July 8, 191G 



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Obituary 



Walter P. Stokes 

 The sad news has been received of 

 the death of Walter P. Stokes on July 

 1st at Moosehead Lake. Maine, where 

 he had gone on a vacation about three 

 weeks ago. Mr. Stokes was well 

 known in the horticultural world hav- 

 ing l)een a partner in the firm of 

 Johnson & Stokes, establislied in Phil- 

 adelphia about 18?)ti. They co;iducted 

 a general seed and implement busi- 

 ness and achieved great success and 

 distinction, their business growing to 

 large proportions and their trade ex- 

 tending to every state in the vniion 

 and even beyond. About ten years 

 ago some family differences caused a 

 dissolution of tlie partnership since 



Wai.ie:! p. Stiiki'.s. 

 whii h Mr. Stokes conducted a separate 

 establishment at 217 Market street 

 with greenhouses and nurseries at 

 Moorestown, N. J., which still continue 

 active in all departments under cor- 

 porate management. 



Mr. Stokes was 60 years of age and 

 was a native of Railway, N. J. He 

 was educated at the Friends .A.cad- 

 emy at AVest Town. Pa., and started 

 his business career in Philadelphia 

 with the wholesale grocery firm of 

 Caleb Wood on South 2nd street. 

 This firm sold timothy, clover and 

 other seeds to its country customers 

 apd from 1874 to 1886 they bought 

 their supplies of seeds from C. B. 

 Rogers. 1.33 Market street. Tliat firm 

 went out of existence about 1S86 but 

 that was where Herbert Johnson was 

 employed and that was where Mr. 

 Stokes got acquainted with him and 

 the seed partnership resulted. 



Public recognition of the high es- 

 teem in which Mr. Stokes was held 



came in many ways. He was an ex- 

 president of the American Seed Trade 

 Association and tor fifteen years was 

 secretary and treasurer of the Wabash 

 Mills Company, Manayunk. He was 

 an active memlier of the Society of 

 Friends and prominent in many char- 

 italjle institutions. 



Philadelphia has long been known 

 as one of the big seed centers of the 

 country. The grim reaper has cer- 

 tainly been cutting a wide swath re- 

 cently. During the last few years wc 

 have lost a Buist. a Maule, a Burpee, 

 and others of less renown, and now a 

 Stokes! But we can say of all of them 

 that, although cut off from us in the 

 heyday of their powers they all did 

 splendid work for the advancement of 

 their fellowmen in their chosen pro- 

 fession and all liave passed to the 

 great beyond with unblemished repu- 

 tations and worthy of our esteem aru! 

 admiration as long as memory lasts. 

 Xot the least of them was the subject 

 (if this short sketch. Walter P. Stokes 

 The writer knew him personally and 

 intimately for twenty-eight years, and 

 lie never knew a finer gentleman in 

 all his incomings -or outgoings. 



George C. W.\tson. 



E. J. Harmon. 



Kdward .1. ilarmou. who has con- 

 ducted a su( cessful florist business on 

 Congress street. Portland, Me., for 

 many years, died suddenly at his home, 

 428 St. John street, on Tuesday evening. 

 July 4tli. Heart failure was assigned 

 as the direct cause of his death, 

 as he had appeared in comparatively 

 good health during the day, having 

 witnessed the parade in the morning 

 and in company with Mrs. Harmon at- 

 tended the theater later in the day. 

 They returned home about 8, and as 

 they entered the house Mrs. Harmon 

 saw her husband stagger and she 

 rushed forward to catch him. Dr. 

 Geer was at once called, but Mr. Har- 

 mon passed away before the physician 

 arrived. 



Mr. Harmon was born 65 years ago 

 in the x^ibbytown section of Portland, 

 and had resided for a time in South 

 Portland. He first took up taxidermy, 

 but later entered the florist Inisiness. 

 He was a man of amiable tempera- 

 ment .ind companiona.ile disposition. 

 Fishina was his favorite pastime and 

 he had at Lake Sebago a commodious 

 summer cottage where he enjoyed ii^v- 

 ing the company of his congenial 

 friends. He is survived by his wife, 

 Elizabeth, and four sons, Edward. 

 Chester and William of Portland and 

 Henry of Waterville: one daughter. 

 Mrs. Margaret Lewis of Harris street. 

 Portland. 



Thomas Wilson. 



Thomas ^\"iIson. fornieily a florist in 

 Newburyport, Mass.. died at Davis, Gal., 

 on .Tunc 26. aged 68 years. Mr. Wilson 

 went West about ')5 years ago and set- 

 tled at Grass Valley. Cal.. where he 

 made a reptitation as a florist, and was 



appointed superintendent of the 

 grounds connected with state agricul- 

 tural school at Davisville. where he re- 

 niaiui'd until failing health made it 

 necessary for him to take up a less ex- 

 acting iiosition. 



Sara Mills. 



.Miss Sara Mills, sister of C. D. Mills, 

 of Ja'ksonville, Fla.. passed away on 

 Thursday of last week from complica- 

 tions following an operation performed 

 at Garfield Hospital in Washington, 

 D. C. Mr. Mills, who was in Washing- 

 ton during her illness, accompanied the 

 body to Pittsfield, Mass.. for burial. 



Mrs. Wm. H. Hall 



Mrs. Elmaetta Hall, widow of Wil- 

 liam H. Hall, a florist of Brooklyn, died 

 on .Monday, June 26, at her home, 26 

 Stewart street, Brooklyn, in her sixty- 

 ninth year. She was born in Barkham- 

 sted. Conn. After the death of her 

 husband thirteen years ago, Mrs. Hall 

 ran the business herself. She left a 

 daughter. 



James Kidu. 



of Invei-nrie .\berilfensliir(\ Sciithind. 



Killed in France. Uw. 2:'.. l!)l."i. 



.\ nephew (if Horticnltnre's I'hiladelphia 



representative. Ci(M>r;re r. Wjitsoii. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS. 

 Department of Registry. 



Public notice is nereby given that 

 .John Dunbar, of Rochester. N. Y.. of- 

 fers for registration the new Salvia 

 splendens Elizabeth Dunbar, described 

 below. Any person objecting to the 

 registration, or to the use of the pro- 

 posed name, is requested to communi- 

 cate with the secretary at once. Fail- 

 ing to receive objection to the regis- 

 tration, the same will be made three 

 weeks from this notice. 



Description: "Chance seedling. Ca- 

 lyx cream white, corolla pure white. 

 Flower-spikes seven to ten inches long. 

 Hal)it compact. Height when grown in 

 groups, from base to top of flower 

 spikes, twenty-four to twenty-six inches. 

 Flowers continuously throu.ghout the 

 season. Comes true to seed." 



John Young, Sec'y. 



June 30, 1910. 



