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The Florists^ Review 



AnoDBT 2S, 1918. 



other greens daily to Newport, where 

 the society season is now at its height. 



Paul Meconi's new store and office 

 are completed, and he has a wider glass 

 frontage than any other wholesale house 

 in the city. The Coogan building has 

 been almost completely metamorphosed 

 this summer, and it now looks as if 

 those in it intend to stay there. 



Siebrecht & Son, of New Rochelle, 

 had a large exhibit of evergreens, 

 palms and specimen box trees at the 

 Greater New York Fair at Yonkers, for 

 which they received many prizes. 



Fifteen cases of goods, the first of 

 RuBsin & Hanfling's importations, ar- 

 rived August 25 and were housed in 

 their new store. 



J. J. Fellouris is repainting and get- 

 ting the store into shape for fall. He 

 says the outlook in the green goods line 

 is excellent. 



H. M. Robinson, of Boston, was in 

 town August 25 to attend the opening 

 of his company's new store. 



There will be the usual influx of out- 

 of-town buyers and retailers shortly, 

 stocking up for the winter. The grow- 

 ers are well prepared for them. Over 

 at Rutherford, N. J., the Julius Roehrs 

 Co. has a hundred houses filled with the 

 choicest stock, from ferns to orchids, 

 the latter exceptionally promising. 

 Julius Roehrs, Jr., who has been practi- 

 cally in charge of this immense estab- 

 lishment for some time, gives every 

 promise of maintaining the high stand- 

 ard it attained during the life of his 

 father. 



This is an appropriate week to visit 

 the grand display of outdoor beauty at 

 the big nurseries of Bobbink & Atkins, 

 their hybrid hibiscus especially absorb- 

 ing one's interest and admiration, as 

 well as the enormous variety of roses, 

 unequaled in any collection in the 

 country. 



The new and unique building of the 

 F. R. Pierson Co., at Tarrytown, ap- 

 proaches completion slowly, but prom- 

 ises to be finished before the Bnow flies. 

 When it is done, there will not be any- 

 thing better in its line. It will be sixty 

 ''feet deep, forty-two feet wide and 

 thirty-five feet high. Marble staircases, 

 brass railings, Corinthian pillars and 



Erismatic glass will accentuate its 

 eauty. It will be built entirely of 

 stone and absolutely fireproof. "The 

 surroundings will be in keeping with 

 the building, and all will reflect the 

 enterprise, independence and ambition 

 of the tireless and prosperous mayor of 

 Tarrytown. J. Austin Shaw. 



Dolgeville, N. Y.— R. B. Poole is 

 opening a greenhouse in this town, the 

 first that has been undertaken here. 



St. Joseph, Mo. — The Stuppy Floral 

 Co. has purchased a 1,500-pound motor 

 truck of the Dorris Motor Car Co., St. 

 Louis. 



Jackson, Tenn. — F. A. Byrne, who for 

 two years has had charge of Metcalfe's 

 branch here, got a column write-up un- 

 der a two-column head, in the Jack- 

 sonian, on the discovery of a white 

 gladiolus in "a bed of the common 

 specimens of the fiower." 



Hamilton, O. — Theo. Bock has gone 

 out of businens after selling everything, 



-Cv^n the ground his plant occupied, 

 wh{ch went for buiJdinglots. Mr. Bock, 

 who has been a floristi for fifty-two 



. years, found bis health breaking down 

 and therefore retired. 



Charles M. Hooker. 



The death of Charles M. Hooker, 

 senior member of the firm of C. M. 

 Hooker & Sons, Rochester, N. Y., oc- 

 curred on Monday, August 18, at his 

 home in Brighton, N. Y. Mr. Hooker 

 was one of the foremost figures in 

 horticulture in western New York for 

 sixty years. The Hookers are descend- 

 ed from Rev. Thomas Hooker, who, 

 with his people, founded the city of 

 Hartford. Charles M. Hooker was born 

 November 9, 1832, and was a son of 

 Horace Hooker, who traveled to 

 Rochester by stage in 1820, and who 

 made large investments in property in 

 St. Paul street and in the district north 

 of the city, then known as Carthage. 



Charles M. Hooker, when a young 

 man, entered the- employ of Bissell & 

 Hooker, nurserymen on East avenue, 

 Rochester. On reaching the age of 

 21 he became a member of the firm of 

 Hooker, Farley & Co., on St. Paul 

 street, his father being the senior part- 

 ner. In 1856 the business was re- 

 moved to Brighton and the farm of 

 the late Roswell Hart was purchased. 

 Subsequently the father retired, but 

 the business was continued for some 

 time under the old firm name. After- 

 ward the name became H. E. Hooker & 

 Bro. In 1877 the partnership was dis- 

 solved. Later C. M. Hooker entered 

 into partnership with his sons, under 

 the present name of C. M. Hooker & 

 Sons. 



