July 21, 1921 



The Rorists^ Review 



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Sykes, of Passaic, N. J.; Walter A, 

 Sykes, of New York city, and George F. 

 Sykes, of Eiver Forest, 111., the latter 

 being associated with his father in the 

 Lord & Burnham Co. The daughters are 

 Mrs. Edward Caryl, of Passaic, N. J., 

 and Eose Sykes, who lived with her 

 parents. 



Funeral services were held at the resi- 

 dence in the evening of July 18, con- 

 ducted.by Siloam Commandery, and the 

 funeral oration was delivered by Rev- 

 erend Roy E. Vale, pastor of the First 

 Presbyterian church of Oak Park, of 

 which the deceased was a member. The 

 remains were taken, July 19, to thg old 

 home town for interment at Bay view 

 cemetery, Jersey City. 



Hiram Wheeler Buckbee. 



Hiram Wheeler Buckbee, of Rock- 

 ford, 111., widely known in the seed 

 and florists' trades, died at 8:45 p. m., 

 Saturday, July 16, at his cottage at 

 Lake Geneva, Wis., where he had been 

 for several weeks. He had been ill 

 for over a year with heart trouble. The 

 funeral services were held Tuesday, 

 July 19, at 4 p. m., at the home at Rock- 

 ford. 



The Rev. John N. Hall, of Chicago, 

 and the Rev. Charles A. Gage conducted 

 the services. Prominent seedsmen from 

 near and far, friends and admirers of 

 Mr. Buckbee, were included in the list 

 of pallbearers. The pallbearers were 

 Watson 8. Woodruff, W. T. Robertson, 

 H. B. Andrews, William Shimmin, 

 Charles Cherry and J. C. Vaughan. 



Mr. Buckbee was born at Rockford, 

 November 6, 1860, and secured his edu- 

 cation in the public schools. While 

 still a boy, in 1871, he started by sell- 

 ing cabbages, and from that small be- 

 ginning has grown the present busi- 

 ness done under the name of H. W. 

 Buckbee, including the Rockford Seed 

 Farms and the Forest City Green- 

 houses, which this year sent out 750,000 

 catalogues. 



Mr. Buckbee was greatly interested 

 in boosting Rockford and was a lead- 

 ing light in community and patriotic 

 affairs. He was a zealous welfare 

 worker at Camp Grant during the war. 

 The 108th Engineers made him an 

 honorary captain before their depar- 

 ture for France and presented Mr. and 

 Mrs. Buckbee with a token in appre- 

 ciation of all that he had done. He 

 found time to be a member of the For- 

 est City band and a crack member of the 

 Rockford Rifle Corps, and he also owned 

 a stable of trotters and pacers capable 

 of winning honors in the country 's best 

 horse races. He was a member of the 

 Masons, the Elks, the Chicago Athletic 

 Club, the Society of American Florists, 

 the Rockford Chamber of Commerce 

 and the American Seed Trade Associa 

 tion. He was also a director in the 

 Rockford National bank. 



He leaves his wife, Mrs. May Brown 

 Buckbee, his brother, John T. Buckbee, 

 who was associated with him in the 

 seed business, and five nieces. 



J. L. O'Quirm. 



J. L. O'Quinn, florist ami banker 

 of Kak'igh, N. C, was killoil instantly 

 on Crabtrco crock trcstk', about four 

 miles from Ralcijjh, Tuesday afternoon, 

 July 12, when caught by Seaboard pas- 

 senger train No. 11, due in Raleigh at 

 4 o'clock. 



Mr. O'Quinn had been fishing in the 

 creek and started across the bridge, 

 which is near a curve. The train, mak- 



H. W. Buckbee. 



ing good time, caught him when he 

 could neither retreat nor go forward 

 fast enough to escape. The engineer 

 is quoted as saying the Raleigh man 

 stood motionless long enough to have 

 escaped had he made the best use of 

 his few seconds. 



The death of the florist ends a highly 

 successful business life. Only a few 

 years ago he was a laborer drawing a 

 dollar daily wage as worker in an- 

 other florist's plant. Since then he 

 had acquired large interests, had be- 

 come director in the Merchants' Na- 

 tional bank and owner of much realty 

 in Raleigh. He was about 60 years 

 old and leaves a family. 



In addition to his business as J. L. 

 O'Quinn & Co., at Raleigh, Mr. O'Quinn 

 is said also to have been interested in 

 the Goldsboro Floral Co., at Goldsboro, 

 N. C. 



George S. Qoodbrad. 



Only three hours after he was stricken 

 with a heart attack, G. S. Goodbrad, of 

 Mobile, Ala., died July 10. Mr. Good- 

 brad was a lifelong resident of Mobile 

 and widely known, having been con- 

 nected with the (ioodbrad Floral Co. for 

 many years. 



Funeral services were held from the 

 home, 982 Dauphin way, at 8:45 a. m., 

 July 13. Mr. Goodbrad is survived by 

 two brothers, Thomas G. and Malcolm 

 J. Goodbrad; four sisters, Mrs. W. H. 

 Sanders, of New York, Mrs. W. A. Cope- 



land, Mrs. C. A. Marston and Miss 

 Bella Goodbrad, besides a number of 

 nieces and nephews. 



George V. Nash. 



George V. Nash, for many years head 

 gardener at the New York Botanical 

 Gardens, Bronx park, and secretary of 

 the Horticultural Society of New York, 

 died on the morning of July 15, after a 

 surgical operation bad been performed 

 upon him the previous evening. Funeral 

 services were held Monday afternoon, 

 July 18, at the Presbyterian church of 

 Bedford park. There were many flowers. 



GLADIOLI AT PAINESVILLE. 



A beautiful display of gladiolus flow- 

 ers is now to be seen at the Rychlick 

 Floral Gardens, West Jackson street, 

 Painesville, 0. This firm has twenty 

 acres under cultivation, debited to the 

 growing of perennials, annuals, etc. It 

 is making a specialty of gladioli, having 

 ten acres of these bulbs, wnich include 

 inaiiy of the new and choice varieties. 

 The blooms are shipped to/the Cleveland 

 market and are always i/ demand. 



Mr. and Mrs. Rychli^have three ami- 

 able daughters, Grille, Helen and 

 Charlotte, who'^tlffe an active interest 

 in the busin/ss and always find it a 

 pleasure to show visitors through the 

 grounds. \ T. J. M. 



