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HORTICULTURE 



April 14, 1917 



Obituary 



E. B. Grinnell. 



E. B. Grinnell, for over fifty years 

 engaged in the evergreen business, 

 died at his home at 776 Elmwood ave- 

 nue, Providence. R. I., Sunday, April 

 1st, at the age of sixty-nine years. 



Patrick F. Conheeny. 



Patrick F. Conheeny, a former em- 

 ployee of the late Thomas Galvin, at 

 Newport, died on March 25. He had 

 charge of the Newport Casino grounds 

 for many years. He is survived by 

 his widow and tour children. 



Thomas Martin. 

 "Tommy" Martin, many years in the 

 employ of Traendly & Schenk, New 

 York, as a salesman in their wholesale 

 flower store, died last week after a 

 lon,^' decline. He was well known and 

 well liked among the freciuenters of 

 the wholesale district. 



W. C. Langbridge. 



D. P. Kerrigan. 



Daniel P. Kerrigan, an employee of 

 Wagland. tiie florist, died Tuesday 

 evening. March 27. at Lawrence Mass. 

 Deceased was born in Lawrence. He 

 is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mar- 

 garet Kerrigan, and two sisters. Miss 

 Sadie Kerrigan and Mrs. Catherine 

 Morrison. 



A. J. Philips. 



A. J. Philips West Salem. Wis., 

 died at a hospital in La Crosse, Wis. , 

 on March 22, aged 83 years. Mr. 

 Philips was a poineer horticulturist 

 and fruit grower of Wisconsin and 

 served as secretary of the Wisconsin 

 Horticultural Society from 1892 to 

 1898. A widow, three sons and two 

 daughters survive him. 



Peter L. Bogart 

 P. L. Bogart. for many years a prom- 

 inent florist of New York City, died on 

 Monday morning, April 9, after a lin- 

 gering and painful illness. The funeral 

 services on Wednesday night were at- 

 tended by a large and representative 

 number of the local florists' trade and 

 floral tributes were many and beauti- 

 ful. Mr. Boeart was a man of integri- 

 ty and sterling character and enjoyed 



the respect of the trade in the fullest 

 degree. He was one of the few left 

 of the old school of florists. The ac- 

 companing portrait was photographed 

 a good many years ago hut it is the 

 most recent one available. 



Henry K. Spence. 

 Henry K. Spence. for many years 

 head gardener for Mrs. Harold Brown 

 at Newport, R. I., was found drowned 

 on Friday morning, April 6. off the 

 stone pier on the south shore of the 

 harbor by his son. William Spence. 

 and Chief Yeoman William Vincent. 

 He had suffered from stomach trouble 

 for some time and probably left his 

 home near where he was found at 5 

 in the morning. Mr. Spence was a 

 Scotchman and stood high with his 

 employer and among Newport people. 

 He leaves a wife and six children, one 

 boy being in the navy. 



IVlrs. H. C. Blewett. 

 Mrs. H. C. Blewett passed away at 

 Desplaines, 111., after a very brief ill- 

 ness. Mrs. Blewett was born in Lon- 

 don, Eng., coming to this country with 

 her husband 28 years ago and settling 

 at once in Desplaines, where they 

 bought a home and erected a range of 

 greenhouses. Mr. and Jlrs. Blewett 

 won the respect of the community by 

 their real worth and it was with keen 

 regret that their friends learned of 

 the .death of Mrs. Blewett, who was i'l 

 with pneumonia but three days. Three 

 sons and a daughter survive. Inter 

 ment was in Park Ridge, 111. 



W. C. Langbridge. 



Just as HoRTicuLTUHK is about tci 

 go to press there comes a telegram 

 announcing the death this Thursday 

 morning, April 12, of W. C. Lang- 

 bridge, traveling representative of the 

 Jerome B. Rice Seed Co., Cambridge, 

 N. Y. Mr. Langbridge has been criti- 

 cally ill for some time with diabetes 

 and hardening of the arteries and his 

 death was not unexpected. His was 

 a splendid personality and no man in 

 the trade had more sincere friends 

 than did this lovable man. The news 

 which we are now called upon to send 

 out will bring poignant sorrow to 

 many and his i)assing away is an ir- 

 reparable loss to the American seed 

 trade. 



William C. Langbridge first saw the 

 light of day some time during the year 

 of 1860 on the island of Jamaica, West 

 Indies, and as the climate later was 

 found not suited to his state of health, 

 he. together with his father and young- 

 er brother emigrated to New York. 

 Mr. Langbridge was eleven years old 

 when he came to New York and a few 

 years after his arrival there became a 

 member of the Shaker Community 

 founded at Mt. Lebanon, N. Y.. wliere 

 he remained until 1888, filling many 

 positions of trust. During the last 

 four or five years of his career among 

 the Shakers he was sole manager and 

 the traveler for what was then known 

 as the Shaker Seed Company, and be- 

 sides had complete charge of the seed 

 gardens and trial grounds carried on 

 by that concern. It was here that Mr. 

 Langbridge gained his first knowledge 

 of the seed business and on leaving 

 the Shaker Community associated him- 

 self with the Jerome B. Rice Seed 

 Company. 



Personal 



Edward H. Goldenstein, Chicago, has 

 left the firm of Langhout & Co., Sas- 

 senheim, Holland his interest having 

 been purchased by W. Langhout. 



Thomas Howden has resigned his 

 position as gardener for Oliver Ames, 

 Prides Crossing, Mass., and will go on 

 a farm at Marlborough, Mass. Archie 

 McDonald of Manchester, N. H., suc- 

 ceeds Mr. Howden. 



George Foulsham, who has been su- 

 perintendent on the W. B. O. Field 

 place in Lenox, Mass., and is leaving 

 to go into the florist business in Beth- 

 lehem, Pa., was given a farewell sur- 

 prise party at the home of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Edward J. Norman last Friday 

 evening. There were present the su- 

 perintendents of the different Lenox 



Peter L. Bogart. 



and Stockbridge estates and a number 

 of friends from Lee and Pittsfield. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Foulsham were present un- 

 der the impression that the gathering 

 was a surprise for one of the young 

 ladies of their acquaintance, and not 

 until Edward Jenkins began to get 

 serious and personal in his remarks, 

 which seemed only a matter of a little 

 fun making at start, did they realize 

 I hat the gathering was in their honor. 

 Mr. Jenkins did an excellent job con- 

 cluding with handing Mr. Foulsham a 

 purse of $125 in gold. Mr. Foulsham 

 was very much affected but gathered 

 himself and responded in a pleasing 

 manner, and later, when speeches 

 were being made again referred to the 

 surprise of the occasion, his friendship 

 with the Berkshire men and love for 

 the region. 



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PATENTS GRANTED. 



1,221,449. Receptacle for cultivating 

 and preserving Flowers. Charles D. 

 Hitchcock, Chicago, 111. 



1,221,672. Sectional Greenhouse. 

 Thomas J. Callahan, Dayton, Ohio. 



