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HORTICULTURE 



December 30, 1911 



Obituary, 



Victor Lemoine. 

 Victor Lemoine, horticulturist and 

 officer of the Legion of Honor of 

 France, died at Nancy on December 12, 

 1911, in his 89th year. 



Victor Lemoine was born at Delme 

 <Lorraine), Oct. 21, 1823. His ances- 

 tors for generations back had been 

 gardeners. After his college studies at 

 Vic-sur-Seille he devoted several years 

 to traveling and then worked succes- 

 sively for Bauman at Bollweiller (Lor- 

 raine), and Louis Van Houttc of 

 Ghent (Belgium), also Miellez of Lille 

 (France), and in 1850 

 established himself, 

 with small means, as 

 a florist and landscape 

 gardener at Nancy 

 (Lorraine). There he 

 was a member of the 

 town council from 

 1871 to 1888. On 

 June 13, 1885, he was 

 made a knight and on 

 April 3, 1894, an officer 

 of the Legion of Honor 

 of France. Lemoine was 

 Hon. Vice-President of 

 the Central Horticul- 

 tural Society of Nancy, 

 Hon. Member of the 

 National Horticultural 

 Society of France, the 

 Royal Society of Agri- 

 culture and Botany of 

 Ghent, the Royal Hor- 

 ticultural Society of 

 Munich, etc., and was 

 also corresponding- 

 member of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural 

 Society, Boston. He 

 had the honor of being 

 the first foreigner to 

 be presented with the 

 Veitch Medal by the 

 Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety of London, and it 

 is only a few weeks 

 since he was awarded 

 the George R. White 

 Medal of Honor by the 

 Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society. 



In our issue of De- 

 cember 23 we en- 

 deavored to set forth, 

 although in a some- 

 what fragmentary manner the stu- 

 pendous achievements of Victor Le- 

 moine in the realm of horticulture. 

 There is no spot on this wide world 

 wherever plants and flowers are raised, 

 where we do not find representatives 

 of Lemoine's hybrids or introductions; 

 no florist or gardener, who has not, at 

 one time or another, handled Le- 

 moine's productions, ignorant though 

 he may have been of the name of his 

 benefactor. If Victor Lemoine's gar- 

 den children were to be all eliminated 

 from our nurserymen's stock and cat- 

 alogues it would leave an appalling 

 void and a large share of our garden 

 beauty would be gone. If Begonia 

 Gloire de Lorraine alone should be 

 taken from the florists' holiday plant 

 list, how sadly we should miss it! 



So, although be had almost reached 

 four-score and ten years, his death will 



be profoundly felt and regretted. For- 

 tunately the work of Victor Lemoine, 

 like that of the Darwins, is a famil\ 

 work. Mr. Emile Lemoini' has co- 

 operated with his renowned father for 

 many years and the third generation 

 is already interested in it, and it is 

 safe to say that the name will still 

 for many years to come be intimate- 

 ly associated with the advancement 

 and elevation of horticulture. 



Charles J. Schultz. 

 After a long and painful illness 

 Charles J. Schultz, father of Oscar J. 

 Schultz, the well-known florist of 

 Newport. H. I., died at his home in 

 that city on Dee. 23rd. "Charley" 

 Schultz, as he was familiarly called. 



was a native of Sweden and came to 

 this country when a young man and 

 has been a resident of Newport for 

 nearly forty years. He was a carpen- 

 ter by trade and for several years pre- 

 vious to his illness was engaged with 

 his son Oscar about the greenhouses, 

 making himself so valuable to the 

 concern that he will be much missed. 

 He had a wide circle of acquaintances 

 who also very much regret his de- 

 parture. 



Jonathan Periam. 

 Jonathan Periam, died at his home 

 6842 Perry street, Chicago, 111., on 

 Dec. 9, aged 88 years. He was a 

 frequent contributor to the agricul- 

 tural press. Mr. Periam was born in 

 New York in 1823 and went to Chica- 

 go in 1838. He held the position of 

 editor of the Prairie Parmer for 15 

 years, retiring 13 years ago. 



Sir Joseph Hooker. 



Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker died at 

 his residence at Sunningdale, England, 

 on Sunday, December 10. He was 

 born at Halesworth, Suffolk, on June 

 30, 1817, hence was in his !)5th year. 

 He was the second son of Sir William 

 Jackson Hooker, the distinguished 

 botanist and director of the Kew Gar- 

 dens, and in the last named succeeded 

 his father in 18G5. The Gardeners' 

 Chronicle" for December 16, devotes 

 over four pages to an account of the 

 life and labors of this distinguished 

 scientist. We can only quote a few 

 paragraphs: 



•His death will he mourned throughout 

 the world "f science and In the larger 

 world, wherever there are men to rever- 

 ence a nohle life and to 

 honor splendid achleve- 

 tiniil For Hooker was 

 not only the greatest of 

 British botanists; he was 

 one of the great outstand- 

 ing men of his age. That 

 position he won by the 

 hardest yet surest or 

 ways, that of doing his 

 special work supremely 

 well. 



"Though he lived far 

 beyond the allotted span 

 of human life. Hooker, 

 the man of science, never 

 grew old. As each new 

 generation of botanists 

 arose, It turned to Hooker 

 as Its acknowledged mas- 

 ter. The man who had 

 been alive and at work 

 in what seemed to the 

 younger men a remote 

 past was still alive and 

 at work in their midst. 

 The man who led the van 

 oi scientific progress in 

 the '50's of last century 

 remained, by right of 

 brain arid < xample. our 

 leader till his death. 



"The advancing years 

 seemed almost to pass 

 him by, save that they 

 brought him the sacred 

 accompaniments of old 

 age — love, honor, and 

 obedience, troops of 

 friends, till at the age of 

 !H death surprised him 

 whilst he was yet at 

 work. 



"Those of us who knew 

 Hooker in his hale, se- 

 rene old age might well 

 have imagined that his 

 life had been spent in 

 Sheltered retirement from 

 the vexations, troubles 

 and perils of the world. 

 Vet to few men, in what- 

 soever walk of life they 

 be, falls such an eventful 

 career as he chose for 

 himself. 



"Unlike so many jour- 

 neys the labors of which 

 cease with the home-eom- 

 travels Involved years 

 toll after the won- 

 derful harvest of plants which 

 he collected had been garnered in. 

 The working out of his own collections was 

 in itself a herculean task, and beside the 

 plants which he had gathered with his 

 hinds. Hooker received countless speci- 

 mens from his correspondents in the four 

 quarters of the globe." 



"Hooker's claims to immortal memory in 

 the annals of science rest by no means 

 solely on his contributions to systematic 

 botany. A great observer, the range of his 

 observations in the countries which he 

 visited included geological, geographical 

 and meteorological phenomena." 



"Vet. remarkable as were Hooker's 

 achievements as a traveller, collector, and 

 • -I, server, they do not complete the tale 

 of his contributions to knowledge. To 

 many of us. at all events, Hooker's most 

 abiding title to lasting memory is his 

 epoch-making work on the geographical 

 distribution of plants, and the application 

 of that work to the elucidation of the 

 problems of evolution and the origin of 



s| ics." 



"Of Hie honors which fell to nooker. it 



iug. Hooker's 

 of arduous 



