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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 10. 1900. 



Iweiitv-six liit; cases, ami all his latest 

 inventions, iiicliiclin},' liis best luivoltv, 

 the metal relief work in twenlyciyhl 

 \ arieti(^s. 



Jiriioklvn sent .Messrs. l'iiillii)s. Wil 

 son ami Miller, three nl' its hrij^htest 

 li<;hts, tu liie conxciit ion. 



lliiyo Jahn is snnmieriny with his 

 family at ]'atchoy:ue, ami Mrs. Sperwin, 

 the retail florist, is at P>liie Point. 



David Mellis left on AnfXn.st If for 

 (ilfisffow, bocanse of the serions illness 

 (if his nH)ther, now 87 years of age. 



11. (\ Reidol, of ("uittnian 's, is spend- 

 inji' thrco weeks with his family at the 

 seashore. Air. Ilortenstein, of the same 

 house, leaves next week for the nionii 

 tains. 



K. ,1. Deal, of the W. \V. .lohnston 

 Seed ('o., of Jioston, l']ii<iland, is in th(> 

 lity ; also Lawrenee S. Payne, rejireseiit 

 ing K. Amlre Leroy iS: ( o.. Anij'ers, 

 France. 



Romeo Gnido, for several years with 

 'Phos. Younjr, ,lr., is now with Charles 

 Millanff. 



Mr. Jlanflinj,^ has returned from a two 

 months' trip to J-lnrope, with many bas- 

 ket and other novelties. Russin & TIan 

 fling now occupy the whole buihling and 

 their trade is widening. 



T. J. Wolfe, the florist of Waco, Tex., 

 was a visitor last week at Boddington 's. 



Mr. Russin and Leo Rosen, of Riissen 

 \- llanfling, left this week for a lioli 

 day in the Catskills. 



The demand for Ajihiiie, the insect de 

 stroying discovery of (ieorge K. Tal- 

 niadge, of Madison. X. ,1., is widespread. 

 Its endorsement has been remarkable. .\n 

 unsolicited editorial in Collier's Weekly 

 is esjiecially strong in its behalf, and 

 Arthur llerrington. Albert M. Herr, 

 Louis A. Noe, Prant-llentz Flower Co., 

 Aug. Belmont and the entomologists, J. 

 B. Smith and E. B. Southwick, have 

 iimch to say as to its efflciency. 



The Smart Set Floral Co. has been 

 incor])orated by Henry Pearlmaii, SOiU 

 Nineteenth avenue, Brooklyn, and others, 

 with a capital of $r,,()(iO. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



OBITUARY. 



William H. GuUett. 



William Henry (iidlett, head of the 

 firm of W. 11. (hdlett & Sons, Lincidn, 

 111., ilied of heart failure .\ugust 1". 

 He hatl celebrated his seventy seventh 

 l)irth(lay on the preceding ilay. He had 

 been operated on by Dr. .1. P.. Murphy, 

 at Mercy hospital, Cliicago, Jvine 2, and 

 was taken back to his home .Inly L". 

 Cntil a few hours before his death, he 

 .ippeared to be recovering. 



lie was born August 0, 1S3L'. on a 

 farm near r'ircleville. Pickaway county, 

 O, While he was still in his early boy- 

 hood his family moved to Imliana. Soon 

 afterward his father died, and then the 

 voung man began to work at the car- 

 penter trade, which he followed when he 

 remov(Ml to Lincoln from Carroll county, 

 Ind.. in l*^■"l(). He was a carjienter ami 

 builder until the opening of the Ci\il 

 war, when he purchased ii forty-acre 

 tract of land and started the I-incoln 

 NiTrsery. From 1870 to ^HSl Walter 

 Rirminghatn was ;issociated with him in 

 the business. This relationshiji was dis 

 solved in 1884, and the reorganized firm 

 was styled \V. II. (iullett &: Son, with 

 Pred (iidlett as the junior meiid)er. Fred 

 Gullett retired in 18*89, and C. E. and W. 

