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Jdnb 24, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



27 



OBITUARY 



Mrs. E. A. WiUiams. 



Mrs. E. A. Williams, for twenty years 

 in business at 621 Penn avenue, Pitts- 

 burgh, known in private life as Mrs. 

 J. A. H. Junker, died June 17 at her 

 summer home, Bay View, Henderson 

 Harbor, N. Y., where she had gone for 

 her health. 



Mrs. Williams was bom on the south 

 side, in Pittsburgh, and was the daugh- 

 ter of Capt. S. M. Duval. She began 

 her business career at 1713 Carson street, 

 but a few years later, in 1900, she moved 

 to the Penn avenue address, where she 

 had been since. She also operated a 

 fine range of greenhouses on the south 

 side. A few years ago she married 

 Mr. Junker, who is in the wholesale 

 leather business, and lived at 1022 North 

 Negley avenue. 



Mrs. Williams had been ill for six 

 weeks with valvular heart trouble be- 

 fore she went to Henderson Harbor, 

 where she had been about a week be- 

 fore her death. 



Funeral services were held at her 

 home, 1022 North Negley avenue, Sun- 

 day evening, June 20. Interment was 

 in the South Side cemetery, Monday 

 morning, June 21. 



"Mrs. Henrietta Suder. 



(Portrait on page 25.) 



Probably the oldest active woman 

 member of the trade in the United 

 States and one of the best known, Mrs. 

 Henrietta Suder, widow of the late 

 Ewald Suder, died at her home in 

 Toledo, O., June 8, after a sickness of 

 only a few weeks. She was 77 years of 

 age. 



Since 1868 the Suder establishment 

 has been a factor in the business life 

 of Toledo and since 1881, when EwaJd 

 Suder died, the management of the 

 greenhouses and the store has been in 

 the hands of Mrs. Suder. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Suder came to this country over sixty 

 years ago. Mr. Suder was first em- 

 ployed by the Humboldt Nursery. Aided 

 by Mrs. Suder, he soon accumulated 

 enough money to buy the place that has 

 now grown to be a progressive estab- 

 lishment. The greenhouses on Cherry 

 street have always been open to the 

 flower-loving public and it was Mrs. 

 Sudor's delight to show visitors around. 



Mrs. Suder was born in Buderstadt, 

 Germany, in 1843. She is survived by a 

 son, A. A. Suder, and a daughter, Mrs. 

 Joseph Galloway. A. A. Suder assisted 

 his mother in the management. She i€ 

 also survived by five grandchildren. 

 Many floral offerings were sent by the 

 members of the trade from all over the 

 country. 



George Monro, Sr. 



One of the best known leaders in the 

 floriists' trade in Great Britain, George 

 Monro, Sr., died Sunday, May 30. Mr. 

 Monro was 73 years of age and through- 

 out his long business career he had been 

 engaged in commercial horticulture. 

 From small beginnings, in 1871, he 

 founded what is now the largest firm 

 in the Covent Garden trade. Until 1903 

 the firm was wholly under his personal 

 fiirection and management, but in that 

 year he converted the business into a 

 private company, his sons, E. Monro, 



Mrs. £. A. Williams. 



George Monro, Jr., and B. J. Monro, 

 becoming partners and taking charge of 

 distinct departments. 



Because of his shrewd business 

 ability and foresight he was chosen on 

 dozens of occasions to appear before 

 parliamentary commissions concerning 

 the trade, of which he became the 

 doyen. The high esteem in which he 

 was held in the horticultural world was 

 recognized in 1887 when the Royal Hor- 

 ticultural Society awarded him the Vic- 

 toria medal of honor in horticulture. 

 Although many other distinctions fell 

 to him, he retained an unaffected and 

 kindly disposition throughout his long 

 life. His favorite recreation was chess. 

 The funeral took place Wednesday, 

 June 2, at 2:30 p. m., at St. Andrew's 

 church, Frognal, and afterwards at the 

 Hampstead cemetery. Fortune Green 

 road, London. 



James Hacking. 



James Hacking, one of the oldest and 

 best known florists and gardeners in the 

 state of Rhode Island, died at his home, 

 954 Lonsdale avenue. Central Falls, Sun- 

 day morning, June 13, in his seventieth 

 year. Mr. Hacking had been suffering 

 for some time with a general breakdown, 

 but the end came suddenly, as he had 

 been actively engaged until Saturday. 



He was born in England in 1850 and 

 after a brief schooling went to work 

 on one of the estates near his home, 

 where he was apprenticed to learn the 

 gardeners' trade. Soon after attaining 

 his majority he came to America, taking 

 up his residence at Central Falls, R. I. 

 He was first employed by the Collins 

 Bros. Machine Co., but after a few 

 months he decided to take up his trade 

 as a gardener, taking care of private 

 estates until lie went to work for the 

 Frey Greenhouse Co., with which he re- 

 mained until he became superintendent 



of the Moshassuck cemetery, forty-two 

 years ago. 



Mr. Hacking was one of the original 

 members of the Florists' and Gardeners' 

 Club of Rhode Island and was one of its 

 stanchest supporters. At the time of 

 the entertainment of the Society of 

 American Florists by the club on the oc- 

 casion of its holding its annual conven- 

 tion at Providence in 1896, Mr. Hacking 

 was a member of several of the com- 

 mittees. Ho was also a member of the 

 National Cemetery Superintendents' As- 

 sociation. He is survived by a son, Ed- 

 ward; a brother and two sisters. 



W. H. M. 

 Daniel Earn. 



Daniel Karn died at his home in 

 North Plainfield, N. J., Tuesday, June 8. 

 He was 55 years of age. 



CHIOAOO. 



The Market. 



Notorious for its ups and downs, the 

 Chicago market last week executed one 

 of the quickest right-about-faee move- 

 ments in its history. At all times sus- 

 ceptible to the influence of the weather, 

 the market had suffered severely for a 

 fortnight because of a heat wave, but 

 the heavy crops already were beginning 

 to diminish when the weather cooled, 

 June 17, with the result that there was 

 a sharp reduction in supply, especially 

 of roses. One veteran wholesaler stated 

 June 21 that there were not more than 

 one-sixth the number of flowers re- 

 ceived in the Chicago market that day 

 that came in the same day a week be- 

 fore. The market cleaned up June 19 

 for the first time in a fortnight and 

 opened June 21 with an entirely new 

 set of conditions prevailing. Supplies 

 have been reduced to the point where 

 it became impossible to fill all orders 



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