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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



NOVEMIJEU S, 1!)U0. 



iiieiiibers in making tlie new year a suc- 

 cessful and profitable one. He empha- 

 sized the great value of discussion upon 

 the papers read before the club and asked 

 all to contribute something toward mak- 

 ing the meetings more profitable by tak- 

 ing part, no matter in how limited a 

 way, in these discussions. The new sec- 

 retary, Jlr. C. A. Hunt, kept busy scrib- 

 bling and never peeped, while Kd. Win- 

 terson. when called on for a speech, sim- 

 ply remarked that he was there to re- 

 ceive the coin and had a receipt book 

 handy. Treasurer Sanders succeeded 

 himself and was installed without difii- 

 culty. The president appointed as the 

 finance committee Messrs. P. J. Haus- 

 wirtli, E. C. Amling and E. Wienhoeber. 



The retiring president, Jlr. James 

 Hartshorne, made a neat little speech, 

 thanking the members for courtesies ex- 

 tended during the past year and congrat- 

 nlating the club on the selection of Mr. 

 McAdams as president. 



Messrs. Chas. Graby and C. A. Johnson 

 were elected to membership. 



The papers by Messrs. J. S. Wilson 

 and Walter Hcfi'ron were listened to with 

 much interest. The papers, togetlier with 

 the discussions on same, appear else- 

 where in this issue. 



Various Items. 



The annual baiKpiet of the Florists' 

 Club takes place this (Thursday) even- 

 ing in the Egyptian banquet hall of the 

 Auditorium hotel, starting at 7 o'clock. 



Visitors: P. O'Mara, New York; J. N. 

 May, Summit, N. J. ; H. Weber, Oakland, 

 Md.; Elmer D. Smith, Adrian, Mich.; 

 Samuel Murray and Arthur Xewell, 

 Kansas City; H. C. Geiger, Philadel- 

 phia; W. J. Crowe, Utica. N. Y. ; Fred 

 I^mon, Richmond, Ind. ; H. Heller, New 

 Castle, Ind.; J. C. Kennison, Sioux City, 

 Iowa; C. B. Whitnall, Milwaukee; Wal- 

 ter Mott, representing H. A. Dreer; J. 

 K. Fotheringham, representing F. E. 

 Pierson Companv; Joseph Reeve. Peoria, 

 111. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. have received their 

 first shipment of mahonia leaves. This 

 firm marketed a cut of about 200 blooms 

 of Col. D. Appleton chrysanthemums, 

 the grand new yellow, and with the ex- 

 ception of a couple of dozen none were 

 sold at less than $G.OO a dozen. 



On jNIonday and Tuesday of this week 

 Benthey received outdoor Fisher and Por- 

 tia carnations of fine quality. This is a 

 good illustration of the mild fall we have 

 had. 



M. Olson is now with J. A. Budlong. 



Bowling. 



A hot triplft of rames w:is pl^iyi-il last nisht 

 hetweeu rini-atro and MiUv;iuki-r le-ains at An- 

 son's allt-.vs. Miiwanki-.- wciii. t.ikiii^' two Kames. 

 FoUowiutr are the seurfs uf the three games. 

 wJiich were not completed until nearl.v miduipht: 

 MILWAUKEE. 



H.Hunkel IBl 1+8 183 



W. EdlefHen 141 1-)1 l^-"" 



M. Reitz SI 7.) 12o 



O. Sylvester IW) lad lot) 



W. A. KenneiU .11)1 l'J4 118 



A. Klokner , 1.".7 l-'5 pjO 



N. Zwelfel .. l--'-> l-'l 141' 



P. HoUon 149 17-2 1.30 



('. C. POUwortli 1">0 211) lj7 



Tol.als.. i:«"' l-'»"' l'-'f4 



NEW YORK. 



Tlie great sound money parade here 

 ou Saturtlay was somewliat of a gotlscnil 

 for the llorists' business, thcnigh no one 

 seems to have been rushed or sold out for 

 it. We were on tlie press stand all day 

 to note the lloral part of it, and it was 

 a great triumph from a fioricultural 

 point of view. Never were so many 

 flowers woin in a public parade before. 

 Tli'e local growers, through Mr. Ward, 

 contributed several thousand carnations, 

 and this act was responsible for the gen- 

 eral wearing of flowers. There were 

 nearly 100,000 men in line: ;io,000 of 

 them wore natural carnations, 10.000 

 wore yellow and white chrysanthemums, 

 10,000 wore paper chrysanthemums and 

 13,000 wore paper carnations. 



It was curious to note the ditl'erent el- 

 ements that wore natural or paper flow- 

 ers. The Wall street brigades, conipos'cd 

 of bankers and brokers and their clerks, 

 representing the monej' element of the 

 parade, wore larg'e paper carnations; 

 there was not one natural ilower in the 

 whole contingent of many thousand men. 

