December 2, 1000. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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ices to horticulture. Removing to this 

 country shortly after the Civil war, Mr. 

 Lange located at Worcester and for more 

 than a quarter of a century has been en- 

 gaged in the greenhouse business there, 

 building up the largest range of glass in 

 his section and achieving a national repu- 

 tation. He was one of the staunch sup- 

 porters of the Worcester Horticultural 

 Society and the principal exhibitor at all 

 its flower shows. 



Carl Jurgeas. 



Carl H. Jurgens, well known through- 

 out America as a bulb importer and 

 grower of lilies of the valley, died sud- 

 denly in his home, in Newport, R. I., Fri- 

 day, November 26, of heart failure. He 

 had not been out of his house since the 

 Saturday previous, suffering from a se- 

 vere cold, but had been able to be abput 

 the house, remaining indoors as a pre- 

 cautionary measure. He was suddenly 

 affected that morning and died within a 

 short time. 



Carl H. Jurgens was born in Holstein, 

 Germany, February 26, 1844, and was the 

 son of Wulf and Catherine (Horn) Jur- 

 gens, his father having also been a native 

 of that province. Mr. Jurgens received 

 his education in the public schools of 

 Holstein and at the age of 16 years be- 

 gan to learn the florists' business at 

 Hamburg. After an apprenticeship of 

 five years in that city he went to Paris 

 and served in the Imperial Gardens of 

 the Tuilleries. From Paris Mr. Jurgens 

 removed to London, where for two and 

 one-half years he was employed in the 

 largest florist's establishment of that 

 metropolis. While in England he was 

 called home for military service, being 

 placed in the Reserves. 



After serving the time demanded by 

 his country, he decided to try his fortunes 

 in the United States and arrived in New 

 York in October, 1869. For two years he 

 was engaged with a florist in Astoria, 

 Long Island, and in 1872 removed to 

 Newport and established the business 

 which he has conducted for thirty-seven 

 years. He made a specialty of importing 

 and growing lilies of the valley for the 

 wholesale market. In this he was emi- 

 nently successful, establishing the leading 

 business of its kind in this country, which 

 made it necessary for him to make a trip 

 to Europe every summer to secure the 

 best pips obtainable for the American 

 market. The business increased steadily 

 and reached such proportions that Mr. 

 Jurgens' annual sales have reached sev- 

 eral millions of valley and more than a 

 million other bulbs. He is credited with 

 originating the process of freezing the 

 pips of valley, and keeping them in cold 

 storage to bring into the greenhouses as 

 required, and this he early applied to 

 giganteum and other bulbs. He shipped 

 his stock to Boston, New York, Philadel- 

 phia and other markets. 



lie began in a small way in his garden 

 on Mill street, Providence, and as the 

 business increased he purchased land on 

 the western shore of Easton's pond, north 

 of the waterworks, and there built a larger 

 range of greenhouses, gradually acquir- 

 ing large tracts of land and erecting ad- 

 ditional houses, until the establishment 

 became one of the largest in the country 

 devoted to special flower growing. In 

 addition to lilies of the valley ho devoted 

 several houses to the growing of the 

 higher grades of roses, notably American 

 Beauty, and supplied not only local 

 florists but distant markets as well. At 

 certain seasons of the year tlie Jurgens 



Catl Jurgens. 



Beauties were always counted on as sure 

 to be of higher quality than the local 

 supply of other markets. His greenhouses 

 cover from three to four acres and his 

 market for lilies of the valley and roses 

 extends as far south as Palm Beach. He 

 had as many as fifty men at all times in 

 his employ, his bulb-forcing establishment 

 being the second largest in the world. 



Mr. Jurgens married, April 10, 1S77, 

 Miss Louise Kuhn, daughter of William 

 F. Kuhn, of Newport, who survives him, 

 together with three children, Katherinc, 

 who married F. C. Scheerer, of New 

 York; Louise, who married Charles H. 

 Parker, of Providence, and Carl Jurgens. 

 Jr., who resides at Newport and has been 

 engaged as his father's assistant in the 

 miinugcnicnt of the largo business. 



Mr. .Iiirgeiis was a self-made man and 

 achieved his success through his energy, 

 pluck and perseverance, cou|>Ie(l with a 

 slirewd, careful business instinct. This 

 was shown not only in tlio oversight of 

 liis financial afTairs.'but in the kindly am 

 sideration for his eiiiployees, wliicli 

 amounted to a personal I'rieiidsiiip. Many 

 of his employees had been in liis service 

 for a long period of years. His home life 

 was of the happiest charneter. his nfTee- 

 tion for his wife and eliildren, and for 

 the latter 's children. Ixing nnliomided. 

 Ho took little! active interest in j>ublio 

 affairs, although he was always on the 

 side of good government and civic bet- 

 terment and ready to Hujtport any move 

 nient for the improvement of the oily 

 and the advancement of its best interests. 



w. n. M, 



Miss AonA Cronin. 



Miss Anna Cronin, who h.<id been in 

 the flower business at Covington. Ky., 

 for a number of years, died Xovcmbor 

 22 from ptomaine jxiisoning, s.<ud to have 

 been the result of eating oysters. Her 

 establishment on Madison avenue, be- 

 tween Fourth and Fifth strtvts. was one 

 of the well known pl.ioes of Covington. 

 but the lionie of her childhood was in 

 Cynthiana, Ky.. where the remains were 

 taken for burial \ovoniber 24. 



George H. Brou*n. 



luvrge Hay Brown. landsca]x> gardener 

 of public buildings and gnninds in Wa,<h 

 ington, D. C. died at his home in that 

 city last week. Peath was due primarily 

 to a cold contrncted No\ ember 20. Mr. 

 Brown was born in Kdinburgh. SotMland. 

 in 1S.18, and his father was a landsia]V> 

 gardener. The public grounds of the 

 national capital, including those of the 

 While House and the Capitol, were laid 

 out under his direction, and he had 

 charge of the lloral decorations at the 

 White House for many of the big s<>e.ial 

 and state alTairs of the last few years. 

 H<> was well known to the trade in Wash- 

 ington. 



ru,HiKST\>x. MiXN. Mr. Widniau. of 

 the Carnation Store, has removed from 

 the Palace Hotel Mock to the .tid r<\st- 

 ott\ce building. His new stove has Iven 

 handsomely redecorated and is one of 

 the finest establishments in the citv. 



