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small lots, at auction for him from about 1 1 :3o A. M., 

 until I P. M., daily. This however was done more as an 

 advertisement, as his sales were principally from orders 

 received personally and by mail. He was then, as 

 always, a very busy man, and so jealous of wasting time, 

 even at lunch, that he had a waiter at the restaurant he 

 frequented, under pay to watch for his coming, and 

 as soon as his face appeared in the doorway, his dinner 

 would be on the table by the time he got there. 



In 1864, he gave up the grounds he had so long occu- 

 pied in Jersey City and moved to what was then known 

 as South Bergen, distant a mile from his old place. 

 Here he had been buying from time to time until he had 

 secured nearly ten acres. On this he erected what was 

 at that time considered a model range of greenhouses, 

 heated and ventilated in the best known methods then 

 in vogue. 



This range of glass structures was visited by hundreds 

 of florists to whom it served as an example for years. 



In 1880, all these houses were pulled down and recon- 

 structed, as experience had shown they could be im- 

 proved upon; so a second time his greenhouse establish- 

 ment served as a model and as such it still remains 

 to-day. At the time of his death this part of his estab- 

 lishment covered over five acres solid in glass. 



Busy as his life was he devoted no little of his time to 

 helping beginners in his own line of business, often 

 going long distances for this purpose. His advice as to 

 the selection of suitable land was considered invaluable, 

 and his judgment as to the construction and heating of 

 greenhouses, and the selection of the most profitable 

 classes of plants to grow, was unerring. A marked con- 

 firmation of this appeared two months ago in a sketch 

 of the present president of the Society of American 

 Florists, Mr. M. H. Norton, wherein it is stated that 

 when he first started business with his brother, and 

 began the culture of bedding plants and violets in span- 

 roofed greenhouses, the latter being quite a venture at 

 that time, that, " one of their first and best advisers was 



