AUGUST 23, IPIO. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



351 



Chicago Florists' Club's Convention Special Train. 



with the Plant Seed Co. of this city, 

 had the misfortune to lose his four 

 months old child. Mr. Reise has our 

 sympathy. 



Mr. Wm. Bouche, the landscape gar- 

 dener, has plenty of work on hand just 

 now. The laying out of the new Kin- 

 loch Park is his latest. 



August Schuerman will decorate the 

 Coliseum this year for the opening of 

 the seventeenth annual exposition, 

 which opens Sept. 17th and closes 

 Oct. 20th, 1900. 



Bowling Cont st of S. A. F. 



The howling contest at the S. A. F. 

 convention in New York will no douht 

 be one of the features of the meeting. 

 St. Louis will not be able to send their 

 regular team, but may enter a scrub 

 team made up of florists from our city. 

 A fair team could be made up as fol- 

 lows: C. A. Kuehn, J, W. Kunz, F. 

 C. Weber, John Young, Harry Young, 

 George Windsor, or James Young. 

 If they don't enter as a team they will 

 enter in the individual games and may 

 bring home a prize or two in that way. 

 In watching the different clubs' 

 scores during the last few weeks, I 

 will try to pick the winners. If Cbi- 

 rago rolls true to form they 

 should win first place, Buffalo second, 



and Philadelphia third. With St. 

 Louis out, these three clubs should be 

 one, two, three at any stage of the 

 game. Flatbush. New York, Omaha, 

 and Detroit should come next. By 

 the time this issue is in the hands of 

 our readers the contest will be at an 

 end; then see if I am not right. 

 Should the Chicago boys be the lucky 

 winners, and I hope they will, the St. 

 Louis clulj will roll them this fall for 

 their honors. Sorry I can't be with 

 you this year, but I wish you all the 

 best of luck and may the best team 

 win. J. J. B. 



PIQUA, OHIO.— A quiet but pretty 

 wedding was celebrated Wednesday, 

 Aug. 15th. at the home of the bride's 

 mother, Mrs. Malinda Garity, at 

 Oran, Ohio, which united the hearts 

 and lives of Mr. Philip W. Sands and 

 Miss Anna Roman. Mr. Sands is 

 foreman in the greenhouses of H. P. 

 Smith of this city, having come here 

 some months ago from Baltimore, Md., 

 where he was foreman in a large 

 range of houses owned by his father. 

 He is a florist of wide experience 

 and a gentleman of integrity and 

 worth. Miss Roman is a bright, bril- 

 liant young lady and is highly re- 

 spected by all who know her. Their 



many friends wish them a happy and 

 prosperous married life. 



■White Ants. 

 M. H. says he is troubled by white 

 ants that come out of the wood of 

 the house and eat off his American 

 Beauties. E. B. suggests that if the 

 ants are not in the rose beds kerosene 

 or gasoline poured into their holes will 

 help. On the beds insect powder or 

 air-slaked lime sometimes destroys 

 them. 



OCEANIC, N. J, 



Monmouth Co. Hort. Soc. 

 A very well attended meeting of the 

 society was held Aug. 17. It was de- 

 cided to hold the chrysanthemum 

 show at Red Bank in the Town Hall, 

 Nov. 9, 10 and 11. A communication 

 from the Pan-American Exposition 

 was read and very well discussed. By 

 motion of Robert Murphy, seconded 

 by Robert Beaty, a legislative com- 

 mittee was appointed to attend to the 

 latter communication at once. The 

 following members were appointed, 

 with the officers of the society, ex-offi- 

 cio: Robert Murphy, chairman; H. 

 Macintosh, H. Birch, A. Brighton. T. 

 Nielsen. B. 



