JANUARY 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



193 



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NEW YORK, 



Annual Banquet. 



The annual dinner of the New York 

 Florists' Club, held in the banipiet 

 hall of the St. Denis Hotel, Eleventh 

 street and Broadway, Wednesday ev- 

 ening, .Ian. 17, was an event Iour to 

 be remembered. The members of I he 

 executive eommittee of the Society of 

 American Florists were guests of the 

 club, and there were about ninety at 

 table. 



Among the guests were E. M. Wood, 

 Robt. Craig, W. N. Rudd, H. B. Beatty. 

 .lohn Westeott, Benj. Durfee, W. K. 

 Harris, .John Burton, Edwin Lonsdale, 

 J. F. Cowell, A. B. Cartledge, Peter 

 Duff, Geo. A. Rackham. .1. F. Sulli- 

 van, J. D. Carmody. W. W. Coles. P. 

 R. Newbold, Wm. Bartholomae. W. 

 .1. Palmer. E. H. Cushman, Wm. Duck- 

 ham, Wm. Turner. 



The dinner was the best the club 

 has ever enjoyed and the fun was im- 

 mense, with an abundance of songs 

 and music. 



The toasts were as follows: E. M. 

 Wood. "S. A. F.": J. F. Sullivan, 

 "River and Prairie Horticulture"; W. 

 K. Harris. "Horticulture of the Quaker 

 City": Robt. Craig, "American Rose 

 Society": Prof. Cowell, "Pan-Amer- 

 ican Horticulture"; J. D. Carmody, 

 "Saints and Sinners"; W. N. Rudd, 

 "Prairie City Horticulture"; John 

 Westeott, "Horticultural Sports"; 

 Sam'l Henshaw, "International Hor- 

 ticulture"; C. W. Ward, "American 

 Carnation Society"; Benjamin Durfee, 

 "The Future of the Florists' Busi- 

 ness"; A. B. Cartledge, "Floriculture 

 from a Retail Standpoint"; Wm. J. 

 Stewart. "Horticulture on the Bean- 

 town Kopjes"; W. Duckham, "Orna- 

 mental Horticulturists"; Jos. Forsyth 

 Johnson, "Suburban Horticulture." 



Fuller details next week. 



The New York Gardeners' Society. 



The New York Gardeners' Society 

 met at the Grand Central Palace on 

 Saturday last, and decided to hereafter 

 meet quarterly instead of monthly. 

 The reasons for this change are that 

 most of the local horticultural socie- 

 ties have been organized from this one 

 society; it is proposed that the New 

 York society will be more of a nation- 

 al character; that a show will be held 

 every three months, and that all the 

 surrounding clubs and organizations 

 will be asked to take an active part at 

 these exhibitions. 



The society will hold a carnation 

 show at its next meeting in March, 

 possibly in connection with the Ameri- 

 can Rose Society's show at the Eden 

 Musee. Arrangements were left in the 

 hands of the executive committee, con- 

 sisting of Messrs. Withers, Taaffe, 

 Shore, Angus, Anderson, Scott, Harvey 

 and Donlan. Mr. C. W. Ward has gen- 

 erously offered a silver cup to be com- 



peted for at the March show; particu- 

 lars will bo sent out with the schedule 

 of prizes later. It is possible a con- 

 vention will be held at this meeting to 

 consider horticultural matters in gen- 

 eral. 



Wm. Anderson exhibited a vase of 

 beautiful antirrhinums; they were 

 grown fro:n seed sown July 20th, first 

 grown in pots, then planted in boxes 

 and treated similar to chrysanthe- 

 mums; they have been grown in a 

 temperature of 50 degrees at night dur- 

 ing the winter. Many of these spikes 

 had forty flowers on and the strain 

 can be said to be Mr. Anderson's own, 

 for he has been saving the best of it 

 for years. The society awarded them 

 a certificate of merit. The president 

 and secretary were asked to represent 

 the society at the Dutchess County 

 Horticultural Society's dinner to be 

 given at Poughkeepsie, February 7th. 



The Eastern New Y'ork Horticultural 

 Society will hold its annual meeting at 

 the Berkeley Lyceum, this city, Febru- 

 ary 7th and 8th. The American Insti- 

 tute will hold a flower, fruit and vege- 

 table show at ihe same time and place. 



Bowling. 



There was lots of enthusiasm at the 

 bowling alleys Monday night. Mr. 

 John H. Taylor, though suffering from 

 the effects of his recent accident, was 

 able to beat one or two of the experts. 



