April 6, 1916. 



The Florists' Review 



31 



OBITUARY 



Mrs. Bertha Biessen Buechel. 



Mrs. Bertha R. Buechel, wife of 

 Edward Buechel, of the Kiessen Floral 

 Co., St. Louis, Mo., died March 30, at 

 the Lutheran hospital, St. Louis, where 

 she had beem confined for the last three 

 weeks. Her death was a shock to many 

 of the local trade, as it was not gen- 

 erally known that she was sick. 



Mrs. Buechel was born forty-six years 

 ago in St. Louis. For twenty-five years 

 she was in the employ of the Michel 

 Plant & Bulb Co. and learned the busi- 

 ness under the tutorship of John 

 Davidson, who now is with Henry A. 

 Dreer, Inc., Riverton, N. J. A few 

 years later she took a position with the 

 Elleard Floral Co., on Broadway, which 

 now is the location of the Riessen 

 Floral Co., as head of the design depart- 

 ment. Some years later she opened her 

 own place a few doors away from the 

 Elleard Floral Co., where she met and 

 married Edward Buechel. She subse- 

 quently bought out the Elleard Floral 

 Co. and continued the business with her 

 husband. 



Mrs. Buechel was known to all in the 

 St. Louis trade as a woman who knew 

 how to manage a florists' business and 

 her work was always of the highest 

 order. She is survived by her husband, 

 her mother and two brothers. The fu- 

 neral took place April 2 from her late 

 residence, 3434 South Jefferson avenue, 

 to the St. Marcus cemetery. A wealth of 

 floral emblems filled the home. Mem- 

 bers of the St. Louis Florists' Club, of 

 which Mr. Buechel is a member, at- 

 tended. J. J. B. 



E. J. Sheap. 



Edward J. Sheap, vice-president of 

 S. M. Tsbell & Co., died at his home 

 at Jackson, IVrich., March 24 and 

 was buried at Woodland cemeterv 

 March 26. 



Mr. Sheap was widely known among 

 the seed trade, as for many years he 

 had charge of the wholesale growing 

 end of the Isbell business and was 

 brought into personal contact with the 

 buyers for nearly every prominent house 

 in the county. He had a thorough 

 knowledge of the business, liorn of 

 many years of study of its prol)lonis. 

 His was a quiet, kindly nature that 

 won warm friends and the announce- 

 ment of his death has brought Isbell iV 

 <'o. many expressions of rcLjret. 



Frank Buffington. 



Frank Tiuflington, of Fall River. 

 Mass., died unexpectedly ]\Iarch 18, in 

 his seventieth ycjir. He wfis stricken 

 ill, presumably froin heart failure, 

 while in his gieeriliouscs. and, tli(uigh 

 ho succeeded in reaching his home, 

 death followed fifteen minutes later. 

 Mr. nuflington's death, following so 

 (dosely upon the sudden demise of his 

 brother, W. A. Buflington, came as a 

 particularly sad blow to the surviving; 

 members of the family. 



]\rr. Bullingfon was l)orn in l^Jfi in 

 the house in whiili he died. Uo never 

 m.arried. Born of Quaker parentage, he 

 was reared under the strict precepts 

 of that denomination. In his child- 

 hood he acquired -an interest in growing 

 flowers and later, when starting his 

 florists' business, he was signally suc- 



Bertha Riessen Buechel. 



cessful. He imported heavily from Eu- 

 rope early in his business career and 

 frequently was asked to act as judge 

 at flower shows. Twenty-five years ago. 

 as a guest of a ^Mexican railroad com- 

 pany, ^fr. Buflington visite(l Mexico 

 and collected rare sjx'cimens of floriciil 

 ture. His business will be continut>d. 

 The surviving relatixcs are ;i. sister, 

 Mary E., and a nephew and niece, Wil- 

 liam H. Buflington aii'l 'Mrs. A. K. 

 Ferguson. 



Frederick G. Laker. 



Frederick (i. Laker, of Suit l.akr 

 City, Utah, ami a iuenilp('r of the firm 

 of Laker & .Son. died Mandi iM. at the 

 a<re of 3(5. 



MOTT-LY MUSINGS. 



A feriiiniiie \ isitnr to tlie Xational 

 IMower Show called the writer's atten 

 tion to a siher medal she woic. It wa< 

 awaided to her father by the Royal 

 Ifoi'ticultural Society of l^a^iand at 

 the great exliildtinii held in l.undon in 

 l*^."!. Pavid Boidiet \va^ tiie name; it 

 may sound familiar tn some ot' om 

 Scotch cinifreres. 



William Tricker, of af|uatic fame 

 and of Aldington, .V. .!., tcdd a st(U'\ 

 (if an enthusiastic visitnr who de(dared 

 that Pharaoh's daughter was gathering 

 thi^ lotus when she iliscinci-ed Moses 

 among the bulrushes of the Euphrates. 

 By the way, Mr. Tricker has leasdl the 

 old .Tersey City reservoir for the pur- 

 pose of growing aquatic stock, 



.lulius Roehrs, of Rutherford, said the 

 most jiopular on hid would b(> tlii> o.lon- 

 toglossum if it weic not so diflirult to 

 grow in America. 



Arthur I.nvtdess, of Lenox, Pa., 

 brought specimens of selected Queen 



Alexandra stocks that fairly made the 

 old-timers gaze with wonder. 



William Wunder, of Pitt\ ille. Pa., 

 was an exhibitor in the carnation 

 idasses and remarkeil that it was a far 

 different race from when he won the 

 world's championsliip some years ago 

 as a s[irinter. 



Dana R. Herron, of Oleaii. X. V., le- 

 luctantly abandoned tlie bautiuet on re- 

 cei[it of news from his lioine that there 

 was danger of flood. 



Herbeit .Amjerson, in rhai^e of the 

 II. A. Dreei- exhiliit, coniineiited that 

 the most popular ro-c in the splendid 

 • •olhn'tion seemed to lie I'haidsaer; that 

 is, if it wer(^ possible to ni.-ike a single 

 selection. It wa< a|p|>i(ipriati' that King 

 should (Mcct a greenhoiisi' tdr the <|ueen 

 of flowers, 



.lohn 11, Dunlofi, of Toronto, accom- 

 panied by his son. Frank', left for New 

 Yoik to meet the dukely ('onnaught 

 f.amily, who ar(> expt^i-ted to visit the 

 Xew ^'ork flower show. .\| i. Dunlop is 

 partial to Manhattan, for it w;is there, 

 f unilerstaud, he first saw the light. He 

 riN-iprocates by coming to the Quaker 

 <'ity and carrying- off sexci.il first pre- 

 miums for some nrandly ^lown <'an,a- 

 dian stock'. 



"William K. ('■•iliill, (pf the b'liinaii .1, 



1 1 win stafT. Xew Vork. lias 1 onie 



much interested in •'seed tape," 



.lohn A, Evans, of ventilating ma- 

 chinery fame and of Liihmond, Ind,, 

 says liis latest aidiiincun'ut is in a 

 sartorial direction. 



As ;in item of interevf I'.. Frank, who 

 runs three flower stands, tells me he 

 jiays a rental of .*l,ni)(i per annum for 

 a window space 2x() feet, with a small 

 basement, at the cornei- of Twcdftli and 

 Market -treet.., W. .M. 



