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HORTICULTURE 



November 15, 191S 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



The Montgomery Company, Inc., of 

 Hadley, Mass., submit for registration, 

 the Rose described below. Any per- 

 son objecting to the use of the pro- 

 posed name, or the registration of 

 the rose, is requested to communicate 

 •with the Secretary at once. Failing to 

 receive objections to the registration, 

 the same will be made three weeks 

 from this date. 



Name, Hadley. 



Description — This rose is a devel- 

 opment of a strain of red forcing 

 roses, including Liberty. Gen. Mac- 

 Arthur and Richmond. Color, deep 

 velvet crimson, retaining its brillian- 

 cy at all seasons of the year. Flowers 

 borne on long stiff stems, with abun- 

 dant bronze green foliage. Unques- 

 tionably one of the most fragrant 

 roses in existence, being exceeded, 

 among forcing roses, only by American 

 Beauty. It is a strong rapid grower 

 and has undoubtedly proven itself an 

 all-the-year-round forcing variety. 



The Conard & Jones Company, of 

 West Grove, Pa., submit for registra- 

 tion, the Cannas described below. Any 

 person objecting to the registration or 

 to the use of the proposed names, is 

 requested to communicate with the 

 Secretary at once. Failing to receive 

 objections to the registration, the 

 same will be made three weeks from 

 this date. 



Mrs. Woodrow Wilson — Color crim- 

 son pink, particularly clear and pleas- 

 ing. Flowers are large with broad 

 overlapping gracefuUy-rnunded petals 

 of great substance and durability. It 

 is an early continuous and abundant 

 bloomer. Habit is robust, but leaves 

 do not hide the flowers; foliage is 

 light green, prettily veined. 



Golden Gate — The flowers open al- 

 most pure gold but soon become rich- 

 ly rayed with orange crimson and ap- 

 ricot, centering to the throat of deep 

 carmine red. Foliage green. 



Wintzer's Colossal— Without doubt, 

 the largest flowered Canna to date, as 

 the average flowers more than cover 

 a man's hat. It is an improvement 

 over all others in the orchid-flowering 

 class. With its superior substance it 

 seems to revel in the hot sunshine 

 with impunity, and promises to give 

 satisfaction in the most tropical sec- 

 tions. Color vivid scarlet that retains 

 its brilliancy. Generous green foliage. 

 Five feet high. 



Jane Addams — True rich buttercup 

 yellow (richer than Buttercup canna) 

 with a suggestion of red in the throat 

 The buds are dark maroon, and they 

 blend artistically in color with the 

 bright yellow blooms and soft green 

 foliage. It has a strong erect habit of 

 growth, growing to the height of 4% 

 feet. 



San Diego — A bronze-leaved beauty 

 with flowers perfectly formed and 

 tastefully crimped. The blooms are 

 a Chinese orange, or Persian yellow 

 shade which harmonizes perfectly 

 with the dark bronze foliage. On ac- 

 count of its sturdy growth and pic- 

 turesque appearance this novelty is 

 especially well adapted for growing as 

 a specimen plant. F'our feet high. 

 John Yovnc, Secretary. 



New York City, N. Y. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The regular meeting of the Cincin- 

 nati Florist Society was held at the 

 home of Fred Bartmeier on Monday 

 evening, after which the members 

 present enjoyed a very pleasant social 

 evening. 



At the October meeting of the 

 Springfield (Ohio) Florists' Club, the 

 following officers were elected: Presi- 

 dent, Roy McGregor; vice-president, 

 John M. Good; secretary, Arthur C. 

 Leedle; treasurer, Chas. W. Unglaub. 



The State Florists' Association of 

 Indiana met at Richmond on Novem- 

 ber 3. at the E. G. Hill greenhouses. 

 It was decided to hold an exhibition 

 in Indianapolis in November, 1914. 

 The next meeting will be held at New 

 Castle on December 2. 



The Cleveland (Ohio) Lady Florists- 

 Club organized October 27th and 

 fleeted the following officers: Presi- 

 dent. Mrs. George W. Smith; vice- 

 president, Mrs. Walter Priest; secre- 

 tary. Miss Hester Getz; treasurer, Mrs. 

 H. P. Knoble. About twenty mem- 

 bers joined during the evening, and 

 it is expected that at the next meet- 

 ing there will be an enrollment of 

 one hundred or more. 



The Official Program of "Maryland 

 Week," and the Annual .Meetings and 

 Exhibition of the Maryland Horticul- 

 tural Society and allied organizations 

 has been received. The dates are No- 

 vember 18 to 22, and the location the 

 Fifth Regiment Armory, Baltimore. 

