November 25, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



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Chrysanthemum Baskets in Japanese novelty tints. 

 RED— RED— RED— specialties for Thanksgiving. 



New Stock is in. Ready for You. A Rare Shipment of Imported Goods Just Received. Hampers and Flower Bowls. 



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headquarters- THE FLORISTS' SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



Manufacturers and 

 Importers 



1129 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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tendance has exceeded that of any 

 other year because of the fact that 

 there were nine agricultural societies 

 in session here duiing that time. 

 Chrysanthemum William Turner at- 

 tracted by far the most attention, 

 Throughout the establishment the 

 walls and ceiling were masked with 

 ferns and vines. Asparagus and 

 southern smilax were used to outline 

 the large mirrors. Half baskets at- 

 tached to the mirrors held snap- 

 dragon in three colors and pompons. 

 The main display included Amorita. 

 Major Bonnaffon. Xagoya and Golden 

 Wedding, and the vases and baskets 

 of these were banked with ferns 

 and Glory of Cincinnati begonias. 

 Iq the center of the store at the front 

 was a tall basket containing a fountain 

 with running water illuminated by an 

 electric light in the center. In the win- 

 dow was another fountain and electric 

 light, back of which was an aquarium 

 filled with aquatic plants and goldfish. 

 In the workshop was a very attractive 

 display of American Bea\ity and other 

 roses, chrysanthemums, snapdragons 

 and begonias, and a similar display 

 was made in the conservatory. 

 Throughout the store were myriads 

 of colored electric lights and in the 

 balcony a Victrola machine furnished 

 music and added to the singing of 

 half a dozen or more canaries. In the 

 balcony there was also a frame dis- 

 playing a basket of American Beauty 

 roses. 



NEWS NOTES. 

 Evansville, Ind.— C. E. Gyseman and 

 C. P. Beard have 

 nursery business. 



Obituary 



W. H. Donohue. 

 W. H. Donohue, aged 28 years, well- 

 known among the florist trade of New 

 York and Boston, who for a while sev- 

 eral years back conducted a retail 

 store at 2 West 28th street, died sud- 

 denly on November 15. His father, 

 Fred. Donohue, formerly in the retail 

 florist business in New York, and his 

 late uncle, gardener on the ,leBsup es- 

 tate, Lenox, llass., are well-known. 

 He leaves a widow. 



As a young man Mr. Copp was a re- 

 porter. In 189S, having been a close 

 student of floriculture, he became as- 

 sociated with the New York Botanical 

 Gardens and in 190G he was sent to 

 Colorado to make a botanical investi- 

 gation and survey of that region. He 

 remained there and in other parts of 

 the West, pursuing his work, until re- 

 cently. Mr. Copp contributed numerous 

 articles on the floriculture of the West 

 to leading magazines. He was a found- 

 er of the Bronx Society of Arts and 

 Sciences and a member of the Civic 

 League of Statcn Island. 



John H. Muller. 

 John H. Muller, 74 years old, of 417 

 Pulaski St., Brooklyn, N. Y., a retired 

 florist, died Nov. 13th. from a compli- 

 cation of diseases. Mr. Muller was 

 born in Germany and came to this 

 country when 18 years old. For many 

 years he did a large wholesale and re- 

 tail business and grew his own flow- 

 ers. His retail store at Pulaski St. and 

 Stuyvesant Ave. is now carried on by 

 his son. He is survived by his widow, 

 five- daughters and one son. 



started in the 



Pittsburgh—Miss Eliza McKinley. 

 head saleswoman for Randoli>h & Mc- 

 Clements, has returned after a several 

 months' leave of absence. 



T. C. Joy. 



Thomas C. Joy. of the .loy Floral 

 Company of Nashville. Tenn., died 

 suddenly from an attack of heart 

 disease on the morning of Nov. 10. 

 Mr. Joy was .')4 years of age, having 

 been born in Goderich, Ontario, in 1SI!2. 

 He has been in the florists business in 

 Nashville since 1.^78. and was a gen- 

 tleman of very fine character. He was 

 jnesident of "the Tenn. State Florists 

 Society at the time of death. He leaves 

 a widow, three sons and five daughters. 



BOSTON. 



B. D. Kaulbach. of E. D. Kaulback 

 & Son, Jlalden's enterprising florists, 

 states that they have just received a 

 shipment of over 5000 Azalea indica 

 from Belgium, and that they are all in 

 excellent condition. 



The pretty flower show at Penn's at- 

 tracted a lar,ge crowd of visitors. The 

 window display of floral baskets was 

 especially brilliant. It was an excel- 

 lent publicity stunt. Prizes were 

 awarded to Wni. R. Nicholson, Waban 

 Rose Conservatories. Thos. A. Cox. ,1. 

 Frank Kdgar and Thomas Roland. 



The Boston Browning Society pro- 

 poses that Boston have a Browning 

 garden which will contain all the 

 plants mentioned in the poetry of 

 Robert Browning, similar to the 

 Shakespeare garden in Central Park, 

 New York city, which includes all the 

 botanical references in the works of 

 the great dramatist. It has been sug- 

 gested that the new Fenway garden 

 be utilized as the Browning garden. 



In the annual report of President 

 Aley. of the University of Maine, to 

 the Governor and Council, the need of 

 a new horticultural building and green- 

 house is urged. 



George G. Copp. 



Geor.ge Gordon Cojip. botanist, and 



formerly a newspaper writer, died 



Monday, Nov. 20, at his home in New 



Y'ork. He was sixty-three years old. 



Gordon Fisher, of Woburn. Mass.. 

 and Miss Gladys XlcKone were mar- 

 ried at Dover. .\. H., on November 13. 

 Mr, and .Mrs. Fisher will reside In 

 Woburn, where .Mr. Fisher is engaged 

 in the greenhouse business. 



