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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



FEBRUARY 15, 1900. 



NEW YORK. 



Various Items. 



The past has beeu a week of much 

 activity both in business and in gen- 

 eral horticultural matters. 



There will be quite a large delega- 

 tion go from here to attend the Car- 

 nation Society's meeting at Buffalo, 

 which it is safe to say will be the 

 largest ever held by the society, and 

 flowers to be shown there from here 

 alone will be magnificent, and a credit 

 to men and country. 



The meeting of the Florists' Club on 

 Monday night was well attended, and 

 much earnestness and enthusiasm pre- 

 vailed. Several names were put in 

 nomination for membership, and the 

 guarantee fund for convention pur- 

 poses was very liberally subscribed to. 

 The several committees, and indeed 

 there seems an abundance of them, 

 reported progress. The committee on 

 Horticultural Exhibit submitted their 

 schedule which was practically adopt- 

 ed by the club, and a trophy valued at 

 $100 will also be given by the club 

 to the society whose members make 

 the best display at this show; in addi- 

 tion to the other numerous prizes 

 the S. A. F. will offer 12 silver 

 and 12 bronze medals to be com- 

 peted for in the horticultural sec- 

 tion. We hope this particular 

 section will be creditable to the men 

 of these partis; we feel it would 

 be better assured if the societies were 

 not ignored. When the club first 

 wanted to get the convention here 

 they did not hesitate in asking the 

 other societies for assistance, which 

 of course was generously offered. Our 

 idea of courtesy differs, but we feel 

 sure, that, if instead of a committee 

 merely representing the membership 

 of the club, one was organized, consist- 

 ing of one or two representatives from 

 each society within 100 miles of New 

 York, greatea- results would show 

 themselves; as it is there is much dis- 

 satisfaction, and it may hurt. In the 

 case of an exhibition like this, particu- 

 larly when every society is being urged 

 to do its best, they should have some 

 voice in the arrangements. 



The executive committee of the S. 

 A. F. notified the club officially that 

 the Thursday afternoon and evening 

 of the convention would be placed at 

 the disposal of the club, that the 

 whole of Friday would be set aside for 

 sport arid frolic, and that the matters 

 of hall, etc., were acceptable to the 

 society. 



Charles Schenck. 38 West 28th St., 

 Xew York City, is secretary of the 

 committee on sports; he particularly 

 requests that the captains of all teams 

 wishing to take part in the bowling 

 tournament here next .\ugust commu- 

 nicate with him by March 1st. The 

 awards committee of the New York 

 Florists' Club recommended that the 

 club's silver medal be given to Daille- 

 douze Bros, for their new carnation 

 "GG6," the recommendation was agreed 



to. E. J. Norman, Lenox, Mass., and 

 J. T. Butterworth, South Framing- 

 ham, Mass., attended the meeting and 

 made short addresses. The general 

 committees will meet in the club's 

 rooms on the evening of February 

 26th. The home committee was re- 

 quested to provide for the next meet- 

 ing. 



The second series of games between 

 the New York, Flatbush and Hoboken 

 clubs were rolled off on the New York 

 alleys on Monday afternoon, and if 

 this is a forerunner of what the na- 

 tional tournament is to be — well, we 

 don't know what will become of 

 throats and nerves in these parts. 

 This was the greatest affair we have 

 had in New York for some time, there 

 were about seventy-five bowling en- 

 thusiasts present, and the coaching 

 was pathetic, amusing and terrific. 

 Notwithstanding that the New York 

 team selected the two strange alleys 

 (for which Capt. Traendly was criti- 

 cised) they won, and are so far the 

 winners. The third and last series of 

 games, however, will be the most ex- 

 citing, they are to take place on the 

 Flatbush alleys, March 1st. The Flat- 

 bush boys expect to win out, and 

 ought to as they will be on their own 

 vantage ground. In addition to the 

 match games on Monday there were 

 several efforts made by a contingent 

 of rooters on other alleys, but by 

 unanimous vote the press was request- 

 ed not to publicly damage i-eputa- 

 tions by publishing the scores. 



Refreshments of various hues and 

 acceptable materials were plentiful 

 and thoroughly enjoyed, all hands fin- 

 ally sitting down to battle with knife 

 and fork. 



