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H K TI C U L T U E E 



May 19, 1917 



Obituary 



Tortus Graffstrom. 



After a sickness of but three days 

 with pneumonia, "Tot" Graffstrom, a 

 well-known gardener of Hartford, 

 Conn., died on Wednesday, May 2, 

 while being carried to the hospital. 



Dr. Loyld 



We regret to announce the death of 

 Dr. Loyld of the Shackelford Nursery 

 Co., St. Louis, after a short illness. 

 Dr. Loyld was a grower of out door 

 bulbous stock and other flowers for 

 the St. Louis market. 



Jean Stafford. 



.Jean, the five-year-old and only 

 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Staf- 

 ford, Pittsburgh, Pa., died on Tuesday 

 of last week, of heart failure, super- 

 induced by an attack of diphtheria, 

 last ^larch, from which she had seem- 

 ingl.y recovered. 



Mrs. F. F. Benthey. 

 F. F. Benthey, 2323 Cullom Avenue, 

 Chicago, connected with the wholesale 

 flower market for many years, has the 

 sincere sympathy of the trade in the 

 loss of his wife. Mrs. Benthey passed 

 away May 9th as the result of a recent 

 operation. Besides her husband she 

 leaves several sons and daughters. 



William McRae Thompson. 



W. Men. Thompson died at the Uni- 

 versity Hospital, Philadelphia, Thurs- 

 day, May 10th. He was an employe 

 of the Pennock-Meehan Co. for many 

 years and previous to that was in the 

 retail florist business on his own ac- 

 count at 13th and Walnut streets. He 

 had been a sufferer from spinal trouble 

 for a number of years but remained on 

 duty up to within a week of his death. 

 He was a faithful, upright, honest man 

 in all his relations and was held in 

 the highest respect by all who knew 

 him. 



Charles G. Weeber. 



Charles G. Weeber, formerly a part- 

 ner with the late A. L. Don in the 

 seed firm of Weeber & Don on Cham- 

 bers street, New York City, died sud- 

 denly at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 early on the morning of May 8, heart 

 failure being the caiise. Mr. Weeber 

 was for nearly forty years actively en- 

 gaged in the seed business, he having 

 entered the employ of Fleming & 

 Davidson in 1863, being later on in 

 the employ of Henderson & Fleming, 

 Thorburn & Carson and A. D. Cowan 

 & Co. and in 1890 he Ijecame associated 

 with A. L. Don, who was also in the 

 employ of A. D. Cowan Co., as succes- 

 sors to that firm. In 1901 Mr. Weeber 

 i-etired from business life. , 



Charlie Weeber, as he was familiarly 

 known was not only a good business 

 man but genial and companionable in 

 disposition and had the universal love 

 and respect of the trade. His age was 

 74 years. 



FLORICULTURE AT IOWA STATE 

 COLLEGE. 



The work in the Department of 

 Horticulture at the Iowa State College 

 has been materially strengthened by 

 the development of a major course of 

 study in floriculture. Several new 

 courses have been added, through 

 whicli a student gets a well-founded 

 knowledge of floriculture as a profes- 

 sion, both in theory and practice. 

 During the first two years the students 

 are required to take work in the funda- 

 mental and allied sciences, including 

 chemistry, physics, botany, soils, fer- 

 tilizers and entomology. After two 

 years of basic work the students de- 

 vote the remaining two years to work 

 in floriculture, taking such other work 

 as will supplement the speciflc courses 

 in floriculture. 



The following courses in floriculture 

 are given: 



I. Greenhouse Management. The man- 

 ajrement of greenhou.ses and the cultural re- 

 rinireinents of crops under glass. 



L'. (Jreenhouse Mana,i;ement. A coutinua- 

 tiiui of the preceding: conr.se. 



3. Greenhouse Construction. Principles 

 and methods of heating, etc. 



4. Commercial Floriculture. Florists' 

 bench crops and potted plants. Estimates 

 of the initial cost and ruuninj^ expenses, 

 etc. 



;). Commercial Floriculture. A continua- 

 tion of the preceding coui'se. Marketinj? 

 cut flowers. 



(). FMoral Arrangement and Judging. 



7. Garilen Flower.s. The nursery as an 

 .■idinnct for the florist. 



s:. S)ie'-ial Problems. 



'.». Thesis. 



10. Floriculture Practice. Garden and 

 i^reenliouse work. 



II. p'loiicultnral Practice. Practical work 

 in the collejse greenhouses. 



12. Floriculture Practice. A continuation 

 of the preceding course. 



The floricultural courses outlined 

 are supplemented by courses in land- 

 scape gardening — including work in 

 plant materials, design and planting 

 plans, — market gardening ana vege- 

 table forcing, horticultural machinery, 

 diseases of horticultural plants, horti- 

 cultural entomologT, greenhouse pests 

 and plant breeding. 



Course 7 in floriculture practice is 

 given in the sophomore year and offers 

 an opportunity for the students to find 

 out by practical experience what flori- 

 culture is and whether or not they are 

 adapted for this kind of work: it pre- 

 vents misfits. In addition to these 

 practice courses, which are of an ap- 

 prentice nature, the students are re- 

 quired to have 6 months' practical ex- 

 perience in the commercial field before 

 being allowed to graduate. 



QUARANTINE ON PINES AND 

 BLACK CURRANTS. 



The Secretary of Agriculture has 

 amended the white pine blister rust 

 quarantine promulgated April 21, 1917. 

 This amendment is made effective May 

 1, 1917, and prohibits the movement of 

 white pines and black currant plants 

 from the New England States to points 

 outside of New England. This action 

 was necessitated by the considerable 

 movement now under way of possibly 

 infected white pines, and to a less ex- 

 tent, black currants, from New Eng- 

 land to states lying west and south. 

 Both of these plants are imnortant car- 

 riers of the blister rust disease, and 



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