January 8, 1916 



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Here each of the boxes were decorated 

 with laurel-festooned wall pockets 

 filled with Richmond roses. The boxes 

 were banked with palms and ferns. 

 The mirrors at either side of the stage 

 were outlined with smila.x with Rich- 

 mond and Killarney roses entwined. 



Congressman Frank Park of Georgia 

 has presented a bill in Congress to 

 appropriate $25,000 for the establish- 

 ment of an experimental station in Col- 

 quitt, Miller County, Ga., for the pur- 

 pose of demonstrating the character of 

 plants, shrubs and trees best adapted 

 to the soil and climate of that section. 

 The appropriation is to be used in se- 

 curing the necessary land, buildings, 

 stock, implements, machinery, etc. 

 The measure has been referred to the 

 Committee on Agriculture. 



BOSTON. 



Joseph Margolis, of H. M. Robinson 

 & Co., went to New York last Satur- 

 day to see his mother, who is reported 

 to be very ill. 



Bert Sloane, one of the partners of 

 the New England Florist Supply Com- 

 pany, and Miss Frances Gresaver of 

 Wlnthrop, will be married January 

 26th. 



C. S. Strout, of Biddeford, Me., the 

 carnation man, who was a market visi- 

 tor this week, reports that conditions 

 through Maine are about the same as 

 in Boston. 



H. Ruppert, of the Carbone traveling 

 staff, has left for a three months' tour 

 of the West. He is going over the 

 territory formerly traveled over by 

 John McCarty, who is now with the 

 M. Rice Co. Alex. Abrams has been 

 taken from the retail department and 

 placed in Mr. Ruppert's place. He 

 will travel over the northern and 

 southern territory. 



The Horticultural Club of Boston 

 held the usual monthly session in the 

 Parker House on Wednesday evening, 

 January 5. W. A. Manda was the 

 speaker and gave an address of sterl- 

 ing worth on the subject of hardy 



herbaceous plants, which was followed 

 by a vigorous debate lasting until 11.21' 

 P. M. The table decorations were a 

 vase of Mr. Manda's seedling cerise 

 carnation, and one of Erlangia tomen- 

 tosa from President Farquhar. 



Since the call for prizes for the 

 Florists' Bowling Association of Bos- 

 ton went out, several very handsome 

 articles have been presented. Amongst 

 them is a fine cut glass vase from the 

 T. J. Grey Co. and a gold-leaved mir- 

 ror from the Boston Plate Glass Co., 

 besides several very handsome cups. 

 The association has promises for about 

 twenty cups and when they are all re- 

 ceived they have decided to display 

 them around in the different show 

 windows of the flower shops. 



Obituary 



Norton Muggins. 

 Norton Huggins, employed for the 

 past two years in the greenhouses of 

 Galen L. Stone, Marion, Mass., was 

 drowned, together with Albert Bradley, 

 who conducted a boarding house for 

 the men on the Stone estate, while out 

 In a row boat in Buzzard's Bay during 

 the blizzard of Sunday, December 26. 

 Mr. Huggins was 24 years of age, un- 

 married, and a native of Scotland. 



George Dobbs. 



George Dobbs, 64 years of age, found- 

 er of the firm of Dobbs & Son, Auburn, 

 N. Y., died at his home December 19th. 

 He had been ill but a few hours, death 

 being caused by a paralytic stroke. Mr. 

 Dobbs was born in England but came 

 to this country when a boy, and at one 

 time had been employed in the green- 

 houses of John N. May, of Summit. In 

 1893, he secured the Dunning green- 

 houses in Auburn and started in busi- 

 ness for himself. He is survived by 

 his son William, who was associated 

 in business with him, a daughter and 

 four sisters. 



ist of Westerly, R. I., died suddenly on 

 December 26th. He was seeing a friend 

 off at the station at Westerly and be- 

 came unconscious in the waiting room 

 and never recovered. The doctors re- 

 ported heart failure as the cause of 

 death. He was a rose grower for the 

 wholesale market and retired from 

 business on account of poor health last 

 May, renting his establishment to 

 Lewis P. Rankin. His brother-in-law, 

 Samuel S. Pennock of Philadelphia, 

 and all the family were there tor the 

 Christmas holidays and his sudden de- 

 mise was a great shock to all. He was 

 unmarried and lived with his sister's 

 family. 



William H. Bowker. 

 The funeral of William Henry Bow- 

 ker of Boston and Concord, a recog- 

 nized authority on agricultural chemis- 

 try and fertilizers, and a member of 

 the first class at the Massachusetts Ag- 

 ricultural College was held Thursday 

 afternoon, January 6, in Emmanuel 

 Church, Boston. The deceased was 

 born in Natick July 3, 1850, and after 

 being graduated from the State Col- 

 lege at Amherst, of which he was a 

 trustee up to the time of his death, he 

 engaged in newsiiaper work. He 

 taught journalism, conducted a drug 

 and chemical business with his brother 

 in the city, and finally, at the age of 

 23, entered another partnership for 

 the sale of fertilizers, on which he be- 

 came an authority. He was president 

 of the Bowker Fertilizer Company of 

 Boston. He was also a director of 

 many concerns and belonged to several 

 Boston clubs. 



WIIMam W. Foster. 

 William W. Foster, a prominent flor- 



Portiand, Conn. .Mr. and .Mrs. Otto 

 Keser observed the 25th anniversary of 

 their marriage on Christmas. Mr. 

 Keser was born in Gmund, Germany, 

 and Mrs. Keser In Staffordshire, Eng- 

 land. Fourteen years ago they bought 

 the F. L. Sellew greenhouses In Port- 

 land. The establishment has been en- 

 larged from time to time and a very 

 substantial business and enviable per- 

 sonal standing in the community baa 

 been attained. 



