^I^COOST 10, 1916. 



The Florists' Review 



17 



staff, is away for a two weeks' holiday. 



Matthew Sampson, with Noe & Noe, 

 in the Coogan building, is spending his 

 holidays at the Thousand islands. 



Charles Millang's bookkeeper, Miss 

 J. McManey, has returned from a three 

 weeks' holiday in the mountains. 



Frank Kerpen, Jr., and Miss Eliza- 

 beth Meyer, were married July 22 and 

 spent their honeymoon at Niagara falls. 



Last week Charles Millang lost by 

 theft 10,000 Augusta gladiolus bulbs. 



Miss Sadie Hollingshead, bookkeeper 

 for Thomas Young, Jr., will enjoy her 

 vacation, beginning August 19, visiting 

 Niagara falls, Toronto and the Thousand 

 islands. 



Miss C. B. Abrams, bookkeeper for 

 Biedel & Meyer, leaves August 12 for 

 her vacation in the Catskills. 



George J. Polykranas and family are 

 enjoying the summer at Bloomingburg, 

 N. Y. 



W. A. Sullivan says that D. C. 

 Arnold and himself are going up this 

 week in an aeroplane at Hempstead 

 plains. 



Samuel Salsberg, with the Walter E. 

 Siebrecht Co., has returned from a two 

 weeks' motor trip in New England. 

 Barney Jacobs and his family leave Au- 

 gust 15 for a month's rest in Pennsyl- 

 vania. Miss Persico, the bookkeeper, 

 leaves August 12 for two weeks in 

 Sullivan county, N. Y. Walter Sie- 

 brecht and family are at Lake George, 



^^ Samuel Seligman, manager of the 



«■■ necessity and sundry departments of 



^^ the American Bulb Co., was in New 



York last week and left August 5 for 



the company's oflSces at 172 North 



Wabash avenue, Chicago. 



P. Ditzenberger, of H. E. Froment's, 

 is back from his three weeks' vacation, 

 as well as Miss Conkling, the book- 

 keeper, from her four weeks' holiday. 



William J. Moore, of Philadelphia, 

 formerly with the S. S. Pennock- 

 Meehan Co. force here, now is visiting 

 friends in New York. 



C. McGinness, bookkeeper for George 

 C. Siebrecht, leaves August 15 for a 

 two weeks* vacation. 



Joseph Trepel, of Brooklyn, motors in 

 every day from Orangeburg, where he 

 and his family are spending the summer. 



F. L. Krekeler, of 240 McDougal 

 street, Brooklyn, now devotes his green- 

 houses to bulbs. He has a fine store 

 and retail business, and his friends will 

 be glad to know that he has fully re- 

 covered his health. 



H. E. Froment thinks that rose ship- 

 ments will be comparatively light until 

 September, the receipts of new stock 

 gradually increasing each week during 

 August. 



Percy Eichter, manager of the United 

 Cut Flower Co., left July 29 for his an- 

 nual holiday. 



Edward Peth has returned from his 

 two weeks' outing on Long Island and 

 is busy at the new seed business of 

 Peth & Duggan, on Barclay street. The 

 plate glass in the show window shared 

 in the havoc caused by the explosion 

 in the harbor July 30. 



Clarence Slinn is spending the sum- 

 mer in Eockland county. 



Henrjr Duke, of the Gunther Bros, 

 force, is at New London, Conn., and 

 Nathan Bernstein is vacationing by 

 means of the half-day system, 



Frank Laban, of Charles Millang's 

 force, left July 29 for a two weeks' 

 stay at Asbury Park, N. J. Fred 



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ALEX. LXTBIE. 



IN this age of strenuosity, of intensive culture, intense competition Attd intense 

 almost everything else, few men are better fitted for the stern struggle than is 

 Alex. Lurie, with his thorough combination of practical and theoretical training. 

 He laid the foundation of his horticultural education by working for such concerns 

 as A. N. Pierson, Inc., of Cromwell, Conn., and Strout's, of Biddeford, Me. After 

 graduating from the department of floriculture at Cornell University, he took 

 charge of the rose houses and ornamental stock of the Greening Nursery Co., at 

 Monroe, Mich. Later he was appointed instructor of floriculture and landscape 

 gardening at the University of Maine, and while there he organized the Maine 

 State Florists' Society, becoming its first secretary. At present he is connected 

 with the Missouri Botanical Garden, where the students, the nursery and certain 

 phases of the experimental work are under his care. 



Ditzenberger will enjoy his vacation in 

 the Catskills. 



E. Ankers, of Traendly & Schenck, 

 is with his family in the mountains for 

 two weeks. 



C. C. Trepel and family are motor- 

 ing in the Catskills. 



A new automobile is doing its share 

 to add to the happiness of A. J. Gutt- 

 man and family. 



W. H. Long and family are at Bras 

 d'Or lake, Nova Scotia. 



George W'. Crawbuck and family are 

 summering at their country home at 

 Quogue, L. I. 



Thomas Boothe de Forest, of the Lord 

 & Burnham Co., is back from his honey- 

 moon trip to Panama and other points 

 of interest in the south. 



A son of Edward C. Horan, the whole- 

 sale florist, is distinguishing himself as 

 a s^cenario writer and director in a 

 movie enterprise. 



A. Kottmiller's handsome store has 

 been reconstructed and enlarged, and is 

 ready for the fall boom. The work was 



accomplished under Mr. Kottmiller's 

 personal supervision. 



Adam Trepel, buyer for his brother, 

 C' C. Trepel, is enjoying his vacation 

 in and around New York and at the 

 popular seaside resorts. 



G. E. M. Stumpp is having a success- 

 ful season at his branch at Southamp- 

 ton, L. I. 



August 12 Eobert MacNiff, president 

 of the MacNiff Horticultural Co., cele- 

 brates another birthday. 



H. E. Froment leaves next week for 

 his annual holiday at Saratoga and iu 

 the Adirondacks. 



Mrs. Eoy Bailey, of Dakota, is visit- 

 ing her father, John B. Nugent. 



Roman J. Irwin and family are enjoy- 

 ing the summer at their country home 

 at Chatsworth Heights, Larchmont. 



The veteran wholesaler, J. K. Allen, 

 summering at Ocean Grove, will cele- 

 brate his sixty-first birthday August 20. 



Mrs. Charles Millang and daughter 

 are in the White mountains. 



George Hildenbrand, of the John 



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