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The Weekly Flonsts' Review. 



J. Mollenkoph has his carnations about 

 all housed and they are looking very 

 good. The plants are small, but they 

 have the appearance of being hardy, and 

 will undoubtedly give a good account of 

 themselves later. He is cutting some 

 very fine asters just now. Semple'a 

 seems to be the variety he has best suc- 

 cess with. 



Mr. A. Schmitt, of Glenville, who had 

 a slight stroke some two weeks ago, is 

 improving very rapidly and hopes in a 

 very short time to be around again. 



Smith & Fetters report a very good 

 trade during August. In fact all the 

 craft seem to be well pleased with the 

 summer trade this year. 



Spme of the groweis here have received 

 and planted their lilies, while others are 

 not in any hurry, but are willing to 

 wait for the later shipments, and then 

 keep them growing right along believ- 

 ing they can force the later bulbs to a 

 better advantage. 



A. Graham & Son report all carnations 

 planted inside. 



The Florists' Club, at its regular meet- 

 ing Monday evening, nominated the fol- 

 lowing members to serve as officers the 

 ensuing year: President, Wm. Brinker; 

 first vice-president, H.Kunz; second vice- 

 president, Gordon Gray; secretary, I. 

 Kennedy; assistant secretary, A. H. Gra- 

 ham ; treasurer, Herman Hart. The elee- 



tising in the trade papers, which should 

 be done at once, and recommended that 

 the exhibition committee so attend to the 

 nuitter. 



Mr. Horrington said that after care- 

 ful consideration he thought provision 

 ought to be made for larger groups and 

 that a sufficient prize should be ofl'ered 

 to induce exhibitors to put up groups of 

 plants covering 500 square feet; groups 

 covering 250 square feet were the largest 

 in recent shows, for which a hundred dol- 

 lar prize was the usual thing offered; it 

 often cost more than that for expense of 

 getting the plants there. In the case of 

 Madison Square Garden he argued that 

 large groups were very necessary. Mr. 

 W. A. Manda spoke in favor of having 

 classes for large plants; these he consid- 

 ered were of more importance than large 



After considerable discussion the mat- 

 ter was referred to the exhibition com- 

 mittee for immediate action and after 

 recess they proposed the following as an 

 addition to the schedule of prizes. For 

 best specimen kentia, first prize, .$75; 

 second prize, $25. Specimen areca, first, 

 $50; second, $20. Specimen latania, 

 first, $75 ; second, $25. Specimen any 

 other palm, first, $75; second, $25. Best 

 pair of tree ferns, first, $75; second, $25. 

 These were adopted and the club hopes 

 these generous prizes for single plants 



Dwarf Florence Vaughan Cannas at Pan-American Exposition. Exhibit of J. C. Vaughan 



tion takes place Monday evening, Sept. 

 23. 



I received a call from a G. A. K florist 

 of Cambridge, 0., Mr. I. A. Oldham. He 

 has his carnations all housed. 



Tenep. 



Club Meeting. 



The monthly meeting of the Florists' 

 Club was held on Monday night last. 

 There was a good attendance. President 

 Sheridan presided and matters connected 

 with the exhibition to be held at Madison 

 Square Garden next month were thor- 

 oughly discussed. The club's ambition 

 is to make this show a grand success and 

 every effort is being made to that end. 

 There were three applicants for the posi- 

 tion of manager, namely, Messrs. Plumb, 

 Bunyard and J. Manda. The selection 

 will be left to a joint committee of the 

 Garden management and the club. Mr. 

 O'Mara was of opinion that the Garden 

 people should share the expense of adver- 



will bring out a large quantity of the 

 finest stock. 



Complete schedules can be had from 

 J. W. Withers, 136 Liberty street. The 

 show will open on October 21 and end on 

 the 28th, so get your pets ready. The 

 judges are to be W. E. Edgar, Thos. Em- 

 erson, John E. Lager, Edwin Lonsdale, 

 Wm. Turner and James Wood. 



The forthcoming conference to be held 

 in this city on plant breeding and hybrid- 

 izing was considered and Mr. O'Mara 

 urged that the club do all in its power 

 to make the work a success. A letter 

 was read from W. R. Smith thanking the 

 club for the honor of electing him to 

 honorary membership and referring in 

 genera] to the great work ahead for all 

 horticulturists. 



The entertainment committee under 

 the guidance of W. Burnham provided 

 the attendance with a sufficiency of re- 

 freshments and amusement, the latter of 

 the singing and dancing species. 



"Beaulieu," of Woodhaven, was award- 

 ed honorable mention for an exhibit of 



Various Items. 



Most of the boys and girls have re- 

 turned from vacation and are settling 

 do«Ti to work and thinking. 



John Sharkey, chief guardian of the 

 books at Thos. Young, Jr.'s, has returned 

 from his honeymooning around the 

 "Falls" and the "Pan." 



Peter F. Daly, of Daly Bros., Granton, 

 N. J., was married on Aug. 21 to Miss 

 Augusta Icke. 



Many of the retailers are stocking up 

 with plants in anticipation of early 

 trade. 



Cut flowers are improving, especially 

 American Beauties, but trade is dead and 

 aliveish. 



The Bard of the "Pan" is with us once 

 more. Shaw is the man and his face is 

 bronzed o'er. 



Bowling. 



The bowling match between the New 

 York and Flatbush teams on the latter's 

 alleys on Thursday night resulted in an- 

 other victory for the New Yorkers, who 

 won the ball olTcrfd by a score of 2,602 

 pins against 2,335 by Flatbush. Follow- 

 ing are the scores: 



NEW YORK. 



12 3 



T. J. Lang 146 146 Ul 



A. S. Burns 160 134 141 



P. Lentz 134 163 121 



P. O'Mara 143 202 182 



P. Dallledouze 154 106 117 



J. Thielmann 146 128 163 



883 881 835 

 FLATBUSH. 



12 3 



E. Dailledouze Ill 137 151 



J. I. Raynor 109 128 118 



L. Schmutz 162 87 104 



P. Riley 143 149 169 



A. ZeUer 121 125 139 



D. T. Mellis 127 120 135 



773 746 806 



A return match will be played on the 

 New York alleys at the Arlington at St. 

 Mark's place next Monday night. Theo. 

 J. Lang ofi'ers a new ball to the member 

 of the Flatbush team making the high- 

 est average score, and the New York 

 team or the proprietor of the alleys will 

 offer a suitable prize for the teams. 



J. I. D. 



BUFFALO. 



Our city has been a sad and excited 

 one. Never before was the name of 

 this city so far and widely known, and 

 it is lamentable that it should be adver- 

 tised by this terribly sad affair. I am 

 only writing for florists, but many of 

 those who have visited Buffalo will re- 

 member the establishment of Mr. C. F. 

 Christensen on Delaware avenue and the 

 neat cottage be lived in. The green- 

 houses were taken away three years ago, 

 but next to the cottage stands a modest 

 brick house, one that has stood there for 

 years. In that house lies poor President 

 McKinley. Let us hope that he can soon 

 be pronounced out of danger. 



Naturally flowers are little called for 

 the past few days except for one pur- 

 pose. Mr. Kasting tells me, however, 

 that for the past three weeks there has 

 been an unusually good demand for 

 American Beauties and other good flow- 

 ers. The distinguished visitors we are 

 continually having must account for 

 that. Some inside carnations are com- 

 ing in, and the first cuts of Bridesmaid 

 roses, but they are of rather poor qual- 

 ity. 



We still find a few florist friends 

 among the many visitors, among them 

 Mr. J. D. Eisele, of Riverton, who ex- 

 pressed himself as well pleased with Pan- 



