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^▲MUABY 28. 1915. 



Tic Florists^ Review 



27 



; BUSINESS EMBASEASSMENTS. 



Fulton, N. T. — Among the assets of 

 the Fulton Flower Shop Co., which 

 went into bankruptcy January 13, the 

 most important seems to be 3,500 Hol- 

 land bulbs, imported by Theodore 

 Foederer, proprietor of the company, 

 early in the season. Appraisers T. G. 

 Spencer, Thomas F. P. Farrell and 

 Delos A. Northrup are fixing the value. 

 James W. Boyce has been appointed 

 receiver of the concern. 



Bixmingliain, Ala.— The G. B. MeVay 

 Seed Co. has been sold by its receiver, 

 Dr. B. B. Mobley, to J. H. Purdue, 

 with the .approval of the court. The 

 company has been reorganized as the 

 McVay Seed & Floral Co., and is ready 

 for business at the old location, 2018 

 First avenue. The officers of the new 

 company are: President, Dr. E. B. 

 Mobley; vice-president, J. H. Purdue; 

 secretary and treasurer, E. V. Harris. 

 Of the capital stock, $10,000 has al- 

 ready been paid in. 



Paris, Ky. — E. B. Hutchcraft, a 

 wholesale seed dealer and a prosperous 

 farmer up to the time he made his as- 

 9ignment to James McClure, cashier of 

 the First National bank of Paris, fol- 

 lowing the collapse of the Geo. Alexan- 

 der & Co. state bank, of which he was 

 a large creditor, has been declared a 

 bankrupt by United States Commis- 

 sioner Arthur Cox, of Cynthiana. At 

 the time of Mr. Hutchcraft 's assign- 

 ment certain creditors instituted pro- 

 ceedings to force him into bankruptcy. 

 The case was fought stubbornly and 

 settled finally by the decision of the 

 referee against him. 



Washington, D. 0. — Alleging that the 

 Washington Florists' Co., 1408 H 

 street, northwest, is insolvent and that 

 it committed an act of bankruptcy in 

 paying to the S. S. Pennock-Meehan 

 Co. $85.40, and to the Leo Niessen Co. 

 $53.12, making them preferred credi- 

 tors, a number of creditors of the con- 

 cern January 23 filed a petition where- 

 in they asked the Supreme court of 

 the District of Columbia to adjudge it 

 a bankrupt. Charles F. Diggs is the 

 attorney for the petitioning creditors, 

 whose names and claims are as ipl- 

 lows: J. Louis Loose, Washington, 

 D. C, $39,000, being the amount due 

 on bonds of the company held by him, 

 and $7,454 for interest thereon; T. F. 

 Burroughs & Son, Alexandria, Va., 

 $49.86; Benjamin Einstein, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, $19.80; W. A. Smoot & Co., 

 Alexandria, Va., $186.63, and Thomas 

 Somerville Co., Washington, D. C, 

 $5.97. It is alleged the total liabili- 

 ties are $46,716. 



SOFT OOAI. SOOT. 



Kindly have one of your experts an- 

 swer the following questions: Is soft 

 coal soot of value as a fertili:;er? If 

 so, what are the beneficial effects, es- 

 pecially in regard to carnations and 

 ferns f Should it be applied as a mulch 

 or in the form of a liquid, and in what 

 quantity for the best results? 



C. P. H. 



The analysis of soft coal soot shows 

 that it contains no elements which are 

 generally supposed to be needed by 

 plants and are likely to be lacking in 

 the soil. On the other hand, soot from 

 wood fires, although largely made up 

 of finely divided particles of carbon, 

 contains about one per cent each of 



potash and phosphoric acid, and is a 

 valuable fertilizer for plants of all 

 kinds. However, the use of soot from 

 soft coal really seems to benefit the 

 growth of greenhouse plants, giving the 

 foliage a darker color and improving 

 the texture of the leaves and flowers 

 as well as the strength of the stems. 

 Just what the benefit is due to cannot 

 be definitely stated. 



Soot may be mixed with the soil at 

 the rate of a quart to a bushel, or it 

 may be used as a top-dressing, using 

 a pint to a square yard, or as a liquid 

 application with either mineral or ani- 

 mal manures at the rate of a pint to 

 three gallons of water. T. 



FBOPAOATINO ABAUCABIAS. 



