. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. The Late Henry Weber. lings of 1896, among them 110, a large white; No. 30, a bright pink, and No. 126, a sweet scented, long-stemmed crimson. He has also a number of later seedlings which have not yet passed through the period of testing. Sub-irrigation, side- ventilation and indoor culture are prob- lems in which Mr. Weber takes much interest and he believes they will soon be recognized as essential to the best devel- opment of the ; Charles Evans. Charles Evans, prominent among Bos- ton rose grow
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. The Late Henry Weber. lings of 1896, among them 110, a large white; No. 30, a bright pink, and No. 126, a sweet scented, long-stemmed crimson. He has also a number of later seedlings which have not yet passed through the period of testing. Sub-irrigation, side- ventilation and indoor culture are prob- lems in which Mr. Weber takes much interest and he believes they will soon be recognized as essential to the best devel- opment of the ; Charles Evans. Charles Evans, prominent among Bos- ton rose growers for many years, died at his home in Watertown, Mass., on Sun- day evening, January 24. Several days previous, returning from the city, he had slipped and was slightly cut on the le^ in alighting from a car. Blood poisoning eventually set in and caused his death. Mr. Evans was born in Mongomery- shire, Wales, March, 1838. When a young man he entered the employ of the Right Rev. Bishop Judge, serving as gar- dener for many years. He emigrated to Canada in May, 1868, but immediately left Canada for the United States, where his first position was as gardener for the senior member of the Ames Plow Com- pany, at Worcester, Mass. After one year he went to the Tucker greenhouses in Worcester, and from there he engaged in 1870 with Stephen Dow, of Woburn, where he built and superintended the most modern greenhouse establishment in New England for eight years. He went to England in 1880 to engage in rose grow- ing there on the American plan but two years later returned to Massachusetts, where he built the place at Watertown, which he conducted successfully till the time of his death. He leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter. Weber's career are reprinted from our issue of February 17, 1900: "The subject of this sketch had his own little garden in the Province of Hesse Hassle, Germany, long before he had reached his fourteenth year and com- pleted the customary course in the gov
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