James Vick

"James Vick is dead! Sadder words than these my pen could not utter. Wherever a ílower is grown, in this broad iand, there vill be hearts touched with sorrow at this mournful news. Ia more than a quarter of a milliou gardens, there vvill be, this summer, ïnonuments of flowera to retnind tliat he who sent them has flnished his )abors. "lío man, in his day.has so endeared hiiuself tothe people. No man, in private life, was so widely known. His death will be mourned over the whole country. Everybody who met him was his friend. "James Viek was, in the fullest sense of the word, a Christian gentleman. His daily life was a record of good works and kind deeds, The road from his heart to his pocket was ever a straight and a broad one, and no grass ever grew in it for want of use. To high and humble he was the same cheerful, genial man, with a pleasant, hopeful word for all. "It has been my privilege to meet him alinost daily for many years, and if there is in the world a better man, I have not yet saen him. "Mr. Vick died of pneumonia on the morning of May lOtb, after a very brief illness. He was born in Portsmouth, Engiand, November 33d, 1818, and was, therefore, about sixty-four wben he died. He has been in his ti'ne printer, editor, auttior, publisher, merchant. He carne to 4-merica in 1833, and learned the printer's trade in New York, and set type with Horace Greeley. J'rom 5few York he carne to Bochester, and became intereated in various publications, among others the Hortioulturist and Moore's Rural New Yorker. When engaged on the latter, he ürst commenced to grow flower seeds in his garden, and send them out gratis to those who, like himself, loved floivers. It made the commencement ofhisgreat business. He commenced the bu3iuess practically in 1800. His success has been marvelous. He bas paid more than thirty thousand dollars a year for po3tage, and his Floral Guide has a circulation of over 200,000 copies. All this has been accomplished by hard work and faithful interest