l-'KBIiUAUV 28, 1901 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



427 



Various Items. 



The regular ineoting of Ihc Florists' 

 Club will be lielii at 40 Randolpli street 

 tomorrow (Friday) evening. The pro- 

 gram includes a talk by Mr. Eniil Buett- 

 ner oir the proper presentation of plants 

 and flowers to the public by the retailer, 

 and papers by Kdgar Sanders and Aug. 

 Dresel on the florists' business of today 

 as compared with twenty years ago. 



Uenthey & Co. will soon erect .50,000 

 feet of glass, all to be devoted to roses 

 and almost wholly ^to American Beauties. 

 Tnere will be five houses, each 28x300 

 feet. They will be connected houses, with 

 Garland iron gutters. The John C. Mon- 

 inger Co. has the contract for the cypress 

 material. The style of construction will 

 be the same as that of Adolph Poehl- 

 niann's range recently illustrated in the 

 Review. Otto Benthey, who has been 

 foreman for J. A. Budlong for some years, 

 will have charge of the new glass. 



The pilgrims to the Baltimore conven- 

 tion have returned and report a splendid 

 display of carnations at the meeting and 

 a good time generally. 



John Muiio will soon open a store for 

 the sale of his product at wholesale at 

 59 Wabash avenue. Henry Muno, his 

 son, will be in charge. 



B. Esehner, of M. Kice & Co., Philadel- 

 phia, was a recent visitor. 



NEW YORK. 



Growers of cut flowers calculate on 

 two special seasons in the year. The 

 principal one in New York commences 

 with the great horse show and ends on 

 Ash Wednesday, the other from Easter 

 until middle of May. The first is over and 

 all said and done it has been a pro.-per- 

 ous one; very good prices prevailed all 

 through the season and the prospects for 

 Easter are exceedingly bright. Prices, 

 it is to be expected, will take a great 

 tumble from now on, for though there 

 are many quiet dinners and luncheons 

 decorated for during Lent, still there is 

 a general cessation of events that de- 

 mand elaborate attention and profuse or- 

 namentation. It is nigh useless to quote 

 prices or dwell at length on the present 

 condition of the market just now. 



The Eastern New York Horticultural 

 Society and the Horticultural Society of 

 New Ifork met in this city recently and 

 accomplished much good on the lines 

 they are organized upon. 



A good display of flowers and plants 

 w«s made at the American Institute 

 show, held on February 13th and 14th. 

 Lager & Hurrell exhibited some very fine 

 orchids; H. Weber & Sons, Oakland, Md., 

 and C. W. Ward, of Queens, showed 

 splendid blooms of their new carnations. 

 Alex. Marshall, of Pawling, and Herbert 

 Spavins, of Mt. Kisco, showed seedling 

 carnations which were certificated, and 

 other exhibitors deserving special men- 

 tion were T. Talbot, of Rhineclifi'; Wm. 

 Turner, of Tarrytown; G. T. Schuneman, 

 L. I., and J. C. Williams, Montclair, N. 

 J. 



The carnation show of the New York 

 Gardeners' Society will be held March 

 0th. J. I. D. 



JERSEY CITY, N. J. 



The grand annual ball of Hitehings & 

 Co.'s Employees' Association, held at Co- 

 lumbia Hall, Jersey City, on Feb. I8th, 



was a great success, the greatest the as- 

 .■^oeiation ever held. About 500 people 

 were in attendance. The hall was i)ret- 

 tily decorated by groups of plants and 

 flowers by Geo. Kruse, of Greenville. 

 President Geo. W. Smith and wife led 

 the ^nand nianh. with l.iO couples trail- 

 iim in l.r:nil\ ,11,, I nunliii,-, l.cliiihl IImiii. 



night to so many and carrying out their 

 plans in a manner creditable to the pro- 

 fession and the great house they repre- 

 sent. £). 



OBITUARY. 

 John Galvin of Boston. 



John Galvin, one of the best known 

 residents of Dorchester and a pioneer 

 florist, died Saturday afternoon, Feb. 23, 

 at his home on Washington street, at the 

 age of 78. 



Mr. Galvin was for 18 years City For- 

 ester of Boston, and during that time 

 raised the level of the Public Garden sev- 

 eral feet, laid out the walks and shrub- 

 bery with taste and discrimination, and 

 in general made the spot a place of 

 beauty. For this act alone he deserves a 

 niche in the gratitude of all Bostonians. 

 But marry were the other deeds he did, 

 and, still more, 'many were the personal 

 qualities he possessed which combine to 

 make his loss poignant to the hosts who 

 knew him. Not only the citizens of Dor- 

 chester, among whom, at 511 Washington 

 street, Mr. Galvin lived for so many 

 years, but the members of the Boston 

 Club, of the Charitable Irish Society, and 

 most of all, of the Ancient and Honorable 

 Artillery Company, \yill all feel his pass- 

 ing keenly. His was the nature that 

 made every man his friend and made 

 every friend cheerful and contented when 

 he was present. 



