July 22, 1915. 



The cFlcmsts^ Review 



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WASHINGTON, D. O. 



The Market. ' 



The intense heat of last week had its 

 effect upon the business of the national 

 capital. The sale of flowers is almost 

 confined to those used in fuaeral de- 

 signs. jFuneral work -during the week 

 wjjks heavy. Smaller quantities of car- 

 nations are being received, but there 

 seems to have been no let-up in roses. 



Leas than twenty-five per cent of the 

 stock finding its way into this market 

 is sold. Excellent gladioli go begging.'- ■ 

 Jtoses are generally small lini size, and/i- 

 their movement is slow. Sweet peas 

 are of medium quality and plentiful. 

 Aster shipments are increasing in size, 

 but last week were not of the best 

 quality. Plenty of good gardenias are 

 to be had, but these, like orchids, fail 

 to find purchasers. 



Various Notes. 



Otto Bauer, manager of the local 

 store of the S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., 

 has been spending the last two weeks 

 with his family at the cottage recently 

 opened by them at North Beach, Md. 



Mrs. George C. Shaffer and her young- 

 son will leave early next week for 

 Atlantic Citj', N. J., where they will 

 spend several weeks. Mr. Shaffer will 

 join them later for a few days, and 

 will thereafter make week-end trips to 

 that resort. 



The sympathy of the entire trade is 

 with Mr. and Mrs. John Gutman, of 

 Alabama avenue, Anacostia, D. C, who 

 last week met with the loss of their 

 18-year-old daughter, Anna E. Gutman. 

 She had been ill but a short time with 

 typhoid fever. 



George W. Hess, superintendent of 

 the United States Botanic Gardens, has 

 sailed from New York for New Orleans, 

 to spend his vacation at the home of 

 Senator Kobert Broussard, at New 

 Iberia, La. 



Considerable difficulty is beii^ ex- 

 perienced in getting the glass-topped 

 violet pins, which are imported from 

 Germany, and information received 

 here from other sections of the country 

 indicates that the supply is quite short. 



Frederick T. Leapley, of the firm of 

 Leapley & Meyer, spent a short vaca- 

 tion in Montgomery county, Md., with 

 his family. Fred W. Meyer, the other 

 member of the firm, has returned from 

 a vacation spent at North Beach, Md. 



Donald Malcolm, with Gude Bros. Co., 

 has just returned from a vacation spent 

 at Honeoye Falls, N. Y. Harry Ken- 

 nelly, also with that firm, expects to 

 spend his vacation at Wildwood, N. J. 

 Hardy Pritchard leaves town at the 

 end of the week. 



Among the visitors of the week were 

 T. A. Warne, of the Floral Nurseries, 

 Bristol, Pa., and William Tricker, of 

 Arlington, N, J. C. L. L. 



OBITUARY 



Toledo, O. — Judges of the flower show 

 at the Art Museum July 18 were J. 

 L, Schiller, William F. Krueger, Max 

 Spanner, W. H. Steffens and Thomas 

 Magee. 



WasUngton, H". J^. — Alonzo J. Bryan 

 says his sport of King Humbert canna 

 has met with even greater success than 

 expected!''' A number of those who 

 bought small qtiRhtities reordered in 

 larger quantity. This is a yellow flow- 

 ered variety and, although it has green 

 foliage, Mr. Bryan is sure it is a sport 

 from Humbert. 



u. James C. Wallace. 



James C. Wallace, a pioneer nursery- 

 man of Los Angeles county, California, 

 and a conspicuous figure in the develop- 

 ment of the rich San Gabriel valley, 

 died at his home at Alhambra July 12, 

 at the advanced age of 85 years. He 

 w'as a native of Zanesville, O., dnd re- 

 moved to, California in 1871, when there 

 'Wky'n'o'lS'uirdln^'"fc*tfWate'fi His homfe'and 

 Los Angeles except the old Three-mile 

 roadhouse. The Wallace Nurseries, 

 which be founded and of which he was 

 the head for many years, supplied most 

 of the citrus and'd^iiSUOUs fruits in the 

 older orchards in ihe' valley. He is 

 survived by his wife, five sons and two 

 daughters, as well as fourteen grand- 

 children. H. R.'R. 



Julius Theodore Wagner.' 



Julius Theodore Wagner, a retired 

 grower, of Chatham, N. J., aged 73 

 years, died July 13 of heart disease 

 at Overlook hospital. Summit, N. J. 

 He was taken to the hospital July 8 

 with faint hopes for his recovery, hav- 

 ing been in failing health for six years. 

 The funeral was held July Jo at the 

 home, on Watchung avenue. Burial 

 was in Cypress Hills cemetery, Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y. 



Born in Brooklyn May 22, 1842, Mr. 

 Wagner was educated in the public 

 schools of that city. After finishing 

 his high school course, he was a clerk 

 with the Market Fire Insurance Co. for 

 about fifteen years, until it disbanded 

 because of heavy losses sustained in 

 the great Chicago fire. Subsequently 

 Mr. Wagner entered the hardware busi- 

 ness in Brooklyn. 



