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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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moisture. The branches will need some 

 support either by securing them to the 

 wall or by stakes, the latter being prob- 

 ably the best way to preserve the natural 

 bushy form of growth.-^Gardeners ' Mag- 



azine. 



OBITUARY. 



Albert Zimmerman. 



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Albert Zimmerman, of Pasadena, Cal., 

 died on the train while traveling in 

 southern Arizona. He was, in company 

 with his wife, returning from Tucson, 

 where they had been for some time, hop- 

 ing to get relief for Mr. Zimmerman, 

 who has long been a sufferer from lung 

 trouble. The funeral was held from his 

 late residence, Sunday, November 25, 

 and was largely attended by his former 

 associates and friends. 



Mr. Zimmerman was the superintend- 

 ent of parks in Pasadena for years. His 

 host of friends mourn his loss, as he 

 was an able, industrious student of na- 

 ture and a noble, kind-hearted man. 



Gcotgt EUwaoger. 



George Ellwanger, senior member of 

 the firm of Ellwanger & Barry, Koch- 

 ester, whose reputation as a horticultur- 

 ist and nurseryman was international, 

 died November 26, aged 90 years. 



George Ellwanger was born at Gross- 

 Heppach, in Wurtemberg, Germany, 

 December 2, 1816. The place of his 

 nativity was one of the grape producing 

 valleys of that region. It was there that 

 his youth was spent and there he laid 

 the foundation for his long and useful 

 career in the domain of fruits and flow- 

 ers. Kecognizing his natural tastes his 

 parents placed him for five years in a 

 leading horticultural establishment at 

 Stuttgart, where he perfected his knowl- 

 edge of horticulture and landscape gar- 

 dening. 



Mr. Ellwanger came to the United 

 States in 1835. He first went to Tiffin, 

 O., but soon located at Eochester. He 

 first entered the establishment of Rey- 

 nolds & Bateham, whom he bought out 

 in 1839. Mr. Ellwanger spared no pains 

 or expense in procuring the choicest 

 stock, and he applied from the outset 

 those methods of sterling integrity which 

 made for the great celebrity quickly 

 attained by the Mount Hope Nurseries 

 and gained for them a reputation 

 throughout the world which has been 

 maintained in all of the intervening 

 years. In the year 1840 Mr. Ellwanger 

 formed a business partnership with the 

 late Patrick Barry, which continued until 

 Mr. Barry's death in 1890. 



It would be difficult to overestimate 

 the importance of Mr. Ellwanger 's in- 

 fluence on the horticultural interests of 

 not only western New York, but of the 

 entire United States. No other person 

 in the country has introduced so many 

 new varieties of trees and plants as Mr. 

 Ellwanger. Among the many innova- 

 tions which he introduced were dwarf 

 apple and pear trees, and he introduced 

 among many other celebrated varieties 

 of fruits the Northern Spy apple. He 

 also literally revolutionized methods -of 

 pruning fruit trees, applying scientific 

 processes which have now been univer- 

 sally adopted. 



It is probable that to George Ell- 

 wanger more than to any other indi- 

 vidual Eochester is indebted for its 

 material prosperity, for the value of the 

 industry which he established is beyond 

 computation. Great as is the industry 





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George Ellwaoger. 



with which his name will be ever con- 

 nected, it was not alone to horticulture 

 and kindred subjects that he gave his 

 attention. He was prominently con- 

 nected with the early and late fortunes 

 of the Flower City. He was president 

 of the Ellwanger & Barry Nursery Co. 

 and the Ellwanger & Barry Realty Co., 

 first vice-president of the Reynolds Li- 

 brary and vice-president of the Powers 

 Hotel Co. He was a director in five 

 banks and intimately connected with 

 other commercial institutions. He was 

 one of the promoters of the first street 

 railway and was also closely identified 

 with and a director of the Eastman Co. 

 He was a life member of the American 

 Pomological Society, the New York State 

 Agricultural Society and the Western 

 New York Horticultural Society, and 

 was a corresponding member of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



His benefactions have been munificent 

 and during all of his long . and active 

 life he was interested in every move- 

 ment which made for the betterment of 

 Rochester and its citizens. It will not 

 be forgotten that the firm of Ellwanger 

 «& Barry gave to Rochester Highland 

 park. 



Although Mr. Ellwanger 's business 

 life was active and engrossing, he al-' 

 ways found time for culture and exten- 

 sive reading. It "was Mr. Ellwanger 's 

 custom until about four or five years ago 

 to celebrd;te his birthday by having a 

 gathering of his friends, to .whom he 

 gave a reception and banquet. Al- 

 though his mind remained clear, he was 

 something of an invalid during the last 



few years, and only immediate relatives 

 came to observe his birthday at his 

 Mount Hope avenue home. 



Mr. Ellwanger was a communicant of 

 St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. In 1846 

 he married a daughter of General Mical 

 Brooks, one of the pioneers of western 

 New York. Mrs. Ellwanger died about 

 two years ago. Of his four sons, three 

 are deceased, \villiam D. Ellwanger is 

 a resident of Rochester. 



DISEASE OF REX BEGONIAS. 



The cultivation of the Rex begonias is 

 not so general as was formerly the case, 

 notwithstanding the few difficulties at- 

 tending it ; and moreover, the plants have 

 suffered from the infestation of a mite 

 which, if its ravages are unchecked, dis- 

 figures the leaves and main ribs, and 

 checks expansion of the leaf. According 

 to a writer in a German gardening jour- 

 nal of recent date, these minute crea- 

 tures first infest the folded-up young 

 leaves, and call attention to their pres- 

 ence in the rusty-brown galleries or bor- 

 ings, and the crippled appearance of the 

 jplant. These affected leaves and points 

 must be removed; and as soon as a re- 

 newal of growth takes place the plant is 

 not further liable to attack, unless as a 

 consequence of a check, or exposure to a 

 dry atmosphere. Other species of begonia 

 suffer equally with the Rex varieties, as 

 B. ricinifolia, B. metallica, etc. Good 

 ventilation, warmth, and moisture produc- 

 ing freedom of growth are said to be con- 

 ditions unfavorable to infestation. 



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