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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_24_1 (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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.iri.v IJI'. IDO'.i. The Weekly Florists' Review. i3 1^ 111 1's Society, tlu> Kni;;lits i>t' St. John. >.;its tit' ('(ihtiiiliii.s. the Soutli Side ;, ^iiii'ss and lii^iroveniciit Association, I liiiitcr nicinlier of tiit^ ('olinnlius l*"lo I ^' Cliil), and otlior societies, lie was , .ieat worker in all tliat he was cmi- , :,(l with and the crafl will miss his . \;\\ dis(iosition and tiiu good nonl he : lor e\eryljody. Thomas C. Thurlow. , honias Chase 'J'hurlow, of \\'(>st New- \. Mass., (lied .July L!l, on tiie farm \\hi(di he was horn, in Is;!!', and on , h he had lived all his life, save for , ;ir or two. TIk! fnneral was held in >,iine honso July L'.'i and w.as largely iided, for in his more than 7() yi'ars Thurlow luul gained a wide ac , iilaiice and, nidike the iii<i;ihet, was : williont honor in his own home, lie . ;i deacon of the <'oiij4re<;ational ich. wlii -ik (d' the cause, and was a mendier . I th.' Massa<duiset ts Total Abstinence ■-..•iri\ ami the New l')n;;laiul Anti s.looii Leaj;ue. \li. Thurlow 's aiu'cstoi's came t'rom I i uland ill the early days of the settle- II I III. loiatino at Newbury in )();)."). His '.I aihlt .ither, born in 1777, was a farmer Mil.' turned his attention to fruit j^i'ow- ni; aial market garileuiny. His father, lioii ill Isil."), also went strmigly in foi II nil iiiowinji'. lie also frequently vis- M'd the nurseries of Wilder, iJreek, iiii.ry. )\eiiricks and other famous Bos- i"M men of that time. Thomas Clinse ii:i:ilii<\. born December 'M. IS'.V2, in- li" ikiiiy with his father in the nurseries I'll Slime time, tauohi a districf scdiool III iwo or three years. In ;s,"(7 he went "'•^1 tor a year, riding' horseback m Mi^^oiiri half the time, ami returned east ^ I'll health fully restored. He decided to start a nursery and III' acres at +oO per acre was the mod- ■ I lH;;iiiiiiijo his purse wiuihl permit. ' ' h made and saved more on that ■a ihaii he has since done on forty. " uai majiles and other shade trees, e\er- -I eiiN ami ueciduiMis shrubs were taken hand. I,i\iuy in a cold country, lie ' kly saw the necessity of wind breaks i scicriis. Norway ami white spruce "■ iiiosll\ used. The yieat advantage ilicsc lieilgi^.s, which are dense, is the ■ieiiioii from cold winds to buildings ' nurseries. Thousands of hybrid iocjcmlrons, azaleas and other plants ■io'ibtful hai'diness have been carried ■;;^;; without other protection (d' any '•iiiiics for many years wn'o a great laity with Mr. Thurlow. A few 1^ a^o ho sold his entire collection he ('hicayo and now the nnrsery contains -■'>().- plants in some film \:nieties. Iler- '■oiis jihlox ami (lerinan iris are other ' iaities liirgelv handled. "'■tuber 1."), rs7!t, Mr. Thurlow and ' S.iiah Kimball Hathaway Dean "' in.-irried. She survives, with four ' lici), );i(. three s(Uis, (leorge. Ivlwaril ' >^inthrop, being associated in busi ~~ "ith their father, who in the last
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Thomas C. Thurlow. few yeais iias left e\ ciyt hiiiL; in their ch.arge. Mr. Thurlow was a uiember of the .Vmerican .\ssociat ion of Nurserymen, the .\nierican l'(Uiio;oL;ic,il Socio,y and the American I'eony Society. Nicholas Beierle. Nicholas Ueierle. nh years of age. ;i well known (iernian resident ot' St. Mat thews, Ky.. dieil last wfck at his home on IJreckeiiridge avenue, .after an illness (d' several months. lie hail been in ihi' employ id' Nan/ tV: Neuner for thirty years. The funeral took place fiiuii the late residenc;', July lI4. Theie was also a sor\ice at Ibdy Trinity chun h. ISuiial was in St. .Nricluud's cemetery. Mr. H'-iei'le is survived by threi- il.iuulifeis. .Miss .Mary P.eierle. Mis. .\iiiia 1!. ;ie,-kel and .Mrs. Hugo Schull/. and by two sous, .\ndrew ,iud Jose;ili Heieile. AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. Secictaiy l-ienjaiiiin Hammond has issued a preliminary list of classes and ;ui/.es f(U' the annual exhibition of the American Kose Soc icty, to be ludil in .March of liMii. at the Mu-^eum id' Natu ral History, in New N'oik city. The list col resjiomis closelv lo those of picviims years. The classes for pot plants are continued, althiaigh the respeu^e ah'av- has been disaj)pointing. lor exhibits of fifty blo.uiis ISeauty. Killarney. b'ich inoml, W iiite Killarney. My .M.arylaml and ' hatenay prtMiiiums of $l'." and ifl"> ;ire offered in each idass, tlie s.ime for I'eauiy as for <'hatenay. There are classes fill- exhiliits of tvv luity livc blooms of all th" sorts commonlv liiowii under L;lass. ,111 1 loi twelve liloutns, competition in the Ijiiier lieing open mily to private ^.'.ardcaiers. The s;iecial prizes ;ilre:idv offered ju (du;ir;iver ean be procured .'--Mn. iMTiaUT. .Mien. C. ;,. Walker is build ing ;i ei-eeiihouse on the south side of Cratiot avenue, between I'.elv idere and 1 lohoiiib.

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