July 26, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



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range and continued along tho same 

 lines. He was 68 years of age and high- 

 ly respected by all who knew him. 

 His son succeeds him in the business. 



NEW RHODODENDRON MISS 



LOUISA HUNNEWELL. 

 The Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society has awarded a Gold Medal to 

 Mr. T. D. Hatfield, superintendent of 

 the Walter Hunnewell Estate at Wel- 

 lesley, for the new hybrid Rhododen- 

 dron Miss Louisa Hunnewell. It is a 

 cross between Rhododendron ( Azalea) 

 japonicum and Rhododendron sinense. 

 Rhododendron japonicum is salmon 

 red, R. sinense is clear yellow, and the 

 new hybrid is orange yellow. R. sin- 

 ense is never bud-hardy, R. japonicum 

 is quite hardy, and so is the hybrid. 

 Mr. Hatfield made the cross under 

 glass about eight years ago. Hundreds 

 of seedlings have been raised with 

 practically no difference in habit or 

 color. In looking over a large bed of 

 them in bloom no difference is discern- 

 ible. It is considered a valuable ad- 

 dition to the list of hardy rhododen- 

 drons. 



Wm. P. Rich 

 Secretary. 



ANNUAL MEETING OF HENRY A. 

 DREER CO. 



At the annual meeting of the stock- 

 holders of Henry A. Dreer, Inc., held 

 at Riverton, N. J., July 19th. 1919, the 

 following directors were elected: Jacob 

 D- Eisele, Herbert G. Tull, J. Otto 

 Thilow, George D. Clark, George A. 

 Strolein, James C. Clark and Chas. H. 

 MacKubbin. 



After the adjournment of the stock- 

 holders meeting, the directors organ- 

 ized by electing the following officers: 

 Jacob D. Eisele, president; Herbert G. 

 Tull, vice-president and treasurer; 

 J. Otto Thilow, secretary; James M. 

 Vogdes, assistant treasurer. 



OBITUARY. 



George Anderson. 

 George Anderson, a well-known 

 rose grower, passed away at his resi- 

 dence, 52nd and Woodland avenue, on 

 the 19th inst. He came from his na- 

 tive heath near the Sohvay Firth in 

 Scotland to Philadelphia in the early 

 seventies. He was then a young man 

 and a trained gardener. Among his 

 first associations he gained much 

 American experience at the famous 

 Buist nurseries at 65th and Elmwood 

 avenue. He was an active figure in 

 the landscape and gardening work of 

 the Centennial in 76. After that he 



started in business for himself on a 

 five-acre lot, which was then open 

 country at 52nd and Woodland ave- 

 nue, and during these 40 or more 

 years built up a fine business, and 

 brought up his family of nine; and by 

 hard work and native shrewdness, 

 and unswerving honesty, amassed a 

 competence, and became one of the 

 leaders in his craft. Whatever crop 

 he grew— and he grew them nearly 

 all. as plant and flower fashions 

 changed and as the years rolled by- 

 he was generally looked up to as a 

 leader. Of late years he went in more 

 for rose growing than for other mar- 

 ketable crops, and his fame in that 

 connection reached far beyond local 

 circles. Visitors to Philadelphia from 

 Maine to California made George An- 

 derson's one of their first places of 

 call to get a line on first how he did 

 things, and to get the latest wrinkles 

 from a canny Scot— who never said 

 a great deal but could generally show 

 the goods. Mr. Anderson was keen in 

 business but had also the broader side 

 and loved to mingle with his fellow 

 craftsmen in their hours of play. In 

 the bowling heyday he was one of the 

 crack bowlers of the Florists' Club 

 for 20 years, and in the Gun Club few 

 could equal him as a crack shot at 

 the targets. Mrs. Anderson and all 

 of his family of nine children except 

 one daughter survive him. This 

 daughter, Georgianna, died in the hos- 

 pital only about a month ago. Mr. 

 Anderson was a clean, careful liver, 

 and enjoyed the best of health all his 

 life. He was the last man any of 

 his friends would have looked for to 

 have a stroke— lean, wiry and hard 

 grit; but the first one got him three 

 years ago, and the third some three 

 weeks back. So one never can tell. 

 Be as careful as you can. you will 

 pass on when your time comes — King 

 David or no King David. Mr. Ander- 

 son was 71 but looked good for an- 

 other 20 at least. 



Charles E. Wingate. 



Charles E. Wingate, one of the old- 

 est resident of Lawrence, Mass., and 

 a veteran florist, is dead at his home, 

 8 Fulton street, after an illness of 

 three months, following an attack of 

 influenza. 



Mr. Wingate was well-known as a 

 hunter and had spent considerable 

 time in the Maine woods. He was 

 also a collector of Indian relics. Some 

 of the photographs he took while in 

 the woods have been purchased by the 

 Boston & Maine railroad for use in the 

 development of their lines in Maine. 



NEW YORK. 



Retail flower stores in Buffalo will 

 be closed all day Sundays this summer, 

 starting July 13, says a statement 

 from the Retail Florists' Association. 

 According to the florists this move is 

 taken to give the employees a holiday 

 and to bring the business up to the 

 standard of other lines of trade. 



The United Cut Flower Co., of Man- 

 hattan, has increased its capital stock 

 for $15,000 to $60,000. 



Arthur Newport, for 24 years a flor- 

 ist at the Grove Street Greenhouse in 

 Oneonta, committed suicide by inhal- 

 ing illuminating gas. Prolonged poor 

 health is said to be the cause. He was 

 born in England in 1866 and came to 

 this country when five years of age. 

 He leaves three unmarried daughters. 



NEW JERSEY. 



George C. Watson. 



Mrs. Caroline Kelly, widow of the 

 late Commissioner James E. Kelly, of 

 Jersey City, has embarked in the flor- 

 ist business and opened a store. Mrs. 

 Kelly is the mother of Frances Kelly, 

 of war stamp fame who traveled on 

 horseback over the entire state of New 

 Jersey selling thrift and war savings 

 stamps while the war was in progress 

 during which she sold nearly a half 

 million dollars worth. 



Charles Mecky. 



Charles Mecky died at his home in 

 Philadelphia on the 17th inst. He 

 was a well-known florist and devoted 

 his range principally to the growing of 

 bedding and Easter plants. He was 

 located for many years at 17th and 

 Erie avenue, but about ten years ago 

 moved to the Limekiln Pike in Ger- 

 mantown where he built an up to date 



NEW ENGLAND. 



T. Richard of Salem, Mass., is work- 

 ing at the State Foresters' nursery in 

 Bridgewa'ter, and is assistant foreman 

 of the nursery. He has charge of the 

 laying out of the nursery beds and 

 the plotting of the species. The nur- 

 sery contains about 700,000 coniferous, 

 transplants. Richard intends to make 

 forestry his life work. 