 J. Gullett became members of the firm, 



which henceforth conducted business un- 

 der the name of W. 11. (Jidlett & Sons. 

 Ml', (inllett was married .lanuary '29, 

 Isill, to Nancy K'amlolph, who sur\ives 

 him. Ten chihlren were born to them. 

 Tiiree of tiiese died ill infancy, but the 

 rest of tiie family still survive and 

 three of them reside in Liiucdn. namely: 

 Charles Ivhvard ami Wilbur .1., of the 

 lirm of (lullett iV Sons, and Frank E. 

 (Inllett. The others are W. F. Cidlett, of 

 Deer l^odge, Mont.; Eugene R. Gullett, 

 Lansing, Mich.; and ^Misses Anna Gul- 

 lett, of Pontiac, and Ida B. Gullett, of 

 <'olumbus, O. 



W. H. Wright. 



W. II. Wright, for many years a florist 

 in Vicksburg, Miss., died at his resi- 

 dence, at First East and Monroe streets, 

 in that city, August 10, at the age of 

 till years. lie was well known ami highly 

 esteenu'd in the citv. lie is survive<l 



Penmx-k began work as a florist aboi 

 1S87, with his father's lirm, A. L. IV, 

 nock & Son, at Lansdowne. Later I. 

 went into business for himself, buildii! 

 greenhouses lu-ar Lansdowne. Mr. Pei 

 iK)ck was best known as a forcer of li' 

 of the valley, lie was so successfid i 

 producing high grade flowers as to ear 

 the title of the " ViiUey King," his hv> 

 stock attaining ;i wonderful degree ( 

 j)erfection in finish, in number and si/ 

 of bells and in length of stem. M, 

 Pennock was also a rose grower of noti 

 specializing Killarney. During the la^ 

 year or nu)re he had devoted some atten 

 tion to peonies and had gathered a fin. 

 collection. 



Mr. Pennock nmrried Elizabeth Nacnn; 

 Woolnian, November 1, 1906. 



Mrs. Robert George. 



Mrs. Robert George, wife of RoIkmi 

 George, of the Storrs & Harrison Co., 



Wm, H. Gullett. 



by four children. I';iinira. Mary, Tom and 

 Douglass; also by two sisters, .Mrs. 

 Biilsong and Miss Eloise Wright, and 

 by three brothers, Charles (i., Douglass 

 S". and H. C. Wright. 



A. J. Pennock. 



A dispatch from Denver, ( olo., an- 

 nounces the death of A. ,1. Pennoik. 

 Mr. Pennock had been enjoying his va- 

 cation in the far western states, when he 

 was stricken with spinal meningitis. 

 .Mrs. I'ennock and a near relative were 

 with him when he died. The annoum-i'- 

 ment came as a terrible shock to Mr. 

 I'ennock's family and many friends in 

 and near Philadelphia. 



A. J. Pennock was born August 20, 

 ISGs, at lloodland. Upper Darby, Dela- 

 ware county. Pa. lie was the son of 

 Abrain L. an<l Anna C. Pennock. .Mr. 



Painesville, ().. died Friday, August i^ 

 and was liuried August 10. Tlie funeral 

 was one of the largest in the town for 

 years, as Mr. and Mrs. George and their 

 son and his family all numbered every 

 niemlier of the comnninity as acquaint- 

 ance and friend. Mr. George was one of 

 the organizers of the S. A. F. and an ol<4 

 schoolmate of E. G. Hill, of Richmond, 

 who attended the funeral, with Adam 

 Graham and Charles Hart, of Cleveland. 

 The flowers were many and beautiful. 



Valentine Fox. 



Valentine Fox, aged 09, a well known 

 gardener and long a resident of Wayne 

 township, near Fort Wayne, 1ml., died 

 suddenly August 9. lie was born in 

 Baden, Germany, January 12, 1840, and 

 came to this country as a boy of l-"). 

 lie was for many years a iirominent gar- 



