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January 5, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 





J. W. Merritt and his traveling man 

 are both away on business trips in 

 New England and Pennsylvania. 



Bowling. 



The Alex. Shaw prize, a bottle of 

 champagne, for the high score of the 

 evening, December 30, was won by 

 Mauda, with a total of 201. Another 

 bottle will be given by the same house 

 next Friday evening. There will also 

 be bowling by all members of the New 

 York Florists' Club Monday, January 

 9, the afternoon of the club meeting, at 

 the Albion alleys. Twenty-third street 

 and Sixth avenue. The scores Decem- 

 ber 30 were: 



Player— 1st 2d .'Jd 4tli 5tli 



Nugent 103 128 93 126 



Wheeler 122 123 138 147 



Kakuda 143 11« 149 138 



McArdle 133 158 133 130 160 



Berry 126 131 143 122 146 



Shaw 147 155 150 171 152 



Irwin 144 175 170 164 156 



Manda 147 145 201 168 145 



.). Austin Shaw. 



OBITUARY. 



Fred Dorner. 



Father Dorner is dead! The word 

 came unexpectedly, for he was attacked 

 by pneumonia at his home at Lafayette, 

 Ind., December 23, and six days later 

 succumbed to heart failure. His death, 

 like his life, was peaceful and calmjj 

 with his family about him. There are 

 few men in floriculture more generally 

 beloved. 



To Father Dorner more than to any 

 other man the world owes the American 

 carnation in its perfection of today. A 

 close student of nature, his success in 

 the development of this flower of the 

 people has made the name of Dorner 

 known the world around. The greatest 

 progress in his work was being made 

 at the time when The Keview was 

 founded, in 1897, and it was the good 

 fortune of this publication to have Mr. 

 Dorner as the author of its Carnation 

 Notes during the first few years, to 

 give to the trade his own story of the 

 methods by which he had made such 

 wonderful progress with the flower. He 

 was- president of the American Carna- 

 tion Society in 1896. 



Fred Dorner was born at Baden, Ger- 

 many, November 29, 1837, the son of 

 Fred and Christian Dorner. He came 

 to America in 1855, to join a brother 

 who had settled at Lafayette. His first 

 occupation was with a florist, Lloyd, 

 then pioneering there. Later he farmed, 

 and in 1865 removed to Wisconsin, to 

 return to Lafayette in 1870. Tn that 

 year he started in the florists' business, 

 renting a small range of glass. In 1889 

 he bought property ou Indiana avenue 

 and built the nucleus of the plant that 

 in later years has become so well known 

 to the thousands of pilgrims to this 

 Mecca of devout carnationists. The 

 business prospered steadily and in 1905 

 a tract of twenty-four acres still far- 

 ther out on Indiana avenue was pur- 

 chased for H new range, now approxi- 

 mating 100,0(10 feet of glass. The busi- 

 ness was incorporated in 1896 as the 

 F. Dorner & Sons Co., with the founder 

 as president, Theodore A. Dorner vice- 

 president and Fred E. Dorner secretary 

 and treasurer. Miss Emily Dorner is in 

 charge of the retail store at 640 Main 

 street, where the offices of the whole- 

 sale department also are located. 



Although Mr. Dorner was one of the 

 first of American florists to take up the 



Fred Dorner. 



carnation and although he probably has 

 raised more seedlings and disseminated 

 more varieties than any other man, the 

 results of his labors have all come in 

 the last twenty years. It was in 1891 

 that he disseminated his first named 

 varieties. The set consisted of nearly 

 a dozen, notable in their day, but he 

 survived them all by many years. Prom 

 1891 down to the present, hardly a 

 season has passed without one or more 

 introductions of new carnations by the 

 Dorners. Of the set of ten sent out 

 in 1892, Mme. Albertini Diaz stood the 

 test longer than any other, but it was 

 in 1893 that Mr. Dorner s«'ored his first 

 real, and, perhaps, all things considered, 

 his greatest, success with the dissem- 

 ination of the variety William Scott. 

 Far as Scott is outclassed by the car- 

 nation of today, it stood for years with 

 out a peer and the blood of Scott with- 

 out doubt is in practically all the va- 

 rieties of later introduction, for all the 

 hybridists working in the late 90s used 

 Scott as their standard. In 1897 Mr. 

 Dorner gave White Cloud and Mrs. 

 Bradt to the trade; in 1898, G. H. 

 Crane; in 1904, Lady Bountiful; in 

 1906. White Perfection; in 1908, Wi- 

 nona; in 1909, Pink Delight; in 1910, 

 Scarlet Glow, and in 1911 the firm is 

 sending out White Wonder and Gloriosa. 

 These are but a few of the better 

 known of the many sorts that have 

 been launched from Lafayette; but they 



are enough to make secure the fame of 

 their originator. Also, as a diversion, 

 work was done on the chrysanthemum 

 and some good things put out in the 

 trade, among them Golden Eagle. 



March 2, 1861, Mr. Dorner and Mar- 

 guerita Eihl were married. A golden 

 wedding had been planned for three 

 months hence. With Mrs. Dorner there 

 survive seven of thirteen children. 

 They are: F. E. Dorner, who is treas- 

 urer of the American Carnation Society; 

 Theo. A. Dorner, who in later years has 

 carried on the work of raising new 

 varieties; Herman B. Dorner, of the 

 ITniversity of Illinois, Urbana, secre- 

 tary of the Society of American Flo- 

 rists; Wm. P. Dorner, of Indianapolis, 

 the only son who has not adopted his 

 father's calling; Emily Dorner, the flo- 

 rist daughter; Mrs. F. E. Hudson, of 

 Lafayette, and Mrs. Claude Riddle, of 

 Los Angeles. All the children except 

 Wm. P. Dorner were at the bedside 

 when death came, Mrs. Kiddle having 

 come from California and H. B. Dorner 

 from Urbana to spend the holidays. 



The funeral was held Monday after- 

 noon, .Tanuary 2, and was one of the 

 largest at Lafayette in many years. The 

 trade was represented by a large num- 

 ber of Indiana florists and there were 

 many from a distance, including George 

 Asmus, president of the S. A. F. Flow- 

 ers in profusion included wreaths from 

 the trade organizations and many firms 



