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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



\\". K. Hanis lias some President Me- 

 Kinley, which appear popular. 



The" demand for red and blue flowers 

 for last Saturday's football game was 

 hardly up to expectation, due probably 

 1o the absence of any element of uncer- 

 tainty in the contest, our university hav- 

 ing a very poor team. The wholesalers 

 found a limited demand for violets, red 

 roses and chrysanthemum George W. 

 Childs. The retailers did not experience 

 the rush anticipated for these flowers; 

 still they did fairly well. 



Various Notes. 

 Joseph Heacock, Wyncote, Pa., has ex- 

 perienced the busiest October in the his- 

 tory of his place. Both his rose and 

 palm houses are in the pink of condi- 

 tion, giving promise of a great winter 



The Century Flower Shop is advertis- 

 ing its business by means of trolley ear 

 cards. The public are invited to come 

 and see their bargains in plants and 

 flowers by a regulation sized card, which 

 is embellished by a fern frond, or spray 



much longer to tie a liousc, uwing cluelly 

 to the short pieces, tli:ii ih.- r\ir;i time 

 consumed more than idunh i lu Luh .- the 

 saving in cost of mnti 111 I. Ilnilii inval- 

 uable for tyin- iif imlin- nii.l m many 

 other ways wIhm -imh- mmht cut the 



leaves or tcml. i 1 i . I'lii I do not like 



it for tying si.ik.'^ ..n lo^c-. 



Dumont & Co. have ccimpleted their 

 improvements at 1305 filbert street. The 

 store now presents a very attractive ap- 

 pearance, with a nea.t office on one side 

 and show window on the other. This 

 firm started in business a lew years ago 

 as the distributing medium for a num- 

 ber of Chester county carnation growers. 

 They have now three times as many ship- 

 pers, covering all lines of cut flowers. 



The Germantown Horticultural Soci- 

 ety's meeting on Monday evening was 

 well attended, the members and their 

 friends turning out in force to hear 

 Henry F. Mitchell talk about ';'Bulhs 

 for Outdoor Planting." An interesting 

 debate followed, many questions being 

 asked the speaker, which proved of spe- 

 cial interest. Phil. 



The Convention HaU, Kansas City, Mo , in which the coming Flower Show will be held. 



of Asparagus plumosus, fastened on one 

 side. 



Robert Crawford, Jr., says that the 

 season, very late in opening, is now a 

 very busy one. His idea about chrysan- 

 themums is that there is a good opening 

 for a grower who will make a specialty 

 of medium sized blooms for cut flowers, 

 nicely done on single stems; such flow- 

 ers as could be wholesaled profitably at 

 75 cents to $1.25 per dozen. He thinks 

 the large flowers are often beyond the 

 reach of the ordinary buyer, who could 

 and would buy the medium grades all 

 through the season. Colored shades on 

 the electric lights make Mr. Crawford's 

 show window "especially attractive when 

 illuminated. A fine photograph of this 

 store, taken for the Eeview a few years 

 ago, appears in Scott's Manual. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. have a wonder- 

 ful collection of florists' supplies, an in- 

 structive object lesson of the growth of 

 our business. Their store is well worth 

 a visit. 



A very successful grower said last sea- 

 son that raffia had displaced string for 

 everything except for tying a bunch of 

 flowers. His roses are all tied with raffia 

 and ivin ]iU stakes were tied to the 

 viif- Willi till' same material. It was 

 fliciilMi uikI just about as quickly done. 

 I \\a- lull, li impressed — adopted it on my 

 own place and strongly advocated its use 

 in my column. After a thorough trial 

 T am using string again — with me the 

 raffia does not hold so" well. After a few 

 heavy syringings some of the stakes will 

 slip along the wires, and it takes us so 



NEW YORK. 



Club Meeting. 



There was quite a large attendance at 

 the regular meeting of the Florists' Club, 

 held on Monday night. Walter Sheridan 

 presided. The exhibition committee gave 

 a full report of the Madison Square Gar- 

 den show, which stated that though the 

 financial end was short the Garden man- 

 agement was most generous and wished 

 the club would try again next year. The 

 club members who had put up the guar- 

 antee fund were satisfied. The commit- 

 tee was thanked for all the hard work 

 done; votes of thanks were also passed 

 to the several committees, the press 

 committee being especially eulogized for 

 the splendid results of its endeavor. 



