April 13, 1918 



H K T 1 C U L T U R E 



365 



Obituary 



James MacGregor. 



James MacGregor. gardener for Miss 

 Thayer, DubUn, N. H., passed awav on 

 Saturday, March 31, after an illness of 

 about a year, aged seventy years and 

 three months. Mr. MacGregor was 

 born in Bankfoot, Perthshire, Scotland, 

 and came to this country as a young 

 man, his first position being on the es- 

 tate of J. H. White, Brookline. Mass. 

 From there he started in business for 

 himself as flroist and landscape gar- 

 dener but after about ten years re- 

 turned to his vocation as private gar- 

 dener, in charge of the estate of the 

 late Robert C. Winthrop in Brookline. 

 where he remained after Mr. Win- 

 throp's death in the service of Miss 

 Thayer, who succeeded to the property. 

 Later he took charge of Miss Thayer's 

 estate in Manchester-by-the-Sea, where 

 he was foremost in the activities of the 

 horticultural fraternity and was one 

 of the founders of the North Shore 

 Horticultural Society and one of its 

 first presidents. Four years ago he 

 left Manchester to look after the estate 

 of Miss Thayer at Dublin, N. H. 



James MacGregor was a man in 

 whom himian sympathy and kindness 

 was higHly developed. His was a most 

 lovable personality, and this fact to- 

 gether with his cultural abilities made 

 for him many deep and enduring 

 friendships wherever he became known. 

 For the North Shore Horticultural 

 Society in its infancy he was an inde- 

 fatiguable worker and in everything 

 appertaining to the welfare of the 

 craft he was ever zealous. He leaves 

 a widow and two daughters. Burial 

 was in Manchester, Mass. 



William Just. 



William Just, of 132 York street, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., a tree trimmer for 



Horticultural Books 



For Sale by 



HORTICULTDRE PUBLISHING CO. 



Chrysanthemum Manual. Elmer 



D Sniitli »0.S0 



The Chry§anthemum. Herring- 

 ton 8U 



Commercial Carnation Culture. 



Dick l.BO 



Commercial Rose Culture. 



Holmes l.SO 



Violet Culture. Galloway 1.80 



Greenhouse Construction. Taft.. 1.50 

 Sweet Peas up to Date. Kerr... l.SO 

 Plant Propagation, Greenhouse 



and Nursery Practice. Kains.. 1.50 



Plant Pruning. Kains 1.50 



Book of Garden Plans. Hamblin. 2.00 

 I>andscape Desien. Hubbard.... 6.00 

 The Art of Outdoor Rose Grow- 

 ing. Thomas 4.00 



The Home Vegetable Garden. 



Kruhm 1.00 



Vegetable Gardening. R. L. 



Watts 1.78 



Parsons on The Rose 1.00 



Principles of Floriculture. E. A. 



White 1.75 



Foundations of American Grape 



Culture. Munson 2.00 



Plant Materials of DecoratlTO 



Gardening. Trelease 1.00 



Aristocrats of the Garden. Wil- 

 son 8.00 



Bailey's Cyclopedia of Rortlool- 

 ture, 6 volumes 86.00 



the department of parks, was killed in 

 a peculiar manner while at work on a 

 tree in front of 896 Willoughby avenue. 

 A rope tied to the tree stretched across 

 the street and was fastened to another 

 tree. An automobile hit the rope, 

 causing the tree to fall and Just to 

 land on his head. His skull was 

 broken. 



Jame.s M.vcGrecor. 



John James Nugent. 



Jolin James Nugent, of 133A Quincy 

 street. Brooklyn, a retired florist, for- 

 merly of Rochester, N. Y., died on 

 Monday of stomach trouble. Mr. Nu- 

 gent was born on Staten Island, in 

 1848. He is survived by his wife, three 

 daughters and two sons. 



