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snperb. It already is three and one- 

 half to four feet high and is a veritable 

 sheet of flowers. Gorgeous is doing well, 

 as are Pink Delight and Benora. 



Qalvin's had the decorations for*the 

 Larned-Fuller wedding in Dedham No- 

 vember 7. 



The new store of the Houghton-Gor- 

 ney Co., under the Park Street church, 

 on Tremont street, opened for business 

 November 9. The store is commodious 

 and the interior decorations and ar- 

 rangements are up-to-date. There are 

 two show windows. A new auto deliv- 

 ery truck has also been secured. With 

 so promising a start, the new firm 

 should do a good business. 



Fred Becker, of Cambridge, has a new 

 anemone-flowered mum, larger than 

 Garza, with more petals and a much bet- 

 ter center. It makes a splendid bush 

 plant, being dwarf and stocky. It will 

 be introduced next season. 



At the next meeting of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club, November 17, the 

 annual nomination of ofiicers for 1915 

 will be made. There will be a display 

 of late chrysanthemums. W. N. Craig 

 will read a paper on * ' The Gardener and 

 His Profession." 



The Horticultural Club held a meet- 

 ing at the Parker House, November 4, 



with a good attendance, J. K. M. L. Far- 

 quhar presiding. W. A. Manda was 

 among those present. C. S. Strout, of 

 Biddeford, Me., was admitted to mem- 

 bership and made a forcible address. 

 The lecturer of the evening was H. T, 

 Fernald, of Amherst, his subject being 

 "Insect Pests and Their Control." 



John McFarland, of North Easton, 

 has a grand house of late mums, mostly 

 Bonnaffons. 



Everett E. Cummings, of Woburn, is 

 getting a fine lot of sweet peas. He 

 also has Bonnaffon mums in quantity, 

 in addition to his big lot of single vio- 

 lets. 



Wax Bros, had attractive windows 

 November 7 for the football game. In 

 one crimson mums and cattleyas were 

 used, in another yellow mums and calen- 

 dulas. Business here is reported as good. 

 They have a new delivery auto. 



Peter Hylen, of Bandolph, and Mann 

 Bros., of the same town, had the first 

 Paper White narcissi in the market No- 

 vember 7. 



H. W. Vose, of Hyde Park, has Chief- 

 tain in good shape. This seems to be 

 the leader of its color here. 



The Sutermeister Estate, of Eeadville, 

 says stevia will soon be fit to cut. 



W. N. C. 



Phoenix, Ariz.— Charles E. Morton 

 opened his store in the Balke building, 

 115 North First avenue, October 31. 

 The business will be run under the name 

 of Morton's Flower Shop. 



Olean, N. Y.— Elmer Eawlings has 

 purchased the greenhouses and land of 

 Fred A. Hamm, at Allegany, N. Y. His 

 eight large houses on West State street 

 are being moved to the new site, at Al- 

 legany, where he will have a large and 

 up-to-date establishment. 



Muskogee, Okla.— C. L. Crawford's 

 interest in the concern run as Craw- 

 ford's Flower Store has been purchased 

 by Charles W. Whaley. Mr. Whaley 

 was formerly claim agent for the Mus- 

 kogee Electric Traction Co. and at one 

 time a newspaper man. He will con- 

 tinue the business under the old name. 



Johnson City, Tenn.— Miss Sallie 

 Faw, owner of the Johnson City Floral 

 €o., has just finished building a Monin- 

 ger greenhouse, 25x138 feet, with fe 

 curved-eave show house in front. This 

 will practically double the size of the 

 range, which now comprises close to 

 10,000 feet of glass. The place is 

 leased by Gunnar Teilmann, formerly 

 of Marion, Ind., whose business has 

 been steadily growing. 



Eochester, Minn.— The E. Bragg Co, 

 which was recently organized to take 

 over the business of Ross Bragg and 

 of which Mr. Bragg is president and 

 treasurer, is planning the erection of a 

 store on West Zumbro street, across 

 irom fet. Mary's hospital. There will 

 be a greenhouse attached to this store. 

 iJl„*'^°'"P^°y ^^^0 contemplates the 



^iVh^^^''^ * ""^"S® «^ greenhouses 

 within the next few months. 



Painesvllle, O.— The Carl Hagen- 

 burger Co. has opened its new store in 

 the Utopia block, and has an excellent 

 display of chrysanthemums, etc., in the 

 window. 



