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Obituary 



John J. Ehrhardt. 

 John Jacob Ehrhardt. for many 

 years a florist on Couway street, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., died Jan. 12, aged 49 

 years. He is survived by his widow, 

 two sons and two daughters. 



Edith Moulton 

 Miss Edith Moulton. daughter of Mr. 

 and Mrs. Willis Moulton, died at her 

 home in York Village, Me., on Janu- 

 ary 8, aged 40 years, after several 

 months' illness with tuberculosis. For 

 many years Miss Moulton assisted in 

 the florist business of Moulton & Son 

 and had many friends among the sum- 

 mer residents as well as York people. 



Melissa Budlong. 



Miss Melissa Budlong, aged 21 years, 

 daughter of James A. Budlong, rose 

 grower and market gardener, was shot 

 and instantly killed at her home in 

 Auburn, R. I., on Monday morning, 

 January 17, by a, young man 21 years 

 of age with whom she had been keep- 

 ing company. The murderer then 

 turned the weapon upon himself, in- 

 flicting wounds from which he died a 

 few hours later at the hospital. 



W. B. Du Rie. 



William Brittin Du Rie, a well- 

 known florist of Rahway and member 

 for many years of the S. A. F. and the 

 New York Florists' Club, died on Jan- 

 uary 16 at his home in Rahway, aged 

 75 years. Mr. Du Rie served as prin- 

 cipal of a Jersey City school for S.5 

 years. He was a veteran of the Civil 

 War, serving as a non-commissioned 

 officer in Company B, Thirtieth New 

 Jersey Volunteers, and later in the 

 Thirty-ninth N. J. Regiment. He is 

 survived by a widow, two sons, Samuel 

 C. and William Brittin Du Rie. Jr., of 

 Rahway, and one daughter. Mrs. Frank 

 of Marlboro. 



Albert McCuHough. 

 Albert McCullough. president and 

 manager of the J. M. McCullough Sons 

 Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, died on Jan- 

 uary 13th after a short illness. He 

 was in his 6.5th year. During his lite- 

 time he took an active interest in many 



affairs both public and private, and at 

 the time of his decease was a member 

 of the Chamber of Commerce, of which 

 he was also a former president; of the 

 Queen City Club, The Business Men's 

 Club, a director of the Fourth National 

 Bank, as well as an active member in 

 several fraternal bodies. Mr. i\IcCul- 

 lough was a pioneer member of the 

 Society of American Florists. In the 

 American Seed Trade Association he 

 was a very active member, serving 

 from 188G to 1889 as secretary-treas- 

 urer, in 1890 as president, and again 

 in 1900 as president after two years 

 as 2nd and 1st vice-president. His 

 widow, a son Harrie B. McCullough, 

 and two daughters survive him. 



NEW CORPORATIONS. 



San Francisco, Cal. — The Dixie Com- 

 pany, to do a general nursery and hor- 

 ticultural business, capital stock $10,- 

 000. 



Billings. Mont.— Page-Clark Seed & 

 Nursery Co., capital stock $100,000. In- 

 corporators. Hugh D. Page, S. T. Clark 

 and B. E. Upton. 



Owensboro, Ky. — Hafendorfer-Thorn- 

 ton Co., seeds, implements, etc., capital 

 stock $12,000. Incorporators, H. Hafen- 

 dorfer and C. B. Thornton. 



Toledo, O. — Western Avenue Green- 

 house Co., capital stock $10,000. Incor- 

 porators, Arthur G. and E. M. Imob- 

 stertag and Myrtle A. Schroeder. 



White Plains, N. Y.— Carrillo & Co.. 

 florists and nurserymen, capital stock 

 $10,000. Incorporators, Benjamin B. 

 Jacobs, Walter R. Siebreibl jiiid Louis 

 T. Carrillo. 



New York, N. V. — The Flower 

 Basket Shop Corp., general florist busi- 

 ness; capital stock $25,000. Incorpora- 

 tors, Norman Johnson, Myrtle Unison 

 and Edna W. Tunis. 



Bonners Ferry, Idaho. — Northern 

 Idaho Seed Growers' Association, capi- 

 tal stock $25,000. Incorporators, A. J. 

 Kent, F. J. and E. H. Wells, Eugene 

 Ralph. W. T. Jones. C. W. H. Heitman, 

 H. M. Leslie. W. M. Miller. O. A. Phil- 

 lips and W. E. Aldridge. 



Visitors Register 



Reading, Pa.— W. F. Therkildson, 

 Philadelphia. 



Pittsburgh — C. Reising, representing 

 the L. Baumann Company, Chicago. 



Cincinnati — Sam. Seligman, New 

 York; J. F. Donaldson of the Willa- 

 deen Nurseries, Sparta, Ky.; Bob New- 

 comb, representing A. L. Randall Co., 

 Chicago. 



Boston — Frank H. Traendly, New 

 York City; Alex J. Guttman, New 

 York; John McCarthy, Phila.; S. S. 

 Skidelsky, Phila.; J. M. Hardyzer, 

 Boskoop, Holland. 



Washington, D. C— Fred Burki, 

 Pittsburgh, Pa.; C. W. Tolman, Bangor, 

 Maine; F. W. O. Schmitz, New York; 

 George W. Evenden, Williamsport, Pa.; 

 P. Broer, Boskoop, Holland; C. P. W. 

 Nims, Cambridge, Mass.; Joseph 

 Goudy, representing H. A. Dreer, Phil- 

 adelphia. 



Chicago — Mrs. Margaret Labo, Jo- 

 liet. 111.; Robert Sperro, representing 

 Chas. Zinn, New York City; E. G. 

 Hill, Richmond, Ind.; Rolf Zetlitz. 

 Lima, O.; W. Metzger, Wenona, 111.; 

 C. H. Perkins, 2nd, of Jackson iV Per- 

 kins Co., Newark, N. Y.; Mrs. T. Meyer. 

 Waukegan, III.; P. Clausen, Albert Lea, 

 Minn. 



Philadelphia — H. B. Jones, of Jones, 

 Russell Co., Cleveland, Ohio; C. H. 

 Totty, Madison, N. J.; Geo. Asmus, 

 Chicago; Thos. Roland, Nahant, Mass.; 

 John Young, New York; W. F. Kasting, 

 Buffalo; Sam McClements, Pittsburgh, 

 Pa.: Mrs. Hildebrandt. Harrisburg, 

 Pa.; Hugh M. Taylor, seed grower, 

 Lloyd, Fla.; P. Welch, Boston, Mass.; 

 W. C. Langbridge, Cambridge, N. Y.; 

 E. H. Wilson, Boston Mo=s.; W. J. 

 Stewart, Boston, Mass.; Leonard 

 Barron, Garden City, N. Y. 



F. H. C. Smith, of the University of 

 Illinois, is to take the position in the 

 Extension Service of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College vacated re- 

 cently by P. H. Ellwood. 



