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The Florists' Review 



SHmKMBiiB 16, 1920 



Account of the death of Gerald L. 

 Holsinger, president of Holsinger Bros., 

 Eosedale, Kan., appears in the obituary* 

 column of this issue. •• \ 



Friends of Adolph Muller, owner of 

 the De Kalb Nurseries, Penn Square, 

 Philadelphia, who left with a friend the 

 latter part of July for a big game hunt 

 in Alaska, have received word that the 

 pair, accompanied by a guide, have gone 

 to the head of the Donjek Jind White 

 rivers, where the hunting is expected to 

 begin. They plan to be gone about six 

 months. 



Vigorous protests against the imposi- 

 tion of blanket restrictions on shipments 

 from the states of New Jersey and Penn- 

 sylvania on account of the Japanese 

 beetle were made at Washington Septem- 

 ber 10 by nurserymen's representatives. 

 President Lloyd Stark and Secretary 

 John Watson, of the A. A. N., both were 

 in attendance. Full account of the hear- 

 ing appears on another page of this issue. 



PABK SUPERINTENDENTS MEET. 



Elect Officers in Louisville. 



In the concludiilg session of the con- 

 vention of the American Association 

 of Park Superintendents," held in the 

 Seelbach hotel, Louisville, Ey., Sep- 

 tember 9 to 11, the following .officers 

 were elected: President, Henry W. 

 Busch, superintendent of parks, Detroit, 

 Mich.; vice-president, Julius V. Bur- 

 gevin. New York; secretary-treasurer, 

 Emmett P. Griffin, East St. Louis, 111. 

 Mr. Busch, who had previously been 

 vice-president, succeeds John . W. 

 Thompson, of Seattle. Mr. Griffin, who 

 is editor of Parks and Eecreation, the 

 official publication of the organization, 

 was reelected. Walter Wright, Chi- 

 cago, and Charles W. Davis, Memphis, 

 were elected members of the board of 

 directors for 3-year terms, succeeding 

 George W. Hess, Washington, D. C, 

 and Edward R. Mack, Wilmington, Del. 

 Detroit, Mich., was selected as the place 

 for the 1921 convention. 



Membership Dues Increased. 



Resolutions were adopted by the as- 

 sociation increasing the annual dues of 

 members from $5 to $10 and of sustain- 

 ing members to $25, also contributing 

 $100 to the committee on horticultural 

 nomenclature to carry on its work. 



In an address on "The Duties of a 

 Park Superintendent," Theodore Wirth, 

 superintendent of parks, Minneapolis, 

 Minn., said that the usual salary of 

 an efficient park superintendent was 



tuot in accordance with his services; 

 Mr, Wirth, however, added that the 

 superintendent keenly interested in his 

 j>A)fession would find an abundant 

 compen;9ation in the realization of the 

 btfniefite derived from his efforts. 



..The members of the association made 

 automobile trips inspecting the various 

 parks and the grounds of the Audubon 

 Country Club. They also made a sun- 

 set excursion up the Ohio river on the 

 steamer America. After the conven- 

 tion -was ovjex, some of. the- members 

 made a party to visit Mammoth cave, 

 some left for St. Louis to attend the 

 convention of irhe National Associa- 

 tion of Gardeners and a few went up 

 to Evansville, Ind., where the Indiana 

 park superintendents were in session 

 September 13. _, 



CEMETERY STJPEBINTENDENTS. 



Most of the sessions of the conven- 

 tion of the American Association of 

 Cemetery Superintendents September 7 

 to 10 were held in Hamilton, Ont., but 

 for the concluding session, when much 

 business was accomplished, the asso- 

 ciation went to Toronto. 



The papers presented to the associa- 

 tion included one on "Landscape 

 Design in Cemeteries," by H. B. Dun- 

 nington-Grubb, a landscape architect 

 of Toronto; one on "Winter Work in 

 the Cemetery," by P. C. Caldwell, 

 superintendent of Hollywood cemetery, 

 Brookline, Mass., and one on "Stone- 

 work in the Cemetery," by J. C. 

 Scorgle, superintendent of Mount Au- 

 burn cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. 



Those who attended the convention 



were taken to inspect several ceme- 

 teries in Hamilton and Toronto. They 

 also held an evening sail on Lake On- 

 tario and an informal banquet, "Dutch 

 treat" style, at the Royal Connaught 

 hotel, Hamilton,. Superintendent S. L. 

 Landers, of Hamilton, had a large 

 share in making the local plans for the 

 convention. 



GYPSY MOTH ALARMS F. H. B. 



Bi^ught up at Beetle Hearing. 



The gypsy moth has made its ap- 

 pearance in New Jersey and New York, 

 and Dr. C. L. Marlatt, chairman of the 

 Federal Horticultural Board, states 

 that the probabilities are that the board 

 will at an early date issue a call for a 

 public hearing in Washington on the 

 subject. Dr. Marlatt laid the situation 

 before those attending the hearing at 



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