October 15, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



537 



OUR SENSATIONAL NEW 

 OSTRICH PLUME CELOSIA 



j "Pride of Castle Gould" I 



I in grand shape at our greenhouses, in 7 and 8 in. pots — 2 to 3 ft. tall. [Price $2.50 and S3.00 each. 



! Julius Roehrs Co., Rutherford, N. J. 

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charge of the other privileges. Presi- 

 dent Asmus, H. N. Bruns and A. Then 

 were asked to call upon J. T. Klimmer 

 who is ill. 



Three applications for membership 

 were proposed. The following were 

 elected: W. P. Kyle, J. Foerster, A. C. 

 Rott, W. Kellsner, Emil Middendorf, 

 A. Christiansen, H. Nicholson, H. 

 Duncke, Fred Smith, J. Dimoecke, J. 

 Byers, J. W. Fink. A special meeting 

 will be held at the usual place Oct. 20. 



CINCINNATI FLORISTS' SOCIETY. 



The re,gular monthly meeting of the 

 Cincinnati Florists' Society was held 

 in the club rooms, Jabez Elliott 

 Flower Market, Monday, Oct. 10th. 

 The features of this meeting were 

 very interesting talks on the construc- 

 tion of cement benches by J. A. Peter- 

 son and on steam and hot water heal- 

 ing by Max Rudolph. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLOR- 

 ISTS AND ORNAMENTAL 

 HORTICULTURISTS. 

 Registration of Coleus. 



Public notice is hereby given that 

 the J. W. Ross Company of Centralia, 

 111., offer for registration the Coleus 

 described below. Any person object- 

 ing to the registration or to the use 

 of the proposed name, is requested to 

 communicate with the Secretary at 

 once. Failing to receive objection to 

 the registration, the same will be 

 made three weeks from this date. 



Raiser's Description — Leaves large 

 to very large; color rich velvety 

 crimson shading outwardly to pink, 

 often having gold blotches in the 

 point; beautifully edged with green 

 and gold. 



Name — "Fanny Ross." 



H. B. DORNER, Secretary. 



October 6, 1910. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The second annual flower show will 

 be held in the Auditorium, Milwaukee, 

 Wis., from Nov. 9 to 13th. It is ex- 

 pected to be the best ever held in 

 this section. 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 ciety's exhibition of cosmos and early 

 chrysanthemums will be held in con- 

 nection with the regular monthly meet- 

 ing, October 18. 



of the Lenox (Mass.) Horticultural 

 Society will be held in the town hall 

 Oct. 26th and 27th. The judges will be 

 Richard Gardner, Newport, R. I.; How- 

 ard Nichols, Yonkers, N. Y., and J. 

 Burton, Bar Harbor, Me. 



pal beautiflcatlon plans will be given 

 much attention by the club. 



The Rochester (N. Y.) Florists' 

 Association which has charge of the 

 second annual flower show to be held 

 in Convention Hall five days begin- 

 ning Nov. 1st., are making elaborate 

 plans which promise to eclipse any 

 similar show ever held in this city. 



The florists and nurserymen of 

 ^lontana met in Helena, Sept. 29th 

 and organized the Florists' and Nur- 

 serymens" Association of Montana. 

 Officers were elected as follows: 

 president, T. E. Mills, Helena; vice- 

 president, D. J. Tighe, Billings; secre- 

 tary and treasurer, W. J. Hugo, 

 Helena. 



Committees for the Indianapolis 

 Flower Show have been appointed as 



follows: 



Exhibition — John RIeman, chairman; 

 Ernst Kieman, John Heldenrlch, F. H. 

 I.emon. 



Flower Booth— Charles Pahud, William 

 Roepke. C. .Sonnensehmldt, H. D. Schilling, 

 Flank Hasselman. 



Entertainment— F. S. Smith, F. B. Alley, 

 W. W. Coles, J. A. E. Haugh, George B. 

 Wiegnnd, George Gause. 



Reception — E. A. Nelson, Charles Knopf, 

 F. Hukriede. A. Marshall. 



Press — Herman Junge, Lannes McPhet- 

 rldge. 



Superintendent of Exhibition — John RIe- 

 man. 



Geori^e Wiegand will design the decora- 

 tions for Tomliuson Hall. 



The annual Chrysanthemum Show 



The Dayton Florists' Club opened its 

 fall-winter season Monday night, Oc- 

 tober 3, with a session at the J. F. 

 Young establishment. East Fifth St. 

 Committees were named to arrange 

 programs for discussion meetings and 

 to plan work for the future. Munici- 



OBITUARY. 



Mrs. John Walt. 

 Viola L. Walt, 43, wife of John Walt, 

 the East end florist, Cincinnati, O., 

 died Sunday, Oct. 9, from injuries sus- 

 tained when she was struck and run 

 over by an automobile the previous 

 Thursday. The funeral took place on 

 Tuesday and was largely attended and 

 numerous floral tributes showed the 

 esteem in which the deceased was held. 



A BLUE ROSE 



The Greatest 



Rose Novelty 



of the Century 



If flowered with us this sea- 

 son and was greatly admired. 



ELL W ANGER 



IVfounI Hope Nurseries 



The New Rambler rViolet Blue) , hailed 

 by the German rose growers as the 

 forerunner of a genuinely cornflower 

 blue rose, is a seedling of Crimson 

 Rambler, very vigorous and hardy, and 

 free blooming. 



Send for description and price. 



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ROCHESTER. N. V. 



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