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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBER 25. 1900. 



raents of $240.78, leaving a balance of 

 $32.08 on hand. But the receipts at this 

 meeting amounted to $42, with more to 

 hear from. A copy of the Convention 

 Souvenir Book was received from th'e 

 New York Florists' Club, and the secre- 

 tary was instructed to acknowledge its 

 receipt with thanks. 



The banquet committee reported prog- 

 ress, and th'e evening of Thursday, No- 

 vember 8, was selected as the date. 



The Auction Sale. 



Wednesday, the first day of the big 

 auction sale of palms, etc., at McKellar 

 & Winterson's, panned out even better 

 than anticipated. The immense amount 

 of stock already carted to the store room 

 was cleaned out at very fair prices in 

 the morning, the sales aggregating 

 nearly $2,000. As a result there was 

 no sale in the afternoon, the time be- 

 ing employed in carting in new stock 

 for Thursday's sale. The sale will con- 

 tinue all day Thursday, or until the en- 

 tire lot is disposed of. 



The success of this sale and the fact 

 that by employing extra help it did not 

 interfere in any way with their other 

 business has decided McfTellar & Win- 

 .terson to continue in the plant auction 

 business, holding sales at stated inter- 

 vals during the season or as occasion de- 

 mands. So Chicago will now have its 

 plant auction house as well as New York 

 and Boston. 



The auctioneer at this sale had never 

 sold plants before, but he was a cracker- 

 jack just the same, even if he did offer a 

 lot of "Baltimore Annies" instead of 

 Belmoreanas. 



Various Items. 



Arrangements for the coming annual 

 flower show, to be held at the Audito- 

 rium November 6 to 10, are progress- 

 ing satisfactorily, and the show prom- 

 ises to equal any of its predecessors. 

 The judges of plants and cut flowers will 

 be Messrs. P. O'Mara, New York; J. N. 

 May, Summit, N. J., and E. Buettner, 

 Chicago. The floral arrangements will 

 be judged by a committee of ladies as 

 heretofore. N. P. Miller will be super- 

 intendent of the exhibition. 



Flint Kennicott, president of Kenni- 

 cott Bros. Co., has moved back to the 

 city for the winter, and is now located at 

 5G07 Washington avenue. 



Mr. E. E. Pies'er, of the same firm, has 

 been confined to his home by illness for 

 several days past fighting a combination 

 of grippe and tonsilitis. 



McKellar & Winterson have received 

 several shipments of bouquet gre'en late- 

 ly, and the quality has been unusually 

 good. The green season seems to have 

 opened in good shape. 



Adolph H. Poehlmann has his city 

 salesroom at 55 and 57 Wabash aVenue 

 fitted up and ready for business, with C. 

 S. Stewart in charge. The cool room is 

 12x12, and has all the latest improve- 

 ments. 



In a broken column, noted at Witt- 

 bold's, the column was formed of white 

 carnations interspersed with white cos- 



mos, and the effect was good. The brok- 

 en top was of violets, while in the base 

 cj'cas leaves of varying sizes were used 

 at one side and chrysanthemums on the 

 other, while croton leaves were effect- 

 ively placed in various positions. The 

 garland was of roses and asparagus. 



Bowling. 



The annual meeting of the Chicago 

 Florists' Bowling Club was held last 

 Friday evening and officers elected as 

 follows: P. J. Hauswirth, president; J. 

 S. Wilson, vice president; George As- 

 mus, secretary and treasurer; E. F. Win- 

 terson, captain. 



A letter was received from the Mil- 

 waukee bowlers intimating that they 

 would like to play the local team a match 

 during the coming flower show, and the 

 president and secretary were instructed 

 to arrange for a match to take in as 

 many teams as could be secured from 

 outside points during the exhibition. 



Following .'ire the scores made after the meet- 

 ing; 



Aamus 168 Weiner 117 



Hauswirth J.73 118 Sikuta Ill 



Kreltling 127 124 Woodward .. .100 i)2 



HartBhorne 123 135 Baldwin 134 81 



■Tohii Kunz 139 J. Reardon . .. lOil S)S) 



WliilLTSon 169 134 C. Reardon .. . 7(1 



Ballliff ll.") 155 MeKelhar 145 158 



.T.S.Wilson 141 Dickinson.... 91 



Hnghes 128 151 



NEW YORK. 



Club Meeting. 



