August 22. 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



303 



Established 1687 



1914 



I SELL FLO WERS 



What Have You to Offer for Coming Season ? 



I have an unlimited market for any variety of flowers, 

 in any quantity'. Prompt returns of sales on consigned 

 goods. Ready cash when due. A clean record of 

 twent3--seven years in the Cut Flower Commission 

 Business. 



Write for information or call and talk it over 



J. K. AI-I-EIM 



106 West 28th Street, NEW YORK 



Telephone 167 and 4468 Madison Square 



Obituary 



George Dickson. 

 George Dickson, S3 years old, and 

 head of the firm of Alex. Dickson & 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattley as 



Lilies, LonKiflorum 



Rubrum 



Lily of the VaUey 



Asters 



Gladioli 



Com Flower 



Daises, white and yellow 



Sweet Peas (per loo bunches) 



Gardenias 



Adiantutn •• 



Smilax 



Aspeuragus Plumosus, striogs (per lOo) 



'* *' ' & Spren (loo bunches). 



Last Half of Week 



endiiiE Aug. 15 



1914 



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35,00 



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6.00 

 25.00" 

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5-C 



35-c 



to 35.00 



First Half tf Wuk 



begiuiat Agg. 17 



1914 



15.00 

 2.00 

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25.00 



6.00 

 25.00 

 15.00 



40.00 



3.00 



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3.00 



1.00 



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5.00 



35.00 



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12.00 



35-00 

 20.00 



Geokoe Dk k.so.n. 



Sons, Ltd.. Newtonards, Ireland, died 

 on Thursday-, August 13. Mr. Dick- 

 son retired from active labor some 

 time ago. but his personal inter- 



est in the work as carried on 

 by his sons was unabated. One of 

 the sons, Alexander, is well and fa- 

 vorably known liere, having visited 

 this country on several occasions, on ; 

 one of which he was accompanied by 

 his father, who quickly made many 

 sincere friends in the trade here. 



George Dickson was one of the re- 

 cipients of the coveted ; Victorian 

 Medal. He also received in 1912 the 

 Dean Hole ^Memorial Jledal. He was 

 president of the Newtonards Horti- 

 cultural Society for over half a cen- 

 tury. Too much cannot be said of 

 his eminent services to the rose busi- 

 ness in America, not to mention his 

 home benefactions for to his firm 

 we are Indebted for Killarney, Lib- 

 erty, Melody, Fire Flame and other 

 roses that stand high with our rose 

 forcers. Culinary peas and sweet peas 

 of much merit also emanated from his 

 establishment. Mr. Dickson was a 



gentleman, whose personality quick- 

 ly touched the heart of those who 

 met htm personally. He was beloved 

 as a father by the young men who 

 enjoyed the benefit of his acquaint- 

 ance and was well worthy of the re- 

 spect of horticulturists everywhere 

 for his sterling character. 



William H. Diehl. 

 William H. Diehl, aged 45 years, for 

 the past ten years in the employ of 

 Penn, the Florist, Boston, Mass., was 

 drowned in Hancock Lake , Sebago, 

 Maine, early Thursday evening, while 

 fishing. He Is survived' by two broth- 

 ers and three sisters. 



Annie C. Norman. 



Annie C. Norman, daughter of Ed. J. 



Norman, superintendent of the West- 



inghouse estate at Leno.x, Mass.. died 



of diabetes on August 7, aged 27 years. 



