jANUAnv 14, 1004. 



The Weekly Horists' Review. 



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NEW YORK. 



Club Meeting:. 



The Xew York Florists' Club's first 

 meeting of 1904 was held at the rooms 

 iu the^Grand Opera House building on 

 Mondav evening, and nearly fifty of the 

 prominent members of the club were 

 present. In the absence of Mr. Troy, 

 the late president, John Young intro- 

 duced the new presiding officer, i'rank H. 

 Traendlv. who acquitted himself with 

 all the dignity and ease of a veteran, 

 demonstrating the club's good judgment 

 in its choice. Mr. Traendly's address, 

 which was practical and to the point, did 

 him much credit and follows in full : 



In assuming tbe duties of in-esideiit I desiri' 

 to thaiil; vou fur tlie boiioi- you liuve contei-red 

 upon roe bv selecting me as your presiding 

 officer (or tbe present year. Tbe club is to 

 be congratulated on Its condition, baving shown 

 progress durinir tbe past year, as is shown by 

 the followini figures: Receipts. $1,072.50: dis- 

 bursements. $038.33; balance on hand, $912.a,'<; 

 due from members, $752.50. 



Amon;.- the suggestions I have to otter for 

 tbe good and welfare of the club for tbe com- 

 ing year is the establishing of special nights 

 tor 'the exhibition of different varieties of 

 flowers, devoting one date for carnations, an- 

 other for roses and so on through the list. I 

 am fully aware that this is not a new sugges- 

 tion. Init trust tbe committee of awards may 

 be able to stimulate interest in these particular 

 Bights. 



I think the club win agree with me that 

 something more interesting is needed than to 

 attend the monthly meetings to transact 

 routine business and listen occasionall.v to an 

 essay. It requires some courage to refer to 

 a subject that recalls disagreeable memories, 

 that of tiower shows, yet I have in mind that 

 a way might be devised to arrange to hold an 

 exhibition on a small scale in a hall of moder- 

 ate size, open to the public free or by charging 

 a nominal admission. I suggest that an ad- 

 visory committee be' appointed to consider the 

 advisability of such a plan and report at an 

 early date as to whether such an exhibition 

 could be given without involving the club to 

 any great extent financially, or. in fact, wheth- 

 er it would be at all practicable. I merely 

 make the suggestion for what it is worth and 

 to get an expression of your views on the sub- 

 ject of future shows. 



I would recommend to the board of trustees 

 that it might be well to have the funds of tbe 

 club deix>sited with a trust company, where 

 they would be earning fi-om two to two and 

 one-half per cent a year, as every little helps. 

 That the summer outings are popular with 

 our members is shown by the success attending 

 them for the past three years. If it is your 

 wish to have another this summer, a committee, 

 should be appointed at once, with power to go 

 Ahead and make arrangements and secure suit- 

 able grounds. 



I should like to see the dinner committee get 

 to work and complete arrangements for ttiis 

 «vent. 



Having served my apprenticeship with tbe 

 entertainment committee. I feel that I am justi- 

 fied in venturing the advice to the club to show 

 a moderate liberality in an appropriation fur 

 the use of the committee. While the "canteen" 

 serves its purpose, the committee should also 

 bear in mind that something in the library 

 line would also be welcome. 



l.^nle>s the Xew York Florists' Club wants 

 to be relegated to the ranks of tbe "has beens" 

 as bowlers, it would be advisable for its ath- 

 letic members to take an interest in tbe lK>wling 

 club, so that we may be creditably represented 

 at the St. Louis convention this summer. 



I would impress upon you the importance of 

 being on hand when the meeting is called to 

 order at 7:.30. that we may encourage out-of- 

 town members to attend. 



In conclusion let me ask your indulgence for 

 any shortcomings on my part: I have the best 

 interests of the club at heart and will, with 

 .vour support and co-operation, endeavor to per- 

 form my duties to your satisfaction. 



Mr. Traeudly was followed by Messrs. 

 Butterfield, Young and Weathered, each 

 of whom acknowledged gracefully and 

 gratefully the honor bestowed and prom- 

 ising their co-operation in making the 

 coming year the banner year in the club's 

 history-. The various committees wore 

 announced by the president. Mr. O'Mara 

 spoke eloquently of the club's apprecia- 

 tion of the good work of the committees 

 of 1903. and also read the resolutions on 

 the death of Thos. W. Weathered and 

 Ceorge M. Cottam. 



The annual dinner committee consists 

 of Messrs. Lawrence Haflfncr, Lyman B. 

 Craw and Walter Sheridan, and has in- 



structions to arrange for the festivity 

 soon after the next regular meeting of the 

 club, the second Monday in February. 



Six new members were elected and 

 eight proposed, evidencing a renewed in- 

 terest that should bring the total mem- 

 bership close to 300 before the end of the 

 year. Letters of resignation were read 

 "from Messrs. A. Herrington and J. M. 

 Keller and regretfidly accepted. The 

 secretary of the Morris County Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Association sent a 

 letter of invitation to the club members 

 to attend the annual banquet on Wednes- 

 day evening and a vote of thanks was 

 tendered for the courtesy. Quite a few 

 will doubtless accept the invitation. 



The reports of the secretary and treas- 

 urer were very interesting and showed an 

 excellent standing of the club as to mem- 

 bership and finances, 237 names being 

 on the roll and nearly $1,000 in the treas- 

 ury. Mr. Sheridan, president of the 

 board of trustees, in his report com- 

 mended the treasurer for the splendid 

 showing made and the secretary for the 

 neatniss and accuracy of his records. 



A discussion of the president 's address 

 was participated in by Messrs. O'Mara, 

 Samuel Henshaw and Mr. Butterfield. 