The Florists' Club held a meeting on 

 Monday night and the special business 

 for which the meeting was called, that 

 of settling up convention accounts, 

 iwas disposed of by referring the whole 

 matter to th'e treasurer, Mr. Weather- 

 ed; with this disposition of the sub- 

 ject the meeting adjourned. 



The plan and scope committee recent- 

 ly appointed to arrange for the holding 

 of an annual exhibition in New York, 

 tlicn held a meeting, Mr. Henshaw pre- 

 siding. After an urgent appeal by Mr. 

 O'Mara on the necessity of the club tak- 

 ing some action on this very important 

 matter as the very life of the club de- 

 pended on it, the committee adjourned to 

 meet again in the club rooms at 8 o'clock, 

 Monday evening, Oct. 29. 



Th'e next regular meeting of the club 

 will be held on Monday, Nov. 12th. The 

 nomination of officers will take place at 

 this meeting, and the entertainment com- 

 mittee promises an exceptionally good 

 program. 



Death of Henry Butler. 



Henry Butler, the well known Broad- 

 way florist, died at his home on Thurs- 

 day evening and was buried at Woodlawn 

 on Sunday. Mr. Butler occupied the 

 store at 918 Broadway for over twenty 

 years. He belonged to the old school of 

 New York florists who did so much to 

 advance floriculture in th'e stirring times 

 of the seventies and eighties. He was 

 of an unaffected and generous disposition 

 and his demise is deeply regretted. 



There were many beautiful floral de- 

 signs sent, and the services held at St. 



Luke's, 113th street and Amsterdam 

 avenue, were attended by the follow- 

 ing as representing the florists: A. 

 Sehultheis, J. Fitzgerald, H. Scherer, W. 

 Burns, F. Eoehrs,, J. Hammond, 6. M. 

 Stumpp, Chas. Dards, F. Traendly and 

 Alex McConnell. 



Various Items. 



The metropolitan press almost daily 

 contains some startling note on carna- 

 tions. We are informed by a Cincinnati 

 source that 150,000 of these flowers will 

 be needed for the great parade here on . 

 Nov. 3, and that $7,500 is likely to be 

 spent for them. Whew, boys! Start the 

 pickling vats at once. Some money ought 

 to be made out of this event. Politicians 

 have more money than florists, and we 

 wouldn't advise a too generous giving 

 away of stock if there is a chance to get 

 jnoney for it. The general impression 

 afloat at present is that pink carnations 

 will sell well for that occasion. Ladies 

 are apt to want bunches of them, and 

 from the outlook there will not be an 

 oversupply. Anyway, it will be a great 

 field day for carnations, and the best 

 should be made out of it. 



Several new retail stores have been 

 opened throughout the city, and many 

 of the old ones have been greatly im- 

 proved. 



Business will not amount to much till 

 after the turmoil of election. Chrysan- 

 themums abound. 



The local flower shows promise to be 

 worth attending this year. The trouble 

 is they all come in a heap and there is 

 scarcely time to do them justice. Many 

 of them occur at the same time. It is to 

 be hoped that the "boys" will turn in 

 and make them all successes as far as 

 flowers and plants are concerned. 



Weather continues to be remarkably 

 mild; very little if any frosts in New 

 York City so far. Don't at present know 

 who or what will get frozen Nov. 6. 



Bowling. 



The bowlers met at the Arlington al- 

 leys, 19 St. Mark's Place and decided to 

 engage the alleys for the season. Three 

 good alleys are placed at the disposal 

 of th'e club, and the surroundings are 

 much more pleasant and commodious 

 than those of last season. The place is one 

 half block from Cooper Union and is 

 easily reached from all directions. The 

 club will meet every Monday night at 8 

 o'clock, except the second Monday in the 

 month, when they will meet at 3 in the 

 afternoon, so as not to interfere with 

 the Florists' Club. The scores last night 

 were: 



Burns 157 165 152 W. A. Mauda.171 110 



Raynor 137 134 154 Blrnie 127 114 



Traendly ...142 130 119 Stewart 90 109 



Lang 203 192 170 J. Manda 165 193 



Theilmann .153 152 159 Wallace 105 



Marshall ...130 147 137 Butterfleld . . . 105 



lloehrs 146 193 143 Donlaa 181 



J. I. D. 



BOSTON. 



Trade Conditions. 



Half -past October and chrysanthe- 

 mum time ! White ones are about as 



