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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Sbptbmbbb 16, 1900. 



DELIVERY WAGONS. 



A first-class delivery outfit is a prime 

 necessity for any retail florist who makes 

 a pretense of being up-to-date. "The 

 apparel oft bespeaks the man," was the 

 way one of the much quoted gentlemen of 

 old once put it, and a retailer is judged 

 a thousand times by appearances for 

 once that his work is appraised by the 

 public. A fine wagon and accouterments, 

 next to a well dressed show window, is 

 one of the best advertisements a re- 

 tailer can have. 



Wholesale florists, as a rule, make few 

 deliveries, and those unostentatiously, but 

 Wm. H. Kuebler, who does business in 

 Brooklyn, says it isn't a bad plan for a 

 wholesaler to do well anything that is 

 worth doing at all. So he had Fitzgibbon 

 & Crisp, of Trenton, N. J., build him a 

 special wagon, just like the retailers', at 

 a cost of some $600, and between the 

 shafts he put $300 more. He considers 

 the turnout a good investment, even for 

 a wholesaler. 



OBITUARY. 



John Kinnier. 



John Kinnier, formerly a florist and 

 horticulturist of Germantown, Pa., died 

 recently at his home, 4609 Germantown 

 avenue, Philadelphia. He retired from 

 active life ten years ago, ^hen he went 

 to live with his daughter^J^Irs. Clara 

 Coultier. 



E. O. Graham. 



Edward Oliver Graham, head of the 

 Graham Nursery Co., of Rochester, N. Y., 

 died at his home in Cazenovia, N. Y., 

 September 6. He was born in the town 

 of Whitby, Ont., April 24, 1858, and 

 when still young taught school in various 



but in the disastrous fire which visited 

 that colony nearly a year ago all three 

 of his cottages were destroyed and he 

 disposed of the property as it stood. 



Failing health was the cause of his 

 removal from Eochester. Over a year 

 ago he purchased a farm of 150 acres 

 near the village of Cazenovia, for the 

 purpose of recuperating, at the same time 

 keeping in touch with his business. Last 

 winter he became interested in the de- 

 velopment of a slate quarry in Virginia, 

 and was treasurer of the company at the 

 time of his death. 



Mr. Graham was a Mason, a member 

 of the Masonic Club, Knights of Pythias 

 and Woodmen of the World, and for 

 several years was treasurer of the Koch- 

 ester Yacht Club, and a member of its 

 executive committee. 



A. W. Morgan. 



Aaron W. Morgan, formerly in the 

 greenhouse business at Danville, 111., who 

 removed to Chicago last spring, was 

 found dead in his bed at 347 East Forty- 

 fourth street on the morning of Septem- 

 ber 10. The discovery was made by Bon- 

 nie Clifford, who is employed in Mr. 

 Morgan's flower store, and A. J. Ray- 

 mond, & neighbor. A gas hose used for 

 connecting a stove with the gas jet was 

 detached, accidentally, it is believed. Mr. 

 Morgan was 71 years of age. He moved 

 from Danville to Chicago, having pur- 

 chased the flower store of A. Iralson, at 

 588 East Forty-third street. September 

 2 he was elected to membership in the 

 Chicago Florists' Club. A daughter at 

 Danville survives. 



Charlet Flury. 



Charles Flury, of Stockbridge, Mass., 

 died September 7, in the home of James 

 Flury, at the age of 76 years. He was 

 born in Ireland and had lived in Stock- 



Delivery Outfit of a Brooklyn Wholecale Florist. 



parts of Canada. He removed to Roch- 

 ester shortly after his marriage, attracted 

 there by tlie promising condition of the 

 nursery business, and immediately set 

 about to learn the details of the indusrry. 

 He began as an office man for Chase 

 Bros, more than twenty years ago. By 

 dint of hard work and close application 

 to business he soon maile himself valu- 

 able as a handler of out-of-town agents, 

 and eventually establi8he<l his own enler- 

 prise, which he hail successfully man- 

 ageil for the last fifteen years. 



