SEPTEMBER II. 1899 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



393 



German Floral Arrangement. 



bridesmaids' bouquets, or they are fine 

 on the table. There is no flower with 

 such a heavenly blue tint, and when 

 they are carefully arranged, not in sil- 

 ver, gold or opposing colored, but in a 

 white vase with a very few fronds of 

 Adiantum graeillimum, there is noth- 

 ing to equal them. IVERA. 



GERMAN FLORAL ARRANGE- 

 MENT. 



The accompanying engraving, which 

 we have reproduced from Moller's 

 Deutsche Gartner Zeitung, shows a 

 very pretty arrangement of lilies, cy- 

 cas leaves, ferns and asparagus. 



OBITUARY. 



ALFRED HENDERSON, eldest son 

 of the late Peter Henderson, died at 

 Spring Lake, N. J., Sept. 5th, and was 

 laid to rest in Greenwood cemetery, 

 New York. He was only 47 years old 



and had suffered much from spinal dis- 

 ease for the past twelve years. 



His was not a life closely identified 

 with the outward enthusiasms of Am- 

 erican horticulture, but it appreci- 

 ated and encouraged all that was good 

 and progressive in it; the son of a 

 man who not only laid the foundation, 

 but built an imperishable monument 

 of and to American floriculture, how 

 could he be otherwise? Misfortune 

 could never destroy the hopes born of 

 a heritage such as his, and in the loug 

 years of his illness he seemed to be 

 buoyed up by a desire to fulfill his 

 father's wishes. 



He was deeply interested in every 

 line of advancement. What Henri de 

 Vilmorin was to France, Alfred Hen- 

 derson was to America. It was but a 

 few days between the death of these 

 two young men, and both countries 

 deeply feel the loss. 



The funeral services were held in 

 the Madison Avenue Reformed Church 

 and as those who attended filed past 



the casket to bid a long farewell, there 

 surrounded by flowers he had done 

 so much to perfect, with pathetic mu- 

 sic and song appealing to the God of 

 all, was it any wonder the "old tim- 

 ers' " eyes were dim when memories 

 told them of his goodness and his 

 father's nobleness? May they both 

 rest in peace. IVERA. 



PHILIP H. ALBURGER, aged 65, of 

 Ridge avenue and Huntington street, 

 Philadelphia, died Sept. 9th. The fu- 

 neral took place Tuesday last, inter- 

 ment at South Laurel Hill cemetery.' 



JOSEPH H. LUKENS, aged 59, of 

 Burlington, N. J., died Sept. 7. The 

 funeral took place Monday last, Sept. 

 11th. Interment at St. Mary's church- 

 yard, Burlington, N. J. 



NEW YORK. 



Club Meeting. 



September 11 in New York city was 

 one of those days when one doesn't 

 care if "school keeps or not." The 

 merciless rain came down and up and 

 around you in torrents, the dry, warm 

 room was something akin to paradise, 

 and very urgent or deeply interesting 

 was the business that would justify 

 anyone in attending. Nevertheless, the 

 first meeting of the Florists' Club for 

 the season of 1S99-1900 was held, and 

 though the numbers were not large, 

 they were enthusiastic and business- 

 like. In the absence of the president 

 Mr. O'Mara was asked to preside, and 

 then came the bowlers' excuses for 

 their conduct at Detroit and their 

 earnest promises to win back a repu- 

 tation next year. 



The members present who had been 

 to Detroit gave exuberant praises to 

 the men and women out there for the 

 many pleasures and abundant hospi- 

 talities given them during the conven- 

 tion. It was finally ordered that a 

 vote of thanks be sent to the Detroit 

 florists for their generous treatment, 

 with the hope that the New York club 

 would be able to reciprocate next Au- 

 gust. 



The several special and standing- 

 committees made reports, the trans- 

 portation and invitation set stated 

 how they conveyed and treated the 

 delegation, and that they had secured 

 the convention for New York in 1900. 

 which was the best part of it all. The 

 executive committee of the club will 

 meet in the rooms at 3 p. m. Monday. 

 September 25, to consider plans for 

 entertaining the crowd next summer. 



Messrs. Weathered, Nash and Cleary 

 were appointed a committee to draw- 

 up resolutions of the club's sympathy 

 for the family of the late Alfred Hen- 

 derson, whose death was very much 

 regretted by the members. A letter 

 was read from Mr. Chas. Henderson 

 thanking the club for the beautiful 

 floral design sent to his brother's fu- 

 neral. 



Mr. J. Austin Shaw was a very wel- 

 come attendant at the meeting. He 

 has, we are glad to say, almost entire- 



