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Junk 15. 1916. 



The Florists' Review 



21 



OBITUARY 



J. M. Fox. 



J. M. Fox, founder of the business 

 J. M. Fox & Son, of Milwaukee, passed 

 away at his home June 7. His son, 

 J. F., who had charge of the flower 

 department, will continue the business. 



Nicholas Kruchteu. 



While riding in a friend's automo- 

 bile the night of June 13, Nicholas 

 Kruchten, Jr., 5308 North Western ave- 

 nue, secretary of the John Kruchten Co., 

 wholesale florists, Chicago, met a most 

 untimely death. The car in which he 

 was seated was going west in Lawrence 

 avenue at high speed and struck a steel 

 upright at the river bridge approach, 

 overturning on its occupants. Mr. 

 Kruchten died shortly after being re- 

 moved from the wreck. The two other 

 occupants of the car were severely in- 

 jured. 



Mr. Kruchten was a native of Chi- 

 cago, 29 years of age, and had been 

 married five years. He began working 

 in the greenhouses of his father, N. J. 

 Kruchten, 5308 North Western avenue, 

 at an early age, and continued there un- 

 til March, 1916, when he became secre- 

 tary of the John Kruchten Co., of which 

 his brother is president. 



The deceased is survived by his wife, 

 Dolly, both parents and two brothers. 



Elias A. Seymour. 



Elias A. Seymour, florist and gar- 

 dener of Herkimer, N. Y., since 1877, 

 died unexpectedly of a stroke of paral- 

 ysis on the evening of Memorial day. 

 The deceased, who retired from busi- 

 ness a number of years ago, was born 

 at Paris Hill, N. Y., in 1846. He is 

 survived by his wife and four children. 



Mrs. G. M. Brldgef ord. 



The friends of G. M. Bridgeford, at 

 Eagle Bock, Los Angeles, Cal., were 

 greatly shocked by the entirely unex- 

 pected announcement of the death of 

 Mrs. Bridgeford, which occurred June 5. 

 She was apparently well when her hus- 

 band and daughter left, as usual, for 

 town, but on their return they found 

 her dead. Mrs. Bridgeford was truly 

 a home woman, seldom going away from 

 there, but always giving a hearty wel- 

 come to visitors. She will indeed be 

 sadly missed, both by her husband and 

 daughter, to whom she was devoted. In- 

 terment was at Glendale, June 8. A 

 large number of beautiful floral pieces 

 were sent to the funeral. . H. R. R. 



GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



The Market. 



As usual, weddings have greatly in- 

 creased business this month. Business 

 along other lines is keeping up well. 

 Peonies are to be had in quantity and 

 are of good quality. Gladioli are show- 

 ing up well. Sweet peas, snapdragons, 

 etc., continue to be of desirable quality, 

 a condition attributed to the cool 

 weather that has prevailed. School 

 graduations have started and for a time 

 will help to increase business. 



The average verdict is that Memorial 

 day business this year was not what 

 could be called a "rush." The reason 



therefor is said to be the large quan- 

 tity of outdoor flowers available. Many 

 had plenty of stock left. 



Various Notes. 



Arthur F. Crabb was busily occupied 

 with wedding and funeral orders last 

 week. 



Henry Smith had some extra fine gla- 

 dioli to offer. 



Alfred Hannah has been exceedingly 

 busy with church decorations and Miss 

 Hartnett had a good week of bouquets 

 for weddings. 



The Crescent Avenue Floral Co. haa 

 purchased an Overland delivery car. 



Eli Cross is cutting about 2,000 peo- 

 nies per day. A. F. C. 



HOUSTON, TEXAS. 



Various Notes. 



W. T. Hauser, of the Houston Floral 

 Co., is busy getting another house ready 

 to plant roses. He has four houses in 

 now; two he is carrying over another 

 year; one he is going to throw out for 

 this season; one house of young plants 

 and another he is going to plant later. 

 His outside stock is looking well, al- 

 though his gladioli are beginning to 

 burn on account of the extremely hot 

 weather. Several panes of glass were 

 broken by high wind the early part of 

 the week. Dead limbs were blown from 



trees near the north end of his houses 

 onto the glass. Because the August 

 storm blew down several houses, his 

 spray green has been cut pretty clo,sely 

 and the plumosus and Sprengeri are just 

 beginning to grow after a severe winter 

 cut. He has had a successful calla cut 

 this year but it is over for the season. 



