Dbcbmbku 12, 1007. 



The Weekly Rorists' Review. 





plants; Edwin Bishop, cbrysanthe- 

 mnms; H. Weber & Sons Co., carnations; 

 Cottage Gardens, Queens, N. Y., carna- 

 tions; Stevenson Bros., collection' of 

 roses and carnations; F. C. Bauer, cut 

 flowers and plants; John Cook, plants 

 and cut flowers; Ghas. Bhodes, carna- 

 tions and mignonette; W. J. Hannigau; 

 cut flowers and plants; A. Anderson, 

 American Beauty roses; T. N. Gray, 

 Paper White narcissi; Pimlico Green- 

 houses, chrysanthemums. 



Various Notes. 



G. A. Lotze, Glen Burnie, Md., is 

 erecting a new house, 25x100, for his 

 Easter stock. 



C. E. Cook, Catonsville, who has been 

 on the sick list, has recovered and is 

 again attending to his usual duties. 



J. B. Clarke, Ellicott City, won the 

 Prairie State baby grand incubator 

 offered by Griffith & Turner Co., at the 

 corn and poultry show held in Ellicott 

 City. 



Mrs. F. Seidelich, Jr., Catonsville, 

 has been suffering with a heavy cold, 

 but has nearly recovered. 



G. H. Bhodes, Arlington, Md., is cut- 

 ting some extra fine mignonette and 

 Robert Craig carnations. 



As usual, J. Donn is offering a choice 

 lot of decorative plants in market. 



T. H. Vincent, North Charles street, 

 supplied the Maryland /Corn Breeders' 

 banquet with the decorations. 



J. L. T. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



NEW BEDFORD, MASS. 



Current Comment. 



Trade has been quiet; almost no busi- 

 ness at all, except for funeral work, 

 which has been quite good. Carnations 

 are now bringing from 50 cents to 60 

 cents per dozen retail; roses $1.50 to $2 

 per ddzen retail; violets $1.50 per hun- 

 dred retail. A few mums are still to 

 be seen, but of poor quality, and carna- 

 tions have full sway once more. 



R. H. Woodhouse will have a grand 

 lot of plants, such as begonias, primulas, 

 cyclamens, etc., for the holiday trade. 



H. A. Jahn is cutting some fine 

 flowers from his new white seedling car- 

 nation, Lloyd, which he is placing on the 

 market. This promises to be a good va- 

 riety. Mr. Jahn devotes all of his time 

 to his carnations, having given up his 

 store last July. 



- William Mosher is cutting some nice 

 violets at his new place on North street. 



Peddlers of greens have made their ap- 

 pearance. A Targe business is done in 

 wreaths, etc., for the Christmas trade. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 New Bedford Horticultural Society was 

 held December 9, ladies invited. The 

 topic for the evening was an address on 



Christmas Decorations," by David Mc- 

 intosh, secretary of Newport Horticul- 

 tural Society. Light refreshments were 

 served. Frank C. Barrows presided. 

 W. L. 



Dayton, O.— The Florists' Club met 

 December 2 at the store of J. F. Young. 

 Holiday trade was the subject for dis- 

 cussion. Every indication points to a 

 greater demand. 



Jamestown, N. Y.— The Lakeview 



T*?^^^®°* ^*"^e ^®en incorporated 

 with $50,000 capital stock, by Almet N. 

 Broadhead, M. A. Broadhead, and Will- 

 iam A. Bradshaw, all of Jamestown. 



Mrs. C W. Pike. 



Mrs. C. W. Pike died at her home at 

 Bacine, Wis., December 7, after a week's 

 illness with pneumonia, Mrs. tike had 

 been in the retail flower business at Ra- 

 cine for fifteen years. She was a par- 

 ticularly skilful decorator and worker 

 with cut flowers and did a large and 

 prosperous business. She was vfidely 

 known and respected by all in the trade. 

 One of the things for which Mrs. 

 Pike's name will be remembered for 

 many years is the Clara cemetery vase, 

 which was her invention and patent, al- 

 though marketed by others. 



Mrs. Pike left one sister, her husband 

 having died a number of years ago. 

 There were no children. The funeral 

 was held on the morning of Wednes- 

 day, December 11, the remains being 

 taken to Mrs. Pike's former home at 

 Oshkosh, Wis., for interment. 



Samuel H. Walker. 



Samuel H. Walker, for quite a number 

 of years in the florists ' business in Taun- 

 ton, Mass., died suddenly of heart failure 

 at his home on Somerset avenue, Taun- 

 ton, December 3. The deceased was born 

 in Dighton, May 14, 1838, and flrst en- 

 tered the tack business with his brother. 

 He MTSS later identified with a prominent 

 firm of coal merchants, afterwards en- 

 gaging extensively in shipping, being 

 agent of a fleet of vessels, thirteen in 

 number. Upon retiring from the ship- 

 ping business, Mr. Walker, who had a 

 great love for flowers, engaged in the 

 florists' business, building a number of 

 greenhouses on Weir street. Those, which 

 he managed successfully for years, are 

 now occupied by Willard & Williams and 

 are known as the Taunton Greenhouses. 

