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The Rorists' Review 



FKiiituAin !». l'J2'J 



• III tliiit (la\' riKist cif thr oiKi.N had been 

 lTirH)\c(| liciMI llir \vi liilci\\- ; so tijc (laill- 

 :i^;c w.-is siii;ill, i'\ci|.t to the Imild in j^. 

 'I'lii' driver (if tlir ciir- wliiili \\:is strindi 

 was said to lir sc'Si'i'cl\ liurt.. His car 

 was w I'cidicil. ,1 . Iv K . 



rrinid. Ill tail, il was a I'i'al, ri(di ]iri\i- 

 Icj^ro to Im' iimiilicrfii ainoii^ those who 

 ■Were (dose to llilll. 



'I'o Mrs. \'aii I'dcct our decpi'st sym- 

 jiathy t;ui's out in hn- loss, and not only 

 lu'i' loss, hut a loss to t lif whole liorli- 

 (■ultiir;il World. S. S. ren]io(di. 



TRIBUTE TO DR. VAN FLEET. 



From a Fellow Rose Lover. 



1 lia\ (' riri i\ I'd ;i let t ri- I'l'oni I 'ro 

 li-ssor Corliett, t-.dliii^' ol Dr. \ ;ni I'lrct 's 

 sudiirn death. 'I'his coiius as a i^icat 

 slioek to ,all those who knew him, ]iar- 

 ticul;irl\ to those who knew jrun a.s inti- 

 mat(dy as have some of us who Iwive hoeii 

 a,sso(dated in the Kose JSoei'dy with him 

 t'M'Tk.e last few years. 



llisNjeatli is ;i distinct loss to lior- 

 ieult urt', ,tor in roses and rose i)reed- 

 iny; hr has iii.ade woiidoi'i'id adv.anee.s-. 

 He made jirobahly the most distinct 

 snccess alonjj these linos of any who ever 

 hybridized roses. 



With American I'illar .and l>r. \an 

 Fleet, roses that are known the world 

 over, and many others of equal merit, we 

 have him to thank for yivinj^ ns climb- 

 ers that were better th.an existing' va- 

 rieties. One of his many .ambitions was 

 to ])r0(liu',e an ever blooming idimber and 

 it would have been only a matter of a 

 few years until he would have had some- 

 thing^ startlini^ to ;T've ns alonj; these 

 lines. 



In visitiii}^ him at thr rxprriment al 

 ),Tounds and at his honu\ at Bell Sta- 

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

 or part of a ,day, sjicnt with him was a 

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

 interest and full of close iirtiinacy that 

 was not fjotten in' ,nny other way. lie 

 was ri'tiriny aTid modest to a fault; a 

 man tli.at one loved to be with and by 

 whom one loved to be counted as a 



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

 Lawrence Floral Co., has been confined 

 to his home by illness for several weeks, 

 but the business is in jjood hands and 

 e\eryone is busy. 



Marshall, Tex. — The Rainbow Floral 

 < 'o. has purchased the entire stock and 

 the fjreenhouses of the Beatrice Floral 

 Co. The latter will now be the whole- 

 sale department of the Rainbow Flor.al 

 Co. The sto(d< will be moved to tlu' prop- 

 erty of the Rainbow Flor.al Co. 



Palisades, N. Y.- -I''ire in (he Brown i*;; 

 .lordoii jrreenhonses .lanuary 31 de- 

 stroyed most of th(> younjj stock and re- 

 sulted in a loss estimated at $'200. A 

 ]>.iss(>r discovered the tire and in less 

 than half an hour the blaze was extin- 

 t.;uished. The lire started from a de- 

 fective flue, it is thoufjht. The greeu- 

 houses arc owned by yiierifT (!eorge It. 

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

 merly associated with th(> l'alisad(>H 

 Nursery. 



Ogden, Utah. — The Norton Floral Co. 

 was sold I'^cbruary 1 to Louis B. W'est- 

 holder, formerly of Fvanston, Wyo., who 

 will continue the business under the 

 iiaine of the Artistic J'doral Co., with 

 (ieorfi;o T. O'Kccfe as assistant. For 

 the time bcinji the store will be located 

 at 2223 Washinjiton avenue, but Mr. 

 West holder intends soon to have a larjier 

 store and a still btdter locatiori. He in- 

 tends to conduct a llower store of whiidi 

 OgdeJi will be j)roud. 



MOTT-LY MUSINGS 



W. A. Rowlands, Ftica, N. Y., re- I'oujihkeejisie, X. Y.. who, although he 



turnecl t'rom the carnation meeting, at possesses the patronage largtdy of Vas- 



Hartford, much jirolited by the exhibit, s.ar students, usually receives many telc- 



for, whilf the doctor is the accepted graph delivery ordcr^i. 



i-hampioTi grower oi Laildie in the ^lo- • » • • 



haw k valley, he is lo(d<ing for some- The Saltford Flower Shop, I'oughkecp- 



thing even better. 'I'o thts end his sie, N. Y., is at the front with specially 



grower, Ilarobl Mcl'.ri'lc. h.is taken a ilesigned flower favors for .St. \'alen- 



]iositioii in the f.anious houses of Wil- tine's d.ay, which jiromises to be fully 



uji to the ,i\erage. The veteran George 

 Salt ford is justly ]iroud of the stO(dv of 



ii.am Sim, Cliftond.ale, ^L•lss., to mak 

 (dose obser\ .ition (d' at nios)iheric nn 



<dher conditions, .as compared with thosi' c.attley.is he has accumulated 

 .it \Vhitesb(iro. A rejiort is jiromised 

 at ;in eaily meeting of the Albany Flo- 

 rists' Clui). 



