Jellett, Edwin C. (Edwin Costley), 1860-1929. · Philadelphia: Horace F. McCann · leaf 70
s and roses was enormous. It was hewho introduced the use of smilax in cut-flower work, and noone in all Philadelphia was able to equal him in the makingof bouquets. His foreman for many years was Isaac Warr,a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars, and here also thewriter as apprentice and… … L. C. Baumann 45 eration as Robert J. Halliday, of Baltimore, and Peter Hen-derson, of New York. Many now well-known florists were once in L. C.Baumanns employ, and a few of his employees who afterbecame conspicuous in other lines, were Hon. William E.Meehan, writer; Alexander Harrison, and Birge…
