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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



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members. He says he has quite a few 

 who have promised to join before the 

 August convention. 



The fine, spring-like weather brought 

 out a few plantsmen to open their stands 

 at Union market. Tom Carr was one of 

 the first to be ready for business. He 

 is also one of the oldest at the market. 



Ostertag Bros, had the big decoration 

 at the Coliseum for the Adolphus Busch 

 golden wedding jubilee. Henyy Ostertag 

 says it was one of the largest jobs he 

 has tackled for a long time. 



A. G. Greiner says he has a good call 

 for nursery stock and especially Califor- 

 nia privet. C. E. De Wever and Emil 

 Rothenhover are also busy planting out 

 nursery stock of all kinds. 



Otto Sander, in the Century building, 



continues his fine window decorations. 



Mr. Sander says it pays, as his business 



has greatly increased since he started 



these attractive displays. 



Fred H. Weber had the big decorations 

 at Vandevort 's department store, which 

 opened Monday, March 13. A big force 

 worked all day Sunday to complete it 

 and 500 fancy Beauties were used. 



The Eetail Florists' Association, at its 

 regular meeting March 6, condemned the 

 ])ractice of outside wholesale florists sell- 

 ing to our department stores which have 

 no floral departments. 



The Engelmann Botanical Club held 

 its regular meeting March 13 at the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden. The main fea- 

 ture of the meeting was a paper pre- 

 sented by H. W. Anderson on ' ' Immunity 

 from Disease in Plants." i 



The marriage of W. C. Smith, of the 

 W. C. Smith Wholesale Floral Co., and 

 Miss Helen West, of Edwardsville, 111., 

 was the occasion last week of quite a 

 demonstration by the employees and other 

 members of the firm. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Smith will be at home to friends in their 

 apartments at Shenandoah and Grand 

 avenues on their return the last of this 

 week. 



W. W. Randall, of the A. L. Randall 

 Co., Avas a recent visitor. J. J. B. 



SPRINGFIELD, O. 



The Springfield Florists' Club held 

 its regular meeting Monday evening, 

 March 13, at the oflice of the Good & 

 Reese Co., with a fine attendance. 

 Progress was reported by the commit- 

 tee appointed to confer with the park 

 commiseioners in regard to the proposed 

 rose garden at Snyder park. 



"Plant Life" was the subject of a 

 most interesting and highly instructive 

 paper read by Christian Binning, of 

 the Geo. H. Mellen Co., which showed 

 evidence of close observation and studj' 

 for a lifetime, beginning with his 

 school days in Germany. Sex in plants 

 was explained along with the aid of 

 insects in cross-fertilization of flowers, 

 and man 's work toward reversing na- 

 ture by efforts toward the doubling of 

 blooms was decried. A general discus- 

 sion followed, participated in by John 

 M. Good, Carl E. Glenn, Frank E. Good 

 and others, the consensus of opinion 

 being that the subject is too vast to be 

 covered at a single session, and that 

 there is much room for progress in the 

 way of scientific methods in floricul- 

 ture, arboriculture and agriculture. 



Ge Dale. 



Colorado Springs, Colo. — An addi- 

 tional greenhouse, 21x100, is being 

 erected on the estate of Spencer Pen- 

 rose, on West Dale street. 



OBITUARY. 



J. F. Beyer. 



J. F. Beyer, secretary of the Beyer 

 Floral Co., South Bend, Ind., and the 

 youngest of the three sons of August F. 

 I3eyer, head of the concern, died Tues- 

 day, March 14," after only a short ill- 

 ness. The funeral will be held at 

 South Bend March 16. Mr. Beyer was 

 only 26 years of age. A widow sur- 

 vives. Associated with the deceased 

 in the management of the business of 

 the Beyer Floral Co. were two brothers, 

 Paul and Will. 



John Senger. 



John Senger, who for twenty-six years 

 had been engaged in business at Chicago, 

 died March 8 at his home, 2330 North 

 Spaulding avenue. Mr. Senger was born 

 in Germany almost fifty-five years ago 

 and learned his trade in his native land. 

 He came to Chicago thirty-one years ago 

 and after working at the trade a few 

 years, started in business in a small way 

 at the intersection of Milwaukee avenue 

 and Bloomingdale road. He spent sev- 

 enteen years at this place, removing to 

 Palmer square. Later he made another 

 change of location, to North Spaulding 

 avenue, where he had seven greenhouses 

 and a retail store. He was a man little 

 given to participation in the trade affairs, 

 devoting his whole thought and attention 

 to his private business, but he had a 

 large number of friends in the trade, 

 for he grew large quantities of miscella- 

 neous stock for wholesale and retail and 

 was doing a big business. Mr. Senger 

 leaves a widow and four children, three 

 sons and a daughter. The youngest son 

 is 17, but all three were engaged with 

 their father and will carry on the busi- 

 ness. 



