. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. June 24. 1915. The Horists' Review 25 and Major E. Eay Shaw went into partnership with them. Extensive im- provements were then made. Mr. Gaedeke sold his Concord street business only a few weeks ago to Fred D. Sperry, of Eeading, Mass., and was planning to retire from active business. The deceased stood high as a floricultur- ist in New England, and had a host of friends in that part of the country. He was married in 1902 to Miss Ida Ben- son, and she proved of great help to him in his business. He is survived by Mrs. Gaedeke and also by two broth
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. June 24. 1915. The Horists' Review 25 and Major E. Eay Shaw went into partnership with them. Extensive im- provements were then made. Mr. Gaedeke sold his Concord street business only a few weeks ago to Fred D. Sperry, of Eeading, Mass., and was planning to retire from active business. The deceased stood high as a floricultur- ist in New England, and had a host of friends in that part of the country. He was married in 1902 to Miss Ida Ben- son, and she proved of great help to him in his business. He is survived by Mrs. Gaedeke and also by two brothers, Albert, in Perth, Scotland, and Rudolph, in Nashua, and three sisters, one of whom lives in Milwaukee and the others in Stettin, Germany. Funeral services were held at the First Unitarian church, June 18, and were largely attended. The gardeners and florists of Nashua attended in a body and sent a magnificent broken wreath. Large delegations were also present from the Knights Templar, Knights of Pythias, Foresters, and other secret orders to which Mr. Gaedeke be- longed. The floral tributes have rarely been equaled in the city of Nashua, and attested the great popularity of the de- ceased. W. N. C. Chas. H. Koeuig. Chas. H. Koenig, of Millvale, Pitts- burgh, Pa., died June 18, after an ill- ness of two weeks. He was born in Konigsbronn, Wurttemberg, Germany, May 2, 1871. He came to America in 1888 and worked for a time for John Bader, in Pittsburgh. He was united in marriage to Miss Fischer, July 4, 1894. Shortly afterward he leased three small greenhouses, which he pur- chased a few years later and added to them until he had built up the present place. For several years he was asso- ciated with the Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co., acting as superintendent of the Bakerstown place and renting his own houses, but ten years ago he left this firm, on finding it necessary to take charge of his own houses. He was known as one of the largest growers of lilies and bulbous flowers in the
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