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H K T I c u L T u in-: 



May 8, 1916 



Obituary 



Mr*. Maggie Rhedlcen. 

 Mrs. .MukkIc Ulioilkcn dlod on Tues- 

 day, April I'U lit tier liumo lit Madison, 

 N. J.. In her 55tli year. Slio had beon 

 a resident of Madison for many years, 

 and her hushnnd, Thomas Khedicen, Is 

 well reii ■ as the owner of sev- 



eral KTi. 1 few years afio. Her 



husband Mni j^ ■ •- Iht. 



ProtcMor Henry S. Van Deman. 



Professor Henry K. Van Deman, a 

 noted pomoloKist, died at his home lu 

 WashhiKton, U. C, on April 28. Profes- 

 sor Van Oemau organized and was the 

 first head of the Division of Pomology 

 In the Department of Agriculture. He 

 remained in the Government service 

 from 1S86 to 1893. when he resigned 

 to enter on horticultural editorial 

 work, and to take charge in an advisory 

 capacity of large fruit and nut planta- 

 tions In Louisiana. Kansas and Tennes- 

 see. He had served as a judge of ex- 

 hibitions of fruit in practically every 

 state in the fnlon. and at all the na- 

 tional expositions since 1876. He was 

 an honorary member of fifteen state 

 pomologlcal associations and a life 

 member of the National Pomological 

 Society. Many fruits during the last 

 twenty years have been developed and 

 Introduced on his Judgment of their 

 value. 



Professor Van Deman was a native 

 of Ohio and served through the civil 

 war in the First Ohio Volunteers. He 

 was the first professor of horticulture 

 in the State University of Kansas. He 

 was in demand as an adviser on or- 

 charding in every state, and was prob- 

 ably belter known in his profession 

 than any other American in the last 

 quarter century. 



John Zech. 



Again the Chicago wholesale flor- 

 ist have to part with one of their num- 

 ber. John Zech, just in the prime of 

 life, was still one of the oldest In 

 years of service, and has been con- 

 nected closely with the development of 

 the wholesale cut flower industry in 

 Chicago from its beginning. He was 

 born in La Porte, Ind., August 20, 

 1861 and came to Chicago when a 

 young man. He was married to Lena 

 Armburster in 1883. His early trade 

 was that of a stone cutter, but he was 

 fond of a mercantile life and left his 

 trade to become a salesman. In 1892 

 he began handling the stock grown by 

 Peter and George Reinberg, in a part 

 of Vaughan's Seed Store, and so suc- 

 cessfully did he work out the details 

 of a then almost unknown business, 

 that he laid the foundations of what 

 have now become two of the largest 

 greenhouse establishments in the 

 world. Mr. Zech was later with J. A. 

 Budlong and then with E. C. Amllng, 

 going into business with Mathew 

 Mann and forming the firm of Zech & 

 Mann nine years ago and became one 

 of the leading houses on Wabash Ave. 



Mr. Zech has had occasional spells 

 of what he considered stomach trouble 

 and during a recent severe attack it 

 was pronounced appendicitis, and an 

 operation took place at Columbus Hos- 

 pital, April 24, which terminated in 

 his death April 29. He leaves, besides 



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strong plants from 3-iu. pots. Planted now outdoors will bloom from July 

 1& until hard frost. Worthy of a prominent place in every good garden. 



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W. R. NICHOLSON, - Framingham, Mass. 



his widow, four children. The funer- 

 al took place at St. Gregory's church. 

 May 3, and was largely attended by 

 the trade. The floral offerings were 

 unusually numerous and the home at 

 1835 Summerdale Ave., was almost 

 filled with them. Interment was in 

 St. Honiface Cemetery. The pall- 

 bearers were Peter and George Rein- 

 berg, Mathew Mann, Chas. Gross, Chas. 

 Wuncli and John Hellgert. 



Prof. J. F. Cowell. 



John K. Cowell, dirertor of the 

 South Park Botanical Gardens, Buffalo, 

 for the last twenty years, died sudden- 

 ly on May 1. at his home. Ridge road. 



Pbok. J. F. CowEi.i, 



Lackawanna. Dr. Lawrence Smith of 

 East Aurora, who was called by the 

 family when Professor Cowell was 

 stricken, says the cause was heart 

 disease. 



Professor Cowell was a botanist 

 of International repute, being an 

 authority on orchids and tropical 

 plants. He got home only two weeks 

 ago from a trip to Cuba and Jamaica, 

 where he went in search of new vari- 

 eties of plants. On this trip lie was 

 accompanied by Dr. Britton, who has 

 charge of the New York botanical gar- 

 dens. 



Professor Cowell was 63 years 

 old. He was born in Boston. .Mass. 

 and while yet a young man was en- 

 gaged in landscape work of consider- 

 able magnitude. Before entering the 



employ of the IuiiiIm park depart- 

 ment he was prwuipai of one of the 

 public schools. In 1894 he took charge 

 of South Park, Buffalo, which was then 

 a barren tract, and under his devoted 

 care It soon became a beauty spot. 

 He was a member of the Western 

 N. Y. Horticultural Society, Buffalo 

 Florists' Club and Society of American 

 Florists. He was a member of the S. 

 .■\. F. Executive Committee In 1896- 

 1897, 1899-1901 and was a very regular 

 attendant at the annual conventions. 

 Personally Prof. Cowell was a favorite 

 among the horticultural people with 

 whom he came in contact. His unas- 

 suming manner and congenial traits 

 brought him many friends, who will 

 sincerely mourn his demise. He leaves 

 one daughter, Mrs. Adelaide Moul- 

 throp, and a son, Francis W. Cowell. 



CLOSED FLOWER SEASON. 

 The suggestion comes from Connec- 

 ticut that an arrangement might well 

 be made for a closed season for flow- 

 ers as well as for game. Why not? 

 In many sections of New England the 

 trailing arbutus and the mountain 

 laurel must have more adequate protec- 

 tion or they will be in danger of be- 

 coming as extinct as the passenger 

 pigeon in bird life. In the Berkshlres, 

 the mountain regions of Vermont and 

 New Hampshire there has been an in- 

 creasing tendency for years for persons 

 ■ board their knowledge of the local- 

 ics where early spring flowers and 

 iiies may be found. In many instances 

 market men strip the hillsides of the 

 Ijeauty -which nature has provided and 

 reap a handsome profit out of what to 

 them becomes merely a stock in trade. 

 This year more than heretofore a 

 spirit of protest is making itself heard. 

 One result of the modern emphasis 

 upon nature study is increased appreci- 

 ation of the beauty and decorative 

 possibilities of various plants which 

 once attracted small attention. That 

 these may be preserved for the bene- 

 fit of the entire community a penalty 

 might be exacted for the gathering, 

 selling, or possessing certain flowers at 

 certain times. It would at least in- 

 duce greater care upon the part of 

 the majority, even if it did not abso- 

 lutely protect the hillsides from their 

 despollers. It Is suggested, too, that 

 the Boy Scouts and the Campfire Girls 

 could help greatly in the protection 

 of these flowers. — Boston Herald. 