Thirty-five years ago he moved with 

 his family to Chatham and commuted 

 to his business in Brooklyn. Eighteen 

 years ago he embarked as a florist at 

 Chatham. He conducted the business 

 until six years ago, when ill health 

 compelled him to retire. 



When Chatham was incorporated as 

 a village Mr. Wagner was one of its 

 trustees. He served several terms as 

 a member of the board of education 

 and upon one occasion filled the posi- 

 tion of district clerk of the board. 



Mr. Wagner married Miss Caroline 

 Wurster, of Brooklyn, September 14, 

 1871, by whom he is survived. He is 

 also survived by four daughters, Mrs. 

 James Adams, of Passaic; Mrs. 

 Thomas Collins, of Chatham ; Mrs. 

 Clarence Norcom, of Brooklyn, and 

 Miss Rena Wagner, who lives at home, 

 and by two sons, .lames W. and J. 

 Homer Wagner, both of Chatham. 



Oliver Crissman. 



Oliver Crissman, of Punxsutawney, 

 Pa,, met with a frightful death on 

 Sunday, July 4. He was 'on his way, 

 as was his custom, to the Lutheran 

 Sunday school, with his hands full of 

 flowers, and while waiting on the 

 tracks for a switch engine to pass he 

 was run down by a through freight 

 train. He was born at Sinking Valley, 

 Pa., February 23, 1845. He spent his 

 early years teaching school. Later he 

 took up landscape gardening and con- 

 tinued in the business until his death. 

 Meantime he also established and, with 

 the help of his children, built up the 



Crissman Greenhouse Co., of Punxsu- 

 tawney. He was married Jatfuary 1, 

 1869, to Miss Mary J. Robinson, who 

 died eight years ago. Mr. Crissman was 

 a delightful character and greatly re- 

 spected. He was a charter member 

 and an officer of the English Lutheran 

 church of Punxsutawney, where he had 

 lived for the last thirty-five years. He 

 is survived by his son, (Veorge, and by 

 four daughters, Mrs. T. J. Fenton, of 

 Conneaut Lake, and Misses Elizabeth, 

 Edith and Maggie, at home. The fu- 

 neral services were held in the Lu- 

 theran church. Clarke. 



N. P. Husted. 



N. P. Husted, head of the firm of 

 N. P. Husted & Co., Lowell, Mich., died 

 last week, at the age of 79. The con- 

 cern has a large nursery business lo- 

 cally and operates a tract of over 100 

 acres. 



Mrs. Jerome J. Soper. 



Mrs, Jerome J. Soper died July 13 

 at her residence, 2317 West State 

 street, Rockford, 111. Her death was 

 due to apoplexy. She experienced a 

 stroke three years ago, from which 

 she never fully recovered. Thursday 

 morning, July 8, she suffered a second 

 stroke, and from then on her decline 

 was rapid. 



Mary Best was born June 15, 1862. 

 She was united in marriage to .Jerome 

 J. Soper October 12, 1892, at Rockford. 

 Until she experienced the first stroke 

 of paralysis she was associated with 

 her husband in the florists' business at 

 120 North Church street. 



She is survived by her husband and 

 four children,,. who were born to her by 

 a former marriage. They are Mrs. 

 Birdena H. McHatton and Reuben F. 

 Day, of Bowman, N. D., and Ralph and 

 Lorena Day, of Rockford. 



She was a member of Court Street 

 M. E. church and the Mystic Workers 

 of the World, Rockford lodge No. 175. 



Funeral services were held at the 

 home Thursday afternoon, July 15. In- 

 terment was in West Side cemetery. 



Mrs. Sabina L. Mallon. 



Mrs. Sabina L. Mallon died last week 

 at her home, 155 Sixth avenue, Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y. She was 64 years old, and 

 was one of the founders of the Immacu- 

 late Conception day nursery. The fu- 

 neral was held Monday, July 19. 



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Bangor, Mich. — Dr. E. L. Morrison, 

 who owns a general farm near here, is 

 engaging in the market gardening busi- 

 ness. 



Kenosha, Wis. — The creditors of the 

 United Refrigerator & Ice Machine Co. 

 have received a first dividend of six 

 per cent. The affairs of the corpora- 

 tion are being wound up. Before it 

 got into financial difficulties the com- 

 pany did a considerable business with 

 florists, its apparatus being well 

 ada^ptcd to the needs of the trade. 



Colorado Springs, Colo. — The whip- 

 ping hail storm of Sunday, July 18, 

 played havoc with the greenhouses of 

 the Pikes Peak Floral Co. All the 

 glass on the north and west exposures 

 oi the greenhouses was completely de- 

 molished, but the south fronts were only 

 slightly damaged. The stock .suffered 

 severely, but not sufficieiitly to hamper 

 the supply for present demands. The 

 field carnations also were badly cut up. 



