June 24. 1915. 



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and Major E. Eay Shaw went into 

 partnership with them. Extensive im- 

 provements were then made. 



Mr. Gaedeke sold his Concord street 

 business only a few weeks ago to Fred 

 D. Sperry, of Eeading, Mass., and was 

 planning to retire from active business. 

 The deceased stood high as a floricultur- 

 ist in New England, and had a host of 

 friends in that part of the country. He 

 was married in 1902 to Miss Ida Ben- 

 son, and she proved of great help to 

 him in his business. He is survived by 

 Mrs. Gaedeke and also by two brothers, 

 Albert, in Perth, Scotland, and Rudolph, 

 in Nashua, and three sisters, one of 

 whom lives in Milwaukee and the others 

 in Stettin, Germany. 



Funeral services were held at the 

 First Unitarian church, June 18, and 

 were largely attended. The gardeners 

 and florists of Nashua attended in a 

 body and sent a magnificent broken 

 wreath. Large delegations were also 

 present from the Knights Templar, 

 Knights of Pythias, Foresters, and other 

 secret orders to which Mr. Gaedeke be- 

 longed. The floral tributes have rarely 

 been equaled in the city of Nashua, and 

 attested the great popularity of the de- 

 ceased. W. N. C. 



Chas. H. Koeuig. 



Chas. H. Koenig, of Millvale, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa., died June 18, after an ill- 

 ness of two weeks. He was born in 

 Konigsbronn, Wurttemberg, Germany, 

 May 2, 1871. He came to America in 

 1888 and worked for a time for John 

 Bader, in Pittsburgh. He was united 

 in marriage to Miss Fischer, July 4, 

 1894. Shortly afterward he leased 

 three small greenhouses, which he pur- 

 chased a few years later and added to 

 them until he had built up the present 

 place. For several years he was asso- 

 ciated with the Pittsburgh Cut Flower 

 Co., acting as superintendent of the 

 Bakerstown place and renting his own 

 houses, but ten years ago he left this 

 firm, on finding it necessary to take 

 charge of his own houses. He was 

 known as one of the largest growers 

 of lilies and bulbous flowers in the 

 Pittsburgh district. 



He was a most industrious, conscien- 

 tious man and a faithful member of 

 the First Evangelical church, of Mill- 

 vale, Pa. All who knew him realize 

 that they have lost a friend and most 

 worthy citizen. He is survived by 

 his wife, nine children and two broth- 

 ers. Funeral services were held June 

 21, at the church to which he belonged. 



Clarke. 

 Louis Dreher. 



Louis Dreher died of Bright 's dis- 

 ease last week at a Denver hospital. 

 He was 50 years of age. Mr. Dreher 

 was formerly in business for himself 

 at Deerfield, 111. Then he worked for 

 some time for Poehlmann Bros. Co., at 

 Morton Grove, 111. He went to Denver 

 about five years ago, and had been 

 working for C. F. Maler and Emil 

 Glauber. He had been ill for the last 

 few months. 



The funeral took place from the 

 Hoffman undertaking parlors. It was 

 largely attended by leading men in the 

 profession. There were many flowers. 

 The interment was at Riverside ceme- 

 tery. Mr. Dreher was not married, and 

 as far as is known to his friends in 

 Denver, leaves no relatives. R. S. 



Charles H. Koenig. 



ILLINOIS BOILEB BILL DEAD. 



Illinois greenhousemen have reason 

 for congratulation in the fact that the 

 bill providing for the examination and 

 licensing of firemen is dead. After it 

 had passed the lower house of the state 

 legislature, as reported in last week's 

 issue of The Review, it was lost in the 

 tremendous press of business that con- 

 fronted the senate on the last few days 

 of the session. 



THE OHIO BOILEB BILL. 



The trouble experienced some months 

 ago, in Toledo and in some other Ohio 

 cities, with reference to the proposed 

 new boiler law, has been revived. The 

 law would make it compulsory that all 

 boilers developing thirty horsepower or 

 more be operated by union firemen. 

 The union endeavored to aid in secur- 

 ing positions for its members, but the 

 florists, naturally, were not highly 

 pleased with the idea that greenhouse 

 employers and men who had been en- 

 gaged in firing their boilers for a period 

 of years might be unable to secure a li- 

 cense on account of the fact that they 

 could not answer some question to suit 

 the member of the union who had 

 charge of the examination. 



At the time of the inception of this 

 idea the florists were caught unawares, 

 and it was only through some hasty and 

 strenuous organization, and speedy ac- 

 tion by the committee in charge, that 

 they succeeded in defeating the plan 

 for a time. The florists and gardeners 

 saw that a calamity had narrowly been 

 averted. They became more fully or- 

 ganized and became aflSliated, also, with 



the Boiler Makers' Association, which 

 offered the florists vigorous support in 

 combating a law that would have dealt 

 a death blow to many florists who 

 could not afford to pay the required 

 scale. 



The idea of a licensed fireman in 

 some places is justifiable, but this does 

 not justify the demand that every flo- 

 rist having a boiler developing more 

 than thirty horsepower should have a li- 

 censed man, especially when it is con- 

 sidered that the average fireman is en- 

 tirely ignorant as to the correct tem- 

 perature for greenhouses, and in that 

 ease severe losses would be incurred 

 by the changes in the heating. Under 

 these circumstances, the florists cannot 

 be blamed for doing their utmost to de- ^ 

 feat the proposed measure. G. B. S. 



COLD STORAGE EASTER LILIES. 



Would cold storage Easter lilies 

 planted outside in June bloom this 

 summer? R. W. — Ind. 



Yes, the cold storage longiflorum lily 

 bulbs can be planted out now and will 

 bloom this summer. Of course, the 

 number of flowers per stalk is small 

 compared with those produced from 

 fresh bulbs. C. W. 



Crestwood, Ky. — Geo. O. Klein, man- 

 ager of the Sunny Mount Nursery & 

 Floral Co., reports that the bedding 

 plant season was so prosperous that 

 the company will have to buy stock for 

 next year of a good many items. 



