February 20. 1915 



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classes. Visitors present were Clias. 

 H. Totty, M. C. Ebel and Artluir Her- 

 rington of Madison. N. J.. A. L. Rick- 

 ards of Stumpp & Walter Co., New 

 Yorlv City, and W. J. Collins of Car- 

 ter's. Boston, Mass. The visitors all 

 favored us witli a few remarks. Mr. 

 Herrington as manager of the Inter- 

 national Flower Show spoke at length 

 outlining the plans and preparations. 



Hon. .John M. Brown, Mayor of 

 Stamford, also addressed the mem- 

 bers. The lecturer. Henry Kelly of 

 New Caanan, Conn., interested the 

 members to a marked degree in his 

 paper on coniferous trees adapted to 

 Westchester and Fairfield counties. 

 Chas. Ryan. Portchester, N. Y., read 

 an instructive essay on the culture of 

 sweet peas for exhibition. Xew roses 

 were exhibited by Chas. H. Totty. 

 S. J. Renter & Son of Westerly. R., I., 

 staged two fine vases of Killarney 

 Brilliant and Crimson Queen. Tlie 

 Jolin Canning prizes for the best vase 

 of roses w-as awarded to Jas. Stuart 

 for a grand vase of Killarney Brilliant. 

 The second prize was won by Robert 

 Grunnert for a fine vase of the same 

 variety. Other awards were as fol- 

 lows: Robert Allen, cultural certifi- 

 cate for mignonette; Jas. Linane. hon. 

 mention for cyclamen; Robt. Allen 

 for cinerarias; Wm. H. Fisher for car- 

 nations; Robt. Grunnert for carna- 

 tions; A. Wynne for Primula mala- 

 coides; P. W. Popp for basket of min- 

 iature pink hyacinths and lily of the 

 valley. Vote of thanks to Patrick 

 Fairfield for sweet peas; A. Wynne for 

 stoclts; P. W. Popp for Erica codo- 

 noides. Next meeting March 12th. 

 Prizes will be offered for the best ex- 

 hibit. Get busy. 



P. W. Poi'i'. Cor. See. 



News Items from Everywhere 



NEW YORK STATE FEDERATION 

 OF FLORISTS' CLUBS 



The convention of the State Feder- 

 ation at Ithaca was a great success al- 

 though it was regretted that W. F. 

 Kasting was unable to be present. Del- 

 egates from New York were, Leonard 

 Barron, Max Schling, A. .1. Guttman 

 and John Young; from Rochester. C. 

 B. Ogden. H. E. Bates; from Albany. 

 Messrs. Tracey, Menkes and Shaw. 

 There was a very creditable exhibit of 

 all the newer carnations and roses. 

 Prof. White took great care of all the 

 delegates and they were rielighlcd with 

 the treatment and hnsi)itality shown 

 them. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 

 The Lady Florists' Homo Circle of 

 St. Louis met at Mrs. Theo. .Miller's 

 home on Delmar avenue, Wednesday. 

 Feb. 10, and spent a pleasanl after- 

 noon. Mrs. C. Bergestermann will en- 

 tertain themon Wednesday. .March 10, 

 at her home on South Grand avenue. 



The Rochester Florists' Association 

 at its meeting February 8. appointed 

 George B. Hart. F. L. Kelley. A. H. 

 Salter. Harry E. P.ates and Charles H. 

 Nick to co-operate with the Industrial 

 Exposition Committee in planning for 

 a flower show to be held at Exposition 

 Park in connection with the annual 

 exposition. A return bowling match 

 between the Florist Club of Buffalo 

 and the Rochester P^lorists' Associa- 

 tion will be held in this city soon. 



BOSTON 



B. J. Wall & Son have opened up a 

 new florists' shop at 12 Birch street, 

 Roslindale. 



The new conservatories for the city 

 of Boston have at last been decided 

 upon and work will begin very shortly 

 in the Fenway. 



Henry Collins, formerly with Penii 

 and several other local florists, is now 

 manager of F. J. Dolansky's store in 

 Lynn, which is being remodelled. 



The annual banquet of the Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club of Boston will 

 be held on Wednesday evening, March 

 10 at the New American House. Tick- 

 ets will be limited to 300, $2.00 each. 



Several prominent local growers, 

 who make a specialty of plants, pre- 

 dict a scarcity of palms, araucarias, 

 bay trees, etc.. this year. They state 

 that very little importing will be done, 

 since in the short space of a week 

 freight across the ocean has gone up 

 400 per cent., which will make the 

 prices of these plants almost prohib- 

 itive. Plant trade has been rather 

 poor around here, lately, and this bit 

 of news is not very welcome. 



St. Valentine's Day was a big event 

 tor Boston florists this last week. 