Will you kindly inform me how I can 

 propagate Araucaria excelsaf I have 

 a large, thrifty plant, six feet high, and 

 cannot sell it; so I thought I would cut 

 it up if I could start the cuttings. 

 H. E. H. 



Araucaria excelsa is usually propa- 

 gated either by means of seeds or by 

 grafting, but may also be increased by 



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means of cuttings. The leading shoots 

 are the only cuttings from which there 

 is certainty of getting symmetrical 

 plants, and in order to get such shoots 

 it would be necessary to cut out the 

 top of your plant and then wait until 

 the young growths reach a length of 

 about four inches; these latter would 

 be the cuttings. The cuttings should 

 be planted singly in small pots filled 

 with sand; they should be watered 

 thoroughly and placed in a shaded prop- 

 agating frame in a temperature of 50 

 to 55 degrees. If properly cared for, 

 these cuttings should root in eight to 

 ten weeks, and may then be potted off 

 in soil. 



Cuttings from the side branches have 

 little value, from the fact that they 

 seldom make shapely plants. 



W. H. T. 



Buffalo, N. Y.— A. C. Paddon, of En- 



flewood avenue, has just completed the 

 rst of a range of greenhouses at High- 

 land Acres. 



Miss Elsie E. Longenecker. 



Miss Elsie E. Longenecker, daughter 

 of I. K. Longenecker, of Harrisburg, 

 Pa., died Monday night, January 18, at 

 her home after a ten days' illness. The 

 funeral was held at the home January 

 21, and the body taken to Middletown 

 for burial. 



Bichard W. Allen. 



Eichard W. Allen, of Hudson, N. Y., 

 whose death was reported in last 

 week's obituary column, was born near 

 Truro, Cornwall, England, April 10, 

 1848. He was the son of John Allen, 

 for nearly seventy years gardener for 

 Lord Falmouth. He served his ap-, 

 prenticeship, starting at the age of 15, 

 at Killion, England, at the Lyon House 

 Gardens, London, and at the Eoyal 

 Gardens, Windsor. 



Sailing for America, April 18, 1872, 

 he engaged on his arrival with John 

 Henderson, of New York. Later he 

 was in the employ of David Woolford, 

 at Catskill, and then of James Clarke, 

 at Hudson. After working three years 

 for B. L. Monell, James Clarke's suc- 

 cessor, he went into partnership with 

 William Brocksbank, who owned the 

 Prospect Hill Nurseries. He married 

 his partner's daughter. Miss Ida C. 

 Brocksbank, September 3, 1877, and 

 bought out his father-in-law in 1888. 

 When he sold the nurseries to the city 

 for cemetery purposes, he erected 

 greenhouses on Green street, where he 

 built up a large business. 



Mrs. Allen died in 1883, leaving one 

 daughter, Edna, who survives her 

 father. He is also survived by two 

 brothers, William, in England, and 

 John, of iPetroit, Mich., and two sis- 

 ters, ABgeline and Fanny, both in Eng- 

 land. I . 



B. W. Speece. 



B. W. Speece, for the last sixteen 

 years in the florists ' business at Car- 

 thage, Mo., died at his home January 

 18 from bladder trouble, from which 

 he had suffered for the last three weeks. 



Mr. Speece was born in Dayton, O., 

 nearly eighty-five years ago. When a 

 young man he moved to Delphi, Ind., 

 where he married Miss Nancy Jane 

 Dull, October 27, 1859. In 1869 he 

 moved to Carthage, Mo., and engaged in 

 the grocery business. He later became 

 a gardener and then owner and manager 

 of the greenhouses on South Garrison 

 avenue. He is survived by his wife 

 and three children, Mrs. E. M, Pierson, 

 of Webb City, Mo., and Miss Aura 

 Speece and Karl A. Speece, of Carthage. 



Funeral services were held at the resi- 

 dence January 19. Burial was in Park 

 cemetery. 



Lucius King Mallock. 



Lucius King Mallock, who conducted 

 a florists' business at Highland, N. Y., 

 until compelled by ill health to give it 

 up, di^^ January V2 in the Middletown 

 state hospital, at Highland, at the age 

 of 69. He was bom in Andes, N. Y., 

 in 1845. He had a good business when 



Soor health obliged him to give it up. 

 [e was a patient sufferer for years, 

 and about a month ago was taken to 

 tho b>}spital for treatment. He is sur- 

 vived by his wife, one sister and two 

 brothers. 



