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HOETICULTUEE 



July 20, 1918 



Class M — basket or hamper of Dah- 

 lia Newport Wonder. 1st, $6; 2nd, $4. 

 Mrs. Mabel Voss Chapman, Westerly, 

 R. I. 



Class N — Best vase of dahlia. Cut 

 glass, value $5, by P. W. Popp, Ma- 

 maroneck, N. Y. 



Class O — Largest dahlia flower in 

 the show, $1, Geo. L. Stillman, Wes- 

 terly, R. I. 



Class P — Smallest Dahlia flower in 

 the show. $1, Geo. L. Stillman, West- 

 erly, R. I. 



Certificate of Merit for any seedling 

 dahlia novelty which is deemed dis- 

 tinct and sufficiently meritorious. 



The silver and bronze medals of 

 the Toronto Horticultural Society 

 for the best seedling dahlia, any type, 

 shown by professional gardeners or 

 commercial growers. 



The annual exhibition of chrysan- 

 themums of the American Institute of 

 the City of New York and the Chrys- 

 anthemum Society of America will be 

 held November 6th to 8th, in the En- 

 gineering Building, 25 to 3.3 West 39th 

 street. New York. 



Obituary 



ST. LOUIS FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The St. Louis Florists' Club held a 

 very interesting meeting Thursday 

 afternoon, July 11th, on the grounds 

 of the Bourdet Floral Co. The lawn 

 under the big shade trees, afforded a 

 fine meeting place and forty members 

 were in attendance. 



W. A. Rowe, chairman of the trus- 

 tees, reported that arrangements 

 were all completed for the annual 

 picnic to be held at Romona Park. 

 Thursday, July 18th. Secretary Beneke, 

 of the Publicity Committee, reported 

 that a large sum of money would be 

 available for advertising beginning 

 early in the fall and that the monthly 

 subscriptions were coming in regular 

 each month. Chairman W. J. Pilcher. 

 of the Membership Committee, in his 

 report stated that over 100 members 

 of the Club were now members of 

 the S. A F. and the Club would have 

 a representation on the board of 

 directors of the S. A. F. 



The trustees announced that E. 

 Strehle, Supt. of Public Parks, had 

 extended an invitation for the Club to 

 hold its next meeting at Forest Park 

 in the Jefferson Memorial. 



Nominations of officers were made 

 as follows: President, Aug. H. Hum- 

 mert; vice-president, W. J. Pilcher; 

 secretary, J. J. Windier; treasurer. 

 W. C. Smith; three-year term trustee. 

 Alex Luri. The election will follow 

 next meeting. 



Matters pertaining to the S. A. F. 

 Convention was then taken up and 

 discussed and all chairmen of commit- 

 tees reported. After adjournment 

 President Bourdet invited the mem- 

 bers to partake refreshments and a 

 rising vote of thanks was given the 

 host. 



James Dean. 



On Tuesday morning, July 16, James 

 Dean passed away at his home in 

 Freeport, N. Y., aged 74 years. Mr. 

 Dean was a charter member of the 

 New York Florists' Club, and served 

 as its president in 1892, also as presi- 

 dent of the Society of American Flor- 

 ists in 1892, the year of the first 

 Washington Convention. James Dean 

 was born in Scotland. At the age of 

 5 years he came to this country with 

 his father who had been a gardener 

 in Scotland and who took a private 

 position in Astoria, Long Island. The 

 young man assisted his father until 

 the outbreak of the Civil War when 

 he enlisted in the 72nd N. Y. Volun- 

 teers in 1861 and served until the 

 close of the war, coming home hold- 

 ing the rank of lieutenant. He was 

 twice wounded. In 1890 he was com- 

 mander of the U. S. Grant G. A. R. 

 Post in Brooklyn. 



On his return from the South he 

 first took a position with W. C. Wil- 

 son in Astoria, later in a private 

 place at Bay Ridge and in 1875 

 formed a partnership with J. M. Kel- 

 ler, which was dissolved five years 

 later and he started business alone in 

 the same neighborhood where for 

 many years he was prosperous and 

 bore an enviable reputation as an ex- 

 pert plant grower. The time came 

 when the railroad wanted his loca- 

 tion for a station and he disposed of 

 the property at a very remunerative 

 figure and retired to spend the last 

 few years of his life in a well-earned 

 leisure. James Dean endeared him- 

 self to a wide circle of friends in the 

 florist trade by his unfailing good na- 

 ture, manliness and genial hospitali- 

 ty, and his companionable traits 

 were well supplemented by those of 

 Mrs. Dean in whose home a welcome 

 was always ready and who will now 

 have the universal sympathy of the 

 craft in her great bereavement. 



Frank N. Meyer. 

 Frank N. Meyer, agricultural ex- 

 plorer for the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and an expert of 

 world-wide reputation, mysteriously 

 disappeared from on board the N. Y. 

 K. river boat Feng Yang Maro, Sat- 

 urday evening, June 1. according to 

 word brought to Shanghai. It is be- 

 lieved that he fell overboad and was 

 drowned in the Yangtsze a short dis- 

 tance out of Wuhu. Mr. Meyer was 

 bound from Hankow to Shanghai. 

 Capt. Inwood said that Mr. Meyer ap- 



peared in normal health and spirits 

 before his disappearance, though he 

 had complained of a slight headache 

 Saturday afternoon. The explorer's 

 effects were handed over to the Jap- 

 anese Consulate on arrival of the 

 ship here. 



Mr. Meyer, who was 42 years old, 

 had spent a great deal of time in re- 

 search throughout China, making 

 many discoveries valuable to agricul- 

 ture in the United States. The ex- 

 plorer had also made extensive sur- 

 veys in South America. He was an 

 authority on the agricultural activi- 

 ties and products of the ancient Incas. 

 He was. moreover, a good fellow well 

 liked wherever known. 



Millie K. Cook. 

 Miss Cook with her stepmother con- 

 ducted the flower store of her father, 

 the late Harry C. Cook, at 1208 South 

 Broad street. Philadelphia. She died 

 on July 13th at that address after a 

 lingering illness. Miss Cook was a 

 lady of admirable character, of ex- 

 cellent business ability, and was high- 

 ly respected by all who knew her. The 

 funeral took place on the 18th, inter- 

 ment at Fernwood Cemetery. Serv- 

 ices at her late residence were at- 

 tended by many representatives of the 

 trade. 



Henry Haag 

 In the necrology of the week was 

 recorded the death of Henry Haag one 

 of the best known florists of Western 

 Pennsylvania. He died while visiting 

 in Johnstown and the remains were 

 taken to Pittsburgh for burial. 



THE ROSE GARDEN. 



There is a wiiu- we may not taste till June 

 Hetrotlies ber odours to the throstle'a tune. 

 Deep draughts delicious then each guest 



may drink. 

 From cups of r'ream ami crimson, white and 



pink, 

 Such nectar as annihilates desire 

 For aught less perfect : that begets a fire 

 Of some strange ecstacy in lover's eyes, 

 .\nd lifts the poet-soul to Paradise. 



S. C. Thurman. 



Food production and food conserva- 

 tion along horticultural lines are to 

 be the foremost features of the Mid- 

 West Horticultural Exposition in Des 

 Moines, Iowa, November 5-8, 1918. 



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