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HORTICULTURE 



April 24. 1909 



Progressive Men Yet Careful Growers 



ARE INSTALLING 



CEMENT 

 BENCHES 



and building them them- 

 selves along the Wittbold 

 one=piece construction 

 by using the Wittbold 

 Clamps and Lej? Moulds and are thus saving 25% 

 in first cost and the expense and annoyance of rebuild, 

 ing. These are facts that can be proven. 



Send for our Bench booklet and be convinced. 



WITTBOLD LEG MOULD. 



WITTBOLD CLAMP. 



E. H. HUNT. 



76-78 WABASH AVENUE 

 CHICAGO 



Obituary. 



John Scott. 



-John Scott, widely known as an ex- 

 -pert plant grower, and an ex-president 

 of the New York Florists' Club, met 

 •with a sudden and tragic death on the 

 evening of Monday, 19th inst., in front 

 .of his greenhouses on Midwood street, 

 Flatbush, N. Y. Aloysius Gross, who 

 had been employed by Mr. Scott as 

 night foreman for the past two years 

 and had recently been discharged for 

 .neglect of his duties, had called Mon- 

 day forenoon to seek re-employment, 

 but Mr. Scott reminded the man that 

 he had been taken back several times 

 through pity for his family, but de- 

 ■ clared that he had made up his mind 

 to part with him for good. Gross went 

 awav muttering threats and returned 

 soon ofter 6 o'clock armed with a re- 

 .volver. He renewed his appeal to Mr. 

 .Scott to give him a job again, and 

 when ordered off the premises broke 

 into violent abuse. He was ejected by 

 Mr. Scott and his foreman Mr. Mac- 

 Ken7.ie and just as he reached the 

 road he drew his revolver and fiied. 

 The bullet struck Scott in the left 

 breast directly over the heart and 

 death was almost instantaneous. This 

 terrible calamity has cast a gloom 

 over all the trade in New York and 

 ■wherever the news has reached, for 

 John Scott was exceedingly popular 



and his perseverance and industry in 

 •the business which he has laboriously 

 built up won for him the right and 

 ■title to the respect of ever>- admirer 

 .ot a self-made, prosperous business 

 iman. 



Mr. Scott was a native of Newland- 

 rig, Dalkeith, Scotland. He served his 

 apprenticeship at the Marquis of Lo- 

 thian's. New Battle Abbey, under Wil- 

 liam Priest. He next went to the 

 nursery of Ireland & Thompson at 

 Edinbciro. from whence he went to 



.loiiN Scott 



work again , under Mr. Priest at the 

 Earl of Englinton's place. Taymouth 

 Castle and Rosemont House were later 

 assignments. Then, in 1889 he came 

 to America and was first employed 

 under David Irving at Hooslck Falls. 

 N. Y.; next under James Boyd, at 

 Levi P. Morton's place in Rhinebeck, 



and later under Thomas Emerson, at 

 the Dinsmore Estate in Staatsburg. 

 He finally took a position in charge 

 of the F. Scholes Greenhouses in 

 Brooklyn, which, within three months 

 became a commercial establishment, in 

 which Mr. Scott had a joint interest. 

 About nine years ago he built in Flat- 

 bush, and on several occasions has 

 laigely increased the glass capacity, 

 moving the original Brooklyn green- 

 houses and business to the Flatbush 

 location. 



He was elected president of the New 

 York Florists' Club in December, 1905, 

 and made an efficient and painstaking 

 presiding officer. Since the organiza- 

 tion of the New York and New Jersey 

 Plant Growers' Association he has 

 Ijeen an active member of that body 

 also. Mr. Scott's name is indelibly 

 lixed in the minds of florists every- 

 where, through its association with the 

 valuable nephrolepis sport which bears 

 his name. He leaves a widow and four 

 children, the oldest a daughter of seven 

 vcars. His age was forty-two years. 



Joseph Anthony. 

 Joseph Anthony, head of the An- 

 ihony Union Nursery Co., died at Aus- 

 tin, Ark., on March 29, aged 42. A 

 widow, two sons and three daughters 

 survive him. 



W. H. Henderson. 

 William H. Henderson, a chrysan- 

 themum specialist of Cedarville, N. J., 

 passed away on April 1. 



J. J. Kent. 

 James J. Kent, a florist of Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa., died at his home on April 

 12. 



