November 17, 1906 



HORTICULTURE. 



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ST. LOUIS FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The club held a very interesting 

 meeting on last Thursday afternoon. 

 Thirty-live members and as many vis- 

 itors were in attendance. Tlie.se were 

 attracted by the chrj-santhemum show 

 during the meeting. This was not as 

 large as expected. Some very fine 

 blooms were staged by J. \V. Dunford, 

 The Bentzen Floral Co., Himnier Bros., 

 Edwin Denker and Nathan Smith & 

 Son. The meeting was opened at :' 

 o'clock by President Irish. 



It was decided by unanimous vote to 

 have a flower show next year, and a 

 committee of three, with Frank A. 

 Weber as chairman, was appointed to 

 endeavor to raise a substantial fund 

 among the liusiness men. A. J. Bent- 

 zen and \V. C. Smith were appointed to 

 act with Mr. Weber. 



The judges reported as follows: For 

 12 blooms white, Himmer Bros., 1st, 

 with T. Eaton; J. W. Duntord, 2d, with 

 T. Eaton; Bentzen Floral Co., :!d. with 

 Alice Byron. Twelve blooms yellow, 

 Himmer Bros., 1st, with Major Bon- 

 naffon; 2d, with Col Appleton; J. W. 

 Dunford, 3d, with Col. Appleton. 

 Twelve blooms pink. Bentzen Floral 

 Co., 1st, with H. J. Balfour, and 2d, 

 with Mrs. Perren; J. W. Dunford, 3d, 

 with D. V. Enguehard. In Nathan 

 Smith & Son's display Sunburst was 

 pronounced the best, and Theo. Roose- 

 velt second, with all the other varieties 

 as very fine. 



"Billy" Smith then auctioned off the 

 prize winning blooms which attracted 

 the retailers, who bought at good big 

 prices. After this the meeting ad- 

 journed until December 13 at 2 o'clock, 

 when the flower show committee will 

 report. A talk on growing orchids by 

 H. G. Pring, of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden, is promised. 



NEW HAVEN HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The attendance at the show of this 

 society held in Music Hall, on Novem- 

 ber 7 and 8, was a tribute to the ex- 

 »cellent display. 

 The six vases of monstrous blooms 

 of Mrs. Jerome Jones, Mary Inglis, 

 William Duckham, D. V. West, F. 

 S. Vallis and Morton F. Plant 

 shown by Edwin Jenkins of Belle- 

 t'ontaine Gardens, easily captured 

 the Scoville challenge cup and 

 first prize, followed by Henry Cliff sec- 

 ond, and Oscar Carlson third, garden- 

 ers on the Jennings estates. Besides 

 being flrst in class 2 group, Robert 

 Paton secured several second prizes; 

 in class 1 group Frank S. Piatt Co. 

 were winners. Other successful con- 

 testants were A. Bretschneider, Wal- 

 ter Angus, J. P. Lorenson. J. T. Burns, 

 W. Slack. Yale botanical gardens fur- 

 nished a splendid group of palms. 



There was a creditable display of 

 fruits and vegetables. 



James Crawshaw was awarded a cer- 

 tificate of merit for Asparagus Craw- 

 shawii. The judges were Messrs. Scott 

 of Tarrytown, N. Y., Jenkins of Lenox, 

 Mass.. and Mcintosh of Newport, R. 1. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



Geo. Bayer is the new president and 

 S. Peck, secretary of the Toledo. O., 

 Florists' Club. 



W. W. Rawson is a candidate on 

 nomination papers for the office of 

 president of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society against the regular 



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committee nominee, Stephen M. Weld. 

 The election will take place on Satur- 

 day, November 17, at Horticultural 

 Hall, Boston. 



About fifty members of the Detroit 

 Florist Club went to Mt. Clemens one 

 day last week to visit the greenhouse 

 establishments in that section. Pleas- 

 ant calls were made upon John 

 Breitmeyer's Sons, Wm. Carey, Aug. 

 Von Booslager, Robert Klagge, and 

 Wm. Taylor, at all of which places the 

 stock was found to be in excellent 

 condition and abundant hospitality 

 was lavished uixm the visitors. A 

 specially interesting subject was the 

 newly installed system of heating by 

 hot water under forced circulation at 

 Mr. Taylor's. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Julius Roehrs has been elected a 

 councilman of Rutherford, N. J., a 

 well-deserved honor. 



John Miller of Salem, O., has pur- 

 chased the greenhouses on the Baelz 

 property and will tear them down. 



The new store of the Carl Hagen- 

 berger Floral Co., at Cleveland, O., 

 was formally opened on November 3. 



Lockhart, the florist, has moved into 

 the Burt building, 27 North Phelps 

 street, Youngstown. 0. George McLean 

 is manager of the business. 



E. T. Hammond, an employee of the 

 late S. J. Long, of Petoskey, Mich., 

 succeeds to the business under the 

 title E. T. Hammond & Co. 



J. M. Gasser of Cleveland, O., is seek- 

 ing in a sanitarium restoration to the 

 health that has been broken down by 

 too close application to business. 



John Macrae's phenomenal sjxjrt 

 from chrysanthemum Yellow Eaton, 

 which was illustrated in our issue of 

 October 27, has been given the name 

 of Golden Dome. 



Charles W. Erlanger has taken the 

 store occupied for the past twelve 

 years by Julius Lang at 53 West 30th 

 street. New York, as a wholesale and 

 retail plant establishment. 



Alex. Guttman, 43 W. 28th street. 

 New York, reports that he sees strong 

 indications of a phenomenal sale for 

 Pink Enchantress carnation during 

 the coming season, and predicts for 

 that variety the leading position in 

 popularity o<:-cupied by Enchantress in 

 the New York market during the past 

 two seasons. 



FIRE RECORD. 



The greenhouses of Mr. Schroto, 

 Westville, New Haven. Ct., were dam- 

 aged by fire on Sunday night, Novem- 

 ber (i. Loss, $800. 



Last Friday morning a very disas- 

 trous fire occurred at the plant of the 

 Columbus Pottery Company (O.). 

 Buildings and stock to the value of 

 $.')M.(iiiii were destroyed; part of this 

 loss wa.s covered by insurance. The 

 fire started on the outside of the plant 

 in a new kiln, and soon the main 

 l)uil(ling was in flames. This building, 

 comparatively a new one, was 400 feet 

 long by 54 feet in width, and was about 

 half destroyed. The site, buildings and 

 equipment cost |131,000. About 200 

 people were steadily employed. 



Wm. Elliott & Sons, 201 Fulton St., 

 New York, report remarkable success 

 with their auction sales this year. 

 The stock is the best they have had 

 in many years and the sales for this 

 season are much larger than they were 

 at the same period last year. It looks 

 as though the present season would 

 be a record breaker. 



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