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The Florists' Review 



Jl NK 1, 1!»22 



OBITUARY 



Charles W. Phillips. 



Chillies W. rjiillips, votcraii florist 

 of VVallii Walla, Wash., died May 18 at 

 :i local hospital, following a brief ill iioss. 



Mr. Phillips was born at Raleiii, Ore., 

 May 27, 185,^, and four vears later 

 moved to the Walla Walla valley, where 

 iiis kindly disjiositioii made many 

 friends for him throiijihont his lifetime. 

 Always a keen lover of ]p|;iiits and llow- 

 ers, he naturally turned to the Imsiiiess 

 of growing them. Besides lieing a llo 

 rist,_ lie was a decorator of exceptional 

 ability. Ho is survived l)y his wife, Mrs. 

 Xellie S. Phillips, and nine cliildn-ii. 



Mrs. May Bonuot. 



Mrs. May Bonnot, of Xew York city, 

 died May 20, at the St. Francis hospital 

 from an operation following an attack 

 of pneumonia. Mrs. Bonnot was the 

 wife of the well known New York and 

 Brooklyn florist, Leon Bonnot, who was 

 formerly in business in New York and 

 in Jersey City, N. J., operating under 

 tlie name of Bonnot Bros. He was also 

 engaged in the trade in Hoboken and 

 I'lemington, N. J. 



C. C. Thomas. 



All his friends, in the cast and west, 

 will regret to hear of the death of C. V. 

 Thomas, of Los Angeles. Mr. Thomas 

 went to Los Angeles about three vears 

 ago from Indianai)olis, Ind., and joined 

 the staff of Lichtenherg "s, Fr.-iiik Lidi 

 tenberg having formerly worked with 

 him for Bertermann Bros. (\,., of Indian 

 apolis. Although Mr. Thomas had been 

 sick for a week or more, he had appar 

 ently improved and May 22 talked of 

 going back to the store' the next day. 

 .V high blood pressure, followed bv a 

 hemorrhage of the lungs, brought him 

 down suddenly and he died from heart 

 f.-iljiire the following niylit. 



.Mr. Thomas, during liis st;iy in Los 

 .Vngeles, made many friends in the busi 

 Mess, owing to his iinf.iiling court esv 

 :iii<l jidod nature, .-iiid lie will be greatlv 

 missed. He h;id coiisi.jer.-ilile trouble 

 with his healtli and Mrs, Thomas had 

 .ilso been ill a gre;it de;il during the last 

 \oar. .Mr. Thomas was .ilMiiit .').") years 

 of .-luie ;ind leaves only .i wife, no cliil 



dren. 



H. R. K. 



John F. Hargrave. 



.)(din V. Hargrave, pid])iietor of II;ir 

 grave's Seed Store, Oalveston, Tex., 

 and grand knight of Galveston Council 

 Xo. 787. Knights of Columbus, an ac 

 ti\i' worker in civic .ind fraternal cir 

 eles. died Mav 10. at his residence. 1207 

 K avenue. Mr. Hargr.-ive was .-i native 

 G.-ilvestonian, h;iviiig been born tlieri 

 .lanuary 28, 1S7!t. He was 43 ye.-ns old. 



-Mr. Hartrrave was well known 

 throughout the state as an eiithnsiiistic 

 .■ind capable worker in all Kniylits of 

 • 'olumbus and Catholic activities. He 

 w.'is a jnember of the Travelers' Protec 

 five Associiition and of the Graml Fr.i 

 ternity. He was also a member of the 

 fourth degree ass(>mbly, Knights of Co 

 lumbus, .-itid president of Sacreil lle.irt 

 Parish. 



He is survived by his wife. Mis. 

 Alia Hargr;ive; two daughters, .\nii;i 

 :ind Ada \'. Hargrave: his mother, .Mrs. 



K. P. Hargrave; four brothers, Thomas 

 and Kiidiard Hargrave, of Dallas, Tex., 

 Morris, of New York city, Frank, of 

 Texas <!ity, Tex., jiiid one sister, Airs. 

 Kose X'oight. 



Professor William Parsons. 



