JUNB 19, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



15 



I., oi which T. A. Havemeyer is pro- 

 prietor, and the Cottage Gardens Co., of 

 Queens, L. I., arranged for an exhibi- 

 tion in the foyer of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, where, June 

 11 to June 14, there was a splendid dis- 

 play. They were materially assisted by 

 an extensive exhibit made by John 

 Lewis Childs, Flowerfield, L. I., and also 

 by an exhibit staged by the Rosedale 

 Nurseries, of Tarrytown, N. Y. There 

 were neither classes nor premiums, the 

 show being entirely for the public, who 

 appeared to be quite willing to take ad- 

 vantage of it, judging from the manner 

 in which the visitors took notes of 

 varieties. Most of the best of the lead- 

 ing midseason and late varieties were 

 on exhibition. There were many hand- 

 some new varieties staged under num- 

 ber. 



The American Sweet Pea Society will 

 hold its annual exhibition and meeting 

 at the American Museum of Natural 

 History June 21, the exhibition con- 

 tinuing throughout the following day, 

 Sunday. 



Visitors: Alex. Henderson, of A. Hen- 

 derson & Co., Chicago; L. W. Wheeler, 

 of the Pieters-Wheeler Seed Co., Gilroy, 

 Cal. 



Philip F. Kessler, 55 West Twenty- 

 sixth street, has been busy with his an- 

 nual cut of Jacqueminot roses. The dis- 

 posal of these roses every year is prac- 

 tically an * ' institution ' ' with him, fore- 

 running cessation in some degree from 

 . active business for several months pre- 

 ceding the season. 



The Astor Floral Co., a new concern, 

 has op^ed a store at 196 Livingston 

 street, iprooklyn. The proprietor is J. 

 M, Palmer, who for many years was 

 located at 290 Flatbush avenue, Brook- 

 lyn. 



Harry Hoffmeier, the retail florist of 

 Eighty-sixth street and Broadway, is 

 around again after several months' con- 

 finement at home and in the hospital 

 with rheumatism. J. H. P. 



George Hoopis, eastern representative 

 for the A. A. Arnold Paper Box Co., of 

 Chicago, reports excellent spring busi- 

 ness. The white glaze boxes, which 

 it was impossible to manufacture dur- 

 ing the war, on account of the scarcity 

 and high price of glazed paper, again 

 are available and the company is putting 

 out a new line of parcel post containers 

 which florists like for shipping pur- 

 poses. 



The. business of the late Balph M. 

 Ward has been turned into a stock com- 

 pany as Balph M. Ward & Co., Inc., and 

 will be carried on by the employees 

 whose capable handling of the depart- 

 ments permitted Mr. Ward to be a globe 

 trotter. The capital stock is $125,000. 



A FLORIST MISSING. 



The disappearance of Balph A. An- 

 derson, of the Queen City Floral Co., 

 Traverse City, Mich., Shriner, Knight 

 Templar, Elk, Knight of Pythias and 

 Odd Fellow, has given Chicago detec- 

 tives and friends a mystery to solve. 



Anderson left his wife, Orpha, his 

 daughter, Gradele, 12 years old, and his 

 son, Robert, 5, June 8, and went to Chi- 

 cago by boat to buy supplies. He ar- 

 rived Monday morning and stopped at 

 the Hotel La Salle. 



He bought the supplies. He visited 

 the A. L. Randall Co., the Chicago Flow- 

 er Growers' Association, the John C. 



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WE ABE 80 accustomed to hearing of the stunts of the airplane mail that we 

 are likely to overlook the fact that postal facilities are provided on the 

 ocean as well as on land and in the air — which is just a prelude to the statement 

 that the illustration above is the reproduction of a photograph made in mid-Pacific, 

 on the S. 8. Korea Maru, bound for Japan, and mailed in a sack picked up by a 

 steamer headed the other way, the photograph reaching The Eeview the same day 

 its subject landed at Yokohama. Incidentally, too, before Mr. Miller leaves Japan 

 he will receive his copy of The Beview containing the picture, as he plans remaining 

 there until the shipment of lily bulbs grown for and purchased by his concern, the 

 American Bulb Co., is assured. There is said to be only half a crop tx) supply the 

 world this year and Mr. Miller left Chicago May 10 to see that the company of 

 which he is president gets its share. 



Moninger Co., as well as other florists 

 and undertakers, for he supplies every- 

 thing for a funeral, from the casket to 

 the flowers. Tuesday morning he wrote 

 his wife that he would take the boat 

 that night, and might be expected home 

 June 12. There were some passages in 

 the letter that seem to the detectives a 

 little odd, such as, "have established 

 plenty of credit ;'-'_" I have got off now 

 and am able to do the things you know 

 I can do, as you know what I am made 

 of." 



Anderson engaged stateroom No. 37 

 on the steamer Alabama. The state- 

 room is on the upper deck.' Anderson 

 had with him at the time between $400 

 and $500, a diamond ring, a gold watch, 

 and his traveling bag. He was going 

 first to Constantine, Mich., to arrange 

 for the purchase of undertakers' sup- 

 plies. 



The boat stopped at Grand Haven at 

 3:30 a. m. June 11, and left at 5 a. m. 

 At 7 a. m. it arrived at Muskegon. 



There a maid, intending to make up the 

 berth, entered Anderson's room. 



She found a man's suit, Anderson's 

 bag, watch and ring, and $1.79. The 

 key to the stateroom was found on a 

 lower deck. There was no trace of 

 Anderson. The captain said the boat 

 had been crowded and if he had jumped 

 or fallen overboard during the night 

 some one would have seen him. There 

 were many passengers who spent the 

 night walking around, men who had 

 been unable to get staterooms. 



Mrs. Anderson received her husband 's 

 letter Wednesday morning, and shortly 

 after came the news from the steamship 

 company. The suit found, she said, was 

 one of two he had taken with him. He 

 was wearing the other. He was in- 

 sured for $10,000, and recently had 

 made application for $10,000 more life 

 insurance. 



L. C. Stocking and M. D, Bryant, of 

 Traverse City, and Will H. Anderson, 

 of Minneapolis, a brother, started a 



