May 27, 1920. 



The Florists^ Review 



25 



OBITUARY 



Patrick O'Mara. 



Patrick O'Mara, general manager of 

 Peter Henderson & Co., New York, died 

 ;it his home Tuesday night. May 25. 



Mr. O'Mara was born in Ireland in 

 1858 and came to Jersey City, N. J., 

 with his parents in 1867. He worked 

 for Peter Henderson for two weeks in 

 1868 and in the greenhouses during the 

 spring seasons of 1869 and 1870. He 

 was again working for Mr. Henderson 

 in September, 1871, and continued his 

 connection with the firm of Peter Hen- 

 derson & Co. from that time until his 

 death, rising eventually to be the ex- 

 ecutive head of the company. One of 

 the first bits of experience in that 

 steady progress of over half a century 

 Avas a period of two years as day fire- 

 man for twenty-one boilers. He was in 

 charge of the greenhouses at Jersey 

 City until the firm moved its range from 

 there. 



Patrick O'Mara was widely known 

 and exceedingly popular in the trade. 

 He was a member of the S. A. F. execu- 

 tive committee in 1893 and became 

 president of the S. A. F. in 1901. He 

 was president of the New York Florists' 

 Club in 1894 and 1900. 



Charles Schoenhut. 



Charles Schoenhut, one of the oldest 

 members of the trade in Buffalo, N. Y., 

 died suddenly May 19. He was one of 

 the most progressive florists and did a 

 great deal for the advancement of the 

 trade in Buffalo. He was an advocate 

 of one price at the different stores all 

 over the city. He was a member of 

 many clubs and societies, some of which 

 were the Masons, Elks, Eagles, Odd Fel- 

 lows, Humboldt Club, Boreal Club and 

 the Buffalo Florists' Club. He is sur- 

 vived by his wife and his mother. The 

 funeral was held Saturday, May 22. 



William H. Jones. 



William H. Jones died Tuesday morn- 

 ing, May 11, at the family home, 355 

 Eighth street, Lorain, O. He had been 

 in ill health for several years. 



Mr. Jones was born in Southampton, 

 England, October 24, 1861, and came 

 to this country with his parents when 

 he was 2 years old. He had been in 

 business in Lorain for a number of 

 years. 



He is survived by his wife; three 

 children, Aurel, William, Jr., and A. W. 

 Jones; several sisters, and one brother. 



Paul Bichmond. 



Paul Richmond, the only son of J. W. 

 Richmond, of Sullivan, Ind., formerly 

 of Terre Haute, Ind., died May 7 in the 

 <ounty hospital, after being run down 

 by an automobile while riding his bicy- 

 cle. He was 10 years of age. His skull 

 was fractured and an operation was per- 

 formed in a vain attempt to save his 

 life. The funeral was held Sunday, 

 May 9, at the Presbyterian church. The 

 florists of Terre Haute contributed a 

 beautiful offering. 



Mrs. Bosa Meinhardt. 



Mrs. Rosa Meinhardt, mother of Fred 

 fl. Meinhardt, St. Louis, Mo., and widow 

 of J. F. Henry Meinhardt, who was once 

 a member of the trade in that city, died 



May 18. The funeral took place at the 

 home, 4738 Florissant avenue, Thursday, 

 May 20, with many friends in the trade 

 attending. J. J. B. 



E. W. Beid. 



E. W. Reid, vice-president of Holm & 

 Olson, Inc., St. Paul, Minn., died 

 Wednesday morning. May 26, after a 

 week's illness. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



The Market. 



Potted and bedding plants are the 

 active features of the local market just 

 at present, the demand for the former 

 being greatly accelerated by the ap- 

 proach of Memorial day. Prices are 

 higher than usual for plants, geraniums 

 especially being high. Funeral work 

 continues to keep the supply of cut 



Patrick O'Mara. 



flowers short, the continued dark, 

 cloudy weather making the supply be- 

 low normal. 



In designs for Memorial day the arti- 

 ficial wreaths, crosses, flat bouquets, 

 etc., of magnolia leaves and waxed flow- 

 ers exceed an3'thing ever seen here. 

 They have appeared by the hundreds in 

 every department store, many groceries, 

 variety stores, etc., while the flower 

 store windows are massed with them, 

 ranging from $1 to $6. 



Various Notes. 



Miss Anna O'Connor, secretary for 

 Johnston Bros., will leave about the 

 middle of July for a vacation trip to 

 England and France. 



M. B. Saunders has a big run of out- 

 door work. His entire stock of potted 

 plants for bedding purposes was 

 quickly bought up. 



George S. Smith, gardener at the 

 country place of Henry D. Sharpe, at 

 Nayatt Point, for many years, died last 



week after an illness of several weeks. 

 He v/as born in England seventy-six 

 years ago and had lived at Nayatt for 

 thirty-five years. 



E. Brooke, of T. J. Johnston & Co., re- 

 ports the biggest month's business he 

 ever had at this time of the year. 



William A. Bowers has taken a ten 

 years' lease of his store at 134 Wash- 

 ington street. 



J. E. Koppelman has announced his 

 removal to his new place, on Custom 

 House street, after June 1. 



Henry Patry has entered the employ 

 of Reubin Popkins, 25 Washington 

 street. 



John Johnston, of Johnston Bros., was 

 a business visitor in Boston last week. 



Harry Lauderman has been increas- 

 ing the size of the flower department at 

 S. Kresge's, on Westminster street. 



Lucien O'Connor has been receiving 

 congratulations on the advent of a 

 daughter. 



Edward D. Miller has opened a branch 

 store at 200 Washington street for Me- 

 morial day. 



James Hacking, of Central Falls, who 

 has been confined to his house for sev- 

 eral weeks, is able to be out again. 



The Lowell Avenue Greenhouses have 

 a branch store at the corner of West- 

 minster and Aborn streets. 



Charles Hunt is repairing his green- 

 houses, on Burnside street, and will 

 operate them next season. 



Macnair's enlarged store, corner of 

 Broad and Chestnut streets, is one of 

 the finest in the city. 



E. R. Seymour, at Warren, is prepar- 

 ing to start up his houses again this 

 season, after their having been idle for 

 two vears. W. H. M. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The unexpected happened again last 

 week. The market had been so stiff 

 that it seemed improbable that there 

 would be any weakening before Me- 

 morial day, but the long delayed warm 

 weather which arrived early last week 

 had the effect of crowding the market 

 with stock. While demand continued 

 extremely large, it was inevitable that 

 prices should fall. There seldom has 

 been a week when more stock has been 

 sold; the market did a wonderful busi- 

 ness, but the money value of the sales 

 was below recent standards. 



The rose afforded tiie principal prob- 

 lem. While there were increased sup- 

 plies of carnations, roses came in most 

 heavily and it was in this department 

 the principal recession in prices oc- 

 curred. It was a buyers ' market for the 

 first time in many weeks, and full ad- 

 vantage was taken of the opportunity. 

 Of course the heat resulted in many of 

 the roses being open and soft, so that 

 increased effort was necessary to get out 

 shipping orders, but the quality of most 

 of the roses is excellent. Those who 

 have poor roses now stand small chance 

 in the well supplied market. 



Next to roses, sweet peas are in larg- 

 est supply. Of these there have been 

 more than the trade can consume, and 

 low grades are going to waste. It is safe 

 to say the Chicago market never saw 

 anything to compare with the quantity 

 of peas now being handled. 



The present week opened with excel- 

 lent demand, all things considered, but 

 a large part of the energies of everyone 



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