H)t,v 2*. 1918. 



The Florists' Review 



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veal's ago **8 elected one of its few 

 ijonoiary members for his eminent serv- 

 j^jes to horticulture. It can safely be 

 said of him that he was one of the most 

 upright and respected practical garden- 

 erg who ever lived in Massachusetts. 

 He i« survived by one son, Joseph T. 

 Clarke, for many years the respected 

 gttpei iutendent of the John E. Thayer 

 estat.^ South Lancaster, and by two 

 dauglitera. 



E. B. Sutton. 



Eflingham B. Sutton, who was in 

 business some years ago as a florist at 

 Babylon, N. Y., died July 16 at his 

 home in Flushing, N. Y., at the age of 

 eo years. He was born July 7, 1853, in 

 New York city. Before entering the 

 florists' trade at Babylon, he was in 

 business for a time with his father and 

 brother, maintaining a line of fast clip- 

 pers between New York and San Fran- 

 cisco, under the firm name of Sutton 

 ic Co. He removed to Flushing nine 

 years ago. 



Julius Boehrs. 



" Julius Roehrs, founder and head of 

 the Julius Eoehrs Co., died at his home 

 at Euthei"ford, N. J., at 10 a. m. Sunday, 

 July 20. He had been ill for several 

 months with stomach trouble and had 

 returned only a few days before from 

 ;i trip to Europe in quest of health. 



Julius Roehrs was born in Hamburg, 

 (iermany, in 1844. He served three 

 years in the botanical gardens at Kiel, 

 Holstein, and went from that city to 

 Erfurt and J)resden. In 1865 he came 

 to America, having been appointed head 

 gardener for Mr. Lienan, of Jersey 

 City, who at that time was beginning to 

 form a collection of orchids. In 1868 

 Mr. Lienan returned to Germany, and 

 his whole collection of orchids and stove 

 plants was sold. Mr. Boehrs then took 

 over Mr. Lienan 's greenhouses and 

 started business as a general florist. He 

 also built some greenhouses on Prospect 

 street, Jersey City Heights, where he 

 grew roses and carnations for his retail 

 trade. He did not remain in the retail 

 business, however, for more than five 

 years. When the Lienan greenhouses 

 were torn down Mr. Roehrs moved en- 

 tirely to Jersey City Heights, where he 

 "lade a specialty of growing hybrid per- 

 I'etual roses under glass. With these 

 he was remarkably successful. 



When again compelled to look for a 

 'lew site, he bought a large tract of land 

 "> Rutherford, N. J., and removed his 

 "•ntire establishment to that place, 

 where it is now located. He continued 

 ^0 give his chief attention to the grow- 

 ing of hybrid perpetual roses until the 

 I'fotits in that line were curtailed by 

 'ne ajipearance of the American Beauty, 

 winch forced the older varieties to take 

 =• bai k seat. At this juncture he began 

 the hnndling of palms, stove and green- 

 ''."»!;''' plants, and to his many other va- 

 "letits of stock he also gradually added 

 orchiiis. In recent years he has justly 

 l""'dc,| himself on having one of the 



•^^st and most complete commercial 

 •^ollp" tione of orchids on this continent. 



H, married, in 1877, a German lady— 

 •I'ss Schroeder. They had seven ehil- 

 ^iren. five boys and two girls. The two 



eldes! 



sons, Julius and Edouard, have 



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j^eti for years associated with hi 

 ^si'H'ss^^and it is expected the company 

 /: ' "Dtinue under their direction with- 

 ""t . hange of policy. 



,., ^''<' funeral was held at the residence 

 "•""■♦ay afternoon, July 22. There was 



Julius Ecehrs. 



a large attendance, every branch of the 

 trade being represented and many from 

 a distance being present. The flowers 

 attested the high esteem in which Mr. 

 Roehrs and his family are held, the 

 offerings being extremely numerous and 

 fine in . character. The rooms were 

 banked to the ceiling. The pall was of 

 orchids. A splendid wreath came from 

 Sander & Sons, St. Albans, England. 



J. M. Oleason. 



J. M. Gleason, a well known and 

 highly respected Boston seedsman, died 

 Sunday evening, July 20, following an 

 operation performed the same morning. 

 Mr. Gleason was a native of Concord, 

 Mass., and spent his entire life, after 

 leaving school, in the seed business. 

 He was first with the firm of Allan & 

 Co., New York, next moving to Boston 

 and being a partner in the firm of 

 Everett & Gleason. He later went over 

 to Schlegel & Fottler Co., being a mem- 

 ber of that concern until it became 

 merged with the H. E. Fiske Co. and 

 W. W. Rawson Co., as the Fottler, Fiske, 

 Rawson Co., when he and A. F. Barney 

 joined forces with the old house of T. 

 J. Grey Co. 



There were few more expert seedsmen 

 in the United States than Mr. Gleason 

 and he had the confidence and respect 

 of a wide circle of market gardeners, 

 florists and private gardeners. The de- 

 ceased was a member of the Gardeners ' 

 and Florists' Club of Boston, many 

 members of which attended the funeral 

 services as a last token of esteem. 

 There was a wealth of floral souvenirs 

 from nnmerous friends and business as- 

 sociates. Mr. Gleason was in his sixty- 



fifth year and leaves a widow dnd two 

 sons, one of whom is married, t<J mourn 

 his loss. 



Bridgeport, Conn. — Charles Pflomm's 

 Sons have awarded the contract for the 

 construction of an addition, 30x91 fBet, 

 to their greenhouses to the Lord & Burn- 

 ham Co. Work is to be started at once. 



Waynesboro, Pa. — Henry Eichholz 

 has rebuilt and replanted his green- 

 houses, which were destroyed by fire 

 last fall. Some of his carnation seed- 

 lings were taken care of by friends 

 among the Harrisburg florists and will 

 be grown on for the next national 

 flower show. { 



Joplin, Mo. — An automobile belong- 

 ing to William E. Poundstone was 

 stolen from the garage behind his es- 

 tablishment on the evening of July 5. 

 It is believed that this theft and one 

 or two others were the work of a band 

 of joy-riders, for the automobile was 

 found abandoned next day a few blocks 

 from the garage, the meter showing it 

 had run about ten miles. 



Qlen Cove, N. Y. — The King Con- 

 struction Co., North Tonawanda, N. Y., 

 has received an order from J. P. Mor- 

 gan for the erection complete of an 

 extensive range of glass houses at his 

 country place here. The range com- 

 prises houses for peaches and nectarines, 

 vegetables, violets, bouvardias, Carna- 

 tions, melons and general plants. The 

 houses will be King channel bar with 

 curved glass eaves. All the lower parte 

 of the houses, including the heating 

 pipies, are to be of cast iron. The steel 

 work used for supporting the glas^^ 

 to be zinc-plated. -oT* 



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