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The Florists' Review 



SaPTEMBBB 14. 1916. 



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OBITUARY 



Mrs. John H. Johnson. 



Mrs. J. H. Johnson, better known in 

 the trade as Mrs. Bachel M. Eebstock, 

 died at the Woman's hospital, in Buf- 

 falo, N. y., September 11, at the age 

 of 60 years, after a long period of ill- 

 ness. The largest part of her life was 

 spent in the florists' business. She suc- 

 cessfully conducted the flower store at 

 614 Main street, Buffalo, until she re- 

 tired from active business about three 

 years ago. Her ability and attractive 

 personality had earned for her a good 

 patronage. In 1912 she married John 

 H. Johnson. She and her husband re- 

 sided in the winter at Williamsville 

 and spent the other months of the year 

 at their summer home at Crystal Beach. 

 She is survived by her husband and 

 four brothers, John E., Albert C, 

 Stephen J. and J. H. Eebstock. The 

 funeral was held September 13, from 

 the Johnson .residence on Oxford 

 avenue. A. E. 



Mrs. James T. Aldous. 



Mrs. James T. Aldous, mother of 

 Arthur Herrington, by her first mar- 

 riage, died September 3 at her home 

 in Iowa City, la. She had been an in- 

 valid for months and had been con- 

 fined to her home much of the time, al- 

 though she took a trip east with her 

 daughters during the present year. 



Mrs. Aldous was born at Tangmere, 

 Sussex county, England, December 23, 

 1840. She married William Herring- 

 ton in 1861. Five of their children sur- 

 vive, these being, in addition to Arthur 

 Herrington, Charles, of Kent, England; 

 William, principal of schools in Sussex 

 county, England; Drs. Ellen and Louise 

 Herrington, of Iowa City. A third 

 daughter died at the age of 22. 



Mrs. Aldous came to America in 

 1907, accompanied by her two daugh- 

 ters, on a visit to her son, Arthur, at 

 Madison, N. J. She had planned a 

 year's visit, but. she never returned to 

 England. She met James T. Aldous at 

 the home of her son, in 1909, and at 

 the end of the year became his wife. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Aldous went west and 

 made their home in Iowa City. Mrs. 

 Aldous was an intensely religious 

 woman and was unusually active in 

 church circles in both the United 

 States and Canada. 



James Broadfoot. 



James Broadfoot, a lifelong florist 

 and gardener, 69 years of age, died at 

 his home at Geneva, N. Y., September 

 3. He was born in Dumfries, Scotland, 

 and came to this country when a young 

 man. He was superintendent of the es- 

 tate of the late Senator Stephen H. 

 Hammond for forty-five years. He is 

 survived by three daughters, Kathryn 

 E., Agnes F. and Mary E. Broadfoot, 

 and one son, Robert M. Broadfoot, 

 superintendent of Glenwood cemetery, 

 Geneva. 



Oustave C. Lange. 



The death of Gustavo C. Lange, of In- 

 dianapolis, is announced, Mr. Lange was 

 born in Prussia March 19, 1839. Six 

 of his fifty years in business were 

 spent in Dallas, Tex., whence he re- 

 moved to Indianapolis, where he spent 

 the remainder of his life. He was head 



florist and gardener for th€ Indiana 

 Central Hospital for the Insane several 

 years ago, but in r£cent years had been 

 in business on South Meridian street. 

 Mr. Lange 's special hobby was rare and 

 unusual plants, with which he had great 

 success. He is survived by a wife and 

 five children. E. E. T. 



William Langstaff. 



William Langstaff, first president of 

 the State Florists' Association of Indi- 

 ana and for several years president of 

 the Indianapolis Florists' Club, out of 

 which the state organization developed, 

 died recently at his home in Indian- 

 apolis and was buried with Masonic 

 ceremony at his former home, Carroll- 

 ton, Ky. 



William Langstaff was born in Eng- 

 land ^April 10, 1835, the eldest of a 

 large faipily. He was apprenticed to 

 a rose grower at an §arly age and be- 

 fore he was 16 sailed for America, 

 where he at length became overseer on 

 the estate of an English actor and 

 playwright who was his uncle, later 

 becoming superintendent for Washing- 

 ton Irving, who even at that early 

 time employed four undergardeners. 

