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The Florists' Review 



27 



OBITUARY 



J. G. Harrison. 



J. G. Harrison, founder and head of 

 the nursery firm of J. G. Harrison & 

 Sons, Berlin, Md., died at his home in 

 Berlin, December 12, from the effects 

 of a paralytic stroke received December 

 9. He was 74 years of age and had ap- 

 parently been in good health up to the 

 time of the stroke. He was born in 

 Sussex county, Delaware, in 1840, and 

 lived there until 1883, when he removed 

 to the south and engaged in the lumber 

 business for a short time. In 1884 he 

 settled in Berlin and started in the 

 nursery and fruit business on a small 

 scale. By persistent endeavor he de- 

 veloped the business to its present 

 (axge proportions. A few years ago he 

 gave up active work and turned over 

 the management of his nursery to his 

 sons. State Senator Orlando Harrison, 

 the elder son, became manager, assisted 

 by G. A. Harrison. The deceased is 

 survived by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth 

 r. Harrison, and four children, the two 

 sons mentioned and two daughters. 



W. F. E. 



John J. Connelly. 



John J. Connelly, for many years in 

 the florists' business at Rosemont, Pa., 

 ■died Friday, December 4, at his home 

 in Rosemont. He was born in Phila- 

 delphia, in 1851, and removed to Con- 

 shohocken in his early youth. He was 

 widely known in political circles, hav- 

 ing been active in Democratic politics 

 for years. He was postmaster of Bryn 

 Mawr in the second Cleveland adminis- 

 tration. For twenty-five years he was 

 treasurer of St. Thomas, of Villanova, 

 T. A. B. Society. 



It was in 1886 that- Mr. Connelly 

 removed to Rosemont from Bryn Mawr 

 and resumed the florists' business there. 

 He was one of the first to grow carna- 

 tions in his section, starting with 

 Heinz 's White and Lamborn and tak- 

 ing up the new ones, one by one, as 

 they came out. For many years he was 

 a member of the S. A. F. 



Burial took place December 7, services 

 being held at his home and mass cele- 

 brated at St. Thomas' church, Vil- 

 lanova, His wife, who before her mar- 

 riage was Miss Mary Hurley, survives 

 him. 



The business will be continued by 

 Mrs. Connelly and her sons and 

 daughters. 



J. W. Alexander. 



Sitting in an easy chair in his bed-" 

 room, December 11, J. W. Alexander, 

 of Charleston, W. Va., sent a bullet 

 •crashing through his brain. Worry over 

 financial reverses is thought to have 

 unbalanced his mind and prompted the 

 rash act. 



Mr. Alexander leaves, besides his 

 widow, two daughters, Mary Alexander 

 and Mrs. Raymond Dunn, of Stone, 

 Ky., and two sons, William and Archie. 

 Mrs. Alexander has been for many 

 years her husband's chief assistant in 

 the florists' business and was in the 

 oflice at the time of the tragedy. She 

 will carry on the establishment as here- 

 tofore. 



John Sterllne. 



John Sterline, of Columbia, Pa., died 

 December 6, in his eighty-second year. 



For more than fifty years he grew 

 flowers and vegetables for the local 

 markets. For many years ho grew the 

 Marie Louise violet with much success. 

 The deceased was a charter member of 

 the First English Lutheran church, of 

 Columbia, and for over half a century 

 continuously was a member of its 

 church council, having been reelected 

 to eldership at the beginning of the 

 present year. He is survived by nine 

 children. The funeral was held from 

 the residence December 9, with services 

 by his pastor, Rev. Dr. Edgar Grim 

 Miller. Interment was made in Laurel 

 Hill cemetery. H. K. R. 



Mark T. Thompson. 



Mark T. Thompson, of Richmond, Va., 

 died December 7, from a sudden attack 

 of heart disease. 



Mr. Thompson had been a resident 

 of Richmond for twenty-six years, hav- 

 ing come from Cleveland, where for a 

 long time he was engaged in business. 

 He was a native of England, -born at 

 Bedford sixty-six years ago. For a 

 long time Mr. Thompson was noted for 

 his dahlia farm, one of the sights 

 around Richmond, having acres of 



ground devoted to the cultivation of 

 this flower. 



He is survived by his second wife 

 and two children, Mrs. Clara E. War- 

 ren, formerly of Ada, O., and Charles 

 H. Thompson, of Richmond. He was 

 a member of Tabernacle Baptist church 

 and of Biglow Lodge, Ancient, Free and 

 Accepted Masons, Cleveland. 



