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was devoted to his work. He was a 

 friend of the late William E. Smith and 

 was well known to many connected 

 with the trade, who deeply regret his 

 death. He is survived by a son, John 

 F. Broadfoot. C. L. L. 



Joseph Bancroft. 



Joseph Bancroft, founder of the firm 

 of Joseph Bancroft & Son, Cedar Palls, 

 la., died March 15, at the age of 86 

 years. For several years his health 

 had been failing, and during the last 

 few months he had needed a constant 

 attendant. 



He was born in England and married 

 there in 1851, coming to America soon 

 after in the slow sailing vessel, De 

 Witt Clinton, which was making its 

 initial trip and took six weeks to cross 

 the Atlantic. He located first in Ohio, 

 but in 1855 made the overland journey 

 to Cedar Falls with his wife and two 

 small children. He endured the hard- 

 ships of pioneer life and bravely did 

 his part toward the advancement of 

 civilization. He always followed the 

 trade j)t florist and as his business in- 

 creased he associated with him his 

 younger son, George, under the firm 

 name of Bancroft & Son. 

 . Mr. Bancroft took particular pride 

 in bisriafUiation with the Blackhawk 

 County Old Settlers' Association and 

 proudly wore the badge with its date 

 of 1855. The children who survive are 

 two daughters and two sons, all resi- 

 dents of Cedar Falls, Mrs. Eliza Knick- 

 erbocker and Mrs. Mary B. Ford, J. W, 

 Bancroft and George H. Bancroft, and 

 there are five grandchildren, Will and 

 Mark Ford, Harold and Tim, sons of 

 John W. Bancroft, and the little 

 daughter of George Bancroft. 



Carl E. Glenn. 



Carl E. Glenn, secretary of the Amer- 

 ican Rose & Plant Co., in Springfield, 

 O., died suddenly in the afternoon of 

 March 20, just after having stepped 

 from the office into the greenhouse. He 

 fell to the floor and was dead before 

 any of the employees reached his side. 

 His death was due to apoplexy. Mr. 

 Glenn was a widower and roomed on 

 Grand avenue. He had lived in Spring- 

 field for a- number of years. Though 

 only 28 years old at the time of his 

 death, he had worked his way up from 

 the position of a laborer to that of 

 secretary of the concern. He was a 

 member of the K. of P. lodge. The 

 funeral was held from the residence of 

 his brother-in-law, C. R. Malowney, 367 

 East Madison avenue; Burial was in 

 Fernclifif cemetery. 



Frank Williams. 



Frank Williams, the proprietor of the 

 Atlas Floral Co., Chicago, died March 

 30 in a sanitarium at Kenilworth, 

 where he had been for many months. 

 The funeral will be held Thursday, 

 April 3, with interment at Oakwoods. 



The deceased was born in Greece and 

 was 45 years of age. Coming to Amer- 

 ica and Chicago while a young man, he 

 adopted an American name and entered 

 the flower trade, practically his whole 

 life having been spent in retailing 

 flowers to the Chicago public. From a 

 humble beginning he worked up a large 

 business, prior to his illness being a 

 partner in the Alpha Floral Co. and 

 interested in other business ventures. 

 The management of the Atlas Floral 

 Co. never occupied much of his time, 

 being in the capable hands of Mrs. 



Williams, who survives. There were no 

 childre*. 7 * 



^ ; Frank Banning. 



The man who claimed the credit for 

 having raised Gladiolus America, Frank 

 Banning, of Kinsman, O., ^ied March 

 17 as a result of a stroke of paralysis. 

 He was 55 years of age and had been 

 in poor health for a long time, not 

 being active in the business. It was 

 from Mr. Banning that John Lewis 

 Childs, of Floral Park, N. Y., acquired 

 the stock of Gladiolus America, which 

 he subsequently introduced. Other va- 

 rieties of note following America were 

 Panama and Niagara, which have re- 

 cently made some stir in the trade. 



Francis Brill. 



