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HORTIC ULTURE 



October 23, 1920 



MICHELUS 

 BULBS 



White Callas vAethiopica) 



CLEA^, HEAXTHT BULBS 



Duz. 100 1000 

 1% to I'/j In. (iiam.. $1.25 ?.S.0O JT.i.OO 



Godfrey Everblooming 

 Calla 



A popular variety for either cut-flower 

 or pot plaut sales. Excellent for de- 

 sign work. 



Doz. 100 1000 

 First size, 1 inch 

 diam. up $1.75 $12.00 $110.00 



Narcissus 



PAPER WHITE GR.VXDIFLOBA 



We handle only the improved true 

 type which produces the large flowers. 

 100 1000 

 First size, 13 ctm. up (1250 



bulbs in case) $2.75 $21.00 



Monster Bulbs. 14 ctm. up 



(1000 bulbs in case) 3.00 25.00 



HTACIXTHS, TCLIPS, N.\RCISSI 

 AND OTHER SE.\SONABLE BULBS; 

 ALSO SEEDS AND SUPPLIES. 



SEND FOB OUR NEW WHOLESALE 

 PRICE LIST, if you did not receive a 

 copy. 



MICHELL'S SEED HOUSE 



518-olG MARKET STREET 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



ALTON FLORAL SHOP TAKEN 

 OVER BY MISS WILLIS 



Miss Marie Willis will take over 

 the management of the Alton Floral 

 Company on Friday, Oct. 1, while 

 George Madsen, who has been owner 

 of the store, will go into the whole- 

 sale business, selling plants and flow- 

 ers from his hothouses at Godfrey. 



The Alton Floral (Company was 

 opened up thirteen years ago and has 

 done a very fine business. During 

 the greater part of the time since the 

 store was opened Miss Willis has 

 been chief assistant, and is known to 

 all patrons of the store. Friends are 

 hoping for Miss Willis' continued suc- 

 cess in her business and a steady 

 growth in the trade. — Alton, III., Tele- 

 graph. 



BULBS FOR WESTERN NEW YORK 



In the tow of the tug E. W. Sut- 

 ton, Jr., the barge Annie L. Ward 

 passed through I^ockport for Buffalo 

 bearing a half million spring flower 

 bulbs from the land of tulips — Hol- 

 land. In the barge are tulips, hya- 

 cinths, narcissi, daffodils and jonquils, 

 all consigned to Buffalo florists. The 

 cargo came from New York City where 



the original shipment on Dutch boats 

 contained about three hundred million 

 bulbs, it is said. Western New York 

 is one of the largest buyers of bulbs, 

 according to the men in charge of the 

 cargo. — Locki)oit {y. Y.) Journal. 



MICHAEL H. NORTON DEAD. 

 A Former President of the S. A. F. 



and of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society. 



Although Michael H. Norton has not 

 been very prominent in the florist 

 world the past few years owing to ad- 

 vanced age and illness, there was a 

 time when he was one of the leading 

 figures in the Society ot American 

 Florists, serving as president for one 

 year, being elected in 1891 at the con- 

 vention held in Toronto. The host of 

 friends possessed by Mr. Norton 

 throughout the country will be pained 

 to hear of his death, which occurred 

 a few days ago at bis home on West- 

 bourne street, Jlilton, Mass., a suburb 

 of Boston. 



Mr. Norton was interested in all 

 horticultural matters as well as in the 

 florist business, and served one term 

 as president of the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society. He was an ener- 

 getic, amiable and conscientious offi- 

 cial, one who stood high in the esteem 

 of all who knew him. 



Mr. Norton was 75 years old, a na- 

 tive of Boston, and was educated in 

 Boston public schools. For many years 

 he was a resident of Dorchester. Pre- 

 vious to his retirement he was in the 

 florist business on Berkeley street, 

 Boston, and was a recognized expert 

 on rose culture. He married Agnes T. 

 Lennon. She died some years ago. 

 Two sons, Arthur Norton of Buffalo 

 and A. J. Norton of Providence, and 

 three daughters, Claire, Madeline and 

 Alice Norton, survive him. His daugh- 

 ters lived with him at his Milton home. 



CAMBRIDGE, MASS., FLORIST 

 KILLED 



Patrick J. Shea, a florist, living at 

 109 Ellery street, Cambridge, Mass., 

 while bicycling home from his work 

 near the Mt. .\uburn Cemetery was 

 run down in front of 182 rirattle street 

 by an automobile and fatally injured. 

 He died shortly after of a fractured 

 skull at the Cambridge Hospital. Mr. 

 Shea was in his 50th year. 



NEW OFFICERS OF MASSACHU- 

 SETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



The nominating committee" of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 has announced the following list of 

 nominations for the various offices of 

 the society to be fllled at the annual 

 meeting, Nov. 13: President, Albert 

 C. Burrage; vice-president for two 



Bo-\-Barl>erry Bordered Formal 

 Evergreen Garden 



BOX-BARBERRY 



THE NEW HAKDY BORDER 

 AND row HEDGE PLANT 



Trade prices on request. Send for 

 Wliat others have to say about 



BOX-BARBERRY 



SURPLUS 



American Hemlock 

 Japan Iris (20 sorts) 



The Elm City Nursery C€. 



WOODUONT MUB8EBCB8, INC. 



NEW HAVIN, CO^N. 



NEW INTRODUCTION 



IBOLIUM PRIVET 



THE NEW HARDY HEDGE PLANT 



.\SP.4R.AGrS PLUMOSUS, 3 inch, $50.00 



per 1,000. 

 VEROX.A FERNS, 21,4 inch, pot boand, 



fine plants, $65.00 per 1,000, $6.00 per 



100. 



NARROWS NURSERIES 



92nd and I^t .Ave. BROOKLYN, N. Y. 



years, Thomas Allen; trustees for 

 three years, William C. Endicott, Wal- 

 ter Hunnewell. Thomas Roland. Mrs. 

 Bayard Thayer; nominating commit- 

 tee, Oakes Ames, George E. Barnard,. 

 Wilton B. Pay, Duncan Finlayson, 

 Thomas Roland. 



In accordance with the provisions of 

 the by-laws two weeks are allowed for 

 further nominations, should any be de- 

 sired. 



C. H. Bates, the well known florist 

 of South Hadley, Mass., is one of the 

 numerous florists who will not i-un 

 their greenhouses this winter. 



Breitmeyer's Sons, of Detroit, Mich., 

 have practically completed their Mack 

 avenue branch. Several of the houses 

 are already stocked with foliage 

 plants, of which this firm carries a 

 great variety. 



