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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



June 11, 1903. 



them from flowering until December, and 

 therefore we keep them out of doors 

 as long as possible, protecting them from 

 early frosts and letting them have the 

 full sunshine and beautiful outdoors 

 until the last possible moment. You 

 can treat S. compacta just the same, 

 but it is not worth growing. We have 

 outlived such poor, gray, stiff, formal 

 flowers. I heard within a day or two 

 that florists in Baltimore (I mean, of 

 course, the market variety) helped out 

 their bouquets with the panicles of wild 

 carrot. Why not, as long as there is a 

 dollar in it?" A drowning man grasps at 

 a straw. William Scott. 



NEW YORK. 



Club Meeting. 



The regular meeting of the club Mon- 

 day evening brought out thirty mem- 

 bers. W. F. Sheridan presented an elab- 

 orate report from the transportation 

 committee, including letters from sev- 

 eral railroads, relating the advantages 

 of the various lines as routes to the 

 "famous" convention city. The route 

 via Chicago, with stop-over there, had 

 already been decided upon. The discus- 

 sion enlisted the oratorical talent of 

 Messrs. Sheridan, O'Mara, Beaulieu, But- 

 terfield, Wheeler, Manda and Troy and 

 a vote showed a decided preference for 

 the West Shore, but the decision was 

 left to the committee. Arrangements 

 will probably be made whereby the party 

 can leave New York Sunday morning 

 and be in Chicago Monday. The outing 

 committee presented a program of sports 

 showing prizes enough to send every 

 competitor home happy. July 1 is the 

 date and Mr. Traendly reported a big 

 sale of tickets. He asks that every one 

 who has not accepted the tickets sent 

 will communicate with him at once if 

 he expects to be present, for the com- 

 mittee must make dinner arrangements. 

 The committee has worked hard and is 

 entitled to every consideration. Hospit- 

 able letters from J. F. Sullivan and the 

 Detroit Florists' Club were read, invit- 

 ing the eastern delegation to visit De- 

 troit enroute to the convention. They 

 were referred to the transportation com- 

 mittee. Resolutions on the death of 

 F. L. Harris were presented by W. A. 

 Manda and J. H. Troy. A splendid ex- 

 hibit of peonies was shown by C. W. 

 Ward, of the Cottage Gardens, and Chas. 

 Lenker, of Freeport. Mme. Perret and 

 mixed pansies were shown by Beaulieu, 

 of Woodhaven. The committee, Messrs. 

 Plumb, O'Mara and Lenker, awarded a 

 certificate of merit to Mr. Ward for his 

 grand pink. No. 130, honorable mention 

 to Mr. Lenker for a beautiful dark pink 

 called Fragrance, and a vote of thanks 

 to Mr. Beaulieu. This gentleman also 

 showed a hose roller of his own invention 

 on which he has applied for a patent. 

 Mr. Engreen, of Woodhaven, was elect- 

 ed to membership. The nominating com- 

 mittee was named by President Troy 

 and consists of W. F. Sheridan, A. 

 Burns, P. O'Mara, Wm. Plumb, J. N. 

 May and J. H. Taylor. The club has 

 had a very good year. The next regular 

 meeting is the second Monday in Octo- 

 ber. 



Various Notes. 



The first meeting of the bowlers 

 was called for Tuesday evening 

 at the alleys at Broadway and 31st 

 street, with Capt. Lang in charge. A 

 good team for Milwaukee is assured and 



steady practice will be kept up until 

 August, most of the old members par- 

 ticipating. 



Dunne & Co., at 54 W. 30th street, 

 report a very satisfactory season in rus- 

 tic work. At their city workshop, 

 507 W. 21st street, and their factory at 

 Rondont, they are working to the full 

 capacity. They claim to be the largest 

 manufacturers of rustic work in the U. 

 S. 



John A. Scollay is erecting complete 

 an iron frame greenhouse 25x175 for 

 I has. Weber, of Lynbrook, L. I., heat- 

 ing to be with the Scollay boiler. 



The long drought has greatly affected 

 the peony crop, both as to quality and 

 quantity, and the end of the cut is 

 rapidly approaching. 



At last, after nearly two months of 

 most calamitous drought, the spell is 

 broken and the generous rain is here. 

 The whole east rejoices in the welcome 

 downpour and for nearly forty-eight 

 hours the good work has been going on. 



The genial western ventilator man, 

 of Richmond, Ind., J. A. Evans, honored 

 this village with a call last week and 

 is quite enthusiastic as to the Milwau- 

 kee convention, predicting the largest at- 

 tendance on record. 



W. E. Marshall, whose debut we an- 

 nounced last week, will not only do a 

 seed business but will deal in nursery 

 stock, bulbs and all kinds of horticul- 

 tural supplies. 



W. C. Krick, of Brooklyn, will spend 

 a well earned holiday with his family 

 in the Catskills early in July, visiting 

 later the convention city with his usual 

 exhibit and some of his late inventions. 

