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HORTICULTURE 



December 18, 1909 



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ABOUT FLOWERS 



If you are in the flower business you have something to think about between 

 . now and Christmas. I have been connected with the wholesale flower tiade 

 7 of New York for nearly twenty-six years. I know the goods and the people 

 ^■^ who grow them. So, when you think of Christmas Flowers 





THINK OF CHARLES MILLANG. 



If there is anything in the great variety of fine stock grown for the New York 

 market that you want I can supply it, in good condition and at fair rates. My 

 central location in the big flower market building of the Metropolis affords 

 U nexcelled facilities for knowing what is available and its value . 

 I am receiving every day large shipments of superb stock from the best growers. 



Every Order Will Receive Careful Personal Attention 



Charles Millang' 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 

 55-5? West 26th St., NEW YORK Branch: CUT FLOWER MARKET, 57 West 26tli St., Ground Roor. 



Telephone, 7062 Madison Square. 



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NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



It is a long time since the New York 

 Florists' Club had so big a meeting 

 as on last Monday evening when, brav- 

 ing the rain and slush of the most in- 

 clement day of the season, nearly one 

 bundled members were in attendance. 

 Election of officers for the coming year 

 was the principal cause of the excite- 

 ment. However, everything passed off 

 very quietly, the election of president 

 and secretary being unanimous and 

 the defeated candidates for the other 

 offices accepting the situation very 

 good-naturedly and severally asking 

 that the election of their rivals be 

 made unanimous. 



Harry Turner, the present presiding 

 officer, W. E. Marshall and R. M. 

 Schultz all declined to run for the 

 presidency, thus leaving the field clear 

 for A. L. Miller, whose portrait adorns 

 the title page of this issue. For the 

 vice-presidency, Jos. A. Manda de- 

 feated Robert E. Berry, and for the 

 treasurership, W. C. Rickards, Jr., the 

 present incumbent, outdistanced J. K. 

 Allen, Mr. Langjahr having declined. 

 A. M. Henshaw declined to run for 

 secretary against John Young, and so 

 the services of this efficient officer are 

 again, as for many years before, at 

 the club's command. H. A. Bunyard, 

 P. R. Pierson and Phil F. Kessler were 

 elected trustees for three years, and 

 Wm. Duckham for one year. 



\V. H. Siebrecht, Jr., made an inter- 

 esting report for the joint committee 

 of the Club, the N. Y. Market Associa- 

 tion and the N. Y. & N. J. Associa- 

 tion of Plant Growers on the avail- 

 ability "of the property wanted for a 

 plant market site, and the city's title 

 to same. A. L. Miller, John Birnie 

 and others urged that the club make 

 an early effort to attain the desired 

 object. 



Messrs. C. H. Totty, F. R. Pierson 

 and Robert Simpson were constituted 

 a committee to make preparations for 

 the reception and entertainment of the 

 American Rose Society at its approach- 

 ing meeting and exhibition in this city. 

 Messrs. Wm. Duckham, J. H. Pepper 

 and C. B. Weathered were appointed 

 transportation committee to the meet- 

 ing of the American Carnation Society 

 at Pittsburg in January. J. Austin 

 Shaw, W. J. Elliott and John Young 

 were appointed to prepare resolutions 

 on the death of John Seligman. 



On the exhibition table were sweet 

 peas Christmas Pink, Mrs. Alex. Wal- 

 lace, Snow Bird, Florence Denzer, 

 Chas. H. Totty and Wallacea, to which 

 the judges awarded a cultural certifi- 

 cate. Chas. H. Weber showed two 

 seedling carnations, one white and one 

 pink, the latter scoring a preliminary 

 certificate. Frank E. Witney, Fish- 

 kill, showed seedling carnation Wo- 

 dinethe and this also won a prelimi- 

 nary certificate. 



The "House Committee" put up a 

 generous spread and a special vote of 

 thanks was accorded J. B. Nugent for 

 the gift of a luscious turkey. 



A. L. Miller, President-elect. 



Sound and successful, practical and 

 popular, is the gentleman whom the 

 prosperous New York Florists' Club 

 has selected as its standard bearer 

 for the year 1911. 



Abraham Lincoln Miller was born 

 May 1, 1865, in East New York, now 

 a part of Brooklyn, Greater New York. 

 Twelve years ago he succeeded to the 

 llorist business established in a 

 small way thirty-three years before by 

 his father, Henry Miller, on Jamaica 

 avenue, Brooklyn. His foresight and 

 confidence in the business was demon- 

 strated by the addition of several new 

 greenhouses and a little later, by the 

 purchase of fourteen acres of land at 

 Jamaica, L. I., where a range of 

 houses was erected and the business 

 run in conjunction with that at East 

 New York. The Jamaica establish- 

 ment comprises about 50,000 sq. ft. of 

 glass, under which are grown Christ- 

 mas and Easter plants and cut flowers. 

 The collection of herbaceous and nur- 

 sery stock is also very extensive. 



Mr. Miller has been a very active 

 member of the N. Y. & N. J. Associa- 

 tion of Plant Growers and president of 

 that association. He has been a de- 

 voted rnember of the New York Flor- 

 ists' Club for twenty years and no one 

 has ever been elected to the highest 

 office in the club's power who has en- 

 joyed the confidence and esteem of the 

 members and of the trade in general 

 'uore than Mr. Miller has. 



