The Weekly Florists' Review, 



433 



out 



till. 



says the St. Louis delegation "ill leave 

 Sunday, August 16, ai 9:05 p. m., via Wa- 

 bash railroad, in a special sleeper for its 

 exclusive use. arrive in Chicago at 7:30 

 a. in. Monday, and leave Chicago for 

 Milwaukee Tuesday morning. The return 

 tickets are good until August 25, and will 

 admit of a short stop-over in Chicago if 

 desired. A pleasant trip is expected, and 

 those who have failed to send in their 

 names should do so at once and sei ure a 

 berth on the St. Louis special sleeper to 

 Chicago. The transportation committee 

 has now some thirty-five names of per- 

 sons who will make the trip to Milwau- 

 kee. 



Bowlinj;. 



The bowling (dub held its last practice 

 games Monday night. A new set of 

 pine was use. | and the score below will 

 show what was made by the team that 

 will represent St. Louis at Milwaukee 

 next. Wednesday afternoon. The club 

 has discovered a new florist bowler who 

 is said to be a " crackerjack, " but never 

 made it known. He will be at Milwaukee 

 and may roll with the team. His name is 

 Vincent Gorley, who has a store at Fif- 

 teenth street and Cass avenue. 



Player— 1st. 2d. 3d. Tl. Av. 



Ii.-u.-kc 200 15f. isl r.lii is.. 



Kiichn 154 160 223 537 170 



<;u.v 144 1S3 l.",7 484 101 



Adels 136 154 177 467 156 



Miller .152 II.: 145 14n 140 

 Sebray 130 140 130 400 133 



!>16 036 1026 2S6S . . . 

 Extra ii..-i 1st. 2d. 3.1. Tl. Av. 



F M. Kill- 124 141 126 391 13IJ 



K. 0. Weber 12:; US 23S 12U 



J. J. B. 



NEW YORK. 



To the Convention. 



Four days more and the New Yorkers 

 and their neighbors will begin. their jour- 

 ney to the Cream City. Sunday at 1 p. 

 m. the exodus begins. That it will be 

 a happy party needs no assurance and 

 that it may total 100 is our ambition. 

 Before this issue of the Kkvif.w reaches 

 your eastern subscribers on Saturday 

 morning the members who will go will be 

 definitely known. There will doubtless 

 be a few stragglers who will get into the 

 ark at the eleventh hour. It will cer- 

 tainly be a disappointment if fewer than 

 100 'materialize when the hour for de- 

 parture arrives. It is hard to under- 

 stand why anybody with any love for his 

 profession and for the grand old Society 

 of American Florists can possibly stay 

 away if by any means he can arrange to 

 go. The fact is that there should never 

 be a smaller attendance than 2,000 at 

 any ..f these annual reunions. That this 

 year may see these figures excelled is the 

 desire of the generous men of Milwaukee 

 who are doing so much to make this con- 

 vention memorable, .lust as I expected, 

 it was necessary only to make the an- 

 nouncement of the prize bowling require- 

 ments to have generous offers from every 

 part of the country. Mr. Pollworth has 

 already given a list of donors that in- 

 cludes many of the best known horticul- 

 turists, and I lone no doubt that by the 

 'lay of the bowling competition the num- 

 ber will be largely augmented. The 

 evening entertainment to follow thi pres 

 ident's reception is now assured. Some 

 of ' the most popular members of the so- 

 ciety will take part in it. I predict it 

 will be a erowded house and an appreci- 

 ative one. The Milwaukee club deserves 



all the appreciation and i 

 it is possible for the society to git 

 in no more practical way can tl 

 demonstrated than by a record br< 

 attendance. The west will do its ,1 

 this respect and the easl cannot nil 

 I utdone in .■ -tesy and numbe 



ri 'I'm 



d.-n 



With the Seed Houses. 

 The downtown Seedsmen are taking ad- 

 vantage of the slimmer dullness mid 

 renovating their establishments, so thai 



furnishing they begin to look in readi- 

 ness 1'n the busy fall season So .lose nt 

 hand." Meantime they are running with 



light forces and enjoying the well ear I 



rest that should always follow- a strenu- 

 ous season. Charles Henderson has just 

 returned from his European trip in ex- 

 cellent health. Patrick 



wisely deferred his online. 

 and will combine pleasun 



tion at the Milwauk 



Walter, of the Stnmpp & 

 having his usual vacatioi 

 ily up in Maine. C. H. .1. 

 ocean trip to Portland 

 will have a couple of we 

 northern Xew England. 



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Notes. 



