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The Florists^ Review 



March 23, 1916. 



iris, gladioli, etc. Last, but not least, 

 the host had the visitors saihple his 

 home-made cherry wine and Mrs. Lan- 

 dis' delicious cookies, both of which 

 were pronounced splendid. 



Charles M. Weaver of Eonks, was 

 the next grower called upon. His two 

 400-foot houses, planted to peas, were 

 a pleasing sight. From one of the 

 houses blooms have been cut since De- 

 cember, while from the other house the 

 first blooms are beipg cut. Mr. Weaver 

 has a number of varieties of his own 

 selection, which are distinct and rank 

 among the best in the market today. 



At the Elmer J. Weaver place, also 

 at Bonks, the standard varieties of car- 

 nations are grown in quantity. A house 

 which produced a crop of tomatoes 

 earlier in the season is planted to sweet 

 peas, stocks and lettuce — a good com- 

 bination for a follow-up crop. Many 

 thousands of asters are on their way 

 and the usual large planting will be 

 made. 



The Club Meeting. 



Returning to X/ancaster, a dozen of 

 the florists sat down to dinner at the 

 Brunswick hotel with R. Vincent, Jr., 

 of White Marsh, Md., who had just 

 arrived for the evening meeting of the 

 club. 



At 7:30 p. m. President Harry A. 

 Schroyer called the meeting to order. 

 The following were elected members: 

 R. J. Antes, Frank Hauck, Paul Mur- 

 phy and W. M. Hawman. 



The club voted $50 to the city's fund 

 to secure a site for the proposed 

 armory, which will be built by the 



state and which will be an appropriate 

 place to hold the chrysanthemum shows 

 of the club in the future. The com- 

 mittee arranging a ladies' night for 

 April reported progress. 



The club has ordered 100 tickets for 

 the National Flower Show and indica- 

 tions are that Lancaster county florists 

 will be there almost to a man. The 

 event of the evening was the lecture of 

 R. Vincent, Jr., on "The Bulb Fields of 

 Holland, ' ' illustrated with a large num- 

 ber of slides. Most of the pictures 

 were taken by members of Mr. Vin- 

 cent 's party when they visited Holland 

 a few years ago. Most of the ladies 

 of the Florists' Club were present and 

 all voted the meeting one of the most 

 pleasant ever held. 



Various Notes. 



The [Lancaster City and County Flo- 

 rists' and Gardeners' Employees' Fra- 

 ternity is the name of a floricul- 

 tural organization recently formed. 

 The officers are: President, Louis Ben- 

 ner; secretary, Edward Geiter. The 

 fraternity has secured the Chamber of 

 Commerce rooms for the meetings. The 

 membership numbers forty. The ob- 

 ject of the fraternity is to assist its 

 members morally, financially and edu- 

 cationally. The next meeting will be 

 held March 28. Steps are being taken 

 to arrange a series of lectures on plant 

 life and propagation of plants. Al- 

 phonse Peters is taking an active part 

 in organizing the association. The 

 Lancaster County Florists' Club ex- 

 tends its best wishes to the new asso- 

 ciation. H. K. R. 



Dallas, Tex. — March 6, was rose plant- 

 ing day in Dallas. The mayor in a 

 proclamation asked the people to beau- 

 tify their homes hy planting rose 

 bushes. Apparently the mayor is a 

 good business booster. 



New Orleans, La. — Plans for the 

 spring flower show of the New Orleans 

 Horticultural Society have been com- 

 pleted. The beneficiary of the exhibi- 

 tion this year will be the Louisiana 

 Anti-Tuberculosis League, and the offi- 

 cers of the society, Henry Scheuer- 

 mann, J. Farley, C. R. Panter and John 

 Eblen, are working hard to break the 

 attendance record during the four days 

 of the show, April 6 to 9. 



Enozville, Twin.—' ' Baum 's Home of 

 Flowers," the new store of Charles L. 

 Baum, at Market street and Clinch 

 avenue, had an auspicious formal open- 

 ing March 9 and 10. Every visitor was 

 presented with a flower souvenir. The 

 well known proprietor is assisted by his 

 two sons, Karl P. Baum, manager, who 

 recently was elected president of the 

 Tennessee State Florists' Association, 

 and Roy L. Baum, who has charge of 

 the growing end, at the greenhouses. 

 Charles Baum is a member of the board 

 of directors of the S. A. F. 