William I'arsous, prominent horticul- 

 turist and musical director, of Paincs- 

 ville, O., died May 25, from injuries 

 sustained when he fell from a tree 

 which he was trimming in Cit.v jiark. 

 He was .■)() years of age, ;ind grew flow- 

 ers and jilants for the retail trade and 

 especially for Lake lOrie College. He 

 was also superintendent of parks. 



Mr. P.arsons came to Painesville six- 

 teen years ;igo from New Castle, Pa., 

 and was a member of the Methodist 

 Kpiscop.-il chiirtdi, a thirty second de- 

 gree Mason and a .Shriner. Kor eleven 

 vears the dece;(se(l was the <lirector of 

 the Kiiclid band at Kucliil, ()., also the 

 director of the Painesville (Citizens ' 

 band and oi'iginator of the Kxcelsior 

 Militarv band. Mr. Parsons is survived 

 by his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Mer- 

 rill Hodges, of West Wjtshington street, 

 and Miss Lilli;iii Parsons; .-ilso a son, 

 Otto Parsons. W. J. M. 



Lorenz P. Geiger. 



Members of the trade 5n Chicago wen- 

 shocked to learn of the untimely death 

 of Lorenz P. (ieiger, who, though only 

 .■>2 years old, had become well known 

 through his long connection with Prank 

 Oechslin, having acted as his book 

 keeper for several years and having 

 been in his employ since bovhood. Mr. 

 (ieiger died at !) a. m.. May 30, at Bal- 

 mora, N. M. He had been in New 

 .Mexico about a month, having gone be- 

 cause of lung trouble. (-'omplications 

 ensued, resulting in his death. Mrs. GiMger 

 and her sister were in New Mexico with 

 Mr. Geiger. 



Mr. Geiger is survived by his wife, 

 his mother, two sisters and two broth- 

 ers, Hermap Geiger and Paul Geiger, the 

 latter being foreman of Frank Oechs 

 lin 's Forest Park range. The body is 

 ln'ing brought home- for burial, ,iihl 



luneral services will be held Saturday, 

 .) line .'!, at 2 ji. in., at the cliai>el of Kanipji 

 \ Son, ;n8 North Central avenue, in 

 -Austin. 



Patrick Welch. 



The florists' trade of this country 

 lost one of its outstanding figures the 

 morning of May 25, when Patrick 

 Welch, of Boston, Mass., passed away. 



As president of Welch Bros. Co., one 

 of the oldest and largest wholesale 

 houses in the east, and as an ex-presi- 

 dent of the Society of American Flo- 

 rists, Mr. Welch had a host of warm 

 friends who will miss him. At his 

 death he was 64 years of age. 



Patrick Welch was born in Ireland 

 in 1858, and at the age of 23 years 

 came to Massachusetts with his par- 

 ents, who made their residence at Dor- 

 chester. Immediatel.v thereafter he en- 

 tered the florists' profession, taking 

 employment jit the conservatories of 

 William Wales, at Dorchester. In 1873 

 Mr. Welch was cmi)loyed by Holbrook 

 & Tompkins, who had bought the busi- 

 ness of Mr. Wales. This firm opened 

 what was, |-erlia]is, the first store in 

 lioston for the ])urjiose of selling cut 

 dowers, and it t)ecaine a part of Mr. 

 Welch's duty to deliver the cut to the 

 city e.ach day. 



In the same year Mr. Welch went out 

 on the road to sell a iiiachine for fumi- 

 gating, whi(di had been invented by 

 one Willi.-im Wheeler. Mr. Welch 

 |)r()ved ;i good salesman, for at almost 

 the first trial he succeeded in selling 

 K. M. W()()<1. proprietor of the Waban 

 Conservatories, Natick, Mass., four of 

 the machines. Mr. Wood, struck with 

 the selling ability of Air. Welch, of- 

 fered him a jiositioii, "if he ^o de- 

 sired.'' .\s a consequence, in 1876 

 Mr. Weleli becani(> Boston salesman 

 for the W:il);iii Conservatories, later 

 going to Philadelphia, where he sold 

 to the full satisf .action of his employers. 



Ill 1S77 .Mr. Welch started the busi- 

 ness of selling flowers on commission. 

 .\iid it is said that from that date may 



Charles 'W. Phillips. 



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