May 13, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



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METALLIC WREATHS, ANCHOKS, CROSSES, beautifully 

 decorated with -flowers on white or green foliage. Our 

 designs ar^ wonderful In their true-to-nature perfection. 



M.VGNOLIA WREATHS. CYC.4S LEAVES and WKE.\THS. 



\V.AX FLOWERS, good to work In Magnolia Wreaths, 

 Sweet Peas, Carnations and Roses. 



CREPE FLOWERS of every Variety— Lilies, Orchids, Mums. 

 Dahlias, Carnations, Roses and crepe Cape Flowers. 



FOR MOTHER'S, M.VY 14th, WHITE CARN.4.TIONS, very fine. $1.80 per 100; large size. $2.00 per 100 



I'.askets in Wonderful Variety of Shape and Tint. Brazilian Willow Baskets. Porto Rican Mats, Silk Fibre Ribbon ^= 



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the Botanic Garden from its present 

 site at the foot of the Capitol to Roclt 

 Creelt Pari?, where it would be out of 

 the reach of the thousands of ordinary 

 people of the city who are not posses- 

 sors of automobiles, but where it 

 would be a distinct advantage to own- 

 ers of certain real estate, and to trans- 

 fer its control to the Department of 

 Agriculture. The measure has been 

 referred to the Committee on the Li- 

 brary. 



The U. S. Court of Customs Appeals, 

 in the case of H. Bayersdorfer & Co.. 

 has reversed the decision of the Board 

 of General Appraisers which had up- 

 held the assessment of duty at the 

 rate of 60 per cent, ad valorem on 

 dried and dyed immortelles and 

 wreaths of immortelles having a straw 

 frame, under paragraph 347 of the 

 tariff act as ornamental flowers and as 

 wreaths wholly or in chief value there- 

 of. The importers claimed them duti- 

 able under paragraph 210 as cut flow- 

 ers, preserved or fresh, either directly 

 or by similtude, or as unenumerated 

 articles under paragraph .385, the court 

 upholding them as to the former para- 

 graph. 



PERSONAL. 



Mr. and Mrs. David Francis Roy of 

 Marion, Mass., have announced the en- 

 gagement of their daughter, Ethel Vio- 

 let, to Mr. Roland Starr Dominie of 

 Lynn. 



Douglas C. Eccleston, recently in 

 charge of Mr. Mackenzie's greenhouses 

 in Woodstock, Vt., has taken a posi- 

 tion in Thomas Young's orchid estab- 

 lishment in Bound Brook, N. J. Er- 

 nest Morris succeeds Mr. Eccleston at 

 the Mackenzie place. 



Obittiary 



Eric Guy Sutton. 

 We learn with deep regret of the 

 death in action of Lieutenant Eric Guy 

 Sutton, second son of Mr. Leonard Sut- 

 ton, Mayor of Reading, Eng. The late 

 Lieut. Sutton was educated at Rugby. 

 and on leaving school spent a year in 

 France, and then proceeded to a tour in 

 America, pre|)aratory to entering the 

 firm of Messrs. Sutton & Sons, at Read- 

 ing. He returned home on the outbreak 

 of war, joined H. M. forces, and was 

 gazetted to the Royal Sussex Regi- 

 ment in September, 1914. In the 

 spring of last year he went to the 

 front, and at once showed such ability 

 that he gained his lieutenancy in *he 

 following June, as recorded in these 

 pages. Lieut. Sutton received the Mili- 

 tary Cross for conspicuous gallantry 

 on the night of September 12, 1915, 

 near Armentieres. Together with an- 

 other officer he entered a mine, which 

 was in a highly dangerous state, owing 

 to the gas fumes following an explo- 

 sion, in order to rescue a man who 

 has been overcome. Their prompt ac- 

 tion undoubtedly saved the man's life. 

 He received the decoration at the 

 hands of the King at Buckingham 

 Palace on February 23 of this year. 

 Lieut. Sutton returned to the front in 

 May. and had been almost continuous- 

 ly in the fighting line. Three of Mr. 

 Leonard Sutton's sons are serving, and 

 two of them are at the front. No 

 words can express the sorrow of those 

 who knew Lieut. Sutton. Young and 

 full of life, alert, and possessed of a 

 rare charm, the war showed yet an- 

 other side of his character. His 

 natural gaiety proved itself to be, as 

 oftentimes it is, the manifestation of 



a brave heart "that looks on tempests 

 and IS never shaken." His ready cour- 

 age made high duties easv and em- 

 powered him to do noble things with 

 quiet confidence and strength All 

 that can be said in the vain desire to 

 solace the sorrow of his friends and 

 to help his father and his relations to 

 support their grief, is that he did his 

 dut.v like an Englishman, and he died 

 for his country. Grief for his death 

 and poignant regret at the shattering 

 ot such promise must always remain- 

 but so also will remain the shining 

 inemory of a youth who was equal to 

 tlie sternest call that fate may make 

 ot man; who, though his days were 

 brief, won imperishable honor— The 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, April 22. 



William G. Rowand. 

 Wni. G. Rowand, for many years in 

 charge of the warehouse of Henry A 

 Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa., died on 

 Wednesday morning, May 10, at his 

 home Haddonfield, N. J. He had been 

 a member of the Dreer force for thirty 

 years, and by his faithful and loyal 

 service had gained the confidence of 

 his employers and also the high re- 

 gard of his fellow workers. Funeral 

 services at his home on Sunday after- 

 noon, May 14. 



Walter Angus. 



Walter Angus, gardener on the Ly- 

 man Estate, Waltham, Mass., for a 

 number of years, died on Monday, May 

 1, after a brief illness. Mr. Angus is 

 survived by three daughters. 



Herman N. Bradshaw. 

 Herman N. Bradshaw, a veteran flor- 

 ist in business for the past forty years, 

 died on May 6 at his place near Ossin- 

 ing, N. Y. 



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