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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



1053 



Robt. Hand. G. W. Fiemh. W. J. Kelmel. Rlchatd Saltn. ■ D. J. Mack. 



- The Five Foremen at the Establishment of Poehlmann Bros. Co., Morton Grove III. 



111., ami worked first for Adolph Fehr, 

 at Belleville, 111., then at several small 

 places in southern Illinois. He has been 

 wi};h the Poehlmann Bros. Co. for the 

 last nine years and now is carnation 

 foreman at Plant A. 



\y. . Ji Keimel was born at Stettin, 

 Germany, and worked two years as ap- 

 prentice in that country before he came 

 to the United States. He worked for 

 five years in Little Rock, Ark., also five 

 year^ in New Jersey, with L. M. Noe, 

 of Madison, and Dean & Co., Little Sil- 

 ver. . He now is general foreman at 

 Plant B. 



Richard Salm was born at Grand 

 Bapids, Mich., and first worked for F. 

 A. Chapman, of Grand Eapids, then for 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co.; then went west 

 and worked for Wm. Clark, Colorado 

 Spjjings. , Coming east again he was em- 

 ployed by Emil Buettner, at Park Ridge, 

 then ^y the Poehlmanns again, where he 

 has now been eleven years; now Beauty 

 foreman at Plant A. Mr. Salm, in addi- 

 tion to being an: expert Beauty grower, 

 is ' a patriotic American. The Spanish- 

 Amerjcan war broke out while he was 

 at Buettner 's and Dick enlisted in the 

 U,nited States army, served a year and 

 was honorably discharged at the close 

 of the war. 



D. J. Mack was born in Massachusetts 

 and first worked for James Horan, at 

 Bridgeport, Conn., also for J, G. Forbes, 

 Boston; Wood & Co., Natick, and Welch 

 Bros., Boston. He now is range fore- 

 man at Plant B. He is an all-round 

 good' grower. 



FADELESS MOSS. 



At the Dayton convention an exhibit 

 which attracted more than its due share 

 of attention, considering the space oc- 

 cupieu, was a t^blo of really green sheet 

 moss, from E. A. Beaven, Evergreen, 

 Ala. Tlie judges awardeil it high com- 

 mendation. A request to Mr. Beaven 

 for particulars brought the following: 



"It is, I claim, the natural evolution 

 of the sheet moss business and at tnc 

 same time the true solution of it. The 

 writer, pursuing his humble vocation of 

 collecting and marketing the various 

 southern decorative greens, which have 

 of late years entered into and become 

 such an important adjunct of the flo- 

 rists' business, found that at the close 

 of the season he had accumulated quite 

 a large bunch of green (f) sheet moss; 

 that he had failed to secure re-orders for 

 this stock although industriously searcn- 

 ing for them. 



' * Knowing, as I did, that this moss 

 was an almost indispensable adjunct to 

 the florists' business I naturally inferred 

 ' there was a reason. ' This was not hard 

 to find. The moss, instead of ^being a 

 beautiful green, as advertised,* was a 

 perfect russet, and my friends the florists 

 did not seem to be falling over one 

 another to secure part of my stock in 

 trade. 



"This led to experimentation on my 

 part to try to save the moss then on 

 hand. I finally found a chemical, which, 

 combined with a restorative, produced 

 the results you probably noted at the 

 Dayton convention, to wit, a perfectly 



green moss, the original color and lustre 

 retained and perpetuated, making it as 

 stapie as immortelles and assuring tue 

 purchaser of a green instead of russet 

 moss when wanted, regardless of the 

 time he has carried it in stock. 



' ' The advantages are both numerous 

 and obvious. The one which will, I be- 

 lieve, appeal to the consumer from an 

 economical viewpoint is that he can 

 always have a sure supply of this green 

 on hand at a nominal cost and not have 

 to order fresh stock as heretofore every 

 time he has occasion to cover a pot, fill 

 a design, basket, or make a background. 



* * The moss is' packed in bags weigh- 

 ing twelve pounds, containing approxi- 

 mately 100 square feet, iou will notice 

 th^ weight given is apparently too little 

 for the amount of space claimed it will 

 cover. This is accounted for by the fact 

 that each piece is individually treated, 

 all or nearly all of the dirt washed out 

 and there is therefore absolutely no 

 waste stock as in the ordinary run of 

 green moss as marketed today. The 

 chemicals used are, of course, my secret. 

 I have temporarily protected the moss 

 by the filing of a caveat and will com- 

 plete as soon as possible by patent." 



We just could not get along without 

 the Review. — Adgate & Son, Warren, O. 



Gbandville, Mich. — N. B. Stover re- 

 ports that weather conditions baye been 

 dry for the last four weeks, and all out- 

 door stuff, especially asters, geraniums 

 and cannas, shows the effects or it. 





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