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APBIL 8, 1009. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Bertermann's Delivery Automobile Decorated for a Parade. 



a widow and a host of friends to mourn 

 his loss. 



W, G. Palmanteer. 



W. G. Palmanteer died in Los An- 

 geles, Cal., March 29, aged 59 years. Mr. 

 Palmanteer was one of the owners of the 

 California Nursery Co., at Niles, Cal., 

 and also president of the Central Bank, 

 of Oakland, Cal. He had not been act- 

 ively engaged in business for several 

 months before his death. He leaves a 

 widow and three daughters, residing in 

 Oakland, Cal. 



Charles Read* 



Charles Read died March 30, at his 

 iiome, 20 Chapel street. Orange, N. J., of 

 Bright 's disease, after a short illness. 

 Born at Brighton, England, in 1822, Mr. 

 Read came to this country in 1860 and 

 established himself during that year in 

 Orange as a florist. He was a member 

 of the Methodist church. He leaves a 

 widow, three sons, former Alderman 

 Charles E«ad, of Orange; William W. 

 Read, of Coscob, Conn., and Herbert Spen- 

 cer Read, of Chesterfield, Mass., and one 

 daughter, Mrs. William Dickerson, of 

 Philadelphia. 



Henry Eberhardt. 



Henry Eberhardt, of Catonsville, Bal- 

 timore, Md., died March 30, at the home 

 M his son, August Eberhardt, on West 

 ^altiinore street, at the age of 78 years. 

 ^ne deceased was one' of the charter 

 "^'eml.ers of the Gardeners' and Florists' 

 tlul) of Baltimore, and many of the mem- 

 wrs attended his funeral, in the Western 

 cemetery, 



Horace C. Smith. 



^ Horace C. Smith, 73 years of age and 



or in;,ny. yg^pg ^ well-known florist and 



mark.! gardener at Springfleld, Mass., 



^le^l April 2 at 'his home, 16 Grove street. 



^ ^;;is born in Suffield, Conn., in 1835, 



e .;.,n of Cicero and Mary (Austin) 



j"i"- and passed his early life in that 



ij.^'-- At the age of 18 years he went 



° ''le nursery business there with his 



uncle, T. C. Austin, which business he 

 continued for a number of years. He 

 removed to Springfield in 1878, and had 

 been a market gardener and florist ever 

 since. For eight years he was foreman 

 of N. J. Herrick's greenhouses on Os- 

 good street, now the property of Mark 

 Aitken. He was a man who was devoted 

 to his profession and was esteemed by all 

 who knew him. 



Mr. Smith was married twice, his first 

 wife being Emily Austin, whom he mar- 

 ried in 1868, and by vphom he had two 

 children, Charles H. and Ellen, the latter 

 dying in infancy. His second wife was 



AdeUa E. Sawtell, whom he married in 

 1873. Besides a widow, he leaves four 

 sons, Frank S., of Suffield; Edwin S., of 

 Holyoke; Herbert E. and Harold P., of 

 Springfield, and one sister, Frances C, 

 also of Springfield. The funeral was 

 held April 4, the remains being taken to 

 Suffield for burial. 



William H. Derby. 



William H. Derby, of Revere, Mass., 

 recently a member of the vegetable com- 

 mittee of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society under the chairmanship of the 

 late W. W. Rawson, died March 30. The 

 deceased gentleman was one of the best 

 known market gardeners around Boston 

 and had been for some years a prominent 

 member of the Boston Market Garden- 

 ers' Association and the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural * Society. He was also an 

 ex-selectman of Revere. He had the 

 finest pear orchard in Massachusetts and 

 was a large grower of vegetable truck. 



The funeral services were held at his 

 late home, April 2. Fifty members of 

 the Boston Market Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion attended, J. B. Shurtleff and Joseph 

 Wellington being two of the pall-bearers, 

 others representing the town of Revere, 

 the Chelsea Masonic body and War Veter- 

 ans ' Union. Interment was in Wood- 

 lawn cemetery. Revere. 



FLORISTS' AUTOMOBILES. 



There was an automobile parade in In- 

 dianapolis March 26, in which those flo- 

 rists fortunate enough to possess motor 

 vehicles were represented. In each case 

 the florists went to considerable pains to 

 decorate their vehicles to the best advan- 

 tage and the accompanying illustrations 

 show the results obtained. The Wiegand 

 machine is for pleasure, while the Berter- 

 mann outfit is purely utilitarian. Carna- 

 tions were used by each decorator and in 

 considerable quantity. The florists had 

 the most attractive turn-outs in the pa- 

 rade. 



The Review can supply any horticul- 

 tural books at publishers' prices. 



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Automobile Decorated by A. Wiegand & Sons, Indianapolis, Ind« 



