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HORTICULTURE 



July 27, 1912 



Obituary. 



Carl Michler. 

 Carl Michler, florist, of Lexington, 

 Ky., died recently, aged 69 years. He 

 ■was born in Germany. His sons will 

 continue the business as they have 

 done since his long illness. His wife, 

 a daughter and four sons survive him. 



Magdalena R. Saling. 

 On July 11, Magdalena R. Saling, 

 wife of William Saling, rose grower, 

 75 Harrison street, Rahway, N. J., died 

 at her home after a long illness. She 

 was over 70 years of age. Besides 

 her husband she leaves a daughter, 

 one son and one brother. 



years of age and had been a florist on 

 the Bowery 35 years. 



Adolph Le Moult came to New York 

 from Germany in the early 60's. He 

 was shrewd, full of initiative and his 

 sentimental side whereby he was able 

 to fascinate the flower buyer, for oc- 

 casions either sad or gay, was well- 

 developed. All through the height of 

 his career he kept New York florally 

 on the jump, and many quaint and in- 

 teresting anecdotes are told of his 

 quick-witted and resourceful charac- 

 ter. He first sold flowers on the street 

 corners and then opened a shop in the 

 Bowery where he has continued ever 

 since. His son will continue the busi- 

 ness. 



William Mcintosh. 

 William Mcintosh, florist, 6 Percy 

 street, Charleston, S. C, was buried 

 on July 9. He was a native of Scot- 

 land and 79 years of age. He retired 

 from active business some years ago 

 and his sons assumed charge. He is 

 survived by two sons and two daugh- 

 ters. 



Thomas White. 

 Thomas White, for many years su- 

 perintendent of Riverside cemetery. 

 died at his home in Fairhaven, Mass.. 

 after a long illness. He was a native 

 of England and came to this country 

 while young. He was a member of 

 the New Bedford Horticultural Soci- 

 ety and contributed articles to several 

 of the horticultural magazines includ- 

 ing HORTICULTURE. He was also 

 a member of the Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Club. 



Oscar Kramer. 

 Oscar Kramer, lately foreman for 

 Westcott's Laurel Hill Nurseries, died 

 suddenly on the 22nd inst. The local 

 prints had sensational stories about 

 his having committed suicide on ac- 

 count of ill health. Mr. Westcott says 

 he knew nothing of any despondency 

 on the part of his employee, who had 

 but recently came to him and well 

 recommended. He had been previous- 

 ly with the Dingee, Conard Co., and 

 various other well-known concerns. 



August Dresel. 



August Dresel, senior partner in the 

 Crown Point Floral Co., Crown Point, 

 Ind., died on July 17, aged 74 years. 

 Mr. Dresel was born in Germany in 

 1838 and came to this country, locat- 

 ing in Chicago in 1865, where he con- 

 ducted greenhouses for over thirty 

 years. In 1901 he gave up these houses 

 and located in Crown Point, doing a 

 wholesale growing business. 



The florist's work was always dear 

 to him, and when paralysis overtook 

 him five weeks ago and he was 

 brought to a Chicago hospital for 

 treatment, he begged to go back and 

 sit in a wheel chair in his loved green- 

 houses. After his return he lived but 

 one week. He is survived by a wife 

 and five children. 



raised in Nahant alongside the only 

 Tom Roland? 



Visitors: Mrs. Wolf, Savannah, Ga.; 

 H. L. Holmes, Harrisburg, Pa. 



Adolph Le Moult. 

 Lonely because his wife to whoih he 

 had been married forty years, died 

 two months ago. Adolph Le Moult, 

 florist, 202 Bowery, New York, com- 

 mitted suicide on July 22, at his home 

 240 Echo place, Bronx. He was 65 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Arthur Niessen is on a brief vaca- 

 tion down East — which means Nova 

 Scotia and other cool and interesting 

 places — perhaps. 



W. J. Baker is not going to Chicago. 

 Neither would he let anyone else go. 

 The railroads are robbers and should 

 not be encouraged. 



George D. Clark of Dreer's has re- 

 turned from a sojourn of two months 

 in Europe filled with vim and informa- 

 tion and says that he "had a splendid 

 time." 



E. H. Flood goes to New York on 

 Tuesday to a meeting of the glass men. 

 J. Burton says he's got enough now 

 for two years and don't care if they 

 put glass up to $10.00 a box. 



D. T. Connor has sold another boiler. 

 One a day is his usual record. (So he 

 says.) A greenhouse. 18 x 50 feet, 

 goes with this one. The victim today 

 is Edward Le Boutillier, Paoli, Pa. 



