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ThcWcckly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBBB 28, 1909. 



WASHINGTON. 



The Market. 



There was a marked increase in the 

 flower business last week, owing to the 

 death of several prominent people. B. F. 

 Barnes, postmaster of this city, who died 

 of heart failure, was buried on Saturday. 

 Mr. Barnes at one time was private sec- 

 retary to President Eoosevelt and was 

 recently made a master Mason. He was 

 buried with full Masonic honors. The 

 funeral of Mrs. Gertrude M. Hubbard 

 caused quite a scarcity of choice stock on 

 Sunday morning. She was quite promi- 

 nent in "Washington society. 



VariotM Notes. 



On "fuesday, October 12, William 

 Marche was married to Miss Augusta, 

 the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chris- 

 tian Schellhorn, of Anacostia, D. C. The 

 wedding took place at the home of Mrs. 

 Noll, Miss Schellhorn 's grandmother, who 

 lives in Anacostia. After the ceremony 

 the party drove to the beautiful home 

 of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Gude, where 

 they were given a reception fit for a king. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Marche have the best wishes 

 and congratulations of the craft. 



Among other notable events of the 

 week was the marriage of Fred W. Gust, 

 of the Washington Florists ' Co., and Miss 

 Britannia K. Peter, also of this city. 

 This party on Saturday, October 16, stole 

 away to the city of Baltimore and were 

 quietly married. On Monday morning 

 Mr. Gust was found at his post, wearing 

 a broad smile which we hope will be ever- 

 lasting. 



Many attractive windows were to be 

 seen last week. Those of Geo. C. Shaffer 

 and William Marche were notably good, 

 the designs in them representing the 

 opening of the various schools and semi- 

 naries. The one at Shaffer's had a 

 large gateway opening into the seminary 

 grounds, with the inscription "Semi- 

 nary" worked in rustic letters over the 

 gateway. The window at Marche 's repre- 

 sented "Scholarship," and showed a 

 ship made of Killarney floating under a 

 banner of welcome, the background being 

 pennants of all descriptions, the whole 

 producing a beautiful effect. 



The attraction at the Washington Flo- 

 rists' Co. this week was a rustic window, 

 the floor being covered with green moss, 

 with an old-fashioned zigzag rail fence 

 the entire length of the window, covered 

 with wild roses. The background was a 

 large bank of yellow chrysanthemums and 

 oak foliage, with oak foliage on the 

 ceiling. 



The windows at Gude's were quite ef- 

 fective, with arrangements of roses and 

 chrysanthemums. 



The branch of the Pennock-Meehan Co. 

 in this city has proved to be quite a 

 success. Its manager, Mr. Schnell, is 

 kept quite busy handling the large ship- 

 ments of chrysanthemums that come into 

 this market. 



We had with us this week representa- 

 tives of two of the leading florists' sup- 

 ply houses, M. Eice & Co. and Bayers- 

 (iorfer & Co., of Philadelphia. W. F. 



DECATUR, ILL. 



A disastrous hail storm passed through 

 this district October 23. The estimated 

 damage in this county, by wind and hail, 

 was $100,000. At Mr. Bommersbach 's 

 greenhouses the storm broke 1,200 panes 

 of glass, besides doing great damage to 

 his smokestack. C. W. Harrold reports 



that there was no glass broken at his 

 place, though he could have scooped up 

 shovelfuls of hail close by. The I. T. S. 

 shops were blown down and ten men were 

 injured, some of them fatally. Most of 

 this occurred about 3 p. m. Later in 

 the afternoon there was another hurri- 

 cane, which blew down a tree within ten 

 feet of Mr. Harrold 's establishment, but 

 did no harm to any of his buildings. 



W. 



INDIANAPOLIS. 



The Market 



Business continues good, funeral work 

 being quite a factor. Mums are in full 

 blast now and are moving fairly well 

 Roses and carnations are improving daily. 

 Orchids and valley are in fair supply. 

 Some home-grown violets, mostly the 

 California violets, are to be seen, but 

 not enough to go around. There are 

 some good pot mums to be seen, but they 

 are not moving the way they should. 



Various Notes. 



Hartje & Elder have sent in the first 

 sweet peas of the season. They are not 

 cutting them in any great quantity, how- 

 ever. This firm is also showing some 

 good pot mums. 



Baur & Smith are sold out entirely of 

 field-grown carnations. This firm enjoyed 

 a large business in this line this year. 



John Eisner is having a strenuous time 

 these days. Street improvements, sewer 

 assessments and cement sidewalks are the 

 cause of his troubles. 



On account of the election, the regular 

 monthly meeting of the State Florists' 

 Association will be postponed until the 

 second Tuesday in November. 



Visitors last week were: A. M. San- 

 ders, with McGregor Bros., Springfield, 

 O. ; Mr. WillBon, with A. L. Eandall, Chi- 

 cago; and Mr. Duvall, with the Pine 

 Tree Silk Mills Co., Philadelphia. 



