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The Florists^ Review 



Febuuauy 9. 1922 



on that day most of the goods had beeu 

 removed from the window; so the dam- 

 age was small, except to the building. 

 The driver of the car which was struck 

 was said to be severely' hurt. His car 

 was wrecked. J. E. K. 



friend. In fact, it was a real, rich privi- 

 lege to be numbered among those who 

 were close to him. 



To Mrs. Van Fleet our deepest sym- 

 pathy goes out in her loss, and not only 

 her loss, but a loss to the whole horti- 

 cultural world. S. S. Pennock. 



TRIBUTE TO -DR. VAN FLEET. 



From a Fellow Rose Lover. 



I have received a letter from Pro- 

 fessor Corbett, telling of Dr. A' an Fleet's 

 sudden death. This comes as a great 

 shock to all those who knew him, par- 

 ticularly to those who knew him as inti- 

 mately as have some of us who have been 

 associated in the Eose Society with him 

 for the last few years. 



His death is a distinct loss to hor- 

 ticulture, for in roses and rose breed- 

 ing he has made wonderful advances. 

 He made probably the most distinct 

 success along these lines of any who ever 

 hybridized roses. 



With American Pillar and Dr. Van 

 Fleet, roses that are known the world 

 over, and many others of equal merit, we , 

 have him to thank for giving us climb- ' 

 ers that were better than existing va- 

 rieties. One of his many ambitions was 

 to produce an ever-blooming climber and 

 it would have been only a matter of a 

 few years until he would have had some- 

 thing startling to give us along these 

 lines. 



In visiting him at the experimental 

 grounds and at his home, at Bell Sta- 

 tion, Md., one always felt that a day, 

 or part of a day, spent with him was a 

 day added to one's life; a day full of 

 interest and full of close intimacy that 

 was not gotten in any other way. He 

 was retiring and modest to a fault; a 

 man that one loved to be with and by 

 whom one loved to be counted as a 



Atlanta, Ga. — W. C. Lawreiice, of the 

 Lawrence Floral Co., has been confined 

 to his home by illness for several weeks, 

 but the business is in good hands and 

 everyone is busy, 



Marshall, Tex. — The Eainbow Floral 

 Co. has purchased the entire stock and 

 the greenhouses of the Beatrice Floral 

 Co. The latter will now be the whole- 

 sale department of the Eainbow Floral 

 Co. The stock will be moved to the prop- 

 erty of the Eainbow Floral Co. 



Palisades, N. Y. — Fire in the Brown & 

 Jordon greenhouses January 31 de- 

 stroyed most of the young stock and re- 

 sulted in a loss estimated at $200. A 

 passer discovered the fire and in less 

 than half an hour the blaze was extin- 

 guished. The fire started from a de- 

 fective flue, it is thought. The green- 

 houses are, owned by Sheriff George L. 

 Brown and W. F. Jordon, who was for- 

 merly associated with the Palisades 

 Nursery. 



Ogden, Utah.— The Norton Floral Co. 

 was sold February 1 to Louis B. West- 

 holder, formerly of Evanston, Wyo., who 

 will continue the business under the 

 name of the Artistic Floral Co., with 

 George T. O'Keefe as assistant. For 

 the time being the store will be located 

 at 2223 Washington avenue, but Mr. 

 Westholder intends soon to have a larger 

 store and a still better location. He in- 

 tends to conduct a flower store of which 

 Ogden will be proud. 



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W. A. Rowlands, Utica, N. Y., re- 

 turned from the carnation meeting, at 

 Hartford, much profited by the exhibit, 

 for, while the doctor is the accepted 

 champion grower of Ijaddie in the Mo- 

 hawk valley, he is looking for some- 

 thing even better. To this end his 

 grower, Harold McBride, has taken a 

 position in the famous liouscs of Wil- 

 liam Sim, Cliftondale, Mass., to make 

 close observation of atmospheric and 

 other conditions, as compared with those 

 at Whitesboro. A report is promised 

 at an early meeting of the Albany Flo- 

 rists' Club. 



• • • • 



Joseph Traudt, Canajoharie, N. Y., 

 had a fine lot of carnations, fit to show 

 at Hartford, but a special order had to 



stand first. 



• • • * 



"St. Valentine's day will find us 

 fully able to take care of any business," 

 observed George Burgevin, of Valentin 

 Burgevin's Sons, Kingston, X. Y., who 

 admitted that it did one good to attend 

 the Hartford meeting, agreeing that all 

 concerned did their best to insure the 

 success it was. 



