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The Florists' Review 



Februaky 6, 1913. 



Pathologist— Prof. H. H. Whetzel, Ithaca, N. Y. 

 fintomologlst — Prof. Thos. B. Symons, Colleee 



Park, Md. 

 Washington Representative of the Society — Wm. 



F. Gude, Washington, D. C. 



COMMITTEE ON SCHOOL GARDENS. 



Benjamin Hammond, FlshklU on Hudson, N. Y., 



Chairman. 

 C. B. Whltnall, Milwaukee, Wis. 

 Robert Craig, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Michael Barker, Chicago, III. 

 F. R. Plerson, Tarrytown, N. Y. 



Department of Registration. 



Public notice is hereby given that 

 Richard Diener & Co., Mountain View, 

 Cal., offer for registration the follow- 

 ing new geraniums. Any person object- 

 ing to the registration, or to the use 

 of the proposed names, is requested to 

 communicate with the secretary at 

 once. Failing to receive objection to 

 the registration, the same will be made 

 three weeks from this date. The 

 flowers in the following descriptions 

 are all single, except Dr. Lincoln Coth- 

 ran, which is semi-double, and Richard 

 Diener, which is single or semi-double. 



Diameter Diameter 



Flower, Truss, 



Inches. Inches. 



Dr. Richard Behrend, cherry crimson. 2% 7-15 



Jack London, bright shaded red 3 7 



Julius Eberius, dark cherry scarlet. .3 7 



Dr. Lincoln Cothran, rose pink 2% 6 



Judge Lindsey, coppery salmon 2 7 



Fresno, light cherry scarlet 2% 6 



H. Plath, flery red 2% 6 



Anna Eberius, pale coral 2% 6 



Palo Alto, brownish red to ponceau.. 2 6 



Fire Ball, bright scarlet 2% 7 



Los Altos, dark scarlet 2 6 



Florence Metzner, dark cardinal 2 7 



Mrs. Edward Stock, shaded rose pink. 2 6 



La Paloma, snow white 2 6 



Tamalpais, cherry red 2 (i 



J. Stitt Wilson, orange flame 3 7 



Ramona, salmon pink 2Vi 8 



Fire King, flery orange 2 6 



Sacramento, orange flame 3 6 



Lulsa Tetrazzlni, pure white 2 6 



Mt. Shasta, snow white 3 7 



Rosea, coral pink 3 7 



Tacoma, deep salmon pink 2% 6 



Hawaii, flery orange 2 6 



Mary Garden, salmon to light rose 



pink 2 6 



Mayor Ralph, cherry scarlet 2 7 



Governor Johnson, orange scarlet 3 7 



Gifford Pinchot, burnt orange and 



crimson 2 6 



Gertrude Atherton, white and salmon 



pink 2V4 6 



Richard Diener, dark rose pink 3 7 



Mt. Hamilton, apple blossom pink... 2 6 



Alvlso, white to light pink 2 6 



Sunnyvale, deep salmon 2^4 6 



Snow Bird, snow white 2% •e 



Gllroy, carmine and scarlet 2 6 



Tivoli, white and shaded crimson.... 2 6 



White Beauty, white and light pink.. 2 6 



Billie Burke, dark shrimp pink 2 6 



Frltzl SchefT, shaded rose and salmon. 2 6 



Public notice is hereby given that 

 Mrs. William S. Kimball, Rochester, 

 N. Y., offers for registration the fol- 

 lowing new orchid. Any person ob- 

 jecting to the registration, or to the 

 use of the proposed name, is requested 

 to communicate with the secretary at 

 once. Failing to receive objection to 

 the registration, the same will be made 

 three weeks from date: 



The plant Is a sport from the well-known 

 Cypripedlum Harrisianum. differing from the 

 original as follows: The habit of the growth ts 

 short and compact and the plant Is very florif- 

 erous. The leaves are much narrower and have 

 a bright, glossy surface. The flower scape is of 

 greenish color, six to nine Inches in height. The 

 flower is of jnedlum size, benutifnlly formed and 

 of a light greenish color, slightly shaded, the 

 starainode being perfectly green. The name 

 which I wish to give to the al)ove described orchid 

 is Cypripedlum Harrisianum Laura Mitchell Kim- 

 ball. 



John Young, Sec 'y. 

 January 31, 1913. 



Chillicothe, Mo. — R. L. Isherwood has 

 purchased a new automobile for deliv- 

 ery purposes. 



White Plains, N. Y. — James Davidson, 

 formerly proprietor of the flower store 

 at 11 Spring street, has discontinued his 

 business here and removed to Suffern, 

 N. Y. 



OBITUARY. 



Fred Schmeling. 



After an illness which overtook him 

 January 2, Fred Schmeling, of Mil- 

 waukee, Wis., died at the Sacred Heart 

 Sanitarium January 31, where he was 

 taken the day before. He was first 

 taken down with the grip, which was 

 followed by pneumonia. A German by 

 birth, Mr. Schmeling had resided in 

 Milwaukee for thirty-five years. He 

 conducted a florists' business, both 

 wholesale and retail, on the Blue 

 Mound road, opposite the eastern side 

 of the Calvary cemetery. Had he lived 

 till May 22 he would have attained the 

 age of 52 years. He leaves a wife and 

 five children — three girls and two boys, 

 the youngest boy being a helping hand 

 in the business. The funeral took 

 place from the Holy Cross church, 

 February 3, at 9 a. m. 



H. M. Walbridge. 



Harley M. Walbridge, who for the 

 last eighteen months had charge of the 

 wholesale store of the J. M. Jasser Co., 

 Cleveland, O., died after a short illness 

 of pleuro-pneumonia, at his parents' 

 residence, Homell, N. Y., January 31. 



