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HORTICULTURE 



September 18, 1915 



Obituary 



Joseph H. Bechamps. 



Joseph H. Bechamps, a well known 

 florist of Bayside, N. Y., died at his 

 home in Flushing on September 7, 

 aged 76 years. He was a veteran of 

 the civil war. He leaves three sons 

 and three daughters. 



grasp and the body was lost and has 

 not been recovered. Goff and three 

 other persons were saved by the 

 police. 



George Walther 



George Walther one of the old-time 

 Chicago retail florists, died on Septem- 

 ber 1. He was born in Germany and 

 was 78 years of age at the time of his 

 death. He retired from active work 

 about two years ago leaving the busi- 

 ness management to his daughter and 

 son. 



James Allen. 

 James Allen, gardener for A. D. 

 Juilliard, Tuxedo Park, X. Y., died sud- 

 denly on August 17. aged 46. He was 

 a native of Kent, England, and was 

 classed as a very proficient gardener. 

 He was active in the affairs of the 

 Tuxedo Horticultural Society for many 

 years. 



Edward H. White 



Edward H. White, a well known mar- 

 ket gardener of Norwalk, Conn., com- 

 mitted suicide by hanging, early Sat- 

 urday, Sept. 11, presumably because 

 of the failure of his peach crop with 

 which, it is said, he had speculated 

 extensively. He was about seventy 

 years old and leaves a son Fay O. 

 White. 



Fritz Starke. 

 Fritz Starke, who was until a few- 

 years ago, when he retired from busi- 

 ness, a well known florist and nursery- 

 man at Ravenswood. Long Island, N. 

 y.. died at Dundee Lake. N. J., on 

 Wednesday, Sept. 1. aged 6.3 years. He 

 was a native of Westphalia, Germany, 

 where he got liis education as a gar- 

 dener. He leaves a widow, three sons 

 and two daughters. 



Louis Forget 



The British journals tell of the 

 death in a hospital at Rennes, France, 

 on August 10, of Louis Forget, a noted 

 orchid collector for Sander & Sons for 

 the past twenty-four years. The large 

 consignments of the re-discovered Cat- 

 tleya labiata which surprised the or- 

 chid world in the '90's were the re- 

 sult of Mr. Forget explorations in 

 South and Central America, as well as 

 many other rare and lovely gems 

 among the Cattleyas and Laelias. His 

 death was sudden, caused by heart 

 failure. 



Charles Jameson 



Charles Jameson, 29, gardener for 

 Mrs. Arthur Hale of Philadelphia, was 

 drowned while liathing off Scarbor- 

 ough Beach at Narragansett Pier last 

 Saturday afternoon. His home is in 

 Hyde Park, N. Y. Mr. Jameson was 

 swimming with late-season residents 

 at the Pier when he was caught in a 

 heavy undertow and carried out, the 

 heavy seas of the past two weeks hav- 

 ing made the beaches very treacherous. 



William Goff, a companion, siezed 

 Jameson by the hair to save him when 

 a big wave wrenched liim from Goff's 



Patrick Norton. 



Patrick Norton passed away at his 

 home in Dorchester, Boston, Mass., on 

 Thursday, September 9, aged 76 years, 

 after a weary and painful illness ex- 

 tending over seven or eight years, and 

 on Saturday was laid away in Calvary 

 cemetery. He was born in Athlone, Ire- 

 land, and came to this country when 

 one year old. He was educated in the 

 Dorchester public schools and, when a 

 young man, got employment in Hovey's 

 Nurseries at Cambridge, under that 

 able old gardener, C. M. Atkinson. After 

 seven years Mr. Atkinson left to take 

 charge of the famous Gushing estate 

 at Belmont and Mr. Norton went with 

 him as assistant foreman. Four years 

 later Atkinson accepted the position of 

 superintendent of Mt. Hope cemetery. 

 Norton was offered the place on the 

 Gushing estate but refused, preferring 

 to leave and go into the florist busi- 



Pathick Norton. 



ness with his brother Michael as Nor- 

 ton Bros., adjacent to their old home 

 in Dorchester. That was in 1864 and 

 for over thirty-five years the firm car- 

 ried on a successful business, with 

 greenhouses in Dorchester where they 

 grew Bousilene roses and violets, and 

 a store in Boston during the greater 

 part of that time. Upon the dissolu- 

 tion of the firm Mr. Norton retired 

 from business. 



