DeCembeb 20, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



349 



out of the nine. However, the Madisons 

 took it good-naturedly and showed the 

 visitors a royal good time. Billy Eick- 

 ards' bowling, the Mule Team singing, 

 and Bobby's rooting were the fea- 

 tures." The score follows: 



Madison— Ist 2d 3(1 



Crane 133 167 163 



Schultz 124 IOj 105 



Totty 133 137 113 



Keating 122 194 131 



Duckbam 150 135 152 



Totals 662 738 664 



New York— 1st 2d 3d 



Wheeler '. 105 140 141 



W. Rickards 164 149 130 



A. Rickards 145 160 180 



Protln 168 200 192 



Chadwick 185 175 177 



Totals 767 824 820 



Here's hoping everybody has a merry 

 Christmas. J. Austin Shaw. 



pglTUARY. 



Alfred F. G)naxd. 



Another of the grand old men of hor- 

 ticulture is gone. The announcement is 

 made of the death of Alfred F. Conard, 

 president of the Conard & Jones Co., of 

 West Grove, Pa., a town for its size 

 probably better known to the general 

 public than any other in America, largely 

 because of Mr. Conard 's establishing 

 there a mail-order plant business which 

 now extends not only to every part of 

 the United States but to every civilized 

 country in the world. Since 1869 Mr. 

 Conard and Antoine Wintzer have been 

 associated in this business, devoting their 

 attention largely to roses, for which the 

 house is probably best known, although 

 it is only one of a number of specialties. 

 Mr. "Wintzer is one of the most expert 

 rose propagators in America, but is also 

 regarded as an authority on the canna. 

 In both departments they have been re- 

 sponsible for the introduction of a num- 

 ber of the best varieties now in the 

 trade. Mr. Conard has been the business 

 spirit back of the house in all these 

 years of development. The present firm 

 was organized and incorporated in 1897 

 with Mr. Conard president, Mr. Wintzer 

 vice-president and superintendent, S. 

 Morris Jones treasurer and Eobert Pyle 

 secretary. Since that date the increase 

 in the trade and in the facilities for 

 handling it have been more rapid than 

 ever. The catalogue now carries a full 

 line of stock for the retail mail trade 

 and Mr. Conard often has said that never 

 in his most enthusiastic moments did he, 

 half a century ago, when he was laying 

 the foundations of the business at West 

 Grove, dream of such possibilities as 

 have come with his later years. 



On the morning of Saturday, Decem- 

 ber 15, Alfred F. Conard, aged 71 years, 

 was found dead in bed at his home, in 

 West Grove, Pa. He was the senior mem- 

 ber of the Conard & Jones Co., and has 

 long been prominent in that section of 

 the county, in addition to being one of 

 the most widely known rose growers in 

 the United States. 



For some time Mr. Conard had been 

 in rather poor health and a week ago was 

 ill as the result of a stroke of apoplexy, 

 but grew better, and two days before his 

 death was at ms oflBce. 



Mr. Conard was a descendant of Den- 

 nis Conard, a German, who settled at 

 Germantown, a suburb of Philadelphia, 

 in 1683. Alfred was a son of Thomas 

 and Eebecca Shoemaker Conard, and ob- 

 tained his education in his father's 

 school, at West Grove, and the West- 



Alfred F. Conard. 



town Boarding School. Subsequently he 

 settled at West Grove, where he learned 

 the nursery business under the personal 

 supervision of Thomas W, Harvey. 

 After acquiring a thorough knowledge 

 of his vocation Mr. Conard entered into 

 a partnership with Charles Dingee, under 

 the firm name of Dingee & Conard. Mr. 

 Conard was largely instrumental in or- 

 ganizing its mail-order business, which 

 extends all over the United States, and 

 established a national reputation for 

 West Grove. A number of years ago 

 Alfred Conard retired from the Dingee & 

 Conard Co. and established a new busi- 

 ness at West Grove, in the same line, un- 

 der the title of the Conard & Jones Co. 

 Mr. Conard has been a director in the 

 National Bank of West Grove, and was 

 connected with several organizations con- 

 cerning plant culture. 



In 1862 he married Lydia Hughes, 

 daughter of Samuel Hughes and sister 

 of Mark Hughes, West Grove, and Mrs. 

 Edward Savery, West Ciiester. Mrs. Co- 

 nard survives him. He leaves no chil- 

 dren. One brother, Pennington Conard, 

 resides at Lansdowne. Mr. Conard was 

 a member of Orthodox Friends Meeting, 

 and during his life attended regularly. 

 The funeral was held at Old West Grove 

 Meeting House December 18, a special 

 train being run from Philadelphia, as so 

 many desired to attend. 



Albert Woltemate. 



Albert Woltemate, one of the oldest 

 and best known florists of Philadelphia, 

 died suddenly of heart failure while go- 

 ing to his greenhouses last Monday morn- 

 ing, December 17. Mr. Woltemate had 



carried on a general florist's and land- 

 scape gardening business on Germantown 

 avenue, near Queen Lane, all his life. 

 The business, which had been carried on 

 by his father, and later by his brother 

 William and himself, is one of the most 

 extensive in Germantown. The lot ex- 

 tends all the way from Germantown ave- 

 nue back to Green street. On the front 

 is an immense store; behind it a dozen or 

 more greenhouses devoted to raising 

 foliage, flowering and bedding plants, 

 which are sold at wholesale as well as at 

 retail. Mr. Wolteisnate was a tremendous 

 worker, with abilities adapted to almost 

 every requirement of his business. He 

 was essentially a florist of the old school, 

 capable of arranging a decoration, mak- 

 ing up a design, growing plants, grading 

 a lawn, or building a wall, with equal 

 facility. He loved his work dearly and 

 was never happier than when engaged in 

 some difficult task. His untiring energy 

 made almost possible the herculean labor 

 of growing plants and flowers in the 

 heart of a busy town. For some vari- 

 eties of plants, such as gloxinias, tuber- 

 ous-rooted begonias, and hydrangeas, he 

 was a regular source of supply to many 

 of Philadelphia's leading retailers. Mr. 

 Woltemate was an enthusiastic member 

 of the Germantown Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, of which he was a vice-president for 

 many years. He is survived by a widow, 

 and by one brother, Henry C. Woltemate, 

 whose greenhouses are on Mt. Airy ave- 

 nue, near the Philadelphia & Eeading 

 railway. Phil. 



Please find enclosed $1 for your tip 

 top paper. — Wm. Walker, Louisville, Ky. 