 Among the interested workers in va- 

 rious oflficial capacities we notice the 

 names of R. L. Graham, George Mor- 

 rison, I. H. Moss, E. A. Seidewitz, 

 Chas. J. Bolgiano and others more or 

 less familiar to our readers. 



The regular meeting of the Lenox 

 Horticultural Society was held in the 

 Town Hall, Lenox, .Mass., on Saturday 

 evening, November 1. The chief busi- 

 ness was centered on the fall show, 

 held the previous week. Financially 

 and otherwise it was a big success and 

 the drawings at the door were a good 

 bit in advance of the previous year. 

 F"or the same show next year the so- 

 ciety has already acquired two hand- 

 some cups for competition. P>d. Jen- 

 kins gave an interesting talk on his 

 trip to the Madison, N. J., show. 



The regular meeting of the North 

 Shore Horticultural Society was held 

 at Manchester. Mass., on Friday. No- 

 vember 7. A large attendance of 

 members was on hand, it being the 

 election of officers for the ensuing 

 year. The result of the ballot was: 

 President. John L. Chapman; vice- 

 president, Frank Foster; secretary, 

 Albert Sims; treasurer. John Jaffray; 

 librarian, Robert A. Mitchell; execu- 

 tive committee — Alfred E. Parsons, 

 William Till, Herbert Shaw, T. Harri- 

 son Stiles and Herman Sanford. 



The discussion committee announced 

 that Thos. J. Grey of Boston would be 

 the speaker at the next meeting. 



JoHK Mair. Asst. Sec. 



Obituary 



Adam Rothar. 



Adam Rothar, a retired florist, died 

 on November 7 at his home in Bush- 

 wick avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 66 

 years. 



John Brodrib. 



John Brodrib. formerly in the florist 

 business in Hartford. Conn., died on 

 October 29, at Tolland, Mass. Mr. 

 Brodrib was 53 years of age and a na- 

 tive of England. He leaves a widow, 

 four sons and one daughter. 



Albert Dirwanger. 



Albert Dirwanger, for more than 

 i'orty years a leading florist of Port- 

 land, Me., died at his home in that 

 city on Sunday, Nov. 2, aged 83 years, 

 10 months. Death was caused by 

 cerebral apoplexy. 



.Mr. Dirwanger was born in Bava- 

 ria. Germany.. He learned the trade 

 of a florist in his native country at a 

 time when a long and severe appren- 

 ticeship and a thorough course of in- 

 struction in every branch of the work 

 was necessary. When a young man, 

 after completing his apprenticeship, 

 he came to America, which was then 

 held out to all enterprising young 

 Germans as a land of great promise. 

 And he like a great many others of 

 his race found it so indeed. He was 

 fond of flowers and the flower busi- 

 ness. This and his home formed his 

 main object in life. Industrious and 

 domestic in his tastes he lived a quiet 

 life amidst congenial surroundings. 

 His wife died about five years ago and 

 he leaves his only child, Isabelle K. to 

 mourn his loss. But, indeed, the 

 greater part of Portland will feel a 

 sense of bereavement for he was a 

 sympathetic and kindly hearted gen- 

 tleman and was universally beloved 

 and respected. He was a brother of 

 the late Joseph A. Dirwanger, also 

 well-known in the florist trade of 

 Portland fur ni.iii> years 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



Providence. R. I. — Vega Valley Or- 

 chards, Inc.. capital slock. $50,000. 

 Incorporators, Frederick W. Tillin- 

 ghast. Rush Sturges and Chauncey E 

 Wheeler. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Anderson, Ind. — The greenhouses and 

 contents of Williams & Matthews 

 were completely destroyed by fire on 

 November 1st. The loss is estimated 

 at $20,000. 



New York, N. Y. — Despite the snow- 

 bound news from Cleveland. Messrs. 

 W. E. Marshall, J. Muller. of Julius 

 Roehrs Co., Wallace R. Pierson and 

 one or two other intrepid spirits start- 

 ed from New York, Tuesday evening, 

 for that beleaguered city. The party 

 would have been considerably larger 

 were it not for the unpromising out- 

 look. 



The Boston Co-operative Flower 

 Market, Inc., will hold a flower show 

 in their rooms on Park street next 

 spring. Three hundred dollars was 

 appropriated for that purpose at the 

 annual meeting. November 1. The 

 directors for the ensuing year are as 

 follows: John McFarland. president; 

 Donald Carmichael, treasurer: Wil- 

 liam W. Tailby, secretary; Norris F. 

 Comley, William H. Elliott, Robert 

 Montgomery. L. E. Small. Charles 

 Streiferd and Henry Shedd. 



