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Obituary 



Lewis Chase. 



Lewis Chase one of the pioneer nur- 

 men ol Rochester, X. Y., and 

 head of Chase Brothers Company, 

 died at his home on Sept. 7. Mr. 

 Chase was born January 22, 1S30, at 

 Chase Mills. Me. lie began the nur- 

 business in .Maine in ls57 with 

 two bint hers. Kthan A. and Martin 

 Van 1! Chase, and In L868 he and his 

 brother Ethan went to Rochester, 

 leaving Martin in charge of the 

 Maine establishment. 



Here the two brothers were pio- 

 n. lis in the establishment of nur- 

 along with Patrick Barry ami 

 George Ellwanger, the original mem- 

 bers of the tii in of Ellwanger & 

 Barry. In ls"s Martin Chase retired 

 from business, leaving affairs of the 

 firm to the management of his two 

 brothers, who soon took out a cer- 

 tificate of incorporation under the 

 firm name of Chase Brothers Com- 

 pany. At the time of the incorpora- 

 tion Lewis Chase was elected presi- 

 dent of the company, which office he 

 retained until his death: In l v :o 

 Kthan Chase sold his interest in the 

 firm and moved to California, leaving 

 his In other, Lewis, as the only 

 original member of the firm. 



On September 6, 1855, at Sidney, 

 Me., Mr Chase married Edwina G. 

 Dyer, who died May 5th of this year. 

 Five children, two of whom died in 

 Infancy, were born to them. There 

 till living three children, Charles 

 H. Chase, Mrs, William Pitkin and 

 Mrs. Arthur II. Dudley, all of Roches- 

 ten grandchildren and two great- 

 grandchildren. Mr. Chase was a 

 member of the American Pomological 

 Society, American Association of Nur- 

 serymen and several other trade or- 

 ganizations. 



Francis O. Canning. 



Francis O. Canning, aged 44. of Villa 

 Ni va, Pa,, died on Sept. 1st from ac- 

 cidental poisoning by mushrooms. 

 They were gathered by one of the men 

 employed under him and given to his 

 wife to cook without his looking them 

 over. Few gardeners Knew the edible 

 kinds better than he. 



Deceased was born in England and 

 I his apprenticeship in the gar- 

 dens of the Duke of Rutland, Belvoir 

 Castle. Grantham. He came to this 

 country twenty-two years ago and for 

 six years was in charge of the propa- 

 gating and plant houses at Fairmount 

 Park. Philadelphia, Pa. He was then 

 engaged as superintendent of S. T. Bo- 

 dine's estate at Villa Nova and after 

 serving there some six or seven years 

 was called to be Instructor of Horti- 

 culture at the Mass Agricultural Col- 

 lege, which position he held four years. 

 He then returned to Villa Nova in the 

 same capacity, as superintendent of 

 Mr. Bodine's magnificent gardens and 

 grounds until his untimely death. The 

 funeral was held in the Church of the 

 Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, and was large- 

 ly attended. Interment was in West- 

 minster Cemetery. 



He is survived by his wife, a sister 

 and his brother, Edward J. Canning of 

 the Botanic Garden of Smith College, 

 Northampton, Mass. 



HORTICULTURE 



Linnaeus Cox. 



Llnnffius Cox, grower of carnations 

 and roses at Wissinoming. Philadel- 

 phia. (In d on September 7th, aged 45. 

 Mr. Cox was highly respected by all 

 who knew him and was an all-round 

 good citizen. His widow will continue 

 the business. Three new Lord & Burn- 

 bam bouses are in course of construc- 

 tion, 140 x 28, as an addition to the 

 place. It is not thought that the pass- 

 ing away of the proprietor will alter 

 the plans be had laid out. (See HOR- 

 TICULTURE, March 25, page 416.) 



September 16, 1911 



E. R. Meserve. 



E. R. Meserve, of the Los Angeles 

 Flower Market, Los Angeles, Cal., died 

 on August 31st, aged 42 years. He 

 was a native of California and had for 

 some years grown greens for the Los 

 Angeles market. With Charles Morton 

 last October he opened the Los An- 

 geles Flower Market, which business 

 will be continued by Mr. Morton. He 

 leaves a wife and two children. The 

 Los Angeles Flower Market was closed 

 from Thursday until Sunday. 



Patrick Maier. 



Patrick Maier, well known as a 

 florist at Wood vi lie, Pa., for the past 

 fifteen years, died on September 3rd 

 of cancer. He leaves a widow and 

 seven children. 



ROOT-GRAFTING STRAWBERRIES. 



Editor HORTKTLTT'RE: 



I wrote you last year regarding an 

 experiment I made in root-grafting of 

 strawberries. You advised testing it 

 still further. I have done so, w r ith 

 similar results You may remember 

 that 1 grafted together two pistillates 

 and the plant lived and bore several 

 berries. After bearing 1 lifted the 

 plant and set it in another place 

 where it blossomed and fruited again 

 and made several runner plants. 