The Glenwood Florists have had a 

 good spring business, with considerable 

 funeral work, and now there are a few 

 wedding decorations. 



Mrs. F. L. Cotney, of the Cotney 

 Floral Co., while not doing decorating 

 this year on account of the severe loss 

 in the storm last August, says business 

 has been good all spring but is begin- 

 ning to slack up now. A few tuberoses 

 are being cut and in another week or 

 ten days there will be plenty of them. 



Mr. Carlisle, of Carlisle & Son, of 

 Alvin, Tex., was in town June 10 with 

 some nice America and Mrs. King 

 gladioli. He says cape jasmine trade 

 was exceptionally good this year. 



C. L. Brock is having exceptionally 

 fine luck in moving trees on Main street, 

 which is being widened about eight feet 

 to make a boulevard to Bellaire, about 

 nine miles, which when completed will 

 be one of the finest in the south. Some 

 of the live oaks are as much as ten 

 inches in diameter and have been 

 planted fifteen or twenty years. He is 

 moving some of them with as much as 

 ten or more tons of soil on the roots 

 and so far has not lost one. G. R. L. 



Jackson, Miss. — The southwest cy- 

 clone that cut a 200-foot path of ruin 

 through the city on the morning of 

 June 6 is reported to have completely 

 demolished the range of the McKay 

 Floral Co. 



Paducah, Ky. — After an absence of 

 fourteen years from his native home, 

 John Van Aart, the Broadway florist, 

 will sail June 17 from New York on 

 the steamer Ryndam, for Lisse, Holland, 

 to visit his mother and brothers. Mr. 

 Van Aart expected to visit H. H. Cade, 

 of Youngstown, O., and Joseph Thomas, 

 of Greensburg, Pa., en route to New 

 York. 



Richmond, Va. — Richmond is to have 

 a new wholesaler. Fritz Sitterding, a 

 prominent financier of the city, has pur- 

 chased the business, stock, fixtures, etc., 

 of Ratcliffe & Tanner, who have been 

 in the hands of receivers. Mr. Sit- 

 terding paid $20,000 for the business, 

 which includes fourteen greenhouses 

 and considerable stock. Eight acres 

 are embraced in the purchase and Mr. 

 Sitterding will erect two large houses 

 this summer, making a total of sixteen 

 houses to be operated by the new or- 

 ganization. The concern will continue 

 to be known as Ratcliffe & Tanner, Inc. 

 Frederick Sitterding, son of the owner, 

 and E. L. Tanner, former joint owner, 

 are oflScers. An up-to-date wholesale 

 establishment will be opened shortly. 



Chicopee, Miss. — A new automobile 

 truck on its maiden trip ran amuck here 

 recently and crashed into the green- 

 house of William Paul. Then it con- 

 tinued on its mad journey until brought 

 to a sudden stop by Mr. Paul 's benches. 

 The framework and glass of the house 

 were considerably damaged, but the 

 driver of the car said he would make 

 good the loss. 



Birmingham, Ala.— One of the finest 

 appointed flower stores in the city is 

 the floral department owned and oper- 

 ated by the Greene Drug Co. in con- 

 nection with its drug business, in the 

 Empire building. John A. Lambert is 

 manager of the department, which is 

 an important part of the "famous floor 

 below." An orchestra furnishes music 

 three hours daily; there is a rest room 

 for tired shoppers, telephone booths and 

 many other features that nowadays are 

 included under the general head of 

 "customers' service." J. C. Greene 

 was the founder of the business, and 

 everything is done in green — carpets, 

 draperies, flower pot covers, flower 

 boxes, tags and ribbons, even the de- 

 livery boys are outfitted in green. Mr. 

 Lambert says that his department and 

 the "fioor below" are the talk of the 

 town and that business is brisk. If 

 any of the local florists are looking for 

 a few ideas on what's what in art and 

 store distinctiveness, they should drop 

 in and examine Mr. Lambert's stand. 



