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HORTICULTURE 



December 24, 1910 



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Richmond, Ind. 



Obituary, 



J. William Colflesh. 



Big, modest, good natured, honest 

 "Bill" Colflesh — a familiar figure in the 

 horticultural life of Philadelphia for a 

 lifetime — has gone to his reward. He 

 died at the Presbyterian Hospital on 

 Thursday, the 15th inst. The Florists' 

 Club called a special meeting for Fri- 

 day, the 16th inst., after an operation 

 for an internal trouble. The Florists' 

 Club called a special meeting for 

 Friday at which appropriate resolu- 

 tions were passed, and all members 

 of the club were notified to attend 

 the funeral on Monday, the 19th. 

 The club voted an appropriation also 

 tor a floral offering bearing the em- 

 blem of the association. Mr. Colflesh 

 was an honored officer of the club, 

 having been a charter member and its 

 treasurer for many years. He was 

 highly respected by everybody, and 

 the news of his death will come as a 

 distinct shock to his friends in all 

 parts of the country. 



He was a good plantsman and had 

 an enviable reputation for the quality 

 of the foliage and flowering plants 

 which ho produced year in and year 

 out for the trade. He was always care- 

 ful, painstaking and conscientious; 

 and no man ever got a crooked deal 

 from "Bill" Colflesh. Besides being 

 a good business man, he was also a 

 warm-hearted family man, friend and 

 neighbor. Money was all right, but it 

 was not his God. He had a soul broad 

 enough for the other and higher feel- 

 ings. 



Hearty and wholesouled and true, 

 there were few like him. We knew 



him intimately for twenty years, and 

 we loved him — and argued with him — 

 and worried his simplicity with fool- 

 ish propositions — during all that time. 

 But he was always forgiving and un- 

 derstood! With . a full heart, dear 

 Bill, we bid you farewell. From your 

 old friend, — who hopes you can hear 

 him in the celestial realms. 



GEORGE C. WATSON. 

 Resolutions of The Florists' Club of 

 Philadelphia on the death of J. Wil- 

 liam Colflesh, at a special meeting 

 called for that purpose December 15th, 

 1910. 



Whereas, Our beloved and esteemed fel- 

 low member, J. Wm. Colflesh has been 

 taken from us by death ; therefore, be it 



Resolved, That the members of this eluti 

 desire to put upon I'ecord their sense of 

 loss and to extend to his family their 

 deepest sympathy. 



Resolved. That we express our admira- 

 tion for the splendid character of J. Wil- 

 liam Colflesh, who was oiie of the Charter 

 Members of this clnb and for many years 

 its vaUied treasurer and always a dillisent 

 and faithful worker for the advancement of 

 the club's interests. In his intercourse 

 with the members of the club he was al- 

 ways courteous, kindl.v and modest and so 

 had endeared himself to us all. He was an 

 ardent worker in horticulture and always 

 williuix to do his share to advance tiie 

 general interest of the cause. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolu- 

 tions be sent to his family. 



Robert Craig, John Westcott, Fred 

 Hahman, Committee. 



NOTE.— A portrait -of Mr Colflesh ap- 

 peai-ed in our last week's issue, along with 

 the brief announcement, by wire, of bis 

 death, which reached us just as we were 

 going to press. — Ed. 



Uhei Suzuki. 



We are pained to learn of the death 

 on November 23, at Yokohama, Japan, 

 of Uhei Suzuki, president of the Yoko- 

 hama Nursery Company. Mr. Suzuki's 



age was 76 years. We do not know 

 that Mr. Suzuki ever visited this coun- 

 try but the trade in general have a 

 pleasant peisonal acquaintance with 

 the younger Suzukis' who have repre- 

 sented this Japanese house in America 

 and the high standing and probity of 

 Suzuki & lida — later the Yokohama 

 Nursery Company — is widely known. 

 The sympathy of the American trade 

 will be sincerely extended to their 

 friends in the far-away land on the 

 great loss horticulture sustains in the 

 death of a man so highly regarded. 



David Flory. 

 Logansport, Ind., December 15. — 

 David Flory, age ninety, died Dec. 14 

 at his home, five miles east of Logans- 

 port, Ind. Mr. Flory was the originator 

 of the famous Winter Banana apple 

 and several strawberries and black- 

 berries. The latter part of his lite 

 was devoted to horticultural experi- 

 ments. Mr. Flory was born in Mont- 

 gomery County, Ohio, in 1820, and 

 came to Logansport when only 

 twenty-one years old. He worked at 

 the cooper trade for a number of 

 years and then engaged in the fruit 

 growing business. He is survived by 



six sons. 



M. Dauthenay. 



It is with regret that we announce 

 the death of M. Henri Dauthenay, an 

 old French friend of some year's siand- 

 ing. He was a horticultural writer of 

 repute and the author of several books, 

 notably one on the Pelargonium. It 

 was under his able editorship that the 

 well-known color chart, "Repertoire de 

 Couleurs," was published five years 

 ago. At the lime of his death he was 

 secretary of the Roseraie de I'Hay. 



