MARCH S, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



4U 



Ball Decoration at Madison Square Garden, New York. 



a ricli, creamy white, suffused with 

 pinlc, of great size and with fine, 

 heavy foliage and good stems, at- 

 tracted great attention, as did also 

 the white rose Ivory, of the Ameri- 

 can Rose Co.. of Washington. D. C. 

 This is a sport from Golden Gate, of 

 large size, great substance and fine 

 stems. The yase of Gates of this 

 concern was not up to the splendid 

 show they made last year. The de- 

 mand upon their houses has been sucli 

 that their roses have not had a chance 

 for perfect development. Mr. Edwin 

 A. Seidewitz had some well bloomCii 

 azaleas. 



Club Meeting. 

 At the club's meeting in the even- 

 ing, Mr. Wm. B. Sands and Mr. .James 

 Pentland withdrew from the club. 

 Mr. Sands was the instigator, if not 

 the originator, of the club, and had 

 been its treasurer since its start. He 

 had been the secretary, almost during 

 its entire existence, of the Maryland 

 Horticultural Society. This was main- 

 ly a plant society, composed of ama- 

 teurs, especially men of mean.s with 

 a fondness for plants and llowers, and 

 of commercial growers. Some atten- 

 tion was paid to fruits and vegetables, 

 but at its shows the collections at 

 private places were mainly drawn 

 upon to make noteworthy public dis- 

 plays. Mr. Sands saw that in a so- 

 ciety of this sort there was no place 

 for the practical men, and after some 

 discussion with the managers he re- 



ceived authority to call, and as- 

 sembled a lueeting of the working gar- 

 deners and florists, eiuiiloyers and em- 

 ployes, to provide for regular meel- 

 ings_ip discuss topics of interest to 

 the trade. The idea proved a suc- 

 cess, and from this initiative began 

 the Gardeners' Club. 



Mr. Sands, who had long been editor 

 of the American P^armer, an agricul- 

 tural paper, was for years the only 

 amateur member, but later became en- 

 gaged commercially in the production 

 of cut flowers. He continues to de- 

 scribe his place as "amateurish," but 

 it is said to be now quite consider- 

 able in extent and to give products 

 of average quality. He has as its 

 manager Mr. John L. Hogarth, an in- 

 telligent and competent young cul- 

 tivator, formerly kno-wn to the trade 

 here. 



Mr. Pentland, as the readers of The 

 Review know, is one of the oldest and 

 most respected florists here, and was 

 quite recently president of the club. 

 It is understood these resignations 

 resulted from dissatisfaction with a 

 recent admission to the club. Differ- 

 ing fi-om most organizations, where 

 two or three black balls reject, here 

 a majority must vote against a can- 

 didate to defeat him. 



Some preparatory steps were taken 

 to prepare for the carnation conven- 

 tion. 



Notes.' 

 Plans have been drawn for and work 



will soon begin on three new green- 

 houses, each lixioe feet, at St. Mary's 

 Industrial School. This is a reforma- 

 tory institution for bo>s, under church 

 control, but largely supported by the 

 city. There is alread.v quite a large 

 amount of glass there under which is 

 grown bedding stuff and cut flowers, 

 which find their way to our market. 



The houses, and all the necessary 

 labor, which is furnished by the in- 

 mates of the school, are leased to a 

 florist, and the competition of products 

 grown by this class of labor is antago- 

 nized strongly by the trade. It is a 

 development of the ever recurring op- 

 position to the employment of the In- 

 mates of penal institutions and re- 

 formatories in trades competing with 

 other workmen. Indeed, the training 

 of the class of boys to the gardener's 

 business is much objurgated. 



Up to this time (March 3) the de- 

 mand for flowers continues quite equal 

 to the supply, and the promise is that 

 whilst large social functions will be 

 less numerous, the milder and smaller 

 festivities of Lent will continue to re- 

 quire pretty much all the output of 

 flowers which this market affords. 



RIX. 



LOWELL, MASS. 

 Whatever else the "Spindle" city 

 may lack in, it has made noteworthy 

 strides in so far as modern, up-to-date 

 floral establishments are concerned. I 

 doubt if any other city of its size can 



