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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_23_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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'-.y ■■/• ■' ^'■■' r e~p 'V*:^'/:*'^ Mabch 4, 1909. The Weekly Florists' Review. J7 was a widower, Mrs. Hallock having died last year. The funeral will be held Thursday, March 4, and will be largely attended, for he had the respect and friendship of everyone in the trade and a host of people in other walks of life. H. A. Terry. • Henry A. Terry, one of the oldest nur- serymen in the United States, died February 14 at his home in Crescent, Pottawattamie county, Iowa. Mr. Terry was born July 12, 1826, and was there- fore approaching his eighty-third birth- day. He had been engaged in the nur- sery business at Crescent for upwards of forty years, working quietly, and was lit- tle known outside his own county and in the circle of tnosp interested in the peony. Although Mr. Terry had originated and to a certain extent distributed al- most fifty kinds of improved plums, his reputation rests rather as a grower of peonies. Possibly 100 new varieties of peonies have been sent out among west- ern planters from his grounds at Cres- cent. August 4, 1904, the Review pub- lished a photograph of Mr. Terry stand- ing in the midst of his acres of peonies, gorgeously in bloom at the time the pic- ture was made. No great number of Terry's varieties are widely known in the trade, because he worked quietly, reaped little and used no printer's ink. C. S. Harrison, one of his closest friends, says he was one of those in whom the com- mercial instinct was entirely dormant. Eugene Germain. Los Angeles, Cal., lost a leading citi- zen February 18 in the death* by heart failure of Eugene Germain. He was president of the Germain Seed & Plant Co., but that business had occupied little of his attention in recent years, as he had made a fortune in real estate and other outside operations. He was 61 years of age and a pioneer resident of the city, having located in California in 1870. He had been president of the Produce Ex- change and president of the Board of Trade. The seed business had for some years been under the direction of Fred H. Hunter and will continue without change. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. (The Sclentiflc Aspects of Lnther Burbank's Work, by David Starr Jordan and Vernon Lyman Kellogg; A. M. Robertson, San Fran- cisco, publisher.) This volume is evidently an attempt to exactly determine Mr. Burbank's status by the voice of scientific authority and thereby put a quietus upon the "wiz- ard" stories that have appeared in print. Dr. Jordan gives brief records of a number of Mr. Burbank's experi- ments in crossing and hybridizing, and quotes freely from the writings of the plant breeder. In a summing up he says: "Luther Burbank, while primarily an artist, is, in his general attitude, es- sentially a man of science. Academic he doubtless is not, but the qualities we call scientific are not necessarily bred in the academy. Science is human expe- rience tested and set in order. Within the range of his profession of molding plant life, Mr. Burbank has read care- fully, and thought carefully, maturing his own generalizations and resting them on the basis of his own knowledge." In summing up on the scientific aspect of Mr. Burbank'« work. Dr. Kellogg These Are the Little LiflersThatDo theBosiaess
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says: No new revelations to science of an overturning character; but the revelation of the possibilities of accom- plishment, based on general principles already known, by an unusual man. No new laws of evolution, but new facts, new data, new canons for special cases. No new principle or process to substitute for selection, but a new proof of the possibilities of the effectiveness of the old principle." An excellent portrait of Mr. Burbank appears as a frontispiece, and the llo pages of the book contain thirty-seven il- lustrations of plant variations that have resulted from his work. It is a volume that every one interested in plant breed- ing will want to add to his library. GiRABD, O.—"William Gerke has let the contracts for the building of a residence on Washington street. Chillicothe, O.—C. F. Brehmer is building a new range consisting of three houses, each eighty-three feet long, two of them twenty-five feet wide and one forty-two feet. A lean-to, 10x92, also is to be built. The King Construction Co. has the order and it is understood their new iron-frame pattern is to be employed. CONVENTION PREPARATIONS. The Cincinnati Florists' Society is planning large doings for the week in August when the S. A. F. will meet in their city. Selections for chairmen of the different committees have been made as follows: President's Eeception—Albert McCul- lough, Charles McCuUough and Peter Olinger. Entertainment—J. A. Peterson. Badges—E. A. Forter. Program—A. Sunderbruch. Transportation—G. Adrian. Hall—J. W. Eodgers. Women's Entertainment—E. G. Gil- lett and C. E. Critchell. Ball Game—Frank Dellar. Bowling—C. E. Critchell. William Murphy has been recommended to the S. A. F. executive committee for superintendent of the trade exhibition. -^ Grand Rapids, Mich.—^W. L. Cukerski, former superintendent of city parks, has begun work on his greenhouses at Val- ley avenue and Fulton street. The first building will cover 18,000 square feet and this will be added to during the summer.

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