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AUGUST 31. 1916 The Florists' Review 



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OBITUARY 



Henry A. Salzer. 



As chronicled briefly in the seed trade 

 columns of The Review for August 24, 

 Henry A. Salzer, president of the John 

 A. Salzer Seed Co., of iLa Crosse, Wis., 

 one of the largest seed houses in the 

 country, was killed August 22, when the 

 automobile in which he was a passenger 

 turned turtle on a narrow road near the 

 town of Dresbach, Minn. 



On the afternoon of the day of the 

 fatal accident, Mr, Salzer, accompanied 

 by Mrs. Salzer, was taking two guests, 

 Prof, and Mrs. Edward Kremers, from 

 La Cross to Ferndale, the summer home 

 of John P- Salzer, Mr, Salzer 's brother, 

 in an adjoining county in Minnesota. On 

 a steep and narrow road near Dresbach 

 the automobile got beyond the control 

 of the chauffeur and crashed into a 

 buggy driven by a farmer, who was just 

 rounding a bend in the road. The shock 

 wrecked the buggy and threw the auto- 

 mobile over the 75-foot bank. The 

 machine turned over twice in the de- 

 scent, coming to a standstill against a 

 large tree at the bottom of the bank. 

 The occupants were thrown out before 

 the car had made its first turn. Mr. 

 Salzer was thrown against a stump, and 

 the car crushed him against it as it 

 passed. The others were thrown clear 

 and suffered only bruises. The chauf- 

 feur and Mrs. Salzer were the first to 

 reach Mr. Salzer 'a side, but he had al- 

 ready died. His back had been broken 

 and chest crushed. 



John P. Salzer was reached by tele- 

 phone and arrived shortly after the ac- 

 cident. Kenneth Salzer, the 22-year-old 

 son of the seedsman, was recalled as he 

 was about to embark on a lake trip. 

 The telegram informing him of his 

 father's death reached him at Duluth, 

 and he turned back at once. 



The deceased was born January 23, 

 1855, at Dutch Creek, la., the second son 

 of John A. Salzer, the founder of the 

 seed business. The father was a Ger- 

 man Methodist preacher and removed 

 to La Crosse as pastor of the First Ger- 

 man Methodist church, in 1866. Henry 

 then was a boy of 16. The elder Salzer, 

 a native of Germany, was a son of a 

 gardener and the culture of flowers was 

 his avocation during his period of serv- 

 ice to the church. Upon his retirement 

 from the ministry in 1869, his inclina- 

 tion turned him to his greenhouses, to 

 which he thereafter, with his sons, de- 

 voted his entire time. Then the estab- 

 lishment, which now is known as the 

 John A. Salzer Seed Co., was called the 

 La Crosse Floral Garden. 



Henry Salzer was brought up in the 

 business and on the death of his father 

 in 1892 he became head of the concern. 

 The business prospered and grew until 

 it was recognized as one of the largest 

 in the trade. Mr. Salzer 's other, per- 

 haps greater, interests were in the 

 United States Annuity & Insurance Co., 

 the Darlington Electric Co., the Salzer 

 Land Co., the B. F. Salzer Lumber Co., 

 of Denver; the Salzer Lumber Co., of 

 Minneapolis; the New Orleans Syrup 

 Co., the Mercantile State Bank, of Min- 

 neapolis; the La Crosse Floral Co., of 

 La Crosse. In fact, the deceased was 

 rated as one of the wealthiest men in 

 the trade. He became a member of the 



American Seed Trade Association in 

 1887, but in recent years had not been 

 a frequent attendant at its meetings. 



Mr. Salzer held no less important 

 place in the religious world than in the 

 world of business. He was actively 

 identified with the world organization 

 of the Methodist church and was a trus- 

 tee of the Charles City College, of 

 Charles City, la. 



Funeral services were held at the 

 family home. Seventeenth and King 

 streets, La Crosse, Thursday, August 

 24. Floral tributes were heaped upon 

 the bier, sent by a multitude of friends 

 bound to the deceased by his numerous 

 business and church affiliations. Inter- 

 ment was in Oak Grove cemetery. 



In addition to his two brothers and 

 Mrs Salzer, two children survive: Ken- 

 neth, aged 22, and Gertrude, 11 years of 

 age. 



Charles E. Grunewaid. 



