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HORTICULTURE 



August 19. '911 



CRAIG DUALITY CROTONS 



ARE BEST KNOWN AND KNOWN TO BE BEST 



The above slogan could also apply to the many other Craig specialties. 

 We are making new customers very fast and with our increased glass 

 area, we are in a position to take good care of you. Eventually you will 

 handle Craig Quality Stock. Why not now? Our many customers 

 advertise our stock and our stock advertises us. 



FANCY CROTONS, IN MANY VARIETIES 



Cycla m e n 

 Begonia Lorraine 

 Begonia Cincinnati 

 Genistas] 

 Ficus Pandurata 

 Areca Lutescens 

 F» a n d a n »_i s \/e itc h i i Dracaena Mandaiana 



Nephrolepis in Variety, etc, etc 



Phoenix Roebelenii 

 Dracaena Terminalis 

 Dracaena IS/lassangea 

 Dracaena Lord Wools 

 Dracaena F~ragrans 



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49th AND MARKET STREETS - - PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



BRANCH : NORWOOD, PA. 



Obituary 



John Birnie. 



It was sad. sad news and almost un- 

 believable, that came with lightning 

 sudtienness to the hundreds of happy 

 convention visitors at Baltimore when 

 announcement was made of the death 

 of one of their number, on Tuesday 

 evening, as they were just beginning 

 to gather for the president's reception. 

 John Birnie, whom they had been talk- 

 ing to and who, a few minutes before, 

 they had seen at the supper table, 

 dead! It was only too true, and there 

 were tears in many eyes and deep 

 sorrow on all sides. Mr. Birnie, who 

 had been complaining some of not 

 feeling well all through the day was 

 stricken as he sat at the table with 

 his wife in the dining room of the 

 Hotel Belvedere. He was assisted to 

 his room, where he expired in a few 

 minutes. Apoplexy was said to be the 

 cause. 



John Birnie was a native of Buchan, 

 Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He came to 

 this country as a trained gardener. 

 One of his first places was with the 

 late W. J. Palmer in Buffalo. Then he 

 went to West Hoboken. N. J., where 

 he has long been known as a skillful 

 and prosperous plant grower. He was 

 active in the New York plant market 

 and an earnest worker in the effort to 

 have adequate accommodations sup- 



plied by the city for the marketing of 

 plants. In the New York Florists' 

 Club he was a useful, loyal member, 

 and he has been a regular attendant 

 at the S. A. F. conventions for many 



The body was taken to West Ho- 

 boken, N. J., on Wednesday. 



Members of the New York Florists' 

 Club and others formed a procession 

 and escorted the body from the Hotel 

 Belvedere to the station Wednesday 

 morning. The National Society and 

 Baltimore and New York clubs sent 

 beautiful floral tokens. Mr. and Mrs. 

 John Donaldson accompanied Mrs. 

 Birnie home to West Hoboken. The 

 casket was opened at the station and 

 each member in passing dropped in 

 a rose. A special meeting of the New 

 York Florist Club was held Tuesday 

 night at which Messrs. Totty. Bun- 

 yard and Sheridan were appointed a 

 committee on obituary resolution. 



Joftn Birnie 



years. Personally John Birnie was re- 

 spected and beloved as few men are. 

 He was whole souled, generous, bril- 

 liant in intellect — a fine type of manly 

 character. He was a most interesting 

 writer, good debater and all around 

 genial companion. 



A Friend's Tribute. 

 The heart has gone clean out of me. 

 I can't talk. My dear, kind, good 

 John Birnie — that I was just jest- 

 ing with but a minute ago. It cannot 

 be. I cannot believe he is gone. And 

 yet they assure me that this wonder- 

 ful big heart has ceased to beat. I 

 refuse to believe it, and yet I must — 

 and in my grief I want to do all kinds 

 of insane things. From now on, 

 count the world a lonesome place for 

 thousands of warm-hearted friends 

 and admirers of John Birnie. He was 

 one of the loveliest personalities I 

 ever knew, and one of the wisest and 

 wittiest. I am inconsolable. I can 

 say no more now. 



GEORGE C. WATSON. 



C. L. Sieber. 

 Charles Louis Sieber died at Ponta- 

 chatoula, La., on August 1. He had 



