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Title: Portrait of William A. Clarke in "Florists' review" (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_46_2 (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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WIIiLIAM A. CLARKE. SIXTY years ago today, in the Clarke home in LouisvilU", Ky., the arrival of one William A. Clarke was the cause of much ciithusiasin. Today, after three- score years of battle with life, this same William A. Clarke is treasurer of the Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., having arrived at this position after a business career that would have been entitled by Horatio Alger, "From Cash Boy to Treasurer." He is called one of the "grand old men" of western Pennsvl- vania, and he is not old at all. Mr. Clarke went to Pittsburgh when a child and started liis career as a cash boy in a retail department store. During the summer vacation periods of school years he worked in the nursery of the late James Wardrop, at Sewickley. At the age of 17 he entered the emjiloy of the B. A. Elliott Co., where he remained for sixteen year.s. Then he was with Elliott & T'lam for five years and left to help organize the Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co. Mr. Clarke- is a member of the Masons, being a Shriner, and represents the wholesale flower business in the Rotarv club. Xot many of the climbers were in bloom, but among the early bloomers were noted the following: Paul's Scarlet Climber (W. Paul, 1916). This rose, wherever we have ob- served it, has been in splendid condi- tion this year. At Ithaca its merits have been verified in other seasons. Its glorious color and long keeping quali- ties while on the plant are two of its merits. Aviateur Bleriot (Fauque, 1910). This rose in bud or flower is a decided at- traction to a garden its orange and yel- low buds are beautiful. Rugosa repens alba (P.-.ul, 1900), a imre wliiteflowered hybrid rugosa, with free blooming qualities and a trailing liabit. For covering banks or boulders,, this rose deserves to be better known» as it remains a long time in bloom and is much earlier than Rosa Wichuraiana. Seashell (Dawson, 1916), a large,, beautiful, single, pink variety. Purity, Christine Wright and Climb- ing American Beauty were magnificent pillars of bloom where grown on posts. These three are indispensable. The displav of climbers will continue until Julv 20 or 25. A. C. Beal,

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