January :.•, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



19 



OBITUARY 



E. Y. Teas. 



A veteran horticulturist and nursery- 

 man passed away December 15 in the 

 person of E. Y. Teas, who has been 

 livin}x at Eaton, O., since his retirement 

 in l!M2, when tlic Cunningham Nursery 

 Co., of Seymour, Ind., purchased the 

 business, stock and fixtures of the firm 

 of E. Y. Teas & Son, F. E. Teas, the 

 "Son," however, continued in the 

 trade, j^ivinir special attention to the 

 growing of gladioli for the wholesale 

 market. 



rt was in 1842 that the brothers, E. Y. 

 Teas and .Jcdin C. Teas, started {^rowing 

 orchard trees in a small way for their 

 own use, when the former was only 12 

 years of a^'e. This led, however, to tlie 

 growing later of fruit trees for sale 

 and, as the years went on, an extensive 

 business was developed in the nursery 

 line. 



The firm of E. Y. & J. C. Teas suj)- 

 |ili('d the eastern trade with many \arie- 

 ties of fruit trees of western and south- 

 ern origin and in 1844 the brothers com- 

 menced the growing of <atalpa trees 

 from seed. They placed on the market 

 the first seedlings of Catalpa sjieciosa 

 sold commercially in this country. The 

 superior hardiness of this variety has 

 brought it into wide acceptance since 

 that date ami millions of it have been 

 used. It has largely replaced C. bignon- 

 ioides. which had been tlie catalpa of 

 commerce. E. Y. Teas was tlie first dis- 

 seminator of Garber's Hybrid pear and 

 of the Lucretia dewlierry. He pro- 

 duced the variety of sugar cane known 

 as fLarly Amber from seed selected jier 

 sonally in I'aris, in IS.")!)-*)!). He origi 

 nated the President Wild(>r currant. 

 The name of Teas also is linked iniper 

 ishably witii the weeping mulberry. 



E. Y. Teas was one of the twiuty-one 

 charter members of the Indiana Horti- 

 cultural Society in 1880 and he survived 

 all the otliers by many years. He also 

 was one of the earliest members of the 

 American Association of Nurserymen 

 and was faithful in attendance upon tlie 

 meetings of that body for three <lec- 

 ades. 



Mr. Teas' illness was brief, although 

 he had been failing in health for sev- 

 eral weeks, being in liis eighty-ninth 

 year. He never lost his interest in hor- 

 tiiiiltural all'airs and was a reader of 

 several horticultural publications, as 

 well as of trade papers. He is survived 

 by his wife and a daughter, Mrs. .1. H. 

 Parker. 



Floyd Long. 



Floyd Long, manager of the green- 

 houses of Rolf /etlitz, Lima, ()., died 

 December 10 at his home mi T?ellefon- 

 taine avenue, of pneumonia. Mr. Long 

 was 29 years of age and had been em- 

 ployed at the greeuliduscs t'or six years. 

 Besides Ins wiilow and a ■l;iug]iter, he 

 is survived by his fjither, ,1. .M. Long, 

 of American township, and lour brotli 

 ers. 



Winfield S. Harry. 



Having rounded a liall" century in tiie 

 florists' trade at <'onsh(di(Hkeii. Pa., 

 Winfield S. Harry died at his home in 

 that city, December l!t. at the age of 

 7"> years. He was one ot the bc'-t known 

 ol' its citizens, iiis vocation lia\ing 



Edward Y. Teas. 



hiouglit him into assnci.ation with many 

 people. He is survixcd by his wife, two 

 sons, Reverend Ernest Harry, an Epis- 

 copal clergyman, of Cleveland, O., and 

 William Harry, of Philadelphia. 



Emmett McDonald. 



lOmmett McDonald, a dahlia specialist 

 and mum grower, died at his home in 

 Overland Park. Mo., of infiuenza, De- 

 cember 24, at the ;ige of 42 years. Mr. 

 .\[cDonald was well known in trade cir- 

 cl(>s in St. Louis and was a niiMnl)er of 

 ilie St. liouis Florists' Club. He leaves 

 a wife and two brothers to mourn hi< 

 loss. The funeral serxices w ert> held D( 

 reud>er 27 and the interment was ]U 

 ceinber 28, at Decatur, 111., his foriior 

 li'iMie. .1. .T. T*. 



