MAY 1. lSSt9. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 





573 



Fruni View. 







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Rear View. 

 The Conservatories at Schenley Park, Pittsburg. 



[Erected b\ Lord & Burnham Co.] 



seen but are not salable. Irises, daf- 

 fodils, Poets' narcissus, hyacinths and 

 tulips are seen everywhere. Ferns are 

 still very scarce; smilax and aspara- 

 gus are selling well. The market trade 

 in plants has improved during the past 

 week, and prices are better. This 

 branch of the trade promises to be 

 better than last season, as all house 

 plants were frozen out the past win- 

 ter. 



The nurserymen claim that the 

 spring was too short; that the trees 

 and shrubs are too far advanced in 

 leaf and that tree planting is prac- 

 tically stopped. 



Notes. 



The next meeting of the club will 

 be held May 11 at 3 p. m. This will 

 be a miscellaneous meeting and mem- 

 bers are requested to bring whatever 

 they can spare, in order to make the 

 meeting interesting. The trustees say 

 that an essay will be read, but they 

 ■want to keep secret the name of the 

 member, and say that it will be worth 

 your while to come and hear it. 



Mr. Andrew Meyer, Sr., the South 



Jefferson avenue florist, is reported 

 very sick and from last reports was 

 about to have an operation performed. 

 We hope for Mr. Meyers speedy re- 

 covery. 



Samuel Wiggins Ridgely, son of 

 Park Commissioner Ridgely, died of 

 diphtheria, Sunday afternoon, at the 

 home of his father, aged 35. Mr. 

 Ridgely has the sympathy of all the 

 florists. 



Bowling. 



The Bowling Club had a very poor 

 attendance Monday night, owing to 

 the hot weather. Only five of the reg- 

 ulars were at the alleys. The scores 

 are as follows: 



12 3 4 5 Tot. Av. 



J. J. Benek? 210 115 155 169 132 781 156 



C. C. Sanders.... 146 178 123 166 141 756 Ibt 



J. W. Kunz 145 128 153 143 146 715 141 



C. A. Kuehn 135 137 166 126 108 673 134 



/ohn Toung 128 145 117 128 618 130 



J. J. B. 



TARRYTOWN, N. Y. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Tarrytown Horticultural Society was 

 held in Cooke & McCord's seed store, 

 on Saturday evening, the 28th ult., 



President Cockburn presiding over a 

 very good attendance. A good col- 

 lection of Magnolias, including M. 

 Lennei, M. conspicua, M. c. Soulan- 

 geana, were exhibited by L. A. Mar- 

 tin, gardener to Mrs. C. C. Worthing- 

 ton, Irvington, for which the society's 

 certificate of honorable mention was 

 awarded. W. Scott, gardener to Mrs. 

 G. C. Eastman, Tarrytown, read a very 

 able, instructive and interesting pa- 

 per on "The Aims and Benefits of a 

 Horticultural Society." 



The executive committee was in- 

 structed to formulate a means of rais- 

 ing funds for the holding of a chrys- 

 anthemum show in the fall. The mem- 

 bers present desired to have the so- 

 ciety'.s transactions as widely publish- 

 ed as possible, and Jas. T. Scott, 

 Gracemere, Tarrytown, was appointed 

 reporting secretary, with instructions 

 to report the same to such horticultur- 

 al papers as might be interested. The 

 permanent meeting night was fixed as 

 the last Thursday night of every 

 month, and the meeting place the Van- 

 derbilt building. JAS. T. SCOTT. 