 After various engagements in different 

 parts of the country he removed to In- 

 diana, where he was elected to the leg- 

 islature and was the father of the 

 eight-hour labor law for that state. 

 Locating at Indianapolis, Mr. Lang- 

 staff was connected with the Institution 



for the Deaf for many years, as super- 

 intendent of grounds and greenhouses. 

 He retired five years ago, on account of 

 failing health. E. E. T. 



HOLYOKE, MASS. 



The annual picnic of the Holyoke 

 and Northampton Florists' and Gar- 

 deners' Club was held on the last day 

 of August, at the Gallivan Bros, range, 

 near Smiths Ferry. More than 100 

 were present, including club members, 

 their families and several guests. An 

 excellent luncheon was served and this 

 was prepared by a committee composed 

 of D. J. Gallivan, G. H. Sinclair and 

 George Ratcliffe. The principal event 

 of the afternoon was the baseball 

 game between the married and single 

 men. R. S. Carey was captain of the 

 married men's team, which won the 

 game, and N. Hennessey, of Northamp- 

 ton, captained the "go-it-alone" team of 

 players. 



Inspection visits ware paid to the 

 Gallivan and Sinclair ranges and the 

 visitors were particularly interested in 

 the chrysanthemums, which both grow- 

 ers are raising to compete for the 

 Skinner cup at the fall flower show of 

 the club. Mr. Sinclair won the prize 

 last year. 



Delegations from the state college at 

 Amherst and the Smith College green- 

 houses at Northampton were present 

 and photographs were taken of the 

 groups. 



Texarkana, Ark. — H. D. Enoe, pro- 

 prietor of the State Line Floral Co., is 

 looking for a good season, although 

 business in August was small and col- 

 lections reported as almost impossible. 



Tulsa, Okla. — O. O. Boston will open 

 a modern retail cut flower store here 

 about September 20, to be known as 

 Boston's Flower Store. Mr. Boston 

 was formerly employed by Furrow & 

 Co., of Oklahoma City, Okla. 



Vinita, Okla. — R. E. Moss was sur- 

 prised at the strength of the demand 

 for field-grown carnation plants in the 

 west this season. He had a consider- 

 able surplus and put a classified ad in 

 The Review. Almost by the time the 

 paper with the ad in it arrived there 

 were orders that took the whole lot, 

 and in a few days they were ordered 

 twice over. 



Greenwood, Miss. — Fire recently 

 damaged the residence here of Mrs. 

 Edith Biddle and, although the flames 

 did not spread to the greenhouse, nu- 

 merous roses, lilies, ferns and shrubs 

 in a field adjoining the house were com- 

 pletely ruined, including a batch of 

 late asters and snapdragons. Mrs. 

 Biddle started business eight months 

 ago, on borrowed capital, so the loss 

 was unusually severe. 



Houston, Tex. — The Kuhlmann Floral 

 Co. has been incorporated at $40,000, 

 the officers being H. H. Kuhlmann, 

 H. H. Kuhlmann, Jr., J. M. Powers, 

 Jr., and Douglas B. Lacy. 



Ada, Okla. — Ada is no longer a dry 

 town; on the first day of September 

 Providence sent a splendid rain that 

 broke an unusually long and hot 

 drought. The cotton plants now give 

 promise of a good crop and W. E. Pitt, 

 proprietor of the Ada Greenhouses, is 

 as busy as a bee preparing for a ban- 

 ner fall and winter business. 



Crichton, Ala. — Fred Welch, a lead- 

 ing nurseryman here, is visiting his 

 brother, E. S. Welch, at the old home 

 at Shenandoah, la., this month. Mr^ 

 Welch has been engaged in the grow- 

 ing of roses, hardy shrubs and other 

 nursery stock in southern Alabama for 

 sixteen years or more and usually ships 

 one or two carloads each winter to his 

 brother at Shenandoah. Fifteen years 

 ago there were but three or four nur- 

 series in southern Alabama, but now 

 there are about thirty, several of them 

 growing stock that counts up into tens 

 of thousands of dollars in value. The 

 coming into prominence of the Satsuma 

 orange and the paper-shell pecan has 

 been the leading incentive to the 

 growth in the nursery industry. 