 \'iolets in heart-shaped boxes were ad- 

 vertised extensively in the news- 

 ■[japers. The magnitude of the busi- 

 ness done can be estimated by the fact 

 that over 200,000 violets were sold by 

 Penn, alone, fifteen men working 

 six hours to fill orders for the early 

 morning trains Saturday. All day 

 Friday and Saturday the activity re- 

 sembled that at Christmas time. 



Another meeting of growers and 

 wholesalers took place last Saturday 

 for the purpose of forming a credit 

 protective association. W. H. Elliott 

 of Brighton acted as temiiorary chair- 

 man. An interesting discussion took 

 place in which N. F. McCarthy, J. M. 

 Cohen, W. C. Stickel, John Cummin.gs 

 and several others took active part. 

 There were no retailers in attendance 

 and those present allowed themselves 

 a little freedom of expression in de- 

 scribing the evils of the present sys- 

 tem. Finally the formation of an as- 

 sociation on a collection and informa- 

 tion basis was agreed upon. A char- 

 ter was framed, which was signed by 

 twelve of those present. N. F. Mc- 

 Carthy heading the list. The new so- 

 ciety will start business under the 

 name of The Flower Growers' Prote*'- 

 tive Association. Letters will be 

 sent to the growers and wholesalers 

 in noston and vicinity and much pub- 

 licity will be given to this to interest 

 the several hundred florists lindin.si 

 their market in Boston. 



WASHINGTON. 



The most successful food show ever 

 held in Washington is now in progress 

 at the Center market. This place is 

 crowded daily with throngs of people 

 and the florists having stands there re- 

 port doing an exceptionally good busi- 

 ness. All of the florists have pre- 

 pared special decorations and among 

 those most worthy of mention is that 

 of J. M. Hammer & Son. An excel- 

 lent collection of primroses, cyclamen. 



geraniums, and other jjotted plants 

 and ferns represent the salable stock. 

 Robert Bowdler & Sons are distribut- 

 ing mhiiature flower pots to passersby 

 while other stands offer bookmarks, 

 blotters and other advertising matter. 

 The florists making displays include 

 M. J. McCabe, Fred H. Kramer, Gar- 

 den & Robey, John Boyle, Robert A. 

 Howdler, J. M. Hammer & Son, P. Her- 

 rold. John R. Morgan, Constant Pon- 

 net. Frank L. Schultz, Frank Slye. D. 

 H. Von Bott.ger and G. Milton Thomas 

 (t Co. 



PHILADELPHIA. 

 .\ postal from Charles Sim and party 

 dated Chicago. Feb. 10, reports all well 

 and leaving there on that date. Next 

 stop — San Francisco. 



The double blue cornflower has be- 

 come of late years a staple article on 

 the cut flower market and is very pop- 

 ular. This form was picked up in his 

 trip through Europe in 1906 by George 

 D. Clark of Dreer's and introduced in 

 America by that firm in 1907. We are 

 told on good authority that Dreer's 

 have made enough on this one item in 

 the past seven years to cover the cost 

 of Mr. Clark's trip seven times over. 

 An exhibit of the new carnation 

 •Debutante California" was seen at 

 the Pennock-Meehan Co.'s. It is a 

 splendid variety as to color, stem, 

 size and substance. The color is of 

 the same tint of pink as "Gorgeous"— 

 a little brighter if anything, we think, 

 but we did not have the two side by 

 side. This is a new seedling raised 

 by Deiner & Co., California. The flow- 

 ers under review were grown by Chas. 

 B. Herr, Strasburg. Pa. Mr. Herr is 

 non-committal as to the variety, as the 

 half dozen plants he tried were not in 

 the best shape when planted. So far, 

 it looks to be a late bloomer. To be 

 fair, further tests are necessary. 



Arrangements for the Farmers' In- 

 stitute meeting on March 5 and « \n\- 

 der the auspices of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society and the Florists 

 Club of Philadelphia are now well ad- 

 vanced and a complete program will 

 be issued in a few days. In addition 

 lo the official speakers of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture of the State o 

 I'enusvlvania there will be some local 

 talent who will help to round off the 

 entertainment. -Among them will be 

 George W. Kerr, the sweet pea enthu- 

 siast; Dr. Robert Huey, the Dean Hole 

 of American rosarians; Theodore Rob- 

 erts, champion cattle breeder ol this 

 locality, and Robert Pyle ot canna 

 fame from West Grove. 



PITTSBURGH, PA. 

 \V C Beckert. seedsman, of lol 

 Fcneral street. North Side, has an m- 

 teresting window-box display ot b rencU 

 Endive, Asparagus palmetto and vari- 

 ous other "growing things of the 

 vegetable kingdom flanked by an at- 

 tractive border of narcissi. 



The Brooks Flower Shop was opened 

 last Monday simultaneously ^^''t'l '''^ 

 haii.lsome new Davis Theatre on 

 Smithfield street, being conveniently 

 located in the Arcade thereof. Mrs. 

 Rose Bradley Brooks, who was for- 

 merlv with Ray J. Daschbach. is the 



