May 31, 1917. 



The Florists^ Review 



23 



OBITUARY 



Fred P. Collyer. 



Fred P. Collyer, who operated the 

 . nly greenhouses at Falmouth, Ind., is 

 fiead, of goiter. He was 36 years of age 

 ;.nd had never married. 



Hilan Harrington. 



Hilan Harrington, a pioneer Pacific 

 '■oast florist, died at his home, Vashon 

 Island, Wash., Monday, May 21. For 

 fifteen years Mr. Harrington conduct- 

 ed the greenhouses on Vashon Island, 

 which until he retired in 1914 were 

 known as the H. Harrington Co. range. 

 The same company owned a retail store 

 at Seattle. 



Mr. Harrington was born in Steuben 

 county. New York, sixty-six years ago 

 and removed from Norwich, N. Y,, 

 where he was in the florists' business, 

 to Vashon in 1899. He built the Vashon 

 range of greenhouses, which are known 

 throughout the northwest. He left a 

 widow, one daughter, Mrs. L. C. Beall, 

 Jr., and two brothers. B. G. 



Alexander Siegel. 



Alexander Siegel, a retired retail 

 florist, died at his home, 4272 Moffatt 

 avenue, Friday, May 25, after an ill- 

 ness of a year. Mr. Siegel conducted 

 a store at Sixth and Washington ave- 

 nues until a year ago, when sicjcness 

 forced him to retire. He was well 

 known among the trade, both in St. 

 Louis and Chicago. Mr. Siegel was a 

 member of the St. Louis Florists' Club 

 and was prominent in the Masonic 

 lodge. He is survived by his widow, 

 a sister and two brothers. 



The funeral was held May 28 from 

 the home and was attended by mem- 

 bers of the St. Louis Florists' Club in 

 a body. Many beautiful floral designs 

 were sent by friends in the trade. The 

 burial was in Bellefontaine cemeterv. 

 J. J. B. 



BORDER FOR CANNA BED. 

 Can you give me an idea for a flower 

 bed twelve feet square in which cannas 

 will occupy the center? H. W. — N, J. 



If scarlet cannas are used and you 

 want a bed of one color, use Salvia 

 Bonfire, but if yellow cannas are planted 

 the red salvias would make a good 

 contrast. Either Pennisetum longi- 

 stylum or P. Ruppelii makes a nice 

 border for a canna bed. It would be 

 best to use cannas for the whole bed, 

 with the exception of the border. 



C. W. 



XANTHOSOMA BATAVIENSIS. 



Among ornamental plants which have 

 large leaves, the aroides, or arum fam- 

 ily, have long been favorites. Caladium 

 csculentum is the best known of this 

 class. Others not as well known, but 

 which are even more attractive, are the 

 alocasias or xanthosomas, and X. 

 Bataviensis is the handsomest of them 

 all. 



This beautiful plant has a broad, 

 arrow-shaped leaf of a distinctive blu- 

 ish green shade, much more handsome 

 than ealadium, and has large dark pur- 

 ple stems which add much to its at- 

 tractiveness. They do not make so large 

 bulbs as do the caladiums, but even 

 with a small bulb or plant, if given 

 plenty of moisture and rich soil, they 



soon reach a large size. We had a bed 

 of them planted in the convention 

 gardens at Houston, Tex., last year and 

 they were awarded a certificate of 

 merit. Every florist should give them 

 a trial and in planting them should 

 remember that all of this family of 

 plants are voracious feeders, requiring 

 not only rich soil, but a plentiful sup- 

 ply of moisture, and I feel sure they 

 will be pleased with the results. 



L. H. Eead. 



VEGETABLES AND 

 FRUITS DEPARTMENT 



WESTERLY, R. I. 



S. J. Eeuter & Son, Inc., is among the 

 unsecured creditors of John Moore, of 

 Norwich, Conn., who last week filed a 

 voluntary petition in bankruptcy. 



Conrad Schulz was a business visitor 

 in Providence and Boston last week. 

 He was accompanied by Mrs. Schulz. 



Louis J. Eeuter spent several days of 

 last week in New York and Philadel- 

 phia on business. 



James Bliven has severed his connec- 

 tion with Conrad Schulz. W. H. M. 



CLUB ROOT ON TOMATOES. 



Under separate cover I am sending 

 you a dozen tomato plants that are suf- 

 fering from some kind of root disease. 

 I grow several thousand plants, but this 

 variety, Magnus, and a few of the va- 

 riety Stone, are the only ones affected. 