Mrs. James Wolfe. 



Mrs. Mary V. Wolfe, widow of the 

 late James Wolfe, founder of the busi- 

 ness of Wolfe the Florist, at Waco, 

 Tex., died recently at the home of her 

 daughter, Mrs. Annie Wolfe Brigance, 

 703 South Fourth street, Waco, at the 

 age of 66 years. Her death was due to 

 a complication of diseases and her ill- 

 ness had been long and painful. She was 

 born in England, but had been a resident 

 of Waco for about eighteen years. Four 

 children survive, two daughters and two 

 sons, Mrs. Annie Wolfe Brigance, Mrs. 

 Hannah Robinson, Tom and Fred Wolfe, 

 all of Waco. 



J. W. Adams. 



Of .T. W. Adams, Mho died March 4, 

 The Review said in a biographical sketch, 

 published December 28, 1908: "To have 

 lived over four-score years, a half cen- 

 tury of which has been devoted to a 

 single business, is an achievement which 

 it is given to few men to accomplish. 

 John W. Adams is active and alert, men- 

 tally and physically, and might easily 

 pass for a man twenty years younger. 

 For fifty years he has conducted the busi- 

 ness of a nurseryman, getting his start 

 when a boy by reading some works on 

 horticulture. With the aid of his father 

 he developed a small nursery at his New 

 Hampshire home and the experience thus 

 obtained proved most valuable in the 

 years that followed, when he engaged in 

 the business for himself. Now he has 

 thirteen acres under cultivation at 

 Springfield, Mass., with large green- 

 houses in conection. ' ' 



John William Adams was born in 

 Stratham, N. H., June 20, 1828. Locat- 



ing first in the nursery business at Port- 

 land, Me., in 1866 Mr. Adams bought 

 a section of Marshall P. Wilder 's nurs- 

 ery in Boston and made arrangements 

 to move there. His plans were suddenly 

 changed, however, by the offer of a 

 tempting salary as superintendent of a 

 cop[)er mine. Mr. Adams made a suc- 

 cess of the mine. July 5, 1867, he moved 

 to Springfield and started the business 

 he and his sons have since conducted 

 with success. He found time for many 

 outside activities, being a member of the 

 Massachusetts legislature in 1892-3. Mr. 

 Adams married Miss Sarah Frances 

 Waterhouse, at Portland, September 5, 

 1865, and they had six children, four 

 sons and two daughters. Two of the 

 sons died early in life. Walter Adams 

 and Charles Adams are associated with 

 their father's business. The two daugh- 

 ters, Mrs. Oatman and Miss Nellie 

 Adams, are also members of the firm 

 of J. W. Adams & Co. 



John J. Harrington. 



John J. Harrington, who has been gar- 

 dener for Henry A, C. Taylor, at New- 

 port, R. I., for thirty-six years, died sud- 

 denly Sunday evening, March 12, of heart 

 disease at his home on Annandale road, at 

 the age of 65 years. He had not been 

 in good health for some time, but at- 

 tended to his duties as usual up to the 

 very last. Ho is survived by his widow, 

 one daughter and two sisters. The fu- 

 neral was solemnized from St. Mary's 

 church Wednesday morning, where there 

 was a large gathering of relatives and 

 , friends to pay the last token of respect. 

 Interment was in St; Mary's cemetery. 

 There were many handsome floral tributes 

 from his fellow gardeners in Newport. 



William Webster. 



William Webster, the oldest landscape 

 gardener in Rochester, N. Y., died at his 

 liome in that city, Tuesday, March 7, 

 aged 94 years. Mr. Webster came to 

 this country from England in 1833, one 

 year before Rochester was made a city. 

 He planned the grounds of the University 

 of Rochester, and was prominent in the 

 planning of the grounds at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, at Ithaca, Kodak park. Maple- 

 wood park and other places in and about 

 Rochester. 



Heman Glass. 



Heman Glass died at Rochester, N. Y., 

 Saturday, March 4. In 1881 Mr. Glass or- 

 ganized the Heman Glass Seed Co., and 

 remained in active control until about 

 five years ago. He was a member of 

 the state legislature during the term of 

 1875-76. 



DENVER. 



The Market. 



For the last three weeks stock has been 

 in excess of the demand. The last few 

 days of February were cold and disa- 

 greeable, with snow falling most of the 

 time, making the streets and sidewalks 

 wet and muddy and putting a damper on 

 business in general. Then Lent was 

 ushered in with the first of March, and 

 for a short time it looked as though it 

 might have some Meet on trade; but it 

 has made little difference. Business has 

 been comparatively good, and the over- 

 supply of stQck^i^ due to the fact that 

 everyone "^s cuTting a big crop. This is 

 especially true about carnations. There 

 are aiways a few who, when they have 

 a large cut of carnations, will travel 

 around from store to store, trying to sell, 



