February 26, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



21 



OBITUARY. 



John M. Foss. 



John M. Foss, aged 49 years, died at 

 his home, 902 Main street, Sharpsburg, 

 Pa., after a lingering illness. Mr. Foss 

 came to this country in 1887. In 1891 

 Mr. Foss embarked in the florists' busi- 

 ness, which he continued until his 

 death. In September, 1892, Mr, Foss 

 married Miss Bertha Cook, who, with 

 three children, survives. He was a mem- 

 ber of the German Evangelical church, 

 Etna Lodge of Elks, Sharpsburg Aerie 

 of Eagles, and Banner Circle P. H. C, 

 The funeral took place February 18 in 

 the German Evangelical church. 



Mr. Foss was well known to the trade 

 in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, where his 

 plants have been sold for many years. 

 He had a stand in the Pittsburgh mar- 

 ,ket and a store in Sharpsburg. He was 

 a genial gentleman of wide personal 

 popularity. 



James P, Copelaud. 



In the death of James P. Copeland, 

 February 19, the city of Marion, 111., 

 lost its best known and best beloved 

 citizen, as was attested by the attend- 

 ance and the number of floral remem- 

 brances at the funeral February 21, 

 which exceeded anything ever before 

 seen in Marion. 



Mr. Copeland was 68 years of age. 

 He was a pioneer newspaper man, hav- 

 ing begun work in that field at Vienna, 

 111., in 1857. He served the Union 

 through the Civil war and on his re- 

 turn founded the Marion Leader, which 

 he published until 1901. Selling out his 

 newspaper interests in that year, he 

 established the Marion Greenhouses, in 

 partnership with his wife, Minnie 

 Lilley Copeland, who will continue the 

 business. Mr. Copeland contracted a 

 severe cold while working in the green- 

 houses early in February, which de- 

 veloped into pneumonia. He leaves, 

 besides his widow, two sons ana a 

 daughter. 



THE MASS OF EVIDENCE, 



The favorable opinion of one person 

 may or may not carry weight with it; 

 if the person is unknown it probably 

 more often does not. But when a simi- 

 lar opinion is voiced by a large number 

 of persons, known or unknown, there 

 accumulates a "mass of evidence," as 

 the lawyers say, which is too weighty 

 to be brushed lightly aside. You have 

 read many such before, but the follow- 

 ing is one more contribution to the 

 already large "mass of evidence" on 

 behalf of the use of The Review's Clas- 

 sified Ads: 



Please cancel my atl for cinerarias in your pa- 

 per, as I am all sold out. It certainly does the 

 work. — Emil Metzmaier, Columbus, O., February 

 10, 1914. 



CRUDE OIL IN SOIL. 



A few days ago a pipe, carrying crude 

 oil for the Standard Oil Co., burst and 

 the oil ran into a creek which flooded 

 the meadow from which I take the soil 

 for my greenhouses. After the water 

 settled, it left the oil on my land. 

 Would you advise me to use that soil 

 for my compost? J. W. 



If you can get compost elsewhere for 

 one season I would advise you to do so. 

 By that time any liability of damage 

 from the crude oil will have passed, I 

 would not advise using it now. 



C. W. 



Morrison, HI. — John H, Dykema, who 

 has been employed by the E. R. Davis 

 Co. for the last eleven years, is plan- 

 ning to erect a $10,000 plant of his own 

 at Fulton. 



Syracuse, N. Y, — Wallace R. Pierson 

 was the principal speaker at the an- 

 nual meeting of the Syracuse Rose So- 

 ciety. His subject was "What Ameri- 

 cans Have Done to Develop the Rose." 



Great Falls, Mont. — St. Valentine's 

 day shows great prospects of being a 

 good flower day. The Electric City 

 Conservatory advertised the use of vio- 

 lets for valentines and as a result many 

 violets Tvere sold. 



Dayton, 0. — As a result of the small 

 amount of sunshine, the rose supply is 

 almost too short to meet the demand, 

 says Horace Frank, of the Heiss Co. 

 Carnations are in heavy demand and the 

 supply is large. 



Princeton, lU, — To provide an ice 

 supply for the greenhouse refrigerators 

 and for shipping cut flowers, the W. E. 

 Trimble Greenhouse Co. has just com- 

 pleted an ice house of 100 tons capacity. 

 It is being filled this week. 



New Haven, Conn. — John H. Slo- 

 combe's exhibit of sweet peas, of a va- 

 riety recently introduced by A. C. 

 Zvolanek, at the last meeting of the 

 New Haven Horticultural Society drew 

 much favorable comment. 



