NovEMBEU 30, IOK;. 



The Florists' Review 



25 



Mr. CushinjTf married four times. ][e 

 was essentially a" home man, Imt was 

 alliliated with the IJhodo Island Jlorti- 

 eultinai Society and the Florists' an<l 

 (iardeners' Club of Jvhodo Island, lie 

 is survived by liis -uife, one dau(;;htcr 

 by a former marriage and three sisters. 



W. II. M. 



William L. Kroeschell. 



News of the sudden death of William 

 L. Kroeschell brouj;ht sorrow to his 

 many friends in Chicago, as it will to 

 many hundreds of florists throughout 

 the United States who did not liave the 

 pleasure of his personal ac(iuaintance, 

 bnt who faced his name every time 

 they entered their fire pits. 



Mr. Kroeschell was found dead sit- 

 ting in an alcove just off the library of 

 the Illinois Athletic Club in Chicago on 

 the afternoon of November 23. lie was 

 GL years of age, having been born in 

 Nashville, Tenn., May L'2, 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 

 lioiler-making, Mr. Kioeschell's first 

 business experience was on the l)oard 

 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 tlie 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 de[)art- 

 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 

 liusiness his company does with florists. 

 lie 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- 

 sesseil 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. 

 lie was a life member of the Society 

 of American Florists, having joined in 

 1907; 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 pidilic appearance in the trad<^ 

 was as toastmaster at the I)anquet given 

 that organization at Hotel T.a Salle on 

 the evening of September 29. 



In 1882 Mr. Kroeschell married Miss 

 Ida Spnngenl)crg, who survives with 

 two daugliters. One brotlier, Charles, 

 president of Kroeschell Bros. Co., also 

 survives. 



In accordance with his wish, fre- 

 quently expressed, funeral services were 

 omitted. The remains were cremate<l 

 and the ashes interred at the family 

 plot in Graceland cemetery. 



H. B. Biirdett. 



News has been received of the deatli 

 of one of the well hnown florists of 

 Seattle, Wash., 11. B. Burdett, who 

 joined the Canadian contingent of the 

 Allies early last spring ami proceedeil 

 to the front in France, after receiving 

 the usual training at Vernon, B. C. It 



William L. Kroeschell. 



might bo 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 mot the same fate. Mr. 

 Burdett had lieen in business for him- 

 self about sixteen years in Seattle, 

 starting at an ;ii;e when most boys are 

 entering tiieii apprenticeship, anil 

 through many ups and downs he always 

 conducted his lusiness in a straight- 

 forward and gonMcmanly way. lie has 

 left many fiitMi is in Seattle who will 

 deeply mourn In- loss, remembering his 

 clean mind and lipiight character as an 

 example to be i' 'lliwed. T. W. 



Milo s. Crozer. 



Milo S. Cro/r! ''■<->{ ill a Iiospital at 

 Cedar Rapids, I; , November 23. 



Milo Crozer \wi- one of the best 

 known men in '.'iir Rapids, having 

 been prominent n^ i^ic and fraternal 

 circles for a nun: of rears. r>orn 



in Clinton, la., " "i' --, ISHs, jio 

 removed witli hi- i rents to Cedar 

 l?apids twenty y : ago, where liis 

 father, J. G. Cro/ei . ■ .nded the flower 

 store which has s: ln'come almost 



an institution in tl ; ' ■ "'^ "f ^'"^ cnuii- 

 try. Following a ■■• -fiJ accident in 

 wiiich his father suiV' ■ ' tk«^ l<^?s of a 

 foot several years .a--. 'l;e son retired 

 from the insuranci' 1', - ■ . ss, and took 

 active charge of the -••;''• ( 



lie was nuarried in ' -iton to "Miss 

 Myra Walls, and to '''U ^vero l>orn 

 three children, Carl. T,;-:.! and Doro- 

 thy. Both boys were .- -'>,iated with 

 their father in busin.> . Other sur- 

 vivors are his parents, -Mr. and Mrs. 

 .1. G. Crozer, and three sisters. 



Fraternally Mr. Croz'^r had a wide 



acquaintanceship, holding membership 

 in Cedar Kapids lodge No. 251, B. 1'. 

 (). E., Crescent lodge No. 25, A. F. & 

 A. M., Linn tent No. .'iS, K. O. T. M., 

 and the Woodmen of the World. 



1 luring tlie summer Mr. Crozer gave 

 up his ai'tive connection with his flower 

 store to accejit 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 FOR CHRISTMAS, 



Please tell me when Paper Whites 

 sliduld be l)rought in for Christmas. 

 They nr(> outdixirs, co\'ered with soil 

 and fairly well rooted. There is a 

 gi-o\vth ul" abi)ut three inches above the 

 flats. H. E. M.— Pa. 



Prini: tlie Pap'T Whites into heat 

 ni»w. They uiU nei>d a tcmpiMatiire of 

 50 to 55 degrees at night. It will he 

 easy to hold them back a few days in 

 a cold house if they come into ilower 

 a little earlier than wanted. C. W. 



Amsterdam, N. Y. — .Tosoph A. ^f.ir- 

 roll has acquired an *• acre plot and a 

 greenhouse with which to beuin 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, whicli will be followed 

 each month by a disjWay either of cut 

 flowers or blooming jilants. A program 

 will be announced at each meeting by 

 the committee in charge, Albert (I. 

 Boeliriiiger, Bay City: John Marsh, Bay 

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



