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and countries. "Burr's New Pine" au<l " Burr's Old Seedling" are 

 still the leading strawberries of Ohio and the East, but when he came 

 to Kansas he invented others, bet'ter adapted to the soil and climate. 



The Kural World, two years ago, published a minute description 

 of 19 varieties of Mr. Burr's grapes, remarking in the article : 



" Our old friend John Burr has long passed his four-score years, 

 and, in the nature of things, will ere long pass away from us. Bat he 

 will in these grapes leave a grateful remembrance, more valuable than 

 a monument." 



Mr. Burr numbered among his very best grapes the " Early Vic- 

 tor," the " Jewel," the '• Standard," the " Daisy," the " Burr's Prize," 

 the "Ideal" and the "Progress," but was engaged upon another at 

 the time of his death, which, he often asserted, would surpass all the 

 others. The Jewel, with other varieties, he sold to Black Stayman of 

 the city, the Early Victor and Standard are in the hands of Mr. Silas 

 Putnam and Mr. Wendling Hund also has acquired some of his best 

 plants, so that later generations, when they partake of his delicious 

 fruits, will bless the memory or the gifted, untiring and painstaking 

 John Burr. 



Mr. Burr was sociable in his manners and domestic in his habits. 

 He loved his family and his friends, and was a great reader and writer. 

 He was a genial and lovable gentleman of the old school. He bad 

 been a communicant in the Episcopal church from boyhood, and for 

 nearly 40 years was a vestryman in the church. 



His funeral will take place at 10 o'clock this morning from the 

 family residence, 310 Osage street. He will be placed temporarily 

 beside his wife, in a vault at Mt. Muncie, when both will be removed 

 to Green Lawn cemetery, Columbus, Ohio. 



THE ROSE. 



Old as the history of the world itself is that of the queen of 

 flowers. The ancient Greeks and Romans reveled in roses; they were 

 used lavishly at their feasts. In the time of the republic the people 

 had their cups of Falernian wine swimming with blooms, and the Spar- 

 tan soldiers, after the battle of Cirrha, refused to drink any wine that 

 was not perfumed with roses, while at the regatta of Elie the whole 

 surface of the Eucrine lake was strewn with the flowers. 



Nero at his banqueting showered rose-water upon his guests from 

 an opening in the ceiling, and when honoring the house of a noble with 



