a-yiv-^-wy •r--j^'rr-fw\<^< jirt^-^--mn(-^ 



Max 7. 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



25 



OBITUARY 



Lawrence Davenport. 



Lawrence Davenport, for a quarter of 

 a century in the trade at 71 Warren 

 street, Lawrence, Mass., died at his 

 home at 58 Butler street April 25, fol- 

 lowing an accident three weeks ago, 

 when he fainted while descending a 

 staircase in his home and fell to the 

 ground. 



He was born in Chorley, England, De- 

 cember 28, 1836. After a number of 

 years in the printing trade in England, 

 he came to this country April 1, 1864, 

 with his wife, Sarah Walsh Davenport, 

 whom he married October 31, 1857. For 

 seventeen years he worked at wool-sort- 

 ing, in the Pacific mill, but his declin- 

 ing health forced him to take up other 

 work. He started in the florists' trade 

 in a small way, at 71 Warren street, and 

 continued for a quarter of a century, 

 selling out to L. Burnham several years 

 ago* 



Mr. Davenport was a charter member 

 of Friendship lodge, 151, Sona of St. 

 George, and grand treasurer of the 

 Grand lodge for twenty-two years. He 

 was an attendant at St. John's Episco- 

 pal church. 



He is survived by his wife, three 

 daughters, Mrs. John A. Abercrombie, 

 of Lawrence; Mrs, Harry A. Wood, of 

 North Brookfield, and Mrs. George T. 

 Bradley, of Pawtucket, E. L; eleven 

 grandchildren and two great-grandchil- 

 dren. The funeral was held April 28, 

 and burial was at Bellevue cemetery. 



Clement Wocker. 



Clement Wocker, one of the principal 

 rose and plant growers in the vicinity 

 of New York city until a few years ago, 

 died Thursday, April 30, of cancer. He 

 left his wife, a son and a daughter. He 

 had a large range on Lennox road, near 

 East Thirty-eighth, street, Flatbush, 

 Brooklyn. 



Mrs. Olive N. Mealy. 



Mrs. Olive N. Mealy, wife of C. E. 

 Mealy, of the Pikes Peak Floral Co., 

 Colorado Springs, Colo., died April 23, 

 of anemia. She had been in ill health 

 for several years and had been confined 

 to her bed for more than a year. Fu- 

 neral services were held Sunday, April 

 26, and interment was in Evergreen 

 cemetery, Colorado Springs. 



William Hutchinson. 



William Hutchinson, an old and highly 

 respected florist of Kirkwood, Mo., died 

 at his home April 24, at the age of 71, 

 from cancer, after a lingering illness. 

 The funeral took place April 27. A 

 large number of Kirkwood florists paid 

 their last respects by attending, the 

 funeral. 



Peter Ross. 



Peter Ross, for thirty-three years in 

 business at Flushing, N. Y., died April 

 27 at his home, 659 Sanford avenue, 

 Flushing, aged 03. He was born in 

 Balmagown, Scotland, and five years 

 before going to Flushing resided at 

 Great Neck. He was one of the found- 

 ers of the Broadway Congregational 

 church and a deacon and trustee since it 

 was organized. He leaves his wife, two 

 daughters, Mrs. Mary Hamilton, wife of 

 the Rev. R. A. Hamilton, formerly pas- 

 tor of the Broadway Congregational 



BALTIMORE. 



The alarm clock went off at 

 fonr o'clock in the morning. 



"I fooled you that toime," 

 said Mike with a grin, "for 

 I wasn't aslape at all." 



The fioriat faolB himself who 

 thinks there is any way of 

 selling goods in the trade 

 more effective than adver- 

 tising in The Review. Also, 

 it's the moBt inexpensive way 

 in proportion to results. 



"We are completely sold out and have 

 had to send Ddoney back. The Review 

 Is, without doubt, tiie best advertising 

 medium in the trade."— J. C. Renni- 

 soN Co., Sioux City, la. 



Review readers are not 

 asleep. Note this: 



"Plea.«e tell us confldentially what you 



think of . Why doesn't he 



advertise in The Review if he is O. 

