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APBiL 22. 1909 The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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B. Holt places. Later he laid out the C. 

 P. Bradley, John V. Farwell, C. B. Far- 

 well and W. H. Smith places. 



He built his first commercial green- 

 Louse in 1875. The firm of F. Calvert & 

 Son, consisting of the late Francis Cal- 

 vert and his son, Edgar S. Calvert, was 

 established in 1884. This firm was, it is 

 believed, the pioneer firm in shipping to 

 tlie Chicago wholesale market. 



Mr. Calvert had been a member of the 

 Lake Forest Presbyterian church since 

 1861. He is survived by his wife and also 

 bv five children, Mrs. William L. Ander- 

 son, of Eiverside, Cal.; Mrs. "William 

 Beynon, of Denver, Colo.; William W, 

 Calvert, of Denver, Colo., and Edgar S. 

 and Miss Harriet . Calvert, of Lake For- 

 est. The funeral took place from the 

 residence at Lake Forest, Friday, April 

 16. 



L, J. Risser. 



Lewis J. Kisser, proprietor of the Mos- 

 bask Greenhouse Co., Onarga, HI., died 

 suddenly in New York April 13. He was 

 not known in the trade, having devoted 

 little attention to the greenhouse business 

 now under the management of C. W. 

 Reimers, but he was widely known in the 

 canning trade, having been president of 

 the Iroquois Canning Co., of Onarga, 

 the town's largest industry and one 

 of the largest corn-packing concerns in 

 the United States. The Canner and Dried 

 Fruit Packer said in its last issue: 



"Mr. Kisser's heart was in the can- 

 ning business. He was alive to every- 

 thing likely to advance the interests of the 

 Iroquois Canning Co., and he in almost 

 equal degree concerned himself with every 

 movement calculated to promote the prog- 

 ress and welfare of the industry in which 

 he for years figured so prominently. IHs 

 keen intelligence, energy and unselfish- 

 ness were>Tong ago recognized by his 

 fellow packers, who honored him with 

 their confidence and were pleased more 

 than once to entrust to him the conduct 

 of plans in which they were mutually in- 

 terested. Only last month the members 

 of the Western Packers' Canned Goods 

 Association showed their esteem for him 

 and their recognition of his energy and 

 ability by unanimously reelecting him to 

 the presidency of that organization, the 

 oldest as well as one of the most influ- 

 ential canners' associ^ions in this coun- 

 ffi- "^^ ^^^ ^* other times held various 

 Official positions in canners' organiza- 

 tions, including a vice-presidency of the 

 national association and membership in 

 tne advisory committee of Canners' Ex- 

 change, in the growth of which he was 

 actively interested and contributed much 

 to Its success. ' ' 



iQ^i^io '^' kisser was born September 

 hiJ ; 1^' ?* Ashland, O. He went with 

 isrl^ ^^^ ^^"^'^y to Onarga, HI., about 

 «,^fi u- 5"" ^°^*y years he was engaged 

 mpr. '!-^*^«''' P«t«r Kisser, in a general 

 D np« °^® ^^ grain business at that 

 Lt. • ,t e'ltered the corn canning busi- 

 ^e m 1892. Mr. Risser was a |romi- 



ci ch^'o^^n °^ ^\' ^"* Presbyterian 

 and tn.t ^°^'"g^ ^'"' o^er forty years, 

 Y MP F^^^ interest in religious and 

 widow : A T^^- ^® ^8 survived by his 

 thevn^- v^*"g^*«^' ^^o '"U continue 

 thf ^ I business enterprises, including 



I^udS'te!.^"*^'-^^*^ established by 



^ig Mosbaek. 



Adolph MielUz. 



PhJS,^«"«^» of Waldheim, 

 .1 "ngfaeld, Mass.. woii t^^™^ „ ' 



SprinXiH^T ®^' 0* Waldheim, West 

 ti'viltS«f ' ^^^^•' "^«" J^^own as a hor- 

 ^ Centura ^^3, g^'^e^er for nearly half 

 April iT' ^^J'y a faU from his wagon, 

 ^> at the age of 74 years. He 



John Scott. 



had been for years subject to a heart 

 disease, and the fall was evidently due 

 to a seizure such as he sometimes had 

 after extra exertion, but in falling he 

 struck on his head between the wheels, 

 cutting a large gash, causing a fracture 

 of the skull, and at the same time break- 

 ing his neck. 



He was born in Oldenburg, Schleswig- 

 Holstein, Germany, August 2, 1834. His 

 father was a contractor, carpenter and 

 builder. He studied horticulture and 

 forestry in Dresden and Berlin, whence 

 he went to the celebrated Kew gardens, 

 London. Sifhuel Parsons, of Flushing, 

 L. I., one of the principal horticulturists 

 of this country fifty years ago, found 

 Mr. Miellez at Kew, and engaged him to 

 come to America in his employ. Thence 

 he removed to Springfield on the invita- 

 tion of the late B. K. Bliss, with whom 

 he worked for some years, and became 

 eventually a prominent flower grower, 

 having at one time a large greenhouse 

 establishment on Plainfield street, and 

 later he had greenhouses on Massasoit 

 street, on the Chapin farm. About ten 

 years ago he bought a tract of land from 

 the Champion estate on the Amostown 

 road in West Springfield, where he had 

 since lived. 



Mr. Miellez 's first wife was Miss 

 Agnes "Vix, and they had eight children, 

 all of whom are living. They were, in 

 the order of their birth, Agnea, Isabel, 

 Adolf, Cecile, Frederick, George, Marie 

 and Grace. About sixteen years ago Mr. 

 Miellez married a second time, his wife 

 being Miss Margarethe Von Mitzlaff, who 

 was for years teacher of the voice at 



Smith college and is now a teacher in 

 Springfield. They built the house at 

 Waldheim, their remarkable garden resi- 

 dence, and there he was engaged in his 

 favorite occupation, as it was his con- 

 stant business, of growing flowers and 

 fruits. 



Mr. Miellez was an earnest socialist, 

 and edited Springfield's sole socialist 

 paper, which was able and interesting, 

 but had but a brief life. During thia 

 period he was at one time the socialist 

 candidate for mayor. 



Edwanl F. Daly. 



Edward F. Daly, a florist at Nine- 

 teenth street and Prospect park, west, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., died recently at his 

 home, 320 Prospect park, west. 



James J. Kent 



James J. Kent, 59 years of age, and 

 for many years a florist and gardener 

 in Pittsburg, Pa., died recently at his 

 home, 7023 Hamilton avenue, in that city, 

 after an illness of five months. He was 

 born in Belfast, Ireland, and came to 

 America when a young man. He was a 

 member of the Lincoln Avenue Methodist 

 Episcopal church. Surviving him are his 

 wife, who was Miss Ada E. Sowkes, and 

 two daughters, Mrs. Samuel McCaslin and 

 Mrs. J. H. Wilcox, of Pittsburg. 



Jacksonville, Fla.— The Jacksonville 

 Floral Co. says the Easter business was 

 the best yet. Lilies were in special de- 

 mand. 



