Makch 29, 1917. 



The Florists^ Review 



47 



OBITUARY 



Lawrence Cotter. 



Lawrence Cotter, manager of the 

 Lake View Eose Gardens, Jamestown, 

 N, Y., died at Jamestown, March 24. 

 Mr. Cotter was- formerly manager of 

 the Castle Grove Greenhouses, Danville, 

 Pa., and subsequently, but before as- 

 suming .charge of the Lake View Rose 

 Gardens, was located at Dorchester, near 

 Boston. Associated with him at James- 

 town was his son, Charles N. Cotter. 



Harry G. Lehr. 



Harry G. Lehr, member of the firm of 

 Lehr Bros., retailers and growers, Balti- 

 more, Md., died March 20. His death 

 came within a month of that of his 

 father, William F. Lehr, who established 

 the Lehr range at Brooklyn, Anne 

 Arundel county, near Baltimore, in 1850. 

 The funeral services were held March 

 22 and were attended by many of the 

 Baltimore florists. Mr. Lehr and his 

 brother, William G. Lehr, succeeded 

 their father in the management of the 

 range at Brooklyn. This is one of the 

 finest rose ranges in Maryland. Both 

 businesses will be continued by the 

 brother. 



Mrs. Mary A. Chapin. 



Mrs. Mary A. Chapin, in the florists' 

 business for thirty-six years with her 

 two sons under the firm name of Chapin 

 Bros., died at her home in Lincoln, Neb., 

 March 20. Mrs. Chapin 's death was 

 sudden and, although 91 years of age, 

 she took intense interest in the b"usiness 

 until she died. With her sons, Leon- 

 ard C. and Howard A. Chapin, Mrs. 

 Chapin opened a retail store in Lincoln 

 ill 1881 and the business has grown 

 with the city. It will be continued by 

 tlic sons. 



Frederick C. Page. 



Among this month 's victims of pneu- 

 monia was Frederick C. Page, of Mor- 

 ris, 111., whose death March 11 brought 

 to a close the career of one of the 

 pioneer florists of the state. For half 

 a century Mr. Pago had followed his 

 tailing of florist and gardener at Morris. 



The decedent was born in Colin, Ger- 

 many, May 6, 1832. In 1865 he mar- 

 ried Miss Maria Kraninier and two 

 years later came to America and set- 

 tled at Morris. Nine children were 

 born, seven of whom survive. 



PROPAGATION OP VIOLETS. 



How should cuttings be taken from 

 violets in order to have good success 

 With themt I have heard that runners 

 taken at this time of the year will not 

 'lo well. M. B.— Minn. 



Violets may be propagated from run- 

 ners. These make fairly good plants, 

 '^iit T have had much better success by 

 dividing plants when the blooming sea- 

 son has passed, cutting the leaves and 

 I'oots back somewhat, putting these into 

 l^ats of sandy loam and later transplant- 

 "ig them to the field. This is especially 

 true of the singles. As the doubles 

 I'loom a month later than the singles, I 

 would prefer to take good runners from 

 'hose where obtainable and make up 

 'Tiy deficiency from divisions of the old 

 I'lants. C. W. 



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Mark Aitken, of Springfield, Mass., 

 summed up the situation with the re- 

 mark: "You may mark my word, that 

 this Easter will see the biggest clean- 

 up of blooming plants and cut flowers 

 in the history of the trade. Our stock 

 of lilies and azaleas was never finer. I 

 agree with Mr. Danker that azaleas 

 grown the second year seem to last long- 

 er in residences, and our customers 

 favor the natural shape." 



Albert M. Herr, of Lancaster, was 

 picking out orders for rooted cuttings 

 of geraniums and remarked that the 

 space occupied on the benches was just 

 one-half of what it usually was and 

 what it should be. The mercury was 

 dodging around zero; old Boreas was 

 howling and inspired the observation 

 that extra wrapping material was re- 

 quired. "Additional costs all around," 

 said Mr. Herr. 



