August 16, 1917. 



The Florists^ Review 



23 



OBITUARY 



Josepb W. Vestal. 



Joseph W. Vestal, senior member of 

 the firm of J. W. Vestal & Son, Little 

 Bock and Argenta, Ark., died at his 

 home on Eiverside drive, Argenta, 

 August 6, after an illness of two weeks. 

 Although Mr. Vestal had b^eu in ill 

 health during the last year, his condi- 

 tion was not considered serious until 

 shortly before his death. He was 82 

 years of age and is survived by his wife, 

 one son, Charles Vestal, and two daugh- 

 ters, Mrs. William Smith, of Argenta, 

 and Mrs. Ella Wiggle, of Chicago. 



Mr. Vestal went to Argenta in 1880 

 from Cambridge City, ,Ind., and estab- 

 lished the greenhouse range which he 

 managed until the sickness which caused 

 his death forced him to cease work. His 

 son, Charles Vestal, was associated with 

 him in the management of the com- 

 pany's affairs, which consisted of a 

 range and retail store in Little Eock, 

 and the Argenta establishment. The 

 son will continue the business. 



Funeral services for Mr. Vestal were 

 held from the Scottish Eite Cathedral 

 August 8. The services were attended 

 by Scottish Eite Masons, who are mem- 

 bers of Arkansas Consistory No. 1. Bur- 

 ial was in Oakland cemetery. 



John A. Bopp. 



John A. Bopp, who recently sold his 

 greenhouse range and the land adjoin- 

 ing in Cumberland, Md., and moved to 

 his farm on the Bedford road, near that 

 city, was found drowned in the pond 

 on the latter place August 1. It is be- 

 lieved that worry over moving was the 

 cause of his act, as he had expressed a 

 disinclination to make the change. Mr. 

 Bopp was 62 years old and was born in 

 Germany. He came to this country 

 forty-six years ago, and in 1901 bought 

 a greenhouse range on the Potomac 

 river. In February, 1916, he added a 

 retail store to his holdings. Mr. Bopp 

 was the third of his family to die by 

 drowning, his father having lost his life 

 under similar circumstances in Ger- 

 many, and his son, William Bopp, hav- 

 ing been drowned several years ago 

 while skating. He is survived by his 

 wife, two sons, J. Elmer Bopp and 

 Arthur Bopp, and one daughter. 



Harry H. Youngs. 



Harry H. Youngs, formerly in the 

 nursery business at Troy, 0., died at his 

 home in Daytoi^ 0., August 4. Mr. 

 Youngs was 69 years of age, and is sur- 

 vived by one son. 



Armin J. Baur. 



Armin J. Baur, president of the Baur 

 Floral Co., Erie, Pa,, was killed last 

 week by an electric shock in the office 

 of the greenhouses. His two little 

 children were playing nearby. 



Mr. Baur was shocked when he 

 touched an uninsulated spot on the 

 cord of a swinging drop light over his 

 desk, the coroner said. A cross wire 

 holding the drop cord in place had worn 

 away a little of the insulation. His 

 right hand was badly burned. The nor- 

 mal power of the lamp is 110 volts and 

 this would not have killed, according to 

 officials. 



Mr. Baur was born in Pittsburgh. He 

 was 39 vears old. He had lived at 



Erie most of his life and organized the 

 floral company ten years ago. Sur- 

 viving are his wife and two children, 

 Kathryh and Elizabeth; four brothers, 

 Henry and William O., of Erie; A. F. J., 

 of Indianapolis, and S. Alfred, of Eock- 

 ford. 111.; and two sisters, Mrs. Herbert 

 Abbott and Mrs. Bertha E. Phillips, of 

 Erie. 



Joseph Sexton. 



Joseph Sexton, one of the pioneer 

 nurserymen of California, died recently 

 at his home, Goleta Hall, Goleta, near 

 Santa Barbara. Mr. Sexton, who was 

 75 years of age, did more than anyone 

 else to foster the walnut industry, hav- 

 ing been the originator of the famous 

 Santa Barbara Soft Shell and other va- 

 rieties. At his home nursery he had 

 many rare and beautiful trees, planted 

 with his own hands forty and fifty years 

 ago and now magnificent specimens. He 

 is said to have fathered the pampas 

 grass industry in the state, having been 

 the first to see the possibilities of grow- 

 ing the plumes for market, dyed and 

 natural. The nursery for some time has 

 been operated by the Santa Barbara 

 Nursery Co., under the management of 

 J. Pettingel. Mr. Sexton leaves a wife 

 and nine children. H. E. E. 



are accumulating. Lilies are less nu- 

 merous, but nevertheless in ample sup- 



P^y- Various Notes. 



