Januabx 23, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



21 



OBITUARY 



Oonrad Frauenf elder. 



The trade in Chicago has lost one of 

 its most respected members in the death 

 of Conrad Frauenfelder, which occurred 

 January 19, after a brief illness with 

 pneumonia. Mr. Frauenfelder attended 

 the Victory dinner of the Chicago Flo- 

 rists' Club on the evening of January 

 9, with his family. It was the last time 

 he left his home. 



Mr. Frauenfelder was born in Switzer- 

 land May 12, 1857. He took up garden- 

 ing as a profession and followed it in 

 his native land and in Paris, but came 

 to America while still a young man, in 

 1879, locating at Chicago, where he 

 found employment on the Teufel place, 

 at Walnut and Leavitt streets. He re- 

 mained there until 1883, when he started 

 in business for himself on the site the 

 business occupies today. In 1885, how- 

 ever, Mr. Frauenfelder disposed of the 

 place to Mr. Mailander, and from 1885 

 to 1896 he operated the Garfield Eose 

 Co., on West Madison street, for the 

 Peck estate. This was the establish- 

 ment afterwards operated by Oechslin 

 Bros., and Frank Oechslin, later passing 

 back into the hands of Mr. Frauenfelder 

 and his sister, the late Mrs. Annie 

 Decker. In 1896, when Mr. Frauenfelder 

 left the Garfield Eose Co., he took back 

 the business at 3343 West Madison 

 street and rebuilt the establishment, in- 

 cluding the store and apartment build- 

 ing and the greenhouses in the rear. 

 Shortly after, in 1899, C. J. Michelsen 

 became his right-hand man and con- 

 tinued with him until 1907. Mr. Frauen- 

 felder for many years has done one of 

 the largest retail businesses on the west 

 side of Chicago, being one of the largest 

 buyers in the Chicago market. He pros- 

 pered, his object always being to see 

 that every customer was pleased, and 

 his word and his work were soon found 

 to be dependable in every particular. 



The family consists of the widow and 

 two daughters, Edna and Hazel. Miss 

 Edna Frauenfelder has for some time 

 been her father's chief assistant in the 

 store and will carry on the business. 

 She is well known in the trade. 



Mr. Frauenfelder was a member of the 

 Chicago Florists' Club, of the Illinois 

 State Florists' Association, of the So- 

 ciety of American Florists and other 

 trade organizations. He was high in 

 Masonry and the remains lay in state 

 in the West Chicago Masonic temple on 

 the morning of January 22, preceding 

 the funeral, which was in charge of the 

 Masonic bodies both at the temple and 

 at Forest Home cemetery. The funeral 

 was largely attended, by Masons and 

 by florists, many of the trade also send- 

 ing flowers. 



Frank Quillan. 



Frank Quillan, who died of pneu- 

 monia in Seattle, Wash., January 15, 

 was born in 1881, in Oklahoma. At an 

 early age he became connected with the 

 Stiles Floral Co., of Oklahoma City, in 

 which association he continued for sev- 

 eral years. He had been a resident of 

 Seattle for several years when he pur- 

 chased, in 1918, the Washington Floral 

 Co. He grew a miscellaneous assort- 

 nient of stock and was meeting with 



success in his business when he was 

 ftaken ill. He leaves a wife and two chil- 

 dren. Mr. Quillan had » high standing 

 in the trade and will be mcJurned by a 

 large circle of friends. ^>y) W. S. G. 



Gus Schlegel. 



Gus Schlegel, who operated about 

 28,000 feet of glass at Olney, 111., doing 

 a prosperous wholesale and retail busi- 

 ness, died January 7, after a brief ill- 

 ness, and was buried in Waldheim cem- 

 etery, Chicago. Mrs. Schlegel will dis- 

 pose of the greenhouses. 



Herman Harvey. 



The body of a young man killed in 

 the wreck of the Wolverine Flyer at 

 South Byron, N. Y., has been identified 

 as that of Herman Harvey, son of S. A. 

 Harvey, a florist of Grand Haven, Mich. 

 Young Mr. Harvey was 23 years of age 

 and was wearing a ring belonging to 

 his brother, Lieutenant S. D. Harvey, 

 who died at Camp Custer, Battle Creek, 

 Mich., a year ago. The ring was in- 

 scribed with the name and company of 

 the latter, who was in the 32nd Michi- 

 gan Infantry, and it was by means of 

 this inscription that the identification 

 was made. The news of his death came 

 as a great shock not only to his parents, 

 but to many friends. 



John H. Slocombe. 