Orange, Tex. — A greenhouse, 33x75 

 feet, is being erected by Mrs. H. J. 

 Lutcher. 



Houston, Tex.— Louis Buchner, for- 

 merly grower at the Brazos Green- 

 houses, has gone into business for him- 

 self on Hutchins street. 



Fort Wortli, Tex. — Another woman to 

 enter the business is Mrs. R. King, who 

 grows flowers for the retail trade and 

 does a little market gardening on the 

 side. 



Louisville, Ky. — The contract for 

 decorating the exhibition hall of this 

 year's automobile show was awarded 

 to the E. G, Reimers & Sons Co. The 

 large hall, 200x300 feet, was decorated 

 to resemble a colonial rose garden. 

 The many booths were separated by 

 white-enameled picket fences, which 

 were covered with southern smilax and 

 pink roses. The overhead decoration 

 was obtained by running wires length- 

 wise and crosswise, and attaching to 

 these smilax and roses. Frosted lights 

 at intervals of eighteen inches .en- 

 hanced the effect at night. The l)al- 

 cony was elaborately decorated with 

 cedar trees and laurel. More than 

 6,000 paper roses, a carload of smilax 

 and fifty palms and ferns were used. 



Mrs. Matthew Crawford. 



Mrs. Ellen K. Crawford was instantly 

 killed on the evening of March 2, by an 

 interurban car in Cuyahoga Falls, O., 

 where she had lived for many years. In 

 crossing the tracks she became confused 

 b|y the glare of a swiftly passing auto- 

 mobile and stepped back in the way of 

 an approaching car. She was not cut or 

 mangled, but the injuries were such as 

 to cause instant death. Mrs. Crawford 

 was the wife of the well known horticul- 

 turist, Matthew Crawford. She was born 

 in 1840 and they celebrated their golden 

 wedding anniversary December 31, 1915. 

 She was a prominent teacher for many 

 years, one -of the public schools being 

 named in her honor. She leaves her hus- 

 band, two sons and a host of friends. The 

 Gladiolus Society of Ohio, of which she 

 was a charter member, through a commit- 

 tee has prepared a memorial of appre- 

 ciation of her beautiful life. 



W. A. C. 



Wickllffe L. Smith. 



Wickliffe L. Smith, for more than 

 fifty years a florist, died March 17 in 

 the St. Joseph's hospital, Aurora, HI., 

 at the age of 64. Mr. Smith was taken 

 ill early in the winter and gradually 

 grew weaker until three weeks ago, 

 when he was taken to the hospital for 

 treatment. 



The deceased moved to Aurora from 

 the east in 1860 and established his 

 business on North View street. In his 

 prime he was considered one of the best 

 florists in the middle west and was un- 

 usually successful in propagating plants. 

 In 1902 Mr. Smith retired from the 

 business, and from that time on worked 

 for various concerns in Aurora. He 

 was a charter member of the S. A. F. 

 His wife and three daughters survive 

 him. 



Mr. Smith was well known in the 

 east, having worked there for several 

 years. At the funeral March 19 there 

 were many floral tributes from his 

 friends in the trade. The pallbearers, 

 all of whom are florists, were J. M. 

 Smely, Frank Shaffer, C. Nielsen and 

 Peter A. Freeman, all of Aurora; L. C. 

 Worth, of Mooseheart, 111., and Charles 

 McCauley, of Geneva, 111. 



John Adam Klehm. 



John Adam Klehm, of Arlington 

 Heights, 111., a pioneer nurseryman, 

 died March 16, aged 81 years. The 

 funeral was held March 18, at his late 

 residence, Rev. Charles Noack officiat- 

 ing. Interment in the Lutheran ceme- 

 tery. 



John Adam Klehm was born July 14, 

 18a4. in l.'uedelsheim, Hessen Darm- 

 stadt, Germany. His father died July 

 5, 1840, and in June, 1851, his mother 

 and her two sons, John and George, 

 came to America. They lived in the 

 town of Seneca and the city of Buffalo, 

 N. Y., until the spring of 1855, when 

 they moved to Jefferson Park, 111. Two 

 years later, they moved to Arlington 

 Heights, then called Dujnton, where 

 John Klehm lived until his death. He 

 was married to Elizabeth Stitz Jan- 

 uary 11, 1862, in Chicago. The young 

 couple took up married life in Arling- 

 ton Heights, and were identified with 



