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The Florists^ Review 



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OBITUARY 



Washington, D. C, enjoyed to the 

 full the displays made by the trades- 

 men during the chrysanthemum season, 

 all of them exhibiting according to 

 their various possibilities. The Qude 

 Bros. Co. extended its show into a sec- 

 ond week — "By request," observed 

 W. F. Gude, "as many of our best peo- 

 ple had not yet returned home. Yes, 

 we keep a register of our distinguished 

 visitors and regard it with pride — ^please 

 sign here. We have tried to surpass 

 ourselves in the decoration of our 

 store." The latest thing is varicolored 

 electric fountains. Cages containing 

 song birds were all about and, to my 

 surprise, from a group of palms came 

 the sweet notes of the nightingale. 

 "You are not the only one who has 

 been charmed by its singing," said Mr. 

 Gude. "A day or so ago a woman cus- 

 tomer was speaking with me over the 

 telephone, when, on hearing the nightin- 

 gale 's song, she requested as a favor 

 that the line be kept open for a while, 

 as she had not heard the bird's song 

 since she was in Switzerland, twenty 

 years ago. 'But how is it,' said she, 

 'that this bird is singing in the after- 

 noon, when it usually sings in the eve- 

 ning, at twilight!' 'That's because of 

 the electric light,' was my answer. 

 Although terribly busy, we must ob- 



serve the principle of courtesy to our 

 patrons." Noting a handsome aqua- 

 rium filled with rare fish, my attention 

 was called to a "tumbler." "It is 

 sometimes on its stomach looking down, 

 then on its back looking up, illustrating 

 the condition of business," observed 

 Mr. Gude. 



F. Fallon, of Roanoke, Va., is a firm 

 believer in advertising, as is seen by 

 the artistic signboards when approach- 

 ing, his town. The store, recently re- 

 modeled, shows the stock up well. Busi- 

 ness is only limited by the supply. 



Norfolk, Va., needed a sharp frost to 

 cut down the outdoor chrysanthemums, 

 was the opinion of L. A. Blick, who 

 said that several amateurs have caught 

 on to the method of disbudding and 

 that their flowers rival the greenhouse- 

 grown stock. 



J. W. Grandy, of Norfolk, commented 

 on the rapid strides made in the busi- 

 ness. He introduced the "Saturday 

 Box Special," one of the best cards 

 played. He is not in sympathy with 

 those who sell carnations at 60 cents per 

 dozen. 



A. B. Garden, of Anacostia, reports 

 an excellent market business, especially 

 since stock has been cut down in the 

 gardens. Bulbs are selling well, with 

 good orders for planting. W. M. 



Appletown, Md. — After a little book- 

 keeping to check up costs, production 

 and sales, D. H. Green says he is well 

 satisfied with his mum season. More 

 than 600 dozen of his best mums were 

 shipped to eager Washington buyers 

 at Thanksgiving. 



Aberdeen, Miss. — The Aberdeen Flo- 

 ral Co. and .J. W. Moore will open a 

 flower store at 113 Capital avenue, Jack- 

 son, Miss., .January 1. The fixtures will 

 be furnished by A. L. Randall Co., of 

 Chicago. The Aberdeen Floral Co. 

 houses will be managed by J. M. Moore, 

 of Bristol, Tenn., formerly with Hugh 

 Seals, Birmingham. It is the intention 

 of this company to make numerous im- 

 provements the coming season. 



Bnmswlck, Ga. — C. S. Tait, bulb 

 grower, is specializing on the amaryllis 

 and this season is marketing some 3,000 

 bulbs of his seedlings. In establishing 

 his stock he bought all over Europe and 

 also secured 500 unbloomed American 

 seedlings, from which he selected the 

 best. He believes he has a stock that 

 is fairly representative of the beat the 

 genus affords. The blooming season 

 here is the last part of March and first 

 part of April and 15,000 bulbs will make 

 a grand show at that time in 1917. 



Springdale, Ark. — S. L. Johnson re- 

 cently has completed a greenhouse, 54x 

 100, of Moninger material. 



