■.ir'. "'■'■ 



June 3, 1920. 



The Florists^ Review 



21 



Ernest Albert Michel. 



Ernest Albert Michel, of KirkWood, 

 Mo., died at his home May 26 at 3:30 

 a. m. He was born in Germany in 1845 

 and was tluis 75 years old at his death. 



Mr. Michel had always been an espe- 

 cially active man in the florists' busi- 

 ness. He was the oldest member of the 

 trade in St. Louis and was the head of 

 the first florists' establishment in St. 

 Louis, on Broadway near Pine street, 

 under the name of Michel Bros. & Kern. 

 This was fifty years ago. 



The Michel Plant & Bulb Co. suc- 

 ceeded the old firm and moved to 1010 

 Olive street; it also operated a green- 

 house range at Magnolia and Tower 

 Grove avenues, now the Bourdet Floral 

 Co. From here Mr. Michel moved to 

 Kirkwood, where he started a nursery 

 and grew outdoor flowers for the local 

 market. 



His son, Eugene H. Michel, who was 

 with his father until that time, moved 

 his family to Riverton, N. J., having 

 accepted the management of the new 

 range of Henry A. Dreer, Inc. 



The father was one of the first mem- 

 bers of the trade to join the St. Louis 

 Florists' Club thirty-four years ago, 

 but was not a member at the time of 

 his death. No one in the trade was 

 more respected or had more friends than 

 Albert Michel, as he was better known 

 to his friends. 



Mr. Michel had an attack of influenza 

 last fall and was confined to his home 

 with a recurrence of the attack thia 

 spring, which caused his death. 



He is survived by his wife, two sons. 

 Eugene H. and Frederick Michel, and 

 four daughters, Mrs. C. C. Kendall, Mrs. 

 B. Nehrling and Anna and Emma 

 Michel, who were all present at the time 

 of their father's death. 



The funeral took place May 27 from 

 the residence on Geyer road, in Kirk- 

 wood, Mo.; the interment was nt the old 

 St. Marcus cemetery. 



Many in the trade attended the serv- 

 ices at the home and extended their 

 sympathies to the bereaved family. 

 Many beautiful floral emblems filled the 

 room. J. J. B. 



Maurice Fuld. 



Maurice Fuld, widely known in the 

 trade, especially in and about New 

 York, was found dead in his apartment 

 Friday morning, May 28. He had been 

 engaged in his business as usual during 

 the day previous and had appeared to 

 be in good health. The cause of death 

 was said to be hardening of the ar- 

 teries. 



Mr. Fuld was born in Babenhausen, 

 Germany, March 20, 1873, and received 

 his education in the public schools of 

 Frankfort-on-Main. In 1888 he started 

 at Quedlinburg to learn the seed biisi- 

 ness, remaining there three years. Later 

 he spent two years in a nursery in the 

 south of France, where he interested 

 himself part-ifulariyMtper^nHials.- He 

 came to the United States in 1894 and 

 filled positions in seed stores in Boston 

 and New York, in 1907 becoming man- 

 ager of the store of W. W. Rawson & 

 Co., Boston. In 1910 he joined the staff 

 of Henry F. Michell Co., Philadelphia, 



Ernest Albert Michel. 



as manager of the company's nursery 

 and trial grounds at Andalusia, Pa., and 

 also as advertising man. In the fall of 

 1913 he became a partner in the firm of 

 the Knight & Struck Co., at Flushing, 

 N. Y., subsequently establishing the 

 mail order business at 7 West Forty- 

 fifth street. New York, in which he was 

 engaged at tlie time of his death. 



He attained some prominence as a lec- 

 turer on horticultural subjects before 

 garden clubs, and some of his lectures 

 were staged in novel surroundings. On 

 one occasion he engaged the parlors of 

 a prominent New York hotel, wherein 

 he installed fruit trees of large size in 

 order to demonstrate to his audience the 

 principles of i)roper pruning. 



He was a man of genial disposition, 

 and identified with everything that 

 made for the good of the trade. He was 

 a member of tlie New York Florists' 

 Club and a life member of the S. A. F. 

 He was unmarried and is survived in 

 this country by a sister in Baltimore, 

 where the bodv was shipped for burial. 



J. H. P. 



Edward W. Reid. 



The death May 26 of Edward W. 

 Reid, vice-president of Holm & Olson, 

 Inc., St. .Paul, Minn., briefly recorded 

 in the obituary column of The Review 

 May 27, came as a great shock to his 

 business associates and to his many 

 friends, who had so recently seen him 

 appor<>ntly in his usual,' vigorous, 

 healthy condition. He was ill onlv a 

 week. 



Mr. Reid was born at Bridgeport, O., 

 fifty-six years ago. In his early life 

 he was associated with his father in 

 conducting a fruit farm at Bridgeport. 



Later on tiie growing of small fruit 

 ])lants was begun and this developed 

 into a general line of nursery stock. 

 Some thirty years ago a mail order busi- 

 ness was started and successfully con- 

 ducted for about twelve years, the last 

 catalogue appearing about 1901. Many 

 of the older members of the nursery 

 trade will remember the Upland Nurs- 

 eries, as the business was then called. 



Seeing a wider field for activity in the 

 growing northwest, Mr. Keid removed 

 to St. Paul in the spring of 1902 and 

 associated himself with L. L. May & Co. 

 as manager of the nursery and land- 

 scape departments. In the summer of 

 1910 ho severed his connection with L. 

 L. May & Co. and went to Holm & Olson, 

 Inc., to establish a landscape depart- 

 ment, of which he became manager. A 

 few years later he was made vice-presi- 

 dent of the company, an office which 

 he held at his death. The Park Nurs- 

 eries, a branch of Holm & Olson, Inc., 

 were established and a mail order busi- 

 ness of large proportions built up un- 

 der his management. Many of the finest 

 homes in the city and throughout the 

 northwest bear silent tribute to his ar- 

 tistic ability in planning and executing 

 plantings. 



Funeral services, which. were attended 

 by several hundred friends and asso- 

 ciates, were helil at the residence, 

 May 28, interment being made in Rose- 

 lawn cemetery, which adjoins tlie city 

 on the narth. 



Mr. Reid was married about thirty 

 years ago to Laura Speer, who survives. 

 He had two cliildren, Harold S., who 

 was associated with his father in the 

 business, and Lois, a teacher in the pub- 

 lic schools. 



