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Obituary 



A. S. Myers. 

 A. S. Myers, senior member of tlie 

 firm of Myers Bros., Altoona, Pa., died 

 on .May 9th. He was fifty-six years 

 old. He Is survlsed by his wife and 

 several children. 



John Krumholz. 



.lobn Krumholz. florist, 823V4 Supe- 

 rior street, Detroit, Mich., died May 

 Bth after a long illness. He was fifty- 

 five years old and had been in the flor- 

 ist business since boyhood. His wife 

 and five children surv-ive him. 



Mrs. James Conlon. 

 Briget Conlon, 48 years of age, wife 

 of James Conlon, the Smith street flor- 

 ist Brooklyn. N. Y., died on -May 19, at 

 her residence, 69 Dean street. She is 

 survived, besides her husband, by three 

 daughters, and three sons. 



J. F. Zimmerman, 

 While delivering flowers in his auto- 

 mobile, J. F. Zimmerman, a well known 

 florist of Alliance. O., was struck by a 

 locomotive Saturday evening, May 8th, 

 and died several hours later. He had 

 been in the florist business for over 

 twenty years. He is survived by his 

 wife, one sister and three brothers. 



of our readers, died suddenly from 

 heart failure on May 5, at Toronto 

 Canada, aged 45 years. Mr. Cook has 

 resided in Canada for the past four 

 years previous to which he held sev- 

 eral posts of responsibility in horti- 

 cultural literature and journalism in 

 Kngland. He was especially interest- 

 ed in roses. Since locating in Canada 

 he has been engaged chiefly in land- 

 scape gardening. 



Mrs. Edward J. Welch. 

 One week ago we jiublished the sad 

 intelligence of the death after a few 

 days' illness of Edward J. Welch. Jr., 

 eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. 

 Welch, of Boston. Today it becomes 

 our mournful duty to record the pass- 

 ing away of the mother of that young 

 man, which occurred on Tuesday 

 morning this week. Mrs. Welch was 

 taken ill on the night before her son's 

 funeral and, broken-hearted over her 

 great loss, she was in no condition 

 physically or mentally to make the 

 struggle for life against pneumonia 

 and her case offered but little hope 

 from the first. Two daughters and 

 one son are left with the grief-stricken 

 father to mourn the loss of a devoted 

 mother. Deepest sympathy with Mr. 

 Welch and his family in their double 

 bereavement is felt and expressed by 

 the entire florist trade of Boston. 



NEW CORPORATIONS. 

 New Haven. Conn. — The Cowan- 

 Heller Floral Company. Capital stock 

 $10,000. 



Joseph Purington. 

 Joseph Purington, one of the leading 

 market gardeners in eastern Massa- 

 chusetts, died last week at his home, 

 in Winchester. He was born in Alton, 

 N. H., July 8, 1823, and had lived in 

 Winchester 60 years. He leaves a 

 widow and two sons. George and Wal- 

 ter, both of Winchester. 



Springfield, N. J. — Jakobsen Floral 

 Co., capital stock, $4,500. Incorpora- 

 tors, Watson B. Morris, J. Neil Jakob- 

 sen, P. Carter Bell. 



FRIENDS OF THE TRADE. 



A prize of i'l\> In gold has been an- 

 nounced by the Home Yard and Garden 

 Association of Bridgeport, Conn. This 

 pr4ze will go to the person making the 

 best development of a flower garden 

 or porch. The small flower garden will 

 have as good a chance to win the 

 prize as the large one, or even a porch 

 development may win It if the person 

 competing has no place to plant but 

 the porch. 



The yard and garden movement is 

 gaining conservative friends each day. 

 It is a common sight to see boys and 

 girls wheeling rich earth before and 

 after school to start a flower garden, 

 while the planting of vines and flower- 

 ing plants is much in evidence every- 

 where. Some of the more neglectful 

 sections of the city have not been 

 stirred yet as much as is desired. 



About 10,000 leaflets are ready for 

 distribution this week and it is hoped 

 by these to reach the sections where 

 least has thus far been done. These 

 leaflets give simple instructions as to 

 the planting of vegetables and flow- 

 ers and will be of especial value to 

 amateurs. Others will, however, flnd 

 some valuable hints in it as well. 



The aim of the movement this year 

 is to get everybody to plant some- 

 thing, however small the space avail- 

 able may be. If it is only a window 

 box or a box on the porch, some of 

 the most successful efforts can be 

 brought about by planting a vine and 

 a few flowers in a box on an upper 

 porch. 



E. T. Cook. 

 Ernest T. Cook an ardent horticul- 

 turist and writer, well-known to many 



Great Barrington, Mass. — William 

 Hall Walker has given Lord & Burn- 

 ham Company the contract for the 

 erection of the following: two orchid 

 houses each 25 x 30; palm house 36 x 

 61; fern house 18 x 26; early grapery 

 25 X 50; late grapery 25 x 50; orangery 

 30 X 65; two melon houses each 18 x 

 47; early peach house 25 x 42; late 

 peach house 25 x 42. 



VISIT TO ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 

 A very interesting trip was taken 

 by the Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 of Boston through the Arnold Arbore- 

 tum last Friday, May 21. The attend- 

 ance was rather small, only 65 being 

 present. This was probably due to the 

 showers which threatened to come 

 down any moment. Jackson Daw- 

 son and W. H. Judd led the itinerary. 