Sullivan's have a new delivery car. 

 John Berlin, of the Flower Growers' 

 Association, was seen on the boulevard 

 last week with a new pleasure car. 



The basement of the Central Flower 

 Shop has been transformed into a sales- 

 room, providing much needed space for 

 sales and storage purposes. 



Among the travelers last week were 

 George Hampton, of the Neidinger Co., 

 Philadelphia, and S. Seligman, with his 

 New York ribbons. H. T. 



NEWARK, N. J. 



The Market. 



DETROIT, MICH. 



The Market. 



Midsummer market conditions re- 

 main, but the season promises to open 

 earlier than usual. The few good roses 

 available are in heavy demand, the 

 shortage of long-stemmed Ophelia, Rus- 

 sell, Hoosier Beauty and Shawyer still 

 being acute. American Beauties are 

 arriving in a more satisfactory manner, 

 the supply now seeming to balance the 

 demand. Orchids and valley are of 

 good quality, but hard to procure at 

 times. Asters and gladioli, however, 



An unusual amount of funeral work 

 last week caused considerable activity 

 among the retailers, but otherwise busi- 

 ness was quiet. There is a smaller va- 

 riety of flowers in the market than at 

 any time since summer began. Valley 

 is of poor quality and is scarce. Easter 

 lilies sell as high as $3 per dozen, retail, 

 which is equal to the price at Easter. 

 Asters are plentiful, but are not of good 

 quality. The supply of gladioli is equal 

 to the demand. 



Various Notes. 



Henry Strobell is spending the week 

 ends at his cottage at Bradley Beach. 



Frank Philips, of Philips Bros., has 

 returned from a fishing trip along the 

 coast. He landed one striped bass 

 weighing more than eleven pounds. On 

 his return, Fred Philips left for a sim- 

 ilar outing. 



At the summer meeting of the New 

 Jersey Horticultural Society at Bridge- 

 ton it was decided to hold the winter 

 meeting at Newark. Tentative dates 

 for the meeting are January 8 to 10. 



R. B. M. 



The "hot' ' in hot springs is the thing 

 that greatly interests the management 

 of the State Nursery & Seed Co., of Hel- 

 ena, Mont., for not far from the range 

 there gushes hot water from the earth, 

 and by pumping this water into the 

 greenhouse pipes the company has elimi- 

 nated much of the sting in its coal bills. 



The whole affair w»s done in a bang- 

 up manner, with plenty of trimmings. 

 It was 1 o'clock of a bright afternoon, 

 August 9, when the good ship Erastus 

 Wells swung into the Mississippi and 

 proceeded upstream. On board were 

 seventy-five hearty St. Louis trades- 

 men, members of the St. Louis Florists' 

 Club and guests of Park Superintendent 

 E. Strehle on this occasion, the annual 

 meeting of the club. There was a full 

 program on board, with the big event, 

 the balloting for new officers, coming off 

 on the return trip from the city nursery. 

 Each officer was reelected, as follows: 

 President, Jules Bourdet; vice-presi- 

 dent, August Hummert; secretary, J. J. 

 Windier; treasurer, W. C. Smith. 



It was tit for tat, so to speak, with 

 the judge as umpire. Peter Chocolos, 

 a New York retailer, charged one Col- 

 lins with attempting to shoot him. 

 Whereupon Collins accused the florist of 

 trying to steal Mrs. Collins' love, said 

 wife being cashier for Chocolos, After 

 both parties had cooled off, however, 

 the judge showed what a good mediator 

 he was, and the contestants agreed to 

 let bad enough alone. 



"Your Royal Highness," will be the 

 proper form for Tacoma growers to use 

 in addressing their help if the labor 

 scarcity at the Puget sound city be- 

 comes more acute. With the large 

 army post near-by offering special in- 

 ducements to men, the grower has to 

 handle his greenhouse helpers with vel- 

 vet gloves, despite advances of from 

 twenty-five to fifty per cent in wages. 

 "Of course," says one employer, "I 

 can tell my man I don't like his style, 

 but it's ten to one he will board the 

 'jitney' for the army post and a new 

 job." 



