Februahy 17, 1916. 



The Rorists' Review 



21 



OBITUARY 



Charles L. Watrous. 



Captain Charles L. Watrous, presi- 

 dent of the Watrous Nursery Co., of 

 Des Moines, la., died at his home in 

 Des Moines on the morning of February 

 9. He was 77 years of age and until 

 a short time previous to his death he 

 enjoyed his usual good health. Death 

 was caused by bronchial pneumonia, 

 which the deceased had contracted four 

 days previously. 



Captain Watrous was born January 

 13, 1837, at Freetown, N. Y. He spent 

 his childhood there and later attended 

 the Homer Academy, at Homer, N. Y. 

 He took up his college course at the 

 University of Michigan, but at the 

 outbreak of the Civil war he returned 

 to his home and organized a company 

 of infantry. He saw much service 

 during the early stages of the war 

 and at the second battle of Bull Eun 

 he was wounded and suffered internal 

 injuries when a rifle ball struck and 

 exploded his cartridge box. He was 

 mustered out of service and was never 

 physically able to reenter the war. 



At the close of the war Captain 

 Watrous went to Michigan and finished 

 a course in law. He began practice at 

 Winchester, Va., and in 1867 married 

 Miss Sophia Glover, of Homer, N. Y. 

 Failing health, however, due to his 

 wounds, compelled him to seek an out- 

 door life. He embarked for Iowa and 

 arrived at Des Moines in 1869. At Des 

 Moines he started the nursery business 

 which he headed at the time of his 

 death. As _ a nurseryman Captain 

 Watrous was' widely known. For years 

 he was president of the American 

 Pomological Society, and until a few 

 years ago he was one of the leaders in 

 the American Association of Nursery- 

 men. He was its president in 1886 and 

 1887. 



Captain Watrous was a past com- 

 mander of the Iowa CLoyal Legion, a 

 member of the G. A. E., Sons and 

 Daughters of the Eevolution, Society 

 of the Colonial Wars and Mayflower 

 Descendants. He is survived by four 

 children, Mrs. James R. Angell and 

 Philip B. Watrous, of Chicago; Edward 

 L. Watrous, of El Paso, Tex.; Charles 

 A. Watrous, of Des Moines. The 

 mother died in 1914. 



James M. Wickizer. 



James M. Wickizer, formerly of 

 Plymouth, Ind., died at his home in 

 Hillsboro, Ore., February 2. The de- 

 ceased moved to Oregon in 1911 and 

 started a nursery and florists' business 

 at Hillsboro. His death followed a 

 stroke of heart failure January 10. 



John Brown Weeks. 



J. B. Weeks, a veteran grower of 

 Chicago, died February 9 at his home, 

 4041 Patterson avenue, Irving Park, 

 Chicago. Mr. Weeks was born July 

 23, 1832, in Chertsey, Surrey county, 

 England, and immigrated to America 

 when 17 years of age. He remained 

 in the east for several years, but in 

 1852 he moved to Chicago, where for 

 many years he was employed by 

 A. Williams, George Wittbold and 

 Edgar Sanders. A short time after the 

 Chicago fire, in 1871, Mr. Weeks made 

 his home in St. Louis, but returned to 



The alarm clock went off at 

 four o'clock in the morning. 



"I fooled you that toime," 

 said Mike with a grin, "for 

 I wasn't aslape at all." 



The florist fools himself who 

 thinks there is any way of 

 selling goods in the trade 

 more effective than adver- 

 tising in The Review. Also, 

 it's the most inexpensive way 

 in proportion to results. 



"We are completely sold out and have 

 had to send money back. The Review 

 is, without doubt, the best advertising 

 medium in the trade."— J. C. Rknni- 

 soN Co.. Sioux City, la. 



Review readers are not 

 asleep. Note this: 



"Please tell us confidentially what you 



think of . Why doesn't he 



advertise in The Review if he is O. 

 K.?"— Miller Floral Co., Farming- 

 ton, Utah. 



The alarm clock rings in The 

 Review office at 4 o'clock (p.m., 

 not a. m.) every Tuesday. It is 

 to let everybody know adver- 

 tising forms close for that 

 week's issue in just sixty 

 minutes. 



Chicago shortly afterwards. Subse- 

 quently he was employed by E. H. Hunt, 

 .Tames King and others. In 1869 

 he married Miss Flora M. Holton, who 

 survives him, as well as three children, 

 one grandchild and three brothers. The 

 funeral took place from his late resi- 

 dence to Park Ridge, February 12. 



