. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. r-; JVVX 22, 1920 The Florists' Review 23. Edwin Hicks. Edwin Hicks, head of the Hicks Nurs- eries, at Westbury, N. Y., died at his home, in Westbury, Saturday, July 17, in the eightieth year of his age. For fifty years he had been active in the business founded by his father, Isaac Hicks, in 1850. In his youth he was a teacher of mathematics in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and during his business career at Westbury he served for many years on the school board of his district. He was the inventor of many appliances used in the business of tr
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. r-; JVVX 22, 1920 The Florists' Review 23. Edwin Hicks. Edwin Hicks, head of the Hicks Nurs- eries, at Westbury, N. Y., died at his home, in Westbury, Saturday, July 17, in the eightieth year of his age. For fifty years he had been active in the business founded by his father, Isaac Hicks, in 1850. In his youth he was a teacher of mathematics in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and during his business career at Westbury he served for many years on the school board of his district. He was the inventor of many appliances used in the business of tree-moving, and was really the pioneer in this now important branch of the nursery business. J. H. P. Jolin A. Bruce. John A. Bruce, head of the seed house of John A. Bruce & Co., Ltd., Hamilton, Ont., died recently at his home at Ham- ilton at the age of 91. The firm of John A. Bruce & Co. was established in 1850 and has been known as the pioneer seed house of Canada. Mr. Bruce was widely known and was looked upon as one of the leaders in the trade in the Dominion. NEW YORK. The Market. The market has now entered a period when demand is small indeed. This con- dition is apparent year after year at the same time, heretofore attended with a great deal of waste. Most of the wastage now to be noticed might have been avoided with a little discretion. For instance, one or two growers of gypsophila evidently believed that the market could absorb immense quanti- ties of this material, and it came in most liberally, some sending in one shipment as many as nearly a thousand bunches. Probably the thought never occurred to these shippers that such material was purchased largely for gratuitous disposal, just as a retailer would throw in a little green stuff. It was not even in the stevia class, used largely for the same purpose, but always fragrant. Consequently, huge, smelly masses of gypsophila taxed the garbage barrels of many commission men. Del- phinium gfrowers have also suffe
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