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HOk<.-riCULTURE 



May 14, 1910 



Obituary, 



Samuel W. Saunders. 

 Samuel W. Saunders, father of 

 Ernest Saunders, florist, Lewiston, Me., 

 died at his home in Lewiston, on May 

 6, aged 6S years. 



Henry Blanksma. 

 Henry Blanksma, of the firm of 

 Blanksma Bros., Kalamazoo avenue, 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., died May 5th at 

 Reed's Lake Sanitarium, in his thirty- 

 eighth year. 



Henry C. EicKhoIf. 



Henry C. Eickhoff a well-known 

 nurseryman, died suddenly on April 29 

 of heart trouble, at his home, near In- 

 dianapolis, Ind. Mr. Eickhoff was 

 born June 9, 1853, on the farm where 

 since his twentieth year he carried on 

 the nursery business. Originally he 

 conducted the business in partnership 

 with his brother, Edward A. Eickhoff, 

 under the firm name of Eickhoff Bros. 

 In later years, however, he conducted 

 the business in his own name. 



His home and surroundings were al- 

 ways a beautiful example of landscape 

 gardening. In 1907 he became ill with 

 heart disease and complications, from 

 which he never fully recovered. 



He leaves a widow, formerly Miss 

 Elizabeth Kuehn, and eight children. 

 five girls and three boys. 



Thomas E. Marr. 



Thomas E. Marr, whose reputation 

 as a photographer of landscapes was 

 national, died at 16 Hiawatha road. 

 Mattapan, Mass., the home of his son 

 on May 7. He had been ill with the 

 grippe when he returned to his studio 

 on Sunday, and a relapse which fol- 

 lowed proved fatal. 



The death of Mr. Marr is a loss to 

 photography as an art. He was a 

 maker of camera pictures the greater 

 part of his life. He learned the da- 

 guerrotype business in his early man- 

 hood and, after photography was in- 

 vented, turned all his energies toward 

 perfecting the new art. 



A number of the pictures of Mark 

 Twain printed since the humorist's 

 death were the work of Mr. Marr. He 

 had also photographed many other 

 notables. It was as the photographer 

 of landscapes that his fame was great- 

 est, however. He furnished many 

 magazines and periodicals with illus- 

 trations and was called upon to pho- 

 tograph many of America's show 

 places. 



Mr. Marr was 61 years old and a 

 native of Nova Scotia. He had been 

 in business in Boston for forty years. 



W. E. Hall. 



Wm. E. Hall, passed awav at his 

 home at Clyde, Ohio, Tuesd"ay, May 

 3rd, aged fifty-three years. 



His severe illness of four weeks' dur- 

 ation was due to a relapse after hav- 

 ing a siege of the grip. Mr. Hall was 

 born May 17, 1857, and raised in Clyde 

 where he has spent all of his life. He 

 was married to Eva Stark, June 17, 

 1SS5. To this union were born four 

 sons, Eugene, Breese, Lloyd and Frank 

 and two daughters. Amy and Lulu, 

 who with the sorrowing wife and' 

 mother are left to mourn the loss of 

 a loving husband and father. He also 



leaves an aged father, Ezra Hall, who 

 thirty years ago started in the floral 

 and gardening business in Clyde. He 

 retired in 1898 and the business has 

 since been carried on by his son, the 

 subject of this sketch, in a most pros- 

 perous manner, and in latter years 

 be has been assisted by his sons, Eu- 

 gene and Breese. Through his pros- 

 perous business as a florist he has 

 gained a wide reputation and was also 

 well known and highly respected by 

 the community at large. The funeral 

 on Friday, May 6, was attended by 

 many florists, among those from out 

 of town being I. Husbands of Bellevue 

 and Messrs Bayer and Krueger of To- 

 ledo. Deceased was a member of the 

 S. A. F., American Carnation Society 

 and Toledo Florists' Club. 



NEWS NOTES. 

 Jefferson City, Mo.— The Jefferson 

 Floral Company's plant of five green- 

 houses has been purchased by Hugo 

 Bush. 



Port Arthur, Tex. — A new nursery 

 has been started here. C. D. Otis of 

 Lake Charles, La. and John W. Gates 

 are the chief stockholders. 



Goshen, Ind. — Fifty acres near here 

 have been purchased by A. B. Kun- 

 derd, formerly of North Wayne, and 

 will be planted to gladioli. 



Clean, N. Y.— The Whitney Avenue 

 Greenhouses have been sold to Ed- 

 ward Long. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, 

 who have conducted them for nearly 

 a quarter of a century, will retire. 



Kansas City, Mo.— Mr. Hall's inter- 

 est in the Rudy-Hall Seed Co., 732 

 Minnesota avenue, has been pur- 

 chased by Frank Rudy, who will here- 

 after conduct the business under the 

 name of The Frank Rudy Seed Co. 