Galva, lU, — G. F. Pearce has pur- 

 chased the greenhouses of A. G. Larson, 

 at 704 West Division street, and finds 

 business excellent this season. Mr. 

 Larson has bought a farm about sixty 

 miles from Minneapolis, Minn., and 

 will try his hand at farming. 



Omaha, Neb. — The Morgan-Shawler 

 Co., 1903 Farnam street, has opened 

 one of the most thoroughly up-to-date 

 stores west of the Mississippi, Both H. 

 R. Morgan, president, and J. W. Shaw- 

 ler, secretary, are former employees of 

 J. F. Wilcox & Sons, at Council Bluffs, 

 although Mr. Shawler has for some time 

 been engaged in another line of busi- 

 ness. 



Rochester, Minn. — Ross Bragg, who 

 not long ago purchased the store in 

 the Zumbro hotel from John Fuhl- 

 bruegge and later the Peterson green- 

 houses, is planning to make a number 

 of improvements in both pieces of 

 property. The store will be enlarged 

 and refitted to handle a larger trade, 

 and the greenhouses will be remodeled 

 so as to increase the production of the 

 plant. 



Albany, N. Y. — At the request of Buf- 

 falo florists, Assemblyman Horton, of 

 Erie, has introduced a bill in the state 

 legislature amending the law prohibit- 

 ing the employment of women and chil- 

 dren for more than fifty-four hours a 

 week. There are exceptions now for 

 the week before Christmas covering de- 

 partment and other stores, and the 

 amendment introduced makes an ex- 

 ception of the week before Easter for 

 florists' stores. 



Rutland, Vt. — Sidney A. Baker, pro- 

 prietor of Baker's Seed House, 117 

 Park street, will add a greenhouse, 

 45x110 feet, to his plant next April, 

 increasing his glass area to over 15,000 

 square feet. 



St. Paul, Minn. — John D. Ramaley, 

 proprietor of the Ramaley Floral Ex- 

 change, celebrated his eightieth birth- 

 day St. Valentine's day and gave flow- 

 ers to his friends and customers in 

 honor of the occasion. 



Utica, N. Y.— C. Brown & Sons, for 

 some years in business at Rochester, 

 N. Y., will open a store here, under 

 the name of the Utica Floral Co, The 

 store is almost completed and the com- 

 pany will begin business about March 1. 



Warren, Pa. — Lester Graham is en- 

 gaged with plans for enlarging his 

 greenhouse plant just outside of town, 

 on Conewango avenue. Additional 

 houses as well as improvements to the 

 present range are contemplated. The 

 \vork will probably be started this com- 

 ing spring. 



Tampa, Fla.— For Gasparilla week, 

 and especially for the Bachelors' ball, 

 King's reception and Coronation ball, 

 which occurred February 18 to 24, the 

 Knull Floral Co. reports excellent busi- 

 ness. A unique piratical mailing card 

 was sent to customers and is thought to 

 have brought good results. 



Rock Island, 111. — On his way home 

 from a meeting of the Tri-City Flo- 

 rists' Association on the night of Feb- 

 ruary 13, Henry Gaethje was attacked 

 and beaten by two men, who took his 

 hat, overcoat and the small amount of 

 change he carried. The attack was 

 made just outside his boiler room and 

 his son-in-law, Axel Hokinson, found 

 him when he came out after hearing his 

 groans. Although the condition of Mr. 

 Gaethje was serious for a time, he will 

 recover. 



Charlotte, N. C. — A certificate of in- 

 corporation has been granted to Scholtz 

 the Florist. The capitalization is $50,- 

 000 and the incorporators are E, P. 

 Scholtz, Mrs. Nellie Scholtz, W. W. 

 Scholtz and .T. I. McCallum. The in- 

 corporators are authorized to do a gen- 

 eral horticultural business, to deal in 

 real estate and to engage in any line of 

 business enterprise needful to the prose- 

 cution of the main business of hor- 

 ticulture. 



Sheridan, Wyo. — The greenhouses on 

 North Badger street, which were built 

 three years ago by the Sheridan Green- 

 house Co. and are now the property of 

 the L. M. Best Floral Co., have been 

 leased to M. E. Leland, of McCook, Neb., 

 with an option to purchase. The Best 

 Floral Co. will confine itself to grow- 

 ing vegetables, and Mr. Leland will 

 grow a general line of flowers and 

 plants, conducting the business under 

 the name of the Glendale Floral Co. He 

 may open a branch store at Billings, 

 Mont., to be supplied with stock from 

 the greenhouses here. 



