OCTOEKR 16, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



679 



First Prize Decorated Automobile. 



to obtain some of it witli poor results 

 for their efl'orts. 



A full arcount of the banquet given in 

 honor of ]Mr. P. Welch on the twenty- 

 fifth anniversary of his start in the cut 

 flo\rer commission business, will be found 

 elsewhere in this issue. 



J. S. Manter. 



A DECORATED AUTO. 



The accompanying engraving is from 

 a photograph of an automobile decorated 

 by A. Gude & Brother, Washington, and 

 which took first prize, a handsome sil- 

 ver loving cup, in the parade of motor 

 carriages during the Grand Army En- 

 campment in the national capital last 

 week. The two gentlemen in the auto- 

 mobile are Col. C. E. Wood, the owner, 

 on the right in the picture, and William 

 F. Gude, president of the Business Men's 

 Association, and member of the firm of 

 A. Gude & Brother, on the left. 



The auto was a bower of roses, chrys- 

 anthemums and carnations. The front 

 was a mass of Kaiserin and American 

 Beauty roses, the sides were tastefully 

 festooned with Asparagus Sprengeri in- 

 terspersed «nth pink caWlations, and 

 huge bows and flowing streamers of 

 pink satin ribbon. The rear of the car- 

 riage was a bank of deep red roses and 

 white chrysanthemums, and the wheels 

 were decorated with pink roses. 



NEW YORK. 



Club Meeting. 



Nearly fifty members were present at 

 the meeting of the New York Florists' 

 Club on Jlonday evening. The exhibi- 

 tion committee, through Mr. O'Mara, re- 

 ported preparations for the great exhi- 

 bition as progressing finely and eveiy- 

 thing indicating a grand display. 



Mr. Lager, of Lager & Hurrell, read a 

 paper on "Collecting Orchids in the Jun- 

 gles of South America," giving many 

 thrilling experiences with floods a'ud rep- 

 tiles, hunger and hardship. He consid- 

 ers Colombia the greatest place in the 

 world for orchid gathering, there being 

 a gi'eater number of species there than 

 in any other locality. He was given the 

 thanks of the club for his essay. 



A resolution bv Mr. O'Mara regarding 



the menace of the coal strike to every 

 one in the trade was adopted and ordered 

 sent to the Governor of New York. 



Robert Craig was present and gave a 

 humorous address on flower show mat- 

 ters, suggesting the introduction of ath- 

 letic sports as an incentive to attend- 

 ance and intimating that a boxing match 

 between Julius Roehrs and John N. May 

 would prove a drawing card. 



Short addresses were also made by 

 Mr. Sander, Jr., of London, and Mr. 

 Dimmoek. 



Among the Growers. 



Mr. A. J. Clarke, of Clarke Bros., Port- 

 land, Ore., prolonged his visit East and 

 "took in" several of the large establish- 

 ments around New York last week. He 

 is a native of Springfield, Ohio, and 

 landed in Portland thirteen years ago 

 with less than a dollar capital. Now the 

 firm has fine greenhouse plants in 'Frisco 

 and Portland land retail stores and nurs- 

 ery interests that promise, and have al- 

 ready materialized, a supply of "velvet" 

 that would encourage any young man of 

 enterprise to listen to tlie admonition 

 of Horace Greeley. H. J. Millatt, for- 

 merly of Kansas City, is manager of the 

 Portland retail department. 



Out at Carlton Hill at Julius Roehrs' 

 everytliing is about ready for the winter. 

 Rebuilding has been in progress all sum- 

 mer and the big plant is now thoroughly 

 in shape for the season. Sixteen of the 

 old houses have been replaced by twelve 

 enlarged ones. The change to heating by 

 ci-ude oil is in progress and all will be 

 ready for any emergency. Burners are 

 being put in all the furnaces and cold 

 weather begins to lose its terrors. 



Mr. Roehrs has a grand stock of ev- 

 erything this season, his Christmas nov- 

 elties being already booked nearly to the 

 limit. His orchid department is almost 

 unlimited, and ,an exhibition in itself. 

