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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_30_2 (find matches)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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14 The Florists^ Review .iLi.v 11, 1912. OBITUARY. ' John Algood Pettigrew. Siiiii' hist \V('(>U's issue of Till' lu'\ icw went to jircss flic craft has lost, in Jobu Alj,M)0(l I'ctt i^icw, tin' (lean of Aiut'r- icaii park siiiicriiitcniiciits, who difd at BoHtoii July 2. JMr. lV'ttij;ro\v was horn at (iatcs- head, l')iijj;laii<i, in 1S14 and at a youthful li'^v toll()W(Ml ill the lootsti'iis of liis father, wlio was a inoniineiit gardener. He worked, among other places, at Biddick Jfall, near J)urhani, and could alwa_\s on occasion talk in tho true \('rnacular of the Tyneside dis- trict. He worked at several other places in Kngland liefoit* coming to America when L'l years of age and gained a good fundamental knowledge not onl\' of general gardening Imt also roadni;il<ing and nursery wori<. which stood liiiii ill excellent stead in later years. He settled first in Chicago, where floriculture and landscape gardening oc- cupied him tor many years. His tlower store ill that tluMi liecame superintendent of Liiicidn juirk, Chi- cago. During his years there he ac- complished a great deal, some things being cjeemed almost impossible, and rose to the to)* of the ranks of i)ark superintendents. The )i(ditieal intrigues whicii necessitated his lemoval from (Jhicago were mourned l>y e\ eryone ha\ - iug a sjiark of ci\ ic pride in liis make- up. Mr. I'ettigrew ne.\t went to Mil- waukee as head of its paik system, and a year later was calicil to I'lospect jiark, Brooklyn, wliiidi ho imiiKMistdy im- proved, and so enlianced iiis re;iutati()n that when Boston was in need of the ablest jiark suiierintendeiit jirocurable, eminent authorities, both in Kngland and America, were a unit in ail\ ising his selection. As head of the entire Boston jiark system, which imduded the h'ivt'rway, Fenway, Franklin park, Franklin Held, Jamaica jiond and the many beautiful boule\ ards and jdaygrounds of the city, Mr. rettigrew did a notable work since he starteil, .lanuary ), ls<»7, to change what was practical chaos into one of the most beautiful jiark systems in the world, and the title of "Fatlier of the Boston Bark Systi'in"" is his without any (pialiticat ion. Mr. I'ettigrew u:is as well known horticultuially in lliiiiiand as in Amer- ica and counteij aiiiong his intimate friends sucii iikmi as Sir Heniv J, A'eites of th(> lioyal Horticultural Society. His iuiowledge of trees, shrubs ;iihl their proper jjlanting was a re\idation to tliose accustomed to hap- lia/ard mass plantings for immediate idVcct. The (leie.'ised \\:is for many years a iiiemi>er id' tlie .Mass;i,;iusetts Horticul- tural Society, being at the time of his death cli.-iiiinan (d' the jui/es and exlii- bitions committee and a member of the Hoanl of Trustees for the sixth consecu- tive year. When he came to Boston tlie <i;ir(Jeneis' and I'^lorists' Club \vas b;irely existing and intei'est in it was at a low ebl». Ml'. I'etti^^rew served as vice-
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John A. Pettigrew. picsident in )!»(!) and BldlJ and under his )iresidency in liKl.'! and 1!H)4 he, by his efforts and personal .magnetism, gahanized it into new life and ;i great jiart of the club's present prosperity is due to liini, a fact wliich the members appreciateil when they made him a presentation after his term had expired. Of tlie new Horticultural Club Mr. Bet- tigrew was one of the original twenty members. The Bark 8uperintendents' Association of America owes its ijicep- tioJi to liini ami when this body, during the present summer, meets in Boston it will miss his genial smile and kindly welconu'. Mr. I'etti hom(> July n ami were attended by tlie mayoi' and other piominent otlicials of the city of Boston, in aildition to a host of friends in other walks of life. .\ wealth of beautiful lloral tributes attested t)i(> esteem in which h(^ was lield. W. X. Craig. Mrs. S. Muir. Isabelle l.'obertson .Muir, wicjow Michigan was sold to J. T. Anthony, who conducted it a number of years in connection with greenhouses at Thirty- fourth and Prairie. It was in 188.3 that Samuel )\Iuir lo- cated at ."..1.30 )\nchigan avenue, within a W'w blocks of his first stand. Here he continued until the day of his death, January 12, IS!).'). In the following year tlie son, John T.. took charge of the i'stat(>. The old place on Aliidiigan avenue is still o)ierated, and is doing a steadily increasing trade in spite of the natural withdrawal of jiatronage by iiwise li\iiig Tiearer a fine branch store on (iraiid boulevard near Forty-sevetith street. Mis. Muir had suffered for years from valvular lesion of the heart and

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