3VVX 29, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Men's Society, the Knights of St. John, 

 Knights of Columbus, the South Side 

 Business and Improvement Association, 

 a charter member of the Columbus Flo- 

 rists' Club, and other societies. He was 

 a irreat worker in all that he was con- 

 nected with and the craft will miss his 

 iiivial disposition and the good word he 

 li;id for everybody. 



Thomas C. Thurlow. 



Thomas Chase Thurlow, of West New- 

 l,iiiy, Mass., died July 21, on the farm 

 oil which he was born, in 1832, and on 

 uiiich he had lived all his life, save for 

 a vear or two. The funeral was held in 

 til ' same house July 23 and was largely 

 ai tended, for in his more than 76 years 

 Mr. Thurlow had gained a wide ac- 

 quaintance and, unlike the prophet, was 

 jidi without honor in his own home. He 

 was a deacon of the Congregational 

 cl/urch, which he joined sixty-four years 

 a^o. He always has been deeply iuter- 

 isted in the welfare of the church and 

 always has been ready to render finan- 

 cial aid. He gave a generous sum towards 

 tilt' building of the new church, which 

 i« soon to be erected. He was an ardent 

 a(l\ocate of temperance, interested in the 

 work of the cause, and was a member 

 of the Massachusetts Total Abstinence 

 Society and the New England Anti- 

 Saloon League. 



Mr. Thurlow 's ancestors came from 

 Kiigland in the early days of the settle- 

 iiioiit, locating at Newbury in 1635. His 

 grandfather, born in 1777, was a farmer 

 and turned his attention to fruit grow- 

 ing and market gardening. His father, 

 born in 1805, also went strongly in for 

 fruit growing. He also frequently vis- 

 ited the nurseries of Wilder, Breck, 

 Hovey, Kenricks and other famous Bos- 

 ton men of that time. Thomas Chase 

 Thurlow, born December 30, 1832, in- 

 herited his ancestors' love for fruits, but 

 being of rather delicate physique, after 

 working with his father in the nurseries 

 for some time, taught a district school 

 for two or three years. In 1857 he went 

 west for a year, riding horseback in 

 .Missouri half the time, and returned east 

 with health fully restored. 



He decided to start a nursery and 

 tive acres at $50 per acre was the mod- 

 est beginning his purse would permit, 

 l)ut he made and saved more on that 

 area than he has since done on forty. 

 Sugar maples and oth6r shade trees, ever- 

 greens and deciduous shrubs were taken 

 in hand. Living in a cold country, he 

 Muickly saw the necessity of wind breaks 

 II 11.1 screens. Norway and white spruce 

 \>«'re mostly used. The great advantage 

 o! these hedges, which are dense, is the 

 I lotection from cold winds to buildings 

 ■I'i'l nurseries. Thousands of hybrid 

 riododendrons, azaleas and other plants 

 '"' doubtful hardiness have been carried 

 ' ivijugh without other protection of any 



NMl-t. 



Peonies for many years were a great 

 si'eeialty with Mr. Thurlow. A few 

 .^ars ago he sold his entire collection 

 ' the Chicago Carnation Co., Joliet, HI., 

 '■it again went into their culture exten- 

 • 'ely and now the nursery contains 250,- 

 '"'" plants in some 600 varieties. Her- 

 ■'iceous phlox and German iris are other 

 ^fecialties largely handled. 



October 15, 1879, Mr. Thurlow and 

 ^Irs. Sarah Kimball Hathaway Dean 

 ^Y're married. She survives, with four 

 '■'lildren, the three sons, George, Edward 

 and Winthrop, being associated in busi- 

 '"'ss with their father, who in the last 



Thomas C. Thurlow. 



few years has left everything in their 

 ch.irge. 



Mr. Thurlow was a member of the 

 American Association of Nurserymen, 

 the American Pomological Society and 

 the American Peony Society. 



Nicholas Beierle. 



Nicholas Beierle, 80 years of age, a 

 well-known German resident of St. Mat- 

 thews, Ky., died last week at his home 

 on Breckenridge avenue, after an illness 

 of several months. He had been in the 

 employ of Nanz & Neuner for thirty 

 years. The funeral took place from the 

 late residence, July 24. There was also 

 a service at H-^ly Trinity church. Burial 

 was in St. Arichael 's cemetery. Mr. 

 Beierle is survived by three daughters, 

 Miss Mary Beierle, Mrs. Anna B. Deckel 

 and Mrs. Hugo Schultz, and by two sons, 

 Andrew and Joseph Beierle. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOQETY. 



Secretary Benjamin Hammond has 

 issued a preliminary list of classes and 

 prizes for the annual exhibition of the 

 American Kose Society, to be held in 

 March of 1910, at the Museum of Natu- 

 ral History, in New York city. The list 

 corresponds closely to those of previous 

 years. The classes for pot plants are 

 continued, although the response always! 

 has been disappointing. For exhibits of 

 fifty blooms Beauty, Killarney, Rich- 

 mond, Wliite Killarney, My Maryland 

 and Chatenay premiums of $25 and $15 

 are offered in each class, the same for 

 Beauty as for Chatenay. There are 

 classes for exhibits of twenty-five blooms 

 of all th(> sorts commonly grown under 



glass, an.l for twelve blooms, competition 

 in the latter being open only to private 

 gardeners. 



The special prizes already offered in- 

 clude $100 offered by Philip Breitmeyer, 

 for best display of hardy roses in pots; 

 the Dorranee challenge trophy, for larg- 

 est display of cut blooms; $25 by Pohl- 

 mann Brr s. Co.. for 100 Mv Maryland; 

 $25 by Poehlmann Bros. Co., for 100 

 White Killarney; a cup by Welch Bros., 

 for twenty-five White Killarney; $25 by 

 Elhvanger & Barry, for Wichuraiana in 

 pots. 



THE STOTT SPRAYER. 



In the Review of July 15, in speaking 

 of the spraying of mums, Charles H. 

 Totty states that he uses the Stott 

 sprayer. Will you please ask him where 

 I could procure one? L A. P. 



Since the publication, two weeks ago, 

 of Mr. Totty 's article containing his 

 brief mention of the Stott sprayer, the 

 Review has received several inquiries of 

 the same import as the foregoing. It is 

 evident, therefore, that the little, inci- 

 dental reference to the sprayer has cre- 

 ated a considerable demand for it. Mr. 

 Totty, however, says he has been in- 

 formed that the manufacturers of the 

 article are now out of business. Can any 

 reader of the Review state where the 

 sprayer can be procured? — Ed. 



Detroit, Mich.— C. L. Walker is build- 

 ing a greenhouse on the south side of 

 Gratiot avenue, between Belvidere and 

 Holcomb. 



