Dbcbhbbb 3, 1914. 



The Florists^ Review 



27 



OBITUARY 



James Mallon. ) 



James Mallon, junior member of the 

 firm of James Mallon 's Sons, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., died December 1, of pneumonia, 

 after a brief illness. A widow sur- 

 vives. 



The Mallon business is one of the 

 oldest in the trade, having been es- 

 tablished by the father of the two 

 energetic and popular men who have 

 conducted it in recent years. It will 

 be continued by John Mallon. 



Franz Schramm. 



Franz Schramm, one of the pioneer 

 growers of cut flowers for the Chicagft 

 market and a director of the Chicago 

 Plower Growers' Association, died No- 

 vember 25 at his home in Park Ridge, 

 111., after having been ill nearly a year 

 with heart trouble. He was in his 

 seventy-fourth year. 



Mr. Schramm was born in Germany 

 and had been growing flowers for the 

 Chicago market since 1890. He is sur- 

 vived by a wife and six children, 

 Frank, Mrs. Minnie Prebs, Charles, 

 Mrs. Bertha Koehler, Frederick, Mrs. 

 Pauline Hammerl. 



Mr. Schramm's funeral, which took 

 place at his home November 29, was 

 attended by many friends and mem- 

 bers of the local market. Interment 

 was in Park Ridge cemetery. 



Olof Olsson. 



Olof Olsson was born at Kirshanstad 

 Len, Hjernap, Socken, Sweden, April 

 23, 1864, and died at Austin, Tex., 

 November 20, aged 50 years. 



He went to Denmark on his twen- 

 tieth birthday and began his trade as 

 a florist, serving his apprenticeship of 

 four years at Fredriksdal and Lyngby, 

 working at the latter place three years, 

 at the Royal Gardens. In 1887 he left 

 Denmark, going to England, where for 

 a year he worked in the establishment 

 of Geo. Poulton, Castle Garden and 

 Edmonton, London. In 1888 he arrived 

 at Galveston, Tex., and went direct to 

 Austin, where for three years he 

 worked for his board and room wliile 

 learning English. Then he began as 

 head gardener for a wealthy wholesale 

 merchant, serving in this capacity for 

 fifteen years. 



About thirteen years ago he pur- 

 chased property near the edge of the 

 business district, gradually enlarging 

 it until lack of room forced him to 

 move to the suburbs, about seven years 

 ago. Here a plant of about six acres 

 and 40,000 square feet of glass was 

 conducted, giving him at tlie time of 

 his death the proprietorship of the 

 next to the largest wholesale and retail 

 establishment in the state. 



The great burden of responsibility 

 resting upon him broke him down phys 

 ically and mentally, and for the last 

 six weeks he had been confined to his 

 room with a complication of diseases. 

 Gradually a state of melancholia over- 

 came him, due to this, his first, long 

 illness and the incessant pains, and on 

 the night of Friday, November 20, he 

 took his own life. There are left to 

 mourn his loss, liis widow, one sister 

 and two brothers. 



He was well known among the flo- 

 rists of the state, was one of the offi- 



cers of the local florists' association, 

 and although not active in the affairs 

 of his city, was considered a man with 

 a future before him. 



The funeral took place Monday, 

 November 23, at his home, the house 

 being decorated with palms and ferns. 

 The casket rested in a bower of palms 

 and snow-white mums, surrounded by 

 the flowers he loved, silent tributes 

 from his many friends all over the 

 state. H. B. M. 



CROWN IMPERIALS. 



Please let me know how to handle 

 Crown Imperials outdoors. Also state 

 how to force them, if it can be done, as 

 I have never handled them. F. S. 



Crown Imperials, known botanically as 

 Fritillaria Imperialis, are not of much 

 value for forcing purposes. They are 

 useful, however, in flower borders con- 

 taining a mixture of plants and as they 

 bloom early and make quite a bold show 

 while in flower, they are worthy of a 

 place in every garden. Borders of mixed 

 perennials and bulbs are the ideal place 



for them. Give them a light and well 

 drained soil. Plant them six inches deep, 

 placing some sand below and above the 

 bulbs. Give them a light winter mulch. 

 The plants are hardy and need no fuss- 

 ing over. They will come up for sev- 

 eral years where the soil conditions are 

 suitable. If the ground is too wet and 

 retentive, however, they may entirely 

 disappear after the first year. For early 

 flowers, give the bulbs a place near the 

 house. C. W, 



CANDYmFT FOR MEMORIAL DAY. 



