June 27, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



853 



Obituary 



THE LATE ALEXANDER WAL- 

 LACE. 



Since writing the obituary notes 

 which appeared in our issue of last 

 week, some additional facts in the 

 life of Mr. Wallace have come to our 

 knowledge. His earlj- boyhood was 

 one of hardship. At three years of 

 age he was bereaved of a mother's 

 love: a father's care he never knew. 

 At the age of 13 he was feed out to 

 a farmer, and for two years his lot 

 was one of hard work, abuse and 

 scanty fare. At 15 he found employ- 

 ment with the Caledonia R. R. in his 

 native village iu Scotland, where he 

 acquitted himself creditably, and step 

 by step he progressed until he became 

 private secretary to a prominent at- 

 torney in Dundee, he having in the 

 meantime taken up the study of 

 shorthand , in which he became re- 

 markably proficient. His knowledge 

 of this art . was the foundation of 

 much of the success which he met 

 with in later years. He came to 

 America in 1SS2, but after a short 

 time returned to Scotland, coming 

 back again in 1888, and soon obtain- 

 ing employment with A. T. De la 

 Mare on the Florists' ISxchange. 

 which was then in its infancy. Mr. 

 Wallace's services to the Florists' Ex- 

 change are well known to our read- 

 ers. The story of his life from that 

 time is the story of the paper. His 

 capacity for labor was prodigious. 

 Patiently plodding, working uninter- 

 ruptedly from early morning until 

 late at night, leaving nothing unfin- 

 ished, he was always to be found at 

 the post of duty. 



Mr. Wallace was a writer of poetry 

 and a constant contributor of short 

 stories to the Scottish American. In 

 the year 1900 he compiled for the 

 sixteenth annual meeting of Amer- 

 ican Florists, in New York, the sou- 

 venir book of the New York Florists' 

 Club, a painstaking and thorough rec- 

 ord of the annals of early horticulture 

 in and around New York city, a work 

 which occupied him through many 

 months of patient research in the 

 libraries. In 1906 he prepared an ar- 

 ticle entitled "What Scotsman have 

 done for Horticulture in America." to 

 be rsad before the members of the 

 Scottish Horticultural Association. 

 This paper was widely copied in Eng- 

 lish horticultural journals and re- 

 ceived much favorable comment. 

 Probably his most ambitious work, 

 and that whirh will carry his name 

 and fame down to posterity as an 

 author, was the book iniblished in 

 190.3. entitled. "The Heather in Lore, 

 Lyric and Lay." This work, the re- 

 sult of several years of research 

 throughout the libraries of America 

 and Great Britain, is a complete 

 synopsis of the history of Scotland's 

 flower and emblem, including all the 

 literature, both poetry and prose, 

 which it was possible for the writer 

 to glean. 



Mr. Wallace assisted largely in the 

 compilation and editing of the various 

 text books which have been issued 

 from time to time by the publishers 

 of The Florists' Exchange. His un- 

 completed work was "Favorite Flow- 

 • ers of Robert Burns." and in the last 



hours of his life he was regretting his 

 inability to proceed with the work he 

 had so lovin.gly set forth to do. 



With the following verses written 

 by him a few years ago. we close our 

 brief biography of .^lex. A\allace. 



MITHER'S KISS. 



A\'hpii infant ii;iin> iiiM-[tloxiMl me sair, 

 .\ii' ailuieiits. 'boon what 1 cud bear, 



Rcil>herl cliililhood o' its bliss, 

 A tialiii Iliat failed tae cure but rare 



Was iiiitUer's sootUin' kiss. 



"Wbeii fancied wrongs, 'boot IkxjI or ba', 

 War rankliu' in ni.v l>osom snui". 



An' tilings wad gang amiss, 

 A truce was made atweeu us a" 



By mither's loviu' kiss, 



,\n' when I left my dear auid hame 

 Tae Fortuuo seek — tbat tickle dame — 



The goal tae bit or miss. 

 The guide that pointed straucht my aim 



Was mither's partin' kiss. 



Tae me nae kindly ear she's lent. 

 But o' a' the trials by Fortune sent 



The hardest .vin was tiiis — 

 When owiM- a pale, worn face I bent 



For milniT's deein' kiss. 



Wheu Boatman Death, sae grim an' hoar, 

 My saul has safely ferried o'er 



The great unknown ab,vss. 

 May it irreet me on tlie ither sliore — 



jiy mitlier's welcome kiss. 



Alexandkr Wallace 



At a special meeting of the directors 

 of the A. T. De La Maie Ptg. & Pub. 