Charles E. Grunewald, 924 Madison 

 avenue. New York, died suddenly Au- 

 gust 26 and was buried Monday after- 

 noon, August 28. Mr. Grunewald had 

 been in the retail business in New York 

 for over thirty years. He had been ill 

 from a complication of diseases since 

 his return from Germany in 1913. 



WilUam 3. Lyon. 



William S. Lyon, the foremost expert 

 in botany and horticulture in the Phil- 

 ippine islands, passed away July 14, at 

 St. Paul's hospital, Manila. July 11 

 Mr. Lyon was operated on for perito- 

 nitis, which set in following an opera- 

 tion for appendicitis in April. 



Deep regret will be felt by men of 

 many nationalities, as the deceased was 

 as well known throughout England, Ger- 

 many and Belgium as in the United 

 States. 



Mr. Lyon was born in 1852. A grad- 



uate of Amherst, he had served as head 

 of the state board of forestry in Cali- 

 fornia. Ho removed to the Philippines 

 in 1902 and soon became known as a 

 man of remarkable ability and extraor- 

 dinary vigor of mind. He left the gov- 

 ernment 's service in 1905 to engage in 

 the business of collecting and exporting 

 orchids, which he continued to his 

 death. He was one of the most reli- 

 able orchid collectors in the Orient, and 

 to his energy and foresight is due the 

 vogue the phaltenopsis has among the 

 spray orchids. 



Recently the writer had the pleasure 

 of enjoying an afternoon and evening 

 at Mr. Lyon 's garden and home in 

 Balic-Balic, I can properly state that 

 throughout my travels I have not seen 

 a place more interesting. During our 

 talk M%". Lyon was extremely opti- 

 mistic regarding the future trade in 

 orchids. As the war has put a stop to 

 exporting orchids to Europe, he was go- 

 ing to turn all his interest to the United 

 States, as he fully realized the future 

 there for Philippine orchids. 



W^hen the St. Louis exposition was 

 enjoying attention Mr. Lyon was a 

 member of the Philippine board which 

 arranged the insular exhibit, and more 

 recently he was in charge of the large 

 exhibit of Philippine orchids sent to 

 San Francisco. A practiced and effec- 

 tive waiter, his articles were greatly 

 sought by the Manila papers. 



His family was gathered about him 

 at his bedside when the end came — Mrs. 

 Lyon, Ward W. Lyon, his son, and Mrs. 

 Johnston, his daughter, and to them 

 will go out the deep and ready sym- 

 pathy of a large body of friends. 



The body was cremated and the 

 ashes will be sent to the United States 

 for burial at his boyhood home. 



Andrew Benson. 



Manila, July, 1916. 



MarshaJl, Tex. — W. H. Lane has dis- 

 posed of his interest in the Rainbow 

 Floral Co. 



Charlottesville, Va.— Walter H. Page 

 and William S. Holloway have pur- 

 chased the greenhouses operated for so 

 many years by the late L. A. King. 

 The new owners, both young men, were 

 associated with Mr. King for a number 

 of years. 



Ada, OMa.— W. E. Pitt planted 2,500 

 carnations during the first days of Au- 

 gust and he has not lost a plant. The 

 weather has been hot and dry through 

 July and August. Early in July there 

 was one good rain, but not enough since 

 then to settle the dust. 



Lynchburg, Va Miss Julia C. Mc- 



Carron, accompanied by her sister, is 

 on a business and pleasure trip to At- 

 lantic City, New York and other north- 

 ern points. She will purchase supplies, 

 fixtures and furniture for the new store, 

 which will be ready for occupancy No- 

 vember 15. 



Corpus Christ!, Tex— During the clos- 

 ing days of the S. A. F. convention this 

 place passed through the worst tropical 

 hurricane that ever struck this portion 

 of the country, the wind, which at- 

 tained a velocity of more than ninety 

 miles an hour, wrecking everything 

 along the bay front of the city. Every 

 pier, bath house and pleasure resort 

 was swept away, the only indication re- 

 maining to mark their existence being 

 the piles sticking out of the water. 

 Every ship in the harbor was either 

 sunk or beached, but no lives were lost. 

 The Casa de Flora Greenhouses, owned 

 by Margaret Perkins, Don E. Curtis, 

 manager, are standing in fine shape, 

 although in an exposed location. The 

 only loss was about 275 panes of 

 glass; no damage whatever to the stock. 

 They had just finished planting carna- 

 tions the day before the storm, there- 

 by saving the stock, as everything in 

 the fields was ruined. The greenhouses 

 are 150 feet in length, each house four- 

 teen feet in width. 



