July 15, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



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Obituary 



George E. Morris. 

 George E. Morris, reputed to be the 

 greatest authority on mushrooms in 

 Massachusetts, died at the Waltham 

 Hospital on July 5, aged 62 years. .Mr. 

 Morris was an enthusiastic Ijotanist as 

 well as mycologist. He is said to have 

 painted no less than 5000 water color 

 studies of flowers, plants and mush- 

 rooms. 



A. E. Simons. 

 A. E. Simons, for forty-eight years 

 a well known florist in New Orleans, 

 La., died Sunday morning, July 2, fol- 

 lowing two years of ill health. Mr. 

 Simons was born August 11, 1858. in 

 Cologne, Germany. When ten years 

 old he came to New Orleans. Later he 

 was afliliated with R. Maitre, a florist, 

 and until eight years ago he person- 

 ally directed this florist establishment 

 at 2026 Magazine street. Since then 

 he was superintendent of the Metairie 

 Ridge Nursery. He was a member of 

 the German Gardeners' Club. He is 

 survived by his widow and four daugh- 

 ters. 



William Tricker 



This well-known florist and aqualic 

 plant expert died suddenly of heart 

 disease at 10 A. M. on Tuesday. July 

 11, while at work in his greenhouses 

 at Arlington. N. J. Mr. Tricker was 

 a large man physically, and apparent- 

 ly enjoyed the best of health. When 

 he left the house on Tuesday morning 

 he joked with his wife and went away 

 smiling. His son, Charles, was in the 

 greenhouse when he died. Dr. A. A. 

 Mutter of Arlington was summoned 

 and pronounced death due to heart 

 disease. 



Mr. Tricker was born in Ipswich, 

 England, sixty-four years ago. He 

 came to this country in 1886 and had 

 been a resident of Arlington nearly 

 ten years. He made a specialty of 

 growing aquatic plants, especially 

 nymphaeas, of which he raised a num- 

 ber of fine varieties. He was an ex- 

 hibitor at all the large shows 

 throughout the country and was the 

 winner of iriany prizes. He wa;; a 

 member of the S. A. F. and the N. Y. 

 Florists' Club. 



Surviving are his widow and six 

 children, Mrs. William Seymour of 

 West End. Mrs. J. M. Coddington of 

 Roverton, William E. of St. Louis, Mo., 

 Rupert of Pensauken and Charles and 

 Miss Florence Tricker of Arlington. 



The news of Mr. Tricker's death will 

 bring widespread sorrow all through 

 the trade. He was universally liked. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



New York— L. J. Renter, Westerly, 

 R. I. 



Boston — Allan Jenkins, Shrewsbury, 

 Mass.; T. A. Havemeyer, New York. 



Pittsburgh — Frank Farney, repr. M. 

 Rice & Co.. Phila.; George Hampton, 

 of Neidinger Co.. Phila. 



Washington, D. C. — George Maunz. 

 with Reed & Keller, New York, N. Y.; 

 Jos. F. Wempler, Wilkes Barre. Pa.; 

 Mrs. Fred Lemon and children, Rich- 

 mond, Ind. 



Philadelphia— R. T. Brown, Cottage 

 Gardens Co., Queens, N. Y.; H. L. 

 Holmes, Harrisburg, Pa.; Stephen 

 Mortensen. Southampton, Pa.; E. A. 

 Seidewitz. Baltimore. Md.; Dr. John H. 

 Washburn, Doylestown. Pa. 



Chicago — lies Cole, of Hembreiker & 

 Cole, Springfield. 111.; Ray J. Dills, 

 with N. Bommersbach, Decatur, 111.; 

 Philip Daut of Daut Bros.', Decatur, 

 111., Joseph Bock, Burlington, Iowa; 

 J. J. LeBorious, Duluth. Minn.; Sid- 

 ney Beard of Beard Bros.', Detroit, 

 Mich.; M. Stauch, with J. F. Wilcox & 

 Sons, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 



CUTTING GLADIOLUS SPIKES. 



It is generally known that in order 

 to encourage growth of corms and 

 cormels it is not well to allow the 

 flowers to remain for seeds to mature, 

 nor is it well when cutting the flower- 

 spikes to cut so low down as to re- 

 move most of the foliage. The gen- 

 erally approved procedure is to cut 

 the spike when the first flower is 

 opened, not cutting away more than 

 the upper pair of leaves, if indeed 

 any leaves are cut. 



Last year I thought I would see 

 what difference would result if I went 

 beyond the orthodox plan. In five 

 rows of Pendletons I proceeded as 

 usual, cutting the spikes when the 

 first bloom opened; all but the middle 

 row. In that row I pinched out the 

 buds just as soon as they appeared, so 

 that the strength that would have 

 been used in maturing the buds might 

 be diverted into greater root-growth. 

 I waited with much interest the time 

 for digging, wondering whether I 

 should find the greater gain in corms 

 or cormels. To my surprise there 

 was no perceptible difference between 

 that row and the others, so that at 

 least in that case there was the loss 

 of the flowers and no gain in either 

 corms or cormels. 



Possibly this mention may save some 

 one else from repeating a foolish prac- 

 tice.— C. C. Mii.LER, in The Modern 

 Gladiolus Grower. 



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 in the State agricultural colleges and 

 experiment stations. And it is still 

 "absolutely the only book of its kind 

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