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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



December 15, 1910. 



next worked under Superintendent 

 Timothy McCarthy, at Swan Point cem- 

 etery, for several years, finally becom- 

 ing head gardener. He bought out the 

 business of Eobert Hogg, at 294 Broad- 

 way, in February, 1888, and had since 

 conducted a flourishing business at that 

 place. He was a former president of 

 the Florists' and Gardeners' Club of 

 Bhode Island, of which he was one of 

 the charter members. His son, Eugene 

 Appleton, is now vice-president of the 

 club, and during his father's illness was 

 in charge of the flower business. Mr. 

 Appleton was also vice-president of the 

 Rhode Island Horticultural Society, and 

 until his illness of last March was in 

 charge of the benching of the flower 

 shows given by that society. He also 

 acted as judge at horticultural exhibi- 

 tions throughout New England. He is 

 survived by a widow, six sons, three 

 daughters, five sisters and two brothers. 



Joseph F. Klimmer. 



The illness of Joseph F. Klimmer, the 

 well known Chicago florist, whose green- 

 houses are at Forest Park, terminated 

 fatally December 12. Mr. Klimmer was 

 56 years old, and had been engaged in 

 the business at Chicago many years. His 

 first enterprise was a retail store on 

 Madison street, near the intersection of 

 Halsted, which in 1880 was, compara- 

 tively speaking, on the outskirts of 

 town. Along about 1885 he opened a 

 store at what was then 548 West Madi- 

 son street, subsequently occupied and 

 conducted for years by H. F. Halle. At 

 about 1889 Mr. Klimmer removed to 

 Forest Park, a western suburb, where 

 he did a retail business, but at the same 

 time grew cut flowers for the Chicago 

 market. He was a man of keen percep- 

 tion and early came to appreciate that 

 the man who was getting the money 

 was the one who was just a little ahead 

 with his crops — ahead either in time, 

 or in quality, or both. He therefore 

 made it a point to see that the flowers 

 he marketed were second to none and 

 that he had his crops ahead of the gen- 

 eral run. As a recent instance showing 

 his method, it may be cited that he was 

 the first grower to produce Golden Glow 

 chrysanthemum in quantity in late sum- 

 mer for his market, and that he prompt- 

 ly dropped ft as soon as everybody else 

 took it up. Coupled with his powers 

 of observation was a forceful style of 

 expressing his ideas, and no better en- 

 tertainment could be wished than was 

 afforded on those occasions when Mr. 

 Klimmer could be drawn to his feet at 

 the meetings of the Chicago Florists' 

 Club, of which he was for some years a 

 trustee. 



At Forest Park Mr. Klimmer was a 

 leading citizen, having served for seven 

 terms as the president of the town 

 board. He leaves a widow, two daugh- 

 ters and one son, Frank Klimmer, who 

 has been associated with his father in 

 the business. The funeral was held at 

 the residence Thursday, December 15, 

 and was largely attended, interment be- 

 ing at Forest Home cemetery. 



Oscar L. Dorr. 



Oscar L. Dorr, of Sharon Heights, 

 Mass., one of the largest and most suc- 

 cessful commercial vegetable growers, 

 died December 9 from a shock. Mr. 

 Dorr made a specialty of cucumbers, 

 which he grew extensively under glass. 

 He also followed other branches of mar- 

 ket gardening with great success. For 

 some years he was a large and success- 



Joseph F. Klimmer. 



ful grower of double violets, his flowers 

 being handled in Boston by Thomas 

 Pegler. The deceased was in his sixty- 

 ninth year. 



Robert Buist. 



Robert Buist, one of the oldest, 

 wealthiest and most widely known 

 seedsmen in America, died of pneumonia 

 at his home at Philadelphia, December 

 14. 



A. Koster. 



According to the European trade 

 press, there died, October 13, at Bos- 

 koop, in Holland, A. Koster, aged 80 

 years. About thirty years ago he 

 found among his seedlings of Picea pun- 

 gens the fine form of P. pungens Kos- 

 teriana, with blue needles, which has 

 meanwhile been distributed over the 

 whole temperate parts of the world. The 

 deceased was famed for his rhododen- 

 dron hybrids, crosses of R. Chinense 

 (molle) which bore his name and 

 earned him many prizes. He worked 

 800 hectares of land and must have sent 

 out many millions of trees and shrubs. 

 The mother plant of Picea pungens 

 glauca Kosteriana still exists on the 

 edge of a broad ditch in the Boskoop 

 nursery. 



Joseph Pennar. 



Joseph Pennar, of Alexandria, Minn., 

 died at his home November 24, after a 

 lingering illness of heart trouble and 

 complications, caused primarily by an 

 injury received in a railroad accident 

 six years ago, while he was engaged in 

 the mail service. Though he was not, 

 strictly speaking, a member of the flo- 

 rists' trade, yet he was practically as 

 well as financially interested in the 

 flower business conducted by his wife 

 at Alexandria. 



Archibald Small. 



Gored by the tusks of an infuriated 

 Berkshire boar at his stock farm near 

 Forest Glen, Md., Archibald Small dieci 

 December 6, after lingering three days. 

 The funeral was held at Silver Springs, 

 December 8, interment being at Oak- 

 ville cemetery. 



Archibald Small was born in George- 

 town, D. C, August 2, 1863. His father, 

 the late John H. Small, was for years 

 gardener at Windsor Castle, the home 

 of Queen Victoria, and became, at 

 Washington and New York, one of 

 the best known retail florists in the 

 United States. Archibald Small, who 

 was the first to die of a family of nine 

 children, was for a time in the retail 

 flower business on upper Broadway in 

 New York, but had some years since 

 retired, to give his entire time to stock 

 breeding interests at Providence Farm, 

 in Maryland. He was not a member of 

 the firm of J, H. Small & Sons, though 

 widely known in the trade. A widow 

 survives. 



Mrs. I. P. Whittet. 



Mrs. Isabella P. Whittet, wife of 

 Alexander Whittet, of Lowell, Mass., 

 died December 3, in her home at 31 

 Wentworth avenue. She had been ill 

 with heart trouble since last August, 

 although at times she had sufficiently 

 recovered to be able to go out of doors. 

 She was born Isabella Proudfoot, in 

 Perth, Scotland, in 1840. She came to 

 Lowell as a young woman and in Janu- 

 ary, 1867, was married to Alexander 

 Whittet. Mr. and Mrs. Whittet had 

 ever since made their home in Lowell. 

 She is survived by her husband, three 

 sons, former Alderman William D. 

 Whittet, Charlei A. Whittet, superin- 

 tendent of parks, and Rufus M. Whittet, 

 assistant engineer for the state board 

 of health. 