BUSINESS EMBABRASSMENTS. 



San Francisco, Cal. — Federal Judge 

 Van Fleet February 7 adjudged the 

 Luther Burbank Co. bankrupt. A 

 voluntary petition filed by the direc- 

 tors gives the liabilities as $73,372, and 

 assets as $108,556. 



Boston, Mass. — Stephen J, Quinn, of 

 Brookline, filed a petition in bank- 

 ruptcy in the United States District 

 court February 11. Liabilities are given 

 as $43,324 and assets $4,447. The lat- 



ter is made up of stock in trade, $2,000; 

 book accounts, $1,980; real estate, $200. 

 There are four secured and over 100 

 unsecured creditors. The secured cred- 

 itors are Brookline Savings Bank $12,- 

 000; Brookline Trust Co., $2,000; 'Louise 

 E. White, $2,000, and F. J. Quinn, 

 $4,000. Among the unsecured creditors 

 are J. Hertz, New York, $2,000'; N. F. 

 McCarthy & Co., $1,297; Brookline 

 Trust Co., $400; Brookline Savings 

 Bank, $300, and F. T. Renter, Brighton, 

 $1,000. 



PREMIUMS FOB NEW YOBK SHOW. 



At a recent meeting of the special 

 premiums committee for the New York 

 spring show, the following premium 

 donations were reported: 



Louis Sherry, cup $ 100.00 



Hotel Blltmore, eiip .50.00 



Maltus & Ware, cash 25.00 



Hotel Manhattan, cup 100.00 



Hotel Astor, cup 100.00 



Emll Savoy, casli 25.00 



Kltz-Carlton Hotel .W.OO 



Hotel McAlpln, cup ">0.00 



Charles G. Weeber 25.00 



William Plumb 10.00 



Lord & Burnliain Co 100.00 



Hon. Robert D. Foote 50.00 



Valentine Burgevin, Inc 10.00 



Edwin S. Marsden 10.00 



Stutz Automobile Co., cup 100.00 



John H. Fiesser 25.00 



Bobblnk & Atkins .W.OO 



International Garden Club 200.00 



N. y. and N. J. Association of Plant 



Growers ."0.00 



Winter & Son 40.00 



George T. Schnnemnnn 25.00 



Max Schling, gold medal 20.00 



Roman J. Irwin 25.00 



A. L. Young & Co 25.00 



Fred Danker 10.00 



»1.275.00 



Max Schling reported that he had 

 promises of two medals and several 

 cash offers in addition to the above 

 donations. 



OBPETS IN TBOUBLE. 



Will Orpet, 21 years of age, son of 

 E. O. Orpet, of Lake Forest, 111., is in 

 jail during the investigation of the 

 death of Marion Lambert, 18 years of 

 age, daughter of Frank Lambert, gar- 

 dener on the W. J. Kuppenheimer es- 

 tate. Orpet, Sr., is superintendent on 

 the estate of C. H. McCormick and is 

 widely known in the gardening profes- 

 sion. 



The Lambert girl was found dead in 

 a woods at Lake Forest on the morning 

 of February 10. The authorities claim 

 to have established the fact that she 

 died of poisoning with cyanide of potas- 

 sium. The relations between the girl 

 and young Orpet, a student at the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, were such as to 

 turn inquiry his way. The develop- 

 ments in the case have been a leading 

 news feature in the Chicago dailies for 

 a week. 



For twenty years E. O. Orpet was 

 in charge of the E. V. R. Thayer estate 

 at South Lancaster, Mass., where he 

 established so good a reputation that 

 when Cyrus H. McCormick was looking 

 for a man to develop a new estate at 

 Lake Forest he could find no one with 

 better qualifications. He made Mr. 

 Orpet offers which resulted in his mov- 

 ing west with his family July 1, 1910. 

 The McCormick property adjoins that 

 of Kuppenheimer, where Frank Lam- 

 bert has been employed for many years. 



Bichmond, Ind. — William H. Garden- 

 er, formerly manager of the P. J. ding- 

 er greenhouses at Newcastle, now is 

 proprietor of the Knopf Floral Co. here, 

 making a specialty of carnations. In 

 addition to growing cut flowers for 

 wholesale markets, he plans to develop 

 a business in rooted cuttings. 



