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HORTICULTUKE 



July 12, 1919 



CINCINNATI. 



Business is fairly active as far as 

 summer business is concerned. The 

 supply has shortened very consider- 

 ably but still at the time of this writ- 

 ing there is enough to go around. 



Roses are fairly plentiful. The 

 white ones, however, are on the short 

 side of the market. The carnation re- 

 ceipts are much smaller than they 

 were a fortnight ago. Easter Lilies 

 and Rubrum Lilies may be had. They 

 are of good quality and are proving 

 good property. Gladioli are selling 

 well. Hardy Hydrangea meets with a 

 fair demand. Snapdragon may be had. 

 Other offerings are Water Lilies, 

 Feverfew, Candytuft, Coreopsis and 

 Cornflower. 



Greens of all kinds are in a good 

 supply and are selling well. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Julius Koening. City Forester, has 

 resigned and Park Commissioner Cun- 

 leff has appointed Fred Pape, former 

 assistant forester. 



The annual picnic of the St. Louis 

 Florists' Club will take place the 17th 

 day of July at Ramona Park. 



Henry Ostertag was overcome by 

 the heat at his store last week. He 

 was removed to his home. His son, 

 Charles, took care of the store. 



BULLETIN OF PEONY NEWS. 



Bulletin of Peony News No. 8 con- 

 tains an important and interesting ar- 

 ticle by A. P. Saunders on "How to 

 Hybridize Peonies." Professor Saun- 

 ders writes largely from personal ex- 

 perience and what he says should be 

 of no little value to all interested in 

 this kind of work.. This bulletin con- 

 tains the paper by Wm. A. Peterson 

 of Chicago, already reproduced in 

 Horticulture on the subject "How 

 to make the most money out of an 

 acre of Peonies." Various other notes 

 and comments will be read with inter- 

 est by peony growers. 



Gerard Schimmel, a graduate of a 

 horticultural school in Holland, who 

 came to Connecticut to work in the 

 Pierson greenhouses in Cromwell and 

 then for a time was one of the night 

 supervisors in the Connecticut Hos- 

 pital for Insane, is to go to California 

 to engage in business. 



The following is from "The Whirl- 

 ing Hub" column of the Boston Her- 

 ald: 



Give Herman H. Bartsch of Wav- 

 erley, credit for being a green house 

 man of the old school. He believes in 

 the up-keep of his grounds on the out- 

 side of his greenhouse as well as the 

 inside of the houses themselves and 

 knows well how to make two blades 

 of grass grow where one grew before. 

 Passengers getting off the cars, at the 

 end of the Waverley line, generally 

 stop and look over "Herman's" place. 

 They can't help it. 



NEW ENGLAND. 



John J. Williams, florist, 1224 Cam- 

 bridge street, Cambridge, Mass., has 

 filed a petition in bankruptcy. His 

 liabilities are given as $3,774, and his 

 assets as $95. 



John Moscarillo of Torrington, Conn. 

 is to build an addition 160 feet long to 

 his present range of greenhouses. 



NEW JERSEY FLORIST MARRIED. 



Mr. Chris Sanderson, the hustling 

 young florist of Pine Ridge Green- 

 houses, and Miss Mary Powell, of Wal- 

 lace avenue, were made man and wife 

 at the new parsonage on West Centre 

 street. Mr. and Mrs. Sanderson went 

 to Atlantic City on their honeymoon 

 and on their return will reside with 

 Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Heritage, on 

 Glover street (where Chris has made 

 his home since coming to Woodbury) 

 until their new home is built near his 

 greenhouses. — Woodbury, N. J. Times. 



OBITUARY. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Pennock Bros, were recipients of 

 quite a windfall of orders for memo- 

 rial services of Dr. Anna Howard 

 Shaw at Moylan, Pa. Every state in 

 the Union was represented and prom- 

 inent men and women in all walks of 

 life contributed. It took three big de- 

 livery automobiles to convey the trib- 

 utes. We understand that only two 

 pieces came from any other florist 

 outside of the Pennock Bros, who en- 

 joyed a practical monopoly on this im- 

 portant occasion. 



Recent visitors have been H. Reeve 

 Darling, Darling Flower Shop, Los 

 Angeles, Cal.; Mr. Miller, Miller Floral 

 Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. 



George Anderson still remains seri- 

 ously ill, much to the regret of his 

 many friends. 



Thomas J. Wolfe. 



Thomas J. Wolfe, one of the best 

 known florists of Texas and former 

 president of the Texas State Florists' 

 Association, died last week after an 

 illness of a year. 



Tom Wolfe has been a resident of 

 Waco for the last 27 years. He was 

 born in Birmingham, England, Sep- 

 tember 19, 1875, and was reared in 

 India, where he attended school as a 

 boy. He came to Waco with his par- 

 ents from Bombay, in 1892, and had 

 lived here since that time. 



He took active charge of the floral 

 house established by his father, James 

 Wolfe, at the latter's death, some 

 years ago, and the firm was incorpor- 

 ated and known as Wolfe, the Florist, 

 which became a household designation 

 in Texas. 



The organization of the Texas State 

 Association of Florists was due largely 

 to the efforts and progressive tenden- 

 cies of Tom Wolfe. In recognition of 

 his worth, he was made a lifetime 

 member and a director of the Society 

 of American Florists. He was also a 

 director in the Florist Telegraph De- 

 livery. 



When war was declared on Spain 

 by the United States, in 1898, Tom 

 Wolfe enlisted as a member of the 

 Second Texas, and he was given the 

 rank of quartermaster sergeant. He 

 served until the war ended. 



Mr. Wolfe had been a Mason for 

 many years. He belonged to Hella 

 Temple Shrine, Dallas; was a Knight 

 Templar and past exalted ruler of 

 Waco lodge of Elks. Mr. Wolfe was 

 also a Knight of Pythias, a Rotarian 

 and a member of the Lion's club of 

 Waco. 



Carl Swenson. 



Carl Swenson, aged 66 years, is 

 dead at Winsted, Conn., after a linger- 

 ing illness. Mr. Swenson, who was 

 born in Sweden, came to this country 

 when 19 years of age, and has been a 

 resident of Winsted for the past 

 twenty-five years. He was one of the 

 best known florists in the state. He 

 is survived by one daughter, Mrs. 

 Walter Fiston; two sisters, Mrs. Pet- 

 erson of Memphis, Tenn., Mrs. Fea- 

 holm of Houston, Tex., and one 

 brother, Jacob Swenson of Chicago. 



