NOVKMBKIt 9, 1910. 



The Florists^ Review 



21 



OBITUARY 



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WiUiam MaUoy. 



William Malloy, one of the most wide- 

 ly known salesmen in the Boston mar- 

 ket, died November 7 in the Natick 

 hospital. The funeral will be held No- 

 vember 10. Mr. Malloy formerly was 

 with the Waban Rose Conservatories 

 and for some years was manager in 

 Boston for the Budlong Co., of Auburn, 

 R. I. He was highly esteemed. 



W. N. C. 

 Michael Donovan. 



Michael Donovan, a veteran gardener 

 of Newport, R. I., died November 

 1 at the home of his brother, John 

 Donovan, with whom he made his home. 

 Mr. Donovan, who was more than 70 

 years of age, was for many years gar- 

 dener and caretaker at the Winans es- 

 state, first for the late Thomas Winans 

 and later for the son, the late Ross 

 Winans. The deceased is survived by 

 a large number of nieces and nephews, 

 besides his brother. , W. H. M. 



George Cartwright. 



We regret to report the death of 

 George Cartwright, treasurer of the 

 Boston Flower ICxchange, Boston, which 

 occurred at his home, Z'A Dale street, 

 Roxbury, Mass., November 2, after a 

 brief illness. The deceased was a na- 

 tive of the north of England and at 

 the age of 10 came to America with his 

 father,, who was a trained gardener. 

 After settling in Wellesley, the deceased 

 followed the nursery business for some 

 years, but later entered the florists' 

 business at Dedham, where he remained 

 for more than twenty-five years. He 

 was, in his day, the most successful 

 local grower of Niphetos roses. For a 

 number of years Mr. Cartwright had 

 devoted his spare energies to selling 

 flowers on commission for a number of 

 growers at the Boston Flower Exchange. 

 On the formation of a wholesale flower 

 market in Boston, Mr. Cartwright was 

 elected a director and treasurer, both of 

 which positions he held until his death. 

 Had he lived but two or three days 

 longer he would have been reelected 

 .treasurer by the board of directors for 

 his twenty-fifth term. October 28 he 

 attended the annual meeting and ban- 

 quet of the Flower Exchange, at 

 Young's hotel, and read his annual re- 

 port. At the same meeting he was re- 

 elected a director. He attended his 

 stand in the market only two days be- 

 fore the end. 



The deceased was a quiet, genial, con- 

 scientious, conservative, careful and 

 much respected man in florists' circles, 

 and his loss is keenly felt in the mar- 

 ket, with which he was closely connect- 

 ed for so long. He was married in 

 1880 to Miss Anna Seitz, of Roxbury, 

 who survives him, as well as a daugh- 

 ter, Mrs. Emma Taggert, of Roxbury; 

 two sons, Edward S. Cartwright, of 

 California, and Fi'ed J. Cartwright, now 

 with the Henshaw Floral Co., of New 

 York; a sister, Mrs. A. S. Morgan, of 

 New York; four brothers, one of whom, 

 .larvis, now is a retired florist, and an- 

 other, Elijah, is in business at Welles- 

 ley. 



Funeral services were held at the 

 home of the deceased November 5. 



There was a large gathering, including 

 the directors and numerous other mem 

 bers of the Flower Exchange. The lat- 

 ter organization sent a superb floral 

 tribute, as did many business concerns 

 and friends. Burial was at Welleslev, 

 Mass. W. N. C. 



Frank Sobicek. 



Frank Sobicek, of Sayville, N. Y., an 

 employee of a Blue Point, N. Y., florist, 

 was round dead November 7 in the cel- 

 lar of his home. Wrapped about the 

 deceased 's head were towels and .other 

 articles taken from a clothes line in 

 the yard, and near the body was a 

 bottle containing chloroform. The cir- 

 cumstances, said the coroner, indicated 

 feud murder. 



Mrs. Sobicek told the authorities she 

 had been awakened early in the morn- 

 ing by a noise in the yard, as if dogs 

 had got in. Her husband went out to 

 investigate and she fell asleep. At 

 breakfast time he was missing. Then 

 she found his body. 



