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HORTICULTURE 



July 11, 190S 



RECEIVER'S SALE OF THE ENTI RE STOCK 



DECORATIVE MATERIAL 



Of THE WILLIAM GRAHAM CO., Incorporated 



Comprising Electric Fixtures, Furniture, Flags, Bunting, Scenery, Pottery, 



Jardinieres, Vases, Etc. 



TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION 



AT 



HORTICULTURAL HALL 



Broad Street, above Spruce St. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



On WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, July 15th and 16th, 1908 



Commencing at 10 o'clock each day. 



Sold Subject to the Confirmation of Court of Common Pleas No. 2. 

 DAVID RUST, Receiver. LEO BELMOND, Esq., Attorney, 607-608 Belz Building. 



DAVIS & HARVEY, Auctioneers, 1112 Walnut Street 



ON EXHIBITION — nonday and Tuesday, July 13th and 14th. 

 TERITS — Cash — 25 per cent. Deposit required at time of sale. 



Obituary 



Edward W. Hitchings. 

 Edward W. Hitchings, of New York 

 City, died at Pasadena, Cal.. on June 

 12, aged 50 years. Mr. Hitchings has 

 suffered for many years with lung 

 trouble and his death was caused by 

 this, The Hitchings business was 

 established in 1844 by Anthony E. 

 Hitchings and was carried on by the 

 family until 1890 when the corpora- 

 tion of Hitchings & Co. was formed 

 for carrying on the business of erect- 

 ing and heating greenhouses, with E. 

 W. Hitchings as president, a position 

 which Mr. Hitchings held until his 

 death, although his active participation 

 in the business lasted only till 1895 

 when his health broke down and he 

 was obliged to seek a milder climate. 

 One daughter is left, Mr. Hitchings' 

 wife having died five years ago. The 

 body was brought east for interment. 



James Cole, Sr. 



James Cole, Sr., who has been in 

 the florist business in Peoria, 111., since 

 1863, pased away on June 30, at the 

 age of 87. Mr. Cole was a native 

 of England and came to the States in 

 1857, settling first in Chicago. 



Robert Boeck. 

 Robert Boeck, a florist of Cincinnati, 

 O., while walking on some boards that 

 covered an old cistern in his green- 

 house, tell through and was drowned. 



THE LATE GEORGE T. SAMBROOK. 



We present herewith the portrait of 

 the late Geo. T. Sambrook which was 

 received too late to appear with the 

 obituary notes which we gave in out- 

 last issue. Mr. Sambrook retired from 



George T. Sambrook 



business four years ago and gave the 

 establishment at Troy, N. Y., to his 

 two sons, George T., Jr.. and John E., 

 who now conduct the business under 

 the name of Sambrook Bros. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 

 C. E. Adams has purchased the 

 Washington Avenue Greenhouses, Ra- 

 cine, Wis., and will make improve- 

 ments. 



ROSES-GRAFTED 



FINE STOCK, READY NOW 

 killarney, Carnot, Kalserin Augusta Vic- 

 toria, Uncle John, from 2% in. pots, $2.00 per/lozen ; 



$15.00 per 100; from 3 in. pots, $2.50 per dozen; $18.00 



per toe. 

 Killarney, Carnot. Kaiserin and Uncle John, 



from 3J6 in. pots, $3 00 per dozen; $20.00 per 100. 

 The Bride, Bridesmaid, Golden Gate, from 2% 



in. puts, $2. (O per dozen; $12.00 per 100; from 3 in. 



pets. $2.50 per dozen; $15.00 per 100; 3^ inch pots, 



$3 00 per dozen ; $17.00 per 100. 



OWN ROOTS 



Killarney, Kaiserin, from 3 in. pots, $1.50 per 

 dozen: $9.00 per 100. 



Richmond, Sunrise, from 3 in. pots, $7.00 per 100. 



Bride, Bridesmaid, Golden Gate, from 3 in. 

 pnts, $7.00 per too; $60 00 per 1000. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



Autumn Glory. Ada Spauldlng, C«l. D. Apple- 

 ton Culllngfofdli, Dr. bnguehard, Dorothy 

 Devens, Geo. Kalb, Harry nay, H. W. Rleman, 

 Jennie Nonin, J. E. Lager, J. H Troy, nrs. H. 

 Robinson, neta, nils rtinnte Wanamaker, 

 niss Alice Byron, najor Honnaffon, fkagoya, 

 Robt Halliday, Soleil D'Octobre, Timothy 

 Baton, nrs. Robt. ncArthur, Win. Duckham, 

 F. A Cobbold. Hlnk Ivory. Price from 2% in. 

 pots, $3.00 per 100; $25.00 per 1000. 



CANNAS 



Strong plants from 3K 'n. pots 130 fine named vari- 

 eties), $6.00 and $8.co per 100. 



Send for Catalogue 



WOOD BROTHERS, FISHKILL. N. Y. 



