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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Decembek 17, 1903. 



tinguished visitors. There was also a 

 fine exhibition of cut flowers, among them 

 being a fine vase of the new Breitmeyer 

 rose, La Detroit, and an extra tine vase of 

 Corner's new white carnations. Lady 

 Bountiful and The Belle. These were 

 exhibited by C. A. Kuehn. 



Two essays were read, one from Wm. 

 Scott, of Buffalo, N. Y., on ' ' Greenhouse 

 Heating," and the other by J. W. Dun- 

 ford, on "Stem-rot," both being 

 well received. Mr. Scott 's essay was 

 read by ex-President Fillmore. Both 

 gentlemen received a hearty vote of 

 thanks by the club. The meeting 

 opened at 2:30, with all the officers pres- 

 ent. John Koenig and Theo. Klocken- 

 kemper were elected to membership b^- 

 a full vote. F. W. Bruenig and Henry 

 Felter made application for membership. 

 Mr. Brown, of London, England, who 

 has charge of the landscape work of the 

 British pavilion at the World's Fair 

 grounds, was elected an honorary member 

 of the club. The resignation of A. S. 

 Halstedt was read and accepted. 



The carnations exhibited by F. Dorner 

 & Sons Co., of Lafayette, Ind., the 

 judges, Messrs. Winter, Steidel and Dun- 

 ford, voted very fine, having all the re- 

 quirements of first-class carnations. Th'^ 

 Breitmeyer rose, La Detroit, was voted 

 a first-class pink rose by Messrs. Am- 

 mann, Fillmore and Emmons. The cut 

 flowers were much admired and were one 

 of the attractions of the meeting. 



After Mr. Scott's essay a discussion 

 was led by Max Herzog on "Green- 

 house Heating, ' ' which was partic- 

 ipated in by Messrs. Dunford, Em- 

 mons, Ammann, Tide, Winter and 

 Fillmore. This was one of the fea- 

 tures of the meeting which was much 

 enjoyed by the members. Mr. Brown 

 made a few remarks on greenhouse heat- 

 ing from an English standpoint and 

 joined in the discussion. The hour was 

 growing late and the question box was 

 laid over until the next meeting. 



For the next meeting of the club Wal- 

 ter Gilles, of the Missouri Botanical Gar- 

 den, will read an essay on ferns and a 

 discussion will be led by F. J. Fillmore 

 on propagating roses. This meeting will 

 be held on Thursday afternoon, January 

 14, at 2 o'clock. 



Club Notes. 



Fred Ammann and Henry Emmons 

 were the only members present from 

 across the river. 



From Kirkwood, Vice-President Win- 

 ter, H. G. Ude, F. W. Ude, Jr., and W. 

 J. Pilcher were in attendance. Those 

 from Clayton were J. AV. Dunford, John 

 Steidel and R. F. Tesson. 



A new order of business has been in- 

 augurated by the president at the meet- 

 ings, that is to announce. ' ' Does any 

 member wish to become a member of the 

 S. A. F.?" By this six new members 

 were added. 



State Vice-President Chas. Juengel is 

 a very regular attendant and was busy 

 talking up S. A. F. membership and 

 succeeded in capturing a few. 



Mr. Hummell and Walter Gilles, of the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden, enjoyed the 

 meeting very much and will not miss 

 many after this. 



Mr. Brown and Wm. Bouche, from the 

 World 's Fair grounds, came together and 

 were much taken with the proceedings 

 and promised to come often. 



The club now has sixty-seven members 

 and it is expected by the time of the 

 Societv of American Florists meets here 



in August, the membership will reach 

 100, and efforts will be made after the 

 first of the year to accomplish this. 



Charlie Kuehn and Frank Ellis, two 

 of our wholesale men, were very much 

 interested at the meeting. These two 

 gentlemen never miss a meeting. 



After the meeting adjourned the mem- 

 bers missed Carl Beyer, Theo. Miller and 

 Frank Ellis. They were afterwards 

 found in a nearby bowling alley. 



Messrs. Pilcher, Koenig and Kuehn 

 promised not to talk chickens at the next 

 meeting. 



Various Notes. 



Henry Baer, of Peoria, 111., spent t\\" 

 days with us the past week, calling on tin- 

 trade. 



Eodger Peterson, of Cincinnati, was in 

 town Friday, showing fine Gloire de Lor- 

 raine begonias to the trade at Suehn'-;, 



Miss Belle Miller, of Springfield, 111., 

 spent a day in .St. Louis last week, bu 

 ing Christmas presents. 



Mr. Gullett, of Lincoln, 111., came 

 down on an excursion to see the sights, 

 but was caught by the big snow storm, 

 which prevented his going out to thr 

 World 's Fair grounds. 



The past week the Missouri Horticul 

 tural Society held its forty-sixth annual 

 meeting at Columbia, Mo., and many 

 the leading horticulturists of the state 

 attended. 



Charles M. Figeley, representing E. 

 H. Hunt, of Chicago, is with us this week 

 in the interest of bulbs and florists' sup- 

 plies. 



Shaw Banquet. 



