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nOETICULTUEE 



November 9, 1912 



Seed Trade 



OBITUARY. 



Accident to J. Chas. McCullough. 



We desire to correct an error that 

 has appeared in several papers; the 

 impression was given out that J. 

 Charles McCullough, seedsman, Cin- 

 cinnati, was shot while in front of his 

 office. As a matter of fact, Mr. Mc- 

 Cullough was on the Zoo-Eden Park 

 street car, returning to the office, just 

 ready to leave the car, when a re- 

 volver in some one's pocket was acci- 

 dentally discharged, the bullet going 

 through the fleshy part of the right 

 forearm, just below the elbow, not in- 

 juring any of the bones. Mr. McCul- 

 lough was immediately taken to the 

 Good Samaritan Hospital where he 

 is recovering rapidly and no serious 

 results are anticipated. 



Lily of the Valley Crop In Germany. 



Later reports confirm the state- 

 ments made some weeks ago in these 

 columns by Chas. Lenker, relative to 

 the condition of the lily of the valley 

 crop about Hamburg. The pips have 

 suffered from last year's drought and 

 although the plants looked fine after 

 a favorable summer this year, the 

 pips have not regained sufficient 

 strength to form fiower buds. Deliv- 

 eries will have to be cut down con- 

 siderably. 



Notes. 



Escondido, Cal. — The German Seeu 

 & Plant Co., of Los Angeles, has pur- 

 chased a tract of land here said to 

 contain 5,175 acres, at a reported cost 

 of $175,000. 



Lexington, Ky. — The Central Ken- 

 tucky Blue Grass Seed Co. has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $20,000. Clarence Le Bus, S. H. Hal- 

 ley, and C. H. Berryman are the in- 

 corporators. 



The seed trade will be pleased to 

 hear that Mr. Thomas W. Chisholm, 

 sales manager for the Braslan Seed 

 Growers' Company, Inc., is leaving the 

 coast for his annual visit to the trade. 

 After being in close personal touch 

 with this season's harvest and the 

 apportioning of the various acreages 

 for the coming year's crop, Mr. Chis- 

 holm is well prepared with first-hand 

 information for the trade. 



The Department of Agriculture has 

 issued instructions to consuls abroad 

 that they shall make no charge for 

 nursery stock certificates. Importing 

 houses on this side should keep this 

 fact in mind; also that there is noth- 

 ing to pay for permits here and brok- 

 ers who are charging $5.00 apiece for 

 procuring same for their customers 

 are simply "roasting" them. Direct 

 application to the Department is the 

 remedy against this hold-up. 



Herbert Greensmith has resigned 

 from his position as landscape gar- 

 dener of Cincinnati parks. W. R. 

 Munger, tree surgeon in the depart- 

 ment, will succeed him temporarily. 

 Mr. Greensmith has been in the em- 

 ploy of the board for three years. 



Gottfried Gross. 



Gottfried Gross, fiorist, Twentieth 

 and Main streets, Quincy, 111., died on 

 October 28, aged 64 years. 



David A. Graham. 

 On October 20, David A. Graham, 

 fiorist, of Joplin, Mo., died at his 

 home, aged 56 years. He was born in 

 Philadelphia and had been a resident 

 of Joplin for about eight years. He 

 leaves a wife and one daughter. 



John Ross. 



John Ross, proprietor of the Ross 

 Nursery Co., 2820 Vermont avenue, 

 Los Angeles, Cal., died on October 

 23, aged 82 years. Mr. Ross came 

 from Toronto, Ont., Canada, over thirty 

 years ago and had built up quite a 

 business. Several sons and grandsons 

 in the business survive him. 



Charles E. Schoenle. 



The sudden death of Mr. Charles E. 

 Schoenle, who passed away Tuesday 

 morning, October 29, was a great 

 shock to his many friends in the trade 

 here. He died of heart failure when 

 just about to start from his home to 

 open his retail store which he and his 

 wife conducted at Lafayette and Jeffer- 

 son avenues. Mr. Schoenle was a 

 member of the St. Louis Florists Club 

 and had just completed his three 

 years as trustee. He was a faithful 

 worker and will be greatly missed at 

 the club meetings. He leaves a wife, 

 a mother, four brothers and a sister to 

 mourn his loss. The sympathy of the 

 members of the club was expressed by 

 attending the funeral which took place 

 on Thursday, Oct. 31, from his resi- 

 dence at 3665 Cook avenue. Many 

 beautiful fioral pieces were sent. 



Mr. Schoenle was 39 years of age 

 and was connected with the fiower 

 business ever since a small boy. His 

 first employment was with Luther 

 Armstrong in the store and later with 

 M. M. Ayres until he opened his own 

 place. No one had more loyal friends 

 than he and they all extended their 

 sympathy to those he left behind. 



GERMAN NOTES. 



We are in receipt of another letter 

 from Charles Lenker, dated at Ham- 

 burg previous to his sailing for New 

 York on the Pennsylvania in which he 

 tells of having seen a bill rendered 

 for 100 carnation blooms, 28 marks, 

 with express and packing charges 

 added, C. O. D., which as we figure it 

 made the cost to the retailer about 

 $7.75. No wonder Mr. Lenker adds: 

 "I wish I could stay here." 



He says: "Nothing impressed me 

 more than Pape & Bergman's single 

 flowered chrysanthemums, grown from 

 seed sown in early spring. They make 

 immense bushes with gorgeous flow- 

 ers. A great deal of experimenting 

 is done in the establishment of Mr. 

 Pfitzer at his new place in the hybri- 

 dization of the gladiolus. As it was 

 .iust digging time my attention was 

 drawn to the many seedlings, each 

 carefully numbered, and the bulb put in 

 a paper bag. There were over 13,000 

 of those single bulbs, each in a sepa- 

 rate bag. Then come the diverse seed- 

 lings of one year's standing which are 

 all planted in frames, and the num- 



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PERSONAL. 



Announcement is received of the en- 

 gagement of Miss Hazel B. Lease of 

 Spokane, Wash., to James Frederick 

 Dawson, of Jamaica Plain, Mass. Miss 

 Lease is a very popular young lady 

 and a gifted musician. Mr. Dawson 

 is the son of Jackson T. Dawson of 

 the Arnold Arboretum and is a mem- 

 ber of the firm of Olmsted Brothers 

 at Brookline. Mass. 



Dr. Frederick W. Hamilton, recent- 

 ly president of Tufts and Jackson 

 Colleges, has re-entered the business 

 field from which he withdrew several 

 years ago for professional work as an 

 educator, and has taken the position 

 of general manager of the American 

 Forestry Company. As a young man. 

 Dr. Hamilton's successful business ca- 

 reer combined with his broad educa- 

 tion early brought him to the front. 

 For many years he was a trustee of 

 Tufts College and later became its 

 president, keeping at the same time 

 other high positions in the educational 

 world, including membership of the 

 Massachusetts State Board of Educa- 

 tion. Dr. Hamilton will from now on 

 make his headquarters at the offices 

 of the American Forestry Company at 

 15 Beacon street, Boston, Mass. 



Cincinnati visitors — Fred Rupp, 

 Charles Simion, Peru. Ind., and Mr. 

 Thoraas. Augusta. Ky. 



Boston visitors: George E. Bald- 

 win. Mamaroneck. N. Y.: A. E. Thatch- 

 er and Edward Kirk, Bar Harbor, Me.; 

 H. D. Darlington. Flushing, N. Y.; 

 Thos. Knight, New York City. 



