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December 3, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



15 



Bays the society is a success. He is also 

 secretary of the Greater New York Flo- 

 rists ' Association, which has now, he 

 says, thirty-two active members. 



J, V. Phillips had the big Talbot-Lor- 

 backer wedding decoration last week, at 

 Glen Ridge, N. J. 



Bobbink & Atkins are still shipping 

 nursery stock. Such a favorable plant- 

 ing season has never been known in the 

 east, not a shadow of a frost up to 

 date. 



Anton Schultheifl' big area of glass, 

 new and old, is now complete, and the 

 stock of Christmas blooming plants will 

 be an eye-opener to the early buyers. 

 Already the holiday stock is being select- 

 ed and tagged for early shipments. Out- 

 of-town retailers are coming daily. 



Samuel A. Woodrow is shipping heavily 

 to his New England customers and has 

 a big Christmas stock of palms, ferns 

 and the flowering output of Lehnig & 

 Winnefeld. 



J. J. Fellouris is well pleased with 

 prospects. His new store, at 52 West 

 Twenty-eighth street, has been freshly 

 decorated. 



Schumacher & Kessler are handling a 

 large stock of plants, palms and ferns 

 at 113 West Thirtieth street, from Jer- 

 sey and liong Island growers," And are 

 fast building up a trade. 



Poinsettias are in the market in plant 

 and flower — another harbinger of 

 Christmas. J. Austin Shaw. 



OBITUARY. 



N« Studer. 



N. Studer died at his home in Wash- 

 ington, D. C, November 23, at the age 

 of 70 years. He was bom in Fraubrun- 

 nen, in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. 

 Mr. Studer was one of the pi«neer 

 florists of Washington. He started in 

 the business in 1874. In 1876 1^ built 

 what were known then as the Centennial 

 Hothouses, which were the largest put up 

 at that time. He used 8x10 glass and it 

 was predicted that the hail would break 

 much of it. He was at one time the 

 foremost florist of the nation's capital. 

 He had stores at various times, but for 

 the last four years he only had the stand 

 in the Center market. He was still grow- 

 ing his own stock up to the time of his 

 death. He was unmarried. Before en- 

 gaging in the flower business he was an 

 attorney, having studied law abroad. 



Louis E. Marquisee. 



Sickness, due to an accident he met 

 with more than a year ago, caused the 

 death of Louis E. Marquisee at 11 o 'clock 

 on the night of November 24, at his 

 residence, 622 West Onondaga street, 

 Syracuse, N. Y. 



On election night, one year ago, Mr. 

 Marquisee was injured at the Salina 

 street bridge over the Erie canal. He 

 was riding his bicycle across the bridge 

 when it started up and he fell off the 

 end of the bridge to the pavement, a 

 distance of four feet. Since the accident 

 Mr. Marquisee had failed gradually, until 

 a month ago, when he became seriously 

 ill. After a few days he rallied and 

 was able to be out occasionally. Two 

 weeks before his death he had a partial 

 stroke of paralysis, which affected his 

 right side and speech. Heart disease de- 

 veloped and proved fatal. 



Born at Utica, N. Y., Mr. Marquise* 

 lived in that city until 1869, when he 

 removed to Syracuse and became a mem- 



Louis E. Marquisee. 



ber of the firm of Marquisee Bros. & Co., 

 proprietors of a cloak, millinery and 

 fancy goods store. In 1888, after a rest 

 from his previous business, Mr. Marquisee 

 engaged in flower growing as a more 

 healthful occupation. In 1869 he mar- 

 ried Miss Josephine Eaton, who with 

 one daughter, Miss Anita Marquisee, sur- 

 vives. 



Mr. Marquisee was widely known and 

 universally respected; indeed, the esteem 

 in which he was held deserves some spe- 

 cial word — he was beloved especially by 

 the children, for all of whom he had 

 the greatest fondness. The funeral was 

 largely attended and there was a wealth 

 of floral tributes. The one from his green- 

 house employees was a magnificent blan- 

 ket of the new carnation. Marchioness. 



Mr. Marquisee was widely known in 

 the trade lor his work with the carna- 

 tion, and for several years he was one 

 of the leading spirits in the work of 

 the American Carnation Society. His 

 first introduction was Marquis, light pink, 

 sent out in 1900 and a notable thing 

 in that day. He planned to distribute 

 Empire State in 1904 and so good a 

 white did it seem that he is said to have 

 had on file orders for 50,000, when in 

 1903 it developed weaknesses that caused 

 him to sacrifice all the profit in sight 

 and throw the variety on the dump. It 

 90 enhanced his reputation that when 

 Flamingo was ready to go out, a season 

 or two later, the trade took all that could 

 be propagated, and even then the demand 

 was not satisfied. Albatross and Sun- 

 bird, the latter yellow, were less widely 

 distributed. Each of his varieties, com- 

 ing at the beginning of the improve- 

 ment of the carnation, marked a step 

 toward the present-day development of 

 the flower. 



Mr. Marquisee was at the poii.1 of 

 sending out another new sort. Mar- 

 chioness, which will be distributed this 

 year by the estate. The business will 

 be carried on by Mrs. Marquisee, under 



the management of Harry and James 

 Bellamy, who have been with Mr. Mar- 

 quisee almost from the beginning. 



William J. Beatty. 



WiUiam J. Beatty, one of the best 

 known gardeners and nurserymen of 

 western Pennsylvania, died November 24, 

 at Pittsburg. He was 82 years of age. 



Mr. Beatty was born in Belfast, Ire- 

 land, and came to this country at the 

 age of 24, settling on the Northside, 

 Pittsburg. He retired from active work 

 twenty years ago. Mr. Beatty was a life- 

 long member of the Fifth United Pres- 

 byterian church, and was active in church 

 and religious work. In addition to his 

 wife, Mrs. Sarah Beatty, he is survived 

 by ten children, thirty-nine grandchildren 

 and eight great-grandchildren. 



John Archer. 



John Archer died at his home in Gro- 

 ton. Conn., November 26, of Bright 's dis- 

 ease. Mr. Archer was born in Edinburgh, 

 Scotland, in 1855. He worked for the 

 Shady Hill Nursery Co., of Boston, for 

 about nine years. He also had charge of 

 Mrs. Emery's place in Milton, Mass., for 

 a long time, and he held a similar posi- 

 tion, for a while, on George Draper's 

 place, at Hopedale, Mass. The last five 

 years he had been working on the Morton 

 F. Plant estate, at Groton, Conn., where 

 he had charge of the construction work, 

 planting, grading, etc. He was a member 

 of Union Lodge No. 31, F. & A. M.; 

 also of Donald McLeod Lodge of Scot- 

 tish Clans, Hyde Park, Mass. He was 

 buried from his home Sunday, Novem- 

 ber 29, with full Masonic honors, 



Mrs. J. J. Waaland. 



The wife of J. J. Waaland, the well- 

 known florist at Findlay, O., died Decem- 

 ber 1, She was 44 years of age and had 

 suffered with cancer for a year. Pre- 

 vious to her illness she had assisted her 

 husband in the business. 



