April 19. 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



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Obituary 



George Carlton Worthen. 

 George Carlton Worthen of Lexing- 

 ton, widely known as an agricultural 

 expert and as an experimenter in 

 economic botany, under Professor 

 Oakes Ames in the Bussey Institute at 

 Harvard, died suddenly on Thursday 

 in North Easton. He was born in 

 Cambridge on Aug. 2, 1871, and edu- 

 cated in the public schools of Cam- 

 bridge and Lexington. The greater 

 part of his life had been devoted to 

 work in connection with the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture at Washington. 

 He had done experimental work for 

 this department in various parts of 

 the United States, and was at an In- 

 dian reservation school in Montana 

 for a long time. He also did experi- 

 mental work near the city of Wash- 

 ington and in California, Florida and 

 Maryland, and for private parties in 

 Costa Rica. Besides his mother he 

 leaves a brother and a sister. 



Henry D. Rohrer. 



Henry D. Rohrer of Lancaster, Pa., 

 died Monday morning, April 7th. 

 About four years ago Mr. Rohrer was 

 stricken with apoplexy from which he 

 never fully recovered, but during all 

 of that time until the last few weeks 

 he was able to be about and enjoyed 

 comparative health. He was in his 

 seventy-third year, and had been in 

 the florist business for a period of fifty 

 years. He was a life member of the 

 Society of American Florists and 

 missed very few of the annual meet- 

 ings of this body. He was a charter 

 member of the Lancaster County Flor- 

 ists' Association and took an active 

 part in all of its proceedings. As a 

 florist he stood in the front ranks of 

 the growers and was always willing to 

 give advice and of his knowledge to 

 others and there were few in the trade 

 more looked up to or beloved. He is 

 survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary 

 Rohrer, two sons who have been asso- 

 ciated with him in the business. Harry 

 K. and Abram K. also one daughter, 

 Ella K., wife of Joseph K. Lehman. 

 The business will probably be con- 

 tinued under the management of the 

 two sons. 



The florist Club attended the funeral 

 almost as a body and sent a beautiful 

 floral emblem. 



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The conservation of wild flowers is 

 again being agitated by the various 

 women's clubs of the city and appro- 

 priate speeches are being made now, 

 when the season is at hand, when 

 most damage is done. 



Notwithstanding the mild winter 

 spring is not particularly early here, 

 the first crocuses, daffodils and hya- 

 cinths having just made their appear- 

 ance in the sunniest parts of the 

 gardens. No shrubbery is yet in bloom 

 but here and there a forsythia is show- 

 ing color. 



By order of Gov. Lowden, Arbor Day 

 falls on April 18, or Good Friday. It 

 has long been the custom to close the 

 Chicago schools on that day, so regular 

 Arbor Day exercises were held on the 

 17th. The small trees for planting 

 have made a price record of one cent 

 in past years but is not being pushed 

 as much as usual this year. 



The local papers have been giving 

 considerable publicity to the troubles 

 of the assistant gardeners on the large 

 private estates of Lake Forest. It ap- 

 pears that they desired an increase in 

 wages, which not being consented to, 

 resulted in vacancies which were filled 

 by convalescent soldiers from Fort 

 Sheridan, which is close by. The per- 

 manent outcome is not yet decided 

 upon but several large places are in- 

 volved. 



H. B. Dorner, professor of horticul- 

 ture at the University of Illinois, 

 Urbana, is conducting a party of 

 students through the wholesale market 

 and large greenhouse plants about 

 Chicago seeing the Easter stock at its 

 best stage. They also attended the 

 meeting of the Chicago Florists' Club. 



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 Day will be dedicated to the memory 

 of the soldiers who gave up their lives 

 in the world's war. 



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