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OBITUARY 



Force of the Windier TThoIesale Floral Co., St. Louis, on an Outtng, June 20. . 



gold medal for the great work they 

 have done in popularizing the peony. 

 This firm has been one of the pioneers 

 with peonies and the award was well 

 merited. 



Silver medals were awarded to the 

 Mount Desert Nurseries and Farquhar 

 & Co. for their displays of hardy per- 

 ennials. Jackson Dawson received hon- 

 orable mention for a display of seedling 

 roses, and similar awards went to Wil- 

 liam Nicholson, for edelweiss; A. H. 

 Fewkes, for a collection of late peonies, 

 and Miss Susan Morris for a display of 

 York and Lancaster roses. George Page 

 had a nice display of gladioli, and E. "W. 

 Dwjer had iris and other flowers. 



In the stTHwberry section the dis- 

 play was good. Marshall once more 

 proved to he the • chajJipion variety, 

 closely followed by Golden Gate and 

 Barrymore. There was a splendid as- 

 sortment of vegetables, filling several 

 tables. The Boston Market Gardeners' 

 Association again made a fine display 

 of market boxes packed with choice 

 tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, endive, 

 peas and other seasonable varieties. 



Vartous Not«6. 



J. A. Budlong & Sons Co., Auburn, 

 R. I., grows a wider assortment of 

 roses than any other concern selling in 

 the Boston markets, and their flowers 

 are of fine quality. The following 

 varieties are grown this season and 

 6?j000 Beauties are planted in addition: 

 Double White Killarney, Killarney 

 Queen, Taft, Oafdinal, Dark Pink Kil- 

 larney, Rostand, Sunburst, Shawyer, In- 

 diana, Russell, Maryland, Stanley, Fire 

 Flame, J. 1«. Mock, Killarney Brilliant, 

 Ophelia, Hadley, Nesbit, Black Beauty, 

 Chicago and Prince d'Arenberg. Wil- 

 liam Malloy is the competent and cour- 

 teous head salesman at the Boston Co- 

 opera4;i'Ve Flower Market. 



William A. Hastings is receiving 

 from John A. Nelson, of Framingham, 

 White Enchantress, Enchantress, Femi 

 and WiaBor emulations of quality equal 

 to Midwiatet-. 



In the disastrous fire which wiped 

 out a large portion of Salem, Mass., 

 June 25 and rendered 2,000 people home- 

 less, McQee, Geary & Co. lost every- 

 tbing. They had a fine greenhouse be- 

 hind their store, on which they could 

 not get any insurance. 



Henry M. Robinson & Co. report a 

 heavier volume of June business than 

 ever before in their history. 



Among the firms sending in remark- 

 ably fine sweet peas of the Spencer type 

 are H. S. Chandler, of Tewksbury, and 

 H. F. Oalder, of Norwood. 



James Wheeler starts housing his car- 

 nations this week. During the pro- 

 longed drought he kept them well 

 watered by the Skinner irrigating sys- 

 tem. 



At Penn 'a business is brisk in bird 

 baths, sundials, fountains, urns, pedes- 

 tals and other garden furqiture, and 

 the widow decorations show these off to 

 excellent advantage. 



The long drought which has prevailed 

 since May 12 was broken by a good 

 rainfall June 27. It oertainly was 

 needed, as crops of all kinds were suffer- 

 ing terribly. 



The early closing on Saturday move- 

 ment at the wholesale stores and mar- 

 kets commences this week. 



The Boston Cut Flower Co. had a 

 large hotel decoration June 29 and sev- 

 eral weddings June 27. This concern 

 never had better June business. 



Arthur Capers is building two large 

 commercial houses on land purchased on 

 Weston road, Wellesley Hills. Carna- 

 tions will be his specialty. 



J. Newman & Sons, the old estab- 

 lished Tremont street florists, had ex- 

 cellent business in June and are well 

 pleased with the trade of the season 

 as a whole. 



At Galvin's June business has been 

 good, wedding orders being particularly 

 numerous. The aquatic display in the 

 windows of ihe Tremont street store is 

 quite attractive. W. N. Craig. 



