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Februabt 16, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



17 



Various Notes. 



Valentine's day brought a heavy 

 trade to all the flower stores. Violets 

 were plentiful and sold well., owing to 

 their excellent quality and reasonable 

 price. 



Several Cleveland florists went to 

 Alliance, O., last week and bowled the 

 Alliance enthusiasts to the tune of three 

 straight games. After the contest Mr. 

 Lamborn invited the visitors to his resi- 

 dence, where they spent several hours 

 at cards and music. 



C. D. Fell, of Knoble Bros., visited 

 Caledonia, 0., February 11 and 12. 



The son of H. Hart, who was operated 

 on for appendicitis, is convalescing rap- 

 idly. C. D. F. 



OBITUABY. 



Edward L. Coy. 



February 10, Edward L. Coy, who 

 founded the Washington County Seed 

 Gardens in New York state in 1851, 

 died at his home at Melrose, Mass., in 

 his eightieth year. 



Edward L. Coy was born April 4, 

 1831, at Bernardston, Mass. His an- 

 cestors were among those who came 

 from England in the early Colonial 

 days, and his grandfather on "botji 

 sides, each with two brothers, fought 

 through the Eevolutionary war. When 

 16 years old he moved to Washington 

 county, New York, and about a year 

 later began growing seeds for E. N. 

 Kice, of Cambridge, N. Y. At first in 

 a small way, then on an increasingly 

 larger scale, for some of the largest 

 seed houses of New York, Philadelphia 

 and elsewhere, he diligently kept at 

 the business of seed growing through 

 all the years, until at 80 he had 

 rounded out sixty-two years in the 

 business. While he was no longer 

 largely engaged in seed growing, he 

 kept in touch with his old interests 

 and was a regular reader of the seed 

 trade pages of The Review. 



In his early manhood Mr. Coy wrote 

 a great deal for the agricultural press, 

 and during that period delivered many 

 addresses before county and state agri- 

 cultural societies. It was at this time 

 that Horace Greeley, who had become 

 interested in his contributions to the 

 press, using many of them in the New 

 York Tribune, urged him to take the 

 editorship of the agricultural depart- 

 ment of his paper. Mr. Coy has some- 

 times thought that possibly his declina- 

 tion was the great mistake of his life. 



In 1875 he was elected president of 

 the Washington County Agricultural 

 Society, and in 1881 and 1882 was re- 

 elected. For eighteen years he was on 

 the board of directors of this organiza- 

 tion and was four times president of 

 the Hebron Agricultural Society. In 

 1903 he was selected by the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture to make a full 

 and complete test of nearly 250 varie- 

 ties of cucumbers, with the idea of 

 establishing a type of each; also to 

 learn how many of the named varieties 

 were synonyms. No one better quali- 

 fied for the task could have been se- 

 lected, for he was for many years pos- 

 sibly the largest grower of cucumber 

 seed in the world. He has stated that 

 his largest crop, harvested in 1902, was 

 over thirty-five tons. But it will be as 

 a breeder, or originator, of potatoes 

 that he will be most generally remem- 

 bered in years to come by the horti- 

 cultural world. The number of varie- 



Edward L. Q>y. 



ties he originated counts up to nearly 

 a score, each of which, in its day in 

 some section of the country, has been 

 a standard market variety. The fol- 

 lowing are a few of his well-known 

 varieties: Beauty of Hebron, White 

 Elephant, Late Rose, Burpee's Empire 

 State, Henderson's Early Puritan, The 

 Thorburn and White Late Rose. 



At the iannual convention of the 

 American Seed Trade Association, held 

 at Niagara Falls in 1909, special recog- 

 nition was made of the work of Mr. 

 Coy in electing him an honorary mem- 

 ber for life. The distinction is the 

 more notable in that it had been con- 

 ferred but once before, in 1907, in the 

 case of Wm. Meggat, of Wethersfield, 

 Conn., a former president of the asso- 

 ciation. 



September 21, 1858, Mr. Coy married 

 Miss Clara B. Cary, of Hebron, N. Y. 

 There are three children living, C. Her- 

 bert Coy, of Valley, Neb., who is also 

 well known in the seed growing busi- 

 ness; Dr. S. Willard Coy, of Boston, 

 Mass., and Mrs. .Tames B. Sievwright, 

 of Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Timothy McCarthy. 



Timothy McCarthy, for thirty-five 

 years superintendent of Swan Point 

 cemetery, died at his home on Swan 

 Point road. Providence, R. L, Friday, 

 February 10, after being confined to his 

 house about six weeks by a complica- 

 tion of troubles incidental to the liver. 

 He was about 64 years of age, and was 

 one of the best known citizens in that 

 city. 



Mr. McCarthy was born in Ireland, 

 where he worked as a young man upon 

 several of the large private estates, and 

 came to this country before he had at- 



tained his majority. Landing in Bos- 

 ton, he secured a position at the Forest 

 Hills cemetery, where he advanced in 

 authority and responsibility until he 

 was called by the management of the 

 Swan Point cemetery to Providence in 

 1876 to take charge of the grounds of 

 that corporation. 



Mr. McCarthy was essentially a home 

 man and was aflBliated with no secret 

 or fraternal societies. He frequently 

 attended the conventions of the various 

 horticultural and floral associations, and 

 was always an interesting and instruc- 

 tive talker upon subjects pertaining to 

 his profession. 



For many years he attended the an- 

 nual gatherings of the Society of 

 American Florists, and was also a mem- 

 ber of the Rhode Island Horticultural 

 Society, the Florists' and Gardeners' 

 Club of Rhode Island and the Catholic 

 Club. He leaves a widow and ten 

 children, five of whom are boys. Two 

 of the latter are at present abroad 

 studying for the priesthood. 



Benjamin Hosrt. 



Benjamin Hoyt, of the firm of Hoyt 

 Bros., of the Scotch Grove Nursery, at 

 Scotch Grove, la., died of pneumonia 

 February 7, at his home in Monticello, 

 la., at the age of 40 years. He is sur- 

 vived by his wife and one son. He had 

 been a resident of Monticello for about 

 a year. 



Hastings, Neb.— Charles W. Winkler 

 has just completed a new iron-frame 

 greenhouse. 



Grand Eapids, Mich.— The Simonds 

 Heating and Specialty Co. has begun 

 suit in the Supreme Court to collect an 

 alleged debt of $1,085. 