The death of John H. Slocombe, well 

 known florist of New Haven, Conn., 

 which occurred January 11, was the 

 result of illness which culminated in a 

 paralytic stroke some months ago. Mr. 

 Slocombe was an expert grower of vio- 

 lets and sweet peas, and his chrysanthe- 

 mums and dahlias also had brought him 

 renown. He had exhibited in flower 

 shows in nearby cities and been awarded 

 numerous prizes. 



Frederick Louis Diserens. 



Frederick Louis Diserens, who died 

 January 14 at his home in Cedar Eapids, 

 la., had been connected with the trade 

 since 1913, when he resigned his po- 

 sition as superintendent of the street 

 railway system of Cedar Eapids and 

 built the range known as the North- 

 view Greenhouses in that city. Mr. Dis- 

 erens was born in Cincinnati in 1864. 

 He attended the Boston Technological 

 Institute and was graduated qs a civil 

 engineer. In 1882 he married Miss Lucy 

 L. Lemon, who survives him, as do his 



two sons, Frederick L., II, who is a 

 horticulturist, and Albert J. Diserens, 

 in whose name the business of the firm 

 was conducted. A daughter, Mary, also 

 survives. 



The Diserens brothers both have been 

 in military service, as has been noted in 

 The Eeview, Albert having reached 

 home just before his father's last illness 

 began. 



Mr. Diserens was a member of the 

 local Masonic chapter, known as Mount 

 Hermon lodge No. 263, A. F. & A. M., 

 Cedar Chapter O. E. S., Apollo Com- 

 mandery No. 26 K. T., El Kahir Temple, 

 A. A. N. M. S., Iowa Consistory No. 2, 

 A. S. A. S. E. He also belonged to the 

 Cedar Eapids lodge No. 251, B. P. O. E., 

 and he was a member of Grace Epis- 

 copal church. 



John H. Dillon. 



John H. Dillon, for many years con- 

 nected with the park and recreation de- 

 partments of the city of Boston and for 

 some years chairman of the board, died 

 of pneumonia at his home, 547 Blue Hill 

 avenue. Grove Hall, January 19. The de- 

 ceased was born in Dorchester in 1856. 

 In his youth he worked with his father, 

 who was a horticulturist. Later he en- 

 tered the employ of Marshall P. Wilder, 

 president of the American Pomological 

 Society and of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society. He also served under 

 other florists before entering the Boston 

 Public Gardens under Supt. Doogue. He 

 was foreman of the city greenhouses and 

 public gardens for many years. For 

 some time he was foreman at Forest 

 Hills cemetery and after that he was 

 with Warren S. Ewell, the Dorchester 

 florist, who was a noted bulb specialist. 



Again entering the service of the city 

 of Boston, he took charge of the public 

 gardens and was responsible some years 

 ago for much elaborate carpet bedding. 

 Under Mayor Curley's administration 

 he was appointed chairman of the park 

 and recreation departments at a salary 

 of $5,000, a position from which he re- 

 tired under the present city administra- 

 tion, resuming an old position as fore- 

 man, from which he retired some time 

 ago. 



Mr. Dillon is survived by his widow 

 and two stepchildren. Interment was at 

 Mount Calvary cemetery, January 21. 

 There was a large attendance and many 

 floral tributes were noted. W. N. 0. 



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MOTT-LY MUSINGS 



Anent the coming carnation conven- 

 tion, to be held in Cleveland January 

 29 and 30, the air is charged with sur- 

 prises to all those who accept the gen- 

 eral cordial invitation. Even old Boreas 

 has been petitioned to relax his energies 

 around that time, to permit the show to 



be a positive success. 



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O. W. Clark & Son, of Buffalo, N. Y., 

 are one of the few seed houses which 

 received a full supply of Dutch bulbs 

 of extra fine quality. They seem to 

 have an oversupply and as doubtless 

 many florists would gladly exchange 

 good money for them, an ad in The Ee- 

 view is a likely means of making the 

 trade. 



Wood & Co., of Cleveland, O., are re- 

 ceiving and distributing 100,000 gladi- 

 olus bulbs from a local grower. These 

 figures convey some idea of the enor- 

 mous quantity of this stock in existence 

 at home. What must the total be in the 

 general harvest throughout the country! 

 This flower was popularized last season 

 as never before and doubtless the com- 

 ing season will see all predecessors 

 eclipsed. 



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H. L. Coffin, vice-president of the 

 Woodruff-Boyce Seed Co., Seattle, be- 

 lieves that eventually, if not now, cab- 

 bage will be grown as successfully for 

 seed in the state of Washington as in 

 Denmark. W. M. 



