April 25, 1!)'J.S 



HORTICULTURE 



561 



Obituary 



Edwin Hoyt. 



Mr. Edwin Hoyt of the firm <:l 

 Stephen Hoyt's Sous Co. of New 

 Canaan, Conn., died April 17. and was 

 buried April 20. In the death of Mr. 

 Hoyt, New England loses one of its 

 oldest nurserymen. His age was 76 

 years. He died of pneumonia with 

 other complications, having been taken 

 ill on Sunday, the 12th day of April. 



The nursery business of Stephen 

 Hoyt's Sons Co. was started in 1S49 

 by Stephen Hoyt, the father of the de- 

 ceased. After Stephen Hoyt's demise, 

 the business of this firm was carried 

 on by his sons. James Hoyt and the 

 deceased, under the firm name of Ste- 

 phen Hoyt's Sons. lu 1904, the busi- 

 ness was incorporated under the name 

 of Stephen Hoyt's Sons Co., of which 

 Edwin Hoyt became president and 

 manager, and remained so until the 

 time of his death. He was uniformly 

 courteous to the younger firms of nur- 

 serymen, to dealers in nursery stocic 

 and to all customers. Although at the 

 ripe a.s^e of 76. he was as active in 

 business and his intellect as clear as 

 that of a man in the prime of life up to 

 the time that he was forced to take to 

 his bed. 



He was a member of the Grange and 

 Of the Pomologlcal Society of the 

 State and was considered an authority 

 on horticultural questions. In the 

 nurseiy business to which he was 

 strongly devoted, he was ambitious, 

 energetic, far seeing, and a great work- 

 er. Under his management, the busi- 

 ness grew to be one of the largest, if 

 not the largest, nursery firm in New 

 England, but with all his ambition, he 

 was a just man and no mistakes were 

 made in his business which he would 

 not rectify if propej-ly explained to 

 him. 



Mr. Hoyt was in 1SS8 a member of 

 the State Legislature from New 

 Canaan and. a member of the State 

 Board of .Agriculture, Vice-President of 

 the Board of Control of Connecticut 

 Experiment Station and a member of 

 the Connecticut Nurserymen Associa- 

 tion, Chairman of the Board of Frus- 

 tees in the First Congregational Churcii 

 of New Canaan and a member of the 

 Board of Deacons at the time of his 

 death, and otherwise actively inter- 

 ested in the town in which he lived. 

 He was President of the First Na- 

 tional Bank of New Canaan, and had 

 large property interests which will 

 probably inventory from $300,000 to 

 $400,000. He is survived by his 

 brother .lames, a widow, three daugh- 

 ters, and one son. He was very de- 

 voted to his family. The funeral was 

 held at his residence and was largely 

 attended by people from different parts 

 of the State and from New York as 

 well as by his neighbors and friends. 

 The sad and sacred duty of- bearing 

 the remains to the grave was per- 

 formed by his foreman, Edward Kel- 

 ley, and his brothers. Frank, .fames 

 and Harry Kelley, all assistant fore- 

 men in the nursery for many years. 



So ends the career on this earth of 

 one of our best known Christian busi- 

 ness men. 



Summerville, Ala., died suddenly on 

 April 6. Col. Davis was born in Mo- 

 bile on .Tune 18, 1852, was manager of 

 the Mobile Compress Co. for thirty 

 years, until he started in the nursery 

 and ilorist business some five years 

 ago. He quickly built up an extensive 

 business, his establishment being one 

 of the largest in the South. He 

 was a member of the Society of 

 American Florists and held the 

 position of Slate vice-president this 

 >ear. Col. Davis was twice mar- 

 ried, and a widow and seven children 

 survive him. 



Martha Blakeston Earl. 

 At Bryn Mawr, Pa., on April 10th, 

 aged 66. Mrs. Earl was the widow of 

 the late George W. Earl, a prominent 

 Philadelphia Imsiness man, who was 

 long well known as a keen amateur 

 horticulturist. One of her sons, How- 

 ard M. Earl, is manager for W. Atlee 

 Burpee & Co. 



Robert T. Price. 

 R. T. Price, Lawrence. Mass., died 

 on April 15 in his eighty-flrst year. 

 Mr. Price was a native of Wales and 

 was for many years a prominent flor- 

 ist in the city, but retired some time 

 ago from active business. 



Joseph Quinn. 

 Joseph Quinn, landscape gardener, 

 died at East Ryegate, Vt., on April 

 12, at the advanced age of 111 years. 

 He was born in County Cork, Ireland, 

 and came to this country in 1817. 



Mrs. Albert Dirwanger. 



