January 11, 1917. 



The Florists' Review 



27 



Meyer Otile, of Eiedel & Meyer, has 

 an injured hand on account of a fall on 

 the icy pavement last week. 



The George W. Crawbuck Co. has com- 

 pleted improvements at its big store. 



Mayor Badgley, of Chatham, an- 

 nounces January 23 as the date of the 

 annual banquet at Morristown, N. J., 

 of the Morris County Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Society. 



Lawrence Kervan, of the Kervan Co., 

 had the misfortune to break his right 

 arm last week in a fall on an icy pave- 

 ment near his home at Bayside, L. I. 



Allen Bros, is the title of the green 

 goods house doing business at 204 West 

 Thirtieth street. The young men are 

 contemplating a move to West Twenty- 

 eighth street. 



The last of the Hamburg Late White 

 mums were seen in J. J. Coan's win- 

 dows January 6. 



In William Kessler 's novelty window 

 last week were branches of forsythia, 

 Bridal Wreath, flowering almond, Japan 

 quince and giant pussy willow. 



Messrs. Rigby and Morichard, of the 

 S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., leave this 

 week for a month 's outing and rest in 

 Florida, which will include a two 

 weeks' shooting holiday. 



W. A. Manda, of South Orange, is en- 

 joying the sulphur baths at Mount 

 Clemens, Mich. 



One of the leading exhibitors at the 

 poultry show in Madison Square Gar- 

 den last week was the MacNiflf Horti- 

 cultural Co. 



Miss Perle Fulmer, president of the 

 Ladies' S. A. F., could not have made 

 a better selection for the head of the 

 introduction committee for August than 

 Mrs. Walter Sheridan, of New York. 



The New York Bowling Club opened 

 the season Thursdav evening, Januarv 

 4. W. P. Ford, R. J. Irwin, A. Kakuda, 

 Joseph S. Fenrich, John Miesem, P. 

 Jacobson and A. Donaldson were in at- 

 tendance, as usual. John Miesem led 

 the sports with a score close to 200. 

 January 11 the officers are to be se- 

 lected. 



Miss J. Siegel now is bookkeeper and 

 stenographer for R. J. Irwin, who now 

 has representing him on tlie road W. E. 

 Cahill, A. J. Rickards and David 

 Thomm. Mr. Irwin reports a fifty per 

 cent increase in his business during 

 1916. 



Frank H. Traendly and Robert Simp- 

 son arc visiting the large growers of 

 Chicago and vicinity. 



C. R. Jaeger, of One Hundred and 

 Twenty-fifth street and Seventh avenue, 

 had a visit from the stork last week 

 and received as a New Y'ear's gift a 

 bouncing boy. 



Charles Millang and Joseph Fenrich 

 are in the same boat — both liave suc- 

 cumbed to the grip. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



An exhibition of the Horticultural 

 Society of New York will be held Jan- 

 uary 1."? and 14 at the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. The monthly 

 shows usually have been held for an 

 afternoon each only, but it has been de- 

 cided to try the experiment of holding 

 them for two days. Tliere are classes 

 open to all and others restricted to non- 

 commercial growers. Prizes are offered 

 for cut flowers of orchids, carnations, 

 sw-eet peas, schizanthus, Buddleia Asi- 

 atica and antirrhinums. I'remiums also 

 are offered for j)rimula and begonia 

 plants. Special ])rizes may also be 

 awarded by the exhibition committee 



for unusual exhibits, and such exhibits 

 are requested. There will be a lecture 

 at 4 o'clock, December 13, on "Darwin 

 and Other Tulips," by John Scheepers. 

 This will be illustrated with colored lan- 

 tern slides. 



Maurice Fuld has arranged a series of 

 twelve practical lessons in gardening, 

 to be given at Hotel Biltmore each 

 Wednesday morning beginning January 

 17. He also plans to publish a monthly 

 gardening magazine which is to con- 

 tain no advertisements and to be written 

 largely by himself. 



Seekonk, Mass. He was in his ninety- 

 second year. 



Mr. Johnson was born at Brooklyn, 

 Conn., and moved to Providence when 

 a young man. In 1879 he opened a seed 

 and implement store at 6 Exchange 

 place, which he conducted until 1890, 

 when he disposed of it to the Provi- 

 dence Seed Co. His wife having died, 

 Mr. Johnson retired to his farm in 

 Seekonk. There he carried on a green- 

 house business for a number of years. 



