. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1150 The americax Florist. [line 28^ Pittsburg. Thomas Lister died at the Mercy Hos- pital June 21 of typhoid fever. The de- ceased was born in Aberdown, Fifeshire, Scotland, and came to this country about 10 years ago. He was formerly head gardener to W'intbrop Sargent at Fishkill- on-the-Hudson and James Kirk, the well known soap manufacturer, at Hartland, Wis.; later identified with Supt. A. \Y. Bennett of the Bureau of Parks, Pitts- burg. He was buried at Homewood Cemetery by Pittsburg Lodge 4S4-, F. & A.
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1150 The americax Florist. [line 28^ Pittsburg. Thomas Lister died at the Mercy Hos- pital June 21 of typhoid fever. The de- ceased was born in Aberdown, Fifeshire, Scotland, and came to this country about 10 years ago. He was formerly head gardener to W'intbrop Sargent at Fishkill- on-the-Hudson and James Kirk, the well known soap manufacturer, at Hartland, Wis.; later identified with Supt. A. \Y. Bennett of the Bureau of Parks, Pitts- burg. He was buried at Homewood Cemetery by Pittsburg Lodge 4S4-, F. & A. M. Floral tributes were sent by the Pittsburg Florists' Club and the em- ployes of Phipps Conservatories, Schen- ley Park. He was a young man of many excellent qualities and was highly re- spected by all who knew him. He was about 30 years of age. Mr. James S. Taplin was in town last" week from the west on his way back to New York, and reports business fair. B. L. Elliott of Elliott & llam will be married on Thursday next, 2Sth, and ex- pects to spend the honeymoon east, visit- ing Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Trade in general has been very quiet; many of the stores have had quite a num- ber of weddings. B. A. Elliott Co. have been quite busy the past week with out of town funeral work. The parks are rushing the bedding, and when finished there will be some designs of great merit, both in Allegheny and Pittsburg, on which I will comment later. The market is very quiet. The warm weather for the last two weeks has about ended the run on all bedding plants, which I must say have not been first class by any means. Flowers plentiful; carna- tions $1 per hundred,roses from $ to S6 per hundred. . E. Gait, Ont. Trade has been very fair, notwithstand- ing wet and cold. Ouite a few new pri- vate establishments have been built lately, and now two new commercial ones, namely, A. Oliver and Walker & Co. The former is a hustler. Andy will get there all right; he i
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