Nursery named V. H. Hallock, Son & Thorpe ( - 1887), W. H. Hallock & Son (from 1888)
[From Gardeners Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser, 1880] [advertisement] V. H. Hallock, Son & Thorpe, Queens, N. Y. ..California Lilies, Candidum Lilies, Splendid New Geraniums
[From Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 1881, p. 194:] V. H. Hallock, Son, & Thorpe, of Queens, N. Y., exhibited a very choice collection of Double Pelargoniums, the greater part of them seedlings raised by Mr. Thorpe of this firm
[From The Ameriucan Carnation, by Charles Willis Ward, 1903, p. 27:] The veteran horticulturist , Mr. John Thorpe, came next into the carnation field, and contributed some of the most celebrated varieties of carnations, which were sent out from the year 1883 to 1890. Mr. Thorne commenced his work on carnations about the year 1881.
[From The American Florist, Vol. 32, March 6, 1909, p. 273:] E. V. Hallock died March 2 in New York of apoplexy.
[From The American Florist, Vol. 32, July 24, 1909, p. 1315:] From the time Mr. Thorpe left Cleveland and became a member of the firm of V. H. Hallock, Son & Thorpe, Queens, N. Y. his interest and work in the advance of floriculture through exhibitions at New York and elsewhere increased rapidly. The Hallock establishment at that time was not equipped with greenhouses in a large way, and what with many small plants required for the mail order business of the firm and Mr. Thorpe's experiments in hybridizing, the modest room was pretty well taken up and crowded, probably a condition not tending to the noticeable advantage of either. The widely different conditions which these two lines of effort naturally required finally resulted in Mr. Thorpe's retirement from the firm in October, 1887
