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The Florists^ Review 



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BACK FOB CHBISTMAS. 



Many Thousands Sail for Home. 



There is a strong probability that 

 many thousands of the soldiers with 

 General Pershing's American Expedi- 

 tionary Forces will have returned to the 

 United States before Christmas. The 

 movement homeward already has begun 

 and the first of the crusaders for the 

 cause of liberty will have returned be- 

 fore this is read. The others will follow 

 as rapidly as transports can be supplied. 

 However, more than a million men will 

 remain in Europe to police the German 

 territory the Allies are holding until 

 such a time as peace has been restored 

 and a stable government has been es- 

 tablished by Germany and the other 

 Central Powers. Among these thou- 

 sands of soldiers returning will be many 

 members of our trade who have been 

 helping in the fighting in France. As 

 they return The Review will be glad to 

 publish their names. Also as the boys 

 who were at the training camps in this 

 country are discharged from the army 

 and reach their homes. The Review will 

 receive the news with thanks. Send in 

 the news about the soldier boys. 



J. C. Peterson Dies at Camp. 



Jens Christian Peterson, son. of Mr. 

 and Mrs. J. A. Peterson, 3132 McHenry 

 avenue, Westwood, O., died November 

 25 at Camp MacArthur, Waco, Tex., of 

 pneumonia. He was 25 years of age. 

 When the y»ung man became seriously 

 ill his father was notified and left at 

 once for Waco. Private Peterson was 

 a member of Company H, 35th Infantry. 

 Mr. Peterson, the father, is the senior 

 member of the firm of J. A. Peterson & 

 Sons and is widely known. He and 

 Mrs. Peterson have the sympathy of the 

 trade in their bereavement. 



Wenner Botkln Coming Home. 



When the members of the units of 

 the American Expeditionary Forces in 

 France who are to be returned home as 

 fast as possible heard the good news, 

 there were none more happy than the 

 members of the 75th Coast Artillery. 

 They celebrated the prospect of coming 

 back to the United States in the usual 

 American boy manner — with much music 

 by the regimental band. Two members 

 of this band are florists, Wenner A. 

 Botkin, son of J. G. Botkin, of the East 

 Lawn Gardens, Urbana, O., and Musi- 

 cian Engler, formerly with the E. G. 

 Hill Co., Eichmond, Ind. 



This information came in a letter 

 just received by Mr. Botkin from his 

 son. He tells of the joy when the armis- 

 tice was signed of the people of central 

 France, where his regiment was sta- 

 tioned, and of the enthusiasm of the 

 American soldiers at the prospect of re- 

 turning home. Previous to March 14, 

 last, when he joined the coast artillery, 

 Musician Botkin was foreman of his 

 father's greenhouse range at Urbana. 

 While in training at Fort Moultrie, 

 S. C, his superiors learned that he is 

 a talented tenor saxophone player and 

 he was advanced to musician. In France 



Wenner A.. Botkin 



he discovered that Bandsman Engler 

 also was a florist. 



Both young men, the letter to Mr. 

 Botkin says, are having an opportunity 

 to study French landscaping and he ex- 

 pects that they will bring back some 

 good ideas along this line. 



Bushyager Boys in Service. 



Two sons of E. Bushyager, proprietor 

 of the Sunnyside Greenhouses, Jean- 

 nette. Pa., are in the service of their 

 country, but were too late to get into 

 the fighting in France. Lee R. Bushya- 

 ger enlisted last January as .a pilot in 

 the U. S. Aviation Corps. He was sent 

 to Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., 

 April 27, and later was transferred to a 

 flying field near Dallas, Tex., where he 

 remained some time. He now is at a 

 camp in Arkansas, where he will finish 

 his training if the government contin- 

 ues the school. Glen R. Bushyager en- 

 listed in the S. A. T. C. and is at Alle- 

 gheny, Pa. Roy O. Bushyager entered 

 the army last spring, but was rejected 

 for physical reasons after spending 

 seven days in camp. A fourth son was 

 exempted so he could remain at home 

 and help his father, who grows vegeta- 

 ble plants, as well as flowers. 



Bochester Florist Woimded. 



Advices received from friends in 

 Rochester are to the effect that Cor- 

 poral Lester G. Brown, formerly of the 

 H. E. Wilson forces, of that city, is in 

 a hospital near the Alps close to the 

 border of Switzerland, recovering from 

 wounds and a gas attack. Corporal 

 Brown had suffered from shrapnel 

 wounds as well as from a bullet wound 

 in his heel, and lost his voice as the 

 result of gassing. He writes, however, 

 that his voice is being restored. He 

 has been in the hospital from which 

 he wrote two months. Rochester friends 

 are hoping for his early recovery and 

 safe return. 



Hartung Hunting Huns. 



Among the numerous florists who are 

 in France on missions connected with 

 making the world safe for democracy is 

 Norbert E. Hartung, of Two Rivers, 

 Wis. He is with an engineer regiment 

 and has had a busy year. He is the 

 eldest srfn of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Har- 

 tung, who have been in the florists ' busi- 

 ness at Two Rivers for forty years. He 

 was his father's chief assistant before 

 he entered the army. The greenhouses 

 are closed this season, but will be re- 

 opened when the young man comes back. 



Colligan in France. 



William E. Colligan, formerly con- 

 nected with the cut flower department 

 of Poehlmann Bros. Co., Chicago, under 

 0. W. Frese, was at La Valbonnais, 

 France, when the war closed, training 

 for a commission, one of 7,000 in the 

 camp. He entered the service as a 

 private in a regiment which trained at 

 Camp Lee and was among the first to 

 sail. The regiment made six trips to 

 the front and Colligan rose to be top 

 sergeant, after which he was selected 

 as a candidate for a commission and 

 sent to southern France, to an officers' 

 school. 



Three Sons Coming Home. 



Now that the war is over and the men 

 in the training camps in this country 

 are being demobilized, the three sons of 

 S. W. Pitkin, St. Charles, 111., will soon 

 return to their home. Ernest C. Pitkin, 

 aged 29 years, is in training at a camp 

 near San Antonio, Tex,; Elbert, aged 

 25 years, is attending the radio school 

 at the Dunwoody Institute, Minneapolis, 

 Minn., and Charles, aged 21, is at the 

 Great Lakes Naval Training Station, 

 Great Lakes, 111. The two older boys 

 were associated with their father at his 

 establishment in St. Charles, while the 

 youngest son was with Vaughan's Seed 

 Store, Chicago. 



Sergeant Billy Clark. 



One of the characteristics of the 

 Yankee troops noted by the seasoned 

 veterans of the allied armies was that 

 they went ahead faster than they were 

 ordered to move and did not seem to 

 know when to stop fighting. The "un- 

 trained" men of the American brigades 

 had a different method from that of 

 the machine-like action of the divisions 

 they came to aid. And it was Yankee 

 pep that did the job. 



Another peculiarity of the Americans 

 was that the higher officers often led 

 their men in person, contrary to the 

 rules of warfare, many of them sacrific- 

 ing their lives in their eagerness for 

 the fray. But when an officer fell 

 there was always a "noncom" who 

 could take command and lead his com- 

 pany with valor and dash to victory. 

 Of such was Sergeant "Billy" Clark, 

 formerly employed by the Germain Seed 

 & Plant Co., Los Angeles, Cal., and be- 

 fore that with another florist firm of the 

 same city. 



"On the fifth day of the battle," 

 writes a correspondent from the front 

 to a Los Angeles newspaper, describ- 



