Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-15

some Of the men who raised roses,
violets, lilies and Chrysanthemums
for sweethearts, brides and wives
(sometimes): for those affairs which
tons" and the flowers we send as
heart and memory offerings to friends
who have passed.
The Rambler heard a woman say
that she thought a man who spends
his life raising flowers must be an
ethereal fellow with much of the poet
in him. Perhaps. A man whose closest
friends are violets and roses may have
poesy in his being, but a few of the
RambIer's old hower-growing friends
give little outward show of this. He
has known Nick Studer, Theodore
Bentz, Simon NoIl and Adolph GUIDE
and he knows Chris ScheIihorn, Alex
ander Garden. Michael McCabe, Fred
Kramer, Will Thomas Pierce and
John Gutman, and they are practical
men of affairs. Not one of them
wears a purple orchid in the button
hole. They get their hair cut on Sat
urday night and do not loiter in
daisy-dotted fields twanging the lutte
or reading odes of Horace.
In the course of stories about the
Spalding- Smoot- jenkins Tavern at
the top of Good Hope Hill beyond the
Eastern Branch you were told that
the Rambler would write of the
florists of that region. The tavern
with seven acres of fiower-land was
bought by Christian Schelihorn in 1900
from Ida Florence Boiseau. who, ac-
cording to the Rambler's information,
inherited the property from Thomas
Jenkins, who was a son of Thomas
Jenkins of Smoot About this name
Schelihorn. The Rambler has a faith
that 1t is Schelihorn, and yet the tele-
phone book and directories for 20
years spell it Schellhorn. l have
known Chris for 40 or more years and
his wife Henriette for a number of
years. and you know how embarrass-
ing II is to call up an old friend on
the telephone and ask him how he
spells his name. All those who do not
call this veteran florist Chris call
him Mr.. Schellhorn, but the Rambler
feels that when he signs check he
signs 1t Christian Schelihorn. Either
the telephone book and all the direc-
tories are wrong or the Rambler is
wrong, and naturally he feels that the
other folks are wrong.
Theodore Bentz, who was a partner
of Nicholas Studer, went into foricul-
ture on his own account on land
which had been part of the Wake
farm, after which the Walker road
was named. Bentz bought from Will
liam fudge. Bentz had several chill
dren, among them Anna, who is living
Amelia, who lives in Baltimore, and
Alexander, who is a Government flo
rist in Washington. Theodore Bentz
sold his flower acres and greenhouses
to Simon Noll, who came to Washing
ton from Germany in 1870. Simon
Noll crossed the bar long ago and
Mrs. Noll died in 1918 at the age of
90. Their children, of whom the
Rambler's record is a year old, were
Mary Augusta Noll of Hyattsville,
Caroline Amelia. deceased, who mar
ried Christian Schelihorn: Henriette
Catherine, who several years after the
death of Caroline. became the wife of
Christian Schelihorn; Adelaid and Jo-
Noll, who married Adolph GUIDE. AS
you know, Adolph passed to a bright
er sphere several years ago, and
Mary Noll-Gude lives in the fine fam
lily home with acres of glass houses
near it on the Good Hope road, Ana
costa
Simon Noll bought the land that
Bentz had bought from fudge and
later bought a part of the Mosher
farm from Theodore Mosher. The Noll
property was acquired by Chris
Schelihorn, who retired from growing
flowers about f6 years ago and sold
the gardens and hothouses to Michael
J. McCabe.
Michael. or Mike, is an old friend