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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_39_1 (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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NovEMBEU 30, IOK;. The Florists'Review 25 Mr. CushinjTf married four times. )(e was essentially a" home man, Imt was alliliated with the IJhodo Island Jlorti- eultinai Society and the Florists' an<l (iardeners' Club of Jvhodo Island, lie is survived by liis -uife, one dau(;;htcr by a former marriage and three sisters. W. II. M. William L. Kroeschell. News of the sudden death of William L. Kroeschell brouj;ht sorrow to his many friends in Chicago, as it will to many hundreds of florists throughout the United States who did not liave the pleasure of his personal ac(iuaintance, bnt who faced his name every time they entered their fire pits. Mr. Kroeschell was found dead sit- ting in an alcove just off the library of the Illinois Athletic Club in Chicago on the afternoon of November 23. lie was GL years of age, having been born in Nashville, Tenn., May L'2, 1855. While he was still a youth the family removed to Chicago and he was educated in the Chicago public schools. Although the family long had been identified with lioiler-making, Mr. Kioeschell's first business experience was on the l)oard of trade. In 1881 he became a member of the grain commission firm of Gerstenberg & Kroeschell, which did a successful business until its dissolution in 1900, when, on tlie death of an older brother, Mr. Kroeschell entered Kroeschell Bros. Co., becoming its secre- tary and treasurer. The last sixteen years of his life were devoted to its business, the greenhouse boiler de()art- ment being in his special charge up to the time its management largely was dele- gated to Fred Lautenschlager. But Mr. Kroeschell always took a special inter- est in the greenhouse trade and the liusiness his company does with florists. lie also was secretary of Kroeschell Bros. Ice Machine Co. and a director in both corporations. Mr. Kroeschell not only was a man of thorough business integrity, but pos- sesseil unusual qualities in the way of remembering faces and making friends, so that he numbered among his per- sonal friends all of the large number of florists with whom he came in contact. lie was a life member of the Society of American Florists, having joined in 1907; a member of the Chicago Florists' Club, and many other trade organiza- tions. He was one of the executive committee that managed the recent Chicago convention of the Vegetable Growers' Association of America, and his last pidilic appearance in the trad<^ was as toastmaster at the I)anquet given that organization at Hotel T.a Salle on the evening of September 29. In 1882 Mr. Kroeschell married Miss Ida Spnngenl)crg, who survives with two daugliters. One brotlier, Charles, president of Kroeschell Bros. Co., also survives. In accordance with his wish, fre- quently expressed, funeral services were omitted. The remains were cremate<l and the ashes interred at the family plot in Graceland cemetery. H. B. Biirdett. News has been received of the deatli of one of the well hnown florists of Seattle, Wash., 11. B. Burdett, who joined the Canadian contingent of the Allies early last spring ami proceedeil to the front in France, after receiving the usual training at Vernon, B. C. It
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William L. Kroeschell. might bo mentioned in this connection that Gordon Beavan, who formerly worked at the Burdett Co. place and went to the front about two years ago, recently mot the same fate. Mr. Burdett had lieen in business for him- self about sixteen years in Seattle, starting at an ;ii;e when most boys are entering tiieii apprenticeship, anil through many ups and downs he always conducted his lusiness in a straight- forward and gonMcmanly way. lie has left many fiitMi is in Seattle who will deeply mourn In- loss, remembering his clean mind and lipiight character as an example to be illiwed. T. W. Milo s. Crozer. Milo S. Cro/r! ■( ill a Iiospital at Cedar Rapids, I; , November 23. Milo Crozer \wi- one of the best known men in '.'iir Rapids, having been prominent n^ i^ic and fraternal circles for a nun: of rears. r>orn in Clinton, la., " "i' --, ISHs, jio removed witli hi- i rents to Cedar l?apids twenty y : ago, where liis father, J. G. Cro/ei. ■ .nded the flower store which has s: ln'come almost an institution in tl ; ' ■ "'^ "f ^'"^ cnuii- try. Following a ■■• -fiJ accident in wiiich his father suiV' ■ ' tk«^ lorn three children, Carl. T,;-:.! and Doro- thy. Both boys were .--'>,iated with their father in busin.> . Other sur- vivors are his parents, -Mr. and Mrs. .1. G. Crozer, and three sisters. Fraternally Mr. Croz'^r had a wide acquaintanceship, holding membership in Cedar Kapids lodge No. 251, B. 1'. (). E., Crescent lodge No. 25, A. F. & A. M., Linn tent No. .'iS, K. O. T. M., and the Woodmen of the World. 1 luring tlie summer Mr. Crozer gave up his ai'tive connection with his flower store to accejit a position with the American Express Co., becoming its traveling agent, leaving the business to the sons, grandsons of J. G. Crozer, the founder. PAPER WHITES FOR CHRISTMAS, Please tell me when Paper Whites sliduld be l)rought in for Christmas. They nr(> outdixirs, co\'ered with soil and fairly well rooted. There is a gi-o\vth ul" abi)ut three inches above the flats. H. E. M.—Pa. Prini: tlie Pap'T Whites into heat ni»w. They uiU nei>d a tcmpiMatiire of 50 to 55 degrees at night. It will he easy to hold them back a few days in a cold house if they come into ilower a little earlier than wanted. C. W. Amsterdam, N. Y.—.Tosoph A. ^f.ir- roll has acquired an *• acre plot and a greenhouse with which to beuin his market-gardening business. Bay City, Mich.—At the next club meeting, Monday evening. December 4, at R. L. Leidy's store, there will be an exhibit of roses, whicli will be followed each month by a disjWay either of cut flowers or blooming jilants. A program will be announced at each meeting by the committee in charge, Albert (I. Boeliriiiger, Bay City: John Marsh, Bay City, and Henry W. F. Goetz, Saginaw.

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