Martin Orady. 



Martin Grady, formerly well known 

 in* the nursery trade as a salesman for 

 the Parsons Nurseries, Flushing, N. Y., 

 died January 29 at his home, 15 Pros- 

 pect street. Flushing, at the age of 71 

 years. He was born in Ireland and 

 settled in Flushing when he was 21 

 years old. An expert nurseryman, he 

 secured employment with Samuel Par- 

 sons, and for a time he traveled all 

 through the United States in the inter- 

 est of the nursery. He was with the 

 concern until about ten years ago, when 

 the firm gave up business. He is sur- 

 vived by his wife, three daughters, Mrs. 

 Thomas J. Deegan, of Brooklyn, Misses 

 Mary and Winifred Grady, and two 

 sons, Thomas and James. 



Daniel Twoomey. 



Daniel Twoomey, a well-known nur- 

 seryman, at Geneva, N. Y., died January 

 29. For a number of years Mr. 

 Twoomey was a clerk in the Geneva 

 postoffice and for a time served as dep- 

 uty postmaster. Since leaving the post- 

 office he had been engaged in the nur- 

 sery business. His mother, two broth- 

 ers and one sister survive. 



Dr. Adolph Leue. 



Dr. Adolph Leue, aged 68, one of the 

 best-known botanists of Ohio, and su- 

 perintendent of landscape gardening 

 and forestry at the City Infirmary, at 

 Cincinnati, died January 27, of asthma. 

 He was born in Germany, studied for- 

 estry and botany there and came to 

 Cincinnati about forty years ago. For 

 his services in behalf of floriculture 

 and horticulture in Ohio he was given 

 the doctor's degree by the State Uni- 

 versity at Athens. 



Thomas V. Munson. 



Thomas Volney Munson, D. Sc, the 

 well known nurseryman and grape 

 hybridist, died in his seventieth year, 

 .January 22, at his home in Denison, 

 Tex. He was born in Astoria, 111., and 

 graduated from Kentucky University 

 in 1870. That institution employed him 

 one year as instructor in the natural 

 sciences, but failing health diverted 



his energies into the nursery business 

 and he started a market garden and 

 nursery near Lincoln, Neb. In 1876 he 

 removed to Denison, Tex., where he 

 founded nurseries which have been 

 prosperous and are widely known. 



G. T. Cordua. 



Gustave Theodore Cordua, for nearly 

 forty years a leading florist in Orange, 

 N. J., died at his home, 46 Hillyer 

 street, January 27, at the age of 83 

 years. He was born in Dutch Guiana, 

 South America. His wife and one daugh- 

 ter survive him. • 



BOWLING 



jsecretarles of bowling clnbs may have their 

 •cores publiahed In this column by malllDg tbem 

 to The Review to arrive not later than Tuesday 

 each week. 



AT MILWAUKEE. 



The scores made by the bowlers of 



the Milwaukee Florists' Club January 



28 were as follows: 



PLAYER— 1st 2d 3d 



A. Hare 125 140 148 



G. Pohl 191 131 169 



0. Eggi'brecht 148 152 147 



N. Halliday 138 178 130 



H. Schemmels 129 152 141 



A. Kellner 154 156 188 



W. Schraltz 131 144 178 



A. Leidiger . . 169 



E. O. 



AT CHICAGO. 



The scores made by the Cook County 



Florists' Association January 29, in 



the regular league schedule, were as 



follows: 



Roses. 1st £d 3d Violets. 1st 2d 3d 



Goerisch ... 178 150 137 Cole Ii9 165 143 



Kohler 143 158 129 Jacobs 134 133 165 



Byers 147 224 171 Wolf 147 183 166 



Price 139 157 171 Schultz 145 162 186 



Fischer 143 168 184 J. Huebner.178 177 196 



Total ...752 857 792 Total ...733 820 856 



Carnations. 1st 2d 3d Orchids. 1st 2d 3d 



I-orman ...121 165 185 Krause 169 140 155 



Lieberman .145 152 150 Graff 136 188 154' 



Lazoroff ...112 151 116 Brostrom ..148 144 195 



Ayers 170 182 175 Econ'olos ..183 189 149 



A. Zech....l63 134 185 J. Zech 174 150 159 



Total 711 784 811 Total . . .810 811 812 



GLEN COVE DEFEATS YONKEBS. 



The bowling match between Yonkers 



and Glen Cove, Thursday afternoon, 



January 30, resulted in a clean sweep 



for the Long Islanders. The scores 



were: 



Glen Cove. Ist 2d 3d Total 



E. Brown 159 146 155 460 



S. Trepess 106 89 113 .308 



J. Everett 129 136 134 399 



J.Johnstone 128 152 115 395 



L. B. Ortez 95 141 123 359 



Total 618 664 640 1921 



Yonkers. 1st 2d 3d Total 



MlUiott 118 109 106 333 



Waite 131 128 111 370 



Mills 100 1.35 90 .325 



Uennlson 109 97 116 322 



.Mulr 135 123 148 406 



Total 593 592 571 1756 



Waco, Tex. — The business of Wolfe 

 the Florist has been incorporated, with 

 a capital stock of $24,000. The incor- 

 porators are Tom J. Wolfe, Fred C. 

 Wolfe and Fisher Lamb. 



New Hampton, la. — The greenhouses 

 owned by Judge Springer, and con- 

 ducted under the name of the New 

 Hampton Floral Co., have been leased 

 for one year to F. E. Kobinson. Mr. 

 Robinson has had almost entire charge 

 of the business for some time. 



