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NEW OFFERS-Contlnued 



NEW CARNATION DOROTHY GOR- 

 DON. 



Joseph Heacock Co., Wyncote, Pa. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



NEW ROSE DAYBREAK. 



Eastern Nurseries, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



HARDY CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



R. Vincent, Jr., & Sons Co., 



Wliite Marsh, Md. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



HYACINTHS, TULIPS, BOXWOOD, 



EVERGREENS, POT-GROWN 



DEUTZIAS AND LILACS. 



F. W. O. Schmitz, Prince Bay, N. Y. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



HYDRANGEA HORTENSIS OTAKSA. 



Henry A. Dreer, Phiiadelpliia, Pa. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



PLANT AUCTION SALES. 



Wm. Elliott & Sons, New York. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



TREE SURGERY. 



John T. Withers, Jersey City, N. J. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



VIOLET PLANTS. 



Raeder Co., Hyde Park, Mass. 

 For page :see List of Advertisers. 



Flower Market Reports 



{Continued from pagt bSi) 



Tie Improved 

 PHILADELPHIA trading conditions 

 continued the past 

 week and the market has been very 

 satisfactory. Compared with the same 

 date a year ago, all the experts agree 

 that present season is away ahead. 

 There is a rising tide in chrysanthe- 

 mum receipts — quality of the highest — 

 with Appleton, Eaton and Yellow 

 Eaton among the leaders. Prices so 

 far have been good and better returns 

 will accrue to the growers than for 

 the past five years, unless the bottom 

 drops out of the remainder of the sea- 

 son. There is no marked change in 

 the rose situation. Carnations have 

 been good for some time as to flower, 

 but short as to stem. Thisi defect is 

 less apparent this week, and it will 

 only be a short time when this staple 

 will be showing its proper form. Or- 

 chids are much scarcer and prices have 

 hardened considerably. There are now 

 a few cypripediums coming in from 

 local sources. Violets are not plenti- 

 ful; but enough for the demand — as 

 there seems to be no strong desire for 

 these so far. Local sweet pea crops 

 are just commencing, and there is also 

 a limited supply of good mignonette 

 and bouvardia. 



Fall business has 

 TWIN CITIES been good right 

 along. Chrysanthe- 

 mums are coming along fine, plenty 

 and good. There was quite a demand 

 for them on October 30. when Chicago 

 and Minneapolis had their football 

 game, which was attended by over 

 10,000 persons. Violets are scarce yet. 

 Carnations have 

 WASHINGTON responded to the 

 beautiful weather, 

 and the best ones shown now are equal 

 to the regular grade of winter flowers. 

 There has been a marked scarcity of 

 roses during the past week, especially 

 in the yellow varieties, only one retail 

 store in town having any of the lat- 

 ter, and they not of the best quality. 



HORTICULTURE 



Obituary* 



George D. Henson. 



By the death of George Dowell Hen- 

 son, one of the oldest and most re- 

 liable salesmen in the employ of Jo- 

 SG])h Breck & Sons, Corporation, New 

 England loses not only an able and 

 highly esteemed seedsman, but also a 

 man whose life history is an example 

 of what industry and integrity can 

 accomplish. 



Mr. Henson was born a slave on a 

 southern plantation sixty-eight years 

 ago; his early life was, one of hard- 

 ship. Twice before he was seventeen 

 he ran away — the first time he was 

 captured and taken back; the second, 

 concealed in a load of hay he escaped 

 into the ranks of the Union army, 

 where he became the bods'-servaut of 

 General McClelian. After the war he 

 came to Boston and worked as a 



November 6, 1909 



George D. Henson 



freight hand in the old Fitchburg sta- 

 tion. When his hard day's work was 

 over he went to evening school, where 

 all his education was acquired. In 

 1S78 he entered the employ of Joseph 

 Breck & Sous, where he learned the 

 seed business thoroughly and for the 

 past thirty-one years labored faith- 

 fully for the best interests of the firm. 

