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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_29_1 (find matches)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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••• 'W\ ?^?^i?*; •V- \ ,Tj. :■ '^"■'vr,' s~ 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
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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.

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