July 3, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



169 



Charles Zeller. 



some of them are sure to have good 

 taste. The use of vines to cover factory 

 walls, healthy and suitable trees for our 

 residence streets, the use of more flower- 

 ing shrubs and herbaceous plants, to in- 

 still the love of flowers and their culture 

 in our public schools, is part of the work 

 set out by the society, and it's not likely 

 they will advocate the making of more 

 beds of geraniums on our lawns, so I 

 don't look for any increase in future 

 years in the use of geraniums, coleus and 

 the rest of the cheap bedding plants, 

 but I do look to an increase and a large 

 one, in the use of vines, shrubs, roses, 

 herbaceous plants, specimen palms, etc. 

 It is only what other larger and older 

 cities have passed through. 



We have been particularly barren of 

 drummers of late till the advent of Harry 

 Balsley a few days ago. After two 

 months' severe illness and a close ap- 

 proach to that large kiln where pots are 

 burnt very hard and never sold, he turns 

 up well and hearty, and it is consoling 

 to know that for length of stay and hot 

 air diffused he makes up for a score of 

 the ordinary drummer. W. S. 



NEW YORK. 



The scales containing prices have been 

 bouncing up and down according to cir- 

 cumstances during the past week and 

 gome grades of roses and carnations 

 have become scarce or have disappeared 

 altogether. The annual clearing out is 

 responsible. Many wait till after school 

 closings before they reluctantly pile their 

 pets and beauti"s into rubbish heaps to 

 make room for the younger set. 



We have nothing worth relating. 

 There ought to be some mighty good 

 checker players among the New York 

 florists, because that is the occupation 

 in many stores. Ping Pong, too, is be- 

 ing played on the tables hitherto occu- 

 pied by orders and an epidemic of golf 

 is threatened. 



Monday ne.\t is the club's outing and 

 many are practicing baseball, running, 

 etc., in the rear of the wholesale stores. 

 It is expected that this will be a "Bed 

 Letter Day" in New York. The com- 

 mittee have worked hard on the details 

 attending such and assure all a jolly 

 good time. The late comers may get 

 their tickets at the boat or can take 

 train to College Point and get out to 

 Wetzel's Grove, but they will miss the 

 misses and the fun of the sail. 



Mr. John Burton, president of the S. 

 A. F. O. H., and Mr. T. Cartledge, of 

 Philadelphia, were here during the week. 

 Such men are always welcome in New 

 York and it is to be hoped that when 

 President Burton occupies his chair at 

 Asheville, he will face and be surrounded 

 by all those who were at Buffalo last 

 August. John deserves all the credit 

 and appreciation due an honest, whole- 

 souled man. 



Arthur Dacre, for many years with 

 Thorley, is now manager for Mr. Theo. 

 Lang at his Sixth avenue store. There 

 are rumors of many changes next fall. 



The New York Herald of Sunday and 

 private letters give very descriptive ac- 

 counts of the great losses to European 

 florists owing to the postponement of 

 King Edward's coronation. Hundreds 

 of thousands of dollars were lost in 

 plants, flowers and fruits. Covent Gar- 

 den was paralyzed. It is expected here 

 that the most of the rich Americans 

 who went over for the occasion will 

 shortly return to spend some of their 

 surplus money in America. What's 

 one's loss is another's gain. J. I. D. 



FLATBUSH, N. Y. 



The 27th of June was Charles (Papa) 

 Zeller 's 75th birthday and it was very 

 fittingly remembered by the Flatbush 

 Florists' Bowling Club. Mr. Zeller has 

 been ill for some time but on Thursday 



evening he was induced to come out and 

 watch the boys on the alleys where they 

 displayed their usual great generalship 

 in leveling the wooden soldiers. After 

 the games the party adjourned to the 

 dining room where they enjoyed the 

 spread, including the vintage and cigars, 

 and at the proper time Eugene Daille- 

 douze, acting as chairman, arose, and 

 after a few appropriate words presented 

 Mr. Zeller with a very beautiful silver 

 loving cup inscribed, "Presented to 

 Charles Zeller on his 75th birthday by 

 the Flatbush Florists' Bowling Club, 

 June 27th." 



Mr. Zeller was overcome with the evi- 

 dences of good will and the beauty and 

 size of the token of remembrance and 

 his response was the sparkling of a 

 memory of the early day when he, in 

 company with Dailledouze and Gard, es- 

 tablished the present business in Flat- 

 bush in 1861. It was they who, in 1866, 

 gave to commercial floriculture the two 

 greatest helps at the time in carnations 

 Edwardsii and La Purite. He drew at- 

 tention to the immense vase of beau- 

 tiful seedling carnations which the 

 Dailledouze Bros, had placed in the cen- 

 ter of the table and said he often 

 dreamed of the possibilities in floricul- 

 ture, but the marvelous strides made in 

 the past 30 or 40 years had far ex- 

 ceeded the dreams and calculations of 

 all the old and young workers. In fin- 

 ishing he asserted that he never felt old 

 whilst among plants and such friends 

 and he hoped to be with them on many 

 occasions to come. 



Chairman Dailledouze called upon 

 each present to add to the verbal testi- 

 mony of love for the great young old 

 man and among those who offered the 

 best of wishes were W. J. Stewart and 

 J. I. Donlan, who both spoke of Mr. 

 Zeller 's part in the hearts and history 

 of horticulture, John I. Kaynor, Carl 

 Woerntr, Clem Wocker, D. -. Mellis, 

 Patrick Riley, Paul Dailledouze, Henry 

 Dailledouze, Mr. Ludwig, Alf. Zeller 

 and W. H. ^siebreeht. One was absent 

 but all thought of him ; he was Louis 

 Schmutz, who recently met with a se- 

 vere accident. 



Another unfortunate circumstance 

 was the smashing of Samuel Butter- 

 field's fingers between the bowling balls. 

 Mr. Butterfield had to retire early to 

 have his hand attended to. The Flat- 

 bush Club does not expect to be repre- 

 sented at Asheville in August. 



The scores of the night were: 



W. H. Siebrecht 161 166 



A. Zeller 164 162 



Henry Dailledouze 107 124 



Paul Dailledouze 151 87 



Carl VVoerner 146 166 



J. I. Donlan 126 122 



J. I. Ravnor 119 



P. Rlle.y 142 128 



E. Dailledouze 214 131 



Clement Wocker 146 108 



Ludwig 90 94 



D. Y. Mellis '44 



W. J. Stewart 183 



J. I. D. 



ONCINNATL 



The Market. 



Although business was hardly up to 

 last week it was highly satisfactory and 

 had there been enough stock there is no 

 question but it would have been one of 

 the best weeks of the past month. Al- 

 together June has been a record breaker 

 and the florists have reaped a rich har- 

 vest. 



