Mat 20. 1916. 



The Rorists' Review 



39 



OBITUARY 



J. F. Zimmerman. 



J. F. Zimmerman, of Alliance, O., 

 53 years of age, was struck by the 

 Toledo flyer at 6:40 Saturday evening. 

 May 8, while delivering flowers in his 

 automobile, and died seven hours later 

 in the city hospital. The force of the 

 crash threw the victim fifty feet from 

 the place of collision. For some un- 

 known reason Mr. Zimmerman failed 

 to respond to the crossing watchman's 

 signal, and was upon the track when he 

 noticed how close the train was. He 

 attempted to reverse his engine and 

 back off the tracks, but was too late. 

 The train was going at about forty 

 miles an hour, and completely demol- 

 ished the car. Death was due to in- 

 ternal injuries, for a broken rib, a 

 broken collar-bone and some bruises 

 and cuts were the extent of his exter- 

 ual hurts. 



Mr. Zimmerman was born in North 

 Georgetown, O., and moved to Alliance 

 when a young man, being employed for 

 a time as bookkeeper by the Pennsyl- 

 vania Co. He married Miss Katherine 

 Nye, of Canton, in 1882. He had been 

 engaged in the flower business for over 

 twenty years, and served two terms in 

 the city council about fourteen years 

 ago. Surviving him are his widow, one 

 sister, Mrs. Emma Haas, and three 

 brothers, Aleck, L. L. and Parke Zim- 

 merman. He was a member of the 

 Knights of Pythias, who held their 

 service at the residence Tuesday eve- 

 ning. May 11. The funeral services 

 were held at the home Wednesday 

 afternoon, May 12. Interment was in 

 the Alliance cemetery. 



John Enimholz. 



John Krumholz, of Detroit, Mich., 

 died May 6 in Grace hospital after a 

 long illness. He was 55 years old. 



Mr. Krumholz was born in Detroit 

 and had been engaged in the florists' 

 business since he was a boy of 15 years. 

 For many years he conducted a store 

 at 823% Superior street, and his green- 

 houses were at Connors Creek. For 

 some time his son, Robert, has been 

 connected with the business. 



Surviving him are his widow, Au- 



fusta Krumholz, and five children, Mrs. 

 rank Neuhauser and Robert, Kather- 

 ine, Cecilia and Ida Krumholz. Two 

 brothers and three sisters also are liv- 

 ing, Henry Krumholz, of Grosse Pointe; 

 Joseph Krumholz, of Highland Park, 

 and Mrs. Joseph Siegel, Mrs. Frank 

 Eay and Mrs. Mary Walsh, of Detroit. 

 Funeral services were held at his 

 home, 823 Superior street, May 10. 

 Burial was at Mt. Olivet cemetery. 



A. S. Myers. 



A. S. Myers, senior member of the 

 firm of Myers Bros., Mt, Joy, Pa., died 

 Sunday, May 9, from a complication of 

 diseases, at the age of 56. His wife, 

 several children and grandchildren, and 

 two brothers survive. He was connected 

 with the Methodist church. 



Fred Weir. 



Fred Weir, one of the oldest figures 

 in the Brooklyn trade, died Saturday 

 evening, May 15, at the Norwegian hos- 

 pital, at the age of 60. He was a son 

 of James Weir, and with his brother 

 John composed the firm of James Weir's 



Sons, which at one time operated green- 

 houses at Fifth avenue and Sixty-fifth 

 street and a retail store at 324 Fulton 

 street, Brooklyn. He was born in Bay 

 Ridge and lived his entire life in Brook- 

 lyn, being connected with the florists' 

 trade from boyhood. He leaves a wife 

 and daughter. J. A. S. 



Jolm Hart 



•John Hart, a former New York whole- 

 sale florist and well known along Twen- 

 ty-eighth street in that city, died at 

 Bellevue hospital Friday, May 14. 



J. A. S. 



Edwin Ijaxkin. 



Edwin Larkin, 71 years old, of 347 

 South Eighteenth street, Newark, N. J., 

 who, Wednesday, May 5, was run over 

 by a truck at Broad and Market streets, 

 died from the result of his injuries, at 

 the City hospital, on Thursday, May 13. 

 The funeral was held at his late resi- 

 dence, Monday, May 17, at 8:30 a. m., 

 thence to St. Antoninus 's church, where 

 a solemn high mass of requiem was of- 

 fered. Interment was in the Cemetery 

 of the Hody Sepulcher. R. B. M. 



August Exstrand. 



August Exstrand, 62 years old, an 

 employee of the Snelling Floral Co., 

 Snelling avenue and West Seventh 



street, St. Paul, was found dead in his 

 bed at the greenhouses Saturday night, 

 May 8, shortly after 8 o'clock, by W. 