Harrisburg, Pa. — The Berryhill 

 Nursery has purchased 45 acres of 

 land on the Johnstown road from R. 

 Sherman Care. The nursery has 

 been located at 13th and Berryhill 

 streets. O. P. Beckley is president. 



Massillon, Ohio. — Tom and Frank 

 Kester have leased four acres of land 

 east of this city and will erect two 

 greenhouses. They will establish tem- 

 porary quarters in the Crone Bldg., 

 South Erie street. Fi-ank Kester was 

 formerly employed by A. Weaver. 



West Quincy, Mass. — George F. El- 

 cock, a well-known dahlia fancier, 

 plans to give residents and visitors 

 something well worth looking at dur- 

 ing the coming summer. He has im- 

 ported from Germany and France 

 many new cactus dahlias, all of which 

 took prizes at the London Union last 

 year. 



San Francisco, Cal. — Luther Bur- 

 bank, whose experiment farms are sit- 

 uated at Santa Rose, has offered his 

 seeds for sale this year through sev- 

 eral houses among which is the "Em- 

 porium" of this city. This is the fact 

 back of the widely circulated rumor 

 that Mr. Burbank had opened a retail 

 store in the Emporium. 



Westboro, Mass. — Wm. M. Gardner, 

 a florist at 50 High street, has re- 

 cently received word from his old 

 home in Dumfries, Scotland, that he 

 is one of the four heirs to $25,000, 

 left by the death of his uncle. The 

 Scotland lawyers who have been set- 

 tling the estate have been searching 

 for Mr. Gardner since last June. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 

 by Julia de Wolf Addison, author of 

 Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages. 

 This elegant volume gives a descrip- 

 tive and critical account of the rich 

 and rare treasures collected together 

 in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 

 which represents the arts and crafts 

 from remote antiquity to the present 

 time. The cover presents a picture in 

 gold of the main entrance to the 

 splendid new building recently oc- 

 cupied by the museum, and there are 

 sixty full page illustrations, with two 

 diagrams showing the arrangement 

 and lay out of the two main floors. 

 The contents are in fifteen chapters 

 covering American Painting, Old 

 Masters, French School, Persian and 

 other Textiles, Pottery and Tapestry, 

 Glass, Porcelain Art, the Buffam Col- 

 lection of Amber, Prints, Egyptian, 

 Classical and Greek departments. 

 Coins, Chinese and Japanese Sculp- 

 ture, Painting and Metal Work and 

 Oriental Pottery and Porcelain. The 

 decorative artist will find in the pages 

 devoted to the classical department and 

 pottery exhibits very much that is in- 

 structive and helpful to anyone seek- 

 ing to advance in the practice of floral 

 decorative art. 



The bock is published by L. C. Page 

 & Co., Boston; the price, $3.00. 



From the same publishers have just 

 been issued two books of fiction, both 

 being works of unusual merit. A 

 Cavalier of Virginia, by G. E. Theo- 

 dore Roberts, with illustrations by 

 Louis D. Gowing. is an absorbing story 

 full of adventure and tragic word pic- 

 tures. Price $1.50. Kilmeny of the 

 Orchard, by L. M. Montgomery, with 

 four illustrations in color, from paint- 

 ings by George Gibbs, is a delightful 

 little romance, replete with thrilling 

 situations and sweet sentiment. Price 

 $1.25, postpaid. Either one of these 

 books will make an acceptable gift for 

 either sex. The typographical work, 

 binding, etc., are par excellence. 



"Transactions Illinois State Horti- 

 cultural Society." — This is a very In- 

 teresting and valuable book of 554 

 pages. Besides the papers and discus- 

 sions at the 1909 annual meeting of 

 the State Horticultural Society it con- 

 tains the proceedings of the meetings 

 of the Northern, Central and Southern 

 Illinois Societies for 1909, and much 

 other information of practical use to 

 fruit and vegetable growers. The 

 papers on "Asparagus Culture"; "A 

 Maple Leaf by T. J. Burrill, of the 

 University of Illinois; "Making and 

 Use of Concentrated Lime-Sulphur" 

 by Prof. John P. Stewart, State Col- 

 lege, Penn.; "Problems in the Pollina- 

 tion of Fruits" by Prof. S. A. Beach, 

 Ames. Iowa; "The Gypsy and Brown 

 Tail Moths," by Dr. S. A. Forbes, 

 State Entomologist; "Results of 

 Spraying Experiments" by R. B. Howe 

 and W. S. Perrine, and the discussion 

 of "Smudge Pots as a Protection from 

 Frost" are'^ of special interest just 

 now. 



This society is doing good work. 

 Any person paying one dollar may be- 

 come an annual member and receive 

 a copy of the report postpaid; officers 

 of County Farmers Institutes in Illi- 

 nois may have copies for free distri- 

 bution among members by ordering of 

 the Secretary and paying the express 

 charges. Upon application copies of 