Following are the scores: 



NEW YORK. 



p. TraenrUv IM IM 



P. O'Mara 143 177 



J. Manila 129 103 



L. Hafner 115 114 



.\. Burns 158 K3 



T. Lang 130 144 



S60 S20 

 FL.\TBUSH. 



P. Rilev 12S 13S 



L. Schmutz 107 152 



J. Raynor 91 120 



A. Zeller 172 170 



W. Prosser 119 124 



D. Mc-lUs 132 121 



749 S23 

 HOBOKEN. 



M. Hansen 100 132 



P. Fischer 148 146 



W. Hillebrecht 102 101 



G. Kog-go 126 129 



U Hansen 115 129 



G. Brown 138 103 



729 740 



Theo. Lang offers a prize of $25 to 

 the man having the highest number of 

 pins to his credit at the National 

 Tournament. Philadelphia, Buffalo and 

 Denver papers please copy. Theo.'s 

 voice is in mourning since Monday 

 night. 



Alex. Burns has purchased a place 

 of about 8 acres and several green- 

 houses at Spring Valley, Rockland 

 county, N. Y.. for his son, A. S. Burns, 

 Jr., and will give the new florist a 

 good start in life; other fathers could 

 take a lesson from this. 



The executive committee of the New 

 York Gardeners' Society will meet in 

 the I-'lorists' Club rooms, 8 p. m., Feb- 

 ruary 26th, for the purpose of arrang- 

 ing for a carnation show in New York 

 in March. J. I. D. 



FLATBUSH, N. Y. 



Louis Schmutz has all at once be- 

 come extremely dignified; he is now a 

 grandfather, a daughter having ap- 

 peared to decorate the home of Lowis 

 Schmutz, Jr. Many of the boys are 

 prone to think that Louis was too 

 overjoyed to come near the alleys 

 lately. Scores rolled there on Febru- 

 ary 8th were: 



E. Dailledouze 141 157 



C. Wocker 106 101 127 



P. Daniedouze 133 141 



A. Shaw lOO 109 99 



P. Rilev 114 137 124 



.\. Zeller 134 112 125 



D. Mellis 112 



H. Dailledouze 164 191 



Papa Zeller 88 86 89 



C ^"oerner 78 105 96 



W. Stewart 108 108 



F. Donohue 152 84 



J. Donlan 167 129 131 



D. 



BUFFALO. 



We have fondly hoped that Buffalo 

 would give the visitors to the carna- 

 tion convention such weather as might 

 be expected in old Virginia, but hopes 

 are dispelled and the weather man 

 says "snow and much colder." We can 

 stand lots of it and then be springlike 

 compared to Philadelphia a year ago, 

 where we had four feet of snow, with 

 surface irrigation, sub-irrigation and 

 in some cases interior irrigation. 



Before these words are read the car- 

 nation convention will be past and we 

 believe it will go down in history as 

 the best up to date, as it naturally 

 should, for progi-ess and evolution is 

 the order of the day, as it has been of 

 all days, and retrogression is excep- 

 tional. Business has been quite fair 

 and not the slightest difficulty in fill- 

 ing orders. Rebstock's window is very 

 gay with well grown tulips, daffies and 

 other bulbous stuff. Palmer has al- 

 ways a grand show of his extra good 

 carnations. Scott tries to induce sales 

 with good home-grown voilets and val- 

 ley and a plentiful show of azaleas. 

 Anderson is always neat and tasty and 

 up to date with his display, and Ad- 

 ams is usually so busy at his specialty, 

 defunct policemen, firemen and vet- 

 erans being his patrons, tliat he luis 

 little time to make display, and when 

 short of flowers always falls back on 

 the glorious stars and stripes. 



Our local papers announce the bank- 

 ruptcy of John J. Pickleman, of French 

 street. It is said the place, consisting 

 of twelve houses, is to rent. 



The advance guard of carnationists 

 has arrived in the shape of Walter 

 Mott. Recent drummers to visit Buf- 

 falo are Billy Corbett Boas and the 

 other paper box gentleman. Max Beat- 

 us; Messrs. Ringier, of Chicago; Rolk- 

 er, of New York, and McHutchinson, 

 of New South Wales, and Mr. Dreyer, 

 of Herrmann & Co. W. S. 