 The plants were grown in hotbeds in 

 which wood soil was used. Other va- 

 rieties, grown in the same beds, within 

 six inches of the plants sent, were not 

 affected. Can you tell me the cause 

 of this disease and how I can overcome 

 it? C. E. M.— O. 



WOONSOCKET, R. I. 



Washington Street Greenhouses, at 

 Franklin, have a good trade in bedding 

 and potted plants, of which there is an 

 unusually large supply. 



Boucher Bros., landscape gardeners 

 and foresters, 81 Union street, have 

 been engaged by Tree Warden Michael 

 Crane to spray and prune the trees of 

 the city, which will take about two 

 months. 



E. A. Chipman, who has been in busi- 

 ness since 1875, announces Chipman 's 

 Greenhouses as "The same old man; the 

 same old corner; the same old style of 

 treatment. " W. H. M. 



The tomato plants show unmistak- 

 able signs of club root,- also called club 

 foot, or Plasmodiophora brassicae. This 

 disease attacks the cabbage, cauliflower, 

 turnip, radish and other vegetables, in 

 addition to some of our common weeds, 

 like hedge mustard and shepherd's 

 purse. Your tomatoes have probably 

 taken the disease from infected soil, the 

 spores of the disease persisting in liv- 

 ing over winter in the soil. There is 

 no known cure for this disease, but all 

 affected plants sliould be destroyed. 

 Soil that breeds club root should not 

 be planted to crops likely to take the 

 disease, at least not for a couple of 

 years, and it will help in some measure 

 to plow the land and leave it rough over 

 winter, at the same time giving it a 

 good application of lime, at the rate of 

 2,000 to 3,000 pounds per acre. C. W. 



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i MOTT-LY MUSINGS ! 



"By their fruits ye shall know 

 them," observed H. N. Hoffman, of 

 Elmira, N. Y., while engaged in label- 

 ing a stocky batch of fruit trees. ' ' This 

 certainly has been a great season for 

 planting, and we were never so busy 

 in the nursery," reported Mr. Hoff- 

 man. His honor still fills the mayor- 

 alty chair, and says that between busi- 

 ness and the pleasure of making gar- 

 den allotments, there is no rest; but 

 lie enjoys it. Two husky sons are home 

 from Cornell, and are a big help. One, 

 Allyn P., is a landscape engineer and 

 strong in perspective. The other, Ar- 

 thur, bids fair to follow in the mayor's 

 footsteps. 



A. H. Bool, of Ithaca, is reported 

 as having additional greenhouses on 

 the tapis, finding the demand beyond 

 the supply. There has been quite an 

 increase since he returned to the fold. 



Eobert Craig makes daily trips be- 

 tween Philadelphia and the Norwood 

 establishment by automobile. I met 

 our veteran friend passing through 

 Darby. He observed that "keen 

 though one's vision may be, to attempt 

 to predict the future is folly. The 

 most sensible view is to keep steadily 

 at it and hope for a speedy end." 

 Eobert Craig, Jr., notes excellent plant 

 sales. 



G. A. Strohlein, of Henry A. Dreer, 

 Inc., Eiverton, N. J., mentioned that 



"history is repeating itself in the palm 

 line, as it were. Some years back it 

 was customary to import arecas from 

 the tropics. Now they are being 

 shipped. By the way, Adiantum glo- 

 riosum is reproducing finely from 

 seed." 



William Wunder, of Pittsville, Pa., 

 hung up the receiver with the remark 

 that "it is the small things that an- 

 noy. We recently received an offer of 

 $6,000 per acre for our place of seven- 

 teen acres .and feel strongly tempted to 

 accept it." . 



John Welsh Young, of Philadelphia, 

 observed that the war apparently had 

 frightened the many applicants for the 

 greenhouses at Upsal. The question of 

 taking the glass and piping for use at 

 the Enfield plant is under considera- 

 tion. There is ample room there and 

 stock does splendidly. 



Louis Dui)uy, of Whitestone, L. I., 

 has presented each member of his fam- 

 ily with a Liberty bond of comfortable 

 denomination. Should business con- 

 tinue as satisfactory as in the past, the 

 distribution will be extended to every 

 member of the establishment. 



Satow & Suzuki, of Whitestone, L. I., 

 are working up a big line of Japanese 

 specialties, on the theory that it will be 

 diftieult to import such stock direct 

 from Japan later on. W. M. 



