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HORTICULTURE 



September 9, 1911 



Obituary 



George M. Haeker. 

 George M. Haeker was overcome by 

 the heat while working in the green- 

 houses of Mrs. Joseph P. Lang. 2010 

 rose street, Chicago, 111., where he 

 was manager. He died on August 20, 

 aged 52 years. 



T. J. Gorman. 

 T. J. Gorman, Outremont, Montreal, 

 Canada, was killed in an automobile 

 accident on August 17. For many 

 years he had conducted a florist estab- 

 lishment on Mount Royal avenue. He 

 was unmairied. 



Philip Fisher. 

 Philip Fisher, florist, of Chambers- 

 burg, Va., was found dead in bed on 

 August 29, at his home. Mr. Fisher 

 was 72 years of age, a native of 

 Chambersburg and served in the 21st 

 Pa. cavalry during the war. 



Robert Linney. 



Robert Linney, died at his home, 

 Akron, O., on August 18. For many 

 years he conducted a florist business 

 on West Market street, retiring about 

 five years ago. Mr. Linney was 85 

 years of age and had resided in Akron 

 for forty years. 



Jacob Ellettson. 

 Jacob Ellettson, of Auburn, N. Y., 

 passed away on August 17, aged 78 

 years. He was born in Kinnongham, 

 Yorkshire, England and came to Aub- 

 urn in the early 50's. He was an ex- 

 pert landscape gardener and grower. 

 His wife survives him. 



W. F. Heike. 



W. F. Heike, founder and manager 

 of the Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries, 

 Huntsville, Ala., died suddenly in 

 Cleveland, O., on August 25. Mr. 

 Heike came to Huntsville about thirty- 

 seven years ago and founded the nur- 

 series of which he was manager, in 

 1882. He was president of the Ala- 

 bama State Horticultural Society, a 

 member of the American Association 

 of Nurserymen and was well known 

 among the trade. 



Col. Thomas V. Kessler. 



The death is reported at Pensacola, 

 Fla., of Colonel Thomas V. Kessler, 

 the representative of the Goulding Fer- 

 tilizer Co., of Dublin, Ireland. Col. 

 Kessler. prior to the establishment 

 sijiim- twenty years ago of the Pensa- 

 cola plant, had charge of the Balti- 

 more offices of the company and here 

 as in Pensacola he made many friends. 

 Colonel Kessler for many years has 

 been a member of the staff of the gov- 

 ernor of Florida. He is survived by 

 a widow and five grown children. 



Francis O. Canning. 



A i Villa Nova, Pa., Sept. 1st, Fran- 

 i. Canning in his 44th year. This 

 anni he :en enl will i ome as a shock 

 to the many friends of this well known 

 private gardener. He died suddenly 

 and we air informed that the cause 

 was i ning. At the 



time of his death Mr. Canning was in 

 charge of tin- i Samuel T. Bo- 



dine at Villa Nova. He had occupied 

 other good positions, among them be- 

 ing and instructor in the 



Agricultural College at Amherst, 

 Mass. He was a forcelul writer on 

 horticultural subjects for the trade 

 press, and highly esteemed by all who 

 knew him. 



William Peck. 



William Peck, owner of the Baraboo 

 City Greenhouses, was killed at Grand 

 Marsh, Wisconsin, Saturday, August 

 26, when he fell from a flat car on a 

 gravel train. 



Mr. Peck was born at Ableman, Wis- 

 consin, April 1, forty-four years ago, 

 but has made his home at Baraboo 

 .most of his life. He was a conductor 

 on the Chicago and North Western 

 Railway for which company he had 

 worked for nineteen years. Mr. Peck 

 was always a great lover of flowers 

 and about seven years ago he built the 

 first of his greenhouses in the city of 

 Baraboo. Since that time he has 

 added to his greenhouse area as in- 

 creased trade required and materials 

 already on hand would have increased 

 his glass area to 10,000 feet. These he 

 managed while still retaining his po- 

 sition on the railroad. It had been 

 Mr. Peck's intention to quit the rail- 

 road and give his whole attention to 

 the greenhouse business in another 

 year, when his tragic death ended his 

 plans. 



The funeral was held from his home 

 in Baraboo, Monday, August 28. Mem- 

 bers of the B. of R. T., O. R. C, and K. 

 of P. lodges attended in a body as well 

 as a host of other friends. There were 

 a great many designs and other floral 

 tributes. 



He is survived by hfs wife, to whom 

 he had been married but five months, 

 and three children by a former mar- 

 riage. 



DETROIT NOTES. 



