Jandabt 12, 1922 



The Florists' Review 



41 



OBITUARY 



Samuel Watson Crowell. 



January 4 Samuel W. Crowell, general 

 manager of the United States Nursery 

 Co., and widely known in the trade, 

 passed away at the Baptist Memorial 

 hospital, Memphis, Tenn., leaving a va- 

 cancy in the hearts and lives of his 

 friends that will never be filled. Within 

 the trade his demise is especially felt, as 

 he was a man of great horticultural 

 knowledge and unimpeachable charac- 

 ter. 



The deceased was born March 14, 

 1869, at Morgantown, N. C. Shortly 

 thereafter the father of the Crowell 

 family died and the early life of S. W. 

 Crowell was passed with an uncle near 

 Hickory and Asheville, N. C. He re- 

 ceived the greater part of his education 

 at Weaverville, N. C, and soon after 

 leaving school he went with Eobert and 

 Henry Chase to Huntsville, Ala., where 

 he received his training in the nursery 

 business under the supervision of John 

 Fraser, Sr., with the firm then known as 

 the Alabama Nursery Co. 



December 4, 1894, he was married to 

 Miss Willie B. Bynum, at Lakeview, 

 Miss., and soon thereafter he engaged 

 in business at Walls, Miss. It was there 

 also that he made his first venture in 

 his life work, the nursery business. In 

 1904 he moved to Eoseacres, Miss., then 

 known as Priddy Station, wh^re he en- 

 gaged in the nursery and planting busi- 

 ness and where he was located up to the 

 time of his death. 



Mr. Crowell 's attitude on progress and 

 business can be seen in the introduction 

 to a talk on "New Eoses Worth Know- 

 ing," delivered at the convention of 

 the Tennessee Nurserymen's Associa- 

 tion, at Nashville, Tenn., in 1911. At 

 that time he said in part: 



"We live in an age when to stand 

 still means retrogression, and retrogres- 

 sion inevitably means elimination. Ex- 

 pansion from small things into great, 

 and from great into still greater things, 

 is the rule of progress all the world over. 

 What satisfies the wants of today will 

 prove totally insufficient for tomorrow, 

 and the marvel which excited our won- 

 derment yesterday is today calmly ac- 

 cepted as a matter of course. The pros- 

 perity of an industry must depend upon 

 its healthy, constant growth, and the 

 country in which it is located will de- 

 crease or diminish in prosperity in ac- 

 cordance with the success or incompe- 

 tent management of that industry." 



Mr. Crowell left an influence on all 

 who knew him. Directly after his death 

 a letter was received by the United 

 States Nursery Co. from E. W. Learned, 

 head of the state plant board of Missis- 

 sippi, from which the following para- 

 graph is taken: 



"We always considered Mr. Crowell 

 the outstanding nurseryman in Missis- 

 sippi, and by the nurserymen and inspec- 

 tion officials throughout the south I 

 know that he was considered as one of 

 the outstanding leaders. I am sure that 

 everyone who was acquainted with him 

 will agree that he was an honor to his 

 profession. This was due largely to the 

 fact that everyone who had dealings 

 with him had absolute confidence in 

 him. The state of Mississippi has lost a 

 good citizen and its leading nurseryman. 



Samuel Watson Crowell. 



the nursery business has lost one of its 

 outstanding leaders in the south and I 

 am certain that the members of the 

 United States Nursery Co. have lost a 

 colleague and associate that cannot be 

 replaced." 



Mr. Crowell was a thirty-second de- 

 gree Mason. He had served as a mem- 

 ber of the vigilance committee of the 

 American Association of Nurserymen 

 and as state vice-president of the S. A. 

 F. He had been a member of the South- 

 ern" Nurserymen 's Association, of which 

 he was president during 1920, and a 

 member of the Western Association of 

 Nurserymen, as well as other nursery 

 organizations. His personal life was en- 

 riched by his love of the beautiful 

 things of life. Books, flowers and music 

 were almost a passion with him. A 

 touching tribute to Mr. Crowell was pub- 

 lished in several of the southern news- 

 papers. 



The deceased was buried at Elmwood 

 cemetery, Memphis, Tenn., January 5. 

 Those surviving Mr. Crowell are his 

 wife, his two sisters, Mrs. T. A. Mott 

 and Mrs. E. E. Simpson, of Hickory, 

 N. C; and a brother, A. H. Crowell, of 

 Newton, N. C. 



Mrs. Mina Burgle. 



Mrs. Mina Burgle, wife of the head 

 gardener at Mare Island Navy Yard, 

 passed away at the end of the year, 

 after a brief illness. Her husband orig- 

 inated the dahlia named after her. It is 

 a flower well known to California flo- 

 rists and much sympathy is felt for the 

 bereaved widower, who honored his 

 wife in his best-known floral creation. 

 Mr. Burgle has been gardener at the 

 Mare Island station for the past twenty 

 years and his flowers are familiar to 

 naval men up and down the coast. Mrs. 

 Burgle, who died at her home in Val- 



lejo, the civilian city near Mare Is- 

 land, is survived by Mr. Burgle, a son 

 and two daughters. M. M. 



Emma Louise Epliraim. 



In florists' circles much sympathy 

 was felt with Moses A. Ephraim, pio- 

 neer San Francisco florist, in the death 

 of his wife, Emma Louise Ephraim, who 

 passed away in her home city January 

 2. Mr. Ephraim, who is connected with 

 the Art Floral Co., San Francisco, Cal., 

 is one of the pioneer florists of the bay 

 region and his many friends remem- 

 bered, with flowers, the last rites for his 

 beloved wife. The deceased was a na- 

 tive of England, but had lived in San 

 Francisco for a number of years. 



M. M. 



LONG ISLAND'S FAR AWAY. 



The United States of America is quite 

 a large place, sometimes called a melting 

 pot, and it takes a large ladle to stir it 

 up. But one by one florists, too intent 

 on other things to think much about 

 publishing, are waking up to the fact 

 that it is where a newspaper is read 

 and not where it is printed that counts 

 in getting results for advertisers. It's 

 like this: 



Enrlosed please find remittance as per your 

 statement. I am pleased to say I have had, 

 through your medium, several very satisfactory 

 transactions in the year past. You seem to be 

 able to move the goods. — John D. Knickman. 

 East Northport, Long Island, N. Y., December 

 30, 1921. 



If you hear a man complain of the 



cost of advertising, you can be pretty 



certain he spends a good bit of money 



elsewhere than in The Eeview. 



Union City, Conn. — Frank E. Miller 

 died recently, as a result of which the 

 business formerly operated by him is 

 out of operation. 