Francis Brill, widely known in the 

 trade as the pioneer of the cabbaee 

 seed industry of Long Island, died In 



Joseph Bancroft. 



the Hempstead Sanatorium, at Hemp- 

 stead, L. I., March 24, at the age of 

 76 years. In his youth he was em- 

 ployed in the old Bridgeman seed store, 

 at Broadway and Eighteenth street. 

 In 1859 he began Business for himself 

 as a seed grower at Newark, N. J. In 

 1870 he removed to Suffolk county, L. 

 I. In 1887 he established his headquar- 

 ters at Hempstead, where he continued 

 in active business until less than a year 

 ago. He was prominent in politics and 

 had represented Suffolk county in the 

 Assembly. He is survived by his wife, 

 one son and four daughters. 



Miss Jane Eadie. 



Miss Jane Eadie, who had been in 

 the florists' business at Cleveland for 

 thirty-five years, died March 29. She 

 started with her father, in what was 

 then called Jas. Eadie, Florist. Five 

 years ago the firm name was changed 

 to the Jas. Eadie Co., and conducted 

 by Miss Jane Eadie at the store and by 

 James Eadie, her brother and son of 

 the founder, at the greenhouses. The 



funeral services were held April 1, at 

 Wade Memorial. 



A. J. Thompson. 



The trade in general will learn with 

 regret of the death of A. J. Thompson, 

 of 757 Campbell avenue. West Haven, 

 Conn., of pneumonia, following an ill- 

 ness of two weeks. Mr. Thompson was 

 well known in the trade, having been 

 in business for many years. Funeral 

 services were held at the residence, 

 March 31, many beautiful floral trib- 

 utes being silent tokens of the esteem 

 in which the deceased was held. 



M. B. F. 



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NEWS NOTES 



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AUentown, Pa. — Ernest Ashley has 

 opened an additional store at 943 Ham- 

 ilton street, with Mrs. Ashley in charge. 



La Qrange, HI. — The La Grange 

 Floral & Seed Co, is now well estab- 

 lished in its tasteful new store, at 9 

 South Fifth avenue. 



Lisbon, O.— John W. Scott, the West 

 Walnut street florist, has been ap- 

 pointed a member of the city coancil, 

 to fill a vacancy caused by the resig- 

 nation of Robert Johnson. 



Vevay, Ind. — The greenhouse formerly 

 owned and operated by Mrs. Charles 

 Peters has been purchased by Wm. O. 

 Jaynes, who will add it to his green- 

 houses in the upper end of town. 



Denver, Colo. — The park board, 

 headed by President McBeth, is con- 

 sidering the proposition of tearing 

 down the old greenhouse at City park 

 and erecting a range of houses that 

 will cost approximately $40,000. 



New Iberia, La. — Louis Buchner^ un- 

 til recently associated with Henry 

 Kraak in the Nashville Avenue Rose 

 Garden, New Orleans, has started in 

 business here as florist and landscape 

 gardener. The firm of Buchner & Kraak 

 has been dissolved. 



Creston, la.— Carl Gehrecke, of the 

 Creston Greenhouses, who began busi- 

 ness here last summer, is building one 

 more house, to be used for roses, and 

 is making other important improve- 

 ments. He has already made good 

 progress in establishing a trade. 



Mitchell, S. D. — ^W. T. March, gen- 

 eral manager for The Newburys, re- 

 cently spent some time in Aberdeen, S. 

 D., looking after some contemplated im- 

 provements on the Normal campus, aid- 

 ing in the plans for the beautifying of 

 certain new additions to the town and 

 attending to other important landscape 

 work. 



Baltimore, Md. — John Cook and his 

 wife and daughter, Miss Belle Cook, 

 have returned to their home in this 

 city, after having spent the winter at 

 Miami, Fla. It is said that Mr. Cook 

 has seven new roses which he will enter 

 in competition with the floriculturists 

 of this country and Europe for a prize 

 of $1,000 to be offered by the city of ' 

 San Diego, Cal., and also a silver loving 

 cup valued at $1,000, to be offered in 

 the Panama-California Exposition rose 

 contest to be conducted as part of the 

 floricultural department of the exposi- 

 tion in 1915. 



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