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The Florists' Revfew 



Habch 13, 1913. 



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though he was at the March meeting 

 of the Florists' Club. 



Barnev Myers, superintendent for 

 W. J. Palmer & Son, of Buffalo, spent 

 several days in New York, returning 

 home March 8. Mr. Myers is firm in 

 his allegiance to Beacon and Comfort 

 carnations, although he admits that the 

 perfect red carnation is yet to be gen- 

 erally grown. The Red Lawson, which 

 created such a flutter some years ago, 

 was a product of the Palmer green- 

 houses and they did well with it for 

 some time. 



"William Trumpore, of J. H. Small & 

 Sons, still is at the French hospital, 

 although it is expected that he will be 

 able to return to his home within a 

 week or so. 



E. W. McLellan, of San Francisco, 

 who is making a tour of the eastern 

 flower markets, wired his people to send 

 a trial shipment of Mignon roses to 

 New York. They were shipped March 

 1 and arrived March 7 in remarkably 

 good shape. Mr. McLellan has 200,000 

 plants and thinks it possible that if the 

 shipping arrangements are carefully 

 looked after he may be able to place 

 California roses on the New York mar- 

 ket in salable shape. He will continue 

 his experiments until the question of 

 the feasibility of his plan is decided 

 by experience one way or the other. 



A party of members of the New York 

 and New Jersey Plant Growers' Asso- 

 ciation made a tour of inspection 

 through some of the leading greenhouses 

 in and around Brooklyn February 26 

 and found the stock generally well 

 grown and in good condition for the 

 Easter trade. Twelve members started 

 from the Atlantic avenue terminus of 

 the subway at 9 a. m., but the number 

 grew to twenty-one before the tour was 

 brought to a close by darkness, at 

 Whitestone. The party included A. L. 

 Miller, A. Zeller, George Scott, Harry 

 Fraser, Carl A. Woerner, J. H. Sperry, 

 Louis Schmutz, Jr., and John Appel, of 

 Brooklyn; Anton Schultheis, of Col- 

 lege Point, N. Y. ; Louis and Ed- 

 die Dupuy, of Middle Village, N. Y.; 

 Rudolph Roehrs and Julius Roehrs, Jr., 

 of Rutherford, N. J.; Hermann Stein- 

 hofif, Henry Baumann and Charles En- 

 gel, of West Hoboken, N. J.; Herman 

 Schoelzel and August Menne, of New 

 Durhain, N. J.; J. H. Fiesser, of North 

 Bergen, N. J.; Albert Winnefeld, of 

 Hackensack, N. J. The plants of the 

 following growers were visited: Charles 

 Zeller & Sons, Louis Schmutz, Carl A. 

 Woerner, Louis Schmutz, Jr., Peter 

 Wagner, the John Scott estate, A. L. 

 Miller, Fred Marquardt, John Boettjer, 

 John Miesem, Anton Schultheis, Louis 

 Dupuy, William Pankok, the Hinode 

 Florist Co., and Gerald Dreyer. 



Herman Warendorflf, in the Ansonia, 

 on Broadway, is making a specialty of 

 bulbous stock, lilies and flats trimmed 

 with French crepe paper for Easter. 

 His advance orders indicate a satisfac- 

 tory season. 



Alfred Donaldson, with J. K. Allen, 

 is receiving the congratulations of his 

 friends, having recently become a bene- 

 dict. 



Carl Jurgens, of Newport, was a re- 

 cent visitor in the trade. 



The marriage of Arthur Clarke, son 

 of Marshall Clarke, and Miss Frances 

 Loud has just been announced,.althougk 

 the wedding took place about a year ' 

 ago. 



P. M. McGovern, Ninth avenue and 

 Nineteenth street, Brooklyn, has a 



house filled with geraniums in bloom 

 which were grown to order for St. Bar- 

 tholomew 's Parish house. East Forty- 

 second street. New York. These are to 

 be distributed by the Parish house 

 among the children of the parish the 

 day before Easter. Several thousands 

 of blooming plants are required. This 

 offers an excellent suggestion for work- 

 ing up a special demand. 



The city authorities have issued an 

 order for the clearing of the sidewalks 

 on West Twenty-eighth street from 

 Broadway to a point 100 feet west of 

 Sixth avenue. C. A. M. 



OBITUABY. 



Nathan D. Pierce. 



Nathan D. Pierce, one of the leading 

 flotists and nurserymen of Rhode 

 Island, a former member of the gen- 

 eral assembly and one of Warwick's 

 most prominent citizens, died at his 

 home in Norwood March 7. Death 

 was due to pulmonary tuberculosis, 

 from which he had been a sufferer for 

 over a year. 



^Nathan Dexter Pierce was born in 

 Providence February 2, 1850, and re- 

 ceived his education in the public 

 schools. In April, 1862, he went to Nor- 

 wood to live with his parents, his 

 father having purchased a farm there. 

 When a young man he became actively 

 interested in politics, being a staunch 

 Republican. He was elected a member 

 of the Warwick town council in 1885, 

 serving as a member of that body for 

 three years. In 1888 he was elected a 

 member of the house of representatives 

 and was reelected for six successive 

 terms prior to 1895. For several years 

 after his successor was elected, Mr. 