At the Mercantile Club last Fridin' 

 night the fourteenth annual banquet was 

 given to florists, nurserymen and garden- 

 ers by the directors of the Missouri Bo- 

 tanical Garden. The attendance was nc t 

 quite so large as usual. The entertain- 

 ment furnished by Messrs. Kessler aini 

 Taylor, of the World's Fair, was one of 

 the' features. They gave stereopticoM 

 views of the landscape work and buiM- 

 ings at the World 's Fair grounds and lec- 

 tured on them. Prof. Wm. Trelea.so 

 acted as toastmaster in his usual hap]iy 

 style. Among the florists who attenilid 

 were Emil Schray, J. F. Ammann, J. W. 

 Dunford,* E. F. Tesson, Frank Fillmore, 

 Max Herzog, Otto Koenig, C. C. Sanders, 

 Theo. Miller, Wm. C. Young, E. W. Guv. 

 F. K. Balthis, E. J. Mohr, C. J. .Tuengcl, 

 J. J. Beneko and others. Andrew ileyer. 

 Jr., our renowned park superintendent, 

 was also present, but Park Commissioner 

 Anil failed to come. The decorations 

 were, as usual, very tasty. 



Bowling. 



The last bowling before the holidays 

 was done Monday night, with only a few 

 present. Mr. Warren, of Louisville, Ky., 

 was a visitor. The scores: 



Pluyer 1st. 2d. .3(1. 4th. T'l. 



C, A. Kuehn lO.T 19-4 l.SO I.SO 717 



J. J. BpliPk-e ISi) 1S.3 14- 164 6,S.-i 



Then Miller l-">5 158 12.3 165 601 



F. J. Meinhardt 127 119 97 157 500 



F M Ellis 173 119 123 135 550 



Mr Warren 113 100 122 1.35 470 



O 'n. Beneke I." 129 161 114 661 



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Club Meeting;. 



The last club meeting for the year de- 

 veloped an attendance of over fifty mem- 

 bers and a most happy and harmonious 

 time. Lyman B. Craw, of the Lord & 

 Burnham Co., was elected a member and 

 six new names were proposed. Letters 

 of declination were read from Messrs. 

 Birnie, Duckham, Haffner, Wheeler, Sie- 

 brecht and Mauda, who were nominees 

 for office. The voting for the club's of- 

 fices resulted as follows: For president, 

 Traendly, 17; Troy, 13; Siebreeht, 1; 

 Beaulieu, 1. For vice-president, Traend- 

 ly, 14; Du Rie, 9; Duckham, 3; Sie- 

 breeht, 3. For secretary. Young, 31; 

 Wheeler, 1. For treasurer, Weathered, 

 31; Nash, 2. For trustees, Wallace, 28; 

 Elliott, 25; Long, 13; Nugent. 12; Mil- 

 ler, 10; Thomas, 10. Mr. Traendly hav- 

 ing received the distinguished .honor of 

 being elected both president and vice- 

 president, a second election for the lat- 

 ter office resulted in the selection of Mr. 

 Butterfield. 



Eloquent addresses were made by the 

 successful candidates, in which the club's 

 welfare was the principal theme and 

 everything said gives promise of a stren- 

 uous year in the hands of the new offi- 

 cers. . Dinners, outings, bowling, exhibi- 

 tions and interesting monthly entertain- 

 ments being among the responsibilities, 

 assumed. The 19U3 outing committee 

 received the club 's vote of confidence 

 in their unanimous election to the dinner 

 committee and the club almost unani- 

 mously decided upon a repetition of last 

 year's banquet, in preference to a beef- 

 steak dinner, notwithstanding the epi- 

 curean eloquence of Mr. ElUott in its 

 favor. A committee, Messrs. O'Hara, 

 Henshaw. Plumb and Elliott, was ap- 

 pointed to draft suitable resolutions on 

 the deaths of George Cottam and Thomas 

 Weathered. 



The committee on awards, Messrs. Leu- 

 ker, Birnie and Miller, gave an excel- 

 lent report on the seedling carnations 

 shown by John Eeimels, of Woodhaven, 

 L. I., and recommended a later exhibit 

 of a larger number of blooms. Two va- 

 rieties were shown, one an immense red, 

 the parentage of Crane and Prosperity; 

 the other a beautiful light pink, a cross 

 of Mrs. Jas. Dean and Prosperity. Mr. 

 Reimels has four pinks, four whites and 

 several more reds in his collection of 

 seedlings, samples of which he will doubt- 

 less exhibit at the Detroit convention. 



The closing ceremonies included an elo- 

 quent address by E. G. Hill, who char- 

 acterized the former speakers of the 

 evening as ' ' educated, briliiaiit and hand- 

 some, " giving the palm to Mr. Elliott 

 as the best looking of the galaxy. He 

 said the west was as busy christening 

 new roses and raiding nei> "arnations 

 and chrysanthemums ancf so trying to 

 keep within srieaking distance of the 

 Daillcdouzes, Wards, Herringtons and 

 Duekhams of the east. He said the west- 

 erners were up and doing and making 

 progress, referred to the large areas of 

 glass in Illinois, Indiana and ^Michigan 

 and the old fear that its supply might 

 be overdone, whereas the contrary had 

 been most encouragingly demonstrated, 

 flowers never having been in such de- 

 mand nor such prices realized in the past 

 as now. This, he said, sneaks well for 

 the florist business. Wealth and intelli; 

 gence are on the increase and onr busi- 

 ness is bound to progress, as we are on 

 the threshold of greater results than 

 have ever been achieved. It was a niost 