For a number of years Mr. Graham 

 had his summer home at Windsor Beach, 



bridge forty years, following his trade of 

 gardener. His last employer was Presi- 

 dent Mellen, of the New Haven railroad. 

 He leaves one brother. 



Michael Carroll. 



Michael Carroll, who had been in the 

 employ of J. W, Glenn, at Kittanning, Pa., 

 for a number of years, met with a fatal 

 accident while riding out the Freeport 

 road with a Mr. Brady August 29, about 

 8 o'clock. From what can be learned 

 Carroll started over the river for a walk, 

 and met a Mr. Brady, who is employed 

 on the EUermeyer farm back of West 



Kittanning. The men were acquainted 

 and Carroll was invited to get into Mr. 

 Brady's rig and take a ride out the road 

 with him. When an automobile ap- 

 proached Brady remarked to Carroll that 

 his horse was afraid of automobiles, but 

 told him to remain seated. When the 

 automobile came up close to their rig the 

 horse commenced prancing and Carroll 

 jumped out of the buggy and ran to its 

 head. The automobile whizzed past and 

 when it was all over Carroll was lying in 

 the road. An ambulance was sent out to 

 bring the injured man to the hospital. 

 In the meantime Carroll had lapsed into 

 unconsciousness and just as the ambu- 

 lance reached the hospital his death oc- 

 curred. The body was taken to Kline's 

 morgue, and on examination by physi- 

 cians it was found that besides the frac- 

 tured leg his chest was also crushed. 



Mr. Carroll, who was aged about 60 

 years, had no known relatives, and the 

 remains were taken in charge by J. W. 

 Glenn, his former employer. Funeral 

 services were held at the residence of Mr. 

 Glenn and the interment was in the Kit- 

 tanning cemetery. 



NEW YORK. 



ThcMa^ct 



The weather continues fine, and there 

 is little change in the market conditions. 

 The funeral of E. H. Harriman used up 

 the available supply of valley and orchids 

 from far and near an<i boosted their 

 values to winter quotations for a day. 

 In fact, at the close of the demand there 

 were no more of either available, and 

 other markets within a radius of 100 

 miles were depleted also. The number 

 of floral emblems sent to Arden would 

 h".ve filled several cars. C. A. Dards had 

 the family order, including a magnificent 

 pall of orchids and valley. Alex. Mc- 

 Connell, David Clarke's Sons, M. A. 

 Bowe, Messrs. Myer, Smythe, Young 

 and Thorley all had a share in the work, 

 and some of the wreaths were especially 

 artistic and beautiful. The church was 

 literally banked with flowers where the 

 final services were held. 



This week valley has returned to its 

 normal value at this season, and gradu- 

 ally the supply of orchids is increasing 

 and the sources of supply growing in 

 number. The Beauty market shows the 

 first signs of the slowly returning busy 

 season. Prices are hardening and ad- 

 vancing as the length of stem and qual- 

 ity improve. Few perfect Bride, Maid 

 or Killarney are arriving, but of short- 

 stemmed stock there is so much that in 

 the growers' original boxes they go out 

 at an average of 25 cents per hundred. 

 Many thousands of these are received 

 daily by the leading wholesalers, and 

 fortunately the street men are back. 

 The Greeks are enterprising, the depart- 

 ment stores are liberal and everything 

 goes at some price, even the asters, which 

 now are at the flood. The best of the 

 white asters bring good figures; so do 

 the finest gladioli in, say, half a dozen 

 varieties. But of the great balance of 

 each, it is well to cast over them the 

 mantle of silence. Good prices prevail 

 for selected White Killarney and My 

 Maryland, of course, and a few better- 

 stemmed carnations begin to make their 

 appearance and command fair prices. 

 Another week or two will put the carna- 

 tion back upon its pedestal. 



The rubrum, auratum and tigrinnm 

 lilies are abundant. Rochester, as usual, 

 is much in evidence with late, large 

 asters. 