When should seed of candytuft be 

 sown to have it in crop for Memorial 

 day? What night temperature do the 

 plants require after they are benched? 



J. H. 



Sow the giant white candytuft early 

 in February. White candytuft does 

 best in beds in a cool house. It can be 

 given a temperature of 60 degrees at 

 night early in May if the crop seems 

 at all late, but must be kept cooler and 

 aired freely as the flowers open. 



C. W. 



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Oreeusboro, N. C— S. N. Griffith, of 

 Pittsburgh, Pa., is now the head de- 

 signer of the Greensboro Floral Co. 



Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Cornell is the 

 name under which the successor of Ira 

 G. Marvin does business at the Main 

 street store, which Mr. Marvin recently 

 sold. 



Peoria, HI. — C. F. Becker, formerly in 

 the grocery business at Springfield, 111., 

 has sold his business there and come to 

 Peoria to engage in business with his 

 brother, Louis J. Becker, who has been 

 in the florists' trade at 914 Blaine 

 street for a number of years. 



Canton, O. — A. T. Pollard, who occu- 

 pies one of the stores on the ground 

 floor, joined in the celebration of the 

 opening of the new T. K. Harris build- 

 ing Saturday, November 14. Owners 

 and tenants held open house to visitors. 

 Music was furnished by an orchestra 

 and chrysanthemums were given to the 

 women visitors. 



Brampton, Ont. — Frank Franzen, of 

 Dale's, regretted the abandoning of the 

 Toronto show possibly more than anyone 

 else, as he had planned to show some 

 roses with record stems. Last year The 

 Review printed a picture showing him 

 with a 6-foot Sunburst. This year he 

 had Richmond and Killarney with 8- 

 foot stems and Hadley with a stem nine 

 feet six inches long, and he wanted to 

 show them. 



Cadiz, O. — John T. Timmons, propri- 

 etor of the Birdlawn Conservatory, 

 failed to obtain relief from the eye 

 trouble for which he went to Daven- 

 port, la., for treatment last June, and 

 fears he will be blind for the rest of 

 his life. He and his wife, however, 

 will continue the greenhouse business, 

 and he will continue to write articles 

 on the culture of vegetables and flowers 

 by amateurs for the metropolitan pa- 

 pers. 



Sturgis, Mich. — John W. Vogt was 

 married November 25 at Rochester, 

 N. Y., to Miss Olive Carolyn Disney. 

 The couple are 'now at home here. 



Nanticoke, Pa.— J. F. Wampa, for- 

 merly with Ira G. Marvin, of Wilkes- 

 Barre, is now manager of Cornell's 

 flower store on East Main street. 



Beacon, N. Y.— The Fishkill Standard 

 prints a column article, "School Gar- 

 dening and Welfare Work," by Benj. 

 Hammond, being a paper read before 

 the Ontario Horticultural Association, 

 November 12, at Toronto. 



Monticello, 111.— J. C. Shield has 

 worked up a large set of single and 

 semi-double chrysanthemums, all seed- 

 lings of Garza. His range of colors 

 covers pretty nearly everything known 

 in the chrj-santhemum. 



Galena, 111. — As B. F. Vandervate not 

 only allows visitors to go through his 

 greenhouses, but accompanies them as a 

 guide and explainer, he is kept busy 

 Sunday afternoons, when the promenad- 

 ing public finds his place a most inter- 

 esting one. 



Jollet, ni. — Mrs. .losepli l^abo, who 

 recently returned from Germany, has 

 many harrowing incidents to relate of 

 her experience of the war. Substituting 

 for her sister for a time, she served as 

 a Red Cross nurse in a hospital at St. 

 Goarshausen on the Rhine. 



Boone, la. — J. Loehrer, proprietor of 

 the Boone Greenhouses, who lost his 

 eyesight about two months ago, has 

 taken into partnership his son, J. A. 

 Loehrer, who will in future conduct 

 the business. The latter has had sev- 

 eral years' experience in growing flow- 

 ers and plants and in making up fu- 

 neral designs, etc. The concern will 

 in future be known as the Boone 

 Greenhouses, J. Loehrer & Son, pro- 

 prietors. 