Nancy Randolph Gullett. 



Word has been received of the sud- 

 den death, at an advanced age, of 

 Nancy Randolph, who in 1861 married 

 William Henry Gullett, who was in the 

 nursery and greenhouse business at 

 Lincoln, 111., from Civil war limes until 

 his death in 1909. Ten children were 

 born to Mr. and Mrs. Gullett. Three of 

 these died in infancy, but the rest of 

 the family survives and three of them 

 reside in Lincoln, namely: Charles Ed- 

 ward and Wilbur J., who now comprise 

 the firm of W. H. Gullett & Sons; and 

 Frank E. Gullett. The others are W. 

 F. Gullett, of Deer Lodge, Mont.; Eu- 

 gene R. Gullett, Lansing, Mich.; and 

 Misses Anna Gullett, of Pontiac, and 

 Ida B. Gullett, of Columbus, O. 



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Duflfel, Belgiiim. — Ten greenhouses 

 were destroyed at the Vanderlinden 

 establishment, where the forcing of 

 chrysanthemums, roses, strawberries 

 and tomatoes was a specialty. 



Contich, Belgium. — The greenhouses 

 of the well known firm of Frantz De 

 Laet, renowned for its large collection 

 of cacti, were not touched by the shells, 

 but raids resulting in considerable losses 

 have been made on the plants. 



Puers, Belgium. — In the bombard- 

 ment of Antwerp, which is not far 

 from this place, part of the eleven 

 greenhouses and 15,000 of the 20,000 

 coldframes at the De Bondt establish- 

 ment were destroyed. The Meersman 

 establishment, also, was greatly dam- 

 aged. 



Mechlin, Belgium. — At the Botanical 

 Garden plants have been replaced in 

 the greenhouses, but on account of the 

 lack of glass, the roofs have not been 

 repaired. Moreover, it is impossible to 

 obtain coal to heat the establishment. 

 In the vegetable experiment garden of 

 the Belgian horticultural department 

 a shell fell, shattering the greenhouses. 



Haarlem, Holland. — The florists of the 

 continent have been complaining for 

 some time^at the Holland bulb grow- 

 ers have been putting on the market 

 the blooms cut from their fields, in com- 

 petition with those who buy their bulbs. 

 Several large firms of Haarlem, Lisse, 

 etc., have already refused to engage in 

 such trade. Now an agreement is be- 

 ing signed by the bulb growers, who 

 pledge themselves not to put on sale 

 after March 1, in the years 1915 and 

 1916, hyacinths cut in their bulb fields. 

 A long list of those who have signed 

 the agreement has already been pub- 

 lished. The promoters of the movement 

 purpose to publish likewise a list of 

 those who refuse to make this pledge. 



DufTel, Belgimn. — The Verhacgen 

 greenhouses are entirely destroyed, and 

 the thousands of -strawberry plants in- 

 tended for forcing next season are 

 worthless. 



London, England. — The seventeenth 

 exhibition of the Perpetual-flowering 

 Carnation Society was held quite suc- 

 cessfully December 2, in the Royal Hor- 

 ticultural Society's hall. The profits of 

 the show will be handed to the Belgian 

 Relief Fund. 



Ghent, Belgium. — Winter conditions 

 prevail throughout the district, bringing 

 growers who have glass face to face 

 with a serious new condition, the diffi- 

 culty of obtaining fuel. While the Ger- 

 mans, who hold practically all Belgium, 

 have spared the trade interests, there 

 is no transportation and fuel is obtained 

 only with the utmost difficulty. The 

 committee of the growers' association 

 is doing all in its power to meet the 

 most urgent needs, but the plight of the 

 district is serious. 



Ypres, Belgixmi. — One of the leading 

 figures in the trade in this section, 

 where some of the fiercest fighting of 

 the war has been done, is M. V. Bouck- 

 nooghe, managing director of the Societe 

 Horticole. In a letter he says: "Novem- 

 ber 13 I had thirty shells in the houses 

 and twenty in the nursery. The first 

 time a shell went into a greenhouse we 

 took to the cellar and stayed there all 

 night. Later we were sent away and I 

 have not since been permitted to visit 

 the houses. I am in hope I shall be able 

 to save my aspidistras, but I have no 

 coal, and if frost sets in, all my stock 

 is done for. The vineries are all shelled, 

 and four out of six traveling houses 

 for carnations are blown to pieces. We 

 are all right, but bread is becoming 

 scarce, butter dear, milk rare, and a 

 cigar costs a franc." 