She knew of no enemies of her hus- 

 band, she said, though her home in Blue 

 Point was once set on fire and at an- 

 other time her home in Sayville was 

 robbed. 



The deceased, who was 27 years of 

 age, is survived by three children as 

 well as his wife. 



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NEWS NOTES 



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AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY 



Rose for Registration. 



The following rose has been offered 



for registration- by Fred Breitmeyer, 



Mount Clemens, Mich.: 



Name, rink Ophelia. Color, a bcnutiful shade 

 of rost'-i)inl{; a sport from Oplielia, but a stronjror 

 and more vitrorous Rrower than the parent; orig- 

 inated with us two years ago. 



Benjamin Hammond, Sec 'y. 



Fostoria, O. — A. J. Vander Horst, a 

 member of the firm of H. J. Vander 

 Horst & Son, of St. Marys, has started 

 a sort of agency liere by opening sales- 

 rooms and a greenhouse at 701 West 

 Van Buren street. 



Des Moines, la. — A. J. Zwart and 

 James S. Wilson, Jr., trading as Zwart 

 & Wilson, announce that October 2({ 

 they "took over by purchase from Gus 

 I'appas the entire business formerly 

 conducted under the style of the Al[)ha 

 Floral Co., including lease on the pres- 

 ent location to run ten years from com- 

 l)letion of the new building soon to be 

 erected. ' ' 



Lincoln, III.— Gullett & Sons will 

 keep open house, Friday, November 10, 

 for visitors to the flower show held by 

 the Illinois State Florists' Association, 

 at Bloomington, 111., November 9 and 

 10. The train will leave Bloomington 

 at 1:30, arriving at Lincoln one hour 

 later. Guests will then be shown 

 through the firm 's houses. Dinner will 

 be served in the evening. 



Amherst, Mass. — November 11 to 13 

 will be staged the biggest flower show 

 ever seen at Massachusetts Agricultural 

 (Jollege. Besides the sixty or more 

 classes exhibited by the college, there 

 will be twenty classes open to florists 

 and keen competition is looked for. Sev- 

 eral of the Boston florists, among whom 

 are H. M. Robinson, William Penn and 

 Thomas Galvin, have volunteered to 

 send exhibits. A joint meeting of the 

 M. A. C. Club and the Northampton and 

 Holyoke Florists' Club will be held 

 Monday evening and will be followed 

 by a snappy social. 



New Orleans, La. — A nund)or of lots 

 near the Metairie cemetery have been 

 acquired by P"'rank Reith, who has plans 

 for a nursery on the property. 



Norfolk, Va. — After a year out of 

 the business, Mrs. A. E. Fricke has 

 "come back," proving that, despite 

 its uncertainties and more or less 

 fluctuating fortunes, the florists' busi- 

 ness has its attractions. 



Montgomery, Ala. — Frank Browne, of 

 the Morningview Greenhouses, has a 

 new coleus of which he thinks highly. 

 It is a seedling of Golden Bedder 

 crossed by Beckwith 's Gem. The cen- 

 ter of the leaves is rich red, bordered 

 with a deep yellow band. He is think- 

 ing of naming the variety and putting 

 it on the market. 



New Orleans, La. — The sale of chrys- 

 anthenmnis in New Orleans for All 

 Saints' day this year produced some 

 curious conditions. The supply of flow- 



ers was greatly in excess of the de- 

 mand. This is attributed to a great 

 overproduction by local florists and 

 amateur gardeners. The weather in 

 New Orleans this year has been favor- 

 able to the i)roduction of chrysanthe- 

 mums. Flowers as large and fine as 

 any grown elsewhere in the United 

 States were produced in all parts of the 

 city in the oi)en air. The amateurs dis- 

 posed of their wares at prices greatly 

 below the cost of production. Unfor- 

 tunately, this class of producers did not 

 figure their labor and put their product 

 on the market recklessly. The result 

 was a collapse in prices. The finest 

 varieties sold at 2.5 cents per dozen 

 and in a few localities the price is re- 

 ported to have gone even lower. The 

 supply was so large that dealers anxious 

 to dispose of their goods are said to 

 have driven their wagons to the ceme- 

 teries at 4 o'cloo^k in the morning. An 

 immense number of flowers were sold, 

 but the market was not profitable. 



