July 14, 1921 



The Florists' Review 



23 



OBITUARY 



George W. Wright, 



July 4 George W. Wright, president 

 of the Dunkirk Seed Co., and one of the 

 wealthiest residents of Dunkirk, N. Y., 

 died at the age of 65 years. He was 

 the oldest of three brothers, all of 

 whom were engaged in the seed busi- 

 ness. Besides his wife and daughter, 

 Cora, he is survived by two brothers, 

 Eeubcn W. and David E., and two sis- 

 ters, Mrs. J. H. F. Kauffman and Mrs. 

 W. H. Van Scoter, all of Dunkirk. 



The funeral was held Wednesday, 

 July 6, from the home, under the aus- 

 pices of Dunkirk commandery. Knights 

 Templar, with the Eeverend C. L. 

 Rhodes, of Fredonia, N. Y., officiating. 

 Mr. Wright was a native of Fredonia. 



William Winterson. 



W^illiam Winterson, aged 88 years, 

 was found dead in bed at the home of 

 his son, E. F. Winterson, 422 South 

 Hamlin avenue, Chicago, on the morn- 

 ing 0^ July 11. The venerable gentle- 

 man, who was known to many of his 

 son's business associates through some 

 years spent in assisting at Winterson 's 

 Seed Store, had been ill for a fortnight, 

 but the end was not expected in spite of 

 his advanced years. 



Mr. Winterson was born at Devizes, 

 England. He came to Chicago about 

 half a century ago. Two sons survive, 

 Edgar F. and Lewis H. There also are 

 three daughters. 



Funeral services were held at the late 

 residence on the afternoon of July 13, 

 with interment at Forest Home ceme- 

 tery. Many members of the trade at- 

 tended or sent flowers. 



Mrs. G. A. Rosbach. 



Mrs. G. A. Eosbach, of Pemberton, 

 N. J., died June 27. She was 75 years 

 of age. For over thirty years the store 

 of A. & G. Rosbach had been a land- 

 mark of Pemberton. The firm was com- 

 posed of Mrs. and Mr. Rosbach. They 

 were noted for the Boston fern and for 

 novelties and rarities, such as the 

 Daphne odorata. Last September Mrs. 

 Eosbach was forced to retire from the 



business on account of ill health and 

 her advanced age. The business was 

 purchased at that time by the M. H. 

 Coates Co. 



At the time of her death, Mrs. Eos- 

 bach was at the home of her niece, 

 at Hamilton Square, N. J., where she 

 had been ill for some time. 



Frederick Heffner. 



Frederick Haffner, an old-time busi- 

 ness man and florist of Hoboken, N. J., 

 passed away at his home, 914 Washing- 

 ton street, July 5. Mr. Haffner was 

 79 years old. He had conducted flower 

 shops both at his home address and 

 downtown. He is survived by his wife 

 and two sons, his daughter having died 

 nine months ago. 



Edson C. Lowell. 



E. C. Lowell, 47 years of age, died 

 at his home at Chatham, N. Y., June 

 27. Death was due to neuralgia of the 

 heart. Mr. Lowell was an expert florist 

 and had been in the employ of the Chat- 

 ham Floral Co. for thirty years. He is 

 survived by his mother, his wife and 

 two sons. 



LANCASTEB, PA. 



Club News. 



The Lancaster County Florists' Club 

 will hold its annual picnic Wednesday 

 afternoon, July 20, at Eocky Spring 

 park. All are invited. Bring your 

 friends with you. There will be a pro- 

 gram of sports for the children and 

 prizes will be given. Each person will 

 bring his own lunch basket. Florists 

 from neighboring cities are cordially 

 invited and meals can be secured at the 

 park caf6. 



The flower show committee is at work 

 and Hiemen's auditorium has been se- 

 cured for November 10 to 12. The 

 members present at the last meeting 

 were President B. F. Barr, Secretary 

 Albert M. Herr, Treasurer Harry K. 

 Eohrer, Elmer J. Weaver, L. S. Landis, 



A. F. Strickler^ J. F. Moore, Dr. Barry 

 Heinitsch, J. F. Markley and Charles 



B. Herr. 



The Lancaster County Florists' Club 

 will give a cup as one of the prizes to 

 be offered at the American Dahlia So- 

 ciety's show, to be held at the Hotel 



Pennsylvania, New York, the latter 

 part of September. 



Various Notes. 



Ira H. Landis and Charles Weaver 

 are busy cutting gladioli, of which 

 their plantings run into the hundred 

 thousands. Halley, Prince of Wales, 

 Wilbrink and White Grant are pretty 

 well cut out. 



H. D. Eohrer 's Sons are cutting fine 

 Schwaben and Panama. 



Miller & Sons are shipping some of 

 the best asters going out of Lancaster 

 county. 



For six weeks the greater part of the 

 county has only had extremely light 

 showers. Crops are suffering from the 

 extended drought. 



Anglers' Notes. 



Albert M. Herr and son, Irwin, have 

 made some fine catches of black bass 

 in the Susquehanna lately. 



L. S. Landis, A. K. Eohrer, H. K. 

 Eohrer and Edward Eohrer had a suc- 

 cessful fishing trip to Zook's Mills on 

 the Cocalico creek last week. 



Elmer J. Weaver's sensational 

 catches of the speckled beauties at 

 Bellefonte early in June with William 

 Swayne, Edward Marshall, of Kennett 

 Square, and H. K. Eohrer place him 

 in the front ranks of our local fisher- 

 men. 



Maurice J. Brinton, at his shack at 

 Peach Bottom, on the Susquehanna, 

 knows how to land the big salmon, 

 which abound below the Holtwood farm. 



H. K. E. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



A most unusual condition now pre- 

 vails in the Chicago market: There 

 are few flowers, but these few are not 

 selling, and there is an unsatisfied de- 

 mand. The trouble lies in the poor 

 quality of most of the stock offered; 

 good flowers, what there are of them, are 

 taken at sight, and at good prices, 

 while the greater part of each day's re- 

 ceipts must be forced on unwilling buy- 

 ers, who take them at low prices only 

 because they can find nothing better. 

 Every phase of the market situation is 

 , directly attributable to the unprece- 

 dented weather and the end is not yet. 

 Starting about May 20, the Chicago dis- 

 trict has had almost continuous hot 

 weather and there has been practically 

 no rain. We had a whole hot summer 

 before summer usually begins. It has 

 ruined many a crop, indoors and out, 

 and grave fears are entertained as to 

 the effect on the autumn cuts. 



Carnations are practically gone; the 

 few still coming in are of little value. 

 Sweet peas nearly all are burned up. 

 Asters, usually beginning to be a fac- 

 tor at this date, are ruined, at least as 

 far as the early varieties arc concerned, 

 and some fields of gladioli arc begin- 

 ning to show burn. All other outdoor 

 flowers not under irrigation are suffer- 

 ing. 



The receipts of roses are extremely 

 light and the flowers are small and 

 o{)en, not at all such stock as this mar- 

 ket usually handles in large quantity. 

 The buyers take the best roses willing- 

 ly, the others only because there is 

 little else. 



The gladiolus has become the chief 

 reliance. It stands heat and drought 

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