May 14, 1910 



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For Decoration Day 



We have this year the most complete, elegant and salable stock of florists' 

 goods ever offered for the MEMORIAL DAY trade. Our line of PRE- 

 SERVED FOLIAGE and other INDESTRUCTIBLE DECORATIVE 

 MATERIAL cannot be excelled and the name of BAYERSDORFER & CO., 

 on the package guarantees that goods and prices are 



What Every Florist Wants 



Don't wait until the last moment to make inquiry. SEND NOW for list of 

 Standard and New Goods for this important occasion. All you have to do is 

 to show the goods. THEY'LL SELL. Wreaths of Cycas, Magnolia, Fern and 

 other foliage in Green, Autumn Tints and Moss effects are among the novelties. 



METALLIC WREATHS are our specialty ; we make them up with Roses, 

 Pansies, Forget-me-nots or anything you please. STANDING ANCHORS, 

 PILLOWS, WREATHS, ETC., all graceful and true to nature. Cape Flowers ; 

 Immortelles, all colors ; Doves ; Sheaves. 



H. BAYERSDORFER (& CO. 



The Florists' Supply House of America 



1129 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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ures should be taken by the wholesale 

 trade to protect themselves from the 

 wiles oi the retailer who is unscrupu- 

 lous. The law, he thinks, does not pro- 

 tect the honest but on the contrary 

 works to the advantage of the dishon- 

 est in this business. As stated before, 

 nearly all the wholesalers were losers 

 by the closing of the Visas Bro.s' store 

 and their Easter bills are on file at the 

 U. S. Court but that is small comfort. 



Personal. 



Fred Sperry is back at his post look- 

 ing pale but plucky. 



Chas. McKellar is rapidly recovering 

 from his recent illness. 



The two-year-old son of John 

 Kruchten who was bitten in the face 

 by a bulldog is doing nicely and few 

 if any scars will remain. 



The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks 

 of Morton Grove is home from a pro- 

 tracted stay at the Augustina hospital 

 for treatment tor a severe injury to his 

 knee. 



O. P. Bassett and bride surprised 

 their relations and friends by return- 

 ing unexpectedly from California Sun- 

 day. After a few days here they will 

 leave for the East. 



Visitors. — Geo. A. Heinl, Toledo, O. ; 

 P. N. Obertin, Kenosha, Wis.; J. E. 

 Meinhart. Webb City, Mo.: C. H. Wool- 

 sey. Rockfnrd. 111.: Frank Stuppe, St. 

 Joseph, Mo.: Wm. Desmond of Minn- 

 eapolis, Minn., in the interest of the 

 big flower show to be held there in 

 November; H. Phillpot of Winnipeg, 

 B. C: J. A. Peterson, Cincinnati, O. ; 

 Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Long. Dixon, 111.; 

 .7. Ebbinge, Boskoop, Holland. Martin 

 Reukauf, representing H. Bayersdorfer 

 & Co., Phila., Pa. 



AN IMPOSTOR. 

 Editor HORTICULTURE: 



Dear Sir: — Some man representing 

 himself to be Mr. Thornton is going 

 around among different flower and 

 seed houses. Kindly note in your paper 

 that this man is an impostor and re- 

 quest any to whom he may apply to 

 hold him for the i)olice and notify us. 

 Yours truly, 



THORNTON BROS. 

 Lawrence, Mass. 



MEMORIAL DAY. 



"Ami this day .-iliall lie iiuto ymi for a me 



morial." — Exnthis xii, 14. 

 The day that is meant for silence, the day 



that is set apart 

 To show all the love and honor that throb 



in tho nation's heart; 

 To show that wo still hold sacred their 



hnije, and their faith and trust. 

 Ry placing the tender tribute of roses 



above their dust. 



Tile day that is meant for ipiiet. except 



that the muffled drum 

 Shall thinin to the whispered flflug that 



tells wiien the marchers come. 

 Except that the soft-voiced bugle shall 



sing of the growing gaps 

 In the ranks of the living comrades — that 



lullaby low of ■•Taps." 



The day that is meant for silence; a day 

 that is meant for thought: 



The flag as a sign and .symbol of all that 

 these dead have wrought: 



And roses au.l waxen lilies, a-drip with 

 tlie dews of dawn. 



To gleam in the silent places where slum- 

 ber the soldiers gone. 



This dav-it is meant for stillness, tor 



stillness on land or sea. 

 For hushes on hill, in valley — wherever 



their places be: 

 For some rest below the billows and some 



sleep beneath the sod. 

 But all have a country's honor, and all 



have the peace of God. 



— Wilbur D. Nesbit, in BosUm Post. 



APHINE 



Is proving a most effective, 

 while at the same time 

 absolutely harmless, insecti- 

 cide for use on young stock. 



It destroys the insects, and 

 invigorates the plants. 



Have you tried it ? 



Aphine Manufacturing 

 Company 



MADISON, N. J. 



