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HORTICULTUBB 



November 6, 1915 



Obituary 



Harry Alien. 

 Harry Allen, son of Charles H. Allen, 

 of Floral Park, Long Island. N. Y., 

 died Saturday, October 30th. and was 

 buried Tuesday, November 2d, on his 

 twenty-sixth birthday. 



Derxiis Dwyer. 



Dennis Dwyer, a member of the 

 florist concern of Dwyer Brothers, of 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., died at St. Anthony's 

 Hospital, Woodhaven, on October 30. 

 He was born in Brooklyn. 



Edward G. Eggeling. 

 Edward G. Eggeling. a prominent 

 florist of St. Louis. Mo., died on Satur- 

 day, Oct. 31), from throat trouble after 

 a brief illness. Mr. Eggeling's store 

 on Grand avenue was one of the oldest 

 in the city, as it was started by his 

 father right after the civil war. Mr. 

 Eggeling was 43 years old and leaves 

 a widow and one daughter. He was a 

 member of the St. Louis Florist Club, 

 which sent a floral offering to the 

 funeral, on Monday, November 1. 



Charles Thomas Lee. 



Chas. T. Lee, florist, of South Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., died on Thursday, Oct. 28. 

 He was a resident of South Brooklyn 

 for thirty-five years. He was born at 

 Taunton, Mass., in 1839, and during 

 the entire Civil War served as a mem- 

 ber of the Seventh Regiment of Mass- 

 achusetts. He enlisted as a private 

 and for bravery in action was pro- 

 moted until he was discharged a first 

 lieutenant. He was wounded at the 

 Battle of the Wilderness. He is sur- 

 vived by his wife, Emma Louise 

 Marsh, and a son, Charles Reed Lee, 

 who is also a florist. 



Albert C. Huebner. 



The sympathy of the trade goes out 

 to a well beloved fellow craftsman, 

 Paul Huebner, landscape gardener for 

 the Reading R. R. system, in the loss 

 of his son, Albert C. Huebner, who 

 was killed in an automobile accident 

 at Akron, Ohio, on Oct. 30th. The 

 funeral took place from the family 

 home in Philadelphia on November 

 the 4th. Interment was at Northwood 

 cemetery. 



Mr. Huebner was 31 years of age 

 and up to a few years ago held an 

 important position in the Purchasing 

 Department of the Rapid Transit Co. 

 Since leaving that concern he has 

 been connected with a big manufac- 

 turing concern with headquarters in 

 Chicago. While not connected with 

 the horticultural world in a business 

 way he was well-known to many of 

 us and much liked. The members of 

 the Railroad Gardeners Association 

 win remember him well as he took 

 his father's place as host to them 

 when they held their last convention 

 in Philadelphia — the elder Huebner 

 being at that time in the hospital. 



George Economopoulas. 

 George Economopoulas pa.ssed away 

 very suddenly on Wednesday, October 

 27, at the Uuiversity Hospital in Chi- 

 cago. Though but 37 years of age, he 

 was a pioneer ii\ the retail trade of 

 the city, for he had been 24 years in 

 the florist business. He came here 



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from Zaraphona. Greece, when a bo.v 

 and sold flowers in the Union Depot. 

 I^ater he had a small store on State 

 street and still later the basement of 

 the store, which he has occupied for 

 the past ten years, on the corner of 

 Adams and Wabash, and which is one 

 of the best corners on the street. Mr. 

 Economopoulas and Frank Williams, 

 deceased, and Gus Pappas. of Des 

 Moines. la., were partners under the 

 name of The Alpha for many years. 

 Four years ago Mr. Williams' share 

 was purchased and The Alpha now 

 owns the two stores at Chicago and 

 Des Moines. The funeral was from 

 the Orthodox Greek Church, La Salle 

 and Oak streets, and the floral offer- 

 ings were unusually fine. Mr. Econo- 

 mopoulas was not married, but has a 

 mother and sister in Greece and a 

 brother and a nephew in Cliicago. In- 

 terment was at Elmwood and a special 

 train carried out a large number of 

 friends. 



Lake. Six brothers-in-law acted as 

 pall bearers. 



