Septembbe 30, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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OBITUARY. 



B. Hasselbrinsf. 



Following an illness of but a few 

 ! rurs, B. Hasselbring, the widely known 

 liorist at Flint, Mich., died September 

 •J;". Heart trouble was the cause of death. 

 >i.s. Hasselbring was at the time in Chi- 

 e.;.;o, attending the funeral of a brother. 



Tiernhart Hasselbring was born in Ger- 

 jMiiiv in 1841. At the age of 18 he en- 

 1 -ted in the German army, according to 

 ii;(' laws of that country, and after the 

 , piration of his three years he enlisted 

 }.,i further service. He served under 

 J.ismarck in the German- Austrian war in 

 I \(;(5, and in 1870, at the outbreak of the 

 I • anco-Prussian war, he was commis- 

 sioned a sergeant and served with dis- 

 Miu'tion at the siege of Paris, the battle 

 -! Sedan and the notable engagement of 

 (■lavelot. After the latter battle the 

 u)iiug sergeant was awarded the Iron 

 ( ross by the German government for per- 

 Nuial heroism. 



In 1872 he came to the United States, 

 ^<iiiig directly to Saginaw. The young 

 Ci'iman found himself in a strange coun- 

 tiv without funds and without a knowl- 

 edge of the language. He went to work 

 for a florist in Saginaw and in 1874 

 was united in marriage with Miss 

 Augusta Lang. Thirty-two years ago the 

 couple removed to h lint, where Mr. Has- 

 selbring rented the property upon which 

 is now located the Hasselbring green- 

 houses. A few years later he purchased 

 the property and at the time of his death 

 was the owner of one of the largest 

 greenhouse establishments in the state. 



Mr. Hasselbring is survived, besides 

 his widow, by four sons and one daughter. 

 His oldest son, Dr. Henry Hasselbring, is 

 an employee of the government in Wash- 

 ington, D. C, in the botanical department 

 of the Department of Agriculture; Eine- 

 liart and Walter Hasselbring both reside 

 in Flint, and Albert Hasselbring is in 

 the copper mining business in northern 

 Canada. Miss Margaret Hasselbring also 

 resides in FUnt. 



The funeral was held Wednesday, Sep- 

 tember 29. There was a large attend- 

 ance and many flowers. 



James Dennis. 



James Dennis, Jr., of East Providence, 

 Jf. I., died September 16, of appendicitis, 

 ;ifter undergoing an operation at the 

 i;hode Island hospital. He was 73 years 

 'Id. For several years he operated the 

 ■ ange of greenhouses now owned by Mrs. 

 Olsen, at the rear of 3124 Pawtucket 

 i venue, East Providence. He leaves a 

 \idow and one daughter. 



T. J. Maney. 



Timothy J. Maney, a nurseryman of 

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

 pring street, September 21, after a 

 iree months' illness with dropsy. He 

 !ives his wife, three sons, Michael, 

 "aniel and Thomas Maney, and one 

 -uighter, Mrs. William Witt, all of 

 ■eneva. 



The executive committee of the Ameri- 

 ;»n Rose Society will hold a meeting 

 October 6, at 44 West Forty-fourth 

 "'reet. New York city, to take up the 

 [reliminary work for the exhibition to be 

 'leld in the Museum of Natural History 

 'u March. 



The Review will send the Book of 

 •drafted Roses for 25 cents. 



Meeiden, Conn. — Joseph A. Green- 

 backer took two large standing designs 

 to the Berlin fair and scored first on 

 each. 



Big Rapids, Mich. — The Buskirks are 

 adding two houses to their establishment, 

 known as the Star Greenhouse. H. M. 

 Larson is making 'repairs. 



Pembroke, N. Y.— The W. E. Kirch- 

 hoflf Co. reports that a heavy storm on 

 Sunday morning, September 26, de- 

 stroyed much outside stock. 



Washington, D. C. — Z. D. Blackistone 

 has had a surplus of dahlias and has sent 

 boxes of them free to the sick, thereby 

 gaining some good newspaper notices. 



Camden, N. Y. — Augustus Jackel will 

 build a greenhouse addition to his pres 

 ent quarters at Twenty-ninth and Mitchell 

 streets, the addition to be 20x30 feet. 



NoETH Easton, Mass. — The annual 

 fair of Easton Grange No. 196, P. of H., 

 was held September 21 to 23. The com- 

 mittee was headed by W. N. Craig. 



Fairhaven, Mass. — Peter Murray is 

 building an addition to his greenhouses. 

 He is also constructing a cold storage 

 house, 25x50 feet, north of his potting 

 house. 



Batavia, III. — D. B. Hazen, after a 

 two years' sojourn in Florida, has re- 

 turned to Batavia, and is again in busi- 

 ness. His many friends extended him a 

 cordial welcome. 