W. H. M. 



OBITUARY. 



John W. Bahr. 



While working in his store at Eliza- 

 beth, N. J., January 4, John Bahr was 

 stricken with heart failure. He was 

 found dead a little later by his son. 

 Mr. Bahr was 04 years old and had 

 lived in Elizabeth for the last forty 

 years. Most of that time he conducted 

 a flower store at the same place where 

 he died. 



Mr. Bahr was born in New York and 

 moved to Elizabeth from there. He 

 was prominent in civic affairs until 

 recent years. He is survived by three 

 sons, Walter W., John A. and Richard 

 A. Bahr, and one daughter, Mrs. Julia 

 A. Sears. The funeral was held Jan- 

 uary 5. R. B. M. 



Hamlin Johnson. 



Hamlin Johnson, for many years pro- 

 l)rietor of a seed store at Providence, 

 R. I., died December 31 at his home in 



Minneapolis, Minn. — A lively debate 

 concerning the appointment of a guard- 

 ian for Miss Hattie B. Whitted, head of 

 the Whitted Floral Co., which operates 

 two stores here, was staged recently be- 

 fore Judge Dahl. Three days before 

 Miss Whitted was declared mentally in- 

 competent to transact her affairs by a 

 nerve specialist, she gave her brother- 

 in-law, John G. Taylor, a power of at- 

 torney. When Miss Whitted 's condi- 

 tion became known, the creditors of the 

 Whitted Floral Co. came to the front 

 and took charge. The creditors, how- 

 ever, refused to countenance the pro- 

 posed guardianship of J. G. Taylor or 

 Mrs. Taylor, the latter having peti- 

 tioned the court for her sister's guard- 

 ianship. Undue influence was suggested 

 by the questions put by the creditors' 

 attorney in court. Mr. Taylor said the 

 liabilities for the two flower stores 

 amount to about $22,000, and that the 

 assets are $39,000. He admitted, how- 

 ever, that under a forced sale the assets 

 would probably not amount to more 

 than half of the given sum. 



Nashville, Tenn. — The state florists, 

 nurserymen and fruit growers will hold 

 their annual conventions here January 

 ;{l to February 2, inclusive. 



Mineral Wells, Tex. — Fire caused by 

 an exploded oil stove recently did con- 

 siderable damage to Ely's Floral House. 

 Irreparable damage to many plants was 

 done by the force of the water from 

 the firemen's hose. 



Auburn, Ala. — The chair of horticul- 

 ture of the Alabama Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute will be occupied after the first of 

 the year by George C. Starcher, a young 

 Virginian, who recently resigned his 

 position as associate professor of horti- 

 culture at the Virginia Polytechnic In- 

 stitute. 



Tallahassee, Fla. — Thomas G. Gordon, 

 who has launched a florists ' business 

 here, says he would like to make an ar- 

 rangement with some southern grower 

 whereby he could sell flowers and plants 

 in the capital city on a commission 

 basis. Mr. Gordon says it will require 

 some time before he can produce his own 

 stock. College Nurseries, Tallahassee, 

 Fla., is Mr. Gordon's full address. 



Columbia, S. C. — What with a splen- 

 did year-end clean-up of stock and an 

 auspicious start of 1917 business, Mrs. 

 J. M. Eison intimates that the sunny 

 side of life is uppermost as far as she 

 is concerned. 



Birmingham, Ala. — Tlie Elmwood 

 Nurseries & Floral Co., of which Walter 

 Puckett is president and treasurer, has 

 a large block of Easter lilies potted and 

 stored under the greenhouse benches. 

 Superintendent Carl Bucher says he 

 never has any alarm about their being 

 on time; all his worry is the other way. 

 By January 1 his lilies had made four 

 or five inches of growth and he was 

 hoping for cooler weather. 



Saint Augustine, Fla. — Speaking of 

 climatic changes, the band ought to play 

 "From Greenland's Icy Mountains to 

 India's Coral Strands" whenever Rob- 

 ert Person draws nigh, for Robert 

 jumped from the florists' business in 

 Duluth, Minn., to the florists' business 

 at old Saint Augustine, Florida's fa- 

 mous resort. Mr. Person worked for the 

 Duluth Floral Co., Duluth, and for 

 Swanson, the Florist, of Minneapolis, 

 hut in his new location he is boss. 



