May 9, 1914 



HORTICULTUKE 



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POSSIBILITIES OF A WINDOW. 



Obituary 



Mrs. W. S. Manning. 

 Mrs. Wni. S. JIanning, wife of the 

 Superintendent of Baltimore park sys- 

 tem, died suddenly on Sunday, May 3. 

 Interment was in Wildwood Cemetery, 

 Winchester, Mass. 



W. L. Fronfield. 

 W. L. Fronneld. Arlington, N. Y.. a 

 florist, died at the Bowne Memorial 

 Hospital, Poughkeepsie. on April 20. 

 He had been in failing health for some 

 time, tuberculosis being the cause of 

 death. 



J. M. Vandervort. 

 J. M. Vandervort. founder of the 

 New Antioch Nurseries. New Antioch, 

 Ohio, died at his home April 17th, aged 

 80 years. He is survived by a son, 

 who was associated with him in the 

 nursery business, and a daughter. 



Louis Puzzey. 

 Louis Puzzey, a retired florist, died 

 on Thursday, April 30, at St. Josephs 

 Hospital, New York, after a brief ill- 

 ness. He was born in Paris thirty 

 years ago, coming to Brooklyn about 

 ten years of age he settled in the Hill 

 section. He was the proprietor of sev- 

 eral flower stands in the wholesale 

 market in Ne\V York up to his last 

 illness. 



Wm. Hutchinson. 

 Wni. Hutchinson, one of the oldest 

 florists in St. Louis County, Mo., died 

 April 24 at his home in Kirkwood, 

 where he conducted for many years 

 a retail and growing establishment. 

 Mr. Hutchinson was 71 years old and 

 was suffering for years with cancer. 

 The funeral took place Monday, April 

 27, and there was quite a large at- 

 tendance of the local florists. There 

 were many floral tributes expressive of 

 sympathy and condolence to the be- 

 reaved family. 



John Scott. 



John Scott, father of the late John 

 Scott who introduced the Scottii fern, 

 died at Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y., on 

 Saturday, May 2. Mr. Scott was an ex- 

 pert gardener of the old school. He 

 was born in Haddington, East Lothian, 

 Scotland. He was employed on the 

 estate of the Earl of Ualkieth for over 

 forty years. He has been a long time 

 connected with his son's establishment 

 and had many friends in Brooklyn. 

 His death was due to the infirmities 

 of old age. He leaves three sons and 

 three daughters. 



Clemens Wocker. 

 Clemens Wocker, for thirty-eight 

 years a wholesale florist who special- 

 ized in the growing of carnations, 

 died on Thursday, April 30, at his 

 home, 502 Lenox road, Flatbush. N. Y., 

 from cancer of the throat. For the 

 last four years he had been in ill 

 health and had practically retired, his 

 son, Ilohn, carrying on the business. 

 Mr. Wocker was born in Germany 

 fifty-nine years ago, and came to 

 Brooklyn at the age of seventeen 

 years. He started as a florist's helper 

 and then engaged in business for him- 

 self. He is survived by a widow, a 

 daughter and a son. Interment was 

 at Evergreen cemetery, Brooklyn. 



The artistic and effective business- 

 bringing possibilities of a window dis- 

 play are but little understood. Every- 

 where we go, we see splendid chances 

 going to waste. Then some wise one 

 mentions the fact and what happens? 

 A botch! 



What is wanted is an artist who 

 knows how. You can see this genius 

 at work everywhere you go in the 

 great business houses of the big cities 

 but you never stop to give credit for 

 the result. 



It takes not only native ability and 

 long study and practice to bring about 

 the result. It takes genius to do it. 



It is an art that must be born with a 

 person in the first place and then de- 

 veloped. 



A good example is the la'wn mower 

 exhibit at Michell's this week, which 

 the accompanying picture illustrates. 



This display is circumscribed in 

 space but in all its parts and dimen- 

 sions is perfect and you would think 

 it had just happened. "The very art 

 itself is nature." 



The artist was Phillip Freud, whom 

 we have had occasion to mention, 

 many times in the same connection or 

 similar, during the past twenty-flve 

 years. He is a past master. 



G. C. Watson. 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE. 

 A Narcissus Disease. 



In a recent issue of the "Kew Bul- 

 letin," Prof. G. Massee gives some in- 

 teresting information respecting a dis- 

 ease of an unusual kind, which was 

 met with three years ago on narcissus 

 bulbs. During last year the disease 

 increased so alarmingly that entire 

 plots of bulbs were completely de- 

 stroyed. The injury is due to a para- 

 sitic fungus, called Fusarium bulbige- 

 num. Usually the presence of the para- 

 site is indicated by the appearance of 

 small yellowish spots on the leaves. 

 These spots gradually increase in size, 

 become brown and dry, and more or 

 less covered with pale salmon-colored 

 specks, which are at first more or less 

 gelatinous, but soon become dry when 

 exposed to the air. The writer points 

 out that the continuance of the dis- 

 ease may be due to two independent 

 causes i. e. slightly diseased bulbs or in- 

 fected soil. The disease is known in 

 Holland. 



Spring Rose Show. 



There was a fine display of bloom at 

 the spring rose show of the National 

 Rose Society held at the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Hall, London, on Thursday, 

 April 23. A satisfactory list of entries 

 was received for the 27 classes. About 

 a dozen novelties were exhibited. Cards 

 of commendation were allotted to Mrs. 

 S. W. Wright, a salmon-edged pink 

 Tea. from A. Dickson & Sons; Autumn 

 Tints, a H. T. similar in tint to the 

 Lyon, from B. Cant & Co., and Prince 

 Charming, salmon-pink H. T. from 

 Hugh Dickson. W. H. Adsett. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Superior Wis. — On May 1, G. Tjens- 

 vold and MHIliam Berg, proprietors of 

 the Superior Floral Company moved 

 from 1418 Tower avenue to larger 

 quarters at 1410 Tower avenue, they 

 having bought out the business hither- 

 to conducted by J. J. LeBorious. Le- 

 Borious will go out of business in the 

 city. Mr. Berg has up to the present 

 time been assistant chief clerk at the 

 general offices of the Great Northern 

 railway. The Superior Floral Com- 

 pany has at Billings Park greenhouses 

 with 12,000 square feet of glass. The re- 

 tail business will be handled at the 

 Tower avenue store and the wholesale 

 trade at the greenhouses. 



Bridgeport, Conn.— Stephen D. Ko- 

 ran appeared before the committee on 

 claims last week with a petition for re- 

 imbursement for the damages he says 

 he sustained by the construction of a 

 curb, gutter and sidewalk on Cherry 

 street last year, he alleging that the 

 work is causing one of his green- 

 houses, one of the largest and best in. 

 the state, to fall down while many feet 

 of his fence has already done so. It 

 seems that last summer the common 

 council ordered a curb, gutter and: 

 sidewalk laid on Cherry street. A por- 

 tion of the street abuts on Mr. Koran's 

 property and at this point there is a 

 slight rise in the ground. Mr. Koran 

 admits that he was notified to do this 

 work but did not do it and that it was 

 afterwards done by the city, the men 

 cutting down the earth several feet in 

 the rear of his greenhouses in order to. 

 do it. 



