. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. OPEN LElTCl^y^" DEADER^ SNAPP'S RELATIONS WANTED. I saw a news item from Salina, Kan., in The Keview for July 30, relating to the death of a stranger there and I write you so that you can print this and perhaps locate his relations. The man's name was Alfred H. Snapp. He was about 65 years of age. Years ago he worked in Chicago, for a florist named Fuller. He was born in New York, near Poughkeepsie, and has a brother and sis- ter living somewhere near there. He had worked for me, in Pine Bluflf, Ark., several times in the last ten years. He ha
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. OPEN LElTCl^y^" DEADER^ SNAPP'S RELATIONS WANTED. I saw a news item from Salina, Kan., in The Keview for July 30, relating to the death of a stranger there and I write you so that you can print this and perhaps locate his relations. The man's name was Alfred H. Snapp. He was about 65 years of age. Years ago he worked in Chicago, for a florist named Fuller. He was born in New York, near Poughkeepsie, and has a brother and sis- ter living somewhere near there. He had worked for me, in Pine Bluflf, Ark., several times in the last ten years. He had been in bad health for several years and had spells of the blues and would go away, but would come back and tell me he was going to stay till he died. We are badly in need of rain. All out- door stock is suffering. We have our carnations planted and the stock looks fine, despite the weather. Last week we opened a store in the new Hotel Pine. We will handle all. cut flowers from there, and plants from the greenhouse. Business is dull, but we hope for an improvement as soon as the weather gets cooler. Last week the thermometer registered 104% degrees in the shade. A. A. Harper. NOTES ON OUTDOOR PLANTS, An inquiry recently appeared in The Review as to why some plants of Am- pelopsis quinquefolia, commonly known as "Virginia creeper or American ivy, do not cling to walls, while others do. There are two varieties of this vine, one having no tendrils, while the other is abundantly supplied with them. I do not know that the plants can be dis- tinguished by appearance of leaf. Am- pelopsis Engelmanni is a seedling from A. quinquefolia, with larger foliage and vigorous habit; it is in every way better than the original form and clings tenaciously. Amorphophallus Rivieri, a strange bulb, producing highly ornamental foli- age and a flower of most disgusting odor, I supposed was from the tropics, but the root is perfectly hardy, some- times remaining dormant in the ground a full yea
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