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NOTBMBEB 30, 1916. 



The Florists' Revkw 



25 



Mr. Cashing married four times. He 

 was essentially a home man, but was 

 affiliated with the Khode Island Horti- 

 cultural Society and the Florists' and 

 Gardeners' Club of Ehode Island. He 

 is survived by his wife, one daughter 

 by a former marriage and three sisters. 



W. H. M. 



William L. Eroeschell. 



News of the sudden death of William 

 L. Kroeschell brought sorrow to his 

 many friends in Chicago, as it will to 

 many hundreds of florists throughout 

 the United States who did not have the 

 pleasure of his personal acquaintance, 

 but who faced his name every time 

 they entered their fire pits. 



Mr. Kroeschell was found dead sit- 

 ting in an alcove just oflE the library of 

 the Illinois Athletic Club in Chicago on 

 the afternoon of November 23. He was 

 €1 years of age, having been born in 

 Nashville, Tenn., May 22, 1855. While 

 he was still a youth the family removed 

 to Chicago and he was educated in the 

 Chicago public schools. Although the 

 family long had been identified with 

 boiler-making, Mr. Kioeschell's first 

 business experience was on the board 

 of trade. In 1881 he became a member 

 of the grain commission firm of 

 Gerstenberg & Kroeschell, which did a 

 successful business until its dissolution 

 in 1900, when, on the death of an 

 older brother, Mr. Kroeschell entered 

 Kroeschell Bros. Co., becoming its secre- 

 tary and treasurer. The last sixteen 

 years of his life were devoted to its 

 business, the greenhouse boiler depart- 

 ment being in his special charge up to the 

 time its management largely was dele- 

 gated to Fred Lautenschlager. But Mr. 

 Kroeschell always took a special inter- 

 est in the greenhouse trade and the 

 business his company does with florists. 

 He also was secretary of Kroeschell 

 Bros. Ice Machine Co. and a director 

 in both corporations. 



Mr. Kroeschell not only was a man 

 of thorough business integrity, but pos- 

 sessed unusual qualities in the way of 

 remembering faces and making friends, 

 so that he numbered among his per- 

 sonal friends all of the large number of 

 florists with whom he came in contact. 

 He was a life member of the Society 

 of American Florists, having joined in 

 1907j a member of the Chicago Florists' 

 Club, and many other trade organiza- 

 tions. He was one of the executive 

 committee that managed the recent 

 Chicago convention of the Vegetable 

 Growers' Association of America, and 

 his last public appearance in the trade 

 was as toastmaster at the banquet given 

 that organization at Hotel La Salle on 

 the evening of September"^. 



In 1882 Mr. Kroeschell married Miss 

 Ida Spangenberg, who survives with 

 two daughters. One brother, Charles, 

 president of Kroeschell Bros. Co., also 

 survives. 



In accordance with his wish, fre- 

 quently expressed, funeral services were 

 omitted. The remains were cremated 

 and the ashes interred at the family 

 plot in Graceland cemetery. 



H. B. Burdett. 



News has been received of the death 

 of one of the well known florists of 

 Seattle, Wash., H. B. Burdett, who 

 joined the Canadian contingent of the 

 Allies early last spring and proceeded 

 to the front in France, after receiving 

 the usual training at Vernon, B. C. It 



William L. Kroeschell. 



might be mentioned in this connection 

 that Gordon Beavan, who formerly 

 worked at the Burdett Co. place and 

 went to the front about two years ago, 

 recently met the same fate. Mr. 

 Burdett had been in business for him- 

 self about sixteen years in Seattle, 

 starting at an age when most boys are 

 entering their apprenticeship, and 

 through many ups and downs he always 

 conducted his business in a straight- 

 forward and gentlemanly way. He has 

 left many friends in Seattle who will 

 deeply mourn his loss, remembering his 

 clean mind and upright character as an 

 example to be followed. T. W. 



Mllo S. Crozer. 



Milo S. Crozer died in a hospital at 

 Cedar Rapids, la., November 23. 



Milo Crozer was one of the best 

 known men in Cedar Eapids, having 

 been prominent in civic and fraternal 

 circles for a number of years. Born 

 in Clinton, la., October 22, 1868, he 

 removed with his parents to Cedar 

 Rapids twenty years ago, where his 

 father, J. G. Crozer, founded the flower 

 store which has since become almost 

 an institution in that part of the coun- 

 try. Following a crossing accident in 

 which his father sufTered the loss of a 

 foot several years ago, the son retired 

 from the insurance i)usiness and took 

 active charge of the store. 



He was married in Clinton to Miss 

 Myra Walls, and to them were born 

 three children, Carl, Lynn and Doro- 

 thy. Both boys were associated with 

 their father in business. Other sur- 

 vivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 

 J. G. Crozer, and three sisters. 



Fraternally Mr. Crozer had a wide 



acquaintanceship, holding membership 

 in Cedar Eapids lodge No. 251, B. P. 

 O. E., Crescent lodge No. 25, A. F. & 

 A. M., Linn tent No. 38, K. O. T. M.^ 

 and the Woodmen of the World. 



During the summer Mr. Crozer gave 

 up his active connection with his flower 

 store to accept a position with the 

 American Express Co., becoming its 

 traveling agent, leaving the business 

 to the sons, grandsons of J. G. Crozer^ 

 the founder. 



PAPER WHITES FOB CHBISTMAS> 



Please tell me when Paper Whites 

 should be brought in for Christmas. 

 They are outdoors, covered with soil 

 and fairly well rooted. There is a 

 growth of about three inches above the 

 flats. H. E. M.— Pa. 



Bring the Paper Whites into heat 

 now. They will need a temperature of 

 50 to 55 degrees at night. It will be 

 easy to hold them back a few days in 

 a cold house if they come into flower 

 a little earlier than wanted. C. W. 



Amsterdam, N. Y. — Joseph A. Mor« 

 rell has acquired an 8-acre plot and a 

 greenhouse with which to begin his 

 market-gardening business. 



Bay City, Mich. — At the next club 

 meeting, Monday evening, December 4, 

 at R. L. Leidy's store, there will be an 

 exhibit of roses, which will be followed 

 each month by a display either of cut 

 flowers or blooming plants. A program 

 will be announced at each meeting by 

 the committee in charge, Albert G. 

 Boehringer, Bay City; John Marsh, Bay 

 City, and Henry W. F. Goetz, Saginaw. 