We regret to learn of the death, tour 

 weeks ago, of the wife of Albert Dir- 

 wanger of Portland, Me. Besides her 

 husband she leaves one son and one 

 daughter to mo.urn her loss. 



Theodore E. Horn. 



Theodore E., son of Anna W. and 

 Julius Horn. died at Arlington 

 Heights, Mass., on April 11. at the 

 age of 22. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



Frank J. Prouty has leased J. W. 

 Bigelow's greenhouse, Spencer, Mass. 



M. B. J<;ingman. Amherst, Mass., has 

 moved his florist store from Amity 

 street to Hunt's block. 



Mrs. G. C. Sanborn ol Lakeport, N. 

 H., has leased the Gilman greenhouse, 

 and will devote it to early vegetables. 



J. F. Ammann has purchased the 

 business of Mrs. .Albert Dietschy, Al- 

 ton., 111., and will retain Mrs. Dietschy 

 as manager. 



G. S. Crego of Maywood, III., has re- 

 moved to Portland, Ore., where he will 

 continue in the aster seed business 

 that he has so successfully established. 



The American Evergreen Company 

 succeed the A. J. Fellouris Co., at 52 

 West 28th Street,, New York. They 

 will shortly remove to 103 West 28th 

 Street. 



Franklin Pierce Davis. 

 F. P. Davis, a prominent llm ist of 



NEWS NOTES. 



Henry Riler of Torrington, Conn., 

 opened his greenhouse just previous to 

 Easter for retail business. 



G. Fleischer, Pueblo, ColG., has re- 

 cently completed additions to his range 

 of houses, heating and ventilating ap- 

 paratu?, at a cost of $15,000, making 

 his plant one of the largest and best 

 equipped in that section. 



EUROPEAN SOCIETY DOINGS. 



Ghent Quinquennial Show. 



This great Belgian horticultural 

 show held by the Royal Agricultural 

 and Botanical Society of Ghent promi- 

 ses to be one of the most important 

 events in the gardening world during 

 the present year. The show coincides 

 with the one hundredth anniversary 

 of the foundation of the Society and 

 every effort is being made to celebrate 

 the occasion with becoming import- 

 ance. The schedule comprises 760 

 classes and is a publication of 118 

 pages eiving full details of prizes, etc., 

 to be awarded. The show will be 

 opened by the King of the Belgians on 

 April 28 and close on May 3. 



The international jury consits of 247 

 members who will represent Germany, 

 England, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, 

 Eg>'pt, Spain, France, Holland, Italy, 

 Duchy of Luxembourg, Russia, Swe- 

 den. Switzerland. P. J. Berkmans and 

 Julius Roehrs have been invited to 

 represent the United States. 



A list of the festivities appears in 

 a recent issue of the "Ti-ibune Horti- 

 cole (March 21). Those who have 

 experienced Belgian hospitality will 

 have no need to be reminded of the 

 generous and lavish manner in which 

 it is bestowed upon the foreign guests 

 on such occasions. 



Paris Spring Show. 



The annual spring show of the Na- 

 tional Horticultural Society of France 

 will be held in the greenhouses of the 

 Cours la Reine, Paris, on May 22 to 29. 

 A horticultural conference will also be 

 held at the same time. There is a good 

 schedule, varied in extent, affording 

 ample justification for expecting a line 

 display. American visitors to the gay 

 capital at that time should not miss 

 so important a sight. 



INFERIOR DUTCH BULBS. 



Editor HORTICULTURE: 



Dear Sir:— AVe beg to say that we 

 heartily endorse the sentiments ex- 

 pre.ssed in your editorial in issue of 

 April IS, believing that same is a step 

 in the right direction, fully convinced 

 that the foreigci bulb sellers have made 

 America a dumping ground for their 

 inferior bulbs, thereby cauising growers 

 to sulf'ir considerably by such inferior 

 bulbs producing blooms of little value, 

 and believe the time is now ripe when 

 growers should dictate to these Hol- 

 land bulb houses that they must da- 

 liver the growers the right kind of 

 bulbs, otherwise if they cannot deliver 

 the goods that the gi-owers should then 

 get together and refuse to give orders 

 to such houses that are supplying this 

 country with a poor a_uality of bulbs. 



Hoping that the growers throughout 

 America will stand firm in. matters per- 

 taining to the above, we beg to remain. 

 Yours very truly, 



J. A. BUDLONCr. 



Chicago, 111. 



President Roosevelt has directed 

 that a memorial oak be sent to East 

 Haven, Conn., and planted on the site 

 of Cren. Lafayette's camp, which was 

 occupied during the war with Great 

 Britain. The cak will be planted on 

 Arbor day. 