Huifon, S. D. — Articles of incorpora- 

 tion have been filed by the Huron 

 Greenhouses. The capital stock is fixed 

 at $25,000, and the incorporators are 

 E. D. Whorton, W. F. Whorton and 

 Mildred Cahsun. 



Winston-Salem, N. C— Robert Gru- 

 nert, proprietor of the West Salem 

 Greenhouses, has just completed a 

 greenhouse 21x80 and an addition to 

 the main rose house, making the build- 

 ing 21x80 feet. 



Oloversville, N. Y.— Thomas Barsons 

 has sold his greenhouses and business, 

 which he has conducted here for twenty 

 years, to J. H. Frederick, for some years 

 in the trade at Schenectady. The prop- 

 erty consists of three large houses on 

 North Perry street and the stock in the 

 store at 18 West Main street. 



Detroit, Mich.— The Schroeter-Stahe- 

 lin Co. will open a high-class retail 

 flower store at 531 Woodward avenue 

 about November 16. The store will be 

 in charge of Hugo Schroeter, who for 

 eighteen years has been in the retail 

 business with his father, B. Schroeter. 

 The other member of the firm is Albert 

 J. Stahelin, whose immense plant at 

 Bedford, Mich., is well known to the 

 trade. It was Mr. Stahelin who built 

 the first movable houses in this country 

 and who now has a range of eight 

 movable houses, covering a floor space 

 of 50,000 square feet. In addition he re- 

 cently completed a house 72x400 feet. 



OBITUARY 



John L. Parker. 



John L. Parker, one of the best known 

 druggist-florists in the south and for 

 years president of the board of educa- 

 tion at Birmingham, Ala., shot himself 

 through the right temple November 3 in 

 the basement of his store, on the corner 

 of First avenue and Twentieth street. 

 Death is thought to have been instan- 

 taneous. 



There were few better known men in 

 Birmingham than Dr. Parker. He had 

 been president of the board of educa- 

 tion for a number of years and was 

 prominent politically before the in- 

 auguration of the commission form of 

 government in Birmingham. He served 

 several terms as alderman and once as 

 president of the city council. He was 

 also president of the state board of 

 pharmacy, a former president of the 

 board of trade and chairman of the 

 executive committee of the State Fair 

 Association. He was a Mason and a 

 member of many clubs. 



Mr. Parker came to Birmingham from 

 Livingston in the early days of the city. 

 His first drug store was on the corner 

 of Second alley and Twentieth street. 

 When the Woodward building was 

 erected he secured the corner store and 

 had operated a drug, flower and seed 

 business there since. Mr. Parker had 

 many interests in Birmingham, and the 

 statement that he was in financial diffi- 

 culties was denied by his friends. It 

 is stated that his business was in much 

 better condition this year than it was 

 at the same time last year. His estate, 

 although unappraised as yet, is expected 

 to reach a large figure. Mr. Parker 

 owned nearly thirty acres adjoining the 

 fair grounds, with greenhouses, and in 

 addition to this held much property both 

 in Birmingham and elsewhere. It l^as 

 stated by friends that Mr. Parker had 

 $151,000 life insurance in force at the 

 time of his death. 



Mr. Parker is survived by his widow 

 and two children, the oldest 14 years. 



The funeral was held November 5. 

 The public schools were closed in his 

 honor. There was a large attendance 

 and there were two wagon-loads of flow- 

 ers. Interment was in Elmwood cem- 

 etery. 



David Walsh. 



David Walsh, aged 51, an employee 

 of G. E. Clark, of Scranton, Pa., died 

 November 3 at his home in Scranton, 

 after an illness of several weeks. Sur- 

 viving him are his widow, three sons, 

 James, Edmund and David, Jr., and one 

 sister, Mrs. John McVeigh. 



John Welsh. 



John Welsh, for twenty-seven years 

 in the employ of S. J. Eeuter & Son, 

 Inc., at Norwich, Conn., died October 

 31 at his home on Clark street, Norwich, 

 at the age of 45. He had been in fail- 

 ing health for the last six weeks and 

 his condition became critical about a 

 week before his death. Mr. Welsh was 

 held in high esteem by his employers 

 and was a foreman for the firm at the 

 time of his death. He leaves a widow 

 and four children. 



Montgomery on Grafted Roses, sent 

 by The Eeview for 25 cents. 



