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HORTICULTURE 



Januan,' 18, 1908 



Obituary 



Victor S. Dorval. 



Another one of the old-time gar- 

 deners has gone. Victor S. Dorval, 

 who died at his home in Woodside. 

 Long Island, N. Y., on January 12, 

 was born in Dijon, France, 75 years 

 ai;o. He received his first horticul- 

 tural training in the park of Boule 

 d'Or in Dijon. Thence he went to 

 the Barrillier Greenhouses of the City 

 of Paris under La Meutte and then to 

 Buenos Ayres as gardener to a priest 

 who accompanied him from France. 

 Shortly after he went into the sheep 

 business, l)ut the war broke out and 

 he was left penniless. He came to 

 the United States about 1870, and 

 after occupying positions in Washing- 

 ton. Whitestone and Newport, finally 

 settled in Woodside about 1874 and 

 conducted a florist business until six 

 years ago, when he retired, leaving 

 the business to his two sons, Victor 

 S. and Edward .1. Besides these he 

 leaves a widow and one daughter. 

 Carnations, bulbs and bedding plants 

 were his specialty. He has furnished 



Victor S. Dorv.\l. 

 the Trinity Corporation with the lat- 

 ter every year since 1878. In addi- 

 tion to his Woodside establishment 

 he had a fine place at Great Neck. 



Mr. Dorval was a member of the 

 New York Florists' Club, and until 

 quite recently of the Society of Amer- 

 ican Florists. He was a congenial, 

 open-hearted, lovable man. of sterling 

 character, and will be mourned by a 

 large circle of friends and neighbors. 

 He has been in failing health since 

 last summer. 



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 BRILLIANT BRONZ $1 per 1000, S8.53 per 10,000 



Headquarters for HARDY FERNS, MOSS, LAUREL, 

 PRINCESS PINE, FESTOONING, Etc. ^^„^^^ ^^' 



15 Province St., and 

 9 Chapman PI .BOSTON 



HENRY M. ROBINSON & CO., l\°;^^,\l 



store in Beacon street and for the 

 past nine years has been located in 

 City Hall avenue, where he did a 

 good business. He leaves a widow, 

 son and daughter to mourn the loss 

 of a devoted husband and father. The 

 funeral took place on Wednesday. 

 January 15, from his late residence in 

 Somervillo 



Marston B. Bunker. 

 The sudden death of this well- 

 known Boston florist comes as a great 

 shock to the trade. As announced in 

 our issue of last week. Mr. Bunker 

 went, on Wednesday, to the Bootby 

 Hospital, where he underwent a sur- 

 gical operation on Saturday and from 

 the effects of which he -died on Sun- 

 day. Mr. Bunkei yas born in Cam- 

 bridge, April 25, 1859. As a young 

 man he entered the flower business 

 in Boston, and for a number of years 

 had charge of the flower stands at 

 the Parker House, Young's Hotel and 

 the Touraine. Later he opened a 



Sol, D. La Rosh. 

 Sol D. La Rosh, one of the pioneer 

 residents of Pekin, 111., died on Jan- 

 uary 4, at the age of 67. Mr. La Rosh 

 attained a state reputation for the 

 quality and variety of fruit raised on 

 his farm in Groveland township. 



Fred Thayer. 



Fred Thayer, at one time in the flor- 

 ist business at Westfield, Mass.. was 

 killed suddenly at N. Wilbraham^ on 

 January 4. 



Mrs. Lydia B. Manning. 



Mrs. Lydia B., wife of the late Jacob 

 W. Manning, of Reading, Mass., 

 passed away on January 9. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Jacob Becker has added a new 

 house, 22x186, to his already extensive 

 range at 49th and Chestnut streets, 

 Philadelphia. The old plant is being 

 conducted as usual. 



Robert Craig says that all Dracaena 

 terminalis plants ought to be sponged 

 over now with a mild solution of fir 

 tree oil. Weak and unworthy plants 

 are not worth their board bill. 



Fire in the early morning of Jan- 

 uary 6 destroyed the main greenhouse 

 at Ervin Hayden's, Marblehead, Mass., 

 and his entire stock was ruined by 

 the smoke and cold air. Loss, $3000; 

 no insurance. 



Nathan D. Pierce, proprietor of the 

 Norwood Floral and Home Nursery 

 Companies, Norwood, R. I., has leased 

 the Standard Greenhouses. This gives 

 him an area of 20,000 square feet under 

 glass which will be devoted to carna- 

 tions and violets. 



Frederick Law Olmsted and other 

 experts are formulating plans for 

 beatitifying Baltimore's group of pub- 

 lic buildings, along Fayette street 

 and the market buildings on Center 

 Market Place. It is proposed among 

 other things to convert Jones' Falls 

 into a covered stream and construct a 

 boulevard along its entire length from 

 Baltimore street to North Ave. 



The State Commission on Industrial 

 P^ducation of Massachusetts have plans 

 outlined for about twenty high schools 

 of agriculture at convenient distances 

 geographically and varied according to 

 the needs of the sections in which 



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 Tarnished, 18x30x12, made in two sec- 

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Block Letters, i% or 2 inch size per 100, $2. 



Script Letters, 3. Fastener with each letter or 

 word. Used by leading flortsts everywhere and 

 lor sale by all wholesale flonsis and supply dealers 



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«6 Pearl Street. BOSTON. MA5S. 



The"Japana"Gut Flower Holder 



Ahandy article for florists. 



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'(—>■ _f— i_5~5-JQ ^^v Made of glass in three sizes. 



S^TS 9 ^ ^1 The "Angisis" Table 



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table decorating. 

 Ask for catalog:. 

 M. V. CARNSEY, Dept. J, 

 130 Waiola Ave., La Grange, III. 



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 AND EMBLEMS 



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they are located. Plant life from r.eed 

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 Northampton is the only place that 

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 far. 