 References to the splendid success of the 

 florists' clubs of Europe and especially 

 Holland in their exhibitions and the act- 

 ive co-operation of their members, were 

 made as an incentive to progress here. 

 Mr. Henshaw gave interesting reminis- 

 cences of the exhibitions of twenty years 

 ago, and declared that he himself was 

 "as young and enthusiastic today as 

 fifty years ago." A motion was passed 

 entrusting to the club's oflScers the mat- 

 ter of holding a flower show during the 

 present year and the advisability of co- 

 operating with the American Institute 

 and using the same grand hall as in 1903. 

 An excellent outing committee was ap- 

 pointed, with W. J. Elliott as chairinan, 

 and another summer celebration similar, 

 to the last is already under way. A 

 committee was appointed at the sugges- 

 tion of Treasurer Weathered to arrange 

 for the printing of certificates of mem- 

 bership in keeping with the club's repu- 

 tation. Jlessrs. Young, Nash and Daille- 

 douze were appointed to draw up suit- 

 able resolutions on the death of Ernst 

 G. Asmus. 



A splendid exhibit of seedling carna- 

 tions was made by C. W. Ward. A fine 

 white, a pink, No. 31 of 1900, and the 

 grand red. No. 303 of 1901. The com- 

 mittee of awards reported most favorably 

 as to all and a committee was appointed 

 to visit the Cottage Gardens and report 

 at the next meeting of the club as to 

 No. 303. 



W. H. Elliott, of Brighton, Mass., was 

 a visitor and gave a very interesting ad- 

 dress, commending the enthusiasm and 

 interest shown by the club and its pro- 

 gressive character, declaring he was un- 

 able to detect any signs of paralysis, and 

 adding his testimony as to the efficiency 

 of the canteen service. He congratulated 

 the president and members on the discus- 

 sions and speeches he had listened to 

 with so much interest and closed with 

 manv practical suggestions as to exhibi- 

 tions, especially of carnations, to which 

 flower he awarded the palm for progress 

 during the year that has closed. He^an- 

 ticipates a great chrysanthemum show 

 in Boston in November. His admiration 

 of the courage of the New York club, 

 after its vicissitudes in the flower show 

 business, was unbounded. He spoke feel- 

 ingly of his friend, Ernst Asmus, and the 



collapse from overwork he suffered at 

 the Lenox Lyceum exhibition some years 

 ago. 



Various Items. 



The seedsmen have their ears close 

 to the ground and hear the voice of the 

 vernal season. William Elliott is already- 

 perfecting plans for the opening of the 

 auction season, which will announce itself 

 unusually early this year and doubtless 

 in time for Easter, which now is only 

 ten weeks away. We are already forget- 

 ting that a week ago we had the coldest 

 wave that has swept over New York in 

 a generation. 



Among the victims of the zero visita- 

 tion is Wm. Hanft, of Thos. Young, 

 Jr. 's. Sixth avenue store, who has been 

 confined to his house a week with a se- 

 rious attack of the grippe. 



J. O. S. Hanft, of Hanft Bros., Madi- 

 son avenue, is convalescing at St. Au- 

 gustine, Fla., after a long tussle with 

 typhoid fever. It was a close call and 

 he will not return to business before 

 May. 



The present week is "banquet week 

 for sure. On Wednesday evening the 

 Dutchess County Horticultural Society 

 celebrates at Poughkeepsie, while the 

 Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Society has a smoker and vaudeville at 

 Madison. On Friday the New Jersey 

 Floricultural Society dines at Orange. 

 Fortunately the Tarrytown people didn't 

 get hungry the same evening and have 

 placed their ' ' feast of reason ' ' ahead to 

 January 28. 



The ' ball season, too, has awakened, 

 and the regular events of the season in 

 this line are at hand. On Thursday the 

 Young Arion ball takes place at Arion 

 hall, and on February 5 at Madison 

 Square Garden the annual Arion ball, the 

 greatest of its kind, with elaborate dec- 

 orations, both in charge of Hanft Bros. 

 The latter has been their especial prov- 

 ince for over a quarter of a century. This 

 firm had a novel decoration at the dinner 

 of the New York Athletic Club on last 

 Thursday evening, a floral printing yiress 

 with wheels, cylinder and all the features 

 elaborately worked out in roses, smilax, 

 purple fciil, etc. Two bunches at the 

 Hammersely funeral sent by Hanft Bros.. 

 were of the finest orchids, one composed 

 of six dozen cattleyas and the other con- 

 taining 470 white orchids. 



At all of the private balls the best 

 work of the Metropolitan florists will be 

 in evidence and with the opera season in 

 full blast and cat, automobile, and other 

 society exhibitions attracting fashionable 

 people the good effects should soon be- 

 gin to be felt by the florists generally 

 and from now on until Lent there should 

 be "something doing" all the time. 



Bloomingdale Bros, will have, when 

 completed, one of the finest conservatories 

 and tlorist stores in the country, under 

 the able management of Mr. Burnham. 

 During the past ten years this establish- 

 ment has grown rapidly and on legitimate 

 lines. No antagonism to the legitimate 

 florist trade has been developed. Only 

 the best of stock is handled and fair 

 prices are maintained. The new green- 

 house on the roof being built by Hiteh- 

 ings & Co., will be 42x98, and connected 

 wiUi it will be a reception room 22x42, 

 fitted up in the latest Parisian style, wifB 

 palms, fountains and all the accessories. 

 The old conservatories are 25x150, and 

 25x50, the new store will be 40x40 and 

 beautiful in all its fittings and details. 

 Flatbush celebrated its annual depart- 



