Mabch 3, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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One of Wm. Blacker*! Places at Clearfield, Pa. 



WILLIAM BLACKER'S PLACE. • 



William Blacker has been in the flo- 

 rists' business in the same county in 

 Pennsylvania for more than twenty years. 

 He spent ten years in the business at 

 Houtzdale and now has been more than 

 ten years at Clearfield, where he has two 

 establishments. The accoiiipanyin^ illus- 

 tration shows his residence and principal 

 place, but Mr. Blacker also is superin- 

 tendent for the Clearfield Cemetery Co., 

 and has a range of greenhouses adjoining 

 the cemetery. One plant is used for cut 

 flowers and the other foi; pot plants and 

 bedding stock. He has 10,000 feet of 

 glass. 



AT RIDGEWAY, PA. 



The accompanying illustration gives the 

 street view of the Mountain Park Green- 

 house at Ridgeway, Pa., of which H. W. 

 Girton is manager. The establishment 

 has recently been built. It consists of 

 three houses 24x82, one house 11x82, a 

 store, boiler-shed, etc., 18x72. The house 

 in the front of the range, which shows in 

 the picture, was glazed the last week in 

 September of this year. The construction 

 is of modern character. The roofs are 

 trussed, angle-iron purlins being em- 

 ployed, so that the houses are extremely 

 light. As is always the case in small 

 towns, a miscellaneous stock must be 

 grown, including about everything that 

 the trade ever handles. The prospect for 

 business in 1910 is said to be excellent. 



OBITUARY. 



Geo. W. Schroyer. 



Geo. W. Schroyer, one of the pioneer 

 florists of Lancaster, Pa., died at his 

 home in that city February 22, at the 

 age of 91 years. Though he had suffered 

 several attacks of illness during the last 

 few years, his death was due to old age 

 and the general exliaustion of his vital 

 energies. For a man of his years he was 

 wonderfully well preserved, with the car- 

 riage of a man of middle age, and his 

 keen intellect was unimpaired to the' last. 



Mr. Schroyer was born at Lewisburg, 

 Pa., September 9, 1818. He was a son of 

 Colonel Christian Schroyer. a man of 

 prominence in his community. He re- 

 ceived hia primary training in the dis- 

 trict school and in an evening writing 

 school, rounding out his rather limited 

 literary knowledge with a short term at 

 a grammar school. When eighteen years 



old he started out for himself in the 

 world, walking to Harrisburg, where he 

 obtained a position as a printer in the 

 office of a paper called the Keystone. 

 He continued in its service until he be- 

 came foreman. 



While residing in Harrisburg he mar- 

 ried, in 1845, Miss Annie E., daughter 

 of J. B. Thompson, of Harrisburg. In 

 the fall of the same year he bought a 

 paper called the Spy, at Columbia, which 

 he sold two years later, returning to 

 Harrisburg. There he remained until 

 1854, when he removed to Lancaster and 

 acted as foreman for different news- 

 papers until 1862, when he resigned to 

 engage in outdoor work, rendered neces- 

 sary by ill health. That year he bought 

 a fruit farm of seven acres. He grew 

 at first outdoor fruits and vegetables, 

 but soon entered the ranks of the florists 

 and built up a flourishing trade, with a 

 large range of greenhouses. 



Associated with liim in the business 

 was his son, Harry A. Schroyer, who is 

 treasurer of the Lancaster city school 

 board. This son is the only surviving 

 mehiber of the family. Mrs. Schroyer 

 died nearly twenty years ago. 



Matirice Butterfield. 



Maurice Butterfield, 64 years old, pro- 

 prietor of nurseries at Lee's Sunamit and 

 Farmington, Mo., died at Winona, Tex., 

 February 20, of Bright 's disease, Mr. 

 Butterfield removed to Lee's Summit 

 from Ohio in 1868 and started the Lee's 

 Summit Star Nurseries, which he con- 

 ducted to the time of his death. In 1900 

 the Missouri-Pacific Iron Mountain rail- 



way system and the city of Farmington, 

 Mo., made concessions to him and in- 

 duced him to go there and open the 

 Farmington nurseries and greenhouses. 



Mr. Butterfield was a benefactor and 

 one of the organizers of the Missouri 

 State Horticultural Society, and also of 

 the Jackson county fair at Lee 's Summit, 

 Mo. Recently he went to Texas on a 

 visit to his son, in the hope that he 

 might benefit his health. He is sur- 

 vived by his wife and eight children, 

 five sons and three daughters. He was a 

 member of the Masonic fraternity, under 

 whose auspices the funeral was held at 

 Farmington, Mo. 



F. A. Pinoteau. 



Fred A. Pinoteau, superintendent of 

 Montreal parks, passed away suddenly 

 February 23, at his home, after an ill- 

 ness of less than a day's duration. On 

 the day" before his death Mr. Pinoteau 

 was performing his duties at the city 

 hall and to all appearances was in good 

 health. That evening, on returning to 

 his home on Lafontaine park, he took 

 sick, but his condition did not seem seri- 

 ous. The next day he took a turn for 

 the worse, and died within a short time. 

 Syncope was the cause of death. 



Born in France, he came to Canada 

 with his parents while quite a young boy. 

 He was employed in the parks depart- 

 ment for some years. For a time he was 

 assistant to his brother, Auguste Pino- 

 teau, who died in August, 1908, and on 

 the death of his brother he succeeded to 

 the post. 



He was 39 years of age and is sur- 

 vived by a widow and three children. 

 The funeral services were held on Satur- 

 day morning, February 26, at the church 

 of the Immaculate Conception, and were 

 largely attended by members of the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club and the 

 various fraternal organizations with 

 which the deceased had been identified. 



John C. Hobbard. 



In the death of John C. Hubbard at 

 Burlington, la., January 30, the arts and 

 crafts basket world lost a valuable mem- 

 ber and one who has done much for flo- 

 rists. Mr. Hubbard first started for him- 

 self in a small way in Ashtabula, O., and 

 after a struggle of two years succeeded 

 in bringing his work to the notice of 

 local capitalists, who founded the Madison 

 Basketcraft Co. Later, difficulties arose, 

 and he severed connection with this firm, 

 later taking up the work with the Bur- 

 lington Willow Ware Co., where he was 

 employed up to the time of his death. 

 His work from the start was artistic. 



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Mountain Park Greenhouse, Ridgeway, Pa. 



