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SaPTBMBSR 23, 1915. 



The Florists' Review 



23 



OBITUARY 



Joseph E. Wing. 



Joseph E. Wing, of Mechanicsburg, 

 O., lecturer and writer on agricultural 

 topics and head of the J. E. Wing Seed 

 Co., died September 10 at the Sawyer 

 sanitarium, at Marion, O. 



The cause of his death was given as 

 pellagra, a disease of the tropical coun- 

 tries, and thought to have been con- 

 tracted hy Mr. Wing during the four 

 years he spent in South America. Mr. 

 Wing was the special agent of the agri- 

 «ultural investigation sent to South 

 America by ex-President Taft. 



Mr. Wing was familiarly known as 

 the "alfalfa king," having specialized 

 in that seed for many years. His 

 brothers, Willis and Charles B. Wing, 

 were associated with him in the seed 

 business. 



Mr. Wing was 54 years of age. He 

 is survived by his wife and three sons, 

 AndreWj David and William, all of 

 Mechanicsburg. 



Charles F. Hoffmelster. 



Charles F. Hoffmeister, after a three 

 months' illness, passed away Friday 

 evening, September 17, in his fifty-sixth 

 year, and was buried Monday, Septem- 

 ber 20, at Spring Grove cemetery. 



Mr. Hoffmeister was in charge of 

 the greenhouses of the Hoffmeister 

 Floral Co. for a number of years. Re- 

 ■cently he conducted his own establish- 

 ment at Ft. Thomas, Ky., and special- 

 ized in growing sweet peas. He is sur- 

 vived by his wife, Mrs. Augusta 

 Hoffmeister, a daughter, Miss Marie A. 

 Hoffmeister, and two sons. Otto H. and 

 Chas. H. Hoffmeister, as well as his 

 mother, a brother and four sisters. 



C. H. H. 

 John W. Massey. 



John W. Massey, for twenty-six years 

 head gardener at Fairmount cemetery, 

 Denver, Colo., died September 9, of 

 pneumonia, at St. Luke's hospital. Mr. 

 Massey, who was 69 years of age, was 

 taken sick September 6 at his residence, 

 732 West Third avenue, where he lived 

 with his daughter, Mrs. Barnett. He 

 is survived by his daughter and a son, 

 Harry, who lives in California. 



Peter Eastman. 



Peter Eastman, vice-president of the 

 Oreenville Floral Co., Greenville, Mich., 

 died at his home September 14. His 

 death was caused by apoplexy. 



He was born in Canada in 1854 and 

 went to Greenville at the age of 16. 

 There he became interested in the lum- 

 ber business, in which he was engaged 

 for many years. He had been connect- 

 ed with the florists* business for the 

 last eleven years. 



He leaves his wife, a son and a 

 <laughter, besides many other relatives 

 and friends. His funeral was held Sep- 

 tember 16. 



USINGEB'S UTTERANCES. 



Henry Krueger, of Meadville, Pa., is 

 having an exceptional run of funeral 

 work. 



C. M. Betts, of Meadville, Pa., is 

 planning many improvements for his 

 store this fall, business promising well. 



William Baird, of Greenville, Pa., is 

 putting new benches in all his houses. 



John Murchie, of Sharon, Pa., will 

 soon be ready to move his stock into his 

 new houses, which are fast nearing 

 completion. 



Fisher & McGrath, of New Castle, 

 Pa., are having plenty of business, hav- 

 ing a lot of design work and a good cut 

 flower trade. 



Fred Butz, of Butz Bros., New 

 Castle, Pa., is touring the southern 

 states in his machine. 



J. J. Beck, of New Castle, is cutting 

 some fine asters of the later varieties. 



S. P. Smith, of Mercer, Pa., had his 

 usual job of judging the flowers ex- 

 hibited at the Mercer county fair last 

 week. 



James Clelland, of Grove City, Pa., 

 has unusually fine carnation plants on 

 his benches this season. 



The Anton Krut Floral Co., at Ell- 

 wood City, Pa., has had quite a busy 

 season with funeral work. 



William Leith, of Butler, Pa., is voic- 

 ing the sentiments of most florists — 

 that business is on the increase. 



W. T. U. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Market. 

 Business is fairly good, but the sup- 



ply is still too large for the present 

 wants of the buyers. Shipping busi- 

 ness is good. 