Who suppressed the news that W. 

 Atlee Burpee got in trouble for auto 

 speeding in Boston and missed his 

 train? "Let us have everything done 

 open and above board," as Ed. Lons- 

 dale used to say. 



The steamship "Adelbert." due to 

 arrive this week, is bringing many 

 novelties to M. Rice & Co. for the S. 

 A. P. Convention at Chicago, where 

 they will be shown exclusively by that 

 enterprising firm for the first time. 



Mr. W. Helper has been added to 

 th^ ever increasing force of M. Rice 

 & "Co., and will shortly make a tour 

 of the country calling on the florists' 

 trade, who we are sure will accord 

 him a generous welcome as he will 

 come primed up with good things and 

 useful suggestions. 



We met our friend, M. Fuld, of the 

 H. F. Michell Co. near the Parker 

 House in Boston on Thursday. He 

 was full of enthusiasm — and wished to 

 know if we had noticed how Michell 

 had laid all over them at the Sweet 

 Pea Show. We will have to look this 

 up. More important than a ball game. 

 From Boston he goes West on his 

 career of conquest. 



When you meet our Dr. Lane next 

 ask him about his speech at the Far- 

 quhar banquet on the wisdom of Epi- 

 curus and the lectures in the groves 

 of Thessaly in ancient Greece — and 

 their application to the high brows of 

 modern Boston. The doctor knows 

 how to strike the high key. Galen, Es- 

 culapius and Epicurus are not more 

 familiar to him than modern Horticul- 

 ture and its prophets. Wasn't he 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 



Otto Bauer is spending the week- 

 end with his wife and family at At- 

 lantic City. 



The Florists' Exchange has removed 

 from its old quarters at 1214 H street, 

 N. W.. to 1213 Eye street. N. W. 



A. F. Faulkner, known throughout 

 the country as a correspondent for 

 the florists' papers and as a carnation 

 grower, has given up the latter work 

 to again tackle the newspaper game. 

 For the past few years Mr. Faulkner 

 has been with Alexander B. Garden of 

 Anacostia. 



Will Fisher, with the Washington 

 Florists' Company, has gone to At- 

 lantic City where he will spend the 

 month of August. Miss Elinor Car- 

 penter, of the same firm, leaves the 

 first of the month for Wildwood, N. J., 

 and shortly afterward J. Harper Heth- 

 erington goes to Atlantic City. 



Fred Kramer, while trying to train 

 a snake, an eight-foot python, for the 

 snake exhibition to be given by the 

 Florists' Club of Washington at the 

 annual outing, narrowly escaped what 

 might have been a serious accident. 

 Everything was going on all right un- 

 til a barking pup tried to get in the 

 center of Ed. Schmid's bird store 

 where the practicing was taking place, 

 and snapped at the big snake. The 

 reptile whizzed straight out for the 

 pup but his aim was spoilt by Mr. 

 Kramer who grabbed him by the neck. 

 Fred did not hold the snake's head far 

 enough away from his own body with 

 the result that when they pried the 

 snake's jaws apart one of its teeth re- 

 mained in the fleshy part of the flor- 

 ist's leg. Nothing daunted, Mr. Kram- 

 er says the real exhibition will take 

 place per schedule. 



PROVIDENCE NOTES. 



James Hockey of Pawtucket is on 

 the sick list. 



T. O'Connor and family are at Narra- 

 gansett Pier for the summer. 



H. Howard Pepper of this city is 

 spending the summer at Buttonwoods. 



N. D. Pierce, agent of the Norwood 

 Floral Company, who has been con- 

 fined to his bed, is able to be out 

 again, although he is far from being a 

 well man. 



The Smith Floral Company, 408 

 North Broadway, East Providence, has 

 accepted plans for a new house, 35 x 

 100, which will be added to their 

 range within a short time. The con- 

 tract has been let to Lord & Burn- 

 ham Co. 



McNair has a novel window display 

 at the corner store which has attracted 

 considerable attention the past week. 

 The setting shows a picturesque scene 

 of evergreens surrounding a pond in 

 which a number of ducklings are swim- 

 ming about and roaming through the 

 spruce and evergreen shrubs. 



Asters made their first appearance 

 in the local market last week, a few 

 of the growers just starting to har- 

 vest this crop of blooms. As may be 

 expected the quality is poor, but they 

 are bringing ?2.00 per 100, which is 

 considered a good figure. There are 

 a few roses in the market. S. A. G. 