E. A. Nelson, after spending the sum- 

 mer in a camp on Eagle Creek, has re- 

 turned home. Mr. Nelson says he had 

 the time of his life this summer, hunt- 

 ing, fishing and entertaining company — 

 mostly company. 



Thieves entered the store of John 

 Eicraan this week and thoroughly ran- 

 sacked the place. They evidently thought 

 that Mr. Eieman left his money in the 

 store at night, as the place looked as 

 though a cyclone had struck it the next 

 morning. They had emptied every drawer 

 and case in the store and it took Mr. 

 Eieman all of the next day to straighten 

 things out again. They did not want 

 anything but money, as there was about 

 $500 worth of ribbon which they did not 

 touch. Lucky for Mr. Eieman that he 

 keeps his money in the bank. 



A. Wiegand & Sons have as fine a lot 

 of pot mums as has been seen around 

 here for some time. 



Miss Elsa Bertermann, daughter of 

 John Bertermann, and Arthur Hotchkiss, 

 of Ely, Minn., were married at the Ber- 

 termann home last week. Mr. Berter- 

 mann is getting quite proficient in lead- 

 ing a daughter to the altar, as this is the 

 third one to have been married in the last 

 eighteen months. H. L. W. 



On account of elections throughout the 

 state November 2, the monthly meeting 

 of the State Florists' Association will be 

 postponed from November 2 to November 

 9. The time is 3:30 p. m. 



A. F. J. Baur, Sec 'y. 



OBITUARY. 



Percy Jones. 



The illness of Percy Jones, whose con 

 dition had been reported from week t 

 week in the Eeview during the last 

 month or more, terminated fatally at the 

 University hospital, Chicago, at 2:15 a.m 

 October 23. While not unexpected be- 

 cause of the serious nature of his dis- 

 ease, the announcement of his death wag 

 a shock to those who were associated with 

 him in the Chicago market, where the 

 pause brought realization that here had 

 been a strong and steadfast character 

 and that his passing meant a personal 

 loss to many where business intercourse 

 had ripened into friendship. 



Several weeks ago Mr. Jones was con 

 fined to his home for a few days by a 

 kidney trouble that seemed to yield read- 

 ily to treatment. Then incautious over- 

 exertion brought him to death 's door and 

 he was hurried to the hospital for an 

 operation on the kidneys. This was sue 

 cessful and he was on the point of re 

 turning to his home, expecting to be at 

 business within a few days, when pleuro 

 pneumonia set in and was the direct 

 cause of death. 



Samuel Percy Jones was born in Can 

 ada, March 7, 1862. His father was a 

 minister, who removed to Illinois while 

 his boys were young. Emerged upon 

 manhood, they found employment with 

 the Northwestern railroad, where Arthur 

 Jones is now cashier of one of the depart- 

 ments. Percy went into the freight traf- 

 fic manager's office and for sixteen years 

 worked to such good purpose, from the 

 company's point of view, that it refused 

 to accept his resignation when his health 

 broke down, but carried him on the pay- 

 roll for six months after he removed to 

 Josephine, Ala. Mr. Jones lived for 

 twelve years on the shore of Perdido Bay. 

 It was during this time, just before the 

 outbreak of the Spanish war, that he 

 engaged in the lumbering business with 

 the late Sol Garland, Sr., the Des Plaines 

 florist, one of whose daughters he had 

 married before removing south. This 

 venture did not succeed, and, after spend 

 ing two years in St. Louis in the real 

 estate business, Mr. Jones returned to 

 Chicago, intending to go back to rail 

 reading. 



It was Sol Garland, Jr., who causeii 

 Mr. Jones to change his plans and start 

 a wholesale commission flower business, 

 in October, 1903. Mr. Garland was then 

 arranging to sell his own stock at tlie 

 Flower Growers' Market in Chicago, and 

 proposed that instead Mr. Jones open for 

 himself with the Garland shipments as n 

 nucleus. The result, Mr. Garland stated 

 October 23, has been eminently satisfnf 

 tory to himself, as well as it was to Mr 

 Jones. For the last four and one-h'df 

 years he has acted as manager of the 

 Flower Growers' Market, where his bnsi 

 ness was located, and none of his bu~i 

 ness associates will feel his loss more 

 keenly than those identified with this prr 

 ticular enterprise. He was a thorouirti 

 business man, prompt to the minute '" 

 meeting his olaligations of, whatever cli^r 

 acter, firm, impartial, of few words, mi'' 

 so little given to going about that those 

 of the craft who did not visit his phue 

 of business knew him scarcely at all; ^'"^ 

 to those who penetrated the barrier of 

 his reserve he displayed kindliness of pur 

 pose and warmth of friendship. 



Mr. Jones had no children, but he as 

 sumed the guardianship of Henry Vac 