Boses continue to be in heavy sup- 

 ply, and include excellent offerings in 

 all seasonable varieties. Carnations 

 are of much better quality than they 

 were for a while, and generally meet 

 with an active market. Some ^ne 

 dahlias may be had. Easter lilies and 

 rubriun lilies are plentiful and excel- 

 lent. A fair quantity of gladioli are 

 coming into the wholesale houses. 

 Aster receipts are heavy. Other offer- 

 ings include cosmos and valley. The 

 supply of greens is large. 



Various Notes. 



Local retailers having fall opening 

 decorations during the current fort- 

 night are the E. G. -Hill Co.^ Max 

 Budolph and Julius Baer. 



C. E. Critchell has been receiving 

 some fine rubrum lilies from the Hoff- 

 meister Floral Co. 



Visitoris were Mrs. Lampert, Xenia, 

 O.; Walter Gray, Hamilton, O.; J. T. 

 Herdegen, Aurora, Ind.; Fred Rupp, 

 Lawrenceburg, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. G. 

 A. Bechmann, Middletown, O., and I. 

 Bayersdorf er, of H. Bayeirsdorf er Ss 

 Co., Philadelphia. C. H. H. 



Aubumdale, Fla. — W. H. Schulz, Jr., 

 has put a shed of one acre to Aspara- 

 gus plumosus nanus. He intends to in- 

 crease his growing facilities next 

 winter. 



Tyrone, Pa. — One of the largest 

 greenhouses in this section is being 

 erected by Engleman Bros. The house 

 will be 35x260 feet and of the most up- 

 to-date construction. 



Waterloo, N. Y. — Another woman to 

 enter the greenhouse business is Miss 

 Mildred Tobey, who is growing asters 

 and other cut flowers for the New 

 York and Philadelphia markets. 



Sharon, Pa. — The greenhouses of 

 .Tohn Murchie, on South Irvine avenue, 

 have been moved to the opposite side 

 of the avenue, near the Murchie resi- 

 dence. There are six greenhouses, each 

 20x120, and a lean-to 12x120. 



Beno, Nev. — A florists' business was 

 recently launched in Reno by Charles 

 H. Stoddard, Lytton Stoddard and A. B. 

 Updike, under the firm name of the Stod- 

 dard Floral Co. A flower shop, in charge 

 of Henry Hefty, formerly with the Art 

 Floral Co., of San Francisco, has been 

 opened in the Masonic Temple. The 

 company will maintain greenhouses on 

 Riverside drive. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — Adolph Keiper, 

 318 Wabasha avenue, was the only suc- 

 cessful candidate in a class of four who 

 took the examination for the position 

 of head gardener of Como park. This 

 was the second examination held, no 

 one having passed the first one. Mr. 

 Keiper will have charge of the large 

 greenhouse completed last fall, under 

 the direction of Superintendent Nuss- 

 baumer. 



Lincoln, Neb. — After eighteen years' 

 experience with C. H. Frey, Oscar H. 

 Enslow has started a business of his 

 own, to be known as the Enslow Floral 

 Co. The formal opening of his store 

 was attended by a great showing of 

 all kinds of cut flowers and a recep- 

 tion for the visitors. 



Grand Bapids, Wis. — Paul Beasa, 

 who does business as Paul, the Florist, 

 has returned from an automobile trip 

 through this and an adjoining county. 

 He found corn, cucumbers and several 

 other crops ruined by frost. Mr. Beasa 

 is engaged in putting in concrete 

 benches and in building living rooms 

 over the office. He was formerly at 

 Merrill, Wis. 



Hanover, Pa. — The cyclone that did 

 damage of about $500,000 in this town 

 August 21 came at a most inoppor- 

 tune time for F. E. Cremer. He had 

 finished carnation planting the day of 

 the storm, and the loss of plants from 

 broken glass amounted to about forty 

 per cent. A tin roof, carried six squares 

 by the wind, was dropped on the glass. 

 Mr. Cremer 's total loss was about 

 $1,000. 



Evanston, Wyo. — Louis B. West- 

 holder was married August 4 to Miss 

 Frances Martin, daughter of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Thomas Martin. Mr. Westholder 

 came to Evanston from Albany, Minn., 

 two and one-half years ago, and opened 

 a flower shop. Since then his business 

 has grown by leaps and bounds, and 

 in addition to the original shop, he 

 now has stores at Rock Springs and 

 Laramie, and seven branch agencies 

 along the Union Pacific route through 

 Wyoming. 



