. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. An account of the death of John Hall, former secretary of the American Nurserymen's Association and prominent in Rochester, N. Y., business circles, which occurred at Detroit, Mich., December 22, is given on the obituary page of this issue. The Connecticut Nurserymen's Asso- ciation will hold its next annual meeting in Hartford, Conn., January 24, at the City Club. The officers of the organiza- tion are as follows: President, Henry W. Gottschalk, Manchester, Conn.; vice- president, William W. McCartney, New Haven, Conn.; treasurer, W. W. Hunt, Hart
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. An account of the death of John Hall, former secretary of the American Nurserymen's Association and prominent in Rochester, N. Y., business circles, which occurred at Detroit, Mich., December 22, is given on the obituary page of this issue. The Connecticut Nurserymen's Asso- ciation will hold its next annual meeting in Hartford, Conn., January 24, at the City Club. The officers of the organiza- tion are as follows: President, Henry W. Gottschalk, Manchester, Conn.; vice- president, William W. McCartney, New Haven, Conn.; treasurer, W. W. Hunt, Hartford, Conn.; secretary, F. J. Rippin, Manchester, Conn. Announcement of the program will be made in a subsequent issue. CHAJNQES AT , MASS. Albert E. Robinson, who for a num- ber of years has been vice-president of the Breck-Robinson Nurseries, Lexing- ton, Mass., and who previously was man- ager of the Bay State Nurseries, North Abington, Mass., has retired to take charge of the Atlantic Coast Nurseries, Portsmouth, Va. This enterprise was started a number of years ago by the Brcck-Robinson Nurseries and the Con- ard & Jones Co., of West Grove, Pa., as a general wholesale nursery. P. J. Van Baarda, for a considerable length of time manager of the retail department of Joseph Breck & Sons, Boston, will succeed Mr. Robinson as general manager and vice-president of the Lexington nurseries. Mr. Van Baarda, who is a native of Holland, where he was born in 1881, gained much practical experience in the nursery, bulb and seed trades in his native coun- try and France. He had worked with several important concerns before com- ing to Brcck 's seventeen years ago. For a number of years he was employed as traveler among the private gardeners, with whom the Breck-Robinson Nurs- eries do a large business. It is safe to say that there was no more esteemed representative on the road for any house than Mr. Van Baarda, and tliere were many regrets when he was called to the. Geo
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