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FEBRUABY 15, 1012. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



15 



PITTSBURGH OLUB'S NEW HEAD. 



The new president of the Pittsburgh 

 J'lorists' Club is E. C. Ludwig, who not 

 oaly was a charter mertiber of the club 

 but is one of the oldest retail florists 

 in that city, having been engaged in 

 the business for over thirty-seven years. 

 His principal place of business is at 

 710 East Diamond street, but he also 

 lias a stand in the North Side market. 

 He is one of those who de^ with all pos- 

 sible energy anything that seems worth 

 doing at all and, as he was an active 

 candidate for the club presidency, it 

 seems assured that he will not permit 

 the strong interest now taken in the 

 organization to abate at all during his 

 term of offiie. 



OBITUARY. 



John Bischoff. 



John Bischoflf, of Niagara Falls, 

 N. Y., is dead, at the age of 46 years. 

 A wife, one daughter and two sons 

 survive. 



A. R. Meserve. 



A. R. Meserve, horticultural com- 

 missioner of Los Angeles county, 

 died of heart failure at his home on 

 Eagle street, Boyle Heights, Los An- 

 geles, Cal., February 7. The deceased 

 was 79 years of age and was active 

 right up to the last, having been 

 around the city attending to his duties 

 only a day or two before his death. 

 Mr. Meserve was father of the late 

 Elmo R. Meserve, who died a few 

 months ago, having been for many 

 years a wholesaler in Los Angeles and 

 a partner in the Los Angeles Flower 

 Market. 



The aged gentleman's business 

 brought him in contact with practi- 

 cally everyone in the trade in the city 

 and county of Los Angeles and all will 

 feel his loss. 



Mrs. John Burrows. 



Aletta lantha Morgan Burrows, wife 

 of John G. Burrows, of Onset, Mass., 

 passed to the higher life January 23. 

 Mrs. Burrows was born in Pickton, On- 

 tario, Canada, January 17, 1837. For 

 several years Mr. and Mrs. Burrows 

 lived at Fishkill, N. Y., where Mr. 

 Burrows carried on business as a flo- 

 rist. Mrs. Burrows was beloved by 

 all who knew her. Her health had been 

 impaired for a long time. She was con- 

 scious to the last and shortly before 

 leaving the physical body she made a 

 request that the body in which she 

 had dwelt whilst here should be cre- 

 mated. 



Thomas J. Totten. 



Thomas J. Totten, of Saratoga 

 Springs, N. Y., died February 6 at 

 Daytona, Fla., where he went several 

 weeks ago for his health. Mr. Totten 

 was born at Saratoga Springs June 26, 

 1853, and had always lived there. He 

 Was educated in the local schools and 

 at the Christian Brothers' academy in 

 Albany. He was a Republican and had 

 held the office of trustee. He was a 

 member of the Royal Arcanum, all 

 the Masonic bodies of the village and 

 Oriental temple of Troy. 



William Smith. 



Dean of the nurserymen, and possi- 

 bly richest in this world 's goods, was 



E. C. LudwJs;. 



William Smith, who died at his home 

 in Geneva, N. Y., February 6. He was 

 94 years of age and reputed to be worth 

 a million dollars. Born in Canterbury, 

 Kent county, England, he came to 

 America when he was 24 years old, 

 without a dollar. Four years were spent 

 at a number of temporary occupations 

 and in 1846 he and a brother located 

 in Geneva, acquiring twenty-five acres 

 of land and founding what is now the 

 W. & T. Smith Co. With painstaking 

 care, close attention to detail and the 

 most scrupulous square dealing, the 

 business was built up until it is today 

 one of the largest in the country. Mr. 

 Smith became one of the leading men 

 of the community, as he early was of 

 the trade in which he engaged. He was 

 one of the founders of the Standard 

 Optical Co., the largest concern of its 

 kind in the country, and was its presi- 

 dent. He also was a director of the 

 First National Bank and was interested 

 in several other business enterprises. 

 With increasing fortune and leisure he 

 turned to science and philanthropy. 

 Hobart College owes much to him, ifor 

 he not only endowed it, in 1906, with 

 $500,000, but it was his work that 

 brought many of the strongest men to 

 its faculty. 



Columbus, O. — For the approaching 

 centennial celebration an official flower 

 is wanted and S. F. Stephens recom- 

 mends the zinnia, offering to donate 

 1,000 packets of seeds to the Centennial 

 Flower and Garden Club in case his 

 suggestion is adopted. 



OIL FOR FUEL 



And How to Use It. 



1 noticed in The Review of Novem- 

 ber .'{0 an inquiry concerning the use 

 of fuel oil for greenhouses on the Pa- 

 cific coast. Kansas, where I am in 

 business, is not on the coast, but the 

 fuel oil produced here is similar to 

 that of California, 1 am sure. I will 

 therefore try to describe a burner which 

 gives splendid satisfaction with us, and 

 which can be used with a steam heating 

 plant where the boiler pressure can 

 work at twenty pounds or over. 



The princij)le of the burner is the 

 vaporizing and atomizing of the oil by 

 a jet of live steam. 



The burner is simple and can be made 

 in the workshop with the tools found 

 in almost every greenhouse plant. 



For the ordinary steam tubular boiler 

 of twenty horse-power or over it is 

 best to have the burners set in pairs, 

 and two of them will handle the oil for 

 any size of boiler up to 100 horse- 

 power. 



To Make the Burner. 



Take a section of %-inch pipe, eight- 

 een to twenty-four inches long. Thread 

 both ends. Provide a cap for the end 

 called the nozzle end. In the center of 

 this cap drill a hole just large enough 

 to let a piece of Viinch pipe slip 

 through. For the other end of the 

 %-inch pipe provide a tee and screw 

 the pipe into one end of it. For the 

 other end of the tee provide a bushing, 

 reducing from %-inch to Vi-inch. 