 This spring both parent plant and 

 runner plants blossomed and fruited, 

 but the exceedingly dry and extreme- 

 ly hot weather injured both plant 

 and berries. It has proved to be a 

 fall-bearing variety, but I cannot say 

 much in its favor. There are fall- 

 bearing varieties that far surpass it. 

 Yet the novelty — and what is very 

 difficult to understand — is that the 

 plants grafted were both pistillates 

 and the plant resulting is a staminate. 

 Last August I grafted the same varie- 

 ties — Fendall and Autumn — and again 

 the plant produced is a staminate, ana 

 is now in blossom, although not put 

 out until after fruiting season. I 

 grafted several other varieties and 

 they bloomed and fruited, but at the 

 time I was ill and cannot say what 

 the fruit was like. The plants are 

 doing well, hut I must wait until an- 

 other fruiting season for results. In 

 case, however, Fendall pistillate 

 and Pan American staminate were 

 grafted together and the plants pro- 

 duced are> fall-bearing, and are at 

 present in bloom with fruit, both 

 green and ripe. They, too, will require 

 another season for perfect results. 



I cannot say that any advantage 

 over old methods will grow out of it. 

 The method is new, however, and to 

 me interesting. There is much to be 

 learned — the best varieties to graft, 

 the best method of grafting, the best 

 time to graft, spring or fall, and if 

 of any real value to berry producers, 



and whether the same method can be 

 applied to other products. I am too 

 aged and feeble to do much in any 

 direction. Possibly others may be- 

 come interested and take it up. 



DR. J. H. THOMAS. 

 Wyoming, Del. 



PERSONAL. 



Harry A. Bradt, formerly with F. 

 A. Danker, Albany, N. Y., is now em- 

 ployed by Mark Aitken, Springfield, 

 Mass. 



Gustav Noack, florist, Bank Street, 

 Batavia, N. Y., and Miss Adelaide C. 

 Beye of Rochester were married on 

 August 23. 



D. Cameron, American representa- 

 tive of F. Sander & Son, St. Albans, 

 Eng., will sail for New York on 

 September 20. 



Phil. Kessler of New York has gone 

 to the White Mountains, accompanied 

 by John Donaldson, for relief from 

 his annual visitor, hay fever. 



Jackson Dawson of the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum starts for Halifax, Nova Sco- 

 tia on Friday of this weeK and expects 

 to spend a fortnight in that neighbor- 

 hood. 



Announcement is made of the mar- 

 riage, on September 6, of Gertrude 

 Izette Roy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 

 David F. Roy. to Win. Edmund Hooke, 

 at Marion, Mass. 



A. T. Boddington is again at his 

 desk in New York and hustling busi- 

 ness along after his vacation, which 

 was somewhat of a discouragement 

 owing to the seven days' rain which 

 it included. 



Michael F. Ruane, florist, 121 

 .Moody street, Waltham, Mass., while 

 coming out of Plymouth Cottage, Lake 

 Boone, on September 9, slipped and 

 broke his leg. He was taken to the 

 Marlboro hospital. 



John Medernach, the aged florist in 

 the employ of the Lehigh Valley Rail- 

 road, at Allentown, Pa., stepped on a 

 piece of glass recently and sustained 

 a gash on his foot which required 

 five stitches to close. 



John J. Connolly, formerly for a 

 number of years head gardener to W. 

 O. Blake, Hingham. Mass . and for the 

 past four years in the employ of the 

 late Geo. H. Morgan, Lenox, Mass., 

 has accepted the position of head gar- 

 dener in charge of the greenhouses 

 and gardens of Mr. J. Henry Ham- 

 mond, Mount Kisco, New York. 



Visiting Boston — Sir Frederick 

 Moore, curator of the Dublin Botanic- 

 Gardens at Gla^nevin. Ireland, ar- 

 rived in Boston on the Franconia, 

 September 13, to study American horti- 

 cultural conditions and will spend the 

 next few days in Boston giving partic- 

 ular attention to the Arnold Arbore- 

 tum. 



New York visitors. — J. C. Vaughan, 

 Chicago; Robert Cratg, Philadelphia; 

 H. A. Barnard, representing Stuart 

 Low & Co., England; E. Allan Peirce, 

 Waltham, Mass.; Louis J. Reuter, 

 Westerly, R. I. 



Monrovia, Cal. — C. A. Brunger, for- 

 merly of Washington, who came to 

 Monrovia after severing his connec- 

 tion with the Agricultural Department, 

 has bought out the Floral Company 

 of Los Angeles and opened a branch 

 store at 337 South Spring street in 

 Los Angeles, where he will dispose of 

 his wares from the large nursery he 

 has established in this city on East 

 Greystone avenue. 