 Swanson, one of the proprietors. An 

 empty glass found on a table beside the 

 bed was believed by the police to have 

 contained poison, pointing to suicide. 

 The body was removed to the morgue 

 for an autopsy. Three sons and two 

 daughters survive Mr. Exstrand. 



BOOTINa PELASGONIXTMS. 



Please tell me whether the cuttings 

 of show pelargoniums should be shaded, 

 and state how to care for them so as to 

 obtain the best result in root-making 

 time. I have some grand plants from 

 6-inch up to 14-inch pots, but last year 

 I lost a great many cuttings. 



C. L.— S. D, 



Perhaps you are not propagating at 

 the correct season. Spring cuttings are 

 soft and liable to damp off. The best 

 propagating time is after the plants 

 have done blooming and have been 

 standing outdoors a short time. August 

 is a good month for this work. The 

 cuttings are then tolerably hard and 

 there will be practically no damping 

 off. Give a light shade and you will 

 find a coldframe better than a green- 

 house for the cuttings. C. W. 



Tarentum, Pa. — An illustrated write- 

 up in the Tarentum News for May 7 

 may have helped the Mothers ' day busi- 

 ness of the Tarentum Floral Co. At 

 any rate, it was all the firm could 

 handle. George Williams has charge of 

 the four 300-foot houses of the concern, 

 and Gus Lehman of the downtown store, 

 on Fourth avenue. 



Fort Wayne, Ind. — Damages of $4,600 

 against the Wabash Railroad Co. were 

 awarded W. J. & M. S. Vesey in the 

 Federal court at Indianapolis May 8. 

 During the flood of March, 1913, the 

 St. Mary's river inundated the Vesey 

 greenhouses; piling placed in the river 

 bed by the railroad when repairing a 

 trestle was alleged the cause of the 

 overflow. 



Cleveland, O. — At a conference at the 

 HoUenden hotel April 26 of represen- 

 tatives of the Garden Club, the Ohio 

 Horticultural Society and the Cleveland 

 Florists' Club, plans were laid for the 

 November show of the Florists' Club. 

 Frank A, Friedley and H. P. Knoble 

 represented the florists. The show will 

 be held in the Wigmore coliseum, on 

 East Thirteenth street, near Euclid 

 avenue. 



Fairmont, Minn. — John Leng, for- 

 merly at Truman, Minn., and lately in 

 the employ of the Fairmont Nurseries, 

 here, has, with Startvig Sjevik, who sold 

 his greenhouse business at Silverton, 

 Ore., about a year and a half ago, pur- 

 chased one city block on Albin avenue. 

 On this they will erect three green- 

 houses and an office, having commenced 

 work already, and conduct the business 

 under the name of the Fairmont Gree»- 

 house Co. Both men are experienced 

 growers, and Mr. Sjevik is also a land- 

 scape gardener of experience. 



Oorry, Pa — D. F. Southworth, for- 

 merly at 58 South Pearl street. North 

 East, Pa., has taken over the North 

 Corry Greenhouses, at 16 West Colum- 

 bus avenue. The establishment con- 

 sists of two 100-foot greenhouses and a 

 store. As the location is near two ceme- 

 teries and a trolley line, Mr. Southworth 

 expects a flourishing trade. 



Cleveland, O. — Following a plan orig- 

 inated by a Chicago paper, the Plain 

 Dealer has been advertising the adver- 

 tising in its own columns, calling at- 

 tention to certain classes of advertise- 

 ments it wants to build up. Just be- 

 fore Mothers' day a fine half -page dis- 

 play told its readers of the advantage 

 of watching the ads of flowers. It 

 gave the trade a good boost. 



Manila, P. I.— The Luzon Floral Co. 

 has been incorporated by E. L. Poole, 

 A. M. Darley, Sebastian Flores, Ray- 

 mundo Monahan and Julian Viroya, of 

 this city. The capital stock is 16,000 

 pesos, or $8,000, all of which has been 

 subscribed and paid in. The business 

 now known by the same name has been 

 turned over to the corporation as part 

 payment of the stock subscriptions. 

 Mr. Darley is treasurer of the firm. 



Loveland, O. — Theodore Harcourt 

 for seven years has been nursing a 

 white rose supposed to be a seedling. 

 It blooms in crops about four or five 

 weeks apart, but never makes a blind 

 shoot. It is a much stronger grower 

 than any other white rose Mr. Harcourt 

 ever has grown, more double, more fra- 

 grant and more productive, but it does 

 not root readily, as the wood is quite 

 soft. He calls it the Dr. Palmer rose, 

 after a friend, and invites the examina- 

 tion of rose specialists who may be in- 

 terested. 



