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July 10, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



17 



OBITUARY 



Thomas J. Wolfe. 



Thomas J. Wolfe died at his home at 

 Waco, Tex., at 10:30 p. m., July 3, after 

 an illness of about a year. Mr. Wolfe 

 had not been out for a month preceding 

 his death, and had been unable to re- 

 ceive visitors since the Saturday before. 



Tom Wolfe, as he was generally 

 known, was born in Birmingham, Eng- 

 land, September 19, 1875, and was 

 reared in India, where he attended 

 school. In 1892 he came with his par- 

 ents to Waco from Bombay. At the 

 death of his father, James Wolfe, he 

 took charge of the florists' business 

 which he had established, which was 

 later incorporated under the name of 

 Wolfe the Florist. The range of green- 

 houses on South Third street gradually 

 grew, and the firm became one of the 

 largest in the state. 



In the organization of the Texa^ 

 State Florists' Association, Mr. Wolfe 

 was one of the most active workers. 

 He was elected president of the associa- 

 tion at its second convention. He was 

 a life member of the S. A. F. and a di- 

 rector of the Florists' Telegraph De- 

 livery Association. 



When the Spanish-American war 

 broke out, Mr. Wolfe enlisted in the 

 Second Texas Eegiment, becoming a 

 quartermaster-sergeant. He was a 

 Mason, belonging to Hella Temple 

 Shrine, Dallas. He was also a Knight 

 Templar, past exalted ruler of Waco 

 lodge of Elks, a Knight of Pythias, a 

 Rotarian and a member of the Lion's 

 Club. 



Mr. Wolfe is survived by his wife 

 and two sons, Tom Wolfe, Jr., and 

 George Wolfe; a brother, Fred C. Wolfe, 

 and two sisters, Mrs. Annie Wolfe 

 Brigance and Mrs. E. C. Robinson, all 

 of Waco. 



The funeral was held Saturday after- 

 noon, July 5, at St. Paul's Episcopal 

 church. Interment was at Oakwood. At 

 the services were present a considerable 

 number of florists. 



William W. Tattle. 



William W. Tattle, one of the largest 

 growers of peonies in Canada, died at 

 his home, at Toronto, Ont., last week. 

 For years he had supplied seedsmen and 

 florists from the Atlantic to the Pacific 

 with peonies, growing between 700 and 

 800 different varieties. Over 20,000 per 

 year were distributed through Canada 

 and even up into the Yukon territory. 

 Mr. Tattle was in his eighty-first year, 

 having been born in Toronto February 

 21, 1839. 



When 26 years old, he took charge of 

 Victoria park, at Niagara Falls, Ont. 

 This position he held for three years, 

 when he returned to Toronto to take 

 up the occupation of growing peonies. 

 He located on Forest Hill road, and had 

 been at the same address since that 

 time. Until eight years ago he man- 

 aged the growing himself, but of late 

 his sons, Harry and Albert, have been 

 the active managers of the business. 

 For a number of years Mr. Tattle had 

 extensive displays at the exhibitions. 

 Of late, however, he had not exhibited 

 the peonies to the same extent. He 

 was buried June 30. H. G. Dillemuth 

 and J. J. Higgins represented the Gar- 



deners' and Florists' Association and 

 the Retail Florists' Club, of Toronto, 

 respectively, at the funeral. J. J. H. 



Joseph Beavls. 



Joseph Beavis, head of the rose-grow- 

 ing firm of Joseph Beavis & Son, at 

 Germantown, Philadelphia, died July 7. 

 Mr. Beavis had been connected with the 

 growing of plants and flowers for the 

 Philadelphia market for nearly half a 

 century. He has always been success- 

 ful in the cultivation of roses, scoring 

 his greatest triumph at Christmas last 

 year. 



Mrs. Charles L. Seybold. 



Following a few days' illness, Mrs. 

 Charles L. Seybold, aged 49, wife of 

 Park Supervisor Seybold, died at her 

 home at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., at 11 p. m. 

 July 5, of valvular heart trouble super- 

 induced by the intense heat which pre- 

 ceded a heavy thunder storm. Before 

 marriage she was Emma Estelle Sei- 

 bold, of Baltimore, Md., and was a sec- 

 ond cousin of her husband. Her fine 

 character and kindly disposition won 

 the friendship of many throughout the 

 trade, who will receive the news of her 

 death sorrowfully. 



Mrs. Seybold was of an extremely 

 sympathetic nature and had grieved 

 over the recent deaths of a nephew, 

 Lieut. George Seibold, an aviator, who 



Mr. Seybold was at Chicago during 

 the late- June convention of the Amer- 

 ican Association of Nurserymen, where 

 he read a valuable paper, and his wife's 

 death so soon after his return home was 

 a shock of exceptional severity. 



BLACK ROT ON ASTEBS. 



I am sending you two asters which are 

 affected by some disease. The black 

 portion of the stem rots, and the plant 

 bends over and dies. Can you tell me 

 the cause and the remedy? 



E. H. M.— 111. 



The asters are affected with black, or 

 dry, stem-rot. This disease causes much 

 trouble for aster growers. It attacks 

 the plants at all seasons, but it is gen- 

 erally worse after a spell of wet weather 

 followed by hot, dry weather. The 

 plants set out in the field early in the 

 season seem to suffer more than the 

 stock planted later. Those who have 

 given this trouble considerable thought 

 have found that plants from seed sown 

 late and transplanted from the seed 

 flats to the open ground generally go 

 through the season without suffering 

 much from the disease. Perhaps the prin- 

 cipal cause of the disease is growing 

 aster plants on the same land two or 

 three years in succession. The ttrst 

 year the plants will do finely; the second 



Thomas J. Wolfe. 



was killed in France, his grandmother 

 and a sister. She is survived by her 

 husband, two brothers and one sister. 

 The body was removed to Baltimore, 

 July 9, where she was buried in the 

 family lot in Greenmount cemetery, with 

 relatives and friends from Baltimore 

 and Washington in attendance. 



a considerable number of them will be 

 lost from this disease, and after the sec- 

 ond year it is folly to plant asters on the 

 same land again, because a big majority 

 of the plants will die out from disease. 

 When once a plant is affected, there is 

 no remedy; the only thing to do is to 

 pull it up and burn it. M. P. 



