Dbcbmbkb 5, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



13 



Hydrangeas. 



Your old plants will now be stored 

 in some cellar, pit or cold house for the 

 winter. Keep on the dry side and look 

 over them once a week and shake off the 

 decaying leaves. Give all air possible 

 in favorable weather. A light freezing 

 will not hurt them. If an early batch 

 of plants is wanted, some can be started 

 now. Pick away some of the old sur- 

 face soil in their pots, and give them 

 a liberal top dressing. Do not start in 

 a very warm house. Fifty-four degrees 

 at night is better than 60 degrees. You 

 can give a higher temperature after the 

 plants have fairly started. 



Brief Reminders. 



Poinsettias with bracts well developed 

 should be moved to a cooler house; 50 

 to 52 degrees at night will suffice if they 

 are carefully watered. 



Move the lilies around which are being 

 timed for Christmas. Put early ones in 

 a cooler house and force those that are 

 backward. As lilies sell fairly well after 

 Christmas, do not attempt to force those 

 on which the buds are not well advanced. 



Keep decaying foliage and any show- 

 ing spot picked off the violets. Let them 

 have an abundance of ventilation and 

 no more fire heat than is necessary. 



Pot up clumps of spiraea (astilbe), 

 which are now coming to hand. First 

 soak them, if dry, and lay the clumps 

 where they can have a little frost. 



Cover spaces with leaves or straw out- 

 doors where hardy lilies are to be plant- 

 ed which are aot yet to hand. These 

 give far better results planted in De- 

 cember than in spring. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



P. J. Hauswirth. 



Gonial, lovable, loyal Phil Hauswirth 

 is gone. He shot himself in the stom- 

 ach while in a period of despondency 

 about 8 o'clock Wednesday morning, De- 

 cember 4, and died before his son, Ed- 

 win, who was just coming in to open the 

 store in the Auditorium Annex, Chicago, 

 could reach his father in the basement 

 workroom. The inquest, held the after- 

 noon of his death, failed to bring out 

 any fact sufficient to account for his 

 mental depression, for no man in the 

 trade had more friends. Generous to a 

 fault and indefatigable whenever a 

 friend's interests could be served, he 

 might have 4iad any service in return. 



And in his loss the craft loses one of 

 its most wilUng workers for the general 

 good. His time and talents always were 

 at command whenever any organized un- 

 dertaking was afoot, and he was as act- 

 ive in the affairs of the Bed Men and 

 the Elks as he was in matters of the 

 S. A. F., the flower shows or the Chi- 

 cago Florists' Club. The S. A. F. turned 

 to him at Dayton as the ideal man to 

 fill the secretaryship, made vacant by 

 the advancement of W. J. Stewart to 

 the presidency after twenty years of 

 service, and so well did he perform his 

 duties that he was unanimously re- 

 elected at Philadelphia. Mr. Hauswirth 

 also had served twice as the president of 

 the Chicago Florists' Club and was a 

 member of the Rose, Carnation and 

 (chrysanthemum Societies. 



The funeral will be held Friday, De- 

 cember 6, at 1 p. m., from the family 

 residence, 144 Clyboum avenue, and at 

 1- p. m at the chapel at Bosehill ceme- 

 tery. The services at the house will be 



P. J. Hauswirth. 



(From a photograph taken at the time of the I'hllailelphla convention.) 



for the family and those at the chapel 

 for friends. Florists will serve as pall- 

 bearers, the Elks will have charge at 

 the chapel and the Red Men at the 

 grave. 



Mr. Hauswirth was born in Germany, 

 December 18, 1861. While a boy he came 

 to Chicago with an aunt, who, in 1871, 

 married Charles Reisig, who was ene of 

 the pioneers in the trade. In the school 

 vacation of 1873 the boy worked in the 

 Reisig greenhouses on West Sixteenth 

 street and may fairly be said to have 

 been identified with the trade since that 

 time. In the autumn of the next year he 

 went into the store as errand boy. He 

 continued with Mr. Reisig almost con- 

 tinuously for eighteen years. They had 

 stores at 88 and 66 Washington street, 

 at 175 Wabash, on State street, and 

 again on Washington street, where the 

 Marshall Field annex now stands, at 

 various times during that period. Joe 

 Curran, who is a few years older than 

 Mr. Hauswirth, was also a protege of 

 Mr. Reisig, ani in the store duriag that 

 time. At the time the Auditorium was 

 completed it was far south of the center 

 of trade, but Mr. Reisig moved there, 

 occupying a part of the drug store on 

 the Wabash avenue side. This was not 

 at first profitable, and in July, 1892, 

 Mr. Reisig, being well along in years, 

 turned his business over to Mr. Haus- 

 wirth, dying within the year. Mr. Haus- 

 wirth later moved into a store on the 

 Michigan avenue side of the Auditorium 

 Annex, and only a few months ago 

 moved again to a new store in the latest 

 addition to the Annex, where he had one 

 of the best stands in Chicago. 



In 1882 Mr. Hauswirth married Marie 

 C. Collnot. They have two children and 

 two grandchildren. Mrs. Hauswirth has 

 spent part of her time in the store and 

 has been her husband's constant com- 

 panion on convention and other trips, so 



tliat she is widely known in the trade. 

 The whole trade shares in her bereave- 

 ment. 



John Rinsfier. 



Stumpp & Walter Co., New York, re- 

 port the death of John Ringier at 

 Seurch Home, in Switzerland, November 

 15. He had two brothers in the United 

 States, both in Chicago — Arnold Ringier, 

 secretary of the W. W. Barnard Co., and 

 Max Ringier, of the Kennicott Bros. Co. 



George Edward Davenport. 



George Edward Davenport, a noted 

 botanist and scholar, who had won a 

 national reputation as a specialist in 

 the ferns of North America, and who 

 formerly possessed one of the finest col- 

 lections of these plants in America, died 

 suddenly November 29, while strolling 

 through the picturesque Middlesex Fells, 

 which he loved so well, accompanied by 

 his three grandchildren. Mr. Davenport 

 was seized with vertigo and died before 

 help could be summoned. One of the 

 children stayed by the body while the 

 others ran for help. 



As a young man, the deceased was a 

 groat friend of Wendell Phillips and 

 William Lloyd Garrison. After mar- 

 riage he confined himself to botanical 

 work, and for many years classified new 

 and rare plants for Harvard and Yale 

 colleges and the Smithsoniam Institution, 

 at Washington. He lived in Medford, 

 Mass., since 1875, was a member of the 

 school board for eighteen years, and held 

 other offices. 



Mr. Davenport's figure was well known 

 at Horticultural hall, Boston. He fre- 

 quently exhibited collections of ferns 

 and other native plants, and hr.d served 

 on the library and other important coni- 

 niittees. He had been a life member of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 for many years. 



