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The Florists^ Review 



16 



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TRAMP! TRAMP! OUR BOYS ARE MARCHING i 



GETTING IN FIGHTING TRIM. 



Trade Trains for Trouble. 



Many florists during the last few 

 weeks have had their first touches of 

 what is the soldier's life in training. 

 Many more will probably go to the 

 cantonments before the armies that 

 Uncle Sam intends sending to Europe 

 are completed. The Eeview each week 

 adds new names to the roster of those 

 who have gone. Others will be going, 

 and they, too, will have their names 

 printed. All that is necessary is to let 

 The Eeview know about them. 



Flying for TJncle Sam. 



George Anderson, the only son of C. 

 G. Anderson, superintendent of the Gul- 

 lett & Sons plant department, Lincoln, 

 111., will be one of the 10,000 young 

 American aviators who are expected to 

 gain the mastery of the air in the Euro- 

 pean fighting zone next spring. He join- 

 ed the officers' training camp at Fort 

 Snelling, Minn., several months ago, and 

 during the last three months has been 

 flying at the aviation training camp 

 near Toronto, Ont. He expects soon to 

 be commissioned a lieutenant. Young 

 Mr. Anderson — he is only 20 years old, 

 but stands nearly six feet — is well 

 known to the trade. He was employed 

 in the Chicago office of the Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co. for two years, and left two 

 years ago when his father resigned as 

 superintendent of the Poehlmann plant 

 range to go with the family to Minne- 

 apolis, where he remained after his 

 father removed to Lincoln. 



Rochester Man to Go. 



Max the Florist, of Rochester, N. Y., 

 is taking a vacation visiting his many 

 friends in the neighborhood of his home 

 city while waiting for the summons to 

 a training camp. He has successfully 

 passed his physical examination and is 

 ready to go. The management of his 

 store will be left to an assistant until 

 he definitely knows that he will go to 

 Europe. In the event that he does, he 

 will sell the business. 



Pittsburghers to Camp. 



A number of the young men in the 

 trade at Pittsburgh, Pa., have gone to 

 the army training camps. Among those 

 who left recently was Hiram Frishkorn, 

 an employee of Beckert's Seed Store 

 for many years. Mr. Frishkorn left to 

 begin training September 17. Several 

 employees of the Pittsburgh Cut Flower 

 Co. greenhouses also have left. Because 

 of the shortage of labor, the growers in 

 and near Pittsburgh are considering the 

 advisability of hiring women to replace 

 the men. 



J. W. Ross' Sons in Army. 



Earl and Whitty Ross, who were as- 

 sociated with their father, J. W. Ross, 

 in the J. W. Ross Co., seedsmen, florists 

 and nurserymen, Centralia, 111., have 

 joined the army. Earl is with the na- 

 tional army, and left for a training 

 camp September 6. Whitty is with what 

 was formerly the Ninth I. N. G., which 



has been taken into the federal service. 

 The departure of the two young men 

 left Mr. Ross alone to take care of the 

 business. 



Follows Grandfather's Footsteps. 



Stiles D. Woodruff, son of Watson S. 

 Woodruff and grandson of Stiles D. 

 Woodruff, the founder of the firm of S. 

 A. Woodruff & Sons, seedsmen, of 

 Orange, Conn., left September 3 for the 

 training camp at Ayer, Mass. With an- 

 other Orange youth, Mr. Woodruff was 

 given a rousing send-off by the citizens 

 of Orange. And not the least proud of 

 the young men was Watson S. Woodruff, 

 the father, who, by the way, is a mem- 

 ber of the exemption board which made 



Stiles D. WoodruiL 



the selections. But for the war, Mr. 

 Woodruff would have been graduated 

 with the 1918 class of Yale University. 

 In 1916 he was a member of the famous 

 Yale Battery, which spent the summer 

 in training at Tobyhanna, Pa. Six 

 months ago Mr. Woodruff joined the 

 Second regiment of the Connecticut 

 Home Guard. It was an unusual co- 

 incidence that Mr. Woodruff left for 

 war fifty-five years to the day after his 

 grandfather and namesake left to fight 

 for the Union in the Civil war, during 

 which he was engaged in the battles of 

 Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, 

 being taken prisoner in the latter battle 

 and spending some time in the famous 

 Libby prison. 



Five More from Denver. 



Denver florists continue to go to the 

 army training camps. Five more of 

 the young men in the trade have left 

 for Camp Baldwin, near the city, where 

 they will undergo preliminary training 

 and then will be sent to Linda Vista, 

 Cal. They are Joseph Whalon, formerly 

 of the Alpha Floral Co., who is in the 

 artillery division; William Cash, for- 

 merly rose grower for the Mauff Floral 

 Co.; Clyde Bengley, formerly with the 



Elitch-Long Greenhouses, and Waldo 

 Kerl and Frank Dykstra, formerly em- 

 ployed at the Park Floral Co. green- 

 houses. 



To Become an Aviator. 



Charles Windram, well known among 

 the trade in Cincinnati, O., leaves for 

 Philadelphia September 22, to go into 

 training for the aviation service. He 

 successfully passed his physical exami- 

 nation September 17, and spent the week 

 arranging his affairs before joining the 

 service. 



Will Aid Wounded. 



Don Wadsworth, who formerly was 

 with Martin & Forbes, Portland, Ore., 

 has joined the army hospital corps and 

 is in training at American lake, Oregon. 

 He is well known in the trade there, his 

 father formerly being the mum grower 

 for Martin & Forbes. The latter now 

 is working at the shipyards, helping 

 Uncle Sam build a merchant fleet. 



Evansville's Contribution. 



A number of young men in the trade 

 in Evansville, Ind., have gone or are go- 

 ing to the training camps preparatory 

 to making the trip to Europe. Walde- 

 mar Niednagel has been called and ex- 

 pects to leave for camp October 3. 

 George and Herbert Blackman already 

 are at the Louisville camp. David 

 Elspermann has been selected, but does 

 not know the date he will be ordered 

 to go. 



Votaw Joins Marines. 



Howard Votaw, for several years a 

 member of the Chicago Florists' Club 

 and widely known among growers and 

 supply dealers of the Chicago section 

 as the manager of the florists' depart- 

 ment of Darling & Co., fertilizer manu- 

 facturers at the Stock Yards, has en- 

 listed in the marines and is at a train- 

 ing station in South Carolina. 



VALUE OF PIGEON MANURE. 



Will you let me know what would be 

 a fair price for pigeon manure that has 

 been gradually collected for fifteen 

 years? Would such fertilizer be good 

 as a top-dressing for carnation soil that 

 was poor when the planting was donef 



0. W.— N. Y. 



Without knowing just what condi- 

 tion the pigeon manure is in, I can give 

 you no definite answer as to its com- 

 mercial value. If it is dry, so that it 

 can readily be ground up, it is worth 

 considerably more than if it were fresh 

 and more or less moist. Its fertilizing 

 value should be about the same as any 

 guano, providing it has been dry aU 

 the time, and it should be used in about 

 the same way. I should- consider $1 

 per hundred pounds a fair price for any 

 that is dry. A. F. J. B. 



Washington, N. J. — Alonzo Jay Bryan, 

 Jr., is the name of the 8%-pound boy 

 who has arrived at the home of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Alonzo J. Bryan. As the family 

 already has a girl 8 years old, Alonzo, 

 Jr., was gladly welcomed. 