Mr. Norton's activities were many 

 and he was a strong leader in the 

 affairs of the Masachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society, serving for many years 

 in the capacity of chairman of the 

 garden committee and of the commit- 

 tee of arrangements. It was in the 

 latter capacity that he scored his 

 most signal success — the great horti- 

 cultural exhibition which was held in 

 Music Hall during the S. A. P. Con- 

 vention in Boston in 1890, an exhibi- 

 tion which to this day stands without 

 a rival in this country as to quality 

 and arrangement. 



Patrick Norton was an able, genial, 

 generous-hearted man. very popular 

 among the leading men of the profes- 



tion who were his contemporaries. 

 Among his most intimate associates 

 and admirers were such men as Peter 

 Henderson, John Henderson, Michael 

 Wiegand, Ernst Asmus, John N. May, 

 John H. Taylor, Thomas Cartledge and 

 other eminent horticulturists of New 

 York and Philadelphia as well as the 

 leading gardeners in and around Bos- 

 ton, most of whom have long since 

 passed away. In fact. Mr. Norton's 

 suave, tactful and kindly personality 

 made him a great favorite wherever 

 he went. The death of his only son 

 about fifteen years ago made him 

 heart-broken and since then he has 

 never been the same man as before. 

 He is survived by his widow and three 

 daughters, and his brother M. H. Nor- 

 ton. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



Detroit, Mich. — J. H. Snyder, Rhine- 

 beck, N. y. 



Cleveland, 0.— W. P. Craig, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. 



Providence, R. I. — S. H. Moore, New 

 Haven, Conn. 



Atlantic City, N. J.— William Walker 

 and wife, Louisville, Ky. 



Milwaukee, Wis.^ — Adolph and Au- 

 gust Poehlmann, Morton Grove, III. 



St. Louis, Mo. — A. T. Delamare, New 

 York, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Reukauf, 

 Philadelphia. 



Cincinnati — Jos. Hill, Fred Lemon 

 and Earl Mann, Richmond, Ind.; Geo. 

 Lambert, Xenia, Ohio; H. J. Vander- 

 horst, St. Mary's, 0. 



Boston — H. C. Neubrand, represent- 

 ing A. N. Pierson, Cromwell, Conn,; 

 H. A. Barnard, representing Stuart 

 Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, Enfield, 

 Eng. 



Washington, D. C. — Richard Vin- 

 cent, Jr., White Marsh, Md.; H. Riebe, 

 of the Berryhill Nursery, Harrisburg, 

 Pa.; C. P. W. Nims, representing Hews 

 & Co., Cambridge, Mass.; James W. 

 Heacock, Wyncote, Pa.: L. A. Berck- 

 mans, Augusta, Ga. 



Chicago — Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Dal- 

 ledouze, Brooklyn, N. Y.; W. F. Hast- 

 ing, Buffalo, N. Y.; H. Perkins, 2nd, 

 Newark, N. Y.; C. W. Garrett, R. F. D. 

 No. 1, Pacific, Mo.; C. B. Knlckman, 

 representing McHutchison Co., New 

 York; C. F. Nawrocki, Ashland, Wis.; 

 Sam. Seligman, New York; Wm. 

 Trlcker, Arlington, N. J. 



Philadelphia — Sam'l Batchelor, Ma- 

 maroneck, N. Y.; John Bader, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa.; John Heck, Reading, Pa.; 

 R. W. Marvell, representing C. C. Hig- 

 gins. Worthington, Ohio; Geo. F. Ekas, 

 Baltimore, Md.; John L. Ratcllffe, 

 Richmond, Va.; P. S. Randolph, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa.; W. C. Lawrence, Lawrence 

 Flower Co., Atlanta, Georgia; James 

 Brown. Coatesville, Pa.; Samuel S. 

 Pennock, Ocean City, N. J. 



Jersey City, N. J. — Charles Reitman, 

 Trenton, N. J., has filed a petition in 

 the United States District Court 

 against Bonnot Bros., of Jersey City, 

 claiming that they are Insolvent and 

 asks that they be declared bankrupt. 

 He alleges that they owe the New 

 York Cut Flower Company $6,935, and 

 that this claim has been assigned to 

 him. 