■•Best in its cl.iss,'' oliserved Carl F. 



b'ibsam, ot Martin ('. ICibs.am. Trenton, 



X. .1.. referring to the rose. White Kil- 



.loseph Traudt, Can.a i(di;uie. N. "N .. l.arney. Some tini' blooms, with lavender 



li.ad ;i fine lot of carnations, tit to show sweet piiis. composing a large flat piece 



at Hartford, but ;i s]ieci:il order had to w:is nnii-li .admired. Baskets ;ind s]>r;iys 



stand first. lia\e superseded s(d designs to .a large 



* * • * ixtetit. according to Mr. Ribs.am. 

 "St. A .lb lit ine 's .|,a\- will find ns . . , , 



I'ully .able to take care of , any bu-iness, " (;o,ller Bros.. Tnntoii, .\. J., h.ave 



observed (Jeorge Burgevio, of \';ilentin mo\ed into .a larger store, to eii.alde 

 Burgevin "s Sons, Kingston, \. Y., who better h.andling of their increasing re- 

 .admittcd that it diil one good to attend t.ail business, (he result of (dose atten 

 the H.artford meeting, agreeing that all tion and judiidous advertising, 

 conceriu d did lh( ir best to insure the » » « » 



success it was. Henry H.ansen, C.atskill, X. Y., has a 



• • • • stock of carnations .-uid roses second to 

 "I>ooks good lor St. V.alentine's none. A fine s(dection of sjiring stO(dv 



dav," ■ comn:eute(l ('oiirad <i. Gindra, was also Tioted. \V. M. 



OBITUARY 



David S. Lake. 



With the jtassing of D. S. Lake, i)resi 

 dent of the Shenandoah Nurrf'eries, Shen- 

 andoah, la., the horticultural world h.as 

 lost one of its greatest benefactors. Mr. 

 B;ike had been confined to his bed for 

 three weidvs, suffering with an attack 

 (d' di.abetes, with which he had been 

 atllictiMJ for several years and which was 

 the cause of his death, February 2. He 

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

 ary 27, ISIT). His early boyhood, was 

 spent on a farm, but after graduating 

 from the academy at I'ittsfield, Mass.. 

 he went to Wi.'Sconsin and from there to 

 Illinois. In Jllinois he engaged in the 

 teaching^ profession, but this life evi- 

 dently did not ai)peal to him and he 

 sought emiiloyinent in a nursery at I'rai 

 rie City, HI. 



During the term of employment at the 

 luirsery ho conceived 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 i)urchased a small 

 jdot of ground in 1870, thus laving the 

 foundation of the Shenandoah Nurs- 

 eries of today. This concern has at the 

 present approximately J,000 acres of 

 land and its trade is' restricted almost 

 entirely t(| the wholesaling of stock to 

 other nur.4'ry conqianies throughout the 

 United Stdtes. Besides the nursery stock 

 grown atffShenando.ah, large blocks of it 

 are growy<i on contract for the companv 

 in otluV states. One of the s|>ecialties 

 of the coni])any is the handling of fruit 

 tr(>e seedlings and ornamental lining out 

 stock grown in Franco, where the firm 

 lias its own representative. A great deal 

 of fine ornamental shrubbery, orna- 

 mental trees, roses, etc.. are ;ilso im- 

 jxirted .annually from Holl.and. This firm 

 w.as incorpor.ated in 1!»1.'; with a capital 

 stock of .^200,000. 



^Ir. Lake gained the respect .and love 

 of .all who kiu'w him. During his entire 

 life he w.as alw.ays found ready and will- 

 ing to lielp the workingmen, always on 

 the side of the under dog. During the 

 later years of his life, he used his monev 

 freely for the building uj) of Shenan- 

 doah. He was a booster .and a builder 

 and ()ften constructed houses in order 

 to give employment to Laboring men. 



Mr. Lake was married to H.annah 

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

 him in death by seven years. Surviving 

 him ar(> two sons, A. F. Lake and R. S. 

 Lake, and one daughter. Clara R. Lake. 

 Two brothers also remain to mourn his 

 death. 



W. A. L.ankford. 



Willi.am .Vddison Lankford, of mi.ar 

 lottesville, V.a., died .lanuary 11 at his 

 home, ftdlowing a stroke of jiaralvsis 

 earlier in the day. 



Mr. L.ankford was in the sixty fourth 

 .ye.ar of his age .and h.ad been prominent 

 in his conuiiunity for the Last thirtv-five 

 or forty years, lie w.as born in Marion 

 <'ity. Md. 



()n arriv.al .at Ch.irlot tesville, Mr. 

 L.ankford engaged in railroad emplov 

 UK lit. Later he opened a bottling works. 

 He was (dected street commissioner for 

 the city and S(>rved 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 

 consi(lerable jteriod. 