WIKDLEB FORCE GOES FISHIKa. 



The fishing fever showed its first 

 signs of becoming an epidemic in St. 

 Louis this season June 20, when the 

 staff of the Windier Wholesale Floral 

 Co. went out in one of the concern's 

 motor trucks for a half -day's fishing 

 trip. The party stopped long enough 

 on the road for Oscar Kuefan, a guest 

 on this outing, to catch the view of the 

 fishers which is shown herewith. In 

 the foreground, marked conspicuously 

 by his white sox, is the boss, and to his 

 rif^ht is the secretary, Albert Gumz. 



.iStfy. 



Wimam H. Humfeld. 



William Henry Humfeld, of Kansas 

 City, die^^^^^^.^S,, after an illness of 

 three months. Mr. Humfeld was born 

 in Indiana and was 59 years of age. He 

 had lived in Kansas City twenty-four 

 ;^fif9," "(Jlrtfing twenty-one of which he 

 was in the florists ' business. He retired 

 from business three years ago. Surviv- 

 ing are his wife and five daughters, 

 Emma, Fannie, Viola, Mrs. L. N. Orear, 

 of Kafisas City, and Mrs. P. J. Newman, 

 of Manhattan, Kan. There are a large 

 family of brothers, all in the florists' 

 business, E. A. at Kansas City; Charles 

 "ft* Clay Centetf H. M. at Frankfort, 

 Ind., and Simon at Muncie, Ind. 



Joseph Wolniewicz. 



Joseph Wolniewicz, aged 57 years, 

 died June 26 at his home, 1214 School 

 street, Chicago, from cancer of the 

 stomach, after an illness of over a 

 year. Mr. Wolniewicz was born in Po- 

 land, coming to this country thirty 

 years ago, and hajs been in the florists' 

 business since 1893, trading as Joseph 

 Wall. Last spring he built another 

 store and greenhouses at 3235 Spring- 

 field avenue, but both places were man- 

 aged by his wife and sons. Besides his 

 wife, Victoria, he leaves three sons, 

 Kenneth, Julius and Leonard, and four 

 daughters, Mrs. Stella Ginter, Antoin- 

 ette, Celia and Laura. The funeral 

 was held June 30, at St. Josephat's 

 church. Burial was at Adalbert's cem- 



®*®'^' Frank HeU. 



Frank Heil, for many years in the 

 park service at Columbus, O., and for 

 the last five years at Schiller park 

 there, died June 18 at the home of his 

 stepfather, Ferdinand Baumami, '937 

 South Third street, Columbus, at the 

 age of 55. He had been ill for almost 

 two years, suffering from Bright 's 

 disease. 



Mr. Heil is survived by his widow; 

 a son, Frank Heil, of Toledo, and a 

 daughter, Mrs. Daniel Lenehan, of To- 

 ledo. The funeral was held at the Bau- 

 mann residence .Tune 20, at 8:30 a. m., 

 followed by services at St. Leo's 

 church. Burial was in Mt. Calvary 

 cemetery. 



Joseph Bradbury. 



Joseph Bradbury died on Saturday, 

 June 27, at South Orange, N. J., at the 

 age of 93. For sixty years he had been 

 a rose grower in that section of New 

 Jersey. He was born in Nottingham, 

 England. A son and six daughters sur- 

 vive him. 



Cudahy, Wig.— The Cudahy Green- 

 house Co., owned by Patrick Cudahy, 

 has two of its houses up, one planted, 

 the second being planted this week, and 

 the other two well under way. The 

 range, a new one, will consist of four 

 houses each 57x320, iron frame, sup- 

 plied by the Moninger Co., Chicago. 

 Roses and carnations will be grown, the 

 stock to be consigned to Gust. Bnsch 

 in Milwaukee. The rose plants for 

 stocking this new range were obtained 

 of Poehlmann Bros. Co., the carnation 

 plants of Nic Zweifel. The first house 

 planted contains Killarney Brilliant, 

 Mrs. Russell and Richmond, the secoutl 

 Killarney Brilliant and White Kilb.r- 

 ney. 