The nominating committee placed the 

 following names for the officers to be 

 elected at the December meeting: For 

 president, Arthur Herrington, W. H. Sie- 

 brecht and D. Y. Mellis; vide-president, 

 J. V. Phillips, Frank McMahon, John 

 Birnie; secretary, John Young, John B. 

 Nugent; Mr. Nugent nominated Harry 

 Bunyard to take his place; treasurer, 

 Charles B. Weathered, H. Gibbons; 

 trustees, John Donaldi?on, Alex. McCon- 

 nell, H. Steinhoff', H. Hentz, Jr., L. Haf- 

 ner and Paul Dailledouze. Members can 

 vote for any other name not on this 

 ticket. Some lively electioneering is an- 

 ticipated. 



Mr. Morris, for the committee on reso- 

 lutions, read a copy of the letter of con- 



dolence sent to the family of the late 

 Peter F. Daly. A letter was read from 

 the Kansas City flower show manage- 

 ment to the effect that there was some- 

 thing doing out there, but "mum's the 

 word." No doubt there will be many 

 fine exhibits sent from this |section. The 

 general opinion is that thej Kansas City 

 people should be shown all that is best. 



Under the head of new business Mr. 

 O'Mara spoke in favor of hojding another 

 show in the Garden next year. He 

 reviewed all the good work done 

 by holding the great show. The 

 chairman called upon each member pres- 

 ent for his opinion, and the result was 

 that every man present not only favored 

 the holding of a show but also put his 

 name down for various sums as a guar- 

 antee fund. In a few moments $1,330 

 was subscribed among the following: 

 Walter Sheridan, C. B. Weathered, John 

 Y'oung, W. A. Manda, L. Hafner, A. 

 Herrington, also for Mr. McK. Twombly, 

 P. O'Mara, A. L. Miller, H. Langjahr, 

 John Cleary, G. Cook, W. Duckham, W. 

 H. Siebrecht, Mr. Nash for Moore, Hentz 

 & Nash, T. Lang, J. Nugent, Mr. Lencker, 

 J. Morris, John Birnie, H. Bunyard, 

 Fred Atkins, T. Roehrs/ W. Sehwein- 

 furth, J. H. Troy, W. Elliott, Alex. 

 Burns, F. Traendly, W. Plumb and a few 

 whose names we missed, and the money 

 w^as offered so quickly that we couldn't 

 keep track of all, but it was in sums of 

 from $10 to $100. 



The officers of the club were empowered 

 to make a contract similar to the one 

 this year with the Madison Square Gar- 

 den management to hold a show in the 

 Garden next fall. The hall will be avail- 

 able on the 27th of October. The show 

 wiU be from the 30th of October to the 

 6th of November. On motion of Mr. 

 Troy the pccretary was instructed to no- 

 tif\' iili-iiil. iiieiulji'i n .if the work done by 



never saw the 

 , and every man 

 I to his opinions. 



the New 



Yi.ik s|,..„ ii,..\l \.Mi the United States 

 will have something to be proud of. 



It would require several pages of this 

 paper to record all the good things said. 

 The schedule part came in for a thorough 

 thrashing. Every scheme was advocated. 

 Finally the new exhibition committee, 

 consisting of Messrs. Herrington, W. A. 

 Manda, Fred Atkins, J. H. Trov, W. H. 

 Siebrecht, W. Plumb and C. W. Ward, 

 were instructed to draft a. new schedule 

 and send it to all the members for sug- 

 gestions, all of which it is hoped will be 

 sifted and arranged for report at next 

 meeting. It islioped to have the adopted 

 schedule for general distribution early in 

 January. It was the general opinion 

 that the next show should be more in 

 the way of a trade exhibition; there is 

 ample space for both a great trade and 

 private gardeners' .show. It was sug- 

 gested to appoint a capable manager six 

 months ahead that would insure a larger 

 success. Suggestions and all forms of 

 encouragement arc in order now. The 

 president will appoint a new committee 

 of ways and means to attend to the mint. 



H. Beaulieu showed a small plant of 

 a new French red chrysanthemum named 

 Mine. Plisson. The awards committee 

 thought the dwarfness of the plant was 

 merely cultural freakishness. 



A letter was read from the ladies of 

 the National Flower Distributing Guild 

 thanking the club for the flowers sent to 

 poor children from the recent show. 



