. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Mrs. Charles E. Critchell. florist aliout twelve yeais ago, in l?o- land, near Rhawn street, Holmesburg, making violets his specialty. Later he added snapdragons and sweet peas and those early days he worked for .1. M. Thorburn & Co. Interment was at Flower Hill cemetery, in New Jersey. Besides Otto .L, he left another son, George G. Stumpp, of the Stumpp & Walter Co., .'{2 liarclay street, New York; a widow, !Mrs. Kebccca Stumpp, and one daughter, Mrs. C. O. Hoehn. W. Atlee Burpee. W. .Vtlee Burpee, founder of the fa- mous house that bears
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Mrs. Charles E. Critchell. florist aliout twelve yeais ago, in l?o- land, near Rhawn street, Holmesburg, making violets his specialty. Later he added snapdragons and sweet peas and those early days he worked for .1. M. Thorburn & Co. Interment was at Flower Hill cemetery, in New Jersey. Besides Otto .L, he left another son, George G. Stumpp, of the Stumpp & Walter Co., .'{2 liarclay street, New York; a widow, !Mrs. Kebccca Stumpp, and one daughter, Mrs. C. O. Hoehn. W. Atlee Burpee. W. .Vtlee Burpee, founder of the fa- mous house that bears his jiame, died Friday, November 2C, after a long ill- ness, at his home, Fordhook, near Doylestown, Pa. Mr. Burpee was 57 years of age. He was for years one of the leading figures in the American and in the interna- tional seed world. His rise to the high position he held was in part due to his keen appreciation of merit in plants; he was able to select the best types of vegetables and flowers almost at a glance and persistently strove to im- prove them. He was far-seeing in all his business arrangenu^uts and never attached his name to anything that was not the best of its kind. But most of all ]Mr. Burpee owed his success to his wonderful facility of description; he described vegetables and flowers so that the reader could see them while reading and, so seeing, wanted them. The descriptions were never overdrawn, never untrue; they were perfect. It is said that Mr. Burpee wrote his entire .Vnnual—it frequently took him six months—year after year. So much for the cause of Mr. pce's eminence in the seed world. Among men ]\rr. Burpee won hosts of friends. He was big-hearted, s\ thetic and easy of approach. Strangers who came to him for the first time felt .at home at once in his presence. The messenger boy who was in trouble re- ceived counsel and comfort, while im- portant matters were put aside for the moment. That was W. Atlee Burpee. Do you wonder that he ha
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