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HORTICULTURE 



February 8, 1913 



Obituary. 



Thomas V. Munson. 



Thomas Volney Munson, D. Sc, well 

 known as nurseryman and conspicuous 

 as viticulturist, died in his seventieth 

 year Wednet^day morning. January 22. 

 at Denison, Tex. His father was a na- 

 tive of Wakefield, N. H., and his child- 

 hood and youth were spent in Colches- 

 ter. Vt. Thomas V. was born in As- 

 toria, 111., and he became a graduate 

 of Kentucky University in 1870. That 

 institution employed him one year as 

 instructor in the natural sciences but 

 failing health diverted his energies 

 into the nursery business. He was as- 

 sistant to his father-in-law for three 

 years, when he started a market gar- 

 den and nursery near Lincoln, Neb. 

 "In 1874, the hot winds of July cooked 

 his garden and nursery in three days, 

 and on the fourth day, a blackening 

 cloud of Rocky Mountain grasshoppers i 

 settled over the face of the land and 

 completely devoured his cooked gar- 

 den." 



In 1876 he removed to Denison, Tex., 

 where he founded nurseries which 

 have been prosperous and are widely 

 known. Outside of his vocation as 

 nurseryman, his specialty was experi- 

 mental horticulture. "Among my large 

 number of seedling grapes," he has 

 written "many are remarkably fine, 

 and of entirely new and peculiar hy- 

 brid strains." His special enthusiasm 

 was expended in originating new 

 fruits. 



Mr. Munson had membership and 

 official connection with organizations 

 too various and too numerous to enu- 

 merate here. He was president of the 

 State Horticultural Society of Texas 

 and vice-president of the American 

 Pomological Society. 





Walter Rasmussen. 

 Walter, the 2-year-old son of Mr. 

 and Mrs. Scott Rasmussen of Water- 

 bury, Conn., died Monday morning, 

 January 27, the result of falling inio a 

 pan of scalding water the day before. 

 After the children had been dressed 

 .and were all supposed to be at play in 

 the greenhouses conducted by Mr. Ras- 

 mussen, Mrs. Rasmussen prepared to 

 wipe up the kitchen floor. She had set 

 the pan of water down, leaving it for 

 a few moments in the course of her 

 preparations, when suddenly she heard 

 •crying and returned to the kitchen to 

 find one of the older children with the 

 baby in her arms, which she had res- 

 cued from the hot water. The child 

 had toddled into the house and fallen 

 backwards into the scalding water. 

 His bick and legs were entirely 

 scalded, and though medical attend- 

 ance was quickly called and everything 

 done that could be, he succumbed to 

 his injuries. He was an unusually 

 bright little fellow and the deepest 

 sympathy is felt for his bereaved 

 parents. 



Bernard F. Diedrich. 

 Bernard F. Diedrich, a florist of 

 .^Vlexandria. Va., 68 years of age, died 

 on Saturday, February 1, at his late 

 home. 709 Wythe street, after being 

 confined to his home for twelve weeks 

 with pneumonia. Mr. Diedrich was 

 born in Hanover, Germany, and lo- 

 cated in Washington upon coming to 



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 he was engaged in the florist business 

 and was well-known to the trade here- 

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 perts of this section. He is survived 

 by nine children, six boys and thre" 

 daughters. 



August Schuermann. 



August Schuermann. of the Schuer- 

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 Louis. Mo., died on Wednesday, Jan'y 

 29, very suddenly from apoplexy. He 

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 ter. The funeral too'' place on Sat- 

 urday, Feb. 1, from his late residence, 

 quite a few in the trade attending. 



Hugo Lowe. 

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 Hospital. Chicago, 111., on Jan. 23d, 

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Gustave T. Cordua. 

 Mr. Gustave Theodore Cordua, 83 

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