'-.y ■■/• ■' ^'■■' r e~p 'V*:^'/:*'^ 



Mabch 4, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



J7 



was a widower, Mrs. Hallock having died 

 last year. The funeral will be held 

 Thursday, March 4, and will be largely 

 attended, for he had the respect and 

 friendship of everyone in the trade and 

 a host of people in other walks of life. 



H. A. Terry. 



• Henry A. Terry, one of the oldest nur- 

 serymen in the United States, died 

 February 14 at his home in Crescent, 

 Pottawattamie county, Iowa. Mr. Terry 

 was born July 12, 1826, and was there- 

 fore approaching his eighty-third birth- 

 day. He had been engaged in the nur- 

 sery business at Crescent for upwards of 

 forty years, working quietly, and was lit- 

 tle known outside his own county and in 

 the circle of tnosp interested in the 

 peony. 



Although Mr. Terry had originated 

 and to a certain extent distributed al- 

 most fifty kinds of improved plums, his 

 reputation rests rather as a grower of 

 peonies. Possibly 100 new varieties of 

 peonies have been sent out among west- 

 ern planters from his grounds at Cres- 

 cent. August 4, 1904, the Review pub- 

 lished a photograph of Mr. Terry stand- 

 ing in the midst of his acres of peonies, 

 gorgeously in bloom at the time the pic- 

 ture was made. No great number of 

 Terry 's varieties are widely known in the 

 trade, because he worked quietly, reaped 

 little and used no printer's ink. C. S. 

 Harrison, one of his closest friends, says 

 he was one of those in whom the com- 

 mercial instinct was entirely dormant. 



Eugene Germain. 



Los Angeles, Cal., lost a leading citi- 

 zen February 18 in the death* by heart 

 failure of Eugene Germain. He was 

 president of the Germain Seed & Plant 

 Co., but that business had occupied little 

 of his attention in recent years, as he had 

 made a fortune in real estate and other 

 outside operations. He was 61 years of 

 age and a pioneer resident of the city, 

 having located in California in 1870. He 

 had been president of the Produce Ex- 

 change and president of the Board of 

 Trade. 



The seed business had for some years 

 been under the direction of Fred H. 

 Hunter and will continue without change. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



[The Sclentiflc Aspects of Lnther Burbank's 

 Work, by David Starr Jordan and Vernon 

 Lyman Kellogg ; A. M. Robertson, San Fran- 

 cisco, publisher.] 



This volume is evidently an attempt to 

 exactly determine Mr. Burbank's status 

 by the voice of scientific authority and 

 thereby put a quietus upon the "wiz- 

 ard" stories that have appeared in 

 print. Dr. Jordan gives brief records 

 of a number of Mr. Burbank's experi- 

 ments in crossing and hybridizing, and 

 quotes freely from the writings of the 

 plant breeder. In a summing up he 

 says: "Luther Burbank, while primarily 

 an artist, is, in his general attitude, es- 

 sentially a man of science. Academic 

 he doubtless is not, but the qualities we 

 call scientific are not necessarily bred in 

 the academy. Science is human expe- 

 rience tested and set in order. Within 

 the range of his profession of molding 

 plant life, Mr. Burbank has read care- 

 fully, and thought carefully, maturing 

 his own generalizations and resting them 

 on the basis of his own knowledge." 



In summing up on the scientific aspect 

 of Mr. Burbank '« work. Dr. Kellogg 



These Are the Little LiflersThatDo theBosiaess 



says : ' ' No new revelations to science 

 of an overturning character; but the 

 revelation of the possibilities of accom- 

 plishment, based on general principles 

 already known, by an unusual man. No 

 new laws of evolution, but new facts, 

 new data, new canons for special cases. 

 No new principle or process to substitute 

 for selection, but a new proof of the 

 possibilities of the effectiveness of the 

 old principle." 



An excellent portrait of Mr. Burbank 

 appears as a frontispiece, and the llo 

 pages of the book contain thirty-seven il- 

 lustrations of plant variations that have 

 resulted from his work. It is a volume 

 that every one interested in plant breed- 

 ing will want to add to his library. 



GiRABD, O. — "William Gerke has let the 

 contracts for the building of a residence 

 on Washington street. 



Chillicothe, O.— C. F. Brehmer is 

 building a new range consisting of three 

 houses, each eighty-three feet long, two 

 of them twenty-five feet wide and one 

 forty-two feet. A lean-to, 10x92, also is 

 to be built. The King Construction Co. 

 has the order and it is understood their 

 new iron-frame pattern is to be employed. 



CONVENTION PREPARATIONS. 



The Cincinnati Florists' Society is 

 planning large doings for the week in 

 August when the S. A. F. will meet in 

 their city. Selections for chairmen of 

 the different committees have been made 

 as follows: 



President's Eeception — Albert McCul- 

 lough, Charles McCuUough and Peter 

 Olinger. 



Entertainment — J. A. Peterson. 



Badges — E. A. Forter. 



Program — A. Sunderbruch. 



Transportation — G. Adrian. 



Hall— J. W. Eodgers. 



Women's Entertainment — E. G. Gil- 

 lett and C. E. Critchell. 



Ball Game — Frank Dellar. 



Bowling— C. E. Critchell. 



William Murphy has been recommended 

 to the S. A. F. executive committee for 

 superintendent of the trade exhibition. 



-^ 



Grand Rapids, Mich. — ^W. L. Cukerski, 

 former superintendent of city parks, has 

 begun work on his greenhouses at Val- 

 ley avenue and Fulton street. The first 

 building will cover 18,000 square feet 

 and this will be added to during the 

 summer. 