F. W. Timme. 

 Another of the pioneer florists of 

 Chicago passed away on October 27 at 

 his home. 4016 N. Tripp avenue. 

 Frederick William Timme was born 

 in Madgeburg, Germany, in 1843, and 

 came to America when a boy of four- 

 teen. He came to Cliicago at the close 

 of the civil war. in which he served. 

 For three years he was private gar- 

 dener for Allen Pinkerton and for fif- 

 teen years he held a similar position 

 for Potter Palmer and for the last thirty 

 years he has been in the florist busi- 

 ness for himself, at the above address, 

 where he was active till four years 

 ago when his son took charge. He 

 made a st\idy of his work and put 

 thought into it as well as labor. He 

 had the distinction of being the first 

 Chicagoan to grow carnations, bring- 

 ing the stock here the year after they 

 were brought over from France. Some 

 of the older varieties were originated 

 by Mr. Timme, and one called Lucia 

 was recognized by the Horticultural 

 Society of Chicago in 1892. He was 

 also well known as the writer of fre- 

 quent articles for the trade papers, 

 under the title of Timme's Timelv 

 Teachings. He is survived by Mrs. 

 Timme. who was Isabel Johnstone, of 

 Crystal Lake, Wis., one son. William 

 Frederick, and one daughter, Mrs. 

 Harry Blewitt. of Des Plaines. The 

 fimeral took place October 30 at Mee's 

 Chapel and interment was at Crystal 



VISITORS REGISTER. 



Washington — Joseph Goudy, repre- 

 senting H. A. Dreer, Philadelphia; 

 Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Patten, Tewks- 

 bury, Mass. 



St. Louis: Martin Reukauf, repre- 

 senting H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Phila.: 

 Thomas Knight. New York; J. J. Ka- 

 rins, representing H. A. Dreer, Phila. 



Boston: A. E. Thatcher, Bar Har- 

 bor, Me.; George W. Hilliard, Exeter. 

 N. H.; C. W. Hoitt, Nashua, N. H.; 

 Chas. S. Strout. Biddeford, Me.; L. J. 

 Renter, Westerly, R. I. 



Pittsburgh: Milton Alexander, New 

 York; R. E. Blackshaw, Chicago; Isaac 

 Bayersdorfer, of H. Bayersdorfer Co., 

 Philadelphia; Julius DillofE, New York; 

 N. J. Hayman, Clarksbury, W. Va., 



Philadelphia: D. Carmichael, repre- 

 senting J. M. McCuUough's Sons, Cin- 

 cinnati. O.; W. H. Vance. Wilmington, 

 Del.; Richard Fowler, of J. Van Lind- 

 ley Nursery Co., Greensboro, N. C. 



Chicago: Gus Pappas, Des Moines, 

 111.; Mrs. Edward Gullett, Lincoln, 111.: 

 S. J. Verhalen, Sherman, Tex.; D. W. 

 Dumser, Battle Creek, Mich.; C. W. 

 Scott, representing the Yokohama 

 Nurseries, New York; H. Koster, Bos- 

 koop, Holland; A. Schultz, Hammond. 

 Ind.; George Franks, Champaign, 111.; 

 Mrs. Gustave Ludwig, Httsburgh, Pa. 



TRANSPORTING A SPECIMEN 

 PLANT 



The problem of sending one of his 

 big trained chrysanthemum plants 

 from Ardsley, N. Y., to Cleveland, 

 Ohio, for the Cleveland show, has been 

 finally mastered by Mr. Canning. The 

 plant, which is about 16 feet across 

 will go on a platform car, under a mov- 

 able greenhouse specially constructed 

 for the purpose. On account of its 

 width the plant will be tipped diagon- 

 ally and an ingenious arrangement of 

 rollers and shock absorbing bearings 

 will keep the plant so nicely balanced 

 that it is expected to make the journey 

 without damage to a single bloom. The 

 variety is Wells' Pink. 



Its companion plant, a specimen of 

 R. F. Felton. 17 feet in diameter, will 

 be displayed at the Museum of Na- 

 tural History in New York this week. 