New Orleans, La. — The work of mov- 

 ing the large greenhouse on the old 

 Howard property next to the ,City hall 

 to Audubon park, for the propagation 

 of ladybugs to fight the cushiony scale 

 l)est, has been completed. 



College Station, Tex.— The first an- 

 nual exhibition of the Department of 

 Horticulture of the Texas A. & M. Col- 

 lege was held December 8 and 9. The 

 show was a decided success. Perhaps 

 the most prominent exhibit was the dis- 

 play of Texas-grown Satsuma oranges 

 and grapefruits, along with the citrus 

 fruits of California and Florida; but 

 the most striking feature of the show 

 was the showing of chrysanthemums, 

 roses, ferns, azaleas, begonias, primulas 

 and cyclamens. The exhibit of named 

 varieties of pecans was, perhaps, as 

 great as any collection ever exhibited in 

 America. The Landscape Art division 

 of the department had a collection of 

 eighteen designs from the Department 

 of Landscape Architecture of Harvard 

 University, as well as many designs 

 made by the students of the department. 



William Crawford Barry. 



In the death of William Crawfod 

 Barry, president of EUwanger & Barry, 

 Inc., of Eochester, N. Y., than whom 

 there were few more able nurserymc >, 

 American horticulture has lost a leadii.g 

 exponent. Ten days prior to his deceaso, 

 Mr. Barry contracted a severe col i, 

 which, abetted by acute kidney disea?!', 

 developed into pneumonia. Although 

 the patient rallied and hope for his re- 

 covery was entertained during the last 

 days of his life, a sudden relapse was 

 followed by death on the morning of 

 December 12, at the family residencs', 

 706 Mount Hope avenue. 



As an expert technical and practical 

 horticulturist Mr. Barry occupied a 

 position at the head of the profession; 

 but his energies also found play in 

 numerous enterprises outside the nursery 

 business. He was a many-sided man, 

 one to whom the city of Rochester owos 

 a great debt of .gratitude, for Mr, Barry 

 assumed a leader's part in the birth 

 and growth of Rochester's park system. 

 He was closely, although not ostenta- 

 tiously, identified with the great com- 

 mercial development of Rochester, and 

 he and his colleagues frequently were 

 deservedly lauded in the public press 

 for their civic generosity. Mr. Barry 

 was an ex-president of the American 

 Rose Society, ex-president of the Amer- 

 ican Association of Nurserymen, ex- 

 president of the Eastern Nurserymen's 

 Association, and for twenty-seven years 

 president of the Western New York 

 Horticultural Society. He also was a 

 member of many other bodies, as 

 enumerated later on. 



The decedent first saw the light of 

 day at Rochester, September 17, 1847, 

 so that at the time of his death he was 

 one year short of the allotted three- 

 score and ten. He was the son uf 

 Patrick Barry, a pioneer nurseryman of 

 the eastern country and a pomological 

 author of note, who, in 1840, in partner- 

 ship with the late George EUwanger, 

 formed the firm of EUwanger & Barry. 

 The nursery business, therefore, en- 

 gaged the attention of Mr. Barry when 

 a lad. 



Young Barry was tutored at home f-r 

 a number of years and subsequently b'- 

 came a student at Seton Hall College, 

 (if New Jersey. After completing liis 

 college course he was sent to Euroie, 

 where he studied at Heidelberg and 

 Louvain. Among other things, he ac- 

 quired a comprehensive knowledge f 

 French and German and was able o 

 converse in these languages almost .iS 

 fluently as a native. Returning hor e 

 in 1873, at the age of 26, Mr. Barry tock 

 up the details of the nursery busini 9 

 established by his father and Mr. E 1- 

 wanger. He started at the bottom ai '1 

 mastered each department, one by oi ', 

 and when the firm was made a corpoi i- 

 tion in 1890 he was elected treasurt i'. 

 Later he became president of the cd- 

 cern, which operates the Mount Hoi e 

 Nurseries. 



Although few men have succeeded !i 

 mastering so thoroughly the mai .\' 

 branches of the profession, Mr. Bar v 

 gave the study of rose culture his esp '- 

 cial attention. He was the prime mov r 

 in the reorganization of the Americ; n 

 Rose Society at New York, in 1899, 1 " 



