OCTOBBR 14, 1920 



The Florists' Review 



35 



John Bausclier, Jr. 



John Bauscher, Jr., well known florist 

 of Freeport, 111., died in a hospital there 

 October 9, at the age of 57 years. Death 

 came suddenly and is thought to have 

 been due to apoplexy. The day before 

 his death he wai walking around the 

 town and speaking to many of his 

 friends. Mr. Bauscher is survived 

 by his wife and the following children: 

 Mrs. Florence Burkhart, wife of Jacob 

 Burkhart, of Silver Creek township; 

 Arthur J. Bauscher, who has been man- 

 aging his father's business for some 

 years; George, Lester, Clarence and 

 John Bauscher, Jr., all of Freeport. The 

 funeral service was held at the 

 Bauscher home October 11 and was at- 

 tended by many hundreds of townspeo- 

 ple, as he had possibly a larger acquaint- 

 ance than aay other man in Freeport. 

 Interment was at Oakland cemetery. 



John Bausch<^r, Jr., was born March 

 1, 1863, in Peoria, 111., and removed to 

 Freeport with his parents in 1864. His 

 father, John Bauscher, Sr., started in 

 the florists' business in a small way in 

 1868 and conducted this business for 

 twenty years. In 1888 his son bought 

 the business and started in for himself. 

 His first step was to build a greenhouse 

 8x16 feet, heated with old stumps taken 

 from the logging woods. It is a far cry 

 from such a commencement to the large 

 range of greenhouses owned by Mr. 

 Bauscher at the time of his death. 



Mr. Bauscher kept adding to his 

 houses for the first few years and about 

 six years after buying out his father he 

 had eleven greenhouses, all being 

 heated by wood in a little 8-horsepower 

 boiler. That year he bought a 40-horse- 

 power boiler and started to burn coal. 

 After a few years Mr. Bauscher found 

 the original houses were rotting, so he 

 replaced them with three modern 

 houses, 24x170 feet, and planted roses. 

 He also put in another boiler and started 

 to use steam heat at this time. 



Speaking of these steady improve- 

 ments, Mr. Bauscher once said: "This 

 is where a great many people of Free- 

 port tried to discourage me, saying that 

 I put too much money in this business 

 for the size of the town, then about 

 12,000. But instead of being discour- 

 aged, I bought all the glass and pipe of 

 four small florists who had been forced 

 out of business, and kept enlarging. ' ' 



A few years later he built several 

 more large houses and by 1913 he owned 

 100,000 feet of glass in his sole right. 

 This is the record of twenty-five years 

 ')f successful toil as a florist, and his 

 many friends in the trade and elsewhere 

 will mourn his loss. The motto of John 

 Bauscher, Jr., which he has used 

 throughout his business career, might 

 well serve as his epitaph — "Honest and 

 Square Dealing." 



Mr. Bauscher was widely connected 

 with various organizations and was a 

 member of no less than forty-four a 

 few years before his death. Besides 

 many florists' organizations, he was a 

 member of the Knights of Pythias, 

 Loyal Order of Moose, Ddd Fellows, 

 Elks and Knights Templar. He was a 

 Mason and a Mystic Shriner. In addi- 

 tion to this, Mr. Bauscher served four 



John Bauschett Jr. 



terms as county supervisor. Nearly all 

 the societies of which he was a member 

 sent flowers to the funeral. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Warm weather invariably brings on 

 more stock and causes a decreased de- 

 mand for it. Conversely, a cool spell 

 shortens supply and stimulates demand. 

 As we have had both conditions within 

 the week, the market has been some- 

 what erratic. 



It is the practically unanimous report 

 that October has started off better than 

 it did a year ago, or the year before 

 that. Prices firmed up as soon as the 

 gladioli and asters retired from the 

 scene and stock has been selling at 

 prices commensurate with its quality. 

 Good stock has brought good prices, but 

 the demand has not yet become strong 

 enough to give unusual value to the 

 low grades. City trade is fair and get- 

 ting steadily better and better, while 

 shipping trade continues strong. Every- 

 one is pleased with the volume now be- 

 ing done, and with the prospects for the 

 near future. 



Chrysanthemums are late. Not until 

 the present week has the cut been heavy 

 enough to warrant mention near the 

 head of the list. The result has been 

 that those fortunate enough to cut good 

 early flowers have obtained excellent 

 prices for them. There will be plenty 

 for the next six weeks, unless all signs 



fail, but there is beginning to be a hope 

 that business will be strong enough to 

 take them all at profitable prices. It 

 will be remembered that several large 

 growers dropped mums because of last 

 season's low averages. The supply of 

 pompons has not increased as fast as 

 has that of large flowers. It means lit- 

 tle to quote prices on these, as a bunch 

 may be anything from a half dozen 

 sprays to an armful. 



Some rose growers are pretty far off 

 crop, but others are cutting quite 

 heavily and in general the quality is 

 excellent. Spe<*ial grades of Bussell 

 have brought as much as $6 per dozen, 

 and Premier has brought $35 per hun- 

 dred for the few longest. Most of the 

 sales of course are not over half these 

 figures. Shorts again are harder to buy 

 than the longer grades and in most 

 houses command relatively better 

 money. White roses once more are 

 scarce and bring higher prices than the 

 same lengths of other colors. A demand 

 for red also has sprung up and is not 

 easily met. Columbia is the most abun- 

 dant variety. 



The quality of carnations is improv- 

 ing rapidly and the demand is keeping 

 the market clean at good prices even 

 if some asters, mostly rather poor, still 

 can be had cheaply and are used for 

 work. A few gladioli continue to ar- 

 rive, but they are in little request. 



Violets have arrived, but the singles 

 are nothing to brag of as yet, and the 

 New York doubles are so poor most of 

 ihem go to the street boys. Caleadnla 



