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HORTICULTURE 



October 2, 1909 



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Obituary* 



John Forbes. 

 The death of John Forbes of Ha- 

 wick, England, one of the foremost 

 men in the trade, who two years ago 

 received the Royal Warrant as nur- 

 seryman to His Majesty the King, will 

 recall to florists in this country his 

 notable exhibit of phloxes, East Loth- 

 ian stocks, etc., at the St. Louis Expo- 

 sition in 1904, for which he received a 

 gold medal. Mr. Forbes was a man of 

 -strict integrity and upright character. 



Edward T. Alburger, Jr. 



Died, September 22, lOU'J, Edward 

 T. Alburger, Jr., son of Edward T. and 

 Mary E. C. Alburger, in his 33rd year. 

 The funeral services took place at thf 

 residence of his parents. Baker and 

 Dupont streets, Manayunk, Pa. Inter- 

 ment at West Laurel Hill Cemetery. 

 The deceased was a distinguished civil 

 ■engineer and was connected with the 

 local bridge building works near Man- 

 ayunk. He was not connected with 

 'his father in the florist business, al- 

 though he took a keen interest there- 

 in. The sympathy of the trade is free- 

 ly extended to the family in its be- 

 reavement. 



Thomas J. Johnson. 

 Thomas J. Johnson, colored, for 

 three years a retail florist at 399 31st 

 street, Chicago, died Sept 26. 



'PETER BARR— A REMINISCENCE. 



The writer's sketch and portrait of 

 Peter Barr, whose death has just beeu 

 reported, appeared in a contemporary, 

 July 2:!rd, 1S98— after spending an in- 

 timate week with him in Philadelphia 

 and another three days' constant com- 

 panionship at Atlantic City. The mel- 

 lowing experience of eleven years has 

 but confirmed the strong impressions 

 the wonderful personality of this great 

 man made on him at the time. Mr. 

 Barr's passing away full of years and 

 honors was not unexpected, and yet 

 it seems but yesterday since one of 

 his cheery letters from Scotland glv- 



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Peter Barr was a seedsman from boy- 

 hood to the end of the chapter. But 

 like many another celebrity in that 

 profession, he was more than a mere 

 merchant. He was an enthusiast in 

 horticulture. Catholic in his sympa- 

 thieF and a keen observer, he had the 

 helping hand and thp encouraging wo;d 

 tor every specialist and pioneer in that- 

 broad field. He even had hobbies him- 

 self — the three most conspicuous of 

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mission. May Tulips, Peonies, and Daf- 

 fodils. So much did his confreres and 

 the general public in Great Britain ap- 

 preciate his work: in that connection, 

 that he had the honor of being one of 

 the "celebrated sixty" to receive the 

 Victorian Medal for "distinguished ser- 

 vices rendered to Horticulture" during 

 Queen Victoria's reign. Mr. Barr was 

 justly proud of this distinction and 

 never failed to allude to it with pride 

 in the course of conversation. A King 

 crowned but yesterday could not have 

 been more innocently flattered. 



With all that, he was a very demo- 

 cratic gentleman, and it is now re- 

 called with amusement how, being lo- 

 cated in Philadelphia bag and baggage 

 at a swell club he was in the course 

 of an afternoon's ramble introduced to 

 that wonderful personality, the late 

 Peter S. Dooner (of Dooner's Hotel — a 

 medium-sized but select caravansary i 

 he was inside of five minutes pow- 

 wowing over a table with the afore- 

 said P. S. D. (also gone to his reward 



some three years ago), completely ig- 

 noring the piloting committee for over 

 three-quarteis of an hour, and finally 

 winding up by sending the porter for 

 his lares and penates to be moved in- 

 stantly to Dooner's. His naive explan- 

 ation of this action was that he liked 

 to see a little more than "silver and 

 cold water on the table." The two 

 Peters were great friends ever after. 

 It was a case of love at first sight. 



The writer is proud that he knew 

 Peter Barr, proud of Mr. Barr's achieve- 

 ments in the same field in which he 

 is a humble laborer, and proud of the 

 privilege to drop this jonquil to his 

 memory. To parajjhrase one of the 

 greatest of Scotland's national poets: — 



"The latest throb that leaves our heart 

 While Death stands victor by; 



That throb. O I'eter. i.s thy part. 

 And thine the latest .sigh." 



Peter Barr had gre.at gifts and he 

 used them well for the benefit and 

 pleasure of his fellow-men. A glorious 

 record to leave behind. 



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