In 1861, in Penfield, Mr. Hooker 

 married Miss Kate Lewis, daughter of 

 Daniel E. Lewis. She died nearly seven 

 years ago. Mr. Hooker leaves three sons, 

 Horace, Charles G. and Lewis Hooker, 

 and three daughters, Misses Mary, 

 Kate and Edith Hooker. Mr. Hooker 

 was one of the oldest trustees of the 

 Brighton Presbyterian church. For 

 more than half a century he was a 

 member of the Western New York 

 Horticultural Society; he was chair- 

 man of its executive committee for a 

 long time and also of the legislative 

 committee. 



In speaking of the death of Mr. 

 Hooker, W. C. Barry, president of the 

 Western New York Horticultural 

 Society, said: "Mr. Hooker was one 

 of our most esteemed members. He 

 attended the meetings regularly for 

 fifty years and took the greatest in- 

 terest in the proceedings, cheerfully 

 lending his aid and influence to the 

 building up of the organization. His 

 death is a personal loss to me and to 

 each member of the old Western New 

 York Horticultural Society." 



The burial, which was private, was 

 made in Mount Hope cemetery. 



H. J. H. 



Richard Hopps. 



Richard Hopps, who was in the flo- 

 rists' business at Youngstown, O., for 

 many years before his retirement four 

 years ago, died at his home, 400 War- 

 ren avenue, August 15, after a week 's 

 confinement to his bed. Mr. Hopps had 

 been suffering for the last three months 

 with kidney trouble. 



He was born in Ireland, May 6, 1840, 

 and came to this country when he was 

 a young man. He settled in Youngs- 

 town thifty-two years ago and was 

 actively engaged as a flofiat aad 



gardener until four years ago. In 1876 

 he married Miss Jane Bryson, who, 

 with their sons, Charles H. and William 

 R. Hopps, of this city, and Robert 

 Hopps, now living in Ireland, survives 

 him. The interment was August 17, 

 at Oak Hill cemetery. 



Charles Krombacb. 



Charles Krombach, for many years 

 one of the foremost florists of Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., died suddenly of heart 

 disease August 18, at his home, 161% 

 Twenty-third street. He had been ill 

 for some time, but had rallied and was 

 sitting up in a chair when he died. 



He was born fifty-six years ago, not 

 far from his late home. His entire 

 life was passed in the same neighbor- 

 hood and he took an active part in its 

 politics and social life. His places of 

 business were located on Twenty-fifth 

 street. Ninth avenue and Fort Hamil- 

 ton avenue. He was a member of the 

 Greater New York Florists' Associa- 

 tion, as well as of many other clubs 

 and lodges. He is survived by his 

 wife, two daughters and a son. His 

 death was quite unexpected and his 

 wife was away in the Catskills at the 

 time. The interment was August 21 

 in Greenwood cemetery. . 



Paul Kase. 



Paul Kase died by his own hand 

 August 19, on the steamship Massachu- 

 setts, en route from Boston to New 

 York. He put a bullet through his 

 heart. The body was not discovered in 

 the stateroom until some time after 

 the boat had docked. Several notes 

 were on it, one to his wife, one to his 

 stenographer and one to the coroner, in 

 which he said it was "a very ordinary 

 case. ' ' 



Mr. Kase was 38 years of age. His 

 home was at Bloomfield, N. J. He mar- 

 ried the daughter of Wm. Hagemann, 

 who was one of the widely known men 

 in the bulb trade, and at that gentle- 

 man's death, a few years ago, became 

 the president of the company, the offices 

 of which are at 30 Church sti«ftet^<New 

 York. ' f>!^'^ <i' I 



Eussell Allyn West. ''" 



Russell A. West, only son of James H. 

 West, a well known gardener of Ironde- 

 quoit, N. Y., died August 21, at the age 

 of 21 years. He met his death by 

 drowning, and three others narrowljr 

 escaped a like fate, in a canoeing acci- 

 dent at Conesus lake. He graduated at 

 Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., last 

 June. He was a young man of high 

 character, and his untimely death put 

 an end to a promising career. Mrs. 

 West, mother of the lad, witnessed the 

 accident from shore. Besides his par- 

 ents, he leaves a sister, Maude West. 



H.J.H. 



Mrs. G. W. Vreeland. 



Mrs. Albertine Vreeland, wife of Geo. 

 W. Vreeland, of Athenia, N. J., died 

 August 15 of cancer of the stomach. 

 She was formerly Albertine Bragger, of 

 Switzerland, and was in her fifty-eighth 

 year. For over twenty-two years she 

 had worked with her husband in the 

 florists' trade and was well known as 

 an excellent business woman. 



The deceased is survived by two 

 daughters, Misses Bertha and Ida Vree- 

 land, besides her husband. The funeral 

 Services were held August 17, from the 

 home on Van TTouten avenuoi. -Jnter- 

 ment was in Ridgelawn oemeier7.> 