July 



Charles Cn'rl. of Thollev 's 1 

 and August in which to forget 

 and build up for his arduous ten months' 



.lames M. -Manns has completed the im- 

 provements in his store and handsome 

 oak finish gi\es the place a decidedly 

 metropolitan appearance. 



Mrs. Lairn, bookkeeper for Traendly 

 A. Schenck. leaves next week for her an- 

 nual vacation in the mountains. Thomas 

 Martin, of the same establishment, has 

 been at the Thousand Islands, and Fred 

 Klingle has enjoyed a rest at Rowayton, 



Conn. 



Alex Guttman is conif..rt:il.l\ settled 

 in his new home on West Twenty-ninth 

 street, and devotes the entire basement, 

 which has been enlarged, to his wholesale 

 business, an especially convenient ar- 

 rangement. He is handling immense 

 ' iig large 



aily shipments from the 



rs." He will be with the X. 



he convention. The father 



Mr 



ikine. 



.•ailing grow- 

 w Yorkers at 

 of .Mr. Gutt- 

 iccideht last 

 s. the eldest 

 the fall with 

 injury by a 



miracle. 



August Gaedeke, of Nashua. V lb. 

 was in the city Monday with his brother 

 Albert, of Perth. Scotland. Both gen- 

 tlemen will be at the convention. 



John T. Raynor and Mrs. Raynor have 

 been -pending a week at Atlantic City. 



Mr. Houghton. ..f Houghton & Clark, 

 of Boston, with his familv, were visitors 

 m the city last week. 



Hatchings & Co. are building a 100x24 

 house in upper New York for A. N. Tow- 

 ell, the florist of Fort Washington ave- 



\V. C. Goinersall. of Pougl.keepsie. is 

 starting in the florist business a1 West 

 Nfyack, N. Y. 



William 'Flicker has been appointed 

 gardener t.. W. H. Vanderbilt, dr.. at 

 Great Neck, L. I., and has assumed 

 charge of this splendid estate, where he 

 will have abundant opportunity for the 

 demonstration of his "water garden" 



Retailers, notwithstanding the dull 



seas continue their attractive window 



displays, and Small's is as brilliantly 

 lighted as in niid-winter every evening. 



The Piersoni fern has arrived and 

 promises to lie very popular. Doubtless 

 September will see every bon-ton store 

 stocked with a generous supply. During 

 the summer the Anna Foster has won 

 golden opinions as a keeper and tor its 

 gracefulness, and many of the window 

 decorators have utilized it and find its 

 good qualities .piit pal to it- parent; 



at S, arbor,., which Mr. Pierson 



look. 



Septem- 



gagements 

 ber. 



E. W. Bliss, of Bay Ridge. Brooklyn, 

 died suddenly a few weeks ago. lb lias 

 long desired to have his beautiful prop- 

 erty, which commands a view of New 

 Y'ork harbor, preserved by the city, and 

 it is now announced that it will become 

 one of the Brooklyn parks. There are 

 splendid greenhouses on the estate and it 

 will become one of the favorite resorts 

 of the metropolis. The aggregate of 

 acres c prising the parks of New York 



Win. Griffin, landscape superintendent, 

 for Alex McConnell ;in ,i formerly mana- 

 ger of the Sloan estate, met with a 

 serious accident last week, while direct- 

 ing the work at the Carnegie gardens. 

 He fell from a ladder and broke several 

 ribs. 



John Lewis Childs sends me some 

 grand spikes of gladioli. He is mar- 

 keting great quantities. 



.1. Austin Shaw. 



Omaha. Neb.— The contract is short- 

 lv to he let for tile new greenhouse at 

 Forest Lawn cemetery. The building is 

 to l>o iron-frame. otKlJIJ. u ith two wings 

 20x50 feet. 



PllTsi'iKi.ii. Mass.- -Thomas B. ilc- 

 ( lunie. who died recently at Hartford, 

 Conn., is said to have built the first 



green! se ever put up in Berkshire 



county. He laid out many estates in 

 this neighborhood and along the Hud- 

 son. 



Pine Bluff, Ark. — A. A. Harper re- 

 ports summer business dull here, for the 

 Community is healthy and there is. little 

 funeral work. Lots of outdoor stock 

 goes to waste. Building material is to- 

 high for much of an increase 

 here this year. 



Champaign. III.— John Porte, chief 

 florist for the Illinois Central Railroad, 

 has done a great deal of good bedding 

 work at the station grounds along tin 

 line. The three greenhouses 20x120 turn 

 .nit a great deal of stock. Gus Johnson. 

 his assistant, was gardener at the Insane 

 Hospital at Anna, and August Wagner, 

 another assistant, was for years with 

 E. A. Kanst. in the South Park system, 

 at Chicago. 