 Mr. Krick is proud of a gold medal and 

 diploma just received from Rome, Italy, 

 and awarded at the exhibition held there 

 in 1902. 



P. St. John, assistant superintendent 

 of parks in New York City, who was 

 transferred from Brooklyn in December 

 last, died last week of appendicitis. He 

 was a great favorite with all who knew 

 him, generous and genial, and his loss 

 is regretted by a large circle of friends 

 and horticultural associates. 



Siebreeht & Son are cutting some fine 

 cattleyas from their orchid houses in 

 New Roehelle. Their new building, cor- 

 ner of 38th street and Fifth avenue, 

 will soon begin to rise. It will be a 

 "white palace" when completed, six 

 stories in height and 01x125. with win- 

 dow boxes on every side, and bays and 

 immense palms on the roof, making it 

 the most unique and handsome estab- 

 lishment of its kind in the world. 



The Rosary, in its new store and con- 

 servatory on 34th street, already looks 

 at home and the display inside of topi- 

 ary novelties and a special importation 

 of bays and Japan horticultural novel- 

 tie* is most interesting. Mr. Troy, the 

 president of the company, leaves for a 

 two months' trip to Europe June 27, 

 visiting England, France, Italy, Holland 

 and Belgium (and Ireland on the side) 

 and combining business with pleasure. 



Mr. Ward, of Hagemann & Co., left 

 on Friday last for Europe, his first trip 

 to the land of the valley. 



American Gardening, after a six 

 weeks' rest, is again in the field in a 

 new dress and under new control, Leon- 

 ard Barron retaining his position as edi- 

 tor, a place he has occupied since 1893, 

 and also assuming the management of 

 the paper for the new proprietors, 

 Messrs. Thos. B. Meehan, of Philadel- 

 phia; Charles L. Yates, of Rochester; 



James McHutehison, of New York City, 

 and D. W. Wittpenn. 



June weddings are not as numerous as 

 the retailers could desire and yet there 

 were sixteen of them last Wednesday in 

 and around New York among the "600," 

 which were fairly well apportioned 

 among the leading florists. Mr. McCon- 

 nell reports three of them and an abund- 

 ance of steamer work. The bouquets 

 for the Pruyn wedding at Albany, sent 

 by this house, were of white orchids and 

 valley and white peonies. Their decora- 

 tion for the Miner wedding was very 

 handsome, many arches of sweet peas 

 being the prominent feature of an artis- 

 tic piece of work, with white peonies on 

 the pews and in the chancel. Mr. Mc- 

 Connell also had the Granger wedding, 

 where Parsons' rhododendrons were 

 much in evidence. 



Thomas Young, Jr.'s, Fifth avenue 

 store had charge of the Hazen wedding 

 at Pelham Manor on Tuesday of this 

 week. He has the Fyfe wedding. The 

 bouquets will be lily of the valley and 

 white orchids. July 15 Mr. Young has 

 the contract for the Brownell-Mcrrill 

 wedding at Hubbardsville, near Syra- 

 cuse. J. Austin Shaw. 



GRAND HAVEN, MICH. 



Death of George Hancock. 



George Hancock, one of the pioneers 

 of Ottawa county and senior member of 

 the firm of George Hancock & Son, flor- 

 ists, died June 6. Mr. Hancock had been 

 in poor health for the past year, but 

 his indomitable will kept him up and 

 about his duties until two days before 

 his demise, when his condition became 

 serious. 



Mr. Hancock was born in Devonshire, 

 England. April 27, 181S. He was mar- 

 ried in 1846 to Joan Howard, and Mr. 

 and Mrs. Hancock came to New York in 

 1849. They came on to Michigan in 

 1865, settling at Spring Lake, where 

 he became engaged in the lumbering 

 business, operating a mill on the site 

 of the present mineral springs near the 

 Spring Lake Hotel. 



He removed to Grand Haven in 1877 

 and has been a resident of this city 

 ever since. Mr. Hancock always led an 

 active life and was prominent in carry- 

 ing forward any enterprise that might 

 lead to the improvement of the com- 

 munity. He was one of the first men 

 in Michigan to introduce the cultivation 

 of celery in this state. His first experi- 

 ments with celery were made as early 

 as 1866. On account of his poor health 

 and the consequent necessity of an out- 

 door occupation, Mr. Hancock took up 

 the business of raising fruits and veg- 

 etables in 1872. Later he added the 

 floral department to his establishment 

 and his success in these lines was re- 

 markable. For years his son, James G. 

 Hancock, has been associated with him 

 under the firm name of George Hancock 

 & Son. The carnation was one of their 

 specialties. 



Mrs. Hancock died on January 31, 

 1894, and Mr. Hancock is survived by 

 his son, James G. Hancock, junior mem- 

 ber of the firm; his daughter, Mrs. 

 Frank O. Bury, of Detroit, and seven 

 grandchildren. The funeral was held 

 from the late residence on Washington 

 avenue Monday afternoon at 3 oclock. 



Ann Arbor, Mich. — James Goodhue 

 will build a rose house 22x120. 



