

DECiCMBEB 19, 1012. 



The Florists* Review 



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Motor Truck Used by the Albert F. Amiing G)., Maywood, lU., to Carry Stock to Market. 



may become a member. The object of 

 the society is to promote the interest 

 in flowers and trees and to help beautify 

 the city in an intelligent and syste- 

 m tic manner. The membership has 

 already passed the sixty-five faiark. The 

 local papers are doing their best to 

 further the welfare of the society, by 

 publishing the proceedings of the meet- 

 ings in full, with the papers read at 

 such meetings, in their Sunday issues. 

 The society will undertake demonstra- 

 tion work, such as planting and caring 

 for window boxes, on any one building 

 and one school. The oflScers of the 

 society are: President, H. P. Loding; 

 vice-president, John Douglas; recording 

 secretary, H. A. Demeran ville ; secre- 

 tr-y and treasurer, G. C. Little. 



Altogether Mobile, the gateway to the 

 Panama canal, is pushing to the front 

 at a gait that cannot be beat. Some 

 wide-awake nurserymen got onto this 

 fact, and where a year ago we could 

 not count a single nrifrery we can now 

 boast of four growitt concerns. 



•p H. P. L. 



AMLJNQ'a AXtf^ TBUCE. 



A good many floriste- select an autor 

 mobile as much for looks as for utility, 

 but not so the Albert F. Amling Co., 

 Maywood, 111. This concern bought for 

 service and for no other reason. The 

 truck, which is of one ton capacity, is 

 used for a daily trip from the green- 

 houses to the commission house in Chi- 

 cago and serves to make the growers in- 

 dependent of the railroads and express 

 companies. The truck has, upon occasion, 

 made more than one trip a day, and it is 

 of record that on a certain night it car- 

 ried as its load 142,000 sweet peas. 

 The truck has given excellent service 

 ever since it was put into use, but in 

 the beginning there was a great deal of 

 tire trouble. This has been overcome 

 by using a patent tire filler th;'.r "^re- 

 vents punctures or blow-outs, 

 truck puts the stock into the wholesa^ 

 house in fully as good shape as when it 



was sent by express, the ride over the 

 road being less rough than the handling 

 the boxes received in the several shifts 

 necessary when moved by train. 



Few florists use a car without a top. 

 The Amling concern gets a lot of serv- 

 ice out of its truck on jobs that would 

 be impossible with a top on the car. 

 When carrying cut flowers to market 

 they are covered with a tarpaulin and 

 it has been found that even in the 

 coldest weather the boxes need no heav- 

 ier lining than would be given if they 

 were to go by express. 



OBITUARY. 



Mrs. F. E. Blair. 



Mrs. F. E. Blair, who some years 

 ago was engaged in the florists' trade 

 at Big Eapids, Mich., died December 4 

 at the home of her son Harold, in In- 

 dianapolis, Ind. She was succeeded in 

 business at Big Eapids by H. M. Lar- 

 son and removed about ten years ago 

 to Ann Arbor, Mich. Six or seven 

 years ago she was injured in a rush 

 at the university gymnasium and since 

 that time she had been an invalid. 

 She is survived by two sons, Harold 

 and Lewis. The body was taken to 

 Big Bapids for burial. 



P. F. Williams. 



Professor P. F. Williams, head of 

 the department of horticulture of the 

 Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Au- 

 burn, Ala., and a member of the firm 

 known as the Opelika Floral Co., at 

 Opelika, Ala., died December 5, at 

 Asheville, N. C. The funeral services 

 were held at the Baptist church in 

 Auburn. He was a native of Massa- 

 chusetts and a graduate of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College. He was 

 secretary of the National Nut Grow- 

 ers' Association and was prominent in 

 the work of the Alabama State Hor- 

 ticultural Society. His papers on the 

 srrowing of pecans are in demand in all 



:i"t8 of the United States. He was a 



Mason and a member of the Kappa 

 Sigma college fraternity. 



Lee H. Bradley. 



Lee H. Bradley, of 133 Grand ave- 

 nue. New Haven, Conn., who for many 

 years had conducted a flower business 

 in that city, dropped dead in his home 

 on the evening of December 6, as he 

 was about to retire. He was found 

 in his bedroom, having fallen on his 

 face near the door. The medical ex- 

 aminer pronounced the cause of death 

 to be heart disease. Mr. Bradley was 

 76 years of age. He is survived by 

 his wife, Mrs. Emma Bradley, and one 

 son. Smith D. Bradley. 



Charles Noelke. 



Charles B. J. Noelke, a well-known 

 florist of Seventh avenue. New York, 

 died December 4 at St. Luke's hos- 

 pital, after a short illness due to pneu- 

 monia. For fifteen years he had con- 

 ducted a store at One Hundred and 

 Thirty-first street and Seventh avenue. 

 He was particularly interested in the 

 schools and the welfare of the school 

 children. As a member of the school 

 board of the twenty-first district, it 

 was his custom to visit the schools in 

 his district each week. He was 62 

 years of age, an^d up to the time of 

 his last illness he had been in perfect 

 health. His wife survives him. 



Norfolk, Conn. — J. E. Scott has built 

 an addition to his greenhouses on Grant 

 street. 



Shreveport, La. — A. J. Manhein, of 

 the Rose Lea Greenhouses, has com- 

 pleted the erection of another green- 

 house. The range now comprises five 

 houses. Natural gas is used as fuel. 



Oshkosh, Wis. — N. A. Easmussen, of 

 Easmussen's Fruit Farm, went to Des 

 Moines, la., to attend the annual con- 

 vention of the Iowa State Horticultural 

 Society. He was chosen as delegate to 

 represent the Wisconsin society at this 

 convention. 



