April 25; 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



643 



MEMORIAL DAY GOODS 



THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK OF MEMORIAL DAY SUPPLIES 



which we have ever offered to the trade. Besides the usual standard stock of Cycas Wreaths. 



Magnolia Wreaths, Brown and Green Magnolia Foliage, Metal Designs, Crepe 



Roses, Dahlias, Mums, Carnations, Orchids, etc., we show Many 



Beautiful Rapid-selling Novelties of Seasonable Interest. 



Don't Fail to Write for llluMt rated Litt 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., 



1129 Arch Street, 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



BUSINESS TROUBLES. 



Mrs. Olivia F. Zinn. treasurer of 

 Zinn's Flower Shop, Inc., 34 West 

 street, Boston, has filed a voluntary 

 bankruptcy petition in the U. S. Dis- 

 trict Court in behalf of the company. 



The liabilities amount to $9350.37. 

 The assets amount to $1,500, and con- 

 sist of debts due the firm. Of the lia- 

 bilities, $8,427.87 represents the claims 

 of more than 50 unsecured creditors. 

 The principal unsecured claims are 

 held by C. J. Brink, Inc., South Bos- 

 ton, $121; William Bowditch, Rox- 

 bury, $18; N. E. Boyle, Maiden, $62.70; 

 Boston Rose Co., Boston, $121.90; A. 

 G. Cartwright, Waltham, $80.50: F. 

 J. Dolansky, Lynn, $67.05; Flower 

 Growers Sales Co., Boston, $57.20; 

 Emery B. Gibbs, Boston. $157.10; 

 Morrill, Atwood Ice Co., Charlestown, 

 $124.01; Nicholson the Florist, Fram- 

 ingham, $113.25; Paine Bros., Ran- 

 dolph, $136.60; H. M. Robinson, Bos- 

 ton, $120.60; Thomas Roland, Nahant, 

 $158.10; A. Leuthy & Co., Roslindale, 

 $137.50; Olivia F. Zinn, Medford, 

 $5,114.75. There is one secured claim 

 for $922.50 held by Susan E. Marshall 

 of West Medford. The company owes 

 Julius A. Zinn, Jr., of Medford, $288 

 for wages. 



The above should not be contused 

 with Julius A. Zinn, Park street, Bos- 

 ton, which is a sound concern, finan- 

 cially and otherwise. 



SHOW CASE OF SILVER AND CUT GLASS PREMIUM^ 



Gustave Thommen, who has charge 

 of the carnation houses at Billerica. 

 Mass., is enthusiastic over the results 

 obtained by the use of Davidge's 

 Special Phosphorus, advertised in 

 Horticulture by the Hudson Carbou 

 Company of Ballston Spa, N. Y. Mr. 

 Thommen says that it brings out the 

 color on leaf and flower better than 

 anything he ever used and that the 

 stems and flowers are larger and 

 stronger in every way than he could 

 ever get them before using this fer- 

 tilizer. This is saying much for Mr. 

 Thommen's carnations have always 

 been in the front rank in the Boston 

 market. 



KOMADA BROS. 



MAnufacturers of all Kinds of 



WIRE DESIGNS and FLORISTS SUPPLIES 

 1008 Vine St, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



rremiums Competed for at the New York Spring Shov 



A DAFFODIL SPECIALIST. 



.-Vmongst the best known British 

 specialists in daffodil culture is Hei-- 

 bert Chapman, of Rye, Sussex, who 

 has raised several meritorious hybrids. 

 Mr. Chapman cultivates his favorite 

 flower at the base of a steep cliff in 

 southern Enjiland. He believes in 

 liberal manuring, and usually prepares 

 the plot by taking a potato or other 

 vegetable crop from it. Double dig- 

 ging is always carried out, a good 

 dose of bone manure and of sea sand 

 being worked in. Mr. Chapman nearly 

 always leaves the plants for two 

 years before lifting them, the excep- 

 tion being King Alfred and other un» 

 certain ones, which are usually lifted 

 and replanted annually. He has paid 

 attention to hybridising doing the 

 past eleven years, having worked with 

 nearly all sections of the daffodil. 

 His favorite seedlings are the Triaii- 

 drus hybrids — the crosses he has madi' 

 between the Trumpets and Triandrus, 

 and the Leedsii and Triandrus — anil 

 his hybrid Poeticus, Amongst the 

 latter is Rhapsody, obtained from a 



cross between Herrick and Virgil. 

 Spindrift, one of the Triandrus hy- 

 brids, was raised from a cross be- 

 tween White Lady and Triandrus. 



W. H. Adsett. 



OBITUARY. 

 Ira P. Hersey. 

 Ira P. Hersey, employed in various 

 florists' establishments in and about 

 Boston for many years and well-known 

 in the wholesale flower market, was 

 found dead in his bed last Tuesday 

 morning in Woburn, Mass., and clr- 

 ci'mstances indicate that he com- 

 mitted suicide. 



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 Hundreds In successful store* 

 everywhere. Let us show yoti th**lr 

 economy. Ask for Cat^ilog Xli. 



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 MACHINE CO., Kenosha, Wis. 



