

OCTOBKB 3, 1907 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



13 



Mr. Sanders began to write at once, and 

 was on its stafF for a period of six 

 years. After completing th« work for 

 Mr. Tucker, Mi-. Sanders becaut« garden- 

 er for General John P. B^tbbone, of 

 Albany, a gentleman who afterward be- 

 came famous for his collection of or- 

 chids. A few years after Mr. Sanders 

 left, the late William Gray, of Albany, 

 filled this position at Rathbone's. 



After remaining with General Bath- 

 bone for nearly four years, Mr. Sanders 

 decided to try his fortune in the west. 

 He removed to Chicago, therefore, in 

 the spring of 1857, bought some land in 

 Lake View and built a cottage with a 

 50-foot greenhouse at the south side of 

 it. Lake View was then but a small 

 town with a few hundred inhabitants, 

 and Chicago's entire population was less 

 than 100,000. There were no sidewalks 

 north of North avenue, and the old 

 plank road, now Evanston avenue, was 

 the fashionable drive leading to the 

 equally fashionable Lake View House, 

 on the lake shore. It was on this plank 

 road that Mr. Sanders' greenhouses were 

 located. 



When Mr. Sanders made this start as 

 a Chicago florist there were three other 

 florists in the city, each with about the 

 same extent of glass as his own and all 

 growinfj a general stock, including vege- 

 tables as well as flowers. In a few years 

 Mr. Sanders had erected several green- 

 houses and was becoming noted as a 

 shipper. In March, 1867, he opened the 

 first flower store in Chicago, at 56 Clark 

 street, under the Sherman House. The 

 great fire of 1871 checked his progress 

 for some time, although he was fortu- 

 nate in having only the store burned out. 

 He remained away from the retail trade 

 for three years; then he entered this 

 brahch again, continuing in it till about 

 1882, when he retired from active con- 

 nection with the florists' trade both as 

 a grower and a seller. 



Mr. Sanders has been nearly all his 

 life a contributor to the horticultural 

 papers. He made his first venture in 

 that line at the age of 19, when he began 

 writing for the London Gardeners' 

 Chronicle. He also was a correspondent 

 from England to the American Garden- 

 ers' Chronicle, then published in New 

 York. As already stated, when he left 

 England and came to Albany he at once 

 began his six years' connection with 

 the paper called the Country Gentleman. 

 On arriving in Chicago, he became at- 

 tached to the staff of the Prairie Farmer, 

 published in that city, and continued 

 in that position until about 1890. He 

 also conducted for a short time a horti- 

 cultural department of a daily in Chi- 

 cago, and for some years had charge of 

 the department of Garden and Lawn in 

 the Orange Judd Farmer. About 1893 

 he became the Chicago correspondent of 

 the Florists' Exchange, and he continued 

 to act in that capacity until July, 1902, 

 when he was prostrated by an illness 

 from which he never fully recovered. 



Aside from his work as a writer, Mr. 

 Sanders has always taken an active in- 

 terest in all horticultural matters. At 

 the age of 19 he belonged to a garden- 

 ers' society in England, and on coming 

 to America he participated without loss 

 of time in the organization of a horti- 

 cultural club in Albany. When he ar- 

 rived in Chicago he aided in the organ- 

 ization of the Cook County Agricultural 

 and Horticultural Society in 1857, and 

 also in the organization of the Chicago 

 Gardeners' Club the following year. At 

 the organization of tho Aniericnn Asso 



Edgar Sanders. 



elation of Nurserymen in 1876 Mr. San- 

 ders acted as temporary president, and 

 he was elected president again in 1884. 

 He was at one time president of the 

 Chicago Florists' Club, and for many 

 years has been its treasurer. He haw 

 also been a member of the executive com- 

 mittee of the Horticultural Society of 

 Chicago and has taken a deep interest 

 in the success of the annual exhibitions. 

 His last appearance among his many 

 warm friends in the trade was during a 

 visit to the 1906 show at the Coliseum. 



Mr. Sanders has also during his busy 

 life taken an active part in political 

 work. From 1869 to 1873 he was com- 

 missioner of highways of the town of 

 Lake View, and he was supervisor and 

 treasurer of the same town from 1879 

 to 1883. He has also acted as deputy 

 sheriff and as deputy assessor. He was 

 appointed commissioner of public works 

 of Lake View when it was organized as 

 a city, and he retained that position dur- 

 ing most of Lake View's existence as 

 a separate city. 



Mr. Sanders was married before leav- 

 ing England. His wife died in 1874. 

 He has five daughters, all of whom are 

 married, and he also has quite a number 

 of grandchildren. 



Charles Schlecter. 



< harles Schleeter, a florist who lived 

 on the Newburg road, two miles and a 

 half from Louisville, Ky., dropped dead 

 in a barber shop in that city, Saturday 

 evening, September 21. In response to 

 the barber's call of "Next," Mr. 

 Schleeter was stepping across the floor 

 to the barber chair, when he fell Rnd 

 was dead in a few seconds- 



Henry A. Jones. 



Henry A. Jones, a traveling represen- 

 tative of Ralph M. Ward & Co., New 

 York, died at the home of his daughter, 

 Mrs. Florence J. Barton, Cromwell, 

 Conn., August 23. His illness was of 

 short duration. Being attacked with 

 acute indigestion while on the road, he 

 hurried home, but died in four days. 



Mr. Jones was a man of many sterling 

 qualities, genial and very companionable, 

 and made a great many friends during 

 his travels. He was born in Baltimore, 

 Md., February 29, 1840. His parents died 

 when he was quite' young, leaving him 

 to shift for himself. Most of his educa- 

 tion was obtained by studying after 

 working hours in the evening. During 

 the war and for several years afterward 

 he was chief clerk in the quartermaster 

 general's department at Washington, and 

 also-held other responsible government 

 positions. After leaving the governmenPs '"y. 

 employ he was for many years a whole- 

 sale dealer in builders ' supplies at 

 Washington. He married Frances Kath- 

 erine Howser, of Baltimore, who died in 

 1881. He leaves four daughters and one 

 son. 



C. p. Barry. 



Word <-oiiies from Rochester, N. Y., 

 of the demise of Charles Patrick Barry, 

 vice-president of the Ellwanger & Barry 

 Nursery Co. and the F^llwanger & 

 Barry Realty Co. He was born in 

 Rochester, fifty-five years ago. He leaves 

 a widow, two sons and a daughter. His 

 brother, William C. Barry, is the present 

 head of the business founded by the late 

 George Ellwanger and the late Patrick 

 Barrv. 



