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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



DfiCBMBEB 8, 1010. 



Various Notes. 



John Lynch has severed his connec- 

 tion with the Burke Rose Co., of this 

 city. 



Charles H. Hunt is bringing in an 

 extra fine lot of araucarias and rubbers, 

 of which he has a good supply. 



Conrad Schultz, of Westerly, was a 

 visitor to New York last week. 



One of the largest displays of flowers 

 at a funeral seen in this city in a long 

 time was at that of Mrs. Henry F. Lip- 

 pitt, recently. It is estimated there 

 were a hundred designs. Johnston 

 Bros., T. J. Johnston & Co., Eugene 

 McCarron and Mrs. "William Butcher, of 

 this city, and Lawrence Hay, of East 

 Providence, had several pieces each, but 

 the lion's share fell to T. O'Connor, 

 who had upward of seventy-five pieces, 

 several of which were from $50 to $125 

 each. 



Peter S. Byrnes, of Wickford, is busy 

 with outdoor work. He recently set out 

 several thousand bulbs at an estate in 

 Westerly. 



James Steward, who has been with 

 William Hay at his new place in Oak- 

 lawn for some time, has engaged with 

 Joseph Kopelman as assistant superin- 

 tendent at the latter 's farm in Oak- 

 lawn. 



At the meeting of the executive com- 

 mittee of the Washington County Agri- 

 cultural Society November 28, J. V. B. 

 Watson, of Wakefield, who has been 

 superintendent of the association for 

 the last thirty-four years, resigned and 

 Philip A. Money, of Slocum, will fill his 

 place. 



Robert Greenlaw, representing the S. 

 8. Pennock-Meehan Co., of Philadel- 

 phia, was in the city last week. 



Charles W. Morey, proprietor of the 

 Woonsoeket Hill Nursery, Woonsocket, 

 has been appointed tree warden for 

 North Smithfield. 



Johnston Bros, have installed a hand- 

 some new ice-box in their store on Dor- 

 rance street. It is without an equal in 

 this city. It is of quartered oak with 

 keavy plate glass doors and mirrored 

 back. The firm is arranging several 

 alterations and improvements in store 

 and workroom. 



William B. Hazard is contemplating 

 giving up his retail store on Mathew- 

 son street. 



James B. Canning has recently had 

 several large decorating commissions. 

 These included the plants for the John 

 Hay Library at Brown University on 

 the occasion of its dedication, the an- 

 nual ball of the Providence Permanent 

 Police Department at the State Armory 

 and several at the Narragansett hotel. 

 A conservatory 20x50 feet is to be 

 built at the estate of August Belmont, 

 in Newport. 



W. S. Pino, Washington street, this 

 city, has just received a large importa- 

 tion of immortelles from France. 



Samuel Kinder, tree warden at Bris- 

 tol, and his force of workmen have just 

 completed the planting of over 300 

 young trees to replace decayed ones in 

 the central portion of the town. 



Fred B. Luther, of Oxford street, is 

 bringing in some fine variegated stevia 

 that finds ready sale. 



John A. Macrae is cutting a good crop 

 of extra fine carnations, but his supply 

 does not equal the demand for this 

 stock. . 



Frank Barker, of Warren, has just 

 returned from a vacation trip in the 

 woods of Maine. W. H. M. 



OBITUABY. 



Charles P. Braslan. 



Charles P. Braslan, president of the 

 Braslan Seed Growers' Co., San Jose, 

 Cal., and probably known personally to 

 as many seedsmen as any other man in 

 the trade in America, died at his home 

 December 3, after an illness of ten 

 days with pneumonia. 



Mr. Braslan was born near Boston in 

 1861 and was therefore in his forty- 

 ninth year. All his life he had been 

 identified with the seed trade, having 

 entered the employ of Joseph Breck & 

 Sons Corporation at Boston when he 

 was only 12 years of age. He remained 

 with the Boston firm for eleven years, 

 but at the age of 23 he went into busi- 

 ness for himself in partnership with 

 Jesse E. Northrup, at Minneapolis. In 

 1887 A. H. Goodwin, now of the W. W. 

 Barnard Co., Chicago, joined the firm. 



