JANOABY 18, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



551 



Joseph A. Budlong. 'William H. Budlong. Lyman A. Endlong. 



Three Well Known Brothers, One of Whom Passed Away on January 14. 



care in the application of water. There 

 will be no necessity for watering the 

 whole bed for some time after the plants 

 are set, but water should be applied 

 to that part of the soil immediately 

 surrounding the plants. Thus the mois- 

 ture is placed so it can be reached by 

 the roots and utilized by the plants, and 

 danger of souring the soil thereby 

 avoided. As the plants attain size and 

 the roots spread a larger surface will 

 require to be dampened, until the whole 

 bed is covered, but too much care can- 

 not be used in the application of water 

 during these dull, short days when very 

 little evaporation takes place. 



W. S. Croydon. 



MUMS AND LETTUCE. 



Could I grow mums in greenhouse 

 benches in the same soil I used for let- 

 tuce? Would there be any danger of 

 spoiling my lettuce soil? Or would the 

 roots interfere with the lettuce? Or 

 would it be better to grow them in 

 pots plunged in the lettuce soil? If 

 planted in the bench could I mulch 

 them, with what and how thick? "What 

 two or three varieties of each color, 

 white, yellow and pink, would be best 

 for cutting to be off by Thanksgiving, 

 as I want the ground for lettuce? 



C. H. T. 



If I follow C. H. T. correctly, he 

 desires to know whether he can use 

 the same soil without changing after 

 the mums are cut, for a lettuce crop; 

 if he uses new soil for the mums, or 

 perhaps it is a solid bed instead of a 

 bench where the soil is not removed 

 very often. In any case a crop of 

 mums can be taken before lettuce is 

 planted, providing the soil is sweetened 

 out and more fertilizer added before re- 

 planting to another crop. By fetilizer 

 I mean a top-dressing of nice rotten 

 manure. If this top-dressing were 

 applied to the chrysanthemums in Sep- 

 tember, an inch or so in thickness, it 

 would help both crops a good deal. It 

 is not advisable to keep soil in the 

 benches too long. It should be changed 

 every year at least. 



A selection of standard varieties that 

 would run together would be about as 

 follows: White, Alice Byron, White 

 Coombes, Eaton; yellow, Cheltoni, Ap- 

 pleton. Yellow Eaton; pink, Coombes, 

 W. Duckham, R A. Cobbold; red, S. T. 

 Wright, Dazzle, W. K. Church. 



C. H. T. 



OBITUARY. 



Death of J. A. Budlong. 



On Saturday morning, January 13, 

 Joseph A. Budlong, the widely known 

 Chicago grower and wholesaler of cut 

 flowerp, while riding his bicycle past the 

 greenhouses of Peter Keinberg, at Robey 

 street and Foster avenue, was struck 

 by an electric car, sustaining a fracture 

 of the hip and internal injuries from 

 which he died on Sunday afternoon at 3 

 o'clock. No one but the motorman wit- 

 nessed the accident and it is impossible 

 to say just how it occurred. Mr. Bud- 

 long was removed from the scene of the 

 accident to the Swedish hospital only a 

 few blocks away, but his injuries were 

 beyond the reach of medical science. 



Joseph A. Budlong was born at Provi- 

 dence, E. I., in 1841. He removed to 

 Chicago in 1862 and has been an active 

 and influential figure in his section of 

 the city for nearly half a century. A 

 number of years ago he was engaged in 

 market gardening and the pickle packing 

 business with his brother, but for twenty 

 years he has devoted his energies to the 

 growing of cut flowers. For nearly a 

 dozen years his product was consigned to 

 leading commission houses, the range of 

 glass being added to until, in 1898, it 

 afforded suflBcient resources for the back- 

 ing of a wholesale store, which was 

 opened at 37 and 39 Randolph street and 

 was at that time under the management 

 of John Zech, the present manager being 

 Philip Schupp, who is Mr. Budlong 's son- 

 in-law. The business has developed both 

 steadily and rapidly and is now among 

 the largest in the city, handling besides 

 the cut from the Budlong range, tlie con- 

 signments of a considerable number of 

 other growers. 



The greenhouse establishment has been 

 added to until the glass to be erected this 

 spring will completely cover the city 

 square on West Berwyn, near Lin- 

 coln avenue. The very best of methods 

 have been followed in all depart- 

 ments and the best of results achieved. 

 Mr. Budlong never departed from 

 his New England conservatism and 

 whatever he undertook was well consid- 

 ered and eminently practical. In recent 

 years he has practically given over the 

 management of his greenhouses to his 

 son, A. H, Budlong, in whose hands the 

 prestige of the establishment has suf- 

 fered not at all. 



Mr. Budlong was good natured, kind 

 hearted and generous to a degree which 

 won him not only the respect of every- 

 one who knew him, but the friendship of 

 all with whom he was thrown in contact. 

 His business integrity was a maxim. 



Since giving over the active manage- 

 ment of his business he has devoted a 

 large part of his time to the outdoor 

 recreations of which he was so fond. 

 Principal of these were bicycle riding 

 and skating. Annually for twelve years 

 he has made a bicycie pilgrimage to his 

 old family home near Providence. It is 

 1,150 miles by the shortest route and the 

 trip occupied two to three weeks. He 

 invariably wheeled the entire distance one 

 way. 



Mrs. Budlong survives, with one son, 

 Albert H., and one daughter, Mrs. Philip 

 Schupp. The business will be carried on 

 by the estate without change in the man- 

 agement. 



In the picture J. A. Budlong is at the 

 left. At the right is Lyman A. Budiong, 

 the well known pickle packer and largest 

 onion set grower in the United States. 

 In the center is Wm. H. Budlong, of 

 Providence, the younger brother. 



The funeral was held on Wednesday 

 afternoon and was attended by a large 

 number of those in the trade, the floral 

 remembrances being very numerous. In- 

 terment was at Rose Hill cemetery. 



Sterling, III.— The Sterling Floral 

 Co. will erect a carnation house 28x120 

 this spring. 



