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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



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 CHICAGO, ILL. 



Obituary, 



Thomas C. Thurlow. 



Thomas Chase Thurlow, widely 

 known as a nurseryman, passed away 

 at his homo ^n West Newbury, Mass., 

 on Wedn3sday afternoon, July 21. Mr. 

 Thurlow had been confined to his 

 room for about a month and although 

 he c'lid not have to take to his bed 

 until last Sunday, he had been grow- 

 ing weaker everyday, suffering from 

 his old afflction. asthma, which finally 

 caused his death. 



T. C. Thurlow was born in West 



Thomas C. Thuklow 



Newbury, Dec. 30, 1832. His father 

 was a nurseryman, and after traveling 

 in the west for a year. Mr. Thurlow, 

 in 1858, enlarged the nursery wh'ch 

 his father had established and started 

 another nearbv. He wag married in 

 1879 to Mrs. S. K H. Dean, who, with 

 three sons and one daughter, s'lrvives 

 him. During the last few years Mr. 

 Thurlow's sons have been associated 

 with him in business He was a mem- 

 ber of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, American Porao'ojical So- 

 ciety and American Peony Society. 



At the exhibitions in Boston the 

 products of Cherry Hill Nurseiies have 

 been for many years famous, peonies, 

 azaleas, phloxts. etc., being among the 

 specialties exhibited and many valu- 

 able trophies have borne testimony to 

 the high character of the mater al pro- 

 duced at Cherry Hill. 



Mr. .Thurlow was an ardent lover 

 of nature, a kindly mannered gentle- 

 man, upright, sincere and true in all 

 his dealings with his fellow- man and 

 held in a rare degree the love and re- 



spect of neighbors and business asso- 

 ciates. He was a worthy representa- 

 tive of the good old New England 

 stock from which h« descended. 



Amos Reynolds. 

 The Connecticut Horticultural So- 

 ciety has just suffered the loss of one 

 of its most valued and honored mem- 

 bers, Anins Reynolds, whose death oc- 

 curred in Hartford on the 24t.h instant. 

 Mr. Reynolds had been employed for 

 many years on the beautiful estate of 

 James J. Goodwin, of which the pi-esi- 

 dent of the society. John P. Huss, is 

 the superintending horticulturist. The 

 kindly, genial, companionable spirit of 

 our deceased brother, and the benefit 

 of his ripened experience in things 

 pertaining to hor-ticulture, will long be 

 missed in the councils of our organiza- 

 tion. The Connecticut Horticultural 

 Society was represented among the 

 bearers at the funei-al, by President 

 Huss and John J. Dimon. 



GKORGE W. SMITH, Sec. 



Wilhelm Richter. 



Wilhelm Richter, Hameln on the 

 Waser, a veteran raiser of varieties of 

 the potato, died on July S. on his re- 

 turn journey from the Agricultural Ex- 

 hibition at Leipzig, aged 76 years. The 

 firm will be carried on as heretofore 

 by C. Gebhardt, for many years the 

 seed raiser in the employ of the de- 

 ceased. 



Nicholas Beirie. 

 Nicholas Beirie, a florist who has 

 been in the employ of Nanz & Neuner 

 tor thirty years, died on July 22, at 

 his home in St. Matthews, Ky., at the 

 age of 80. He was a native of Germ- 

 any. Three daughters and two sons 

 survive him. 



Thomas Parrow. 

 Thomas Parrow, gardener of the 

 Middlesex county court house grounds 

 at East Carnbridg'e, Mass., fell dead 

 while at work there July 24. He was 

 52 years of age. 



FUNERAL OF JOHN THORPE. 



Following the simple services of 

 song and prayer, W. N. Rudd arose 

 and voiced a beautiful and impressive 

 tribute to the departed, of whom he 

 said, "This man was my friend." He 

 spoke of Mr. Thorpe as a genius, liken- 

 ing him to a plant whose side branches 

 had all been removed allowing all the 

 strength to develop the head "there- 

 fore he had no ability to accumulate 

 the dollars, no ability to acquire 

 palaces, but his genius was all for the 

 development of the plants he loved." 

 He spoke of the little carnations of 

 the past and of Mr. Thorpe as having 

 been the first one to see the future of 

 that flower, closing the sentence with 

 "Mr. Thorpe is the father of the car- 

 nation, and the men laying up for- 

 tunes now from this flower owe it to 

 John Thor-pe." He then spoke in about 



the same way of what Mr. Thorpe had 

 done for the chrysanthemum, and 

 said, "His golden dreams have been 

 conveyed into dollars by others; he 

 left none himself, but he was a great 

 man." He closed by expressing regi'et 

 that John Thorpe had been allowed to 

 pass away without some one having 

 written down the knowledge of many 

 things that would now be gone and 

 blamed himself that he had not under- 

 taken it for, "he was my friend." It 

 was very impressive, indeed and fol- 

 lowing the other part of the service 

 was especially so. 



Immediately after Mr. Rudd finished,, 

 a little elderly lady, beautifully 

 dressed, surprised us all by rising 

 and saying she too wanted to say 

 something. Mr. Thorpe had not only 

 known every little leaf, twig and 

 flower , but had been willing to 

 patiently explain it to others. She had 

 known him at the time of the World s 

 Fair and ever since at the flower 

 shows, etc. Her name is Mary Chew 

 Hopkins, oldest D. A. R. now living. 



The pall IVearers selected were: J. 

 C. Vaughan, W. N. Rudd, F. F. Ben- 

 they, J. Kidwell, E. Kanst, Geo. Wood- 

 ward. 



Among the floral offerings was a 

 large wreath on base from the S. A. 

 F., and a smaller wr-eath from the 

 Chicago Florists' Club. The casket 

 was covered with flowers when it was 

 taken from the house. 



The remains were cremated at 7 

 a. m., Wednesday, July 21st, at Oak 

 Woods Cemeter-y. What is regarded 

 as an excellent cast of his features 

 was made on Monday. 



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Price per crate 

 144 6 in. pots in crate $3.16 

 1207 " " 4.30 



608 " " 3-00- 



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 48 10 " " 4.80. 



0411 « « 3.60. 



24 12 " •• 4.80' 



12 14 " " 4.80 



616 " « 4.50 



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Syracuse Red Pots 



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