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HORTICULTURE 



December 5, 1908 



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OBITUARY. 



Louis E. Marquisee. 



Louis E. Marquisee, the widely 

 known florist and carnation specialist, 

 died at his home in Syracuse. X. Y., 

 on the night of Nov. 24. A year ago 

 Mr. Marquisee was hurt in a fall from 

 his bicycle and has been in poor heallh 

 ever since. He had a partial stroke of 

 paralysis on Nov. 11. which was men- 

 tioned at the time in these columns, 



Locis E. Marquisee 



and he failed gradually until his death. 

 He was a native of 1'tica. but lived in 

 Syracuse since ISfiSi. the year of his 

 marriage. He had been interested in 

 the cloak and millinery business foi 

 many years, but in |R£7 went into the 

 florist business, believing it wouid 

 benefit his hralth. His widow and one 

 daughter survive him. 



Mr. Marquisee was specially inter- 

 ested in carnations, and two varieti - 

 raised by him attained considerable 

 fame — The Marquis and Flamingo. 

 Another, the Marchioness, is a promis- 

 ing novelty, and will be introduced 

 in accordance with his instruct 

 this season by Mi s. Matquisee, who 

 will continue his busini 



Mr. Marquisee was universally re- 

 spected bj all classes of his townsmen 

 and by the florist trade. The Araericau 

 Carnation Society loses a loyal mem- 

 ber and entertaining companion. At 



its annual banquets and other social 

 affairs he was always in request, for 

 he was a clever story teller and had 

 an unlimited supply on hand. 



The funeral on Nov. 27 was largely 

 attended, and the rooms were filled 

 with beautiful Sowers. He was buried 

 in Utica. 



John Archer. 



I regret to announce the death of 

 Mr. John Archer, who died at his 

 home in Groton, Ct., Thanksgiving 

 night, of Blight's disease. 



Mr. Archer was born in Edinburgh, 

 Scotland, 1855. He worked for the 

 Shady Hill Nursery Co., of Bo- ton 

 for about nine years. He also had 

 charge of Mrs. Emery's place in Mil- 

 ton, Mass., for a long time. Also of 

 Geo. Draper's place at Hopedale, Mas-. 

 For the last five years he had been 

 working on the Morton F. Plant Es- 

 tate, a.t Groton, Ct., where he had 

 charge of the construction work, plant- 

 ing, grading, etc. 



He was a member of Union Lodge, 

 No. 31, F. & A. M.. also Donald Mc- 

 Leod Lodge of Scottish Clans, Hyde 

 Park. Mass. He was buried from his 

 home. Sunday, November 29th, with 

 full Masonic honors. 



THOS. W. HEAD. 



A. L. Black. 

 Andrew L. Black, a retail florist in 

 Baltimore, died Nov. 17, aged 67. 



PRIZE APPLES AT PHILADELPHIA. 

 We have seen many apple exhibits 

 but never anything so eye-opening as 

 the Hallowell display in Philadelphia 

 last week. 2(56 bushel boxes were 

 shown, comprising eighty of the best 

 commercial varieties. The size and 

 perfection of the individual fruit were 

 remarkable — showing that the Hood 

 River district in the state of Oregon 

 is an apple country par excellence 

 Part of the exhibit will be sent to 

 London, Eng., and part to New York. 

 Ph' exhibit was held in the Lippincott 

 building and created great excitement 

 among the public. The proprietors cf 

 ■a did a land office business. 

 They deserved encouragement for their 

 i nterprize. 



The Economy Bracket made by Bux- 

 ton & Allard, Nashua. N. H., has been 

 adopted for general use in the green- 

 houses of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture at Washington, and by many large 

 plant growers all over the country. 



THE KING OF FRUITS. 

 Great Exposition at Spokane. 



Thousands of exhibits are being 

 gathered together from various parts 

 of the United States and its depen- 

 dencies, England and her colonies, 

 Germany, France, Denmark and Japan 

 for the National Apple Show in 

 Spokane. December 7 to 12, when the 

 foremost experts of the country, act- 

 ing as judges, will award premiums 

 amounting to $35,000 to the growers 

 of the best commercial apples entered 

 in the numerous competitions, wdiich 

 are open to the world. 



The primary purposes of this expo- 

 sition, the first of its kind and scope 

 in the world, are to show the value 

 of the apple as a food and fruit, to 

 demonstrate its manifold uses and by- 

 products, and stimulate an industry 

 which means millions of dollars more 

 annually to the growers and handlers 

 on this continent, thus creating a 

 greater demand by reason of the in- 

 creased consumption, as well as en- 

 couraging the growing of cleaner and 

 beter fruit and more of it. 



President Roosevelt is enthusiastic 

 in his endorsement of the National 

 Apple Show, as are the heads of the 

 agricultural departments of the United 

 States, Canada and various countries 

 in Europe, and it is also approved by 

 the leading state and provincial horti- 

 cultural societies and growers' and 

 shippers' associations of North Amer- 

 ica, and in practically every district 

 in which apples are grown. 



The exposition is designed to be one 

 of the most important of the move- 

 ments that have originated in the 

 Northwest in the last few years. One 

 of the important meeting? in connec 

 tion with it is the fifth annual con- 

 vention of the Washington State Hor- 

 ticultural Association, of which H. M. 

 Gilbert of North Yakima, is president. 

 There will be several widely known 

 speakers at the meeting, which will 

 occupy four days, December 7 to 10. 



The Country Life commis ion. 

 beaded by Prof. L. H. Bailey of Ithaca. 

 X. Y., named by President Roosevelt, 

 will also hold a s'ession in Spokane 

 during the exposition. Besides this 

 party there will be federal officials. 

 growers, irrigationists and representa- 

 tives of commission houses from all 

 over the country. 



Radical changes are neccessary in 

 the culture of apples on this continent. 

 There must be betterment of the 

 genera' conditions of the commercial 



