January 18, 1913 



HOETICULTURB 



Obituary. 



James B. Kidd. 



James B. Kidd. U. S. Examiner in 

 the 8th Division, died suddenly on Fri- 

 day, January 10th, of heart failure. He 

 left the U. S. Appraisers' Stores about 

 noon, taking a south-bound elevated 

 train, and as he stepped off the car at 

 Franklin street station, dropped dead 

 on the platform. 



James B. Kidd was born in Scotland. 

 He first affiliated himself with the late 

 B. K. Bliss in the seed business and 

 next went to J. M. Thorhurn & Co., and 

 later to the Sunset Seed Co.. San Fran- 

 cisco. Returning to New York he was 

 employed by Wm. Elliott & Sons and 

 then, having passed an examination for 

 Examiner in the Appraisers' Stores, he 

 secured for himself the position which 

 he has held for five or six years. He 

 was a great improvement over the un- 

 informed oflScials who previously had 

 charge of the horticultural imports 

 and was well liked by the importing 

 trade with whom he had to deal, and 

 his death is regarded as a great loss. 

 He was in his 62nd year. A large num- 

 ber of sorrowing friends attended the 

 funeral on Sunday, Jan. 12. 



We gladly give place to the following 

 eloquent tribute to his memory by his 

 freind of many years, Winfried Roel- 

 ker: 



"Today, Sunday, we paid him the last 

 honors, at 10.30 A. M., in the mortuary 

 chapel of the Stephen Merritt Burial 

 Co. at 8th avenue and 19th street. A 

 true, sterling, upright character has 

 departed from our midst; a man con- 

 scientiously devoted to his duties, 

 which he fulfilled even at the risk of 

 hurting a friend. For all that we sin- 

 cerely admired him the more. We, in 

 the trade, mourn his loss, and we, his 

 friends, shall hold him dear in our 

 memory. Requiescat in pace." 



John T. Temple. 



John T. Temple of Davenport. la., 

 died suddenly on January 4, while at- 

 tending the funeral of a friend, the 

 cause being heart failure. Mr. Tem- 

 ple was born in New York City in the 

 year 1844. His ancestors were Scotch 

 and English, his father and both 

 grandfathers having been gardeners 

 and florists. His father started in the 

 florist business in Davenport, la., in 

 1859 and the young man worked with 

 iim, developing the business in which 

 he was actively engaged until his 

 death. 



INIr. Temple was an enthusiastic sup- 

 porter of and worker in the Society of 

 American Florists from the beginning 

 of that organization and attended 

 every convention except that at Bal- 

 timore, from which he was prevented 

 by sickness. He served from 1889 to 

 1891 on the executive committee of 

 that society and for a number of years 

 as chairman of its canna committee. 

 He served for two terms as a director 

 of the Florists' Hail Association and, 

 at the time of his death, was its vice- 

 president as well as secretary of the 

 Tri-City Florists' Association. 



Mr. Temple was quiet and unpreten- 

 tious in temperament but congenial 

 and companionable withal and a model 

 of sturdy honesty in every purpose and 

 act, and his loss will be deeply 



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 friends. 



Mr. Temple's wife died six years ago. 

 Two sisters survive him. 



last spring. The direct cause of her 

 death was dropsy of the heart. 



Samuel Reisner. 



Samuel Reisner, a retail florist with 

 store at 1249 Lexington Ave.. New 

 York City, died suddenly at Hamilton, 

 Bermuda, from the effects of having 

 been struck by a cyclist when cross- 

 ing a street. Mr. Reisner had only 

 arrived in Hamilton four hours before, 

 having taken the trip for rest after 

 the fatigues of the holiday business. 

 He was unmarried. His partner 

 Philip Schaeffer sailed on the next 

 steamer from New York to take 

 charge of the body. 



Angelo Tassl. 

 Angelo Tassl, eighty-one years old, 

 a retired florist and fruit merchant, of 

 No. 909 Boulevard, Astoria, Long 

 Island City, N. Y., died at his home on 

 January 6, from general debility. He 

 is survived by two sons and two 

 daughters. 



James W. McNary. 

 James W. McNary. of the Dayton & 

 Xenia Nurseries, died at Dayton, Ohio, 

 Dec. 31st, aged 56 years. He had been 

 in failing health for several years. He 

 is survived by a widow and three 

 children. 



Mrs. Montague Chamberlain. 

 Anna, wife of Montague Chamber- 

 lain, of the firm of Chamberlain & 

 Gage, gladiolus growers at South Na- 

 tick, Mass., died on Tuesday night, 

 January 7th. at the Homeopathic Hos- 

 pital. Boston. Mrs. Chamberlain has 

 been in precarious health ever since 



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