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II Oirr I V IILTURE 



March 2S, \9U 



Obituary 



Reuben Arnold. 

 Reuben AtnolU, who foriiiiTly cou- 

 tlucti'd a Oorisl liiisliu'ss iii Mllford. 

 Mass., died suddpiil.v from cerebral 

 apoplexy on March 13, ul Ills home In 

 llellinKhniii. He was a native of Lei- 

 cesler, lOiiKliiiid, where he was born 

 oil September ;{, 1S44. He leaves a 

 daughter. Mary .lane Arnold, who 

 made her home with him. 



Alexander Nelson. 

 Alexander Nelson, well known 

 throughout New ICuKland and particu- 

 larly about Boston for the past 40 

 years, in his business of boiler setting, 

 piping and general greenhouse heat- 

 ing jobbing, died at his home in Cam- 

 bridge. Mass., on March 16. His age 

 was about 70 years. He had been in 

 poor health for a year, but death was 

 due to pneumonia. 



Charles W. Northrup. 

 Charles W. Northrup passed away 

 at his home in LaGrange, 111., on 

 March 12th, at the age of 6r> years. Mr. 

 Northrup was one of the early settlers 

 and his place was originally a private 

 one, but gradually grew to be commer- 

 cial. His own time was mostly spent 

 at the La Grange bank, of which he 

 was an officer. His influence in the 

 Ijeautifying of his town was marked 

 and to him is due in large measure the 

 appreciation of the use of flow'ers and 

 plants around the homes. The green- 

 houses were torn down two years ago 

 "but the grounds continue to be one 

 of the beauty spots of that Chicago 

 rsuburb. 



Charles E. Pierce. 

 The sympathy of the entire trade is 

 with the relatives of the late Charles 

 E. Pierce, of Bowen Road. Washing- 

 ton. D. C, who passed away last week 

 at the Casualty Hospital, to which 

 place he was taken after becoming ill 

 at his home. He was thirty-nine years 

 ■of age and was the son of the late 

 William P. Pierce, who died about ten 

 years ago. The senior Pierce had 

 ijeen in the florist business for about 

 twenty-five years prior to the time of 

 his death. .Mr. Pierce is survived by 

 four brothers. .lames F.. John H.. Wil- 

 liam T. and George E. Pierce, and the 

 funeral was held from the residence 

 of his brother William. The inter- 

 ment was in Forestville. Md. 



David H. Sheehan. 



David H. Sheehan, for 22 years su- 

 perintendent of the public parks of 

 Rrookline, Mass., died on Thursday 

 evening. March 16. of acute bronchitis, 

 following a long period of ill health. 

 Mr. Sheehan has been long associated 

 with the gardening business in Boston 

 and vicinity. For a number of years 

 previous to his appointment on the 

 Brookline parks he was employed in 

 the' Boston public grounds under Wil- 

 liam Doogue. He was born in Dublin, 

 Ireland. 72 years ago, took an agricul- 

 tural course at Trinity College in Dub- 

 lin and was graduated from that in- 

 stitution. He came to America and 

 settled in Cleveland, later coming to 

 Boston. 



JVIr. Sheehan -was an industrious and 



faithful public servant and held In 



highest respect among the gardening 

 rraternily. Four children survive: Dr. 

 Helen fi. Sheehan, Miss Marie J. Shee- 

 han. Dr. Martin 11. Sheeliiin of Stone- 

 ham and KdwanI 1'. Sheehan, assist- 

 ant superintendent of parks and play- 

 grounds In nrnokllne. 



Mrs. fVlatthew Craword. 



The tragic death of .Mrs. .Matthew 

 Crawford has brought a thrill of sor- 

 row to a large circle of friends, and 

 among these The Gladiolus Society of 

 Ohio, of which she was a highly es- 

 teemed charter member, desires to 

 express its appreciation of her beauti- 

 f..l life, and of its loss in her sudden 

 passing away. United with her, as we 

 have been, in the love of the good, the 

 true, and the beautiful, under circum- 

 stances that have revealed to us the 

 worth of her character, we will each 

 feel as a personal loss her being so 

 strangely and suddenly called away, 

 beyond the reach of our association 

 and friendship, and we shall never 

 forget what her life has meant to us, 

 and to all who have known her. 



The suddenness and shock of her 

 death intensifies the grief we feel at 

 the loss of her companiousliip. and 

 will hut fix more indelibly in memory 

 the loving thoughts that will long be 

 cherished in the hearts that have 

 known her so long and so well, and 

 even of those who have only of late 

 conie into the circle of her friends. 

 A heautitiil and useful life, extended 

 through many years, growing into the 

 loving appreciation of devoted friends, 

 and the glad looking forward to even 

 l)etter things yet to be — what more 

 has life to ofi'er than this? 



And so, while we offer sincere ami 

 heartfelt sympathy to bereaved family 

 and friends, whose loss we also in 

 lesser measure feel, we know there is 

 a strain of gratitude even in our griev- 

 ing — we see the heavenly sunshine 

 gilding our tears, and holding up bo- 

 fore us the bow of hope, until, number- 

 ing this friend with others "loved and 

 lost awhile" we say — Farewell, de- 

 parted one, but not forever — We shall 

 meet again. Friend of happy days 

 gone by. ^o^t m i rn-K. 



PERSONAL. 



.Tohn Thompson has been appointed 

 head gardener on the Gen. Champlin 

 estate. Rye Beach. N. H. 



James McDougal. formerly of Glen 

 Cove, is now head gardener on Hearts 

 Delight Farms, Chazy, N. Y. 



Robert Taylor has taken charge of 

 the greenhouses on the Russell II. 

 Bogg eetate, Sewickley Heights, Pa. 



Urquhart Trail, formerly employed 

 by Gregory, the Florist. Manasquan, 

 N. J., has accepted a position on the 

 estate of F. W. Woolworth. Glen Cove, 

 N. Y.. 



Joseph Wood is the new superin- 

 tendent on the estate of F. H. Kalb- 

 fleish, Babylon. N. Y. He was former- 

 ly employed at Cloverhurst Farm, 

 Bridgeport, Ct. 



John Forbes, formerly at the Brook- 

 dale Gardens, Madison, N. J., is now 

 greenhouse superintendent and gar- 

 dener on the estate of Hobart J. Park. 

 Portchester. N. Y. 



EVERYBODY 



WHO IS 



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Will want to know all 

 about the 



National Flower Show 



in Philadelphia — who was 

 there and what they did at 

 this, the greatest horticul- 

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 the years. 



HORTICULTURE'S 

 NEXT ISSUE 



will tell all about it in its 

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 manner. 



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AND 



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