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THE TRADE'S PART. 



Purely Personal. 



Flowers are not classed among mu- 

 nitions, but florists make good soldiers 

 and the trade will be represented in 

 almost every department in the field, 

 judging by the items of personal news 

 that have come to hand this week. No 

 doubt there are a great many more mem- 

 bers of the trade who already have 

 taken up arms and The Eeview will be 

 pleased to hear of them. 



Correspondent Called to Colors. 



Called into the service of the United 

 States with the national guard, Adolph 

 Ehmann, correspondent for The Eeview 

 at Buffalo, is quartered at the Sixty- 

 fifth Eegiment armory awaiting orders. 

 Mr. Ehmann, who is well known to the 

 trade in western New York, is a mem- 

 ber of Battery D, Third New York Field 

 Artillery. 



Building Wooden SUps. 



Sherman W. Walker, president of the 

 Portland Florists' dub and correspond- 

 ent for The Eeview at Portland, Ore., 

 has entered the service of the United 

 States as inspector of hulls for the Ship- 

 ping Board. The florists' trade has 

 been recruited from practically all de- 

 partments of human activity and be- 

 fore engaging in the greenhouse busi- 

 ness, in which he was thoroughly suc- 

 cessful, Mr. Walker was engaged in 

 shipbuilding, so he has returned to a 

 field in which he has special knowledge. 

 It will be his duty to watch the work 

 of building on the Pacific coast a part 

 of the government 's new fleet of a thou- 

 sand wooden ships to break the U-boat 

 blockade. Mr. Walker's greenhouse 

 business is being continued in his ab- 

 sence and he intends to return to it 

 when his task is finished. 



Becomes Ambulance Driver. 



The call of France, his native land, 

 has been answered by Edward Dupuy, 

 son of Louis Dupuy, nurseryman at 

 Whitestone, L. I. Young Dupuy has 

 joined the American Ambulance corps 

 as a motor car driver and now is in 

 France. His father is one of the several 

 French nurserymen who have come to 

 this country and established themselves. 



Quits Flowers for War. 



Harold William Crockford, florist, of 

 Winthrop, Mass., had not been estab- 

 lished in business many years when the 

 United States entered the war. Never- 

 theless, Mr. Crockford had built up a 

 good business and was making money. 

 But recently he decided that he is 

 needed to help fight the battles of his 

 country, so he closed his store and en- 

 listed in the Eighth Massachusetts regi- 

 ment. 



Chief Nurseryman in Reserve. 



Lloyd C. Stark, president of the 

 American Association of Nurserymen, 

 who last week was reported as having 

 resigned his office in the Stark Bros. 

 Nurseries & Orchards Co., of Louisiana, 



O. W. Efclond. 



Mo., to tender his services to the gov- 

 ernment, is in Washington, making his 

 lieadquarters at the Army and Navy 

 Club. He has joined the officers' reserve 

 and is expecting to be commissioned in 

 the new army. At Louisiana it is said 

 he is to be placed as a captain of artil- 

 lery. Mr. Stark was educated at An- 

 napolis, for the navy. 



To Fight for Adopted Land. 



O. W. Eklund, foreman at the green- 

 house range of the Sterling Floral Co., 

 Sterling, 111., was among those drafted 

 June 5, has passed the physical exam- 

 ination and been enrolled in the United 

 States army. He did not claim exemp- 

 tion. 



Mr. Eklund was born in Kristianstad, 

 Sweden, twenty-nine years ago. Before 

 going to Sterling he was gardener at 

 Minneapolis for Thomas Shevlin, the 

 famous athlete and millionaire lumber- 

 man, who died two years ago. Of Mr. 

 Eklund the Sterling Floral Co. says: 

 "He has left ample testimony of his 

 energy and skill, and it is with regret 

 that this company cedes this valuable 

 employee to Uncle Sam." 



Haeger a Lieutenant. 



In the great officers' training camp at 

 Fort Sheridan, 111., these last three 

 months the trade has been represented 

 by Frederick W. Haeger, of the A. L. 

 Eandall Co., Chicago. When the train- 

 ing camp closed August 13 it was an- 

 nounced that Mr. Haeger had been com- 

 missioned a second lieutenant of in- 

 fantry in the officers' reserve corps. It 

 is supposed that his first duty will be to 

 assist in the training of the new army 

 at one of the cantonments now in course 

 of construction. 



Will Join Officers' Camp. 



Frank L. Sanders and Eoland E. 

 Hammer, both well known among St. 

 Louis florists, will join the second offi- 

 cers ' training camp to be held at Fort 

 Sheridan, 111. Mr. Sanders is manager 

 of the flower department of the Grand 

 Leader, a St. Louis department store. 



Mr. Hammer is a son-in-law of Fred C. 

 Weber. Both are ambitious to becqme 

 officers in Uncle Sam's army to be sent 

 to Europe, and will work hard for com- 

 missions during the three months of in- 

 tensive training. 



Florist Gets Commission. 



Maurice Bebb, the elder son of Eob- 

 ert Bebb and his chief assistant in the 

 management of the affairs of the Mus- 

 kogee Carnation Co., Muskogee, Ala., 

 has just received his commission in the 

 new army, after having spent three 

 months in the officers' training camp at 

 Little Eock, Ark. 



Killed in France. 



Howard Ford and William Hudson, 

 employees at the GuUett & Sons estab- 

 lishment, Lincoln, 111., could not wait 

 until the United States got into the 

 war to go to Europe and join in the 

 fighting. So they enlisted with the al- 

 lied forces. Word has been received 

 that Mr. Ford was among those killed 

 at Vimy Eidge, in France. Mr. Hudson 

 was wounded four times, but has recov- 

 ered and returned to the trenches. 



Joins Aviation Corps. 



Edwin Bebb, a graduate of Professor 

 Dorner 's department at the University 

 of Illinois, and subsequently an em- 

 ployee of Mount Greenwood cemetery, 

 Morgan Park, HI., has been at the of- 

 ficers' training camp at Fort Sheridan 

 since May, but recently has joined the 

 Aviation corps and will fly an aeroplane 

 in France. 



CYCLAMENS LOSING FOLIAGE. 



What is the cause of cyclamen plants 

 losing their leaves? Some of the plants 

 die. Others eventually have a new 

 growth of foliage, but even these are 

 not so well leaved as they ought to be. 

 Any information you can give us will 

 be appreciated. E. F. C. — Ore. 



Possibly the soil is not altogether suit- 

 able or the drainage is defective. An- 

 other possible cause of loss of foliage is 

 too deep potting. The corms should not 

 be covered. For a compost, cyclamens 

 like a loam containing a good proportion 

 of leaf -mold, not too much rotted; also 

 some sand and some old cow manure, 

 well dried and broken up. I find it more 

 necessary to use an abundance of leaf- 

 mold and sand if the loam is naturally 

 heavy. Keep your plants in a house or 

 frames where thoy can be protoctod from 

 the sun with lath shades. This manner 

 of shading keeps tliom cooler than shad- 

 ing on the glass and allows them to get 

 all available light in dark, cloudy 

 weather. q y^ 



West Haven, Conn.— Thomas Patti- 

 son says that unless something unfore- 

 seen happens to change his plans, he 

 has decided to close down for the win- 

 ter, as soon as the late chrysanthemums 

 are gone. This can be done without 

 much inconvenience bv those who de- 

 pend upon plants for the bulk of their 

 business. 