 ITie bay tree stock is nuich depleted but 

 plenty of all sizes still remain. Mi-. 

 Roehrs will have a fine exhibit at the 

 New York Club's show this fall. 



Across the way Bobbink & Atkins are 

 "booming" in all their departments. 

 Tlieir 00 acres of nursery and ornament- 

 al stock is a surprise to'the visitor from 

 afar, and their development of the busi- 

 ness in the last five years indicates won- 

 derful groAvth in the future. They are 



constantly adding to their acres, build- 

 ing new greenhouses and immense pack- 

 ing sheds and cellars, and there seems 

 to be no limit to their ambition. 



They imported in one shipment this 

 year fourteen cars of bay trees, a verit- 

 able forest in May, now much reduced, 

 as their sales have been constant during 

 the suiumer. Their care of this stock, 

 cnroful trimming in the spring and late 

 in the fall, and constant attention, are 

 apparent in their handsome shape and 

 excellent condition now. Mr. Bobbink 

 thinks: "If it were not for the labor 

 question bays could be grown as profit- 

 ably in this country as in Belgium, the 

 growth being twice as strong here." 

 Their collection of evergreens is large 

 and varied, many of them fine speci- 

 mens, and in twenty-five to thirty varie- 

 ties, among them some grand stock of 

 grafted Colorado blue spruce, Irish yews, 

 golden arbor vitje, concolor spruce, Nord- 

 mann's fir. sciadopitys and retinospora. 

 The plants of standard, pyramid and 

 globular buxus are apparently the better 

 for a year of American growth. 



Items. 



Thei-e arc whispers of an exodus of 

 some of the wholesalers from Twenty- 

 seventh to Thirtieth streets, to the third 

 floor of the Coogan building, but they 

 still lack confirmation. 



Chas. Jlillang. of Twenty-ninth streeit, 

 is building a 20 ft. sq. conservatory 

 back of his wholesale store, intending to 

 handle palms and plants from some of 

 the best growers, and for the trade only. 



Hicks & Crawbuck have "settled down" 

 rapidly in their new quarters on the 

 New York side, and are satisfied with 

 their venture already. They are han- 

 dling some excellent stock, their "spe- 

 cial" Maids and Brides being "as good 

 as they make 'em." 



John I. Eaynor has Ijeen handling 

 some grand 'fancy carnations this last 

 week and has all arrangements com- 

 pleted for a constant supply daily dur- 

 ing the season. 



Tlie Millang family form a quiartette 

 now of wholesalers, Mr. August having 

 just put out his shingle in the Coogan 

 building. 



Anton Then, of Chicago, and his wife 

 have been visiting their boy at John 

 May's, Summit, N. J., and taking in the 

 sights of the metropolis on the side. 



Mr. and Sirs. Murdock, of Pittsburg, 

 have also been "in gay New York." 



Next Friday, Sander & Son's annual 

 orchid sale takes place at deary's. 



Ford Bros.' new store is brilliant with 

 paint, carpets, lights and a grand stock 

 of Lager, Pacific, Henderson and Robin- 

 son chrysanthemums. 



J. V. Phillips, Jr., of Brooklyn, has 

 accepted a position as manager of the 

 fine new retail store of Evans, of Colo- 

 rado Springs, and seems much pleased 

 with the change of scene and climate. 

 Those glorious mountains would make 

 any man ambitious and successful. 



The Bowling Club met on Monday aft- 

 ernoon and organized for the season, 

 with Will Siebrecht, president; W. 

 Mansfield, secretary; L. Hafner, treas- 

 urer; Theo. Lang, captain. Mr. Traend- 

 ly is "master of ceremonies," with vocal 

 privileges added, and everything prom- 

 ises an interesting season. The monthly 

 dues were placed at $1, as usual, and a 

 special clause added to the by-laws 

 reads: "All visitors will be made heart- 

 ily welcome, and -will pay 50 cents a 

 night for bowling privileges" — which 

 proviso makes it possible for all who 



