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HOETICULTURE 



N'ovemljer 11, 1916 



BULBS BOXWOODS 



Do Not Forget Salesdays — Monday and Thursday 

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JOHNSON & MILLANG, Inc., Auctioneers 



Coog«n Building, 55-57 West 26th Street, New York 



(Under Cut Flower Exchange) 



Salesdays Monday and Thursday at 10 A. M. 



10,000 squara feet devoted to our auction business 



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Obituary 



George Cartwright. 

 George Cartwright, secretary and 

 treasurer of the Boston Flower Ex- 

 change and well known in the cut 

 flower trade of Boston for almost half 

 a century, died at his home in Rox- 

 bury, Mass., on Thursday. Nov. 2. at 

 the age of 71 years. .\Ir. Cartwright 

 was born in England, coming to this 

 country with his parents at the age of 

 12 and settling in Wellesley. where his 

 father. James Cartwright. carried on 

 a florist business. As a young man he 



George Cautwkigut. 



started in business for himself in Ded- 

 ham, Mass.. making a specialty of 

 Xiphetos roses. Next year would 

 have been his 25th anniversary in 

 office with the Flower E- change, 

 where he also at one time filled the 

 office of vice-president. He had been 

 in failing health for a year or more, 

 but was at his post in the flower mar- 

 ket until two days before his death. 



About 38 years ago he married Miss 

 Anna Seitz. of Roxbury. who survives, 

 with a daughter. Mrs. Emma Taggart. 

 of this city, and two sons. Edward S. 

 Cartwright. of California, and F. J. 

 Cartwright, of New York; also one 

 sister, Mrs. Annie S. Morgan, of Bos- 

 ton, and four brothers. 

 • Mr. Cartwright was a man of rare 

 qualities of graciousness. unselfish- 

 ness and fidelity. He was moderate 

 in speech always, never censorious, 

 harsh with none Universally loved 

 for his unswerving integritv and sym- 

 pathetic heart, his death brought sin- 

 cere grief to a wide circle of friends. 

 His funeral, on Sunday, was attended 



by sixty or seventy of his associates 

 in the flower trade. The floral tributes 

 were many and none finer have ever 

 been seen in Boston. The testimonial 

 from the Flower Exchange was a mas- 

 sive wreath of cattleyas, Hadley roses 

 and lily of the valley and palm leaves 

 about five feet" across, most creditable 

 to the good taste of Sam'l Beck, who 

 was the designer. 



Wm. F. Molloy. 



The Boston flower trade lost one of 

 its sterling men in the passing away 

 of William F. Molloy on November 7, 

 at the Morse Hospital in Natick. Mass., 

 after a painful illness lasting about 

 two months. Willie Molloy. as he 

 was familiarly known, has been the 

 Boston representative of the Budlong 

 Company for many years. He was 

 born in Wellesley 57 years ago. His 

 lather was long in the employ of Ed- 

 mund .M. Wood, Waban Conservatories, 

 and William started as a boy with Mr. 

 Wood, later acting as his salesman in 

 Boston, his sister who afterwards be- 

 came the wife of Robert E. Berry be- 

 ing bookkeeper at the greenhouses. 

 Leaving Mr. Wood's employ he was a 

 member of the wholesale flower firm 

 of N. F. McCarthy & Co. for several 

 years, but later sold bis interest to 

 Mr. McCarthy and returned to his old 

 job for a time, finally taking the posi- 

 tion of sales agent for Budlong. Ho 

 never married. The cause of his death 

 was internal malignant tumors. 



No more honest, straight forward 

 and likeable man than William F' 

 Molloy has ever been identified witli 

 the florist trade of Boston. His friends 

 included every one in the business 

 with whom he came in contact, hi 

 the words of his old partner, X. F. Mc- 

 Carthy, "he was truly one of God's 

 noblemen." The funeral on Thursday, 

 Nov. 9, was largely attended by mem- 

 bers of the trade. 



Nellie R. Thoirs. 

 Daughter of James M. Thoirs, the 

 leading retail florist of Camden, N. J., 

 died on Nov. 4. From almost child- 

 hood she had been delicate, and as 

 early as fifteen almost succumbed to 

 rheumatism. "i'ears later she had 

 other attacks of the same kind (nearly 

 taking her off), complicated with 

 heart trouble. Little Nell was the 

 dearest, sweetest, most courageous 

 little spirit! She was keenly intel- 

 lectual and made all who came in 

 contact with her bow to her wit, wis- 

 dom and common sense. No one 

 knew her but to love her. Dear little 

 Nell, Good bye. We shall all miss 

 you- G. C. W. 



William Good. 



William Good, well-known for thirty 

 years or more in the retail florist 

 trade of Boston died at the Citv Hospi- 

 tal in Boston on Wednesdav. Nov 8 

 as the result of being struck bv an 

 automobile the previous night while 



attempting to cross Commonwealth 

 avenue, which fractured his skull. Mr. 

 Good, who was 55 years of age, had 

 been employed by several of the lead- 

 ing flower stores of Boston as sales- 

 man and designer and at the time of 

 death was with Sidney Hoffman. He 

 has a brother in New 'i'ork. Frank 

 Good, also in the florist Ijusiness. 



Thomas J. Gannon. 

 Thomas J. Gannon, one of the vic- 

 tims of the South Boston trolley car 

 accident on Nov. 7, was a native of 

 Ogdensburg, N. Y. Up to early last 

 October he was employed as a garden- 

 er by Joseph S. Williams of Jamaica 

 Plain. Nothing is known of his present 

 address by his late employer, Mr. Wil- 

 liams, When he left it was supposed 



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he would return to Ogdensburg as he 

 had stated such were his intentions. 

 Gannon was unmarried and about 32 

 years of age. 



Michael Donovan. 



Another of Newport's veteran gard- 

 eners. Michael Donovan, died on Nov. 

 ]. in his 75th year. He had lived in 

 Newport the greater part of his life, 

 and for many years was gardener and 

 caretaker of the estate of tlie late 

 Thomas Winans. and afterward for his 

 son, Ross Winans. Mr. Donovan is 

 survived by a brother and by several 

 nephews and nieces. 



John Skelton Brown. 



John Skelton Brown, aged S.'i for 

 years engaged in the nursery Inisiness 

 in Rochester, N. Y., died on Tluirsday, 

 Oct. 19, at his home in Browncroft. 

 just outside of Rochester. Mr. Brown 

 was horn in Boston, Mass. He leaves 

 one son, one daughter, four grand- 



