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HORTICULTUBE 



December 25, 1915 



PHLOX SYLPHIDE. 



Obituary 



Christian Muno. 

 Christian Muno, of 108 Ridge Ave., 

 Chicago, passed away Dec. 20th, at his 

 home after years of illness. About 

 twenty years ago he built a range of 

 houses and specialized in carnations, 

 but soon gave it up and rented the 

 houses, as his health would not permit 

 work of tbat kind. 



Leonard G.- Townsend. 



Leonard G. Townsend, head of the 

 Townsend Floral Co., doing business 

 at 4248 Olive street, St. Louis, Mo., 

 for the past sixteen years died at St. 

 John's Hospital, December 12, after 

 a short illness. Mr. Townsend was 

 born in 18G1. in Ohio and so far as 

 known had no relatives. Miss A. His- 

 ton who was with him in business 

 will continue same with her brother. 



Alfred C. Smith. 



Alfred C. Smith, a well-known gar- 

 dener of Westerly, R. L, who had 

 charge of a number of summer estates 

 at Watch Hill, died suddenly from 

 heart disease at the Central Theater, 

 Pawcatuck, on Wednesday evening, 

 Dec. 15. He and Mrs. Smith had been 

 seated in the theatre only a few min- 

 utes when he was taken ill and died 

 shortly afterwards. Mr. Smith, who 

 was 52 years of age, is survived by his 

 wife, mother and one brother, Albert 

 Smith, of Westerly. 



Henry Blume. 



Henry Blume, well known in the 

 New York flower market for many 

 years, and for the past two years in 

 the employ of P. J. Smith, 131 West 

 28th street, died suddenly at his home. 

 Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn, from hard- 

 ening of the intestines, on Monday 

 morning, Dec. 20, aged 42 years. Pre- 

 vious to his employment with P. J. 

 Smith, Mr. Blume had been 13 years 

 with Frank Lichtenhand at the Grand 

 Central Station, later with Metz at 

 llTtli street and 3rd avenue, having 

 started in the flower business as a boy 

 with Le Moult on the Bowery. Mr. 

 Blume was universally liked by all who 

 came in contact with him. He was a 

 quiet, industrious man of the strictest 

 integrity, and no one was ever heard 

 to say an ill word regarding him. 

 Much sorrow was expressed at the 

 place where he was employed when 

 the news of his death was received. 

 He had been at work as usual up to 

 closing time on Saturday evening. 



Norfolk, Va. — The Art Floral Com- 

 pany, recently formed with a capital 

 of $15,000, has opened at the City Mar- 

 ket, Montioello and Tazewell streets. 

 The large plate glass front, sides and 

 roof, add very materially to the hand- 

 some appearance of the store. The 

 ofRcers of the corporation are Lyons H. 

 Williams, president; F. W. Herrgen, 

 vice-president, and H. R. Weller, secre- 

 tary and treasurer. Messrs. Williams 

 and Weller are officers of the Williams 

 Seed Company, while Mr. Herrgen is 

 well-known to the trade, having been 

 associated with a retail florist here for 

 many years. 



Of the many good white herbaceous 

 phloxes now on the market it is prob- 

 able that, all things considered, none 

 are superior to the variety Sylphide. 

 While many of the new varieties have 

 the unfortunate draw back of being 

 constitutionally weak and in the course 

 of a few years drop out, Sylphide is 

 one of those which retains its vigor 

 and given even ordinary cultivation is 

 always satisfactory. It is a pure white 



and the individual flowers and truss 

 are large. It is nominally a strong 

 free grower, devoid of any disease, but 

 if occasionally replanted and given 

 good cultivation it grows into a mag- 

 nificent plant as fine as anything In 

 the whole herbaceous garden. The 

 photograph from which our illustration 

 was made, was taken at the grounds 

 of the Mt. Desert Nurseries, Bar Har- 

 bor, Me. 



FREE LECTURES ON HORTICUL- 

 TURE. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society announces Its annual winter 

 course of lectures on horticultural 

 subjects to be given at Horticultural 

 Hall at 2 o'clock on Saturday after- 

 noons during January, February and 

 March. These lectures are free to all 

 and the programe is as follows: Jan- 

 uary S. Flowers and Gardens of Ja- 

 pan. Illustrated. By E. H. Wilson, 

 .latuaica Plain. 



January 15. Vegetables for Home 

 and Exhibition. By Edwin Jenkins, 

 Lenox. 



January 22. Annual Meeting. Mass. 

 Fruit Growers' Association. January 

 21 and 22. Addresses on Fruit Grow- 

 ing, forenoon and afternoon. 



January 29. The Missouri Botanical 

 Garden. Illustrated. By Dr. George T. 

 Moore, St. Louis, Mo. 



February 5. Alfalfa Culture in New 

 England. By Prof. S. C. Damon, 

 Kingston, R. I. 



February 12. The Development of 

 Fruits for Special Conditions. By 

 Prof. W. T. Macoun, Ottawa, Canada. 



February 19. Some History of the 

 Grape in the United States. Illustrat- 

 ed. By George C. Husmann, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



February 26. Garden Writings in 

 America. By Leonard Baron, Garden 

 City, N. Y. 



March 4. Practical Demonstration 

 of the Methods used in the Propaga- 

 tion of Plants. By Theophilus D. Hat- 

 field. Wellesley. 



March 11. Taming the Wild Blue- 

 berry. Illustrated. By Frederick V. 

 Coville, Washington. D. C. 



March 18. No Lecture on this date. 

 Spring Flower Show. 



March 25. Sweet Pea Diseases and 

 their Control. Illustrated. By Prof. 

 J. J. Taubenhaus, Newark, Del. The 

 John Lewis Russell Lecture. 



Wm. p. Rich, Sec, 



Horticultural Hall, Boston. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The next ofScers' meeting of the St. 

 Louis Florist Club will take place 

 January 6 at the home of Vice-presi- 

 dent Wells, at 8 o'clock. 



The December session of the Botan- 

 ical Society of Western Pennsylvania 

 was held as usual in the Herbarium of 

 Carnegie Institute, President John 

 Bright presiding. He also spoke at 

 some length on the collections made 

 during his last summer vacation at 

 Ohio Pyle. Illustrating this were some 

 fine specimens of marshallia. which has 

 recently come from the Southern moun- 

 tains. The plant, which flowers in 

 July, has blossoms of an unusual and 

 exquisite shade between a pink and 

 lavender, and has just come into com- 

 mercial use for bedding purposes. 



