JULY 12, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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The Wood Bowling Trophy. 



$2.15. He asks what we tliink of his 

 employer's methods. 



If R. H. has stated the case correctly 

 we would advise him to look around 

 for employment elsewhere. The char- 

 acteristic revealed by his employer in 

 this transaction is such that he had 

 better make some present sacrifice to 

 effect a change. A man who will cut 

 things as fine as that is too sharp to 

 have business relations with. In this 

 business Sunday work is necessary and 

 employes should willingly do what is- 

 essential on that day, but we never be- 

 fore heard of any employee being 

 obliged to be on duty all day Sunday 

 continuously, or of his being -'docked" 

 a full day's pay for one absence in six 

 months. R. H. must have run up 

 against "the meanest man." 



What do you think about it? 



RUBBISH. 



At every florist's place objectionable 

 matter appears, and. unless promptly 

 disposed of, accumulates until it be- 

 comes unsightly and offensive. The 

 term does not refer to unsalable va- 

 rieties and rare plants that nobody 

 will buy, but includes waste paper, 

 leaves, weeds, spent bulbs and tubers, 

 and unsold seeds and plants that are 

 not to be carried over. 



Many florists have a place for 

 dumping such material, and after it 



has decayed it is incorporated with 

 other ingredients and helps to form 

 the soil used for potting. This seem- 

 ing economy is an objectionable one. 

 as undoubtedly many of the trouble- 

 some plant diseases are originated 

 and continued by this means. 



We seem to have solved the prob- 

 lem of its disposal, ana others situ- 

 ated as we are may be glad to profit 

 from our experience. We have a 

 tall brick smokestack, at the base of 

 which, and connected with it, we have 

 made a small furnace, where all our 

 trash is burned. 



We use natural gas for fuel, burned 

 through pipes running across the 

 bottom of the furnace and perforated 

 on the under side so that ashes will 

 not clog the openings in the pipes. 

 About an inch above the burners 

 metal grate bars are set into the 

 walls, so that the contents of the 

 furnace will not smother the flames, 

 and on the bars we have a home- 

 made rocking arrangement to shake 

 the ashes through. The top is cov- 

 ered with a sheet of boiler iron, 

 hinged, and balanced by a weight, sa 

 that it opens easily to admit the ma- 

 terial to be burned. 



Our crematory was an experiment, 

 and was made by using a large 

 wrought iron expansion tank which is 

 partly bricked about; but this warps 



with the heat and we expect to re- 

 build it with firebrick. Old lumber 

 and useless wood cuttings could no 

 doubt be used in such a furnace in- 

 stead of gas. W. T. BELL. 



THE WOOD TROPHY. 



We present herewith an engraving 

 from a photograph of the E. M. Wood 

 bowling trophy, to be competed for at 

 the tournament in New York next 

 month. The height of the vase, in- 

 cluding base, is 12 1-2 inches. 



The bowlers will certainly have 

 prizes enough to strive for and the 

 team that takes first position will have 

 a load of silverware to bring home. 



NEW YORK. 



The Convention. 



The meeting of the Florists' Club 

 held on Monday night was one of the 

 best we have attended for some time. 

 The machinery connected with the 

 forthcoming national convention, that 

 is as far as the New York Florists' 

 Club is concerned, is working with the 

 smoothness and regularity of clock- 

 work. The whole of the 230 members 

 of the club are on one committee or 

 another, each trying to out-do the oth- 

 ers in the parts mapped out, and on 

 the face of matters as they now stand 

 we would strongly urge cities desirous 

 of fighting for the honor of having the 

 convention next year to just wait; the 

 good things prepared for them here 

 might be the means of stampeding the 

 convention to hold several meetings 

 in this city; if not, we will sympathize 

 with the next place. It will be hard 

 to go one better. 



There might be enough of beans in 

 Boston next year, Philadelphia squabs 

 are not bad. Buffalo is rather tough 

 eating. Chicago canned meats have too 

 much Algerism about them; yes, boys 

 it will be well for all of you to come 

 to old Manhattan next month, but 

 don't commence scrapping over who'll 

 be next until the proper time comes, 

 perhaps after your visit to Glen IsU 

 and. 



Sports. 



Committee on sports. Mr. Theodore 

 Roehrs, chairman, reported the alleys 

 were patiently waiting. E. G. Asmus 

 was elected captain of the gun club; 

 and W. J. Elliott announced that the 

 New Jersey Bowling Green Club, 

 which is close to the shooting grounds 

 have kindly offered the use of their 

 bowling green to members of the S. 

 A. F.; possibly there are a number of 

 Old Country laddies who would enjoy 

 a game on the green and would be glad 

 to do so on this occasion. The shoot- 

 ing match will be held on Wednesday 

 afternoon, the second day of the con- 

 vention, and all those desiring to take 

 part are requested to notify W. J. El- 

 liott, 54 Dey street. 