 Pierce served as clerk of the corpora- 

 tion committee of the house. 



At the age of 22, Mr. Pierce began his 

 career as a nurseryman, starting on a 

 small lot set aside for him by his 

 father. For years he was one of the 

 most prominent members of the Florists ' 

 and Gardeners' Club of Rhode Island 

 and the Rhode Island Horticultural So- 

 ciety. He was a member of the first 

 board of managers of the State Agri- 

 cultural School, now the Rhode Island 

 State College. 



Mr. Pierce was twice married, rie 

 was first wed in 1872 to Miss Ida M. 

 Congdon, of Riverpoint, who died in 

 1892. Of this union a son was born. 

 His second marriage was to Miss Ida 

 H. Sayles, of Providence, who, with 

 two daughters, survives him. 



Jos. A. Bolgiano. 



Joseph Ault Bolgiano, for many years 

 head of the seed firm of J. Bolgiano 

 & Son, Baltimore, Md., died March 1 

 at the home of his son-in-law. Dr. J. 

 Burch Joyce, in Baltimore, at the age 

 of 77 years. He had been in failing 

 health for a long time, due to a com- 

 plication of diseases, but his condition 

 was not supposed to be serious until a 

 few hours before his death. . He was 

 born in Baltimore, December 6, 1835. 

 Having finished his education in the 

 public schools of Baltimore, he entered 

 the seed establishment founded by his 

 father. A few years later he was taken 

 into the firm. At an early age he mar- 

 ried Miss Mary Elizabeth Waltjjn, who 

 died in* 1893. He retired aboutj^fteen .,. 

 yeali ago, turning his business pver to i| : 

 two sons, who now conduct it. He is T 

 survived by a daughter, Mrs. Flora I 

 Joyce, and five sons, John, Frank W., ' 



Dr. Walton, Roland and Charles J. Bol 

 giano. A sister, Mrs. Charles J. Tay 

 lor, also survives. 



Mr. Bolgiano was a director of sev 

 eral large financial institutions, the sec- 

 ond president of the Young Men'^ 

 Christian Association of Baltimore and 

 one of the most prominent Methodists 

 in the south. 



Henry Augustine. 



Capt. Henry Augustine, nationally 

 known as' a veteran nurseryman, of 

 Normal, 111., was instantly killed Marcli 

 8 by being struck by the south bound 

 Alton Limited as it passed the Normal 

 depot platform. 



Henry Augustine was born in Lan- 

 caster county, Pennsylvania, July 25, 

 1840. The family removed later to 

 Canton, 111., when Henry Augustine 

 was 17 years old. He was engaged in 

 farming there when the Civil war broke 

 out, and enlisted in Company A, Fifty- 

 fifth Illinois, as sergeant. On August 



I, 1862, he was commissioned second 

 lieutenant and was later promoted to 

 tlie first lieutenancy and in 1864 was 

 made captain of Company A. He later 

 returned to his home and recruited a 

 new company, I, of the Fifty-first regi- 

 ment, which he commanded as captain. 

 In this capacity he served until Novem- 

 ber, 1865, when he was honorably dis- 

 charged. 



At the close of the Civil war, Capt. 

 Augustine engaged in the drug busi- 

 ness, but owing to failing health he 

 gave up his store and embarked in the 

 nursery and farming business near Pon- 

 tiac. In 1876 he removed to Normal 

 and established the nursery business 

 which has since continued under his 

 name. It was one of the earliest nur- 

 series in that part of the country, and 

 became widely known throughout the 

 west. Two of the best known of the 

 varieties which he introduced are the 

 Sudduth pear and the Snyder black- 

 berry. His ability and prominence as 

 a fruit grower were recognized at the 

 World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 

 by his being made superintendent of 

 the Illinois fruit exhibit. He was pres- 

 ident of the American Association of 

 Nurserymen in 1892. 



Capt. Augustine was married to Miss 

 Margaret E. Gapen March 17, 1869. 

 There is one son, Archie M. Augustine, 

 who has for some years been asso- 

 ciated with his father in the ifursery 

 business. Capt. and Mrs. Augustine 

 also adopted a daughter, Ora, who be- 

 came the wife of Judge Wesley M. 

 Owen, formerly in the supreme court 

 in the Panama Canal Zone. 



The funeral was held at Grace 

 church, Bloomington, Tuesday, March 



II, and was largely attended. 



Jolui A. Payne. 



John A. Payne, who represented the 

 Foley Mfg. Co., of Chicago, and the 

 Simonds Heating & Specialty Co., of 

 Grand Rapids, in New York, died of 

 heart failure, Monday, March 3, at his 

 residence in that city. Mr. Payne left 

 a widow, a son and daughters. The 

 funeral took place Thursday, March 6. 



Nowata, Okla. — Cass Lanning, pro- 

 prietor of Lanning's Seed House, says 

 he is giving the Toley Mfg. Co., Chi- 

 cago, an order fdr a^JJMBOThouse, believ- 

 ing that he can run a fiwi^ts ' business 

 in connection with the seed business 

 and make it all go nicely together. 



