April 30, 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 



All Right 



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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Obituary* 



Joseph Whipple Congdon. 

 Joseph Whipple Congdon, well 

 known to scientific men throughout 

 the world, died recently in Waterman, 

 Wash. Mr. Congdon won considerable 

 success as a lawyer before taking up 

 the study of plant life. He devoted 

 himself to exhaustive research in the 

 field of botany and added considerably 

 to the world's knowledge of that sub- 

 ject. He was well known in Europe 

 where he made a considerable collec- 

 tion of plants and these combined 

 with a collection from the East, he 

 presented to the Stanford University. 

 European institutions also received 

 highly valued gifts of the same char- 

 acter. When he died Mr. Congdon had 

 an herbarium of about 10,000 speci- 

 mens. He is survived by a widow, 

 one son and daughter. Interment was 

 in Port Blakeley Cemetery. 



Samuel W. Twombly. 

 Samuel W. Twombly, who was for 

 many years engaged in the florist and 

 truck gardening business at Winches- 

 ter, Mass.. with retail store in Boston, 

 died on April 27th. at the age of SS 

 years. He was born in Tamworth, N. 

 H., July 31, 1822. For over fifty years 

 he has been active in the social and 

 political life of the beautiful suburban 

 town of Winchester, and much of the 

 attractiveness of this model residential 



district is due to Mr. Twombly's in- 

 fluence and foresight in the various 

 departments of the town affairs in 

 which he served. He had three terms 

 as representative of his district in the 

 legislature. 



Personally, his character was of the 

 highest and his buoyant disposition 

 made for him many friends. 



The greenhouses at Winchester have 

 for a number of years been conducted 

 by his son. John D. Twombly. 



Luther James Bradford Olcott. 



The funeral of this widely known ex- 

 pert on grass was held at Manchester, 

 Conn., on April 25. Mr. Olcott was a 

 remarkable man and his influence, 

 quietly exerted, will live as long as a 

 grass lawn is known. Rev. Dr. Rey- 

 nolds, who officiated at the funeral, 

 said: 



"Mr. Oleott's greatness appears in 

 that he chose to identify himself with 

 something as small and ordinary as 

 grass and made the grass famous. He 

 took that strip of ground yonder, he 

 planted it with grasses gathered from 

 all over this globe; for twenty years 

 he had been working with those 

 grasses through storm and sunshine 

 and he had made that strip of land 

 the most famous strip of grass land 

 in this country. A man cannot make 

 a strip of land famous because of his 

 labors with grass unless he is great 

 himself. The message of his toil was, 

 let there be grass and nothing but 

 grass upon this strip of land, and there 

 was grass such as we have never be- 

 fore seen. Grass as thick as a sponee. 



as soft as velvet; grass as beautiful as 

 a carpet for the palace of a king. A 

 man who could impress you and the 

 generation in which he lived with the 

 grass he produced must of necessity 

 impress you with liis own personality, 

 and he did." 



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. 