Charks P. Braslan. 



which was incorporated as the Northrup, 

 Braslan & Goodwin Co. This business 

 continued for ten years, Mr. Braslan 

 being the general manager. When the 

 Northrup, Braslan & Goodwin Co. re- 

 tired from the trade, Mr. Braslan re- 

 turned to Breck, opening at Chicago a 

 branch for the Boston house, which he 

 continued for a couple of years. In 

 1898 he removed to San Jose and took 

 up the work of seed growing for the 

 wholesale trade. Within the short space 

 of twelve years he built up the largest 

 seed growing business in the United 

 States and probably his firm had more 

 acres under seed crops last year than 

 any other seed growing concern any- 

 where in the world. Mr. Braslan did 

 not have the advantage of thorough 

 schooling, except in the affairs of the 

 trade and the business world, but he 

 developed remarkable aptitude for his 

 work and was possessed of strong 

 mental powers. Organizing the Braslan 

 Seed Growers' Co., with the control 

 of a moderate acreage, he rapidly add- 

 ed ranch after ranch in the best seed 

 growing districts of California, until 

 the total ran into the thousands of 

 acres and the magnitude of the opera- 



tions exceeded anything heretofore 

 known in the seed growing industry. It 

 is stated that the pay roll of the com- 

 pany had not in some years carried less 

 than 600 names and that in various 

 seasons the number had exceeded 1,500. 

 Connections were established with 

 European houses and large quantities 

 of seeds grown in California for export. 

 Mr. Braslan, who had the tile of major, 

 was accustomed to making an annual 

 trip to call on each of the principal 

 seedsmen throughout the United States, 

 and also was a regular attendant at 

 the conventions of the American Seed 

 Trade Association through many years, 

 and made periodical business trips to 

 Europe. He was extremely popular and 

 his nature was so virile that he was 

 welcomed as a breath of fresh air wher- 

 ever he journeyed, 



Mr. Braslan leaves a wife, with a 

 daughter of two years. There also are 

 three other children by previous mar- 

 riages. 



William Kennedy. 



William Kennedy, a landscape gar- 

 dener and florist of Greenfield, Mass., 

 died November 23, at his home on 

 Davis street, after an illness of about 

 a year. He was 69 years old. He 

 was a competent man in his business, 

 and in his younger days had been em- 

 ployed on the estates of the Duke of 

 Argyle, of Scotland, and Sir Richard 

 Wallace, of Ireland. He was born in 

 the north of Ireland, and came to this 

 country about forty years ago. After 

 removing to Greenfield he had charge 

 successively of several of the large es- 

 tates in that vicinity. His last work 

 in Greenfield was grading the entrance 

 to Shattuck park. For a time he con- 

 ducted a florist's business in Green- 

 field. He is survived by his wife and 

 six sons, Isaac, of Cleveland, O.; 

 Thomas, of Philadelphia; William, of 

 Brookline; Sherrard and John, of 

 Greenfield. 



B. A. Moeckel. 



B. A. Moeckel, a florist of EmIenton, 

 Pa., died at his home October 23, after 

 an illness of some months. He was 

 born in Zwickau, Saxony, Germany. 

 He received a thorough education and 

 was graduated from the law depart- 

 ment of the University of Leipsic, 

 which was also the alma mater of 

 both his father and his grandfather. 

 After practicing law for a few years 

 in Chemnitz, he came to America. He 

 was a man of warm, sympathetic na- 

 ture, intensely loyal to his friends, 

 honest and truthful in all his dealings. 

 He is survived by his wife and one 

 sister. 



CAI.LAS WILTING. 



I have some callas in bloom. The 

 plants are healthy, but some of the 

 flowers are rotten, or brownish, as if 

 wilted. I keep the temperature between 

 55 and 60 degrees at night. They are 

 never damp. Can you tell me what is 

 the cause of this trouble? H. R. 



This condition is not at all uncommon. 

 It is due to trouble at the roots. Be 

 sure the drainage of your pots is good. 

 Do not feed until the pots are full of 

 roots and then avoid heavy doses. Weak 

 liquid manure twice a week will do 

 much more good than a strong dose 

 once a week. Your temperature should 

 be all right. C. W. 



