April 26, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



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Obituary 



James M. Buist. 

 James M. Buist, for nearly forty 

 years a florist of Milford, Pa., passed 

 away April 18th, in his 95th year. Mr. 

 Buist was born in Scotland where he 

 studied for the ministry. At the age 

 of 25 he came to America. His first 

 and only employment was with 

 Andrew Reid, a florist. Upon Mr. 

 Reid's death, Mr. Buist bought the 

 business. He retired several years 

 ago. He leaves three sons and one 

 daughter. 



Joseph A. McClunie. 

 Joseph A. McClunie, who has been 

 in the florist business for over forty 

 years, passed away at his home, 8 

 Park Terrace, Hartford, Ct., on April 

 16th. aged 66 years. He was born in 

 Pittsfield, Mass., and entered the flor- 

 ist business in 1875. He had a country 

 wide reputation as a florist and deco- 

 rator, and supervised the decorations 

 for the Harrison inauguration, also one 

 of the Cleveland inaugural balls. He 

 is survived by his wife and two daugh- 

 ters. 



Robert S. McCormick. 



The horticultural world at home 

 and abroad will be interested in the 

 announcement of the death of Robert 

 S. McCormick. He and his brothers 

 and sons were among the first to im- 

 prove the reaping machine, and his 

 brother Cyrus was especially promi- 

 nent in that connection. The whole 

 family reaped a fortune out of the in- 

 vention. The family came from Vir- 

 ginia originally, Robert having been 

 born there in Rickridge county in 

 1849. He died at Hinsdale, Ills., April 

 16th, 1919. 



Mr. McCormick served three years 

 as First Secretary of the United 

 States Legation in London, under Min- 

 ister Robert T. Lincoln. 



In 1901 President McKinley ap- 

 pointed him Minister to Austria, to 

 succeed Addison C. Harris, and dur- 

 ing his service the ministry was 

 raised to an ambassadorship. In 1903 

 President Roosevelt transferred .Mr. 

 McCormick to be ambassador to Rus- 

 sia. 



Mr. McCormick aided in gaining en- 

 trance to Russia for the Associated 

 Press, which made possible a lifting 

 of the veil which had hid events in 

 Russia from the rest of the world. 



During the Russo-Japanese war, Mr. 

 McCormick handled the interests of 

 Japan in Russia. 



„ In 1905, Mr. McCormick was pro- 

 moted to be Ambassador to France, 



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Joseph C. Craig. 

 Joseph C. Craig passed away at his 

 residence, 738 S. Oakley Blvd., April 

 17, following what was probably a 

 second stroke of paralysis. Mr. Craig 

 was born in Chicago 62 years ago next 

 month and has spent all of his life 

 here, devoting all his time, since boy- 

 hood, to the flower business. In the 

 early days of Chicago when social 

 events reached magnificent propor- 

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 rator and the elaborate table decora- 

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 were first introduced by him. In those 

 days the florist had for his home 

 grown stock, tube roses, primroses, 

 camellias and calla lilies, and for roses 

 and carnations they had to depend up- 

 on the eastern cities. Flowers were 

 then shipped in pails of water and 

 the first ones packed and iced as is 

 the present method, was done accord- 

 ing to his direction. The first roses 

 sold in Chicago were brought here by 

 Mr. Craig and he may be said to be 

 the founder of the present cut flower 

 business here. Later he brought 

 hybrid rose plants on one of his many 

 visits to New York and they were 

 grown by Stielow Bros., at Niles 

 Center. Mr. Craig used to relate his 

 experiences, when an order late in the 



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 stock. In all this Mr. Craig was creat- 

 ing the demand for cut flowers and 

 much credit is due him for this. For 

 forty-five years he has been in business 

 in the loop district and was able to 

 attend to business almost to the last. 

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 A., Raymond C. and William, all of 

 whom are connected with the business 

 and one daughter, Irene C. The 

 funeral was Saturday and interment 

 was at Mt. Carmel. 



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