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Febbuakx 25, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



15 



sible for your failure in rooting carna- 

 tion cuttings, I am not prepared to say. 

 If all other conditions were favorable, I 

 doubt whether the fumigating alone 

 would prevent the cuttings from rooting. 

 Some years ago, before we substituted 

 spraying for fumigating, we rooted car- 

 nation cuttings just about as successfully 

 as we do now. One thing I do believe, 

 however, and that is that when a very 

 dense smoke is produced it is apt to be 

 warm when it strikes the cuttings, if they 

 are on a side bench. This will wilt the 

 cuttings enough to prevent proper root- 

 ing, and your trouble may result in this 

 way. 



Why not discard the smoking method 

 altogether, and employ the more up-to-» 

 date method of spraying or vaporizing, 

 or even fumigating with tobacco dust? 

 You will wonder, after you have given 

 it a trial, why you did not change long 

 ago. A. F. J. B. 



A DENVER DINNER. 



In the pressure of business at Christ- 

 mas, at Easter and upon other special 

 occasions, the problem of meals for the 

 workers is one which has vexed many a 

 retailer. As a result, in quite a number 

 of leading stores arrangements have been 

 made for feeding the entire force on the 

 place during the days of heavy business. 

 Just in rear of the store and conserva- 

 tory of the Park Floral Co., Denver, 

 stands a cottage which was acquired with 

 the real estate, and which has been 

 turned into an office building, but in 

 which kitchen and dining-room have been 

 left equipped for their original purposes. 

 During the Easter rush the entire force 

 will be fed by the company for several 

 days (and nights), the employees receiv- 

 ing a much better meal than they could 

 get outside, and getting it in half the 

 time. At other times the employees are 

 at liberty to use the facilities for any 

 little social suppers gotten up among 

 themselves, and Mr. Valentine encour- 

 ages these affairs as tending to smooth 

 out any little wrinkles in the organiza- 

 tion and to foster united effort for the 

 general good of the business. 



Just before the Christmas holidays two 

 of the junior members of the concern 

 offered the president to wager a dinner 

 for the force, to be paid in the cottage 

 dining-room, that the volume of Christ- 

 mas sales would exceed a certain figure — 

 they lost, by only a couple of dollars, and 

 Mr. Valentine offered to foot the bill 

 providing the young men would prepare 

 and serve the dinner themselves. Being 

 game, they took him up and started elab- 

 orate preparations for the feast, which 

 took place January 14. The accompany- 

 ing menu card was prepared merely to 

 commemorate the event and not with 

 any intention of showing what the boys 

 gave their guests to eat and drink. 



OBITUARY. 



Charles Bramley, Sr. 



With plans complete for the celebra- 

 tion of the fiftieth anniversary of his 

 wedding, Charles Bramley, Sr., one of 

 the oldest business men of Cleveland, O., 

 died at his home in that city on Wednes- 

 day, February 17. His wife, who had 

 been at his side through the fifty years 

 of active business life in Cleveland, sur- 

 vives, with nine children. Three children 

 are dead. 



The golden wedding was to have been 

 celebrated Monday, February 22. All 



Charles Bramley, Sr. 



preparations had been made. Invita- 

 tions had been sent to many relatives and 

 friends, about 500 in all, and Mr. Bram- 

 ley had taken a great interest in all the 

 preparations. The supper was to have 

 been original and unique in this respect, 

 that it was to be served in a greenhouse. 

 Tables were to be arranged in the center 

 and on the sides of the greenhouse, which 

 is about 140 feet long. Domes for elec- 

 tric lights had been prepared, to be hung 

 every six feet. The domes were to be 

 trimmed in yellow. The entire green- 

 house range of Bramley & Son was 

 wired and equipped for electric light- 

 ing, all in preparation for the wedding 

 anniversary. 



Mr. Bramley was an early settler in 

 Cleveland, having lived at 1181 East 

 Seventy-first street since 1855. He was 

 a gardener until 1894, when he and his 

 son, William A., started in the florists' 

 business, under the name of Charles 

 Bramley & Son. They began with two 

 50-foot houses and gradually increased 

 the amount of glass until at the time 

 of Mr. Bramley 's retirement they had 

 one of the largest retail florists' estab- 

 lishments in the city of Cleveland. His 

 honest, upright and progressive w£^y of 

 conducting business brought him many 

 friends, and his acquaintances and 

 brother florists all speak highly of him. 



In May, 1908, he had a stroke of 

 apoplexy and had not been in as good 

 health since, although he was not con- 

 fined to bed until two days before he 

 died. He retired from the firm of 

 Charles Bramley & Son in August, 1908, 

 his interest having been purchased by 

 the son, William, who has conducted the 

 business since then, under the name of 

 Bramley & Son. 



The funeral services were held at his 

 residence, on Saturday, February 20, and 

 his remains were placed in a vault at 

 Lakeview cemetery. Many letters and 

 other expressions of condolence were re- 

 ceived by the wife and children. The 

 flowers were numerous and beautiful, 



and were highly appreciated by the mem- 

 bers of the family, who wish to thank all 

 for their tokens of sympathy. They wish 

 especially to thank the Cleveland Cut 

 Flower Co., the Cleveland Florists' Club, 

 the J. M. Gasser Co., the Cleveland Flo- 

 rists ' Exchange, J. W. Wilson and J. 

 Kirchner. 



Patrick J. Melia. 



Patrick J. Melia, of Newton High- 

 lands, Mass., died February 13 of ty- 

 phoid pneumonia, after two weeks' ill- 

 ness. He came to this country thirty 

 years ago from Ireland, and was with 

 A. H. Fewkes for a good many years. 

 At the time of his death he was em- 

 ployed by Mrs. Ellen A. Mansfield. He 

 was 53 years old. A widow and eight 

 children survive. 



Harvey L. Spencer. 



Harvey L. Spencer, of Phcenix, R. I., 

 died at his home February 24, after a 

 brief illness. He was born in Bristol, 

 R. I., in 1828, but had lived in the vicin- 

 ity of Phoenix since he was about 9 years 

 old. 



William Findlay. 



William Findlay, one of the old-time 

 gardeners, florists and fruit growers of 

 Newport, died February 12, after a long 

 illness. He was born in Largo, Fife- 

 shire, Scotland, in 1831. He came 

 to this country in 1854 and set- 

 tled at Newport, where he spent 

 the remainder of his days. After a few 

 years Mr. Findlay leased the greenhouses 

 at the estate of the late Gov. Lawrence 

 and engaged in fruit growing, and in 

 1873 he built a range of houses. About 

 this time the growing of roses tinder 

 glass was just ^ing considered and Mr. 

 Findlay devoted considerable time and 

 study to this subject. It is said that he 

 was the first to grow the Jacq. rose this 

 way, using boxes about fifteen inches 

 square, one foot deep and one plant to a 

 box. No relatives in this country i^re 

 known to have survived him. 