John Galvin wag born in Ireland on 

 Feb. 8, 1823. He came to America when 

 a young man', and from the first to the 

 last of his life had been connected with 

 the 'most fragrant of industries, the grow- 

 ing of flowers. 



The first employment that he under- 

 took was with the late Thomas Motley, 

 who in those days had a beautiful and 

 extensive residence at what is now the 

 Arnold Arboretum. Mr. Galvin was a 

 trusted employe of his, and retained the 

 friendship and respect of Mr. Motley un- 

 til the death of the latter. He then es- 

 tablished the firm of Galvin & Hogan, in 

 Summerville, and they had extensive 

 greenhouses and grounds in that locality. 

 In a short time he was appointed City 

 Forester, the position later held by Mr. 

 William Doogue. Mr. Galvin held this 

 place for 18 years, and did a great deal 

 of the preparatory and substantial work 

 in all the public squares, the Public Gar- 

 den and the Common of this city. 



Mr. Galvin was the pioneer of the idea 

 of establishing floral stores in Boston. 

 The store which he opened on Tremont 

 street was the forerunner of the mag- 

 nificent and extensive floral business 

 which has made the name of Boston a 

 household word in connection with flow- 

 ers in this country. He had retired from 

 active business. 



In 1847 John Galvin married Miss 

 Elizabeth Gearin, and from their long, 

 happy, unbroken union sprang seven chil- 

 dren, six of whom, and Mrs. Galvin, sur- 

 vive, 



ROCHES! ER. N. Y. 



There were some warm sessions at the 

 recent annual uiccling of the Western 

 New ^^'lI. II' iii ii'nnal Society in this 

 city. I , ' M . " I . 1 - who were fruit 

 grow 1 'III ! I'l ask state legisla- 



tioiT l""l.in:: I" il" passage of a law 

 compflling nur^ciymen to fumigate their 

 stock to rid it of'any lurking s|)r(-imcns 

 of the San Jose scale, while those who 

 were nurserymen opposed such action, 

 claiming it was unnecessary and would 

 put them to useless expense. There were 

 some tart passages between memliers of 

 the oppn-iim fa'ti-iii- lui'l Inil f".- an 

 inipassi.'ii.d -|..'''l. I'v I'i'-i'l 111 liairv 

 in whi.h h'' I"'JL'''I 111'' n,.i,,i.'r- I" be 

 fair and )n«,]ri:,\r I hf - 'i'lv ini'jlil have 

 suflered an unfoitunate split. 



A resolution was adopted endorsing the 

 action taken by the Eastern New York 

 Horticultural Society in trying to secure 

 legislation relative to the uniform size 

 of fruit packages such as berry boxes. 



Secretary Hall's statement of the per- 

 manent financial fund showed receipts 

 from all sources of .$3,417.78 and dis- 

 bursements of $459. 



Professor John Craig, of Cornell uni- 

 versity, presented a paper on "Orchard 

 Cover Crops." The cover, he declared, 

 increased fertility and warded off dis- 

 ease. "Using too little seed was men- 

 tioned by the speaker as one of the chipf 

 reasons for failure to make orchaid cov- 

 er crops successful. Professor Craig said 

 some experiments would be made at Cor- 

 nell in orchard cover crops with a new 

 covering called "vetch." 



Professor W. H. Jordan, of Geneva, 

 spoke on the importance of pure fond 

 legislation. He spoke of the adulteration 

 of spices with cocoanut shell, which he 

 said was a great industry. Out of an 

 examination of 2,000 food products In 

 Coniiecticut, 678 were found to be adul- 

 terated and 173 contained salacylic acid 

 for preservative purposes. 



He gave considerable attention to the 

 so-called soft drinks, some of which he 

 .said contained fusel oil. He called espe- 

 cial attention to the soda fountain drinks 

 which in many cases he said were far 

 from "harmless." Some syrups used at 

 soda fountains, he said, had been fouird 

 to contain enough analine colors in one 

 drink to color a piece of woolen cloth 

 six inches square a bright hue. 



The following officers were re-elected : 

 President, William C. Barry, Rochester; 

 vice presidents, S. D. Willard, Geneva; 

 J. S. Woodward, Lockport; Albert Wood, 

 Carlton Station; T. B. Wilsoir, Hall's 

 Corners; secretary-treasurer, John Hall, 

 Chamber of Commerce building, Roches- 

 ter. 



Grand Rapids, Mich. — In the will of 

 the late T. R. Renwick it was directed 

 that the florist business founded by him 

 be continued on the same lines after his 

 death. This was done, but the business 

 became unprofitable and debts were con- 

 tracted. A petition has been filed by one 

 of the sons for permission to sell the real 

 estate to pay running expenses and all 

 debts, but this is resisted by the other 

 heirs, who claim that the rest of the es- 

 tate cannot be touched. 



Boise, Idaho. — At the recent annual 

 meeting of the Idaho State Horticultural 

 Society officers were elected as follows: 

 Pres., I. B. Perrine. Shoshone; Vice- 

 Pres., Prof. F. A. Huntley, Moscow; 

 Sec'y, Robert Milliken, Nampa; Treas.; 

 R. M. Gwinn, Caldwell. 



