November 



1912 



HORTICULTURE 



611 



1 MRS. GEORGE SHAWYER \ 



I 







IS TH£ NAME OF THE NEW PINK ROSE 



We have been exhibiting as No. 1 90, and which has jumped at one bound into premier 

 position as the best forcing rose in sight today. Look it over in the Flower Show ! ! 

 Come up and see it growing — and convince yourself. 



"CARNATIONS" 



COMMODORE, NORTHPORT, SALMON QUEEN and ENCHANTRESS 

 SUPREME. All splendid varieties in their respective colors. 



" CHRYSANTHEMUMS " 



Yes ! Our usual list of Wells-Pockett Novelties, also a list of Novelty Singles, 

 such as Josephine, Joan Edwards, etc., etc. 



CHARLES H. TOTTY 



MADISON, N. J. 









Obituary. 



R. G. Pierce. 

 After a long illness, R. G. Pierce, 

 florist, 810 Summit street, Oregon City, 

 Ore., died on Oct. 12, aged 63 years. 

 He was a native of New Jersey. 



William F. A. Kendel. 

 William F. A. Kendel. younger mem- 

 ber of the firm of A. C. Kendel, seeds- 

 man, 2010 Central avenue, Cleveland, 

 Ohio, died on October 22. The busi- 

 ness will be continued by C. E. Ken- 

 del without change of name. 



Charles W. Reimers. 

 On Oct. 15, Charles W. Reimers, flor- 

 ist, of Louisville, Ky., died after sev- 

 eral months illness, aged 60 years. He 

 was born in New York and had lived 

 in Louisville for about forty years. 

 His wife and one brother survive him. 



L. P. Walz. 



L. P. Walz, manager of the Seattle 

 Cut Flower Exchange, 1608 Second 

 avenue, Seattle, Wash., died suddenly 

 on Oct. 16, aged 53 years. He was 

 manager of the H. Harrington Co. 

 where they first began business and 

 later opened a store on Second avenue. 



August Balluf. 



August Balluf, associated with the 

 Chicago trade in various capacities 

 for a number of years, passed away at 

 Cook County Hospital, October 23rd. 

 The funeral took place from the West- 

 em Casket Co.'s rooms, October 25th 

 and interment was in Oakwood's 

 Cemetery. He leaves a wife and two 

 sons. 



John Spinier. 



By the death of this gentleman the 

 country loses one who has done a great 

 work among the school children. In 

 1896 he joined the Agricultural De- 

 partment of Cornell University. Since 

 then he has been engaged in his work 

 amongst the children. Nature study 

 classes were introduced into the pub- 

 lic schools mainly through his efforts. 

 His deatli occurred at the Ithaca Hos- 

 pital on Oct. 24th. 



DETROIT NOTES. 



John Breitmeyer's Sons have out in- 

 vitations for their annual fall opening 

 and chrysanthemum show, November 

 7 and S. 



Trade is moving along nicely and 

 all branches of the retailers' work are 

 liberally patronized. The automobile 

 has discredited a most valuable deco- 

 rative material because everybody 

 seems to journey in the country to 

 gather fall foliage. 



We all regret to see Mr. Davis, for 

 many years head gardener of the large 

 Newberry estate, leave us, because of 

 the great work his untiring energy has 

 done for horticulture and the local 

 club. He will go to Sidney, Australia 

 to found a new home. 



Hallowe'en has brought out many 

 attractive window decorations. Some- 

 what different from others is the 

 window of Mr. Fetters, who after ar- 

 ranging a background of corn, has a 

 number of pumpkins cut out in vari- 

 ous forms. These are lit up and deco- 

 rated with corn in the shock and 

 fruits of all kinds, producing very ar- 

 tistic arrangements. 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 



Fred H. Kramer has returned from a 

 business trip to New York. 



Thousands of people are this week 

 visiting the propagating gardens of the 

 Department of Agriculture. Oyer 160 

 varieties of chrysanthemums are being 

 shown, among them several new ones. 



The Pennock-Meehan Company's new 

 building at 1216 H street, N. W., has 

 been completed and the firm is this 

 week taking possession of it. 



Gude Bros. Company have purchased 

 a large tract of land at Mt. Olivet and 

 Bladensburg roads, immediately ad- 

 joining the property they purchased 

 some years ago from the American 

 Rose Company. On the new property 

 Is a 12-room house, which will be oc- 

 cupied by the superintendent, and a 

 large power house. In addition, green- 

 houses will be erected for the grow- 

 ing of roses. 



The newly established horticultural 

 board of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, is holding hearings at which a 

 number of New England nurserymen 

 are appearing, with a view to decid- 

 ing whether or not the shipment of 

 Christmas trees into adjacent states 

 will cause a spread of the gypsy and 

 brown-tail moth and other plagues, 

 and to formulate certain domestic 

 quarantine laws and rules that will 

 tend to minimize such dangers. 



Several untimely frosts in Belgium 

 have badly injured the azalea buds and 

 incoming shipments are much reduced 

 in consequence. Some growers man- 

 aged to give adequate protection to 

 their plants but, on the whole, no sal- 

 able stock is left anywhere for the late 

 comers. 