Dover, N. H. — James M. Hayes has 

 20,000 fine pansies in the field. His 

 other specialties are verbenas, lettuce, 

 tomatoes and cabbage. For these he has 

 a large local sale each year. 



Billings, Mont. — William Partington 

 has begun the construction of what, it 

 is expected, will eventually be a large 

 range of greenhouses, at Twenty-ninth 

 street and Sixth avenue north. 



Hinsdale, Mass. — A daughter was 

 born to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Harry 

 Brague Monday, September 20. Mr. 

 Brague is associated with his father, L. 

 B. Brague, in the fern business. 



Richmond, Ind. — In the show windows 

 of Fred H. Lemon & Co. is being ex- 

 hibited a floral airship. It is the exact 

 pattern of the Bumbaugh airship, which 

 will make several flights in this city dur- 

 ing the fall festival. 



Ansonia, Conn. — A. W. Davidson & 

 Co. were the leading exhibitors at the 

 show of the Intertown Dahlia Associa- 

 tion, held September 18. There were 

 from 8,000 to 10,000 blooms on exhibi- 

 tion. Other exhibitors were Palmer & 

 Peters, E. Archer, Jas. B. Baylis, Frank 

 T. Smith, F. H. Cooper. 



Westerly, R. I. — George L. Stillman, 

 the dahlia grower, exhibited about 300 

 varieties of dahlias at the Connecticut 

 state fair at Hartford, taking first prize 

 on his collection in competition with many 

 exhibitors from all over the state. He 

 also had an exhibit at the dahlia show of 

 the New Haven County Horticultural So- 

 ciety, at New Haven, where his collection 

 attracted much attention. 



Canandaigua, N. Y. — Edward Sick is 

 building a new greenhouse at 350 Main 

 street. 



Hamilton, O. — The Gray Flower & 

 Seed Store, at 151 North Third street, is 

 now open Jfor business. 



Holdrege, Neb. — The Davidson Floral 

 Co. is building an addition, 39x100, to 

 their greenhouses on East avenue. 



Wappingers Falls, N, Y. — I. T. N. 

 Harcourt is erecting a greenhouse, 25x150, 

 on his Remsen avenue property. 



PiTTSFiELD, III. — Mrs. George Hansen 

 is building a substantial addition to her 

 greenhouses, in the south part of this 

 city. 



Racine, Wis. — James P. Brudahl was 

 run down by a bicyclist September 16 

 and severely injured. He is 75 years 

 of age. 



Streator, III. — Leslie Mason, in 

 charge of the Rudolph Kline greenhouses, 

 on the west side, is adding a new house, 

 28x160 feet. 



Rochester, N. H. — E. A. Corson is 

 installing the system of water supply 

 made by the Kewanee Water Supply Co., 

 Kewanee, 111. 



Athol, Mass. — J. V. Twitchell has 

 been awarded the contract to erect three 

 greenhouses and service building for E. 

 B. Hanson in. South Royalston. 



Cold Spring, N. Y. — James Cunning- 

 ham has added a house, 24x100, to his 

 snug plant, built by Mitchell, for carna- 

 tions in solid beds, with lots of drainage. 



Painesville, O. — J. B. Knight has 

 moved to Willoughby and has his newly 

 purchased greenhouses well stocked. His 

 partner, A. Wilson, on the Garfield farm, 

 will soon follow. 



Greenfield, Mass. — Charles P. Mac- 

 Donald, who was an undertaker as well 

 as a florist, has filed a petition in bank- 

 ruptcy. He scheduled liabilities of 

 $2,034 and assets of $1,020. 



Skaneateles, N. Y. — J. G. White, of 

 the Lake View Greenhouses, is well sat- 

 isfied with this year's business. He is 

 getting ready to install a new boiler and 

 build another house, 35x75. 



Thompsonville, Conn. — The Brainard 

 Floral & Nursery Co. had an excellent 

 display of plants and flowers at the last 

 annual exhibition of the Union Agricul- 

 tural Society, at Broad Brook. 



Dalton, Mass. — Fred G. Crane has 

 just completed a large range of glass, 

 consisting of palm, rose, carnation, grape 

 and peach houses, etc., also a modern cot- 

 tage for his gardener, J. R. Shield, who 

 has had charge of the Crane estate for 

 many years. 



New Haven, Conn. — Alfred T. Oster- 

 mann & Co., the retail florists, have 

 found so much demand for hardy stock 

 that they have just leased for three 

 years eleven lots in the edge of town for 

 nursery purposes. They will put them- 

 selves in a position to take care of any 

 order for garden work, whether it calls 

 for the use of soft stock or hardy mate- 

 rial. 