President of the S. A. F., E, M. 

 Wood, visited the alleys and enjoyed 

 the fun. Following are the scores: 



Siebrecht l.iS 15'j l.W 



Burns 14S 1C8 176 



Traendly 116 152 lis 



Hafner 125 137 115 



Lang 175 188 157 



Shaw 121 114 100 



Bartholomae 133 109 116 



Taylor 97 119 



Moody 150 150 163 



Larscher 114 137 126 



Donlan 121 128 194 



Stemns 105 162 



Stewart 119 



The scores at the Flatbush alleys, 

 January 11th, were: 



E. DaiUedouze 147 157 204 



L. Schmutz 167 147 135 



C. Woerner 144 146 125 



Papa Zeller 106 84 113 



A. Shaw 113 137 133 



J. Donlan 135 138 130 



Mr. P. Riley, of the Flatbush Club, 

 has been very ill for some time, and 

 everybody hopes for his speedy recov- 

 ery. J. I. D. 



MADISON, N. J. 



The Morris County Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club held its annual election 

 of officers and reunion in the form of a 

 "smoker" in the Masonic Hall, Madi- 

 son, January 10th. There was quite a 

 large gathering of members and in- 

 vited friends. The annual reports 

 showed the club to be in a very pros- 

 perous condition, it having seventy- 

 five energetic members and $466 in 

 bank. Wm. Duckham was elected pres- 

 ident; C. H. Totty, vice-president; 

 Wm. Charlton, treasurer, and C. H. At- 

 kins, secretary. General committee: J. 

 Jones, D. Shannon and F. Weber. It 



was decide. I id h. reafter elect the offl- 

 cets in DeeeMil;ii instead of January. 



The entertainment which followed 

 was a n ost enjoyable one. President 

 Iturliliam, in welcoming the visitors, 

 staled that they had decided on hav- 

 ing a "smoker" in preference to a set 

 dinner, because there was more enjoy- 

 ment in it, and before the atTair was 

 over everybody agreed with him. There 

 was an abundance of good music which 

 not alone gave pleasure in renditions 

 of popular airs, but took the form of a 

 band contest between a quartette of 

 Morrislown darkies and Herrington's 

 "Florham Orchestra," in which the lat- 

 ter came out with flying colors. Three 

 members of this band, Messrs. Sam 

 MctUillom, George Coombs and John 

 Downey, deserve to be better known 

 among the trade. Mr. McCullom has a 

 splendid voice and sang several songs 

 to the delight of his audience. (Mr. 

 Herrington could not do better than 

 have these organize a band composed 

 entirely of florists for the S. A. F. con- 

 vention.) 



If John P. Cleary were in any way a 

 Jew his recital of "Fagin's death cell 

 soliloquy" would have been terrible, as 

 it was he was so nearly realistic that 

 Austie Shaw, Willie Stewart, San But- 

 terfield and Billy Prosser trembled. 

 One pleasant feature was the absence 

 of orations. Mr. Duckham gave the 

 few who spoke two minutes to spout. 

 Mr. O'Mara spoke on the need of a Na- 

 tional Horticultural Society, and hoped 

 the horticultural show in connection 

 with the S. A. F. convention would be 

 the means of a confederation of all the 

 local societies into one grand body. 



One never knows what to expect 

 when J. Austin Shaw gets up to speak. 

 On this occasion he read his own par- 

 ody on Longfellow's "Excelsior," in 

 which he gave the writer the distin- 

 guished honor of being "Irish." After 

 many more good things the. singing of 

 "Auld Lang Syne" ended the affair in 

 the hall, but the visitors adjourned to 

 the "smoker" of the last train to New 

 York and continued the fun all the 

 way down. D. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 



The Executive Committee of the So- 

 ciety of American Florists held its an- 

 nual meeting at the Murray Hill hotel. 

 New Y'ork, Tuesday and Wednesday 

 this week. The program for the an- 

 nual convention of the society, to be 

 held in New York next August, was 

 formulated so far as possible and much 

 detail work attended to. 



THE annual catalogue of probably 

 the oldest established 6.eed firm in An.- 

 erica is before us. The seed business 

 of J. M. Thorburn & Co.. New York, 

 was established in that city in 1802 and 

 for nearly a century it has kept step 

 with the remarkable expansion of Am- 

 erican industries. Their catalogue for 

 1900 proves them to be still in the front 

 rank, and it should be consulted by 

 every one interested in seeds and gar- 

 deners' supplies. 



