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HORTICULTURE 



January 4, 1919 



wise not injured. In lirst-class shape 

 in July. 



Thuja occidentals, Linn. (Arbor- 

 vitae) and varieties, fully exposed; In 

 March not injured; in July, growing 

 fine. 



Thuja plicata, Don. (Canoe Cedar), 

 exposed or partly sheltered — In March 

 not injured. Growing fine in July. 



Tsuga canadensis, Carr. (Hemlock), 

 badly burned unless sheltered, March 

 note (always burns more or less in 

 open). In July starting fine. 



Tsuga carolinensis, Engelm. (Caro- 

 lina Hemlock) — In March, badly 

 burned in the sun, all right where 

 sheltered; sheltered ones starting well 

 in July. 



Tsuga diversifolia, Mast., not in- 

 jured except one shrub slightly so, al- 

 though fully exposed. March note. 

 July note, growing well. 



Tsuga Sieboldii, Carr., well shel- 

 tered not injured, exposed badly 

 burned, March note. Sheltered one 

 starting well in July. 



Torreya nucifera, S. & Z., partly 

 sheltered, badly burned, tips that grew 

 last season killed, March note. In 

 bad shape and not starting in July. 



Torreya taxifolia, Arn. (Fetid Yew), 

 well sheltered and surrounded by 

 other evergreens, is 10 feet tall and 

 probably 15 years old. In July noted 

 as apparently not injured and growing 

 well. 



In December it is to be noted that 

 surprising little injury can be noted, 

 and by the removal of a few trees of 

 Firs (Abies cephalonica, A. cilicica), 

 of part of the Incense Cedars (Libo- 

 cedrus decurrens) and the Big Tree 

 (Sequoia gigantea), with the careful 

 pruning of the dead twigs in the Yews, 

 little trace of the severe cold of last 

 winter can be seen. 



While the leaves about all dropped 

 off the European Silver Fir (Abies 

 pectinata), the new foliage is in fine 

 condition, and several others have 

 come back in the same way, and if we 

 have a mild winter this year it is to 

 be hoped little permanent injury will 

 be done 



ation corps and has been for some 

 time at Washington where he was 

 commissioned a lieutenant. Blaine 

 Wilcox, a brother has just been hon- 

 orably discharged from Camp Pike 

 and will resume his work at the green- 

 house plant. 



CHICAGO 



The extra work at Archie Spencer's 

 is being taken care of by Ed. Hans- 

 wirth, whose many years in the retail 

 business in Chicago in the past, won 

 him many friends. 



Frank Oechslin is recovering from 

 a severe attack of the influenza, which 

 kept him from the greenhouses dur- 

 ing the holiday sales. 



Among the soldiers in the trade re- 

 turning to their homes is Rory F. 

 Wilcox of J. F. Wilcox & Sons, of 

 Council Bluffs, la. He was in the avi- 



Obituary 



Arnoldus DeBree, 

 Arnoldus De Bree, seventy-five, a 

 florist of Scotch Plains, N. J., died 

 Dec. 23 at Muhlenberg Hospital, Plain- 

 field. 



George L. Waterbury. 

 George L. Waterbury, for many 

 years a prominent florist in Stamford, 

 Conn., died on December 16, after a 

 long illness. 



Mrs. Augusta C. Mather 

 Mrs. Augusta C. Mather, florist of 

 Rockland, Me., died at her home Dec. 

 12th, after a long illness, aged seventy- 

 nine years. Mrs. Mather established 

 the greenhouse range at Pleasant and 

 Purchase streets in 1892, and built up 

 a large business there. The business 

 will be continued by her husband and 

 son. 



George J. Allen 



George J. Allen, aged 36, son of J. K. 

 Allen, the veteran wholesaler, died 

 suddenly at his residence on Monday, 

 Dec. 30. 



He has been in the retail business 

 for the past 10 years, more recently 

 at 168 Street and Broadway. Mr. 

 Allen is survived by a wife and young 

 daughter. 



Internment was in Woodlawn Cem- 

 etery, Thursday, January 2. 



Andrew Masson 

 Andrew Masson, superintendent of 

 the Mrs. Louis Frothingham estate. 

 North Easton. Mass., passed away on 

 December 17th, a victim of the influ- 

 enza epidemic. Mr. Masson was born 

 in Scotland, but came to this country 

 at an early age. After working on 

 various estates, he came to North 

 Easton seven years ago, where he laid 

 out the Frothingham estate. His 

 death is a distinct loss to horticulture. 

 Mr. Masson leaves a widow and a 

 daughter, also a brother and a sister. 

 We was a member of the National 

 Association of Gardeners, also the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Boston. There were many floral 

 tributes. 



Mrs. Adam Schillo 



Mrs. Adam Schillo passed away 

 Dec. 28th, at her home 1722 Mohawk 

 St., Chicago. She was the widow of 

 the late Adam Schillo, a pioneer lum- 

 berman, whose death occurred nine- 

 teen years ago, and whose name is 

 still borne by the Adam Schillo Lum- 

 ber Co. Greenhouse material is one 

 of the important parts of the busi- 

 ness and through it the father and 

 sons have been closely connected with 

 the growers of flowers, plants and 

 vegetables in and about Chicago. Mrs. 

 Schillo has been a resident of this city 

 for sixty years and was eighty-one 

 years old at the time of her death. 



She leaves four children, eleven 

 grandchildren and eight great grand- 

 children. The funeral was Tuesday, 

 Dec. 31, from the home and interment 

 was at St. Barnabas. 



Wilbur A. Fisk 

 Wilbur A. Fisk, president of the 

 seed firm of W. E. Barrett & Co., seeds- 

 men, Providence, R. I., died in that 

 city Dec. 16th, at the age of seventy- 

 six. Mr. Barrett suffered a stroke of 

 paralysis eight years ago, and had 

 been an invalid for the last four years. 

 Mr. Barrett was born in Bethel, Vt, 

 and entered the employ of W. E. Bar- 

 rett in 1876. In 1878, he was admitted 

 to the firm, and when the business 

 was incorporated in 1898, he was made 

 president. He was a man of genial, 

 whole-souled disposition, who took a 

 personal interest in everything per- 

 taining to agriculture, and the growth 

 and prosperity of his firm was largely 

 due to his management. He was a 

 member of the Rhode Island Horticul- 

 tural Society, also the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Rhode Island. He is 

 survived by his wife and one daughter. 



BOSTON. 



Wm. J. Stewart, editor of Horticul- 

 ture has been quite ill with a severe 

 carbuncle on his head and is now in 

 a private hospital at 845 Beacon 

 street, Boston. 



Acting secretary, F. A. Wilson an- 

 nounces that at the meeting of the 

 Horticultural Club of Boston on 

 Wednesday, January 8, Prof. Liberty 

 H. Bailey of Cornell University and 

 Prof. John G. Jack of Arnold Arbor- 

 etum will be guests of the Club. 



The annual winter meeting of the 

 Boston Market Gardeners' Association 

 was held in Arlington, Saturday, Dec. 

 28. About 100 market gardeners at- 

 tended, and part of the time was spent 

 in visiting the farms in that town. In. 

 Associates Hall a dinner was served, 

 and following it there was a discus- 

 sion, with "Will I Raise My Boy to 

 Be a Market Gardener?" as the topic. 