 Co.. Ltd., publishers of The Florists 

 Exchange, held at noon, Saturday, 

 June 20, 1908, the following resolutions 

 were adorifed: 



Wlicreas, Jlost vixidJ.v tlie iiucei-tahit.v 

 of the tenure of life has liecu demonstr:ited 

 tbroiigli the sud'len removal from our midst 

 of our friend and fellow-worker, Alexander 

 WaMace. who went for rest from pain aufl 

 earthl.v cares, ^itli a smile of perfect peai c 

 (■n hi.s face, to the arms of our Heavenly 

 I'^atlier. on Wednesday. June 17. I'.liiS; and 



Wherea.s, We desire to place on record 

 oi'r testimony to Iiis loug and faithfr.I ca- 

 T-i er in the oflice of this Pompany, and to 

 bear testimony to his zeal, diligence and 

 unsAA'erving loyalty in all things which 

 made for our ciKnuilou good: therefore, be it 



Ue-olved. That in t'-e death of Alcxan- 

 der \N'alIaf-e we have lost a brother wlroni 

 «e mourn with all our heart, a tried and 

 tr\ie coad.iutor. a manly man, a faithful 

 friend, a valuable citizen, and we da here- 

 by cxiu-css our profound and sincere grief 

 at his untimely death in the hour of his 

 matured mental vigor and manhood: and 

 be it further 



liesolved That these resolutions be ex- 

 pressed in full upon tile minutes of this 

 t'runpan.v. and a cop.v thereof sent to the 

 bereavwl widow of the deceased. 



Emanuel Hippard. 



Emanuel Hippard, a well-known 

 florist and business man of Youngs- 

 town, O.. died on June IG, aged 63 

 years. Mr. Hippard was stricken 

 with paralysis in Jacksonville, Fla.. 

 six weeks ago while returning to 

 Youngstown from a trip to Cuba. He 

 was brought home a short time later 

 in a serious condition from which he 

 never rallied. 



Deceased was born in Elizabeth- 

 town. Pa.. Aug, 6, 1845. He was mar- 

 ried to Miss Catherine Auchenbach, 

 Nov. 4, 1866. 



Mr. Hippard moved to Youngstown 

 in 1882, and immediately began a 

 business career which marked him as 

 a man of ability in many lines. Shortly 

 after his arrival there he purchased 

 the property in West Rayen avenue, 

 where the family now resides, and 

 erected thereon a number of green- 

 houses. Later he constructed the 

 large building now owned by Dr, 

 Booth and opened a flower store. For 

 ten years he conducted these enter- 

 prises jointly, with credit to himself 

 and to the city. 



About this time he purchased the 

 farm where the greenhouses of John 

 Walker are now located. These 

 greenhouses were built by Mr. Hip- 

 pard and conducted by him until a 

 few years ago when he disposed of 

 them to Mr. Walker. For a number 

 of years he has manufactured and 

 sold as a specialty the Standard 

 Steam Trap for greenhouse use. 



For years Mr. Hippard served in 

 the navy of the United States on 

 board the man-of-mar "Wachuset." 

 During the last years of the Civil 

 War he saw service in the 20th Pennsyl- 

 vania cavalry. He was a member of 

 Tod Post, No. 29, G. A. R. 



Mr. Hippard is survived by his wife 

 and one daughter. The latter is Mrs. 

 C. J. Little of Youngstown. 



Our personal acquaintance with Mr. 

 Hippard has been long and pleasant. 

 We found him at all times a genial, 

 considerate. courteous gentleman. 

 He was a member of the S. A. F. 

 from the early years of that organiza- 

 tion, a constant attendant and fre- 

 quent exhibitor at the conventions. In 

 his business relations Mr. Hippard 

 was always a man of honor, in his 

 home life he was ideal, and his de- 

 mise is a great loss to the trade and 



to his town. 



John Cammack. 

 John Cammack, a well-known busi- 

 ness man of Washington, D. C, for- 

 iiierly a florist, died at his home, 2553 

 Brightwool avenue, on the l."'th inst. 



MONSIEUR ABEL CHATENAY. 



This distinguished French horticul- 

 turist, and secretary of the National 

 Jloiticultural Society of Prance, if not 

 known personally to many Americans 

 interested in the gardening art, must 

 be well known by name. It may be 

 t'seiii! to draw a lention to the fact 

 that a very fine portrait of M, Chate- 

 nay is exhibited in this year's Paris 

 Salon, Those American who happen 

 to be staying in Paris during the sum- 

 mer and who would like to see the 

 portrait should note the picture No. 

 864 by Leon Armand Hult, entitled 

 "Portrait de M. A. C. . . ." It Is a 

 life-like three-nuarter length picture 

 of the gentleman whose name heads 

 this note. C. H. P. 