 K.?"— Miller Floral Co., Farming- 

 ton. Utah. 



The alarm clock rings in The 

 Review office at 4 o'clock (p.m., 

 not a. m,) every Tuesday. It is 

 to let everybody know adver- 

 tising forms close for that 

 week's issue in just sixty 

 minutes. 



church, and Miss Annie Ross, and one 

 son, J. Duncan Ross, of Flushing. 



Columbia City, Ind. — E. A. Stanton, of 

 Warsaw, and Fred A. King, of Winona 

 Lake, have purchased the North Side 

 Greenhouses, previously run by B. Lip- 

 man. Mr. King had charge of the green- 

 houses and planting of the Chautauqua 

 assembly grounds at Winona Lake for 

 several years. 



Hoopeston, 111. — Andrew Peterson has 

 sold his two ranges here. The one on 

 Second street went to Joseph Schuler, 

 his foreman, and that at Main street 

 and Second avenue to E. A, Raasch, of 

 Kankakee. It is said the prices of the 

 two establishments aggregated $35,000. 

 Mr. Peterson will retire from active 

 work, but will continue his ownership 

 of the range in Gibson City. 



The Market. 



The local wholesale houses continue- 

 to be filled with all kinds of cut flow- 

 ers, which, though offered at low prices^ 

 sell only in small quantities. The re- 

 tail stores are all at sea in regard to- 

 buying for future sales, as one day 

 business is fair and the next day de- 

 cidedly poor. Taken as a whole, the- 

 market is unusually freakish. Roses- 

 and carnations continue of good qual- 

 ity, with low prices prevailing. Lilies- 

 are slow movers at any price. Large 

 quantities of outdoor tulips and nar- 

 cissi are being moved at fair prices^ 

 The outdoor planting season has com- 

 menced in earnest. In a good many 

 retail stores, displays of pansies, gera- 

 niums and other bedding stock have 

 taken the place of vases of cut flower* 

 and the dealers are profiting by the 

 change. The weather has been mild,, 

 with the exception of one or two cool 

 nights, on which the mercury ' closely 

 approached the freezing point. 



Various Notes. 



Philip B. Welsh, of Glen Morris, will 

 erect during the coming summer a house 

 42x170, for growing asparagus. 



Erdman & Ulrich, on Belair road, ex- 

 pect to make extensive improvements 

 at their range of glass. Fourteen small 

 houses will be torn down and the entire 

 space will be covered with five house» 

 of modern construction. 



The demand for window boxes ia- 

 large this season and many dealers re- 

 port having already sold more of these 

 than were sold all last season. Thi» 

 form of decoration has at last become 

 popular and it is to be hoped that the 

 time will come when every firm and 

 home will use this means of embellish- 

 ment as extensively as it is used ia 

 some of the foreign cities, where streets 

 for squares in length appear as a solid 

 wall of growing plants and vines. 



The flower mart which is to be held 

 at Mount Vernon place. May 12, prom- 

 ises to be quite a successful affair, ac- 

 cording to the interest shown amon^ 

 the local trade. 



Work on the new house for Lehr Bros. 

 is progressing and they hope to have 

 it finished and planted by June 1. 



The new store for Pierce & Co., at 

 2118 Madison street, will be open for 

 business about May 15, after extensive 

 improvements are completed. 



Mothers' day has been well adver- 

 tised by the local florists and a large 

 increase of business is looked for, not 

 only in white carnations, which are 

 bound to fall short of the demand, but 

 in all kinds of cut flowers. W. F. E. 



Van Home, la. — There was heavy hail 

 May 3 but, as there was little wind, no 

 serious losses are reported. George 

 Hammer lost about half the glass in 

 his greenhouse and most of that in his 

 hotbeds, but the stock suffered little 

 damage. 



Bluffton, Ind.— Myers & Co. report 

 that the bedding plant trade looks like 

 a record-breaker this year. The florists 

 here are trying to persuade the public 

 to use other flowers besides carnations 

 for Mothers' day, but the people do not 

 seem to understand the true conditions. 

 Dillon Myers thinks the florists 'associa- 

 tions might take up the matter with 

 churches and get at the public in that 

 way. 