• • • * 



"Looks good for St. Valentine's 

 day," commented Conrad G. Gindra, 



Poughkeepsie, N. Y., who, although he 

 possesses the patronage largely of Vas- 

 sar students, usually receives many tele- 

 graph delivery orders. 



• • • • 



The Saltford Flower Shop, Poughkeep- 

 sie, N. Y., is at the front with specially 

 designed flower favors for St. Valen- 

 tine's day, which promises to be fully 

 up to the average. The veteran George 

 Saltford is justly proud of the stock of 

 cattlcyas he has accumulated. 



* • • • 



"Rest in its class." observed Carl F. 

 Ribsam, of Martin C. Ribsam, Trenton, 

 X. .T., referring to the rose. White Kil- 

 larney. Some fine blooms, with lavender 

 sweet peas, composing a large flat piece 

 was much admired. Baskets and sprays 

 have superseded set designs to a large 

 extent, according to Mr. Ribsam. 



• • * • 



Goeller Bros., Trenton, X". J., have 

 moved into a larger store, to enable 

 better handling of their increasing re- 

 tail business, the result of close atten- 

 tion and judicious advertising. 



* • • • 



Henry Hansen, Catskill, N. Y., has a 

 stock of Carnations and roses second to 

 none. A fine selection of spring stock 

 was also noted. W. M. 



David S. Lake. 



With the passing of D. S. Lake, presi- 

 dent of the Shenandoah Nurseries, Shen- 

 andoah, la., the horticultural world has 

 lost one of its greatest benefactors. Mr. 

 Lake had been confined to his bed for 

 three weeks, suffering \yith an attack 

 of diabetes, with which he had been 

 afflicted for several years and which was • 

 the cause of his death, February 2. He 

 was born in Loudon Center, N. H., Janu- 

 ary 27, 1845. His early boyhood was^ 

 spent on a farm, but after graduating . 

 from the academy at Pittsfield, Mass. ^ 

 he went to Wisconsin and from there tO 

 Illinois. In Illiilois he engaged in the 

 teaching profession, but this life evi- 

 dently did not appeal to him and he 

 sought employment in a nursery at Prai- 

 rie City, 111. 



During the term of employment at the 

 nursery he concei\^ed the idea of start- 

 ing a nursery of his own and, after sav- 

 ing a small sum of money, he went to 

 Shenandoah, la., and purchased a small 

 plot of ground in 1870, thus laying the 

 foundation of the Shenandoah Nurs- 

 eries of today. This concern has at the 

 present approximately 1,000 acres of 

 land and its trade is restricted almost 

 entirely to the wholesaling of. stock to 

 other nursery companies throughout the 

 United States. Besides the nursery stock 

 grown at Shenandoah, large blocks of it 

 are grown on contract for the company 

 in other states. One of the specialties 

 of the company is the handling of fruit 

 tree seedlings and ornamental lining out 

 stock grown in France, where the firm 

 has its own representative. A great deal 

 of fine ornamental shrubbery, orna- 

 mental trees, roses, etc., are also im- 

 ported annually from Holland. This firm 

 was incorporated in 1913 with a capital 

 stock of $200,000. 



Mr. Lake gained the respect and love 

 of all who knew him. During his entire 

 life he was always found ready and will- 

 ing to help the workingmen, always on 

 the side of the under dog. During the 

 later years of his life, he used his money 

 freely for the building up of Shenan- 

 doah. He was a booster and a builder 

 and often constructed houses in order 

 to give employment to laboring men. 



Mr. Lake was married to Hannah 

 O'D.ay in 1872, but Mrs. Lake preceded 

 him in death by seven years. Surviving 

 him are two sons, A. F. Lake and E. S. 

 Lake, and one daughter, Clara B. Lake. 

 Two brothers also remain to mourn his 

 death. 



W. A. Lankford. 



William Addison Lankford, of Cliar- 

 lottcsville, Va., died January 11 at his 

 home, following a stroke of paralysis 

 earlier in the day. 



Mr. Lankford was in the sixty-fourth 

 year of his age and had been prominent 

 in his community for the last thirty-five 

 or forty years. He was born in Marion 

 City, Md. 



On arrival at Charlottesville, Mr. 

 Lankford engaged in railroad employ- 

 ment. Later he opened a bottling works. 

 He was elected street commissioner for 

 the city and served in that capacity for 

 several terms. He was one of the or- 

 ganizers of the first local telephone com- 

 pany and acted as superintendent for a 

 considerable period. 



