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July 13, 1916. 



The Florists' Review 



17 



Whh Their Families They Held Their Tenth Annual Outing at College Point, L. L, July 6. 



are to be had only in the medium 

 grades. Carnations are coming into the 

 market in large quantities and they are 

 of good quality for this season of the 

 year. Easter lilies are plentiful and 

 Madonna lilies are in full bloom out- 

 doors. Valley is scarce, but the demand 

 for it has fallen ofiE considerably. 



The florists report a prosperous bed- 

 ding season this year and also a big sale 

 of shrubs, due, no doubt, to the civic 

 beautification movement in this city 

 since last February. 



Gypsophila is being used extensively 

 with roses and sweet peas in basket 

 work. Smilax, Asparagus plumosus and 

 adiantum are in good supply. 



Various Notes. 



A. W. Herre, representing the Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co., of Chicago, was a vis- 

 itor to this city July 3. 



The New Haven Floral Co. is sending 

 some fine Tausendschon roses to this 

 market. 



Aaron Shive, of the Flick Floral Co., 

 is busy planting several houses to young 

 Eussell and Shawyer rose plants. He 

 is sending some fine French hydrangeas 

 to the downtown conservatory. 



The new building of the Flick Floral 

 Co., on Harrison street, is rapidly Hear- 

 ing completion. 



Miss Margaret Vesey left July 7 for 

 Mobile, Ala., where she will make an 

 extended visit with her sister, Mrs. Cecil 

 Max. 



Will J. Vesey, Jr., has purchased for 

 the firm of W. J. & M. S. Vesey from 

 the George Field Co., of Washington, 

 D. C, a collection of orchid plants at 

 a cost of $15,000. This collection, which 

 consists of all commercial varieties of 

 orchids, will make the Vesey firm the 

 largest producers of orchids in the mid- 

 dle west. The shipment is expected to 

 arrive this week. Temporary quarters 

 will be provided for the orchids until 

 four new houses, each to be 200 feet in 

 length, can be constructed. Work will 

 be begun on the new houses at once. 



Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Shive and their 

 children, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard 

 Blossom, motored to Tri Lakes, Ind., to 

 spend the Fourth of July. 



The Berrydale Gardens will be moved 

 to this city from their present location 

 at San Jose, Cal. The Berrydale Gar- 

 dens wholesale and retail calla and 

 freesia bulbs, hybrid tea roses, berry 

 and carnation plants. The gardens are 

 being brought to Fort Wayne through 

 the efforts of the Commercial Club of 

 this city. R. F. 



OBITUARY 



WilUam Tricker. 



William Tricker died of heart failure 

 in his greenhouses at Arlington, N. J., 

 vTuly 11. 



Mr. Tricker was born in Scotland and 

 was 64 years of age. His youth was 

 spent in gardening in Great Britain, his 

 natural abilities running toward aquat- 

 ics. .Coming to America, he was, for 

 some years prior to starting in business 

 for himself, in charge of the aquatic 

 department of Henry A. Dreer, Inc., at 

 Riverton, N. J. While he did not by 

 any means confine himself to aquatics, 

 his special knowledge of water lilies 

 probably exceeded that of any other 

 commercial man in America; he raised 

 and introduced a number of unusually 

 meritorious new nymphseas and has 

 written voluminously on the subject. In 

 his recent business he had done land- 

 scape work as far west as Chicago, 

 where one of his sons, W. E. Tricker, 

 now with Holm & Olson, St. Paul, re- 

 cently was employed. 



The funeral was Masonic. Mr. Tricker 

 was a member of the New York Flo- 

 rists' Club and of the Council of the 

 Horticultural Society of New York. He 

 was a member of the S. A. F., a fre- 

 quent attendant at its conventions and 

 an exhibitor at its national shows. 



Mr. Tricker leaves a widow, three 

 sons and three daughters. The sons 

 were educated as their father was edu- 

 cated, in the school of European gar- 

 dening experience, and doubtless will 

 carry on the business. 



Henry Niemeyer. 

 Henry Niemeyer, a grower of Kirk- 

 wood, Mo., died suddenly, July 6, of 

 apoplexy. Many of the local growers 

 and St. Louis florists attended the 

 funeral, which was held from the Nie- 

 meyer residence at Kirkwood. 



Edward J. Harmon. 



Edward J, Harmon, aged 65 years, 

 president of the E. J. Harmon Co., of 

 Portland, Me., died suddenly last week 

 from an attack of heart disease. He 

 attended a theater during the early part 

 of the evening and it was within a few 

 minutes after he reached home that he 

 was stricken. 



Edward Johnson Harmon was a na- 

 tive of Portland, the son of John and 



Phoebe Harmon. He was in the florists ' 

 business for many years. His wife sur- 

 vives him, as well as three sons, Harry, 

 William and Chester Harmon, and a 

 daughter, Mrs. D. Lewis. 



Edward M. Bogie. 



Edward M. Bogie, a well known 

 grower of Jersey City, N. J., died last 

 week from a complication of diseases. 

 He was in his seventy-fourth year and 

 had been in the business twenty-five 

 years. He was unmarried. 



Albert Fregosl. 



Albert Fregosi, a San Francisco flo- 

 rist, was instantly killed, his wife, a 

 child or two and others were injured in 

 varying degrees at 7 o'clock, July 4, 

 when their automobile skidded on the 

 state highway at San Antone bridge, 

 which separates Marin and Sonoma 

 counties. The Fregosi family had been 

 staying at Ukiah, Mendocino county, 

 during the previous weeks, and were on 

 their way back to San Francisco in Sev- 

 erino Giampolini's automobile. At the 

 south side of the San Antone bridge the 

 car turned out to pass another auto- 

 mobile going in the same direction. 

 This took the Giampolini machine into 

 the soft dirt at the side of the road- 

 way. It skidded, a wheel flew off and 

 all the occupants were hurled to the 

 ground. Passers-by picked up the one 

 dead and seven injured and rushed 

 them to the Novate sanatorium, six 

 miles away. 



A peculiar feature of the accident 

 was the fact that the Fregosi baby, 15 

 months of age, was overlooked when 

 the rest of the party was picked up. 

 An occupant of another automobile, 

 passing the wreck three-C|uarters of an 

 hour later, happened to look over the 

 fence, and there discovered the baby, 

 unconscious, lying where he had been" 

 hurled at least fifteen feet from the 

 Giampolini car. Not knowing the iden- 

 tity of the child, the motorists took him 

 to San Rafael. He was not identified 

 until hospital attaches read an account 

 of the accident in the newspapers. The 

 injured were removed the following 

 day to St. Mary's hospital, in San 

 Francisco, where Mrs. Fregosi was re- 

 ported seriously hurt. 



Albert Fregosi, who met his death, 

 was 37 years of age. He had been a 

 partner of J. G. Parodi in the firm of 

 Parodi & Fregosi, which conducted a 

 flower store at 1215 McAllister street, 

 San Francisco, for about ten years. 



S. H. G. 