 He was an honored and beloved mem- 

 ber of the African Methodist-Episcopal 

 Church, in. the various societies of 

 which he was throughout his lite an 

 energetic worker. 



His loss is felt by all who knew him; 

 he was loved and trusted by his em- 

 ployers and by all his fellow-employes. 

 His many customers, who would "do 

 business" with no one but "George," 

 will miss him. His reputation for kind- 

 liness, honestj- and absolute trust- 

 worthiness might well be envied by 

 people of his own and of every other 

 race. 



gle for life. Mr. Jones' intimate 

 friends have known for some time 

 that something was undermining his 

 constitution, and his air of abstraction 

 noticed frequently in business and 

 sometimes mistaken for a lack of so- 

 ciability, was the working of the slow 

 poison that was to result in his death. 

 Percy Jones was born in Canada, 

 forty-six years ago. His father and 

 grandfather were English clergymen, 

 and since his father's death, when he 

 was but fourteen, he had made his 

 own way in life. He early entered 

 the employ of the Northwestern R. R. 

 and rose to the responsible position 

 of auditor, but the strain of business 

 life proved too much for his health 

 and he was obliged to seek another 

 climate and spent some time in Flor- 

 ida and Alabama. Six years ago he 

 started in the Flower Growers' Mar- 

 ket, and one year later was elected 

 manager, and during the five years 

 he has held that office he has placed 

 that business on a secure footing and 

 had bright prospects for the coming 

 season. He leaves a wife and three 

 brothers. 



There was a profusion of beautiful 

 floral designs and the choicest blos- 

 soms of the greenhouses were there 

 to an extent that makes enumeration 

 impossible, but among them was a 

 design by the Flower Growers' Mar- 

 ket in the shape of a large floral vase 

 bearing long-stemmed American 

 Beauty roses. The pall bearers were 

 Geo. Walther, John Sinner, Chas. 

 Klehm, Mr. Ryan, A. Garland and H. 

 Clifton. 



Mrs. Lily Garland Jones is a sister 

 of the Garland Bros, of DesPlaines 

 and of Mrs. Fred Wittbold. The fam- 

 ily have the sincere sympathy of the 

 trade for the double bereavement. 

 But one day previous to the death of 

 Percy Jones at the University Hos- 

 pital, Josephine Garland, only daugh- 

 ter of Geo. M. Garland of Des Plaines, 

 111., passed away after an illness of 

 over a year. She had a sweet disposi- 

 tion, and her parents and two brothers 

 will keenly feel their loss. She was 

 born in Chicago 23 years ago, but 

 lived most of her life in Des Plaines. 

 The funeral occurred Sunday, Oct. 

 24, and she was laid at rest in the 

 family lot at Park Ridge, where the 

 following day the same family were 

 called to follow the remains of Percy 

 Jones. 



Percy Jones. 

 Only those who have known him 

 long and intimately realize the loss 

 the Chicago florists have met with In 

 the death of Percy Jones. Still in 

 the prime of life, he passed away on 

 Saturday, Oct. 23, after a brave strug- 



John H. Beach. 

 John H. Beach, who until his re- 

 tirement from business fifteen years 

 ago conducted an extensive florist busi- 

 ness in Bridgeport, Conn., died on Oc- 

 tober 29, at the age of <S5 years. His 

 death resulted from a fall which he 

 had two weeks previous. He is sur- 

 vived by his widow, one daughter, and 

 two sous, one of the sons — James E. 

 Beach — being engaged in the florist 

 business In Bridgeport. 



Pasadena, Cal. — The effect of the 

 quarantine against plants shipped In 

 from outside states was felt In Pasa- 

 dena a few days ago when Horticultur- 

 al Inspector Thorndike condemned a 

 valuable shipment of tropical plants 

 from Florida. The shipment, which 

 was sent to a local nurseryman was 

 consigned to the flames and Pasadena 

 was saved from a possible Infection of 

 the dreaded white fly, or purple scale, 

 so prevalent In Florida. 