PUBLICATION RECEIVED 



Proceedings of the Thirty-third An- 

 nual Convention of the Society of 

 American Florists and Ornamental 

 Horticulturists, for the year 1917. — 

 This is as usual a valuable publica- 

 tion, full of information as to the ac- 

 tivities of the trade in all sections of 

 the country and the details of the 

 work being done by the great national 

 organization through its manifold de- 

 partments and allied bodies. Full re- 

 port is given of the sessions at the an- 

 nual convention and trade exhibition 

 in New York City, also the proceedings 

 in full of the Florists' Telegraph De- 

 livery Association and Florists' Hail 

 Association of America. The list of 

 members, both life and annual, shows 

 a substantial increase. The book con- 

 tains 430 pages and an excellent por- 

 trait of Past President R. C. Kerr ap- 

 pears as a frontispiece. Secretary 

 Young has given us a very creditable 

 piece of work in this carefully edited 

 and useful volume. 



CATALOGUE RECEIVED. 



Elm City Nursery Co., Edgewood, 

 New Haven, Conn. — 1918. Price List 

 of Choice Trees, Evergreens, shrubs, 

 Vines, Roses, etc., an extensive and 

 well arranged catalogue, without pic- 

 tures. 



The 1st of May 

 Thrift Stamp Day 

 In The U. S. A. 



The Active Co-operation of 

 Every Reader of 



HORTICULTURE 



Is Urgently Requested To 

 Make It A bucce&s 



May let, 1918, will be observed 

 throughout the United States aa 

 Thrift Stamp Day! On that day re- 

 tall stores everywhere In every line 

 of business will ask customers to 

 take part of their change in Thrift 

 Stamps! It will be patriotic for 

 every man. woman and child to ac- 

 cept at least one Thrift Stamp as 

 change on every purchase made that 

 day — and to make as many pur- 

 chases as possible on May 1st. 



Here is a big, practical way of 

 getting millions of Thrift Stamps 

 into the hands of the people of the 

 United States, and of Insuring the 

 success of the Government's War 

 Savings Stamps campaign. Thrift 

 Stamp Day will help everyone. It 

 will prove a tremendous boost to 

 business. On May 1st, 1918, the na- 

 tion should do the biggest total re- 

 tall business of any single day in 

 our history! The beneflcial habit of 

 Thrift will be sown broadcast among 

 the citizens of the U. S. A. ! Moat 

 important of all. Uncle Sam will be 

 furnished with *he sinews of War 

 and Victory! 



American business must go "over 

 the top" at once In a quick drive to 

 make Thrift Stamp Day an over- 

 whelming success. You wholesalers, 

 you Jobbers, you salesmen, must 

 talk Thrift Stamp Day among yonr 

 trade, arouse the enthusiasm of the 

 retailers, the storekeepers, the clerk* 

 behind the counters. Uncle Sam 

 needs your help. A practical plan 

 has been prepared showing how each 

 one of you can "do your bit" to 

 make Thrift Stamp Day a red letter 

 day In American business annals. 

 Write for this plan today withoot 

 faU. Remember, in helping Uncle 

 Sam you are helping business and 

 helping yourselves. Address Mr. W. 

 Ward Smith, National War Savings 

 Committee, 51 Chambers St., New 

 York City. 



NATIONAL WAR SAVINGS COMMITTEE 



51 Chambers Street, New York City 



What Is That Plant? 



A difficult question to answer usually 

 unless flowers are present, because the 

 ordinary Manuals make use of flower 

 and fruit characters. it may be 

 answered easily for over 1000 trees and 

 shrubs, including those most commonly 

 planted in the eastern States and In 

 northern Europe, from foliage only by 

 aid of the 200-page book, "Plant Ma- 

 terials of Decorative Gardening," by 

 William Trelease, convenient for hand- 

 ling and of a size to lit the packet, 

 which may be had of the HORTICUL- 

 TURE PUBLISHING CO., for »l.oa- 

 postpald. 



ROBERT DYSART 



CBRTIFieD PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT 



•bnpl* metb*ds •( correct aceoaatlBS 



ecpcelmlly adapted law florists' a««. 



BOOKS BALAMCKO AMD ADJUSTS* 



M tTATE 8T BOSTON 



Tdooboa* llBia U. 



