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HORTICULTURE. 



January 5, 1907 



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Obituary. 



Wm. Charlton. 



Wm. Charlton a widely known 

 florist of Madison, N. J., died on 

 December 27th. He was a native of 

 Yorkshire, England. He came to this 

 country about eighteen years ago and 

 after holding a couple of private 

 places, settled in Madison where he 

 conducted a wholesale and retail 

 florist business until his death. He 

 received thorough training in the old 

 country where he held important posi- 

 tions. He was a man of wide and 

 varied knowledge, honest and upright 

 in his business and private life. He 

 leaves a widow and one daughter, to 

 mourn a good husband and an indul- 

 gent father. Up to the time of his 

 death he was treasurer of the Morris 

 County Gardeners' and Florists' 

 society, which position he held from 

 the time of its organization. Many 

 loving floral tributes were given in- 

 cluding a huge wreath of pinks, roses 

 and lily of the valley by tke society. 

 He was 73 years old. 



John T. Doyle. 



A sad Christmas eve event cast its 

 gloom over Menlo Park, California. It 

 was the death of a most estimable 

 man, John T. Doyle, a noted horticul- 

 turist whose demise at his home in 

 Menlo Park was caused by pneumonia 

 after a two week's illness. He was 

 born in New York city In 1819 and 

 came to California in the winter of 

 1852 and soon commenced his life long 

 career as a fruit grower and served 

 three terms as Viticultural Commis- 

 sioner for the State at large. He was 

 a trustee of Menlo Park and became 

 president of the board. A widow and 

 family of grown sons and daughters, 

 and the numerous members of the 

 trade in and roundabout Menlo Park, 

 and in fact all the inhabitants there- 

 about are in deep mourning. 



Mrs. Wm. L. Morris. 



We regret to announce the death of 

 the wife of Wm. L. Morris of Des 

 Moines, la., as the result of an oper- 

 ation after a very short illness. Until 

 a year ago Mr. Morris had been for 

 many years one of the most prominent 

 florists of the city. The Des Moines 

 Florists' Club authorized Mr. Stevens 

 of the Iowa Floral Company to send 

 a floral offering. Mr. Morris has the 

 sympathy of the entire floral craft of 

 Des Moines. 



Elijah W. Wood. 



Elijah W. Wood, for many years 

 widely known and influential among 

 the fruit growing fraternity of New 

 England, died at his home in West 

 Newton, Mass., on the morning of De- 

 cember 31, 1906, aged eighty years. 

 The cause of death was a stomach 

 trouble of long standing. Mr. Wood, 



since his retirement from business In 

 1873, has given most of his time to 

 horticultural work in connection with 

 the Massachusetts State Board of 

 Agriculture, and the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, also serving 

 for three years in the State 

 legislature and holding many po- 

 sitions of honor in his city. 

 From 1887 till 1900 he was a 

 member of the Board of Agriculture 

 and was chairman of the Gypsy Moth 

 Commission while it existed. Mr. 

 Wood fought a valiant fight against 

 the discontinuance of the campaign 

 against the moth pest, and events af- 

 terwards showed that he was indis- 

 putably right. He was one of the best 

 informed men in the State on apples 

 and pears, and served for 24 years as 

 chairman of the fruit committee of the 



The Late Elijah W. Wood. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 

 He was also a trustee of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College from 1887 

 until 1905, when he resigned because 

 of failing health. Mr. Wood was a 

 native of Upton, Mass. He is survived 

 by one daughter and three sons. Mrs. 

 Wood died last February, and since 

 that time his health has failed fast. 



Harry Graves. 



Harry Graves, for many years in 

 business with his father and brother 

 in Montreal, died recently. He had 

 been ailing some time but his death 

 came unexpectedly. He was unmar- 

 ried and was the salesman of the old 

 firm. 



Mrs. Robert Scott. 



Catherine Buchanan Scott, widow of 

 the late Robert Scott and mother of 



Alexander B. Scott, the well-known 

 rose grower, died December 30th at 

 Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, in 

 her 85th year. Interment took place 

 Wednesday in the family lot. Wood- 

 lands, Philadelphia. Mrs. Scott was 

 well known and greatly respected by 

 the older generation of florists in 

 Philadelphia. 



Harry Brown. 



Harry Brown, of the "Annex" house 

 of Montreal, has gone to his long rest 

 after suffering intensely for the last 

 i?ix months. Everyone knew Brown, 

 and the sympathy of the trade is ex- 

 tended to his widow and family. 



NEWS NOTES. 



John Diigan has disposed of his nur- 

 sery at Papillion, Neb., and will move 

 to Denver, Colo., for the benefit of his 

 wife's health. 



George M. Kellogg of Kansas City, 

 Mo., writes that the Christmas trade 

 there has been enormous, larger by 

 far than ever before. 



The Philadelphia Record is author- 

 ity for a report that the Felsbergh 

 Rose Company will build 25 acres of 

 greenhouses at Ambler, Pa. 



Mr. Robt. Flowerday, of Detroit, 

 Mich., mourns the loss of his 15-year- 

 old daughter, who died after a long 

 illness on the eve of December 25. 



W. F. Kasting of Buffalo is sending 

 out as a Christmas greeting to those 

 who are his customers and those who 

 ought to be, a nice office thermometer. 



An overheated furnace in the green- 

 house of Peter Heyler of Allegheny, 

 Pa., started a blaze on Christmas day, 

 but it was under control before serious 

 damage was done. 



The Detroit Florist Club showed its 

 brotherly sympathy to Rob. Flowerday 

 by sending a beautiful floral piece and 

 being almost unanimousl.v present at 

 the funeral services over his daughter. 



Elihu Snyder of East Lenox, Pa., is 

 reported to be looking for a suitable 

 location for a nursery in Delaware 

 County and to be making arrange- 

 ments for better railroad connections 

 with his East Lenox place. 



Evenden Bros, of Williamsport, Pa., 

 lost about $6,000 through a fire on De- 

 cember 24. The boiler house was de- 

 stroyed, but fortunately the Christmas 

 stock had been transferred to the up- 

 per greenhouses. As soon as it was 

 possible to begin, the work of instal- 

 ling a new heating plant was under 

 way. 



Reports from Cleveland, Ohio, are to 

 the effect that the Christmas flower 

 trade was satisfactory generally and 

 exceeded last year by a big per cent. 

 Prices at retail were higher than 

 Usual at Christmas and wholesale 

 rates were stiff because of a general 

 scarcity of desirable material. Many 

 orders for New Year's are already on 

 the books. 



