removal and re-erection at 

 his place in Easthampton. 



Westville, N. J. — A fire broke out on 

 April 30 near the greenhouses of Louis 

 C. Duncan, on the Almonesson road, 

 about noon, and destroyed five of the 

 greenhouses, two barns and several 

 smaller buildings, with a loss that will 

 probably reach ten thousand dollars. 

 The fire originated in the barn and a 

 high wind carried the flames to the 



greenhouses. Fire departments were 

 summoned from South Westville and 

 Gloucester City. Firemen saved the 

 large dwelling. 



Providence, R. I. — The Providence 

 Housewives League is to have a model 

 garden, to be used for demonstrating 

 and instructing women in gardening. 

 It will be about 25 x 50 feet and will 

 be laid out in the most approved way 

 to afford rotation of crops. Mrs. Har- 

 old C. Whitman will have charge of 

 the garden, and will be there two morn 

 ings a week to give instruction and 

 suggestions as to fertilizing, planting, 

 and caring tor crops. 



Springfield, Mass. — Charles Adams, 

 of the J. VV. Adams Nursery Company, 

 has been appointed a member of the 

 Park Commission to take the place of 

 Dr. Andrew J. Flanagan, resigned. Mr. 

 Adams is treasurer of the J. W. Adams 

 Nursery Company and a son of John 

 W. Adams, who founded the company. 

 Owing to his practical experience in 

 the nursery business he is regarded as 

 likely to be a valuable member of the 

 Park Board and his aptitude in this ca- 

 pacity is shown by the work that he 

 did in beautifying the North End 

 Green, thus showing what the tract 

 hitherto uncared for, was capable of 

 from an artistic point of view. 



BEGONIA LUCERNA. 



This is said to be a hybrid and one 

 of the finest of the fibrous rooted sec- 

 tion, having exceptional merit as a 

 winter bloomer of great beauty and 



freedom. The flowers are very large 

 and appear in long pendulous clusters, 

 said by Bailey's Cyclopedia to be often 

 a foot in diameter. Our photograph 

 came from A. L. Miller. Begonia Lu- 

 cerna was introduced in 1903. 



Visitors' Register 



Rochester, N. Y. — Robert Shoch, 

 Phila., Pa.; Ed. K. Sithens of Bowen 

 Dungan Co., N. Y. 



Pittsburgh— George C. Singer, repr. 

 the Botanical Decorating Co., Chicago; 

 Julius Dilloff, New York. 



Washington, D. C. — H. Cheeseman, 

 repr. R. M. Ward & Co., New York; 

 Mrs. Harry T. Miller, Alliance, Ohio; 

 Joseph J. Goudy, repr. H. A. Dreer, 

 Phila. 



Boston — Theodore Wirth, .Minneapo- 

 lis, Minn.; A. E. Thatcher, Bar Harbor, 

 Me.; J. Urquhart, Newport, R. I.; Wal- 

 ter Gott, repr. Sander & Sons, St. Al- 

 bans, England ; A. C. Godward, Minne- 

 apolis, Minn. 



Cincinnati — Wm. Rodgers, Dayton, 

 O.; Mr. and Mrs. M. Weber, Brook- 

 ville. Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. N. Kiger, 

 Marietta, O.; A. Jacobs, repr. Floral 

 Decorating and Importing Co., New 

 York; Sam. Seligman, New York. 



Philadelphia — George W. Hess, supt. 

 Botanic Gardens, Washington, D. C, 

 accompanied by U. S. Senator Brous- 

 sard of Louisiana, a distinguished 

 farmer of that state, now resident in 

 the Federal Capital; Mr. and Mrs. Al- 

 bert M. Herr, Lancaster, Pa. 



Chicago — W. L. Smart, repr. Knight 

 & Struck Co., N. Y.; W. J. Pilcher, 

 Kirkwood, Mo; Roy Kemble, Oska- 

 loosa, la.; W. T. Johnson, Momence, 

 111.; Mr. and Mrs. Hennon, Fort Dodge, 

 Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Rogers, 

 Woodstock, 111.; Walter Mott, repr. 

 Hammond's Paint and Slug Shot 

 Works, Beacon, N. Y.; John Nylof and 

 C. H. Jensen, with Swanson's, Inc., 

 Minneapolis, Minn.; Sam Seligman, 

 New York; Julius DillofT, New York; 

 H. Perstein. Milwaukee. Wis.; A. Hart- 

 nett. Grand Rapids, Mich. 



PERSONAL. 



Miss Elsie Alvilda Bistrup, of Wal- 

 tham, and Charles Hartley Walker, 

 fiorist. of Ware. Mass., were married 

 at the bride's home. Saturday after- 

 noon, April 21. 



Frank Adelberger, of Wayne, Dela- 

 ware Co., Pa., is at the Presbyterian 

 Hospital, Philadelphia. He went under 

 the Xrays on the 1st inst. and there 

 will probably be a surgical operation 

 for stomach trouble in the near future. 

 Mr. Adelljerger has been a sufferer for 

 about two years. 



George Pitfield, who has been in 

 charge of the herbaceous plant depart- 

 ment and proiiagating for the Eastern 

 Nurseries at Holliston, Mass., for the 

 past thirteen years, has bought a farm 

 in Greenwich, Mass., and will go into 

 market gardening. 



Maiden, Mass. — At the annual meet- 

 ing of the Park Commission. Wednes- 

 day evening, May 2, Commissioner 

 David F. Cosgrove was elected chair- 

 man and John G. Tilden re-elected sec- 

 retary. Daniel E. Connell is super- 

 intendent of parks and play grounds. 

 Mr. Cosgrove is a landscape gardener 

 and tree specialist, a valuable man for 

 the hoard. 