 ^ The deceased was a much respected 

 citizen of Taunton, where he had always 

 resided, and his entire business life was 

 marked by square methods of dealing. 

 The deceased is survived by one daugh- 

 ter. 



Robert Faulk. 



Robert Faulk, probably one of the 

 most popular and best known men in 

 Pittsburg in connection with the bedding 

 plant trade, died suddenly Thursday, De- 

 cember 5. Mr. Faulk had been in bad 

 health for a year, but was seemingly bet- 

 ter and his death came as a shock to his 

 many friends. He leaves a wife, two 

 daughters and three sons, two of whom, 

 Frank and Walter, are in the cut flower 

 business in the Allegheny market. Mr. 

 Faulk was a G. A. R. man, besides being 

 a member of several other orders, and 

 his funeral was largely attended. 



George D. Kelley. 



George D. Kelley, 30 years old, a flo- 

 rist employed by H. F. Lange, was 

 found in Hotel Warren, Worcester, 

 Mass., December 5, with a bullet 

 wound 'in his head. He registered at 

 the hotel under the name of Burns, of 

 Boston, and committed suicide during 

 the night. He left a note saying he 

 had seen both sides of life and there 

 was nothing in it. 



Luke M. Deeds. 



Luke M. Deeds, superintendent of the 

 Deeds Floral Co., at ShilUngton, Pa., 

 was found dead on the floor of the 

 greenhouse office, Sunday morning, De- 

 cember 1. On Saturday evening he had 

 gone to Beading to attend to some 

 business. On returning home, probably 



about midnight, he went to the green- 

 house to attend to the fires and, it is 

 presumed, was overcome by coal gas, 

 with which the place was still filled some 

 hours later. It is supposed that he had 

 fallen asleep while waiting for the fires 

 to burn up, and that when he awoke he 

 was too much overpowered by the gas to 

 be able to reach the door. The position 

 of his body, when discovered, indicated 

 that he had been trying to crawl out- 

 doors into the fresh air on hands and 

 knees. 



Mr. Deeds was 33 years old and was 

 the only child of Owen and Mary Deeds, 

 of Shillington. Besides conducting his 

 floral business, he had given much atten- 

 tion, from earl;^ youth, to the training 

 of horses, and had become remarkably 

 proficient in managing them. He is sur- 

 vived by his wife, his parents and his 

 two daughters, Mabel and Alice. 



P. J. Hauswirth. 



To sweetly solemn music and with the 

 burial rites of the Elks and the Red Men, 

 six florists, in the presence of a large 

 concourse of sorrowing friends, laid 

 away all that was mortal of P. J. Haus- 

 wirth beneath a bank of flowers at Rose- 

 hill cemetery, Chicago, December 6. 



Private services over the remains of 

 Mr. Hauswirth were held at the family 

 home at 1 o'clock and an hour later the 

 public ceremony took place in the chapel 

 at Rosehill, the Elks burial ritual being 

 spoken with only a small part of the 

 large number of persons in attendance- 

 able to gain access to the chapel. The 

 floral decorations were among the most 

 elaborate seen at any florist's burial in 

 many years, and a conspicuous piece 

 was a large standing wreath from the 

 Society of American Florists. At the 

 grave the Red Men had charge. The 

 pall-bearers were Leonard Kill, W. N. 

 Rudd, E. Wienhoeber, H. N. Bruns, J. 

 C. Vaughan and Joseph Curran. The 

 trade turned out almost to a man and 

 there were present a considerable num- 

 ber of florists from other cities, who had 

 come to pay their last respects to one of 

 the most popular of men. 



The Review has received dozens of 

 letters deploring the death of Mr. Haus- 

 wirth, so many that space forbids the 

 publication of all the references to that 

 sad event. From many, the following 

 from the secretary of the American Rose 

 Society, has been selected as representa- 

 tive of the general sentiment: 



When I opened the Review, and by 

 chance it proved to be the page bearing 

 Phil Hauswirth 's picture, I was struck 

 with surprise and sorrow at tlfe news of 

 his death, and cannot refrain from ex- 

 pressing in a few words what probably 

 hundreds of others will also think and 

 feel, the deepest regret at the occur- 

 rence and the most profound sympathy 

 for all the members of his family. Mr. 

 Hauswirth I had met for several years 

 in connection with the S. A. F. and the 

 American Rose Society, and always had 

 found him a man of courteous intelli- 

 gence, such a one as it was "safe to tie 

 to." Whatever may have been his af- 

 fliction in body, or anxiety in regard to 

 any business care, his end was sad. Fel- 

 low men, when care comes, when pain 

 strikes hard, look up — and wait. 



Benjamin Hammond. 



Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. 



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Hendeeson, Kt.— J. C. Hoffman has 

 completed one new house, 16x75 feet. He 

 reports business as fine. 



