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HORTICULTURE 



January 11, 1919 



ply to be non-considered? And how- 

 does this promulgation agree with the 

 U. S. War Trade Board's pronounced 

 desire to aid and support the indus- 

 tries of our allies, and in first line 

 those of countries devastated by the 

 enemy, like poor Belgium? Surely, if 

 nothing be done otherwise, an excep- 

 tion should be made in favor of this 

 country, the horticultural .products 

 of which have in past years been 

 largely and advantageously handled 

 by our American trade. 



Please take prompt action with the 

 Secretary of Agriculture in person, 

 not with the "Federal Horticultural 

 Board," by personal request for his 

 reconsideration, and oblige, 



Yours very respectfully, 



Signature 



Obituary 



RESTRICTIONS REMOVED. 

 Licenses will hereafter be freely is- 

 sued for the importation into the 

 United States of plants, trees, shrubs 

 and vines, including bulbs, according 

 to an announcement of the War Trade 

 Board. The Board has removed these 

 items from the list of import restric- 

 tions and has so far revised its regu- 

 lations regarding exports as to permit 

 the free transportation of flower seeds 

 (except of oil-bearing plants) and 

 shrubs, destined for European Hol- 

 land, Denmark, Sweden or Norway, 

 which applications should be accom- 

 panied by such supplemental sheets 

 as may be necessary, and shipments 

 may be addressed directly to the con- 

 signee named in the export license or 

 to order, provided they are not shipped 

 for account of a firm on the enemy 

 trading list, and also that all the 

 rules, regulations and directions of 

 every nature whatsoever, issued by 

 the Priorities Division of the War In- 

 dustries Board, will be lifted, and all 

 pledges heretofore made on the sug- 

 gestion or request of that Division 

 will be revoked. This information has 

 just been made public in an official 

 announcement by the War Industries 

 Board accompanying an order issued 

 by Judge Edwin B. Parker, Priorities 

 Commissioner. 



A. W. Vose Dead. 

 Alonzo W. Vose of Attleboro, Mass., 

 died at his home in Cumberland Hill. 

 Dec. 23. Mr. Vose was for over 50 

 years connected with the florist busi- 

 ness. 



Kingston, R. I.— The R. I. State 

 College states that during 1918 over 

 4,856 garden reports were sent in 

 from garden clubs representing an 

 average value of $20.02, and a cost, 

 excluding labor, of $6.18 and that 

 garden and canning club members to- 

 gether produced and conserved over 

 $130,000 worth of food products. 



Van Earl Leavitt. 



Van Earl Leavitt died suddenly 

 Monday morning, Dec. 23, 1918, at his 

 home in New Brunswick, N. J., after 

 a few days' illness with influenza com- 

 plicated with pneumonia. 



Mr. Leavitt was born in Laconia, N. 

 H., September 19, 1891, and had been 

 employed as superintendent of a large 

 horticultural estate in Southampton, 

 L. I. In the fall of 1914 he was ap- 

 pointed to the position of horticulturist 

 at the New York State School of Ag- 

 riculture at Morrisville, N. Y., which 

 position he held until July 1, 1918, 

 when he resigned to accept the posi- 

 tion of extension specialist in fruit 

 growing at the New Jersey State Col- 

 lege of Agriculture at New Brunswick. 



Captain George E. Kirk. 



Capt. George E. Kirk, of the regular 

 army, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward 

 Kirk of Bar Harbor, Me., died of 

 pnuemonia at a base hospital located 

 on the edge of the Argonne Forest, 

 France, on Nov. 20. 



Capt. Kirk entered the officers' 

 training camp at Fort Niagara and 

 was graduated in the autumn of 1917 

 with the rank of second lieutenant. 

 He was attached to a machine gun 

 company and received further train- 

 ing at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He 

 was at home the early part of last 

 winter for a short visit and sailed 

 shortly after for overseas. During the 

 severe fighting of last summer and 

 the early fall he took a very heroic 

 and active part, having participated 

 in the battles of Chateau-Thierry and 

 St. Mihiel and other desperate fight- 

 ing and for gallantry in action was 

 promoted to first lieutenant and later 

 to captain. He was a member of the 

 4th Machine Gun Battalion, Co. A. 

 He was without question one of the 

 most highly respected and deeply 

 loved young men in Bar Harbor and 

 was 24 years old. 



survived by his wife and a daughter, 

 Mrs. J. E. Parker. 



He was one of the twenty-one char- 

 ter members of the Indiana Horti- 

 cultural Society in 1880, and was also 

 one of the earliest members of the 

 American Association of Nurserymen. 



In 1842 he started in business with 

 his brother, J. C, growiug orchard 

 trees in a small way, which soon de- 

 veloped into an extensive nursery 

 business. 



The firm of E. Y. & J. C. Teas sup- 

 plied the eastern trade with many va- 

 rieties of fruit trees of western and 

 southern origin and in 1844 the broth- 

 ers commenced the growing of catalpa 

 trees from seed. They placed the 

 first seedlings of Catalpa speciosa 

 sold commercially in this country. The 

 hardiness of this variety has brought 

 it into wide acceptance and millions of 

 it have been used. He was the first 

 disseminator of Garber's Hybrid pear 

 and of the Lucretia dewberry. He also 

 produced the variety of sugar cane 

 known as Early Amber from seed se- 

 lected in Paris, in 1859-60, and origi- 

 nated the President Wilder currant. 



E. Y. Teas. 



E. Y. Teas, a veteran horticulturist 



and nurseryman passed away Dec. 15 



at Eaton, O., after a brief illness. He 



was in his eighty-ninth year and is 



William H. Coldwell. 



William H. Coldwell, president of 

 the Coldwell Lawn Mower Co., died in 

 his home on Montgomery street on 

 Christmas eve, following a paralytic 

 stroke, sustained shortly before 3 

 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. 

 Coldwell was in the office of the lawn 

 mower company during the morning 

 apparently in his accustomed good 

 health, and went home at the lunch 

 hour. He is survived by his wife, 

 a sister of A. S. Peirce, of the Cold- 

 well-Wilcox Co.; by a son, Kenneth P. 

 Coldwell, a soldier in service in 

 France; and by a daughter, Mrs. Van 

 Winkle, of Newark, N. J.; also, by a 

 brother, Harry Thomas Coldwell. who 

 represents the Lawn Mower Co. at its 

 Chicago branch. 



William H. Coldwell was a son of 

 the late Thomas Coldwell, and was 

 born on May 6, 1863, in Dutchess 

 county, where the parents resided 

 previous to locating the lawn mower 

 plant in this city. His education was 

 acquired in the public schools of New- 

 liurgh, and his entire life with the ex- 

 ception of his early years were passed 

 here. He was one of the most promi- 

 nent figures of the social and indus- 

 trial activities of the city. 



In addition to being a talented en- 

 tertainer and genial companion, he 

 was possessed of much inventive 

 genius, and many of the improvements 

 and advances that have made the New- 



