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DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1939 Bklyn. Sec 14 when he "became ehief wpectw. BoeoUFk 1m4 hr Main Queens Higbvay tenance Superintendent S. Meredith Prospect Peril So Gei Only Flover Shows IzM Cop, Got Fireinea, 5 Days Chief Quits at 76 srreng Jr, yesterday credited hrra with having brought about improved inspection systems and tetter highway repair work. In behalf of ether employes, they presented turn -with a wrist watrh.

Retirement was forced by Board cf Estimate refusal to continue his services, doe to the fact he Gangsters were after him tak ing his car and $19, and he thought it was a police telephone box. Herman Jurgens, 26, a farmer, above the customary retiremeiit age of seventy. With a record nearly forty-one years service to the city, Joseph Leimbach, 76, chief inspector of the Queens Highway Bureau, was formally retired yesterday. Leimbach, who lives at 156-08 Sanford Ave, Flushing, entered the city service April 11, lSi8, and served as aa- inspector until 191! 8. Ialrmlr4 la pirlt TWa mi la apart artfrtra arta RaHae rm aa4 fcia mtmW (be vrtttear af IV told Magistrate Charles Solomon in Felony Court, Queens, yesterday in explaining hy he sent in a false fire alarm.

Jurgens, who gave his address as 67-43 Thornton Place, Forest Hills, was accused of turning in the false alarm at Onderdonk and Willohghby Aves, Eidgewood. early yesterday. Seven pieces of apparatus and forty firemen re sponded. What you did is a very serious thing and inexcusable, Solomon commented. Jurgens took a five-day jail term in lieu of a $25 fine.

Y. W. C. A. to Hold Start the ne PflUDEfJTIflL Bm year right Get Twelfth Night Fair A "Twelfth Night Fair," in which Brooklyn museums and $25 to S300 here to pay off bills, and extra cash for every personal and household need.

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Then in and get CASH. No John J. Gleason, head gardner of Prospect Park greenhouses, busy about this year's poinsettia exhibit. There are 25,000 of 'em reds, pinks and snow white blossoms. Growing the flowers that go into Prospect Park's greenhouse floral exhibits is just about as difficult as taking care A red tape.

Monthly payments schools will co-operate, will be held Friday, from 4:40 P. M. until midnight in Memorial Hall of Central Branch, Brooklyn Y. W. CL 30 Third Brooklyn.

Exhibits, a marionette show, interpretive dancing, motion pictures and free beauty counsel will be among the attractions. 427 FlatWa A. (oar.FaftaaSL) ST ctaaf 3-329t ASTORIA 31-94 Steam St. (cat. SnJmr) RAta.

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That is the opinion of John J. Gleason, head gardener responsible for the hundreds of thousands of blossoms and plants cultivated in the sixteen greenhouses in the Brooklyn park, just off Seventh St and Prospect Park West. They have to be fed properly, given ventilation and water and Tight time of rest," he explained. "And like babies, they sometimes get cranky and stubborn and cut up," he added. Current Attraction.

Prospect Park's greenhouses, long famous for their beautiful exhibits, recently assumed a new city-wide importance to flower lovers. Park Department officials revealed that it is the only park Aew York City where such shows will held in future. Economies have brought about the elimination ci flower exhibits in other boroughs. Pomsettias 25,000 of the tall velvety pe tailed flowers are the current center of attraction. Laid oat in a big design, their rich colors fill the display green house.

Vivid red, soft pink and enow white form their tone sym phony. The dark shiny green nap mm to ife oaMProB tliLiAy vZj 1 (TPAW i Mlil 1 I 7 Piece SIMMONS Studio Group I 1 8 5 Includes s-n. r-'Pl vl) tl Simmoas Twia Studio, GMll i vjp? -''x lav 2 Modcra Ead Tables 3.gN Cl Coffee-CocLtan T.We fJ SSlfel 2 M-Jer. Table Lamp, leaves of camellia plants add to the design, bordered by low Scotch heather. But it is only one of the yearly spectacles.

Lily Show at Easter. At Easter is the lily show, with its cross of 100,000 flowers. Just before that is the Spring show of tulips, hyacinths, narcissus and ether early-blooming flowers. In the Fall is the chrysanthemum display. In addition to growing the special exhibit plants, the greenhouses cultivate year-round and, also, grow many of the "bedding" plants such as petunias, geraniums, etc which are set out later in parks throughout the city.

Incidentally, as a result of the recent change, the Queens greenhouses in particular will be devoted to cultivation, of these "bedding" plants. In all, Gleason estimates, 500,000 flowers are grown annually in the Brooklyn greenhouses. The varieties might number 6,000 or more. He isn't able to tell exactly. There are, for example, seventy-five vari-ties of azalea, twenty-five of hydrangea, thirty of camellia, and twelve of tulips.

The Palm House, lone, has hundreds, with the tallest a fifteen-foot speciman of euphorbialactea. Gleason, who has, been head gardener twenty-one years, has a staff of fourteen trained gardeners. In cold weather it takes thirteen boilers to keep the greenhouses at the proper temperature. Preparation for the shows begins months ahead. The poinsettias were planted last April.

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