Alonzo W. Vose. 



.Mon/.ii W. A'ose, for nmre than a iiu;ii 

 Ici- of ;i ccntllis' idi'lltified \\illi llir 

 greenhouse and retail Ibirists " business 

 in northern Klioib^ Island .and siuiihcrn 

 .\Iass;t('lrus"t ts, died ;it liis lumie on Cuni- 

 lierlaml hill road. Woonsocket, R. L, De- 

 c(iid)er 2fi, after an extended illness. 

 He was in his seventi<Mh year, death 

 being due tn a cdinplicat ion of dise;is(>s. 



Mr. Vose was boiii in the town of Liu 

 coin, R. L, August <'.. 18 19, the s(.n of 

 the late Albert E. and 'Nfinerva CKsten 

 Vnse. He attended tlu^ ]iublic sidinoK 

 in his native town and gr;iduatod at the 

 WuonsO(d<et hi;;h school. He niarrie/i 

 Miss Ida Sprague, of r'mnberland, .Tuio' 

 20, ISC)!), and remained in i'umberl;ind 

 until ISO"), when he m<i\e,| to his pres- 

 ent home on the Ciniiberhnol liill m.-id. 



While a resident of the town cd' l.in- 

 coin in his younger days he was ].r(piniiient 

 in town affairs .-md held inipnrtant town 

 offices. I'lir a number of years he held 

 the office of ])Ostmast(M' of the Mauville 

 id'lice. He retired from this jiusiiiim 

 thirt>-five years ago to enter the flo- 

 rists ' business and had been identified 

 therewith ever since. ITo was a memln>r 

 of the Rhode Island Horticultural So- 

 <'iety and freciuenlly officiated as judge 

 of ]daTits and fiowers at the exhibitions 

 <it that and similar societies. Ilis green- 

 houses v.ere situated near his home and 

 c(impriseil more than in,nno square feet. 



wherein he grew several thousand \ ego- 

 table and bedding jilants each year, in 

 iKldition to cut fiowers for his retail 

 store at 241 Main street, Woonsocket. 

 Ho also supplied other retailers in that 

 section. 



Mr. Vose was a man of sterling char- 

 acter and one who took a deep interest 

 in the affairs of the community, as well 

 ;is in the upbuilding of hort ictdtural and 

 lloricultural interests. Besides his wife, 

 he is survi\e<l by a daughter, one son, 

 two sisters and three grandchildren, one 

 of the latter, .7ose[ih i'oster, being ;i pri- 

 vate in the 2r)th Hegiinent of Engineers, 

 A. E. F., now in France. \V. H. M. 



W. H. Drake. 



W. H. Drake, win. died De.-eml.er 2."^ 

 at his home in Kenosha, Wis., was u 

 \i'teran florist and landscape gardener, 

 whi'se success in these lines was due to 

 his line taste. Mr. Dr.-ike was a man of 

 sterling cliaracter and held the esteem 

 of ninny t'rirnds. He was 67 years of 

 ;i ge. 



John Paget. 



.I(din I'a;;et, laiidsc'ipe :,'arden(^r of the 

 Pennsylvania State lios|iit;il. Harris- 

 burg, Pa., for the last twenty-six years, 

 died December 2:'. ;it that institution, at 

 the age of 7:i years. Ife formerly was 

 gardener for the late Senator ,T. Donald 

 ''nmeron, at the latter's farm at Lochiel, 

 I'a., a position he Indd for seventeen 



ye;i rs. 



Charles Warncke. Jr. 



Charles W.iincke, .Ir.. lietroit, Mich., 

 died Christmas morning of lironchial 

 pneumonia .-it his home on West I''oit 

 street. He had been associated with his 

 father, Charhs Warnck.>. in the trade for 

 the last ten years, lie w.-is a member of 

 the Detroit l-'lorisis" I'lul. ;ind of the 



Enfield, England. — A disastrous firo 

 occurred at Perry's Hardy Plant Farms, 

 December 10, com]detelv guttiiiL: a largo 

 block of buildings, including at least 

 4,000 lilies awaiting shipment to a cus- 

 tomer in the United States. Unfortu- 

 nately, this stock cannot be replaced. 