 This was disappointing, and we often 

 felt sorry that part of the growers' con- 

 tribution did not lind its way into \\'all 

 street. The dry goods men mostly wore 

 Scotts;th'e habertlashers, lighter shades, 

 and they looked well ; milliners and hat- 

 ters wore none; the paper trades had 

 paper flowers; one regiment carried gold- 

 en pampas plumes, which were Very ef- 

 fective ; newspaper men wore no flowers ; 

 lumbermen, yellow mums; Produce Ex- 

 change, Scotts and yellow mums; Cotton 

 Exchange, cotton in pocU and paper car- 

 nations; tlie ColiVe Exchange men all 

 wore very fine yellow mums — they were 

 the best patrons of natural flowers; 

 Custom House brokers had Scotts; law- 

 yers tabooed flowers except in some of 

 the Bar Association ctmipani'es, which 

 had mums and Scotts; New York Life 

 Insurance all wore Scotts, with silver 

 tinfoil; real estate men generally wore 

 Scotts; jewelers had all paper carna- 

 tions; travelers wore none; drug and 

 chemical men had a spattering of Scotts 

 and mums, and so on. 



Those whom you would most expect 

 to wear flowers had none, whilst the 

 slaves of the sweatshops, who perhaps 

 never had a flower in their coats before, 

 went jauntily along behind carnations 

 that wei'e given them to wear. There is 

 no way of estimating the amount of good 

 done, though, in getting people to wear 

 flowers, the gooil deed might li'eeome a 

 habit. It started to rain at (i o'clock in 

 the morning and kept at it all day. only 

 for this it is safe to say eveiy carnation 

 and chrysanthemum in tlte market would 

 have been sold. 



We were at tin- market at ti a. m., and 

 tliere was some lively speculating on 

 Scotts and yellow mums. -John Donald- 

 sun had the best lionnatTons at the mar- 

 ket, and got $3 and $.'S.2.5 per dozen for 

 them; smaller sizes of }-ellows sold for 

 $2 per dozen. Scotts brought $1.25 and 

 •'til..50 per hundred. A few tine Appletons 

 brought 45 cents each. There were plenty 

 of yellow mums and Scotts left in the 

 wholesale stores on Saturday morning. 

 It was remarkable, and speaks volumes 

 for the resources of the New York cut 

 flower markets, that though at least 

 .■i.'),000 carnations and 10.000 ohrysan- 

 themums were used in the parade, the 

 market still seemed glutted, and florists 

 .-tared at you if you spoke of good trade. 



We forgot to mention that many of the 

 paraders wore pink and crimson carna- 

 tions; the combination is a poor one. 

 Here and there among the paraders were 

 blocks of hundreds or so who wore sim- 

 ple crimson carnations; it looked like 

 Mr. Ward's Roosevelt at a distance, and 

 they were very fine. Others wore light 

 (links, and they were very dressy. 



Tlie prettiest feature of the whole 

 parade, and one that got the greatest 

 jiraise, was the contingent of the New- 

 York Florists' Sound Jloney Club. They 

 comprise about loO men, representing re- 

 ttiilcrs, supply nien, growers and seeds- 

 men ; they carried the prettiest banner of 

 the day; it was of silk, a crimson center 

 framed with pink and fringed with gold; 

 the pole ami crossbar carried Roman 

 wreaths of gilded laurel; it was a very 

 fine piece of work, thoroughly Roman- 

 esque in design, and reflected much credit 

 on Arthur Merritt. who designed and 

 made it. All the florists wore bouton- 

 nicies of pink and crimson carnations 

 and carried dahlia sticks, to which were 

 tied the largest ISonnafl'ons procurable 

 and a bow of red, white and blue ribbon: 

 they made a very fine appearance and 

 were a credit to the trade. 



William Trumpore was matslial; his 

 aids were L. J. Krcshover, Ren. Brower 

 and H. Sherer; captains of companies 

 were Walter Bogart, Theo. Lang, Arthur 

 Merritt, George Saltford, James Purdy. 

 William JIansfield, Willia-ni Brower and 

 Willi;im JIarshall. We think we spied 

 Mr. Nash, of Clifton, and Mr. Wood, of 

 Fishkill, at the head of some of the 

 boys. William Bogert was color-hearer. 

 They presented Governor Roosevelt with 

 a handsome basket of Liberty roses while 

 passing the reviewing stand, and the 

 Governor was much afi'ected by it and 

 the display they made. Afterward the 

 "boys" marched through the wholesale 

 florists' district and cheered for each 

 wholesaler, making things lively. 



Bowling on the eve of election didn't 

 -CHIP to be popular. Only four enthusi- 

 asts showed up. The scores were: 



Siebrecht 



Burns 



H;if ner — 

 Ta.vlor 



.144 139 143 148 



.l;-)7 ir>.>) IBil 174 



.132 139 179 18(1 



.117 104 112 132 



Bowling will be in the afternoon next 

 Monilay. The Florists' Club meets that 

 ni"ht. when iininination of officers oe- 

 curs. J. I. D. 