E. A. Scribner, our veteran florist 

 and debater, is still down east looking 

 around for pointers to disseminate at 

 the club next winter. 



.Mis. Freeman, successor to Geo. A. 

 Heinl of Toledo, passed through the 

 city on her way to New York, where 

 she will spend several weeks with 

 friends. 



Sept. 14 and 15 are the days set for 

 school children to display their pro- 

 duct of flowers and vegetables grown 

 from seeds distributed by the 20th 

 Century Club. Members of the Flor- 

 ist Club and of the 20th Century Club 

 will act as judges and distribute 

 prizes. The Florist Club will again 

 give a Boston fern to each of the 

 schools participating. 



Labor Day did not stop the faithful 

 few from attending the club meeting. 

 They were pleased to hear that the 

 Rose and Carnation Societies have 

 agreed on a date to hold their conven- 

 tion here and both societies may rest 

 assured of a hearty welcome. G. H. 

 Ellis of Leamington. Ont.. arrived at 

 the club rooms in his auto and sur- 

 prised the members with large bas- 

 kets of grapes and peaches. 



FRANK DANZER. 



A CARD OF THANKS. 



Mrs. J. R. Freeman and family of 

 Washington, D. C. desire to express 

 through this paper their great appre- 

 ciation of the land expressions of sym- 

 pathj extended to them by so many 

 members of the Society of American 

 Florists' Club of Washington and 

 thanks for the beautiful floral offer- 

 ings. 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 



Harry Papworth of New Orleans, 

 La., was in town last week visiting 

 his many friends. 



Alvah Godding of Anacostia, D. C, a 

 gardener in the employ of the govern- 

 ment has gone to Maine for the month 

 of September. 



J. H. Small & Sons have secured the 

 contract for the decoration of the new 

 Emerson Hotel in Baltimore on the 

 occasion of its opening as well as for 

 the permanent displays. 



E. C. Mayberry, president of the 

 Washington Florists' Club is spend- 

 ing a two-weeks' vacation traveling 

 through Harrisburg, Carlisle and 

 other Pennsylvania cities, accompanied 

 by his wife and son. 



Leapley & Meyers, 904 G Street, N. 

 W., have on exhibition in their display 

 window a model of an airship, the 

 propeller of which moves around in 

 a very realistic manner, drawing the 

 attention of a large number of passers- 

 by. 



The continuous heavy rains in and 

 around this city last week did consid- 

 erable damage to outdoor stock, wash- 

 ing out the beds, etc. Prior to this, the 

 drought caused quite a loss and it is 

 a toss-up as to which was the most 

 costly. 



Robert Shock of M. Rice & Co., Phil- 

 adelphia, was a visitor in Washington 

 last week, coming here on his conven- 

 tion trip and opening up with quite a 

 display in the Ebbitt House. Mr. Shock 

 reports the prospects in the south for 

 the coming season as exceptionally 

 bright. 



F. H. Kramer has in the window of 

 his 916 F Street store a square glass 

 tank containing goldfish, aquatic 

 plants, etc., around which is a gilt 

 frame inside of another frame of 

 ebony, in imitation of a painting. Due 

 to the size of the frame, none of the 

 glass other than that representing the 

 sheet over a picture, is noticeable. 



Harry Gottenkenny, with Glide Bros., 

 is spending his vacation in camp on 

 the Rappahannock River in Virginia, 

 and Hardy Pritchard with the same 

 firm is traveling through the eastern 

 Mates on his three _ weeks' of pleasure. 

 O. A. C. Oehmler, secretary of the 

 Florists' Club of Washington, has re- 

 turned from a long sojourn at Colonial 

 Beach, Va. 



George Cooke has enlarged his store 

 at Connecticut avenue and L streets, 

 N. W.. pushing back the rear partition 

 and taking in a small store at the side. 



J. Henry Small & Sons have been 

 awarded the contract for the decora- 

 tions at the New Willard Hotel and 

 Gude Bros, for those at the Masonic 

 Temple on the occasion of the visit of 

 the Veiled Prophets to this city. 



Visitors: Mr. Goudey, with H. A. 

 Dreer , Philadelphia. Pa.; Arthur Ro- 

 bey, of the Virginia Nurseries Co., 

 Purcellville, Va., and southern repre- 

 sentative of W. A. Manda; Harry Pap- 

 worth, New Orleans, La. 



The Boston Co-operative Flower 

 Market. Boston. Mass.. held a very 

 successful sale of stalls on September 

 2. The demand was a little better than 

 last year, only about a dozen stalls 

 being left unsold. 