Ernst C. Ludwig, of Allegheny, Pa., 

 staged pots of tulips and daffodils out- 

 side his store February 8, bringing them 

 as close as possible to the public. It 

 was in keeping with the first touch of 

 spring. 



B. F. Barr & Co., of Lancaster, Pa., 

 are much pleased with the special Mc- 

 Cray refrigerator recently installed. It 

 is the admiration of all who see it. The 



new 2 story warehouse and packing 

 room at the nursery is a valuable addi- 

 tion. "Our great drawback was the 

 lack of a storehouse," observed Mr. 

 Barr. "The distance from the farm 

 barred us from handling local business 

 satisfactorily. ' ' 



T. Malbranc, of Johnstown, Pa., con- 

 templates adding another greenhouse 

 after the spring business, which is an- 

 ticipated to be fully as good as last 

 year's. 



H. W. Pierce, of Wilkes-Barre, grows 

 just two crops under glass. Grand Rap- 

 ids lettuce, three parts of the year, and 

 one crop of tomatoes, to market before 

 the outdoor stock is fit. "Many think, 

 because we are near the mines, that we- 

 can more easily obtain coal, but that 

 is not so," observed Mr. Pierce. This 

 was confirmed later by a miner's son, 

 with whom I got into conversation. He 

 mentioned that he, with his father, 

 farms twelve acres of land. He works 

 until the afternoon and then goes into 

 the mine. The young man said he drove 

 a mule from 4 to 9 p. m., five hours, and 

 received $2.25 for the five hours. The 

 operators have been unable to obtain 

 labor to load the coal mined into the 

 cars, and here is where the greater part 

 of the trouble exists today. W. M. 



Ponca, Okla. — A. G. Kaner has come 

 from Wichita, Kan., and opened a store 

 here. He is making plans, it is said, 

 for the erection this spring of the larg- 

 est greenhouse in northern Oklahoma. 



Nashville, Tenn. — Alleged injuries 

 sustained when struck by an auto truck 

 are the basis of a suit for $10,000 dam- 

 ages filed in the Circuit court against 

 Geny Bros, last week. The complainant 

 avers that he was in the hospital three 

 weeks following the accident. 



Asheville, N. C— E. E Brown, of 



Brownhurst, "whore the flowers grow," 

 is the local Rotarian. At one of the re- 

 cent luncheons he made an address on 

 the business, incidentally informing his 

 fellow members that florists live longer 

 than other business men because of tho 

 influence of their surroundings. 



Houston, Tex. — It may be that ship 

 pers in the north do not appreciate the 

 extent to which express charges add to 

 the cost of the stock sold here. For in- 

 stance, one Houston florist states that 

 the express charges paid in the one 

 month of December, 1916, amounted to 

 $625. This did not include the charges 

 on certain shipments refused because 

 of late delivery and damaged condition. 



Miami, Fla.- M. M. Carroll, bulb mer- 

 chant of Norwood, O., has been a recent 

 visitor hero. 



Fitzgerald, Ga. — The new year saw 

 the passing of Joel Thomas, but the 

 Thomas greenhouse business is being 

 continued successfully by the decedent's 

 daughter, Mrs. Lula Armantrout. 



Lawton, Okla. — W. H. Cole, who lias 

 been associated with the Stiios Co., of 

 Oklahoma City, has arrived here to take 

 charge of the landscape work of tho 

 Hornaday greenhouses, a new depart- 

 ment recently added by the proprietress, 

 Mrs. O. G. Hornaday. E. S. Biggard 

 has severed his connection with the 

 same concern and gone to California. 



Raton, N. M.— B. B. Naylor, Jr., 

 manager of the Raton Greenhouses, is 

 confident that they have a winner in 

 a snapdragon of unknown origin that 

 appeared in their stock three or four 

 years ago. It is bronzy red with yel- 

 low lip and is a stronger grower than 

 any other lariety on the place. The color 

 is distinct and their customers prefer it 

 to any of the standard named sorts. 

 Mr. Naylor says they never yet have 

 had enough of it for their local trade, 

 but he plans eventually to name it and 

 distribute it in the trade. 



